Lawrence Braitman
Angel Investor @ Braitman & Co. | Seed Investor, Advisor
San Francisco Bay Area
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Education
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Investments
Felvin
Total Funding: $350K
Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing
Total Funding: $120M
Spacejoy
Total Funding: $5M
LIT Videobooks
Total Funding: $5M
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto)
Total Funding: $2.2M
Octane AI
Total Funding: $13M
Backer
Total Funding: $4M
1Balance
Total Funding: $4M
TEOOH
Total Funding: $1M
Boom Entertainment
Total Funding: $23M
Wave Sports + Entertainment
Total Funding: $66M
UploadVR
Total Funding: $6M
SUPERGRAVITY
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Savvy.is
Total Funding: $2M
Haystack News
Total Funding: $4M
Meograph
Total Funding: $2M
Dealflicks
Total Funding: $2M
MovieLaLa
Total Funding: $1.8M
Talkwheel
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Sprig
Total Funding: $110M
MyColorScreen
Total Funding: $500K
OmniVirt
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MixRank
Total Funding: $2M
SocialShield
Total Funding: $10M
Udemy
Total Funding: $160M
Bunndle
Total Funding: $550K
AdNectar
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Work Experience
2003
Angel Investor; Advisor
2003
Seed / early-stage investor and advisor to a portfolio of leading digital media businesses that includes: Udemy, Curejoy, Homelight, WAVE.TV, Swell, etc.
2015 - 2015
visiting advisor
2015 - 2015
2005 - 2008
Chairman & Co-founder
2005 - 2008
Founding CEO, lead the company through two financing rounds raising $28 million, co-created "white label" vertical advertising model, participated in launching first 100 networks including Forbes.com, Martha Stewart, ABC / Disney, The Guardian (UK), IDG Tech, and NBC. Acquired by Cox Enterprises (cable, newspapers, etc.) in May, 2008, for $300 million.
2005 - 2008
Founding Investor
2005 - 2008
1996 - 2000
Co-founder; EVP Business Development
1996 - 2000
Key roles in: * developing unique business model (first auction-based pricing model for online display advertising; first direct response advertising network) * product marketing * business development * financing ($30+ million in angel, venture, and strategic investment) * evangelical sales May, 1999 IPO; acquired January, 2000 for over $2 billion.
1987 - 1994
Partner, Tax Department
1987 - 1994
Transactional law practice focused on financing, M&A; clients include health care, cable, information services, publishing, manufacturing and real estate.