Phil Brady is the Managing Partner and co-founder of GoAhead Ventures, an early-stage venture fund in Menlo Park, CA. See sector focus and contact routes.
Phil Brady is the Managing Partner and co-founder of GoAhead Ventures, an early-stage venture fund in Menlo Park, CA, where he previously worked on the deal team at Andreessen Horowitz focusing on IoT and Bitcoin. His investment thesis targets seed and pre-seed companies in sectors including IoT, Web3/Crypto, and FinTech, with a geographic focus on the San Francisco Bay Area and Stanford-affiliated deals. Brady typically invests between $200,000 and $1 million, with a sweet spot around $600,000, and GoAhead leads all of its deals rather than following. Notable portfolio companies include Gameflip, where he led the investment and serves as a board member, as well as Rainway, DogSpot (Dog Parker), Colossal Biosciences, and VideoAmp. He is a Forbes 30U30 honoree and maintains a public Substack called "fishermanphil" where he writes as an outdoorsman and patriot, though specific investment viewpoints in his writing are not detailed in available sources.
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