Graham Brooks

As a recovering engineer, Graham Brooks loves to dig deep with technology founders. He joined .406 Ventures in 2007, following nine years of technology-oriented operating, investing and start-up experience.

At .406, Graham invests in companies that are helping enterprises harness the value of Data + AI. Graham also is involved with the firm’s university outreach initiatives including the .406 Student Fellows program.

Prior to joining .406, Graham was an intrapreneur with the New Ventures Group and then Business Development Manager at Bose where, in addition to upgrading his personal audio set-up, he led the team that identified, evaluated, and structured strategic investment and acquisition opportunities within the digital media and consumer products markets.

Prior to being an intrapreneur, Graham was an entrepreneur, co-founding Accentus, a spin-out of Dartmouth College focused on bringing innovative solutions to the financial trading industry. At Accentus, Graham led product management and sales and developed significant scar tissue from fundraising in 2002.Graham began his career as a software engineer and database administrator at ALK Associates (acquired by Trimble), a logistics solutions spin-out of Princeton University.

Graham serves on the Board of Directors for the National Venture Capital Association as well as on the MBA Council for Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

Graham is a Kauffman Fellow (Class of 2010). He received his MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School  in 2002, where he was a Tuck Scholar, and an engineering degree in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1998.