Phil Brady
Managing Partner at GoAhead Ventures
Angels Camp, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2015 - Current
We launched GoAhead out of a Stanford dorm after professors and mentors told us it would fail. Ten years later, we’ve outlasted the doubters and built a portfolio that includes unicorns, decacorns, centaurs, and whatever mythical creatures that might come next. We’re proving that agile, tech-native VC is the future, and we’re building a fund designed to operate like the startups we back.
Select Early Stage Deals
2015
⚛️ Valar – Nuclear at planetary scale · 🧬 Colossal – De-extinction via CRISPR · 📺 VideoAmp – Software-first ads · 🚁 Flyby – ML drones for the real world · 🛰️ Starpath – Rocket fuel plants for Mars · 💸 Collectly – AI billing for healthcare · ✈️ Poseidon – Ground effect seagliders · 📊 Aviato – Private market data engine · 🧠 Vector – Turning intent into pipeline · 🌐 More: goaheadvc.com/portfolio
GoAhead Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley.
Investor
2021
Backed Colossal with conviction in 2021. Proud early partner to the visionary team behind Texas’s first decacorn.
Founder
2013 - 2018
Ghosted by McKinsey, so I founded Copernican: a profitable, Stanford-powered strategy firm for founders and VCs tired of slow, overpriced consultants.
Deal Team
2013 - 2015
Powered a16z’s earliest deal flow as their only student hire at the time. Joined the team during landmark investments in Coinbase, Oculus, Lyft, Slack, and others.
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Business Development
2014 - 2015
Early believer in the atoms-not-bits wave. Worked on drone insurance models and BD during Airware’s push into commercial UAVs.
Business Development
2014 - 2015
Worked on BD at Xapo during the early infra phase of Bitcoin, helping the world's most secure custodian while living entirely on BTC and pushing adoption through scrappy remittance pilots, ATMs, and high-visibility stunts like the first UFC Fighter wearing a BTC QR code.
Analyst
2013 - 2014
Analyst
2013 - 2013
Lindsay Goldberg is a private equity firm that invests in manufacturing, financial and business services, and healthcare sectors.
Writer & Business Development
2012 - 2013
Analyst
2012 - 2013
OneValley is a global entrepreneurship platform for individuals, startups, and corporations seeking innovation and accelerated growth.
Raised $17,000,000.00 from Brand Capital International and HMC Capital.