Brendan Richardson

Experience

Astraea.earth

Founder, Co-Founder & CEO

Started the Company with 6 co-founders. As CEO, raised $1.5M in initial seed capital from angel investors. Astraea is building an advanced machine learning platform to... more

LoftSmart (AngelPad #10)

Advisor

TomTom Founders Festival

Board Member 2016 - Present (over 10 years)

HackCville

Founder, Founding Member and Chairman of the Board 2012 - Present (over 14 years)

Helped Spencer Ingram launch HackCville in 2012 at #9 Elliewood Ave and was responsible for identifying potential donors and raising the seed capital to launch. A founding... more

University of Virginia

Senior Lecturer, Adjunct Professor, McIntire School of Commerce at UVA 2009 - Present (over 17 years)

I teach VC Investing as well as Entrepreneurship at the McIntire School of Commerce at UVA.

Everactive

Founder, Co-Founder and Founding CEO 2012 - 2016 (about 4 years)

Co-founded PsiKick with Dr. Ben Calhoun (UVA) and Dr. David Wentzloff (Michigan) in 2012. Served as the Founding CEO until April 2016. Responsible for setting strategic direction,... more

Investure

Co-Director, Private Equity 2006 - 2008 (over 1 year)

Co-Managed the Private Equity portfolio for Investure, a $10B outsourced Investment Office for elite endowments and foundations.

Chipidea

Board Member 2004 - 2006 (almost 3 years)

Vision Capital

Founder, Partner, Vision Capital 1998 - 2006 (over 8 years)

Responsible for sourcing and investing in technology deals in Europe. Board seats included Straatum (Irish Semi-process technology) and ChipIdea (Portugal: Analog/mixed-signal... more

Massana

Board Member 2000 - 2003 (almost 3 years)

Dominion Ventures

Senior Associate 1994 - 1998 (about 4 years)

Deal Sourcing

Founder

Everactive, HackCville, Vision Capital, Astraea.earth

Employee

Dominion Ventures, University of Virginia, Investure

Advisor

LoftSmart (AngelPad #10)

Board Member

Massana, TomTom Founders Festival, Chipidea

Education

About

Skills

Venture Capital Entrepreneurship Start-Ups IoT Industrial IoT Machine Learning A.I. Satellites Geospatial Technologies Geospatial Intelligence

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Founders at Work

What's your favorite non-business book?

Reflections on the Art of Living

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Skiing or Cycling in the Alps

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Don't worry about failing.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Email at [email protected]

What words of wisdom do you live by?

It is not far. . . it is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it before you were born and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land. -Walt Whitman, "Songs of Myself"

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Building Teams, climbing steep learning curves.

Brendan Richardson

Serial Technology Entrepreneur Recovering VC Ecosystem node

Serial Technology Entrepreneur
Recovering VC
Ecosystem node