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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
1 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
Renée E. LaBran is a seasoned board director, investor, and business advisor with over 25 years of executive management experience spanning startups, major corporations, and venture capital. She currently serves as a Director of B&R Technology Merger Corp. (NASDAQ: BRTMU), a SPAC that completed its $325 million initial public offering on July 22, 2026, with Citigroup acting as sole book-running manager. LaBran was appointed to the B&R Technology Merger board effective July 20, 2026, and also serves on the company's Compensation Committee alongside Raymond Bingham and David Golden. Her address on file is 2300 West Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89102. She is a Qualified Financial Expert with audit committee experience and brings deep expertise across technology, consumer products, financial services, internet, e-commerce, natural foods, and digital media sectors.
LaBran's prior SPAC experience includes serving as a Director of Iconic Sports Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: ICNC-UN), which completed its IPO in October 2021, raising approximately $345 million in gross proceeds through the issuance of 34,500,000 units at $10.00 per unit. ICNC ultimately liquidated its trust account and returned capital to shareholders on September 26, 2023, without completing a business combination. Beyond her SPAC roles, LaBran currently serves on the boards of B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ: RILY), where she is a member of the audit and governance committees; Idealab, the longest-running technology incubator based in Pasadena; and Stravos Education. She is also Chairman of PLX Systems, Inc., an advisory board member of Principia Growth (a late-stage growth fund), an adjunct professor at UCLA Anderson Business School's entrepreneurship program, and a Los Angeles Chair for TIGER 21. She previously served as a board member of BRC Group Holdings, Inc. and as Vice Chairman – Los Angeles for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation.
In her investing career, LaBran has been involved in venture capital since 2000. She was a founding partner of Rustic Canyon Partners (RCP), a technology-focused early-stage VC fund, which also served as the launching pad for Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners, a growth-stage fund focused on consumer products and business services, where she continues as a partner managing a portfolio of later-stage consumer product companies. Her angel investments include companies such as Retrofit and TomboyX, with focus areas spanning lifestyle products, retail, fashion, and financial services. She is also co-founder and secretary of the Women Founders Network. Prior to her venture capital career, LaBran held a variety of executive management positions at the Los Angeles Times/Times Mirror, where she co-founded and served as CEO of CareerPath.com (now CareerBuilder) and co-founded Classified Ventures (which included Cars.com). She began her post-MBA career as a management consultant with Monitor Company in the U.S. and Europe, working on corporate strategy projects for Fortune 500 companies. In 2015, she was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California State Bar Board of Trustees as a non-attorney public member, was confirmed to two terms by the State Senate, played a key role in the restructuring and turnaround of both the board and the organization, and completed her tenure in December 2020.
LaBran holds an MBA with Distinction (honors) from Harvard Business School and an AB in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is based in Pasadena, California, and was honored by Hathaway-Sycamores' 2016 Celebrating Children event. Her broad expertise encompasses growth equity, venture capital, strategic planning, industry transformation, innovation, financial strategies, and mergers and acquisitions, making her a versatile board leader across both emerging and established enterprises.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001318558 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 18 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 9 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.