Brad Silverberg co-founded Fuel Capital in 2013 as a seed-stage venture firm. See sector focus and contact routes.
Brad Silverberg co-founded Fuel Capital in 2013 as a seed-stage venture firm, though he is now semi-retired and not actively investing [1][2]. Fuel Capital’s investment thesis targets early-stage companies in consumer, marketplace, business software, and infrastructure sectors, primarily within the United States [8][9]. The firm typically leads seed rounds, with Silverberg serving as an Advisor from 2013 to 2020 before transitioning to a Director role [1][5]. Notable portfolio companies include TaskRabbit (founded by Leah Busque, who joined Fuel as General Partner in 2017), Hipmunk, Skytap, and Avvo, where Silverberg currently serves as a Director [5][8]. Silverberg’s distinctive background includes leading Microsoft’s Windows and Internet efforts as Senior VP from 1990–1999, where he helped establish Windows 95 as the company’s core product [2][3]. While he has no widely cited public writing on investing, his career reflects a technologist-first perspective, having been awarded *PC Magazine’s* Person of the Year in 1995 for Windows 95 leadership [3].
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