Vertical Venture Partners
Brad has 16 years of investment, operating, and corporate advisory experience, including roles as an investment banker, entrepreneur, and early-stage investment professional. At Vertical Venture Partners, he focuses on SaaS, marketplaces, healthcare IT, and tech-enabled healthcare services. He is actively involved with portfolio companies Mudflap, Redeam, Concert Health, Ordermark, and Tasso.
Previously, Brad was a Partner at Lakewood & Company, where he led the due diligence and execution of early-stage venture capital investments. Before Lakewood, Brad worked with multiple family offices on early and growth-stage investments across multiple sub-verticals within technology and healthcare. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of an e-commerce business in the retail vertical. He began his career as an investment banker at Jefferies in the New York office, where he spent six years in the Financial Sponsors and Healthcare groups on capital raising, advisory, and M&A engagements.
Vertical Venture Partners
Vertical Venture Partners (“VVP”) is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Dave Schwab, a 20-year veteran in early stage technology investing. VVP focuses on making Seed and Series A investments in B2B technology companies targeting pain points in specific vertical sectors. The VVP team has decades of operating and investment experience gained from diverse backgrounds in venture capital, research & development, investment banking, and advanced technology.