Brilliant Ventures
Brilliant Ventures is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, CA investing in Other, Consumer. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Seed, Series A
- Sectors
- Other, Consumer
- HQ
- Santa Monica, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-18
Seed, Series A
$250K – $2.0M
2+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Brilliant Ventures focuses on women-led consumer technology companies and bold brands redefining the consumer marketplace.
How Brilliant Ventures invests
Brilliant Ventures is a vc firm based in Santa Monica, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Other, Consumer. It does not invest in Enterprise SaaS.
Brilliant Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.
Brilliant Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Zyper, Mahmee.
Partners & Team
Elizabeth Friedman
Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
Zyper
Mahmee
- •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Elizabeth Friedman, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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