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Location Bellevue, Washington, United States
Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

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Website ya6.capital
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Brian Lent is a Managing Partner of YA6 Capital, and the former Co-Founder and CEO of Plunk. He previously worked at Nokia/HERE Technologies as a Chief Technology Officer, Medio Systems (acquired by Nokia/HERE Technologies), Intelligent

Results (acquired by KKR), and Junglee (acquired by Amazon). Brian Lent attended Stanford University.

Personal Investments

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Brian Lent

has made

investments. Their latest investment was

Series C - Possible Finance

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Possible Finance

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Possible Finance	—	Series C - Possible Finance	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Unlock Venture Partners	—	Funding Round - Unlock Venture Partners	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Cycle.io	—	Seed Round - Cycle.io	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Zeotap	—	Series A - Zeotap	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Omata	—	Seed Round - Omata	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Zeotap	No	Seed Round - Zeotap	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Mohr Davidow Ventures	—	Funding Round - Mohr Davidow Ventures	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Ignition Partners	—	Series A - Ignition Partners	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Sands Brothers	—	Funding Round - Sands Brothers	obfuscated obfuscation

Partner Investments

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Unlock Venture Partners	Brian Lent	—	Funding Round - Unlock Venture Partners	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Ignition Partners	Brian Lent	—	Series A - Ignition Partners	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Sands Brothers	Brian Lent	—	Funding Round - Sands Brothers	obfuscated obfuscation

Jobs

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Brian Lent

is the

Founder & Managing Partner

YA6 Capital

. Additionally,

Brian Lent

has had

past jobs including

Chief Analytics & Data Officer

Auger

YA6 Capital Founder & Managing PartnerMay 2025

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Auger	Chief Analytics & Data Officer	2024	Apr 2025
Plunk	Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer (acquired by Home.AI)	Apr 2019	Oct 2024
HERE Technologies Chicago	Chief Technology Officer	Jul 2014	2018
Medio	Co-founder, CEO and CTO (acquired by Nokia)	Sep 2004	Jul 2014
Intelligent Results	Co-Founder & CEO (acquired by First Data Corp)	2001	2003
Amazon	Director of Data Analytics	Aug 1998	2001
Junglee	VP of Applications (acquired by Amazon)	Sep 1996	Aug 1998
IBM Research	Graduate Research Scientist (IBM Almaden)	1996	1996
SGI	Graduate Research Scientist	1995	1995
Micro Revelations	Founder & CEO	1985	1992

Board and Advisor Roles

Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles

Brian Lent

is the

Member, Founding Board

University of Washington Information School

University of Washington Information School Member, Founding Board2015

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Hub Name	CB Rank (Hub)
University of Guelph Alumni Founded Companies	53,623
Glasgow Caledonian University Alumni Founded Companies	82,593
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Alumni Founded Companies	60,156
University of Central Missouri Alumni Founded Companies	88,410
University of Derby Alumni Founded Companies	76,091
National Institute of Technology Rourkela Alumni Founded Companies	82,053
University of Copenhagen Alumni Founded Companies	51,963
University of Richmond Alumni Founded Companies	67,340
University of Aberdeen Alumni Founded Companies	50,364
Roosevelt University Alumni Founded Companies	89,473

Education

Brian Lent

studied at

University of Nevada

and

Stanford University

University of Nevada B.SComputer Science19891993
Stanford University M.Sc & Ph.DComputer Science19931998

Events

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Brian Lent

has participated in

event,

Innovation, Opportunity & Investment (iOi)

Aug 17, 2021

Innovation, Opportunity & Investment (iOi) Speaker Dallas, Texas, United States, North AmericaAug 17, 2021