Brad Flora

Brad Flora is an American Group Partner at Y Combinator based in San Francisco, California, where he directs institutional investments into early-stage technology companies. Before joining the Silicon Valley startup accelerator, he served as the co-founder and chief executive officer of Perfect Audience, an advertising technology startup that he guided from its 2011 inception to a $25.5 million acquisition by Marin Software in 2014. Prior to this corporate exit, he established the news aggregator Windy Citizen in 2006 and the digital advertising product NowSpots in 2010. Flora earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Princeton University and a Master of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University. As a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist, his current professional focus centers on funding and advising early-stage software and technology startups developing internet advertising platforms and stablecoin infrastructure.