Brent Willess
Principal at Founder Collective
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Early Stage AI Investor
2025 - Current
We invest early in ambitious founders who create transformative AI-driven solutions across enterprise and the physical world - industries where AI has the power to drive foundational change.
Innospark Ventures is a new breed of early-stage venture capital firm, investing in impact-driven AI startups in Boston/New England.
Principal
2021 - 2025
MBA Associate
2020 - 2021
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Student Advisory Board
2020 - 2021
Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale is to inspire students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines.
Investment Partner
2019 - 2021
Investing in student-run businesses and backed by First Round Capital
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Head of Strategy - UberTransit
2018 - 2019
Strategy Manager - US & Canada
2017 - 2018
Senior Operations Manager
2015 - 2017
Operations and Logistics Manager
2013 - 2015
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Senior Associate
2013 - 2013
Worked in the Public Sector Financial Services practice.
Associate
2011 - 2013
Advisory Internship
2010 - 2010