Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady met in 2014 sitting next to each other in class at Stanford and worked on a class project researching the Stanford entrepreneurship ecosystem. At the time, Clancey was working with Takeshi "TK" Mori on miscellaneous technology investment projects and Phil was working at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm.
GoAhead is operated by three committed Managing Partners who met through their respective Stanford networks. TK and Clancey met in 2013 at a cafe on Stanford’s campus and worked together on various investment projects such as ZenShin Capital LLC and ZenShin Capital Partners II LP before deciding to launch GoAhead Ventures I in Q4 2014.