At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco, California based CEO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Guillermo Rauch
CEO & Founder of Vercel
Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He’s the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.
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About Vercel: Vercel is a platform that enables users to develop, preview, and ship Jamstack sites.
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Mathilde Collin
CEO and Co-Founder of Front
Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Rahul Vohra
Founder & CEO of Superhuman
Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost. Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University of Cambrigdge.
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About Clubhouse, LinkedIn, Rapportive, Superhuman, The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Duke Chung
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of TravelBank
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About TravelBank: TravelBank is the modern all-in-one business travel and expense management platform.
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Dhruvil Sanghvi
Chief Executive Officer of LogiNext
Dhruvil is one of the co-founders LogiNext. He has worked with elite organizations like Deloitte,Ernst & Young and Tata Group and studies at Carnegie Mellon and Nirma University.
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About LogiNext: Enterprise SaaS for Home Delivery and Transportation Businesses to Automate End to End Operational Process
Dustin Moskovitz
CEO & Co-Founder of Asana
Dustin Moskovitz is a Co-Founder and CEO at Asana. He is also the Co-Founder of Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures. Mr. Moskovitz is a former Co-Founder of Facebook.
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About Asana, Good Ventures, Open Philanthropy Project: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Bret Taylor
Co-CEO & Vice-chair of Salesforce
Bret Taylor is Co-CEO of Salesforce. Bret previously served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer of Salesforce. A respected software engineer and executive with an impressive history of building widely used and loved products, Bret was the co-founder and CEO of Quip, the innovative collaboration platform Salesforce acquired in 2016. Prior to founding Quip, Bret served as the Chief Technology Officer of Facebook and saw the company through its successful IPO in 2012. Credited with the invention of the “Like” button, Bret joined Facebook in 2009 after it acquired his social networking company, FriendFeed. Prior to FriendFeed, Bret started his career at Google, where he co-created Google Maps. Bret is the Chair of Twitter’s board of directors. He graduated from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science and now lives in the Bay Area.
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About BOLDforce, CloudCraze, Salesforce, Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Christopher Kirchner
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Slync.io
Christopher S. Kirchner is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO at Slync.io. Prior to this, Christopher has worked as a senior vice president of sales and marketing and a director of marketing and sales at Turner Labels. Christopher holds a degree in communications, minor marketing from the University of Kentucky.
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About Slync.io: Slync.io is a provider of process automation for enterprise supply chains and the global logistics industry.
Sanjit Biswas
CEO of Samsara
Sanjit Biswas is the Founder and CEO at Samsara. He is a former CEO and a co-founder of Meraki, where he managed day-to-day operations from inception through the $1.2 billion acquisition by Cisco in 2012. He now serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Cisco Cloud Networking Group, headquartered in San Francisco. Sanjit has been recognized as a TR35 honoree by MIT Technology Review, Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and has received awards for academic research in computer networking.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
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Evan Cummack
CEO of Fin.com
CEO @ Fin.com.
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About Fin.com: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
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Jager McConnell
Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Jager is the CEO of Crunchbase. He joined the company as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase, Jager spent 11 years at Salesforce in various roles across sales, marketing, and product development.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Phil Libin
CEO of mmhmm
Phil Libin is co-founder and CEO of All Turtles, a mission-driven product studio, and mmhmm, a new app that makes video communication more clear and compelling. Previously he was Managing Director at General Catalyst, and before that he was co-founder and CEO of Evernote, which he grew to become a beloved product for hundreds of millions of users.
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About All Turtles, mmhmm: mmhmm is a virtual camera application used to create virtual rooms, backdrops, and presentations during video conferencing calls.
Phil Libin
CEO of mmhmm
Phil Libin is co-founder and CEO of All Turtles, a mission-driven product studio, and mmhmm, a new app that makes video communication more clear and compelling. Previously he was Managing Director at General Catalyst, and before that he was co-founder and CEO of Evernote, which he grew to become a beloved product for hundreds of millions of users.
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About All Turtles, mmhmm: mmhmm is a virtual camera application used to create virtual rooms, backdrops, and presentations during video conferencing calls.
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Mark Weinstein
CEO, Founder of MeWe
Mark Weinstein is the Founder and CEO of MeWe, the Next-Gen Social Network. Mark is a leading privacy advocate, one of the visionary inventors of social networking, and an award-winning author. He founded SuperFamily and SuperFriends, precursors to today’s social and chat networks, at the turn of the millennium. Both became PC Magazine “Top 100” sites for multiple years. Mark sold them and then authored the “Habitually Great” book series endorsed by the late Dr. Stephen Covey, (2x Indie Book awards), and became an influential technology consultant/advisor. A few years ago when Mark Zuckerberg declared, “privacy is a social norm of the past,” that comment angered Weinstein greatly. It sparked him to create the Sgrouples beta project, hiring an engineering team to design and build the world’s first social network with privacy-by- design for its members. The 3-year beta project served as the testing platform for the launch of MeWe. Making its official launch during SXSW 2016 (South by Southwest), MeWe was honored as the 2016 Start-Up of the Year Finalist for “Innovative World Technology.” World renowned thought leaders and executives proudly serve on MeWe’s Advisory Board, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web; Raj Sisodia, the founder of Conscious Capitalism; Professor Sherry Turkle, leading technology expert; Professor Phil Rogaway, award-winning cryptographer; Cullen Hoback, award-winning documentary film-maker on privacy; Colin Sebastion, leading internet analyst; Simon Mainwaring, founder of WeFirst; Marci Shimoff, NYT Best-Selling author; Jack Canfield, co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul; and several others. Mark is one of the world’s foremost privacy advocates, and he is listed as one of the “Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy.” He was a Steering Committee Member of National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) – where he strongly argued against any “national identity system,” calling the idea a complete violation of the human right to privacy. The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada has named Mark “Privacy by Design Ambassador.” Mark has written about privacy and the social media industry in well-known publications such as USA Today, InfoSecurity Magazine, Daily Mirror (UK), Dark Reading, HuffPo, and many others. He has been interviewed on many media outlets, including PBS, BBC, FOX, FORBES, CNN, and ABC. Mark is often a featured speaker and social media/privacy expert on the stage at many conferences, including EY’s Strategic Growth Forum, the 16th Annual Privacy and Security Conference, Global Security Conference, GMIC Silicon Valley, and he was a recent keynote speaker at GMIC New York, Security BSides Vancouver, and the Customer Experience Asia. Mark received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and his MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He resides in Los Angeles.
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About MeWe: MeWe is the rapidly growing high integrity alternative to Facebook. No Ads, No Targeting, No Newsfeed Manipulation, NO BS!
Domm Holland
Co-Founder & CEO of Fast
Domm Holland is the co-founder and CEO of Fast, the world’s fastest online login and checkout platform. An entrepreneur and self-taught engineer, Domm has founded and scaled companies in the logistics, transportation and technology sectors. He previously founded and served as CEO of Tow, an on-demand vehicle towing platform in Australia that processed more than $50M in transactions. During his tenure there, Domm was awarded the top spot on the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 and recognized as the Brisbane Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Domm has worked across Australia and the U.S., working in national and multinational telecommunications and technology companies, including Dell, with deep cross-function experience. Domm’s background provides him with a unique perspective that spans R&D, sales and operations, all of which have contributed to his vision for Fast.
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About Fast, FAST Group: Fast provides an online login and checkout solutions designed to provide users with a secure shopping experience.
MacLane Wilkison
Co-Founder & CEO of NuCypher
MacLane Wilkison is the cofounder and CEO of NuCypher, a Y Combinator and Polychain Capital-backed company that provides decentralized key management and cryptographic access controls for decentralized applications. He is a software engineer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he provided M&A and financing services to enterprises in technology, media, and telecommunications. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and certified Financial Risk Manager.
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About NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Drew Houston
Co-founder & CEO of Dropbox
Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turned his frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world’s leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.
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About Dropbox, FWD.us: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
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Dustin DeVan
CEO of AWAIR
Dustin D. is a Board Member / Investor and CEO for Awair since Mar-2021.
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About AWAIR: Awair’s mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely through cutting-edge indoor air quaity monitoring.
Waseem Daher
Founder & CEO of Pilot
Waseem Daher is a Founder and CEO at Pilot.
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About Pilot: Pilot is a platform that offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses.
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Vlad Shmunis
Founder, CEO, Chairman of RingCentral
Vlad Shmunis founded RingCentral in 1999 and launched RingCentral’s cloud business phone service in 2003. He developed the service based on the need he saw among businesses for an alternative to inflexible and expensive hardware-based phone systems. Since founding RingCentral, Shmunis has led the company in reimagining business communications. Today, the company empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses and their employees to work with unparalleled freedom and in imaginative new ways, via a wide variety of mobile and fixed line devices in traditional as well as dispersed work environments. Shmunis has more than 25 years of industry and management experience. Prior to launching RingCentral, he founded and served as the CEO of Ring Zero Systems, a desktop software communications company. After shipping more than 25 million copies of its Windows software through partnerships with leading PC manufacturers, Ring Zero Systems was acquired by Motorola. Shmunis was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Northern California Award finalist. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from San Francisco State University, and is a named inventor in a number of U.S. patents.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
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Daniel Saks
Founder & Co-CEO & President of AppDirect
Daniel Saks is the Co-CEO of AppDirect, which he founded in 2009 with Nicolas Desmarais. Daniel plays a key role in the growth and development of AppDirect, from attracting a leading team, to nurturing relationships with customers and partners. Daniel’s presentation at the Under the Radar conference in the spring of 2011 resulted in AppDirect winning “Best in Show,” earning coverage in Wall Street Journal. Daniel received a BA in political science from McGill University then studied finance and accounting at Harvard. Prior to AppDirect, Daniel worked at Viant Capital, a boutique tech investment bank. In his free time, Daniel enjoys traveling, attending hockey games, and studying contemporary architecture and impressionist paintings.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
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Nicolas Desmarais
Chairman & Co-CEO of AppDirect
Nicolas founded AppDirect in 2009 with Daniel Saks, and serves as AppDirect’s Chairman and Co-CEO. Nicolas is focused on the evolution of AppDirect’s product, investor relations, and overseeing the implementation of new marketplaces for our channel partners. Before co-founding AppDirect, Nicolas worked at Bain & Company as a management consultant focused on media and business services. Nicolas holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and political science from Amherst College. In his spare time, Nicolas enjoys outdoor activities and traveling to new countries.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
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Jae Hoon Choi
CEO & Co-founder of Podo Labs
Jae Hoon Choi is Co-founder and CEO of Podo.
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About Exide Life Insurance, Podo Labs: We make Podo, Jack, Belle, and a whole lot more to come.
Qi Zhou
Founder and CEO of QuarkChain
Qi Zhou, Founder and CEO of QuarkChain.
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About QuarkChain: QuarkChain is a flexible, scalable, and user-oriented blockchain infrastructure by applying blockchain sharding technology.
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James Wu
Co-Founder and CEO of DeepMap
James Wu is the Co-Founder and CEO of DeepMap Inc. He is a former Principal Architect at Baidu, Inc and Principal Engineer at Upthere. Mr. Wu graduated from Tianjin University with a bachelor of science in Computer Science and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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About DeepMap: DeepMap is accelerating safe autonomy by providing the world’s best autonomous mapping and localization solutions.
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Max Kolysh
Co-founder, CEO of Dover
Founder at dover.io, zinc.com
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About Alloy Fund, Dover, Zinc Technologies: Build your recruiting engine.
Stella Wu
Founder & CEO of Eano Home Renovation
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About Eano Home Renovation: Delivering easy, affordable renovation and good designs to more homeowners via an end-to-end, all-in-one automated solution.
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Ben Silbermann
Co-Founder & CEO of Pinterest
Ben (@8en) grew up in Iowa, where he spent a lot of time collecting bugs. Today, he helps millions of people collect and discover the things they love as co-founder and CEO of Pinterest. Before Pinterest, Ben worked at Google on AdSense and studied at Yale. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons. Previously, Silbermann worked at Google in the sales organization; however, after a short time with the company he left and started designing his own iPhone apps with a college friend, Paul Sciarra. After their initial application, Totte, failed to gain significant traction, the cofounders created a pinboard product and Pinterest was born. However, Pinterest saw a low user base and very little engagement in its early stages. Silbermann said the prospect of telling people he failed was too embarrassing so he and Sciarra continued to tinker and improve the site. Today, Pinterest claims over 20 million users.
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About Cold Brew Labs, Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Brett Granberg
CEO of Vannevar Labs
Brett Granberg is the CEO of Vannevar Labs.
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About Vannevar Labs: Machine learning products for the country’s most critical national security problems
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Mahi de Silva
Chief Executive Officer of Triller
Mahi is the CEO at Triller.
Previously, Mahi was responsible for commercial activities for Opera’s consumer mobile products and services. Before joining Opera, Mahi was co-founder and CEO of AdMarvel, Inc., the global leader in mobile advertising platforms, acquired by Opera in 2010.
Prior to AdMarvel, Mahi co-founded Frengo
Corporation, a mobile social media platform. Mahi also spent 10 years at VeriSign, where he was part of the startup management team.
From 2002 to 2006, he served as senior vice president and general manager of Wireless and Digital Content Services at VeriSign, where he built the world’s leading mobile messaging and mobile entertainment business with revenues exceeding $600M per year.
Prior to VeriSign, he served in various technology leadership roles at Taligent, Apple and NCR Corporation.
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About Triller: Triller is an AI-powered music video app that enables anyone to make professional videos, effortlessly.
James Kuffner
Chief Executive Officer of Woven Planet Holdings
Prior to being named CEO at TRI-AD in March 2018, Dr. Kuffner was the Chief Technology Officer at TRI. Dr. Kuffner received a Ph.D. from the Stanford University Dept. of Computer Science Robotics Laboratory in 1999, and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo working on software and planning algorithms for humanoid robots. He joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2002. Before joining TRI, Dr. Kuffner was a Research Scientist and Engineering Director at Google from 2009 to 2016. Dr. Kuffner was part of the initial engineering team that built Google’s self-driving car. Dr. Kuffner was appointed head of Google’s Robotics division in 2014, which he co-founded. Dr. Kuffner continues to serve as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development, Woven Planet Holdings: Woven Planet Holdings develops technologies designed to achieve zero casualties and provide mobility for all.
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Parin Dalal
Co-Founder & CEO of Xockets
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About Xockets: Xockets builds hardware and software acceleration into appliances for Big Data processing.
Osman Koc
Co-Founder & CEO of UserGuiding
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About UserGuiding, YNOT Partners: UserGuiding improves product adoption rates through ‘no coding needed’ interactive user onboarding flows.
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Keith Messick
Cofounder & CEO of Origin.al
Keith Messick is Senior Vice President Marketing at LaunchDarkly
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About LaunchDarkly, Origin.al: Origin.al is a new way to represent a user’s work—projects and examples in real time.
Waleed Mohsen
Founder & CEO of mynurse.ai
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About mynurse.ai: a digital health program to help seniors with chronic conditions live their best lives.
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Jerry Yue
Founder and CEO of Brain Technologies
Jerry Yue is the Founder and CEO of Brain Technologies.
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About Brain Technologies: Brain Technologies is an AI company that develops a generative interface allowing software to be in sync with its users’ intentions.
Hani Goldstein
Founder & CEO of Snappy
Founder at Snappy App.
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About Snappy: Snappy is an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that allows companies to send gifts to their customers and team members.
Ted Krantz
Chief Executive Officer of App Annie
Ted has over 25 years of senior-level experience leading high-growth sales organizations across the technology industry. Most recently he served as CRO for global marketing software provider Kenshoo, where he led global sales and customer operations for three years. Prior to Kenshoo, he held senior-level sales positions at SAP and PeopleSoft. Ted holds an M.B.A, International Business and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas.
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About App Annie: App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platformthat delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.
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Andy MacMillan
CEO of UserTesting
Andy is Chief Executive Officer of UserTesting and oversees the strategic direction of the company. Prior to joining UserTesting he was CEO of Act-On Software. Andy also held several senior leadership positions at Salesforce, including Chief Operating Officer of the Products Division and Senior Vice President & General Manager of Data.com. In both these roles he helped significantly grow customer adoption of Salesforce products and services. Prior to Salesforce, Andy was Vice President of Product Management at Oracle and Vice President of Product Marketing at Stellent (acquired by Oracle). He started his career as a software developer at EDS. Andy holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
William Freiberg
CEO of Crux
Will Freiberg is CEO of Crux Informatics, a leading data engineering and operations platform. He is a technology executive and entrepreneurial leader with significant cross-functional expertise across sales, product, business development, customer success and strategic initiatives. Most recently, he was Co-CEO at D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere), a platform that simplifies and automates the difficult tasks needed for enterprise Kubernetes in production at scale. During his six-year tenure at D2iQ, he held various leadership positions and led the company through hypergrowth as the company helped define the cloud native container industry. Previously, Will was Founder and CEO of eCommerce startup Tipping Basket, and worked in the Venture Capital and Technology Practice of Gunderson Dettmer, the M&A Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and started his career as an analyst at Bank of New York Mellon. He is a CEO mentor and an early-stage investor in a variety of new technology spaces, including an advisor to Iterative.ai and a Board Member at Trilio.io. Will holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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About Crux: Crux help companies scale their most critical data delivery, operations, and transformation needs.
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Anurag Goel
Founder and CEO of Render
Founder and CEO at Render.
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About Render: Render provides a cloud for developers and startups to host all their apps and sites.
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Armando Biondi
Co-Founder & CEO of Breadcrumbs.io
Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.
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About Breadcrumbs.io: Breadcrumbs.io is a revenue acceleration platform that helps companies in rating and scoring current and potential customers.
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Sam Chaudhary
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ClassDojo
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About ClassDojo: ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use to build close-knit communities.
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Jay Larson
Chief Executive Officer of Optimizely
Jay Larson is Optimizely’s CEO. Previously, Jay worked as chief executive officer of Birst. Jay holds a BA degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
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Jay Fulcher
Chairman & CEO of Zenefits
Jay is Chairman & CEO at Zenefits, a leading cloud HCM & Benefits platform focused on providing comprehensive HR, Performance, Benefits, Payroll, Time and Compliance solutions for SMB and mid-market companies. Zenefits has more than 11,000 customers across the US and leverages an impressive list of marketplace partners including Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Slack, Uber, Asana plus dozens of others. Zenefits is an acknowledged disruptive and innovative force for helping to facilitate the changing nature of work and helping to level the playing field for SMB companies. Jay’s CEO experience includes both public and private technology companies (Zenefits, Agile, Ooyala). After its IPO in 1999, Agile was acquired by Oracle in 2007. Ooyala was acquired by Telstra in 2015. Before his years as a CEO, Jay served in senior executive roles at PeopleSoft, Red Pepper and SAP. Jay is an advisor to and investor in a broad portfolio of tech companies focused on media, enterprise, education, retail, and healthcare. Over the last 20+ years Jay has served as a director at more than a dozen public and private companies. Jay is currently an advisor at iSport360, Momentum Partners, League Network and San Jose State University’s Lucas Graduate School and College of Business. He currently sits on the boards of Zenefits, AirPR and Splice Machine.
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About Zenefits: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
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Maury Blackman
President & CEO of Premise Data
Maury Blackman is CEO of Premise Data. Blackman is a tech executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high growth enterprise software companies. His industry experiences include government, construction, public safety, geospatial information, GPO’s, sharing economy services, and drone software. Blackman joined Premise in 2017; under his leadership the company has seen 661% revenue growth. In November 2020, Premise was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a list of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Premise is the 35th fastest-growing company in the Silicon Valley region and is 182nd on the overall list. Before joining Premise, Blackman was CEO at Accela, a civic tech company aimed at moving citizen transactions from city hall to online and mobile services. He joined the company in 2000 as the VP of Sales and Marketing and then assumed the role of CEO in 2007. To support strategic initiatives and growth, he raised more than $300M in financing from family offices, private equity, and senior debt. The capital from these raises was deployed to build out an enterprise offering, expand internationally, and execute an M&A strategy that closed 10+ acquisitions in 24 months. Prior to joining Accela, Maury worked for Investools (NASDAQ:IEDU) where he served in several executive positions from 1993 to 2000. At Investools, he first joined as an Account Executive and was later appointed Vice President, Business Development charged with selling data and content to brokerage firms and internet service providers in the nascent dot-com era. In this capacity, he built a dynamic portfolio of accounts that included Charles Schwab, Fidelity, AOL, and Netcom Online Communications. For his accomplishments at Accela, Blackman was recognized by Government Technology as one of its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in 2015. In 2016, Ernst and Young awarded him the prestigious Northern California’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Maury holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston and was a commissioned field artillery officer in the United States Army, serving on both active and reserve duty for 10 years. Maury maintains an active lifestyle and is an eleven-time Ironman finisher, including the 2008 and 2013 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona.
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About Premise Data: Premise is a data and analytics platform powered by a global network of on-the-ground contributors, data science, and machine learning.
Keyvan Mohajer
Founder & CEO of SoundHound
Keyvan leads the company’s management, corporate strategy and operations. He is also the principal executive responsible for SoundHound’s technology development. With more than 12 years of executive experience as a visionary entrepreneur
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Spenser Skates
CEO and Founder of Amplitude
Spenser Skates is the CEO and Co-Founder of Amplitude.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
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Ranjan R Reddy
Founder, CEO of Bureau
Ranjan R Reddy is the Founder and CEO of Bureau.
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About Bureau: Bureau secures mobile-first enterprises against new age cyber risks.
Justin Ho
Co-founder & CEO of RideOS
Justin Ho is the CEO and co-founder of rideOS, a next generation platform, marketplace, and mapping service that can be utilized by ride hailing companies, OEMs, and governments to operate fleets of on-demand self-driving vehicle services.
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About RideOS: RideOS offers marketplaces/mapping services for ride-hailing fleets
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Rod Johnson
Founder and CEO of Atomist
Rod Johnson is co-founder and CEO of Atomist, which is transforming software delivery. He is a developer (mainly in Java, Scala and increasingly TypeScript), author and investor. Rod is the creator of Java’s Spring Framework and was co-founder and CEO of SpringSource. Following the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware in 2009, Rod served as SVP, Application Platform at VMware. Rod is the author of several popular and influential books on Java and Java EE, including Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development and J2EE without EJB (with Juergen Hoeller). He sits on the board of three prominent open source companies besides Atomist: Neo Technology, Meteor, and Hazelcast.
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About Andreessen Horowitz, Atomist, Elastic: Atomist make microservice applications Easy and fun to build, through a cloud-based service.
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Geoff Schmidt
CEO and Co-founder of Apollo
Geoff Schmidt is the CEO and Co-founder at Meteor.
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About Apollo, Meteor Development: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
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Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
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Konrad Feldman
Co-Founder & CEO of Quantcast
Konrad Feldman, CEO, co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Paul Sutter to transform the effectiveness of online advertising through the use of science and scalable computing. Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Feldman co-founded Searchspace (now Fortent) the leading provider of terrorist financing detection and anti-money laundering software for the world’s financial services industry. As CEO of Searchspace’s North American business, he established the business in the US and directed its rapid growth to become a market leader. Prior to Searchspace, Feldman was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University College London. Feldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University College, London.
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
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Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
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Alec Miloslavsky
founder and CEO of EIS Group
Alec Miloslavsky is the founder and CEO of EIS Group.
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About EIS Group: EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets.
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Darshan Desai
Founder & CEO of Plan
Darshan Desai is the Founder & CEO at Plan, Inc.
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About Plan: Plan is a better way to manage everything you have to do and everywhere you have to be.
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Gaurav Dhillon
Chairman & CEO of SnapLogic
Gaurav Dhillon is currently the Chairman and CEO of cloud connection company, SnapLogic. An early investor in SnapLogic, Gaurav Dhillon joined as CEO in 2009 to help realize the potential of its cloud and on-premise integration products, strategy, and unique business model. He is spearheading the company’s rapid growth and manages its financing, products, strategic relationships, and operations. As former CEO of Informatica Corporation, (Nasdaq; INFA) a data integration company that he co-founded in 1992, Gaurav led it from a startup idea to a leading worldwide software enterprise – ultimately forging a broad acceptance of the vision he pioneered. Prior to Informatica, Gaurav held management and engineering positions at Sterling Software and Unisys Corp.
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About SnapLogic: SnapLogic is a software company that provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration.
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Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
Josh Williams
Co-Creator + CEO of Gowalla
A visual designer by trade, Josh Williams is co-founder and CEO of [Gowalla](/organization/gowalla-exploration), an augmented reality gaming company. Gowalla gets it’s name from it’s nostalgic and innovative Austin-based influence [Gowalla Inc.](/organization/gowalla), where Williams lead the pioneering and adoption of location-based technologies for everyday social sharing experiences.
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About Gowalla: Gowalla is an augmented reality social game.
David Siegel
Co-Founder and CEO of Glide
David Siegel is the co-founder and CEO of Glide. He previously worked at Microsoft. He also held positions at Xamarin, Futureproof, and X1 Technologies. David holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and computer science engineering.
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About Glide: Build powerful apps from spreadsheets without code, in minutes.
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Puneet Mehta
Founder / CEO of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Marc Piette
Founder and CEO of XWING
Marc Piette is the founder and CEO of XWING.
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About Locu, XWING: XWING develops the suite of technologies for pilotless commercial flight of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and fixed-wing aircraft.
Kirti Shenoy
CEO and Co-Founder of Zeal
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About Zeal: Zeal (formerly Puzzl) helps platforms to build custom payroll products.
Vijay Chattha
Founder and CEO of VSC
Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.
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About BlackMahal, The100kPledge, VSC, Wareness.io: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
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Sudhakar Ramakrishna
President, CEO & Board Director of SolarWinds
Sudhakar Ramakrishna was appointed to the Mitel® board of directors on May 14, 2015. He is CEO and Board Member for Pulse Secure, where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution since July of 2015. Sudhakar brings nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Sudhakar was President of Products and Services, for Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice. He is responsible for defining and delivering best in class unified communication products and solutions and driving revenue growth and profitability. Sudhakar joined Polycom in 2010 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unified Communications Solutions, and Chief Development Officer. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in February 2011. Sudhakar brings a wealth of strategy and execution experience to Polycom. Before Polycom, Sudhakar was Corporate VP and GM for Wireless Broadband Access Solutions and Software Operations at Motorola. Sudhakar was instrumental in scaling the 4G (WiMAX and LTE) and Software business, and led large multi-function teams of more than 2300 employees, and businesses across the globe. Previously, Sudhakar held senior management roles at Stoke Networks, 3Com, U.S. Robotics and other companies. Sudhakar has extensive experience working with enterprise and carrier/operator customers. His areas of technology focus include wireless, MoIP/IP telephony, data networking, security, and IP convergence-related technologies and services. Sudhakar has significant experience in organization development, strategic planning and execution, incubating and scaling new businesses, and was involved in strategic partnerships with Huawei, Siemens, and several mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar holds and has filed several patents in the areas of IP telephony, soft switching and load balancing. Sudhakar is also a member of the board of directors at Tely Labs.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, SolarWinds, Zeus: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
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Fouad ElNaggar
Co-Founder & CEO of Array
Fouad ElNaggar is the Co-Founder and CEO at Array.
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About Array: Array is an information technology company that specializes in developing computer software.
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Richard White
CEO, Founder of UserVoice
Richard White is a Co-founder and the CEO of UserVoice, purveyors of easy-to-use helpdesk and feedback solutions that have enabled over 100K web-based businesses help and understand their users and ultimately build better products. Prior to founding UserVoice, Richard was the lead designer for Kiko.com, a Y-Combinator funded company that developed one of the first Calendaring SaaS products, which sold on eBay for $258K. After Kiko, Richard founded SlimTimer, simple time tracking for freelancers, where he experimented with name-your-own-price Freemium models. The common thread throughout all these ventures is Richard’s enthusiasm for building sexy products for decidedly un-sexy markets like customer service. Richard is a huge nerd, a dual citizen and an Eagle scout. He’s proud to tell his mother that his work gives people more time to waste rather than waste more of their time.
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About Fathom Video, UserVoice: A single platform to effortlessly collect, analyze and close the loop on product feedback with customer bases and teams of any size.
Will Laufer
Founder and CEO of Prelude
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Will spent two years leading go-to-market strategy for ePals (School Division), where he guided the business development of a new social LMS. He then became the first sales employee at Clever, where he drives enterprise partnerships with digital learning providers. He’s passionate about building sales teams and employing creative models for scaling innovative products in education.
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About Prelude: Prelude provides a platform designed to streamline recruiting operations.
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Matt Galligan
Co-founder & CEO of XMTP
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About 1% of Nothing, XMTP: XMTP is a communication protocol and network that connects communities, creators, protocols, applications, and users.
Manu Sharma
Co-founder & CEO of Labelbox
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
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David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
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Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
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Lukas Biewald
Co-founder & CEO of Weights & Biases
Lukas Biewald is the CEO and the Co-Founder of Weights & Biases. Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. Lukas has also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science. He is an expert-level Go player.
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About Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Wen Sang
Co-Founder & CEO of Smarking
Wen Sang is the Founder and CEO of Smarking Inc., a fast growing MIT spin out technology company backed by top investors including Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, and many others that solves the parking problem with data analytics. Wen is an MIT PhD 14′ in Mechanical Engineering. His major curriculum concentrated on thermo-fluid sciences and energy conversion systems, and minor on economics and entrepreneurship. Wen Sang led and founded the MIT Asian Career Fair and co-founded the MIT Ventureships Club during his three years at MIT. Wen loves running, sailing (MIT Sailing Club), and rowing.
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About Smarking: Smarking turns parking data into instant actionable insights.
Elias Manousos
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RiskIQ
Elias is a recognized expert in Internet security and fraud prevention. He has been developing and delivering enterprise protection technologies for more than 15 years. As CEO of RiskIQ, he has spearheaded a new approach that helps Internet, financial services, healthcare, media and consumer packaged goods companies protect their brands from online fraud. Elias is also co-chair of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Anti-Malvertising Working Group and is responsible for Malvertisements.com, the first and only public database documenting malvertising incidents on a continuous basis. Prior to RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), which pioneered identity and access management for web applications. At Securant, he was instrumental in creating now-commonplace technologies for single sign-on (SSO) security.
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Vitaly Alexandrov
CEO & Founder of Food Rocket
Currently nominated for Forbes 30 under 30, two-time winner of the Oxford’s Fund scholarship. In 2019, together with partners, Vitaly launched the Foody startup to optimize the restaurant procurement process in the U.S. Three months later, Foody was showing a monthly growth of 20%. In 2021 due to the pandemic, the startup pivoted and launched San Francisco’s first 10-15-minute grocery delivery service called Food Rocket. Previously, Vitaly was the CEO and founder of the international CRM marketing agency Out of Cloud that provides consumer data analysis and helps companies build personalized marketing. The agency’s clients include Puma, Panasonic, Nikon, Alfa Bank and Pfizer. The agency won the Best Use of eCRM category at Tagline Awards in 2017 and Best Use of Analytics in Loyalty Programs at Loyalty Awards in 2018. At 27, Vitaliy wrote the Email Marketing Strategy book that was a bestseller at Ozon.
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About Food Rocket: Food Rocket is an application that provides customers with on-demand 10-15 minute free grocery delivery.
Kaitlyn Knopp
Founder and CEO of Pequity
Creator of systems nuts and bolts, scrubber of process, creative ideator.
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About Pequity: Pequity automates HR workflows from offers to promotions and transfers which helps companies save time, money, and talent.
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Sebastian Tonkin
CEO of Glide
Sebastian Tonkin is the co-founder and CEO of Glide, a software-enabled transaction coordination service for real estate agents. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Cloud Nine Media, a WiFi advertising and sponsorship network that reaches millions of users in thousands of premium travel, retail and transit locations nationwide. The company was acquired by Boingo in 2012. Prior to founding Cloud Nine, Sebastian served as a product marketing manager at Google, where he led acquisition strategy, community management and media for iGoogle (Google’s personalized homepage) and Google Analytics. Sebastian is the author of Performance Marketing with Google Analytics (Wiley, 2010) and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in history.
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About Glide: Glide is a transaction management solution designed to enhance client service at every step of the home sale journey.
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Chi-Foon Chan
President and co-Chief Executive Officer of Synopsys
As Synopsys’ co-CEO, Dr. Chi-Foon Chan shares responsibility for crafting vision and strategy, leading the company, and ensuring execution excellence in support of our customers’ success. As the company’s President and COO, a role Dr. Chan held for 14 years prior to his 2012 appointment to President and co-CEO, he guided internal operations and worldwide field organizations. Dr. Chan’s joined Synopsys in 1990 as Vice President of Applications and Services where he helped build the Technical Field organization. He has sponsored several key initiatives such as entering the IP market, and personally facilitated key acquisitions such as Avant!, Virage Logic, and most recently, Magma Design Automation. Prior to Synopsys, Dr. Chan contributed to industry leading companies like NEC Corporation, where he was General Manager of the microprocessor group, responsible for marketing all NEC chip devices in North America. Prior to NEC, Dr. Chan was an engineering manager at Intel Corporation. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University; and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University.
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
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Aart Geus
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Synopsys
Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis enterprise to the world leader in electronic design automation.
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About Synopsys, Tinfoil Security: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Sasan Goodarzi
CEO of Intuit
Sasan Goodarzi is the CEO of Intuit. Prior to becoming the CEO, he served as the executive vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Small Business Group. Goodarzi has held multiple general management positions during two separate stints at Intuit. From 2013-2016 he led Intuit’s Consumer Tax Group, which offers the company’s flagship TurboTax products. Under his leadership, TurboTax reinvented itself and delivered breakthrough innovations which resulted in double-digit customer growth for three consecutive years. From 2011 to 2013, he served as the company’s chief information officer, successfully leading Intuit’s transition to the cloud. During his previous time at Intuit, from 2004-2010, he was senior vice president and general manager for the company’s professional tax division and Intuit Financial Services. He has also led several acquired software companies in addition to Intuit’s operations in Canada and the United Kingdom. Before coming to Intuit, Goodarzi worked for Invensys, a global provider of industrial automation, transportation and controls technology, serving as global president of the products group. He also held a number of senior leadership roles in the automation control division at Honeywell and served as the chief executive officer and co-founder of a technology startup, Lazer Cables Inc. Goodarzi earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida and a master’s in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
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Pranay Kapadia
Co-Founder & CEO of Notable
Pranay Kapadia is a VP of Product at Blend Labs.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Steven Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO of Moov
Steven Zhou is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Moov.
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About Moov: Moov is a software platform for buying and selling preowned manufacturing equipment.
Yury Lifshits
CEO & Founder of Superdao
Yury Lifshits is the CEO and Founder of Superdao.
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About Superdao: An operating system for DAOs
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Ashton Braun
Co-Founder & CEO of Silo
Ashton Braun is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Silo.
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About Silo: Silo is a wholesale food marketplace that enables customers to buy and sell produce, protein, dairy, and shelf-stable food quickly.
Harsha Pamulaparthi
Founder and CEO of Standav Corp.
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About Standav Corp.: Standav offers CRM, CPQ , API Integration delivery and Contract Analytics
Michia Rohrssen
Co-Founder, CEO of Prodigy
Michia Rohrssen is CEO at Prodigy, a growing Auto Startup.
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About Prodigy, Upstart: Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
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Gidi Cohen
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies, Gidi Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Gidi Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Gidi Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
Isaac Silverman
CEO & Founder of Daydream
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About Daydream: Democratizing the financial model. Stealth.
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Vladimir Novakovski
Co-founder and CEO of Lunchclub
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About Lunchclub, South Park Commons: Lunchclub utilizes AI to match people for one-on-one video meetings.
Filip Victor
Founder, CEO of MetaMap
Filip Victor is the Founder and CEO at Mati.
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About MetaMap: MetaMap is a digital trust management platform that empower service providers to reach more customers through customizable trust workflows.
Zeb Evans
Founder & CEO of ClickUp
Zeb Evans is a billionaire entrepreneur that’s started several software companies worth over $4 billion. He’s founder and CEO at ClickUp, a productivity platform that revolutionizes the way people work.
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Mikael Yang
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ManyChat
Mikael Yang is the Co-Founder and CEO of ManyChat – a platform that helps businesses and professionals engage their audience through messaging apps.
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About ManyChat: ManyChat helps businesses do marketing, sales and support through Facebook Messenger.
Krishna Gade
Founder & CEO of Fiddler AI
Krishna is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler Labs, an enterprise startup building an Explainable AI Engine to address problems regarding bias, fairness and transparency in AI. At Facebook, he led the team that built Facebook’s explainability feature ‘Why am I seeing this?’. He’s an entrepreneur with a technical background with experience creating scalable platforms and expertise in converting data into intelligence. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Microsoft, he’s seen the effects that bias has on AI and machine learning decision making processes, and with Fiddler, his goal is to enable enterprises across the globe solve this problem.
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About Fiddler AI, Pinterest: Fiddler is a purpose-built ML performance monitoring platform powered by Explainable AI to validate, explain, monitor, and analyze AI.
Matt Schwartz
CEO & Co-Founder of Afresh Technologies
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About Afresh Technologies: Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores.
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Jorge Heraud
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blue River Technology
Jorge is the co-founder and CEO of Blue River Technology Inc. (www.bluerivert.com), a start-up company that intends to revolutionize weeding and dramatically reduce chemical use.
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Jeremy Bloom
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Integrate
Jeremy Bloom is the only athlete in history to ski in the Olympics and get drafted into the NFL. He is a three-time WorldChampion, two-time Olympian, eleven-time World Cup gold medalist and the youngest member ever inducted into The United States Skiing Hall of Fame. He was also an All-American football player at the University of Colorado and played professional football as a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. While playing with the NFL in Philadelphia for the Eagles, he completed a business entrepreneurship program at Wharton Business School where he studied real estate and finance. Today, he is Founder/CEO of the Marketing Technology company, Integrate and founder of Wish of a Lifetime, a nonprofit organization that grants lifelong wishes to senior citizens. Through Jeremy’s vision and leadership, Integrate is transforming global marketing. The company has raised over $40M of venture capital from Comcast, Foundry Group and Liberty Global. Integrate was named as the “Best New Company” at the American Business Awards in New York City. Jeremy was named by Forbes as 30 under 30, tech executives under the age of 30 making waves in the technology space and in 2013 Jeremy was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Outside of business, Jeremy has continued to maintain his name within the sports world. He does commentary for college football and is an Olympic Sports Television Analyst and has worked for ESPN, Fox, NBC, and The Pac-12 Network.
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About Integrate, United States Ski & Snowboard Association, Wish of a Lifetime, Wish of a Lifetime: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.
Kartik Chandrayana
CEO / Co-Founder of Twin Prime
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About Twin Prime: Twin Prime, a company that came out of stealth this week
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Michael Babineau
Co-Founder & CEO of Bloomberg Second Measure
Co-Founder of Second Measure.
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About Bloomberg Second Measure: Bloomberg Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior.
Deepak Thomas
Co-Founder & CEO of Phil
Mr. Deepak Thomas Founded Phil, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. After a particularly frustrating experience at a chain drug store, Mr. Thomas sat down and did the math on the number of hours he had spent standing in line for his prescriptions. When he realized that he had spent over 500 hours standing in line at drug stores, he decided to spend at least 500 hours trying to build a better experience before founding Phil, Inc. Prior to this, he held product and general management roles at eBay, Shutterfly, Match.com and Oracle.
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About Phil: Phil is a software therapy deployment platform, offering pharmaceutical manufacturers a modern alternative to patient access solutions