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Jim Brailean is listed as Co Founder & Managing Partner at Karmel Capital, based in San Diego, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at karmelcap.com, phone signal with area code 858, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Jim Brailean.
Jim Brailean previously worked as Managing Partner at Karmel Capital and Founder and CEO at Bft Equity Partners. Jim Brailean holds President'S Program In Leadership, Business/Commerce, General from Harvard Business School.
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Dr. Brailean co‐founded Karmel Capital (“Karmel”), a private equity firm specializing in alternative investments. He is co‐portfolio manager of all current & prior Karmel-managed funds, including Karmel Capital Founders Fund LP (2016), Karmel Capital Founders Funds II & III, LP (2018 and 2020), Karmel Capital SOF LP (2019), Karmel SOF SPV LP (2019), KCFF II SPV LP (2018) and KCFF II SPV II LP (2019). Before transitioning to full‐time investing, he co‐founded PacketVideo Corporation (“PacketVideo”) in 1998 and became its CEO in 2000. Under Dr. Brailean’s leadership, PacketVideo launched the world’s first commercial end‐to‐end wireless mobile media delivery platform (2000) and helped create a new industry for wireless multimedia communications. PacketVideo was acquired by NTT DOCOMO, a large Japanese telecommunications company, in October 2010. In January of 2013, after 14 years of leading PacketVideo and shipping more than 700 million pieces of software worldwide, Dr. Brailean stepped down as CEO. Dr. Brailean has served on several public and private company boards, including DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX), Sonic Solutions (SNIC), NextWave Corporation (NASDAQ: WAVE), Nik Software, Inc. (acquired by Google), BURL Concepts and Valona Labs (acquired by HMD). Dr. Brailean received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1992, his MSEE from the University of Southern California in 1988, and his BSEE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1985. Dr. Brailean has over 20 patents in signal processing, video compression, and transmission. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mobile Entertainment Forum for his contributions to accelerating the development and adoption of mobile multimedia services worldwide. He was a founding member of the mobile application advisory boards for AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless & NTT DOCOMO. Dr. Brailean received Distinguished Alumni Awards from the University of Michigan ‐ Dearborn and Northwestern University for his business & social achievements. Dr. Brailean is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and Chief Executive Organization (CEO).
Listed skills include Mobile Devices, Start Ups, Strategic Partnerships, Product Management, and 46 others.
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San Diego, California, Us
Dedicated funds investing in high-growth enterprise software firms through transactions with existing shareholders. Since our founding in 2013, we have invested in leading software companies across many verticals.
Co-founded with Karen Brailean, BFT Equity Partners advises and invests in companies trying to take a disruptive technology or manufacturing process to market. Portfolio companies include Intelligent Blends, Flock Freight, BURL Concepts, Freedom Flight, Atmosfy, Mobix Labs, Permission.io, Tenant Base, Tern Inc, Tillable, Matcherino, and Omnislash.
San Diego, Us
Formed in 2016 by Jim Brailean (entrepreneur and technologist) and Christian Buckley (entrepreneur and technology lawyer), Pelagos Ventures leverages decades of experience in leadership, negotiation, strategy, innovation, operations, and funding to find, help, and fund great new ideas. Over the years, we have had the privilege of building, helping, or funding a variety of significant business and non-profit organizations. We work within a network of funders, experts, and advisers to bring capital and strategic relationships to new ventures. Our current efforts include: - TenantBase - e-commerce CRE leasing platform (scaling revenue, mid-venture) - Peachjar - SaaS school and community email communications platform (scaling revenue, mid-venture) - Flock Freight- big data optimization algorithm and service for LTL shipping (unicorn, venture growth) - Matcherino - event management and e-funding platform for e-sports (early revenue, early-venture) - BURL Concepts - brain ultrasound for stroke and profusion detection (pre-revenue, mid-venture) - Freedom Flight Works- air/land tactical mobility and logistics solutions (early -revenue (confidential), Seed) - Intelligent Blends - single-serving coffee production for private in-house label (high revenue, LP) - Valona Labs - mobile device management and security (sold to HMD Nokia in 2020) - Coacing.com
Encinitas, California, Us
Our mission is to reimagine and reinvent the freight industry by relentlessly eliminating waste and inefficiency through algorithmic pooling. Pooled shipments do not pick up and deliver along inefficient LTL routes, reducing greenhouse gas emissions up to 40%.Our proprietary product, FlockDirect, seamlessly pools multiple freight shipments on a single truck to create efficiencies for carriers, savings for customers, and a smooth experience for all. Our innovative algorithm would be nothing without our brilliant people, who obsess over growing our customer base, developing our carrier network, and improving our technology platform.Flock Freight aims to fundamentally change the freight industry across North America with FlockDirect—one pooled shipment at a time.
San Diego, California, Us
Co-founded with Dr. Thilo Hoelscher, BURL Concepts (www.burlconcept.com) is developing the BURL Device, a portable, battery-powered ultrasound device designed for the non-invasive, transcranial diagnosis of strokes ‘In The Field’. Using disposable ultrasound transducers it works in combination with ultrasound microbubbles. Acoustic Response Analysis (ARA) has been developed as an innovative technology to adapt automatically the acoustic output power to the individual skull ‘finger print’ of a patient. Based on acoustic pattern recognition ARA allows to differentiate between underlying hemorrhagic or ischemic events as a cause for the stroke. The BURL Device carries wireless technology for real-time data transfer to a dedicated location. BURL Concepts is part of the BFT Equity Partners portfolio of companies.
Mobile and IoT cybersecurity software company. The business was acquired by HMD Global (The New Nokia) in June of 2020.
San Diego, Ca, Us
Snaptracs, a recent investment by Karmel Capital and BFT Equity Partners, is the maker of Tagg the Pet Tracker. Tagg was developed by Qualcomm specifically to monitor a pets location and activity. Pet owners are alerted through text, push and email messages if their pet leaves a preset location. By monitoring a pet's activity, Tagg's cloud service is able to monitor a pet's health and wellness, providing useful information to both the pet's guardian and their vet. In January 2016 we merged with Whistle, another pet-tech business focused on pet safety. The combined business was sold to Mars Inc in January of 2016.
San Diego, Ca, Us
Advise senior management on strategic initiatives.
Sonic Solutions was acquired by ROVI in February of 2011.
San Diego, California, Us
Was a member of the Compensation and Governance Committees. DivX was acquired by Sonic Solutions in October of 2010. I was asked to remain on the BoD of Sonic Solutions.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us
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Jim Brailean holds President'S Program In Leadership, Business/Commerce, General from Harvard Business School.
Jim Brailean is listed with skills including Mobile Devices, Start Ups, Strategic Partnerships, Product Management, Executive Management, Mobile Applications, Embedded Systems, and Wireless.
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