With a track record for predicting, investing and backing exponential and avant garde technologies in their nascency, Bradley Hicks deploys capital early in the life-cycle of technologies he feels probable to expand asymmetrically, backing the boldest luminary entrepreneurs building for the future. Bradley is an impact-oriented thinker and doer around the convergence of capital, social impact, and future-forward values.
Investment Portfolio – Overview
Technology
Defense Tech & Space
*Indicates where Bradley has lead the capital raise for.
CPG
Hiro Diapers*
Magic Mind* (x2)
Side Dish
Prism Life Sciences
Hospitality
Primal Moves - Venice Beach
Petite Ermitage - Venice Beach
Gospel NYC
Sonic Sphere
Macca Ranch
*Indicates where Bradley has lead the capital raise for.
Crypto & Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Mindfulness / Mental Health / Health Tech
Float Lab Technologies*
True Rest
Opus
Entheo Digital (Soundself)
Kindly Human
Cerebral
Quartz Water
Resonance Labs
Float Lab | instagram: @floatlab
Quartz Water | instagram @qtzwater
Philanthropic
Peaceful Warrior Foundation
Peaceful Warrior Foundation is a non-profit organization with the aim of connecting our nation’s warriors with the support and care they need.
Government / Politics
Fundraising support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — US Department of Health and Human Services
Supportive of RFK’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) campaign
Consciousness / Human Development
Hoffman Institute (x2)
VETS (x2)
Human Rights / Policy
Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and the Oslo Freedom Forum (Oslo, Norway)**
Hospitality / Community / Civic
Petit Ermitage
About
Bradley Hicks is an angel investor, impact entrepreneur, philanthropist and father. Born from a Texan family lineage of venture capital innovation, his early career involved over 10 years of service as a US Navy SEAL, followed by an MBA at UNC Chapel Hill, then several years of world-class diligence and meta-strategy with private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners.
Through immense self-discovery and growth over the seven years since leaving the SEAL Teams, Bradley has settled his life mission and purpose to be a Builder across vectors in service to the elevation and evolution of human creativity, vitality and intelligence.
Investment Lineage
Bradley Hicks comes from a powerful Texan lineage of venture capitalists, philanthropists and civicly-engaged supporters. His father, amongst many achievements and back-end for many IPOs and large exchanges, helped get the in the food & beverage industry in the USA into another level of retail distribution and manufacturing genius.
He is deeply grateful for the ineffable training his upbringing provided, as well as the initiatory capital to be able to learn through doing, in building his own portfolio.
He continues to honor this legacy, while integrating his personal growth insights and commitment towards the evolving the health and consciousness movement, as a builder of Float Lab and the crystalline water company, Quartz, along with investments in space, defense, health and community – he is committed to progressing our human’s potential and elevating our business and philanthropic worlds to meet the highest visions and future-oriented values that our hearts know and long for. He builds on a long legacy of American pioneers, and wishes to honor this for the rest of his life, through action, heart and integrity.
Core Projects
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Website: www.floatlab.com
Instagram: @floatlab
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Instagram: @qtzwater
Launching 2026.
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Website: peacefulwarriorfoundation.com
Contact: thepeacefulwarriorfoundation@gmail.com
Instagram: @PWF_USA
Please request our overview PDF for more information.
Float Lab (renders) - Opening Venice, CA - 2026 | www.floatlab.com
Public Engagement
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Aubrey Marcus podcast
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Robert Kennedy “MAHA” Summit
Psychedelic panel with Rick Doblin
TED panel discussion, hosted by Genevieve Jurvetson and Christiana Musk
Panel with Rick Doblin