Brandon Farwell is a General Partner at Xfund. Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments including Box (NYSE: BOX), Yammer (acq., MSFT), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Newsle (acq., LNKD), SugarCRM, and Insight Squared, in addition to other frontier investments like Planet and SpaceX. After DFJ, he helped build the 150-company portfolio at Rothenberg Ventures nearly from the beginning, including companies like SpaceX, Planet, Robinhood, Gusto, Matterport, Bustle, Revel Systems, Boom Supersonic, Kespry, Andela, Dronebase, Nearpod, Patreon, Vicarious Surgical, SweetIQ (acq., GCI), Accelo, Customer.io, and others. This portfolio was awarded #1 in VR /AR and frontier technology by Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook.

Brandon spent time in sales operations and corporate development at Box. His passions and focus are mainly in enterprise technologies; notably applied machine intelligence (computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning), VR/AR, robotics, space, and autonomous vehicles. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Venture Capital list. Brandon is currently a formal advisor to CASIS, the organization designated by NASA to manage, promote, and broker research on the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory. 

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Brandon received a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University. He helped run BASES (Stanford’s leading entrepreneurship organization) and was awarded Pac 12 All-Academic Team honors as a varsity rower. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Rock Ventures Fellow.

Jack Fuchs is an investor, global entrepreneur, and lecturer. Jack is an Adjunct Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Stanford University, an Affiliate Professor with ESCP Europe, and a contributor to Unternehmertum at the Technical University of Munich. He is the Director of Principled Entrepreneruship (PEAK) at Stanford with SEEC. He mentors entrepreneurs, is a VC Partner, Board member, and conducts workshops in entrepreneurship around the world. His private company Board and Board Observer positions include: Cytovale, Aperia Technologies, Focal Systems, Datch, Ceres Nanotechnologies, and Blackhorn Ventures.   Over the past 10 years, he has invested in and advised over 20 companies in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. His investments and advisory roles include Brex, Meituan Dianping, Motiv Power Systems, Aperia Technologies, Sanis, Swift Solar, Sci-Fi Foods, Luminovo, and Kyte. He aspires to help global entrepreneurs establish the best version of Silicon Valley wherever they are through mentoring, lecturing and speaking at companies, conferences and universities throughout the world. He holds an AB in Engineering Sciences with Honors from Dartmouth College magna cum laude and phi beta kappa, and he received his MBA from Stanford University as an Arjay Miller Scholar.   Jack’s previous entrepreneurship experience includes 4 successful strategic exits. From 2012 – 2013, he was CFO of NextBio, Inc., a big-data genomics company targeting personalized medicine, which was acquired by Illumina corporation in October 2013. From 2007 – 2012, Jack was CFO of ForteBio, Inc., a private life science technology company, which was acquired by Pall Corporation in March 2012. Previously, he has held leadership positions in Finance, Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Business Development at a number of private companies, including IPWireless, a 120-person broadband wireless company that was successfully sold to a strategic buyer in 2007.   Previously in his career, Jack held several senior positions with Becton Dickinson & Company, including Vice President of e-Business, North American Business Leader, Vice President Worldwide Marketing, and Director of Corporate Planning. In addition, Jack was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, where his client focus was health care and wireless communications.