Brendan Kohler is a venture capital investor at Hyperplane who built his investing perspective as co-founder and CTO of Sentenai, an autonomous data engineering company, giving him direct experience commercializing complex machine-learning systems rather than coming from a purely financial background. He maintains his active role as a technical founder while investing, focusing on AI teams attacking hard physical-world problems and using his deep technical network to help research-heavy teams spin out companies and bring new technologies to market. Brendan Kohler is a venture capital investor at Hyperplane who built his investing perspective as co-founder and CTO of Sentenai, an autonomous data engineering company, giving him direct experience commercializing complex machine-learning systems rather than coming from a purely financial background. He maintains his active role as a technical founder while investing, focusing on AI teams attacking hard physical-world problems and using his deep technical network to help research-heavy teams spin out companies and bring new technologies to market.