Investing Profile

John O'Brien(53)

AngelScoutFounderInvestor
Founder of Strange Brew Strategies (PR), and Strange Brew Ventures, LLC. Investor in Fringe (FRNGE Inc.) and Lightmatter Inc.
strangebrewstrategies.comSeattle, Washington
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2 Investors

Connected to Jacob Colker (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence Incubator (AI2)), Vijay Chattha (VSC Ventures).

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$10K - $250K
$25K
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Sanctuary AI
SeedJul 2021
Lightmatter
Series BMay 2021$80M
$890M
Co-investors: Tyson Clark (GV (Google Ventures)), Erik Nordlander (GV (Google Ventures)), Santo Politi (Spark Capital), Peter Bordes (Trajectory Ventures), Aniq Kassam (FAST — by GETTYLAB)
FRNGE Inc.
SeedFeb 2021$4M
$4M
Permanent Data Solutions Inc.
SeedN/A
SBS Comms makes direct investments or takes equity as payment for PR. We are a leading PR firm across AI, space/rockets, enterprise software, and more. Most interested in AI/ML seed stage companies, work-from-home technologies, space, automation, enterprise software.
Yet-to-launch blockchain projects (unless heavily backed by VCs), health-tech, IoT.
Managing Partner Strange Brew Ventures, LLC2019 - Present
Co-Founder SBS2017 - Present
Principal Strange Brew Strategies, LLC2017 - Present
Vice President of Media Strategy The OutCast Agency2009 - 2017
Account Supervisor Horn Group2008 - 2009
Senior Account Executive Weber Shandwick2006 - 2008
Editor, Writer, Producer CNN2002 - 2006
Intern The Daily Show with Jon Stewart2002 - 2002
Washington State University B.A. Communications
Washington State University B.A. Communications/Broadcasting
Gonzaga University in Florence Italian, History, European Literature