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Mr. Baum is a serial entrepreneur and investor and is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of K5 Global. His portfolio includes category-defining companies such as SpaceX, xAI, Anduril, Canva, Databricks, Grafana, OpenAI, and others. He has also founded and successfully exited multiple ventures.
Mr. Baum also started 818 Tequila and previously founded and sold multiple companies including Parrot, a legal tech company using AI to accelerate workflows and depositions (sold to Filevine in 2025); Blue Vision Labs, a localization and mapping software company for self-driving cars (sold to Lyft in 2018); Operam, a data analytics and marketing insights company; and Represent.com, an e-commerce platform (sold to CustomInk in 2016). Mr. Baum has been an angel investor for over a decade and has personally made over 200 investments in companies such as Uber, Airbnb, Slack, Flexport, Carta, PillPack, and Sweetgreen.
Bryan was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, featured in Forbes 30 under 30, and is on the board of the Federal Drug Agents Foundation. Bryan studied Game Theory at Swarthmore College and Oxford University and was an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California.