Brian Meshkin
About Brian Meshkin
Brian Meshkin as a Social Impact Investor
Since 2018, Brian has been Managing Partner at Profound Ventures in Newport Beach, California and since 2021, he has been a Venture Partner at Cancer Fund in Phoenix, Arizona.
As an early-stage investor in for-profit businesses that do good things in the world, Brian and the team invest and help find seed money, create the infrastructure for governing the business (finding executives, researchers, and board members), and find partners for businesses as they grow.
The Profound Ventures portfolio includes Flint Rehab, which is the world-leader in gamified neurorehabilitation for victims of stroke and traumatic brain injury; Acellus, which is the nation’s leader in providing behavioral health services for injured workers to help them get back to work; Tasso, which has developed a novel “Easy Button” blood collection device to enable lab test specimens collected at home; and Neuraura Biotech which has a next-generation brain sensor to allow for better brain mapping to help patients with epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and other neurological conditions.
Other companies Brian has been involved with include various telehealth companies such as BlueStar Senior Tech, Fruit Street Health, Monj and more. These ventures have raised over $50 million in subsequent capital in 2020 and over $100M in 2021.
In addition to Profound Ventures, Brian is a Venture Partner with Cancer Fund, helping a new social impact early-stage fund for technologies to help cancer patients, and he co-founded a podcast to inspire others to be social impact investors called HeartInvestors available on Spotify, as well as Google and Apple Podcasts.
Despite his busy entrepreneurial endeavors, Brian is a devout member of his church where he volunteers, and an active dad, having been PTA President at his kids’ schools, serving on numerous non-profit boards, being elected to the Board of Education for four years in his kids’ school district which was also where he grew up, and coaching or volunteering for his kids’ sports teams and volunteering for their theater productions and other extracurricular activities.
Brian knows that trying to change things is both rewarding as it helps people, but also difficult because it invites criticism and judgment from those who profit or gain power from the current way of doing things. Despite the ups and downs of being an innovator, Brian enjoys helping people. He always has. As an activist, entrepreneur, and innovator to his core, he has a reason to spring out of bed every morning. He knows he is doing good. And his over 30-year track record shows how many thousands and thousands of lives his efforts have saved.
Brian Meshkin and Proove Biosciences From 2009 to 2017, Brian was the founder and CEO of Proove Biosciences – one of the fastest-growing life science technology companies in North America.[7] Prove’s mission was to deliver on the promise of personalized medicine for the nation’s largest and most prevalent health condition – chronic pain.
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