Best Startup
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 Washington based Founder operating in the Software space. If you think a Founder 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.
Ed Doran
Senior Director Product Management, Microsoft Research, 4x Founder of Microsoft
Ed Doran is a proven technology leader and founder (Cortana). He began his career in market research and insight, expanded to management consulting, and ultimately to product and business leadership. He has experience leading in large and small organizations, local and global teams, and complex partnerships. Ed sets the vision, builds the teams, and drives… 1. Developing a deep understanding of consumers, competitors, and the technology landscape. Identifying the high value business opportunity based on the market conditions 2. Delivering compelling experiences by bringing together business, engineering, and design across platforms. 3. Driving momentum for the experience, brand, and company through marketing (e.g., brand, positioning, messaging), business strategy, and strategic partnerships Ed’s teams integrate design, engineering, and business to create great products at a global scale. Ed has earned a doctorate degree as well as received specialized training at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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Tom Davidson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EVERFI
Tom Davidson picked the “CEO” slip out of the hat at a recent EverFi staff party and has yet to be fired by the Board of Directors. Davidson ran for the Maine State Legislature while a senior at Bowdoin College in 1994 and spent the better part of three terms working to bring education technology to students in the Pine Tree State. As Chairman of the Utilities and Energy Committee, Davidson led a successful effort with Governor Angus King to provide laptops to every Maine seventh grader as well as to create a major expansion of the wiring of schools and libraries across the State. After deciding that he needed to tell his children one day that he actually once earned a paycheck, Davidson left the Legislature in 2000 and began investing in early-stage technology companies in the education and social media spaces. He was a Venture Partner with Village Ventures, a network of venture capital firms across the U.S. Davidson graduated from Bowdoin College devoid of any academic honors of any consequence.
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About EVERFI, GrowthSpur: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Jon Chapman
Co-Founder and President of EVERFI
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Adam Vitarello
President / Co-Founder of Optoro
Adam Vitarello is the Co – Founder & COO of Optoro. Adam Vitarello co-founded Optoro in 2008 with Moore after working with him at eSpot, which he joined in 2005 as CTO and COO. While at eSpot, Vitarello meticulously designed, programmed, and implemented every feature of the proprietary software, systems and marketing algorithms that put eSpot at the forefront of its industry and created the core for Optoro’s software today. He provides an eye for streamlining the reverse logistics process and an uncompromising attitude always demanding excellence. Vitarello has been responsible for Major Design Elements and Implementation Strategies of Optoro’s proprietary software and systems. As COO, he manages Corporate Headquarters and Remarketing Solutions with a one-on-one approach that puts employees first with the goal of maintaining a small-business feel in a rapidly expanding environment. Vitarello utilizes that same personal interaction strategy with clients and partners in advancing the automation and remarketing technologies that serve as the driving force of Optoro’s service. When he’s not pulling all the strings for Optoro and our partners, he can be found training for marathons, triathlons, or mountain climbing. Even atop Mt. Kilimanjaro, reverse logistics is never far from his thoughts. Adam holds a B.A. from Brown University.
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About Optoro: Optoro is a technology company that provides a way to liquidate returned, overstock, and damaged-box products.
Bilal Aijazi
CTO and Co-Founder of Polly
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About Polly: Polly is a survey platform that makes it simple for anyone to engage with colleagues, capture feedback, and make more data-driven decisions.
Phil Gordon
Founder and CEO of Prompt.io
Phil Gordon is CEO and founder of Jawfish Games, the industry leader in real-time multi-player tournaments for mobile and web. Phil is best known as a professional poker player. He hosted 42 episodes of Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown, has appeared at 7 World Series of Poker final tables, and has won a World Poker Tour tournament. Phil has authored four books that have sold nearly 400,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 12 languages. Phil currently resides in Newport Washington with his wife and two boys, Xander and Zachary.
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About Prompt.io: Prompt.io is a simple, scalable solution for communicating with customers in their preferred medium messaging.
Lee Huffman
Co-Founder, Technical Operations of Strix Leviathan
A decade of high availability infrastructure operations experience including six years running data center operations for GitHub, one of the world’s largest developer focused sites.
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About Strix Leviathan: Strix Leviathan builds a crypto-trading platform for large entities like hedge funds, banks and traditional enterprise companies.
Sheila Gulati
Managing Director & Founder of Tola Capital
Sheila Gulati is the Managing Director at Tola Capital.
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About Pratham, Tola Capital: Tola Capital is a venture capital firm that invests globally in enterprise software companies across multiple stages.
Scott McFarlane
Founder & CEO of Avalara
Scott co-founded Avalara in 2004 and today is responsible for the vision and strategic direction of the company. He has a long history of advancing ideas that shake up the status quo, going back to his college days when he partnered with his roommate to launch Lifecycle, the most popular computerized exercise bike of all time. Since then Scott oversaw development for AIRCOA, the largest independent hotel company in the U.S., and he has led and developed several companies including MetaInfo, a pioneering internet software firm that was ultimately acquired by Check Point.
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About Avalara: Avalara develops a platform that automates the major steps of tax compliance, all in the cloud.
Jonathan Roberts
Founder & Partner Emeritus of Ignition Partners
Jonathan Roberts is a founder and partner of Ignition. He invests in business application and services companies and represents Ignition as director on the boards of DocuSign, AVST, HyperQuality, Spoken Communications and Earth Class Mail. Prior to Ignition, Jonathan spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as general manager of the Windows CE Intelligent Appliance Division, where he was responsible for developing new WinCE products, product marketing, business development and long-term planning for the Windows CE platform, as well as the retargeting of the Microsoft’s PocketPC effort. Jonathan led the marketing and business efforts for Windows 3.1, 3.11, Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0, BackOffice 1.0, Windows 98 and NT 4.0 on the Desktop, and finally all of Windows CE including embedded, Pocket PC, Auto, Phones, Set-top, Games, etc. Jonathan received his BA in history from the University of Washington where he was also student body president.
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About Ignition Partners: Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Mike Galgon
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Mike Galgon is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He loves partnering with Founders to build world-class companies. Beyond working with pre-launch studio projects, Mike represents PSL on the boards of Ad Lightning, Taunt, Gradient, and Attunely. Mike has had a long career as an entrepreneur and investor in the Pacific Northwest. Mike co-founded aQuantive, which boasted both the largest independent digital agency in the world (Avenue A|Razorfish) and the largest marketer-side ad serving platform (Atlas), prior to selling to Microsoft in 2007. After leaving Microsoft in 2009, Mike served on the boards of Buuteeq (sold to Priceline), Energy Savvy, Market Leader (sold to Zillow), Real Networks, Flexe, Pixvana, and Pipeline Deals. Outside of work, you’ll find Mike in the outdoors: backpacking, camping, surfing, telemarking, snowshoeing, wakeboarding, biking, running, etc., etc.. More trails than macadam, but he’ll get it in regardless. And, when possible, you’ll find him with at least one of his four daughters. Mike has also served on the boards of a variety of non-profit organizations, including Global Partnerships (a leading impact investor focused on market-based solutions to global poverty), The Bush School, The Thacher School, and Summit Public Schools (a leading national charter school network). Mike studied Economics at Duke University, Getting It Done as a Diving / Mine Countermeasures Officer in the US Navy, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Pioneer Square Labs: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Ben Gilbert
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
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About Acquired.FM, Glow, Iteratively, Pioneer Square Labs, Taunt: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Greg Gottesman
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. Prior to PSL, Greg served as one of the three initial Managing Directors of Madrona Venture Group, where he worked for almost 20 years. He also co-founded and led Madrona Venture Labs. Greg represents PSL on the boards of Boundless, Cash, LumaTax, and NextStep. He is also the founder, current board member, and former CEO of Rover.com. “Venture is about finding truly great entrepreneurs and supporting their efforts in every way possible. The rest is noise.”
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About Boltive, Pioneer Square Labs, Rover: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Sean Brehm
Co-Founder and President of Gradient Cyber
Sean Brehm is the Co-Founder and President at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Eric Schmidt
Co-Founder and CEO of Glue Up
As a leader in the global tech industry, Eric is focused on developing customer-centric products and transforming the way professional communities build and enrich relationships. He has incubated multiple tech startups within the software, mobile, and environmental industries, and has worked with venture capital and private equity investments in the United States and China. He also founded China Entrepreneurs — a community he built into a 20,000+ member network. Eric is an elected member of AmCham China’s Board of Governors. In 2004, sponsored by Nike and Phillips, he traced Marco Polo’s route, cycling 100 days from Beijing, China to Venice, Italy. Eric holds an M.S. and a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has been featured in media such as the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, CCTV, China Daily, and numerous other outlets.
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About Glue Up: Glue Up is an all-in-one engagement management CRM for associations, chambers of commerce, event organizers and marketing professionals.
Geoff Osler
CEO and Co-Founder of S!NG
Geoff Osler si the Co-Founder and CEO of S!NG. Prior to co-founding ClearSign, Geoff Osler was Director of Partner Marketing for Adobe Systems, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide programs with membership in excess of 10,000 developers, service providers, and certified training centers. Geoff has managed marketing teams in Europe, Asia and the Middle East in addition to the United States and Canada. Prior to Adobe, he was co-founder and marketing director of Crosstree Systems Inc., the developer of Target, one of the world’s first daily, industry-specific email news services. In 1994 at Science and Information Technology, Ltd., Geoff was part of the team that created MAPS, one of the first software systems to enable web-based image searching and content management. Geoff concluded agreements placing MAPS at some of the world’s leading publications including The Times of London, The Daily Mirror and The Economist. From 1992 to 1994, at the beginning of the shift to a free market, Geoff was a senior manager at Apple Computer in Warsaw, Poland with responsibility for product localization and securing exclusive distribution agreements with leading U.S. software and hardware manufacturers.
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About S!NG: S!NG is a hesitation-free idea-sharing platform providing new groundbreaking technology services targeted for the music industry.
Raja Mukerji
Co-Founder/Chief Customer Officer of ExtraHop
Raja Mukerji is the President and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where he is responsible for Customer Services, Systems Engineering, and Solutions Architecture. Raja ensures customer success, leveraging his background in the financial-services industry. Raja co-founded ExtraHop after a seven-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. He was one of the lead developers behind the BIG-IP v9 product and the major-accounts liaison for critical issues within Product Development. Prior to F5, Raja worked as a Technology Architect at Strong Capital Management. Raja is a renowned expert in application delivery and network protocols. He was involved in the FreeBSD project and contributed several enhancements to its TCP stack. Raja holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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About ExtraHop: ExtraHop helps organizations to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised.
Prasad Mahendra
Co-Founder of Possible Finance
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About Possible Finance: Possible Finance provides financial tools needed to manage day-to-day lives.
Tyler Conant
Co-Founder & CTO of Possible Finance
Tyler Conant is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Possible Finance.
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About Possible Finance: Possible Finance provides financial tools needed to manage day-to-day lives.
John Tippett
Co-Founder & Head of Product of SeekOut
John Tippett is the Co-Founder & Head of Product at SeekOut.
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About SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Aravind Bala
Co-Founder & CTO of SeekOut
Aravind Bala is the co-founder and CTO of Seekout.
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About SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Vikas Manocha
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering of SeekOut
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About 101 Apps, SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Chris Spanos
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Urgently
Chris Spanos is the Co founder and CEO of Urgent.ly. He is the Advisor of Startups. Prior to this, he worked as General Manager at Repair.com. He was the Founder & CEO of SeniorChecked. He worked as General Manager, Vice President, Director, International Product Management, Sr. Manager, Brand Development and Marketing Consultant at AOL LLC. He worked as Award Winning Producer at Independent Film Producer. He was the Consultant to CEO of 1-800 Members/DHL. He worked as Consultant to President at VidiSolutions. He served as Consultant to VP Product Management at RealNetworks. He worked as Consultant to U.S. Director of Business Development at Moonfruit. Before that, he worked as Consultant to VP of Broadband at Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
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About Pax Momentum, Urgently: Urgently features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands and roadside assistance professionals.
Surendra Goel
Co-Founder & CTO of Urgently
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About Urgently: Urgently features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands and roadside assistance professionals.
Matt Ford
Founder & CEO of CommerceJet
Matt Ford is co-founder and CEO at CommerceJet.
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About CommerceJet: Think of CommerceJet as command central for omnichannel e-commerce.
Reggie Aggarwal (CEO and Founder)
Founder & CEO of Cvent
Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, the leader in meetings, events and hospitality software. A lawyer by trade, Reggie founded Cvent in 1999 as a two-person startup, with the goal of making meeting planning easier for his peers in the business community. Reggie was named the #1 SaaS CEO by The SaaS Report in their 2019 Top 50 SaaS CEO list and Entrepreneur of the Year for the Washington, DC area by Ernst & Young. He was also named the most admired CEO in the Washington, DC area by the Washington Business Journal, one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and a rising star by Forbes Magazine. He has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. He has also been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and several other popular news shows.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Chuck Ghoorah (Co-founder)
Co-Founder & President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing of Cvent
Chuck Ghoorah is the co-founder and President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Cvent. Chuck has been instrumental in Cvent’s growth from a two-person startup to an industry-leading global organization. Cvent has helped its more than 30,000 customers manage millions of events.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
David Quattrone
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Cvent
David Quattrone has been with Cvent since the company’s founding, bringing a wealth of expertise in designing and developing large-scale Internet applications. David designed and supervised the development of Cvent’s original beta product as well as all of Cvent’s subsequent product releases, upgrades and redesigns. Prior to co-founding Cvent, David worked at First Consulting Group, a leading provider of information-based consulting, integration, and management services. There, David specialized in large-scale custom Internet/Intranet application design and development. David’s clients included BlueCross/BlueShield Association, United States Postal Service, and MCI. He was also a Consultant with E.J. Bell Systems, a software integration and application development firm, where he helped found the company’s Internet/Intranet development practice. Prior to E.J. Bell Systems, David co-founded Network Resources Group, a New York based firm specializing in Internet software integration and application development. At Network Resources Group, David created the Online Gaming Review, an online publication subsequently acquired by Air Age publishing.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Rick McGeer
CEO and Co-Founder of engageLively
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About engageLively, US Ignite: Jupyter Hubs as a Service, with built in presentation, visualization, interaction, and a built in point-and-click chart editor
Joe Roets
CEO and Founder of Dragonchain
Joe Roets is a successful Software Architect with experience as CIO, CTO, and Senior Vice President in many industries. For over 25 years at such companies as Disney, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, FBI, DoD, and createTank, he has spearheaded new technology programs and led software teams large and small. He has contributed to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects since 2010 at Overstock, Coinbase, Symbiont, and the Walt Disney Company. Most recently, he founded the Dragonchain Blockchain Platform (open sourced from Disney).
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About Dragonchain: Dragonchain is the most flexible platform for hybrid blockchain solutions. Dragonchain is used by enterprises and developers to build blockchain applications, and connect their logic with distributed ledger technology. Benefits include increased automation, provide trust and proof, maintain transparency, enable chain of custody, and ensure privacy, with unparalleled security.
Martin Mao
Co-Founder and CEO of Chronosphere
Martin Mao is the founder and CEO of Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Sid Banerjee
Founder, Vice Chairman, & Chief Strategy Officer of Clarabridge
Sid Banerjee is Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Clarabridge. Sid provides executive leadership and strategic direction and is a well-known expert in customer experience, business intelligence, and text mining. Over his career, Sid has amassed nearly 20 years of business intelligence leadership experience. A founding employee at MicroStrategy, he held VP-level positions in both product marketing and worldwide services. During his tenure leading MicroStrategy’s worldwide services division, he grew the organization to 500+ employees supporting enterprise deployments of BI solutions. Before joining MicroStrategy, Sid held management positions at Ernst & Young and Sprint International.
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About Clarabridge: Clarabridge is a Customer Experience Management platform that provides insight from customers.
Neal Fachan
Founder & Chief Scientist of Qumulo
Neal Fachan brings 15 years of systems software experience to Qumulo. At Amazon Web Services,Neal designed and led development of advanced database technologies. Prior to Amazon, Neal was Distinguished Engineer at Isilon, where he provided technical vision for Isilon’s award-winning OneFS clustered file system, resulting in more than thirty patented technologies. Prior to Isilon, Neal worked in the Third Market group at D. E. Shaw. Neal holds a degree in Math and Computer Science from UNM.
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About Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
Sadanand Sahasrabudhe
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of Numerify
Sadanand is a Co-founder and Chief Architect of Numerify. Prior to Numerify, he held leadership positions in engineering, product management and solutions consulting at multiple Business Intelligence and Analytics companies. Early in his career, Sadanand was a key architect on the team that built the industry-leading analytical engine at MicroStrategy. He has designed products and implemented analytics solutions for large commercial enterprises and government agencies. When not working, Sadanand enjoys playing racquetball and following (almost) all sports. He is also a wine lover and an eternally struggling cook. Sadanand holds B.E. and MS degrees in Computer Science from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and Virginia Tech respectively.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
David Leeds
Founder & CEO of Tango Card
Experience starting, scaling, and managing large enterprise businesses. FiberTower: Cofounder, SVP Strategy, Sales, and Marketing. Stanford GSB MBA (2000), University of Vermont/Univ. of Copenhagen BSBA (1991).
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About Tango Card: Tango Card bundles simple technology, great rewards and expert service to help companies get the most out of their reward programs.
Kyle Hendrick
Founder & General Partner of AAF Management Ltd.
Kyle has lead direct investments in over 90+ early stage companies with over 500 tier 1 and tier 2 venture capital firms and corporate venture arms participating in the deals. He has LP exposure to over 17 venture capital funds globally and is an investment committee member at KBBO Ventures a $100M venture arm of KBBO Group in Abu Dhabi.
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About AAF Management Ltd., GoldCleats Global: AAF Management Ltd. is an early-stage VC firm focused on Seed and Series A technology companies.
Keith Armstrong
Co-Founder & COO of Abe AI
Keith is the COO of Abe.ai, a bot for your money. Previously he worked as a microfinance consultant in South Africa and helped grow startup ecosystems around the world with Startup Weekend. He’s passionate about helping everyday people be better with money.
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About Abe AI: Abe builds conversational banking solutions for progressive banks.
Stefan Kalb
CEO and Co-Founder of Shelf Engine
Stefan Kalb is the CEO and Co-Founder at Shelf Engine.
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About Shelf Engine: Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that predicts the perfect amount of perishable goods to order.
Brian Flynn
Co-Founder & Managing Director of DiamondStream Partners
Brian Flynn co-founded Volaris (NYSE: VLRS), Mexico’s largest airline, and Casino Marketing Alliance, a travel analytics firm. He was previously a Managing Director at Bachow & Associates, the then largest private equity fund in Philadelphia, where he was focused on thematic investing, focused on wireless cellular technology and services. Mr. Flynn was also CEO of Innova Corporation, a leading telecom equipment company where he led a turnaround. Prior to this, he was a consultant at Bain and Company and also worked for DLJ in investment banking and GE Capital in finance. Mr. Flynn is a Beta Gamma Sigma graduate of Columbia Business School and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College. He was also a General Course student at the London School of Economics. He has served on various public and private company boards of directors.
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About DiamondStream Partners: DiamondStream Partners is a manager that invests in the future of travel and aviation.
Robbi Katherine Anthony
Founder and CEO of Euphoria.LGBT
RKA has worked on a slew of other technology projects prior to Solace resulting in national media attention, multiple entrepreneurship competition victories, and numerous product launches.
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About Euphoria.LGBT: Euphoria.LGBT builds technology solutions that restore agency and dignity for transgender individuals going through gender transition.
Richard Tindal
Co-Founder and COO of Donuts
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About Donuts: Donuts is a domain name registry offering new domain names in multiple languages and character sets.
Joshua Crossman
Founder, CEO of Magnify
Joshua Crossman leads Chef’s Customer Succes, Services, and Operations teams, including Customer Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and Business Operations. Joshua has 20 years of experience at the intersection of technology and services. Prior to Chef, Joshua lead Client Services, Strategy, and Customer Sales for BrightEdge, a leading marketing SaaS platform, helping the company grow by nearly 10X to over $75M in less than 5 years. He was Vice President and General Manager of the Technology and B2B business unit at Quinstreet, where he oversaw several acquisitions and revenues double. Joshua also spent 8 years at McKinsey and Company, where he was a leader in their technology sales and marketing practice. He graduated from Duke University with honors, and serves on several non-profit boards. He lives in Seattle with his wife and four children.
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About Chef Software, Magnify: Magnify is a post-sales orchestration platform that uses AI and machine learning to optimize and automate the customer lifecycle.
Diego Oppenheimer
CEO & Co-Founder of Algorithmia
Diego Oppenheimer is co-founder and CEO of Algorithmia. Previously, he designed, managed, and shipped some of Microsoft’s most used data analysis products including Excel, Power Pivot, SQL Server, and Power BI. Diego holds a Bachelors degree in Information Systems and a Masters degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Kenny Daniel
Co-Founder & CTO of Algorithmia
Kenny Daniel is co-founder and CTO of Algorithmia. He previously worked at wine enthusiast app, Delectable, to build out a deep learning, image-based recognition system. Kenny holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and Mechanism Design.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Cenk Sidar
Co-Founder & CEO of Enquire AI
Cenk has been global risk executive for 12 years before launching GlobalWonks as the CEO. He has worked extensively assisting top financial institutions, multinational corporations, risk management firms, and legal firms operating in high-risk regions. Cenk holds an MA degree in international economics and international relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, a postgraduate degree in European studies from SAIS’s Bologna Center in Italy, and a BA degree in business administration and international relations from the Istanbul Bilgi University.
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About Enquire AI, Sidar Global Ventures: An insights software company that provides enterprises a comprehensive toolkit to easily discover and leverage expert knowledge in real time
Dave Hanley
Founder & CEO of Tomorrow Ideas
Dave Hanley is CEO of Tomorrow, which helps families make long-term financial and legal decisions together for the first time, in an easy-to-use app designed to protect their futures. He is an accomplished CEO, digital entrepreneur, and social advocate. Prior to founding Tomorrow, Dave founded Banyan Branch, a leading social media marketing agency, which was acquired by Deloitte Digital. Prior to Banyan Branch, Dave was VP of Marketing at Shelfari, the social network for book readers, which he helped grow to more than 2 million members in 18 months, before it was acquired by Amazon. He also served as Director of Product Management at RealNetworks, where he oversaw the launches of Rhapsody.com and Rhapsody’s Web services program. Earlier in his career, Dave worked in economic development with NGOs and banks in Asia and Latin America that were implementing and assessing microcredit programs, including time as a Fulbright scholar. Dave was selected to the prestigious World Economic Forum Young Global Leader program, where he is an active participant and advisor. Dave is an adoring husband, loving father of four children, adventure traveler, and spirituality seeker. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in public policy from Brigham Young University.
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About Tomorrow Ideas: Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future.
Tianqi Chen
Co-Founder and CTO of OctoML
Tianqi holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he was a member of ACM Class, now part of Zhiyuan College in SJTU. He did his master’s degree at Changhai Jiao Tong University in China on Apex Data and Knowledge Management before joining the University of Washington as a PhD. He has had several prestigious internships and has been a visiting scholar including: Google on the Brain Team, at Graphlab authoring the boosted tree and neural net toolkit, at Microsoft Research Asia in the Machine Learning Group, and the Digital Enterprise Institute in Galway Ireland. What really excites Tianqi is what processes and goals can be enabled when we bring advanced learning techniques and systems together. He pushes the envelope on deep learning, knowledge transfer and lifelong learning. His PhD is supported by a Google PhD Fellowship.
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About OctoML: OctoML offers an acceleration platform that helps engineering teams deploy machine learning models on any hardware.
Brandon Torres Declet
Founder & CEO of Measure
Brandon is widely considered a leading thinker and entrepreneur in the drone industry. He co-founded Measure, an aerial intelligence company, in June 2014 and, as CEO, grew the company to the top 5% of drone firms by revenue. Brandon began his career in the private sector supporting the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. In public service, he has served in senior level positions for the NYPD, the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, and the House Homeland Security Committee. Brandon served on the FAA Drone Registration Task Force, and he authored the largest Section 333 exemption ever granted by the FAA. In 2018, Brandon was appointed as a Senior Advisor to Oxford University’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs and named by Washingtonian Magazine as a 2018 and 2019 Tech Titan. Measure was recently recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2019 Frost Radar Best Practices Award for Growth Excellence in the Drone Services Provider market.
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About Measure: An aerial intelligence company offering world-class software for drones and drone data analysis.
Bassam Tabbara
Founder and CEO of Upbound
Bassam Tabbara serves as Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Upbound, Inc. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Quantum Corporation.
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About UPBOND, Upbound: Upbound is an infrastructure management platform that runs, scales, and optimizes services across multiple cloud environments.
Ben Kinney
Co – Founder of Place
Co-Founder Place Inc.
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About ActiveRain, ActiveRain, BKCO – Ben Kinney Companies, Brivity, Kwkly, Place: Place is a real estate technology platform providing technology and services to real estate agents.
Jay Sunny Bajaj
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Digital Management
Jay Sunny Bajaj is Digital Management, Inc.’s (DMI) Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer. Sunny was raised in the technology industry, where both of his parents independently built successful IT services businesses. In 2002, he leveraged his deep understanding of the industry to found DMI. Under Sunny’s leadership, DMI has grown to become a recognized leader in enterprise mobility, big data analytics, strategic consulting, managed services, application development and cybersecurity. The company continues to experience dramatic growth, with an expanding client base that includes all fifteen U.S. Federal Departments and hundreds of Fortune 1000 commercial clients. DMI has received accolades for its growth, innovation and outstanding client service. The company has been honored as one of the top 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the country by Inc.com for the last seven years and was also recognized as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in the Greater Washington Area by the Washington Business Journal. Growing more than 900 percent in the past three years, and employing more than 1,500 professionals, DMI recently received Inc. Magazine’s Hire Power Award and was ranked as the 9th largest private job creator in the U.S. in 2013. Sunny is a multi-year winner of the Washington SmartCEO Future 50 award. In 2009 and again in 2010, he was honored as a Smart100 CEO, an exclusive group of 100 top-performing and highly respected CEOs in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. Sunny earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Maryland. Prior to founding DMI, he worked at e-business pioneers AppNet and CommerceOne, as well as Goldman Sachs.
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About Digital Management: Digital Management provides mobile solutions and services that include enterprise mobility and cyber security.
Jeremiah Lowin
Founder & CEO of Prefect
Jeremiah Lowin is the Founder and CEO of Prefect.
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About Prefect: Prefect is a workflow management system that helps to eliminate data flow problems for companies’ data teams.
Alex Wirth
Co-Founder of Quorum
Alex is a cofounder of Quorum primarily responsible for business development and customer success. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Alex is currently a senior at Harvard studying Government and Economics. A lex interned in the Office of the Chief of Staff at the White House, in Senator Jeff Bingaman’s (D-NM) office, and was a U.S. Senate Page. Alex started the Campaign for a Presidential Youth Council where he conducted over 60 meetings on Capitol Hill. These meetings led to the introduction of three bipartisan resolutions supported by six U.S. Senators and eighteen Members of Congress. Alex was appointed by Secretary Clinton as the youngest member in history to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Alex has spoken at the United Nations, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the World Forum for Democracy.
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About Quorum: Quorum is software built for public affairs—one place for stakeholder engagement, legislative tracking, and grassroots advocacy.
Jonathan Marks
Co-Founder of Quorum
Jonathan is a cofounder of Quorum primarily responsible for product design and development. Originally from Brookfield, Wisconsin, Jonathan is currently a senior at Harvard studying Chemical and Physical Biology with a focus in computational biochemistry and Computer Science. Jonathan is a 2014 Rhodes and Marshall Finalist, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an HHMI Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Fellow, Herchel Smith Fellow, and a twice-published author in peer-reviewed journals. Recognized by the international Undergraduate Awards as a Highly Commended Scholar, his work was recently selected as among the top 25 internationally in the life sciences. Jonathan is the emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal and a four-year member of Harvard’s top-20 ranked Division I Varsity Swim Team.
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About Quorum: Quorum is software built for public affairs—one place for stakeholder engagement, legislative tracking, and grassroots advocacy.
Cameron Brown
CCO & Co-Founder of Rec Room
Cameron Brown is co-founder and CCO of Against Gravity, makers of the popular social VR app Rec Room. Cam has worked in video games for over twenty years (Pandemic Studios, Beam Software), and was also a creative director on the Microsoft HoloLens program. He believes the future of computing is social, physical, and very exciting!
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About Rec Room: Rec Room is an online universe that enables users to play and create games with friends.
Nick Fajt
CEO & Co-Founder of Rec Room
Nick Fajt is the CEO & Co-Founder of Against Gravity.
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About Rec Room: Rec Room is an online universe that enables users to play and create games with friends.
Ben Brigham
Founder, Board Member of Conversica
What if your sales team knew which leads were more likely to result in a conversation? What if you had an autonomous support system to answer FAQs, follow up after sales and generate payment reminders? That is the business solution I’ve passionately pursued as an inventor, founder and patent-holder for more than a decade. I founded AutoFerret.com in 2007, bringing AVA, the first Artificial Intelligence Sales Assistant to the world. By engaging in natural, two-way email conversations with prospects, AVA connected hot leads with salespeople, driving a more efficient sales process. Today, that intellectual property is a key product of Conversica®, the leader in conversational AI for business and the only provider of AI-driven lead engagement software for marketing and sales organizations. More than 1,200 companies use Conversica, including CenturyLink, AT&T and Epson. I was bootstrapping AutoFerret when the economy collapsed. I often say, “Fortune favors persistence,” and I focused on a new product which used AI to work leads autonomously, an Automated Virtual Assistant-AVA. Released in 2009, it was an immediate success. With a customer base, healthy profits, and what I knew would be a billion-dollar opportunity, I took AutoFerret through an A series of funding in 2013, bringing in a management team and a board of directors. I spent 2015 in retirement and started Intelligens in 2016 to provide conversational AI for marketing, sales and finance teams in Latin America. Intelligens was acquired by Conversica in 2017, at which time I accepted an operational role as General Manager of Conversica Latin America. In 2018, Dealer Marketing Magazine named me the Father of Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Retail. I have one patent granted and several more filed. I’m available to speak at events and serve on leadership boards. If I can help you learn how AI can impact an industry, please connect with me.
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About : Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Michael Beckley
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Appian
Michael Beckley leads Appian’s technology vision and oversees customer initiatives worldwide in his role as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Customer Officer. Michael serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of Virginia’s Computer Science Department and is a member of the University of Maryland Advisory Board in Computing. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a co-founder of Appian.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Praveen Seshadri
CEO & Co-Founder of AppSheet
Over Praveen’s career, he has pursued the “dream” of declarative end-user programming in various incarnations. In a previous life, he was a CS professor at Cornell. And in another, he was a partner engineering manager at Microsoft in the SQLServer and Bing teams.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Brian Sabino
Co-Founder & CTO of AppSheet
Brian is passionate about shipping software. He led Program Management teams at Microsoft for products focused on cloud data and mobility, including SQL Server Mobile and SQL Azure. He also worked at Forty Seeds and Hulu, and co-founded LumenSpark and Alau.me.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Dmitry Dain
Co-Founder of Virgil Security
Dmitry Dain is the Co-Founder at Virgil Security, Inc.
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
Rand Fishkin
Founder & CEO of SparkToro
Rand Fishkin is CEO of SparkToro and author of Lost & Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. He previously co-founded Moz and Inbound.org. He enjoys pasta, cocktails, income equality, dismantling the patriarchy, and, most of all, his marriage to award-winning author Geraldine DeRuiter.
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About SparkToro: SparkToro is a software company offering a search engine to discover any target audience’s influential publications, channels, and people.
Vincent Lopez
Founder & CEO of LCA Vantage
Vincent Lopez is the founder & CEO of LCA Vantage Healthcare d/b/a Parker Health an innovative biotechnology company advancing healthcare into the next century. At Parker Health he is the chief visionary leading strategy & government affairs working closely with Congress and the National Coordinator for Health information Technology office to inform their results to economize spending, minimize legacy technology costs and inefficiencies, enhance patient care, and deploy the latest healthcare technology.
He is the founder of the Lopez Foundation, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit. In 2015, he was nominated to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Board of Governors by Governor Tom Wolf (D-PA), He’s the former student body president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and chairman of the PASSHE Board of Student Government Presidents. He completed a Fellowship with an emphasis on STEM education in minority communities (7th Ward, Washington, DC), with then-President Obama’s Organizing for Action. He has worked for the US. Department of Homeland Security.
A native of Sacramento, California, Mr. Lopez was raised in Arlington, Virginia. He studied at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in English. He’s an avid golfer, and a fan of Formula 1 racing, horse racing, and fishing.
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About LCA CORP, LCA Vantage, The Lopez Foundation,Inc.: Electronic Health Records, Remote Physiological Monitoring, Biometrics, FHIR Complaint, Health Subscriptions
Jon Hagen
CTO & Founder of NextCapital
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About NextCapital: NextCapital provides a personal benchmarking tool to help clearly understand how investments are performing.
Bradley Jay Horwitz
Partner & Founder of Trilogy Equity Partners
Brad Horwitz is Trilogy’s President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of its management committee. Mr. Horwitz has been involved in the wireless industry since its inception, spending 13 years at McCaw Cellular where he held various management positions: he served as Director of Sales and Marketing from 1983 to 1986, Director of Paging Operations from 1986 to 1990, Director of Business Development from 1990 to 1992, and Vice President of International Operations from 1992 to 1994. After the sale of McCaw to AT&T in 1994, Mr. Horwitz was part of the founding management team of Western Wireless Corporation, which createdVoiceStream (now T-Mobile) and Western Wireless International. Mr. Horwitz was Executive Vice President of Western Wireless Corporation from March 2000 until August 1, 2005, and was President of Western Wireless International beginning in 1995. Mr. Horwitz led the company’s expansion into 11 international markets with operations in Latvia, the Republic of Georgia, Croatia, Slovenia, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Bolivia, Haiti, Iceland, Ireland, and Austria. Mr. Horwitz serves on the board of the Center for Global Development and the Mobile Giving Foundation, which created the “text to give” technology that was instrumental in raising over $40 million after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
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About Trilogy Equity Partners, Trilogy International Ltd, Trilogy International Partners: Trilogy Equity Partners is a closely-held investment firm based in Bellevue, Washington.
Jon Perl
Co-Founder of QA Wolf
Jon Perl currently works as the Co-Founder for QA Wolf. He previously worked at Zipdrug as a Consulting Engineer.
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About QA Wolf: QA Wolf is a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs.
Andy Dang
Lead Engineer & Co-Founder of WhyLabs
Lead Engineer and co-founder of WhyLabs.ai. Coder and software tinkerer.
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About WhyLabs: WhyLabs is the AI observability and monitoring company.
Juan Jorquera
Founder & COO of Vagabond Vending
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About Vagabond Vending: Vagabond delivers real-time business intelligence to the palm of an operator’s hand to make a leaner, smarter and more profitable business.
Shariq Siddiqui
CEO and Co-Founder of Veeve
Shariq Siddiqui is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Veeve. Prior to Veeve, he spent a decade at Amazon as Head of Product Management leading several high-profile initiatives including Amazon’s Alexa Identity Platform, Amazon Identity and Payments & Amazon Home Services. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded NYCWAY – a hyperlocal app which was acquired by BMW Interactive in 2009.
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About Veeve: Veeve is a computer vision startup that provides in-store cashier-less checkout solution.
Sameer Gulati
Founder & CEO of Ordway
Sameer’s track record designing many of the world’s leading ERP and financial billing systems equipped him with the knowledge and desire to found Ordway. As one of the first Product Managers at Zuora, Intacct, and Workday, to product leadership at First Data, Sameer developed a deep understanding of the heartbeat of a business – billing and finance. An entrepreneur at heart, Sameer is also an active angel investor including investments in UrbanStems, Social Tables, TrackMaven, and Advantia Health. Throughout the excitement, strains, and challenges of building enterprise-level products, he constantly reminds his colleagues to “win or learn.”
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Ordway: Ordway is a smart billing and revenue automation platform for growing businesses.
Nikesh Parekh
Co-Founder & CEO of Suplari
Nikesh Parekh is a product leader in social media, performance media, lead generation and Saas solutions, particularly in the real estate industry. Nikesh Parekh is currently the VP of New Ventures at Trulia, which was recently purchased by Zillow for $2.5Bn. As VP of New Ventures, Nikesh manages Trulia’s rentals, mortgage and new construction businesses and is one of three revenue owners at the company. Previously, Nikesh was CEO of ActiveRain and the EVP of Product at Market Leader. Market Leader is the leading provder of Saas solutions to the real estate industry and was purchased by Trulia for $380m in 2013. At Market Leader, Nikesh managed products from CRM, social media and consumer web sites like RealEstate.com. ActiveRain is the largest blogging network and professional social network in real estate. ActiveRain was purchased by Market Leader in October of 2011. Prior to ActiveRain and Market Leader, Nikesh was CEO of a cleantech company called Bio Architecture Lab that had developed technology to convert seaweed into low cost sugars for biofuel and renewable chemical development. Bio Architecture Lab raised $35m in financing in a very challenging financial environment and built a 40 person company located in San Francisco and Chile. For five years, Nikesh was an executive at one of the leaders in online marketing for the real estate industry called HouseValues. Nikesh helped grow the company to 600 employees, 2 locations, and nearly $100m in revenue over a five year period. Nikesh joined in 2002 and ran product, business development, consumer marketing, and corporate development. In 2005 and 2006, I started and ran our mortgage division.
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About Suplari: Suplari focuses on leveraging machine learning to help enterprises change the way they manage their suppliers and costs.
John S. Lettow
Co-Founder & President of Vorbeck Materials
John is the president and co-founder of Vorbeck Materials Corp. John has experience in technology development, start-up companies, and consulting with a focus on materials innovations in the electronics, automotive, and energy industries. John received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT, an M.Phil. in engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK) as a Fulbright Scholar, a BSE in chemical engineering from Princeton University, and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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About Vorbeck Materials: Vorbeck Materials is a manufacturer of graphene and graphene enabled products and solutions.
Alan Solidum
Co-Founder and CTO of AreaMetrics
Former Co-Founder at AreaMetrics (acq by Point Inside – Seattle) | Developed products that generated an avg recurring revenue of $53K/mo | Maker
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About AreaMetrics: AreaMetrics personalizes the world around you by leveraging sensors and data.
Kyle Quest
Founder & CTO of Slim.AI
Kyle Quest currently works as the Founder and CTO for Slim.AI.
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About Slim.AI: Slim.AI helps application developers create, build, deploy, and run their cloud native apps.
Jeffrey Heer
Co-Founder & CXO of Trifacta
Jeff is Trifacta’s Chief Experience Officer & a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab. Jeff’s passion is the design of novel user interfaces for exploring, managing and communicating data. The data visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Protovis, Prefuse) are used by thousands of data enthusiasts around the world. In 2009, Jeff was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of “Top Innovators under 35″.
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About Trifacta, University of Washington: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Montana Reed
Co-Founder & CPO of Mira
Montana Reed is working to define the future of augmented reality product experiences.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Nina Zolt
Co-Chair, Co-Founder, Chief Program Architect, Board of Directors of Cricket Media
A tenacious advocate for educational equity and teacher empowerment through digital media, Nina Zolt founded In2Books in 1997. In 2007, she merged In2Books with the ePals Classroom Exchange, co-founding the current ePals. She created In2Books, ePals’ flagship common core eMentoring program in 1998 and in 2012 it received the CODIE Award for Best Reading/English Instructional Solution. Zolt served as a member of the Washington D.C. Advisory Board of Directors for Teach for America (2000-2011) and the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2004-2010). She also served as an Advisory Board Member for the International Reading Association (2008-2010). She is a co-author of Getting Children In2Books: Engagement in Authentic Reading, Writing and Thinking (Phi Delta Kappan, 2007). She has an A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She received an honorary doctorate from National-Louis University in 2004 and from Bryant College in 2012. In 2007, Boston University School of Law awarded Zolt its Silver Shingle Award for distinguished service to the community.
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About Cricket Media: Cricket Media is an education media company providing content on a safe and secure learning network for children, families, and teachers.
Hossein Noshirvani
Founder & EVP of Motionsoft
Hossein is the President of CharityEngine which makes software for nonprofits so they can manage tasks like events management, online fundraising and email marketing. Hossein is also the Co-Founder of Motionsoft and former Executive Vice President for Motionsoft and is the head of Motionsoft’s marketing team. He has been involved in the health and wellness industry for over nine years and has in-depth knowledge and keen insight into the industry.
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About Dolly Drive, Motionsoft: Motionsoft provides fitness, gym, and recreation club management and marketing software solutions.
Farley Mesko
CEO & Co-Founder of Sayari Labs
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About Sayari Labs: Sayari Labs is a provider of financial intelligence and supply chain risk solutions for analysts and investigators.
Neal Gupta
Co-Founder & CIO of KiwiTech
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About KiwiTech, KiwiVenture Partners: KiwiTech is a growing innovation ecosystem that’s home to more than 500 portfolio companies and 2000 investors.
Arun Raghavan
Vice-President & Co-Founder of Unify Square
Arun leads development of Unified Communications Solutions at Unify2, and advanced technical aspects of UC deployments such as customizing the functionality of Office Communications Server for specific enterprise needs. Arun brings eight years of software development experience at Microsoft focused on Microsoft’s enterprise manageability solutions. Most recently, Arun was a Senior Development Lead for the Microsoft Operations Manager product group, where he was responsible for developing more than 40 MOM Management Packs for Microsoft products including Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Windows Server 2003/2008. Arun co-designed and implemented the Agent Deployment component of MOM, which is a distributed system for deploying agent-based IT software to thousands of servers. Arun also developed the synthetic transactions components of MOM’s best-of-breed Microsoft solutions for monitoring enterprise Web and Database Applications. Together, these MOM components have resulted in typical IT cost savings for global enterprises in the order of millions of dollars annually. Arun has an M.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University, and a B.E. in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science.
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About Unify Square: Unify Square provides software, cloud managed services, and consulting for global Microsoft Skype for Business enterprise deployments.
Matt Ehrlichman
Founder, CEO of Porch Group
Matt Ehrlichman Currently launching a new tech start-up, Matt Ehrlichman is lining up the founding team, finalizing financing, completing accelerator acquisitions, and will be announcing shortly. Prior, Ehrlichman was the Chief Strategy Officer at Active Network responsible for 85% of the P&L. Ehrlichman led the company’s technology business units and managed the company’s technology growth and earnings goals, marketing operations, business development, international operations, and mergers and acquisitions. Ehrlichman joined Active Network in the start of 2007, and helped to grow the company’s revenues from $65 million in 2006 to $420 million and a 2011 IPO. Before joining the company, Ehrlichman was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thriva, which was acquired by the Active Network in March 2007 for $60 million. Ehrlichman attended Stanford University where he received both his Bachelor of Science degree in entrepreneurial engineering and Master of Science degree in management science and engineering.
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About Porch Group: Porch Group is a vertical software company reinventing the home services industry.
Doug Rybacki
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Filo.co
Doug Rybacki is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Filo. He was a former CTO and CPO at Conga. Doug has an MBA from the University of Washington and a BBA from The University of Texas.
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About Filo.co: Filo.co is a collaborative platform for virtual events, meetings, and workshops.
Jim Xiao
Founder & President of Mason
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About Mason: Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™
Heidi M. Hagen
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of Vineti
Heidi has been an Operations Executive in the Biotechnology industry for over 25 years and is a Co-founder of Vineti. She has an extensive and proven track record in leading operations and commercializing innovative technologies ranging from recombinant protein/device combinations to the first active immune cell therapy, Provenge. Previously, Heidi was the Global COO for SOTIO, in Prague, Czech Republic with a US office in Boston, MA. Before joining SOTIO she worked for Dendreon for ten years as Senior Vice President of Operations and ten years with Immunex Corporation in a range of roles in drug development and operations management. Heidi has a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, an MS in Bioengineering, and an MBA from the University of Washington.
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About Sonoma BioTherapeutics, Vineti: Vineti is a commercial cloud-based platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies.
Prem Kumar Kandalu
Founder & CEO of Cloud IQ Technologies
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About Cloud IQ Technologies: Cloud IQ Technologies offers you a portfolio of IT Cloud Management services.
Cory Siskind
Founder and CEO of Base Operations
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About Base Operations: Base Operations uses AI to aggregate and visualize threat data to help companies keep their people and operations safe around the world.
Free Wortley
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of LunaSec
Free Wortley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LunaSec.
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About LunaSec, Refinery: Open Source data security platform to help you protect your most sensitive data.
Fahim ul Haq
Co-Founder and CEO of Educative
Fahim ul Haq is the Co-Founder & CEO at Educative
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About Educative: Educative provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers with pre-configured developer environments in the cloud.
Graham Covington
CEO & Founder of Engaging Networks
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About Engaging Networks: Engaging Networks is the technology used by many of the world’s leading charities to power their digital strategies.
Allison Magyar
CEO, Founder & President of Hubb
Allie Magyar is a skilled entrepreneur and technology maven with over 15 years of experience driving successful technology enabled service companies. She founded Hubb to build a technology solution that directly addressed the needs of meeting planners as they manage the overload of information for their event content. As CEO of Hubb, she is responsible for directing the company’s strategic direction with an emphasis on key partnerships, integrations, and growth. Allie is also passionate about driving positive corporate culture and her companies have won several regional awards such as “Healthiest Workplace” and “Most Philanthropic”. Allie combines her real-world experience in marketing, sales, partner relationship building, and show production with a strong vision for the technology-enabled future of event management. She is an experienced speaker who has spoken at conferences such as CEMA, Event Tech Live and ACT-W Portland. Allie is CMP certified, a board member for TAO (Technology Association of Oregon), a member of Vistage, a two-time Inc. 5000 award winner, and was listed on the 2013 Collaborate 40 Under 40 in the meetings industry and the 2017 Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. She was named a 2017 Top Woman Entrepreneur by Smart Meetings Magazine and, in 2018 was an EY Pacific NW Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
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About Hubb: The Hubb Platform makes virtual, in-person and hybrid events with powerful attendee engagement tools that bring brands to life.
Josh Vande Krol
COO & Co-Founder of Hubb
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About Hubb: The Hubb Platform makes virtual, in-person and hybrid events with powerful attendee engagement tools that bring brands to life.
Stephen Willey
Founder, CEO, Director of Innovega Inc.
Steve previously co-founded Microvision and Pro.Net Communications and served as President and Corporate Director. He served as CEO of AirIQ Inc., Business Director at CREO Inc. and General Manager of MDI International. During his career, he has developed a clear understanding of how to commercialize game-changing and disruptive new technologies. Steve holds Masters degrees in engineering and business.
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About Innovega Inc.: Innovega provides technology and reference designs for contact lenes enabled AR/MR/VR Smart Glasses
Jim Manzi
Founder and Partner of Foundry.AI
Jim was founder, CEO and Chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), which became the world’s largest purely cloud-based predictive analytics software company. Prior to founding APT, Jim worked at AT&T Laboratories, and was a partner at Mercer Management Consulting. Jim received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was subsequently awarded a Dean’s Fellowship in statistics to the doctoral program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Applied Predictive Technologies, Foundry.AI, Vizual.ai: Foundry.ai is a technology studio focused on data science.
Ned Brody
Founder & Partner of Foundry.AI
Ned Brody is the Founder & Partner at Foundry.ai.
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About Foundry.AI, Vizual.ai: Foundry.ai is a technology studio focused on data science.
Logan Soya
Founder & CEO of Aquicore
Prior to founding Aquicore, Logan worked extensively in the IT and Telecom industries and has delivered numerous complex multi-million dollar management systems both domestically and internationally for high-profile global telecom and media operators. Logan also helped start a research initiative based on highly secure Quantum Encryption. Logan Soya received a BS in Physics, an MS in Systems Management and has his MBA from Georgetown University and London Business School. During his MBA at Georgetown he worked with Foundation Capital, a top-tier Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. Logan has always had a passion for energy and is excited to take some of the best practices in IT and Telecom management systems to create better building energy management.
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About Aquicore: Aquicore is an information technology company that offers a cloud-based software designed for asset operations platform for the CRE sector.
Rebecca Enonchong
Founder and CEO of AppsTech
Rebecca Enonchong is founder and Chief Executive Officer of AppsTech, a leading global provider of enterprise application solutions. She is cofounder and Chair of ActivSpaces (African Center for Technology Innovation and Ventures), a tech incubator in Cameroon and Board Chair of the Afrilabs Foundation, a network of 50 tech hubs in Africa. She also cofounded ABAN (African Business Angels Network) and CAN (Cameroon Angels Network). She is an advisor to Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa), the largest online community dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors building companies in Africa. She has been a board member of award winning social enterprise Salesforce.org since 2002.
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About AppsTech, Salesforce: Enterprise Application Solutions
David Vaskevitch
Co-Founder of Gaia Platform
David’s career as a visionary software architect, business innovator, and author spans more than 35 years. In 1986, David joined Microsoft, where he held various senior executive positions in his 23-year service including serving as Microsoft’s Chief Technical Officer, reporting directly to Bill Gates. Since then he has founded two more innovative companies.
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About Gaia Platform, MyLio: Gaia Platform is creating a platform for developing applications for Autonomous Machines.
David Ross
CTO & Co-Founder of Twistle
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About Twistle: Twistle is a health care platform that helps healthcare providers connect with patients, keeping them on track for faster recovery.
Nikola Mrvaljevic
CEO and Co-Founder of STRIVE
Nikola Mrvaljevic is the CEO and Co-Founder of Strive Tech.
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About STRIVE: STRIVE is the only data platform proven to optimize muscle performance for elite athletes and teams.
Natalie Evans Harris
Co-Founder & Head of Strategic Initiatives of Brightcove
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About Brightcove: Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
