Blaine Vess is the founder of Immeasurable, a Los Angeles–based family office that invests in technology companies and builds AI-driven products.

He began his entrepreneurial journey in 1999 as a college freshman, co-founding Student Brands from his dorm room. Over nearly two decades, he built the company without outside capital into a leading portfolio of educational websites and apps, culminating in its $58.5 million acquisition by Barnes & Noble Education in 2017. He also co-founded Solve, a Y Combinator-backed travel concierge service that was acquired by Blacklane.

Earlier in his career, Blaine worked at New Line Cinema, contributing to the marketing of films including Wedding Crashers and A History of Violence. He has since backed multiple narrative and documentary films that have premiered at Sundance, including Where’s My Roy Cohn?, Gook, and Beyond Utopia. He is also the founder of Bearing North, an organization supporting films about North Korea to raise awareness and drive change.

Blaine serves on the board of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating change through information access inside North Korea.