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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Brightmind Ventures Management LLC
Brightmind Ventures Management LLC
name or self-description says seed
Importance
22
moderate
Active deployment
55
elevated
Emerging
78
high
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
37
elevated
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Austin, TXadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 1705 ALAMEDA DR, Austin, TX, 78704adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 650-492-9979adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 30, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 2 (2 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $338Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- (908) 821-5698adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
- business phone
- 650-492-9979adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
11 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, enterprise software, cybersecurity
- Stages
- seed, series a, early
- Geography
- new york
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
- Self-described
- seed
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 91%Other Technology 9%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 11
Funds and vehicles
2 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brightmind Co-Investment Fund I LP | SPV or co-invest vehicle | 2024 form d first sale | Newly closed | $1.0M Dec 20, 2024 | 1 | $0 | Nov 7, 2024 |
| Brightmind Ventures I LP | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $81.9M Dec 20, 2024 | 9 | $0 | Oct 24, 2024 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
7 current, 0 departed
GUR Yehudah Talpaz
General partnerManager Of Brightmind Ventures I Ultimate Gp Llc · since Sep 1, 2024
Stephen Ward
Managing partnerManaging Partner
Taylor Cleveland
OtherChief of Staff
Stephen Ward
PartnerManager Of Brightmind Ventures Management Llc · since Jul 1, 2024
Iva Messy
Platform and operationsChief Operating Officer
Jamie Mneimneh
Platform and operationsChief Technology Officer & CISO
Investments on record
11 edges, 11 companies, 0 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
13 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Hoxton Ventures 1 shared · one timeInnosphere Advisors, Inc. 1 shared · one timeAmboy Street Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeElsewhere Partners, LLC 1 shared · one timeHyde Park Angels, Inc. 1 shared · one timeIselect Fund Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeGrdnt LLC 1 shared · one timeAIM Master I (bvi) Ltd. 1 shared · one timeMatchstick Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeFika Ventures 1 shared · one timePillar Companies Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeTDK Ventures Inc. 1 shared · one timeTaurus Ventures 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
4 dated events
- Sep 14, 2026Brightmind Ventures Management LLC: INSTITUTIONAL_VC -> SEED_FUND_MANAGER (name or self-description says seed)Classification changedClassificationInferenceno URL
- Dec 20, 2024Brightmind Ventures Management LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 20, 2024Brightmind Ventures I LP first reported on Form ADV by Brightmind Ventures Management LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $81,868,687Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactBrightmind Ventures I LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 20, 2024Brightmind Co-Investment Fund I LP first reported on Form ADV by Brightmind Ventures Management LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $1,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactBrightmind Co-Investment Fund I LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 14, 2026Seed fund manager (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)name or self-description says seed
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $83M across 2 vehicles
Evidence
40 observations from 3 sources