Brad Gillespie is an early builder of IA Ventures who has been shaping the firm's strategy since 2010 and focuses on backing companies before product-market fit across an unusually broad technical scope spanning AI, robotics, biotech, and data infrastructure. He's known among other VCs for always betting on the founder and has been involved with several multibillion-dollar data infrastructure platforms like The Trade Desk and Datadog from their true seed stages. Brad Gillespie is an early builder of IA Ventures who has been shaping the firm's strategy since 2010 and focuses on backing companies before product-market fit across an unusually broad technical scope spanning AI, robotics, biotech, and data infrastructure. He's known among other VCs for always betting on the founder and has been involved with several multibillion-dollar data infrastructure platforms like The Trade Desk and Datadog from their true seed stages.