Scott Brady

Scott Brady is a founding partner at Innovation Endeavors, a venture capital firm that backs visionary founders, transformational technologies, and emergent ecosystems. He has co-founded three publicly traded technology companies and serves on the boards of category-defining startups, bringing real-world operating and investing experience directly into the classroom.

Scott leads investments in and serves on the boards of companies redefining how the world is designed, built, and operated. These include Aro Homes, the first industrialized replacement engine for U.S. housing, delivering factory-built infill homes in 90 days and compressing build cycles by 6× through an AI-driven digital-twin manufacturing platform; Third Wave Automation, whose shared-autonomy robotics are transforming material handling in the world’s largest warehouses; Afresh, an AI platform modernizing fresh-food operations to eliminate waste at scale; Skylo, the first global standards-based direct-to-device satellite network enabling ubiquitous connectivity for phones and IoT devices; Trunk Tools, which deploys vertical AI agents to turn fragmented construction data into real-time operational intelligence; and Machina Labs, a pioneer of software-defined, AI-powered manufacturing systems reshaping how metal parts are designed, formed, and produced.

Prior to Innovation Endeavors, Scott was CEO and co-founder of Slice; co-founder and CEO of FiberTower; and co-founder and CTO of Clarus Corporation and SQL Financials.

At Stanford Graduate School of Business, Scott is a lecturer in management and teaches in the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He is the faculty advisor for the AI@GSB Applied AI Initiative, served as the MBA Class of 1978 Lecturer for 2022–2023, spent nine years on the GSB Advisory Council, and chaired the MSx Board for 13 years. His honors include the 2023 Jack McDonald Military Service Appreciation Award and the 2022 MSx Teaching Excellence Award.

Scott earned a master’s degree in management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in finance with high honors from the University of Florida, where he received the Distinguished Alumni Entrepreneur Award. He is also an inventor on multiple software and technology patents.