Phil Brady co-founded GoAhead Ventures from his Stanford dorm room and created their signature open video pitch system where any founder can submit a 4-minute video and get a decision within a week. He uses a 150-person external rater panel and structured processes to reduce bias in early-stage investing, while maintaining an outdoorsman identity with certifications in freediving and volunteer work in wildlife conservation and search & rescue.
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GoAhead Ventures
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Generalist, SaaS, AI, Health, Fintech
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Pre-Seed - Seed
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$200K - $1M
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GoAhead Ventures replaces traditional "warm intros" with an open video-pitch funnel that any founder worldwide can submit to, then runs all submissions through a standing panel of ~150 external raters who score pitches against benchmarks like YC Demo Day. The three-person team reviews 3,000+ founder videos per year and can deliver funding decisions within days through a non-consensus model where any single partner can greenlight an investment, leading ~40 deals annually with the speed of an accelerator but the check size and ownership of a lead VC fund.
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