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: