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Founder, BDE Ventures · Inc. 500 entrepreneur
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01Profile
He founded BDE Ventures and co-founded Advising.com. He's been building in ecom since 2005, influencer marketing since 2011, crypto since 2013 and AI since 2018.
Through BDE Ventures, I help founders in blockchain, AI, and deep tech shape emerging industries and drive adoption. I build and back companies while supporting strategy, positioning, distribution, capital, and partnerships.
BDE Ventures is also an investment company with a family-office-style approach, alongside strategic advisory work.
I've been building in ecom since 2005, influencer marketing since 2011, crypto since 2013, and AI since 2018. I founded BDE Ventures in 2005 and Influencive in 2015.
02Brief timeline
Builder
Building in ecom since 2005.
Founder, BDE Ventures
BDE Ventures began as a marketing and advertising agency. In 2015, the agency made the Inc. 500, Inc.’s list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in America. Today, it builds and backs companies through capital formation, market positioning, partnerships, and growth. It is also an investment company with a family-office-style approach, alongside strategic advisory work.
Builder
Building in influencer marketing since 2011.
Builder
Building in crypto since 2013. Went on to make 100+ investments in companies such as Kraken, Ripple, Animoca Brands and Circle.
Founder
Founded Influencive and built and backed companies around emerging technology, positioning, and distribution.
Press
As a marketing and advertising agency, BDE Ventures ranked No. 172 on the 2015 Inc. 5000, Inc.’s list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. That places it in the Inc. 500
Inc. company profilePress
Featured in Forbes
How Serial Entrepreneur Brian D. Evans Is Turning Influencive Into A Rapidly Growing Media EmpireBuilder and investor
Building in AI since 2018.
Judge
Judge on an investment TV show.
Press
Keynote speaker
Press
Producer on Satoshi, a feature film about Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator
Tristan Thompson Boards Bitcoin Creator Movie ‘Satoshi’ as Producer03Proof
Figures reported on Brian’s public site
Raised over $100M for startups, with multiple exits.
Featured in Forbes in 2016. Member of the Forbes Agency Council.
Forbes Councils profile
BDE Ventures made the 2015 Inc. 500 as a marketing and advertising agency. Brian has also written for Inc.
Inc. author page
Brian has been published in and written for Entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur author page
Member of the Rolling Stone Culture Council.
Culture Council article04Work
Brian is a highly technical AI builder, with much of his work focused on private AI projects. One public example is his open-source work on Hermes Agent, including merged contributions to sandbox file safety, scheduled-agent reliability, and desktop agent interactions.
GitHub05The agent
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