Brian Garrett is a 20+ year LA-based VC who co-founded Crosscut Ventures in 2008 to keep Southern California founders from having to go to Silicon Valley for capital, and he actually co-founded and operated a portfolio company himself rather than being purely an investor. With an industrial engineering background from Stanford, he has shifted his focus to frontier tech like space, nuclear fission, and advanced manufacturing, where he builds detailed investment theses and maps out full capital pathways from seed funding through government grants to project finance for complex hardware companies. Brian Garrett is a 20+ year LA-based VC who co-founded Crosscut Ventures in 2008 to keep Southern California founders from having to go to Silicon Valley for capital, and he actually co-founded and operated a portfolio company himself rather than being purely an investor. With an industrial engineering background from Stanford, he has shifted his focus to frontier tech like space, nuclear fission, and advanced manufacturing, where he builds detailed investment theses and maps out full capital pathways from seed funding through government grants to project finance for complex hardware companies.