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Brian Shin

Overview

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Brian Shin is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder of Joinable Labs and Managing Partner of VitalStage Ventures. Brian previously worked at Smartsheet as a Sr. Director, Product Management; Leader of AI Strategy and Product. Brian Shin attended the Tufts University.

Personal Investments

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Brian Shin has made 15 investments. Their latest investment was Pre Seed Round - Autopoiesis Sciences on
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Partner Investments

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Exits

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    Lookery Lookery provides demographic marketing services that enable social networks to distribute their data as targeting information.
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    HubSpot HubSpot develops cloud-based, inbound marketing software that allows businesses to transform the way that they market online.
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    Bedrock Data Bedrock Data provides the leading product to connect, clean and continuously synchronize multiple cloud systems in real-time.

Jobs

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Number of Current Jobs 3
Number of Past Jobs 3
Brian Shin has 3 current jobs including Co-Founder at Joinable Labs, Managing Partner at Shareaholic, and Managing Partner at VitalStage Ventures. Additionally, Brian Shin has had 3 past jobs including Sr. Director, Product Management; Leader of AI Strategy and Product at Smartsheet.
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Sr. Director, Product Management; Leader of AI Strategy and ProductApr 2023Nov 2023
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Co-founder & CEOAug 20192023
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Providence Equity Partners
Managing Director2018Aug 2019

Board and Advisor Roles

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Member of The Board of DirectorsJul 2020Aug 2022

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Tufts University Alumni Founded Companies Logo
Tufts University Alumni Founded Companies
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American InterContinental University Alumni Founded Companies Logo
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CEU San Pablo University Alumni Founded Companies Logo
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Education

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Brian Shin studied at Tufts University, MIT - Sloan School of Management, and  Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology.

Recent News and Activity

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Funding Round•Jul 30, 2025
Autopoiesis Sciences raised
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Funding Round•Apr 14, 2025
Octolane AI raised
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from Basis Set Ventures and 7 other investors
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Funding Round•Feb 27, 2025
DeepNight raised
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from Brian Shin and 5 other investors
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Funding Round•Jun 27, 2023
Infringements raised
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from Abhinav Gupta and 39 other investors
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Funding Round•Jun 27, 2023
Invalidate raised
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from Abhinav Gupta and 39 other investors
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Funding Round•Jun 27, 2023
Patented.ai raised
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from Abhinav Gupta and 42 other investors
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Funding Round•Jun 27, 2023
Reasoner raised
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from 186 Ventures and 44 other investors
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Funding Round•Nov 6, 2019
Digits raised
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from Aaron Levie and 42 other investors
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Funding Round•Jun 15, 2017
Atrium LTS raised
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from 500 Global and 96 other investors
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