About

My name is Brian Muller, and I’m the CTO and Co-founder of Parallel Markets. Parallel Markets provides portable investor identity and accreditation services to make investing online easier.

Before that, I was the VP of Data and Growth at the magazine The Atlantic, and prior to that I was the Director of Data Science at Vox Media. At both publications I founded, grew, and led the Data Science and Data Infrastructure teams.

Before that, I was CTO and Co-founder of OpBandit, which optimized content on major publishers’ sites across 7 countries. OpBandit was acquired by Vox Media in April of 2015.

Prior to that, I ran the Data Science, Data Products, and Data Infrastructure teams at LivingSocial in Washington, DC.

Before that I worked as the the Web Director for Foreign Policy Magazine in Washington, DC.

Prior to that I was a research assistant in the Center for Computational Genomics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

Before that I was a graduate student at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC where I received a MS degree in bioinformatics.

Investing

Startups

A sample of some of the startups I’ve invested in / advised.

Name	Type	Stage	Outcome
High Snobiety	Secondary	Seed	Exit
Cedar	Secondary	Seed
Type Five	Direct	Angel
Poppy	Direct	Angel
Big Sugar Podcast	Direct	Angel
Muse	Advisory	Angel
@hotel	Advisory	Seed
Aug X Labs	Advisory	Angel

Funds

In addition to supporting Black Jays Investments previously as a Principal, I’ve also invested in these funds:

• Treble
• Generalist Capital