BRYAN CIAMBELLA

General Partner

Bryan is a General Partner at PROOF.

He began his career as a founder and operator. Bryan founded the first non-salary cap daily fantasy sports company (Amped Fantasy) which was acquired by the publicly traded Global Gaming Network. He then founded the World Championship of Ping Pong, which aired over 840 million homes worldwide (Fox Sports, ESPN Star) and was acquired by London based Matchroom Sports. Bryan worked with Dan Treiman and Pit Karbe to help launch leading meal kit company Hello Fresh in the United States, which had an IPO 2017.

Bryan worked at IAC (Tinder, Vimeo, Match, HomeAdvisor/Angi) and led the investment in Belarusian based Apalon (Mosaic Group) - a top 10 Worldwide iOS app publisher and then moved to Eastern Europe to manage. He was one of the first employees at global venture growth fund B Capital Group, which is backed by the Boston Consulting Group and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and has over $6 billion in assets under management. Investments include Evidation Health, Bizongo, Silvercloud (acquired by Amwell) and Fishbrain. At Peak State Ventures Bryan led investments into leading technology companies Carta, Turing, Legacy, Cart, Betterleap and Fountain.

EDUCATION

  • University of Rochester
    BA Economics
  • Bayes Business School, City University of London
    MSc in Investment Manmanget


BRYAN CIAMBELLA