Brian Lent

Brian Lent

Founder & Managing Partner at VQ Capital
Seattle, Washington, United States

Brian Lent is the Founder and Managing Partner at VQ Capital and serves as a Member of the Founding Board at the University of Washington Information School. He previously founded Intelligent Results, Medio Systems (acquired), Plunk (closed), and VQ Capital, and has held leadership roles at Amazon.com, Auger, HERE Technologies, and IBM. His expertise includes AI, data science, machine learning, and analytics.

Brian Lent

Brian Lent is a data science pioneer who has been at the forefront of data mining, machine learning, forward-thinking analytics, and leading-edge AI technology for over three decades. As the Co-Founder and CEO of Plunk—the first mobile app helping homeowners grow their largest financial asset—Brian is working with a world-class team to bring advanced data mining, AI & ML algorithms to residential real estate. Prior to Plunk, Brian founded the mobile analytics company Medio Systems, supporting 440+ million users in over 100+ countries. Brian also started one of the first data analytics teams at Amazon in the late 1990’s when…

Organizations

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  • VQ Capital Founder & Managing Partner 2025–present, Co-founder · current
  • Auger logo
    Auger Chief Analytics & Data Officer 2024–2025, Chief Analytics and Data Officer 2025 · current
  • Plunk logo
    Plunk Co-Founder and CEO 2019–2024, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder 2024 · current

Education

  • Stanford University MSCS / Ph.D. Candidacy, Computer Science (AI & Database focus)
  • University of Nevada, Reno BS, Computer Science

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