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Twitter@brianp
BirthplacePortland, OR
Birthdate1980

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Santa Clara University, BS 2002
Operations & Management Systems

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Brian Pokorny

Brian Pokorny is a [Managing Partner of SV Angel] (http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/brian-pokorny-sv-angel/). Prior to this, he was at Airbnb, where he joined via an acquisition of DailyBooth/Batch. DailyBooth was a venture backed start-up that Brian led for 3 years as their CEO. Before this, Brian was a partner at SV Angel with David Lee and Ron Conway upon the launch of the firm. He focused on investments within the consumer Internet, specifically within social media, mobile, and real-time data companies. Prior to SV Angel he was a founding team member and partner at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage investment firm. Prior to joining Baseline, Brian spent 3.5 years at Google within various positions in the Content Partnerships team and Direct Sales Organization. Before this, he had various roles within sales operations and finance at Juniper Networks, TIBCO Software, and Applied Materials. Brian is an angel investor in Twitter, OMGPOP, Square, Tweetdeck, Dailybooth, Bump, Blippy, Milo, Posterous, Chomp and has advisory positions with Ooyala, Spotzer, Stitcher, and Rupture. Brian graduated with a degree in Operations and Management Information Systems from Santa Clara University.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Milk 4/11Angel$1.5M26
Circle Inc 1/11Angel$1M14
TweetDeck 5/10Series B$3.5M8
Chomp 3/10Series A$2M4
Posterous 3/10Series A$4.4M8
Blippy 1/10Angel$1.73M9
Milo 11/09Series A$4M18
Square 11/09Series A$10M19
Bump Technologies 10/09Series A$3.4M7
DailyBooth 10/09Angel$1M11
TweetDeck 1/09Seed$300k8
Twitter 7/07Series A$5M10
OMGPOP 5/07Angel4

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  1. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  7. Milo, a Site to Help People Shop Offline, Attracts Investors (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
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  9. Bump Technologies Confirms Sequoia Funding, Reveals Roster Of Angels. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million From Sequoia, Kevin Rose, Ron Conway Et Al. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Twitter Me This: TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
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