Kara Weber & Lizzie Francis, founding partners of Brilliant Ventures, are serial entrepreneurs and marketers with 7 exits between them. Born storytelling sellers, they have founded/led marketing at numerous breakthrough companies including Adap.tv (sold to AOL), Rubicon Project (RUBI), Gilt Groupe (sold to Hudson Bay), Streetmail (now Everyday Health), DermStore (sold to Target), JustFab (now Techstyle), Intelligent Beauty, Fox Interactive Media, LowerMyBills.com (sold to Experian), and in the earliest days of the Web, Tripod.com (sold to Lycos).

Their ingenuity, expertise and unconventional approaches in creating go-to-market strategies driven by data and technology, helped these businesses scale quickly, build markets and create more than $2 billion in enterprise value.