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AI Is Creating Modern Vampires
Why agency, taste, and distribution matter more as AI amplifies execution.
BDE Ventures
Advisory for the architects of tomorrow.
Operator-led advisory across positioning, distribution, strategic partnerships, and capital preparation.
Active thesis
Judgment at the inflection point.
Blockchain
Navigating decentralized protocols and token economies for enduring value.
AI
Strategic application of large language models and generative intelligence.
Ecommerce & Influencer Marketing
Building and scaling businesses through commerce, creators and distribution.
Consumer Platforms & Brands
Merging community, culture, and commerce for market dominance.
How we work
Early-stage partnerships.
BDE Ventures is focused exclusively on early-stage partnerships.
We bring operating experience, technical fluency, and a firsthand understanding of how culture and narrative move markets. Viewing the world through a marketing lens is our bread and butter. Our partnership is unusual by design: we back founders with non-consensus insight and help them turn attention into durable advantage.
Positioning
Clarify the narrative, category, and point of view that gives a company room to move.
Distribution
Build a clearer path from attention to adoption through influencer marketing and creator partnerships.
Strategic partnerships
Focus the relationships and opportunities that can create meaningful leverage at the next decision.
Capital preparation
Prepare the market story and financing conversation before momentum has to carry the work alone.
Featured & published in
BDE Dispatch
Notes from the edge.
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Chips Across the Felt
The AI Credit Reset Wars of 2026
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AI Agents Need Crypto Rails
The infrastructure gap between AI and crypto is bigger than anyone wants to admit.
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The Generalist Era Is Here
Look, I’m going to tell you something that goes against basically everything you’ve heard about career advice.
Founder
Brian D. Evans
Brian D. Evans is the founder of BDE Ventures, an Inc. 500 entrepreneur, a 40 Under 40 honoree and an AI-first builder and investor. He co-founded Advising.com and has been building in ecom since 2005, influencer marketing since 2011, crypto since 2013 and AI since 2018.
- Audience
- 1.5M+ followers across platforms
- Recognition
- Inc. 500 · 40 Under 40
We do not back tourists.
We partner exclusively with operators building the next iteration of the internet. If you are solving a generational challenge in our areas of focus, we invite you to reach out.