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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 United States based CTO’ operating in the Apps space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Eric Friedman
Co-Founder & CTO of Fitbit
Eric is our Co-Founder and has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and most recently as our CTO. Previously, Eric served as an Engineer Manager at CNET Networks, as a Co-Founder of Wind-Up Labs, a founding engineer of Epesi Technologies, and a technical member of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corporation. Eric holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder and CTO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
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Laurent Perrin
CTO and Co-Founder of Front
Laurent Perrin is the CTO and co-founder at 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
William Fong
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Boxed
William Fong joined Boxed as CTO in 2013. Having developed an early love of programming, William has been coding since the age of 9. Prior to Blackgate Ventures, William was Co-Founder and CTO of Astro Ape Studios before being acquired by Zynga and becoming CTO of Zynga Mobile NY. William holds a Bachelors of Computer Science from Rutgers University.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Li Fan
CTO & Head of Engineering of Lime
Li Fan is the CTO at Lime. She was previously head of Engineering at Pinterest. Prior to this, she held senior engineering roles at Google for eight years. Fan also worked at Baidu as VP of search.
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Timi Ajiboye
CEO & CTO of Buycoins
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About Buycoins: Buycoins is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows Africans buy and sell cryptocurrencies instantly using their local currency.
Mitja Simcic
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer of GlobaliD
Building and empowering people with portable, user controlled identities. Entrepreneur since college. Computer Science and MBA background.
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About GlobaliD, Kupi, Qloud.io: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Jerome Fodor
CTO of TOOTRiS
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About TOOTRiS: TOOTRiS is a technology platform that allows parents affordable access to high-quality Child Care, anytime, anywhere.
Parag Chordia
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of HOOKED
Parag Chordia is the director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, and CTO of Khush. Parag is Chief Scientist at Smule. He is the former director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, a research institute funded by the National Science Foundation to build intelligent systems that are musically creative. Parag was recently the recipient of the competitive NSF CAREER Award for his research in music prediction. He received a PhD in artificial intelligence and music at Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics from Yale. He has extensive experience managing commercial software development, and is also the founder of BolRecords, an Indian classical music record label. Parag is an actively performing Indian classical musician and electronic music composer.
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About HOOKED, Telepathic: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
Ankur Bulsara
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Scopely
Ankur Bulsara co-founded Scopely, Inc. in 2011 and serves as its Chief Technical Officer. Ankur Bulsara oversees all aspects of technology and engineering at Scopely. He has experience in building large-scale and robust systems used by millions of people across multiple platforms. Ankur Bulsara has over 10 years of experience in technology, development, and architecture. He was the Founder of Brainwave Software Inc. While consulting, he held several different positions with his clients, including Architect of Revenue and Inventory Optimization at uSamp, Architect/Lead Developer at Internships LLC, and Architect at Freedom Speaks. Since 2007, he was the Lead Software Developer on Myspace’s Developer Platform, where he was responsible for the developer website and the portal dashboard for developers to create and managed Myspace apps. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Dmitri Cherniak
Founder and CTO of Chargehound
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About Chargehound: Chargehound is a comprehensive chargeback solution that makes handling disputes easy.
Adam Perry-Pelletier
Co-founder & CTO of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Zheng Bu
Chief Security Officer; CTO of International Business Group of Didi
Zheng Bu is co-founder and President at Stealth Mode Startup. He also co-founded 421 Capital and FireEye Inc., and NSFOCUS. Zheng also worked at McAfee as Director of Threat Research and at Intruvert Inc. as a Senior Security Engineer. He also became a Research Assistant at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Zheng Bu is a trusted advisory to VCs and Start-up CEOs. He is a thought leader and speaker in security research and intelligence community. He lives in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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About Didi, Stealth Mode Startup: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.
Noah Labhart
CTO, Co-Founder of Veryable
Noah has over 10 years of software development experience, a mixture of mobile/web development experience and enterprise systems management. Noah is the owner and lead engineer at Touchtap, a native mobile development agency, and he and his team have designed, developed and implemented award winning apps. Prior to Veryable, Noah was an IT Manager with Alcon Laboratories, supporting the manufacturing processes at both Fort Worth plants, overseeing the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of IT infrastructure. This included SCADA clients, virtualization of servers, network infrastructure and ERP/MES systems. Noah holds two bachelors degrees from Texas A&M University and a MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington.
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About Code Story, Veryable: Veryable is an industrial technology company with marketplaces designed to improve speed, flexibility, and agility in manufacturing.
Anirudh Pandit
Head of Americas Communication, Media and Technology Solution Engineering| Office of CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Rupesh Ramachandran
Regional Executive – Office of the CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Jake Morgan
Senior Director of Solutions Engineering – RCG – North America; Office of the CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, Open Web Application Security Project: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Ameesh Paleja
Chief Technology Officer of OfferUp
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About OfferUp: OfferUp provides an online and mobile C2C marketplace app for people to buy and sell electronics, furniture, and cars.
David Benaim
Co-Founder & CTO of Photo Butler
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About Photo Butler: Photo Butler is a free mobile app for collaborative, real-time photo sharing that’s changing the way the world shares memories.
Gordon Chiu
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Grafoid
Described as an “execution-driven businessman,” Gordon Chiu has combined domestic and international experience in the biomedical, chemical, cosmetic, medical, and technology industries. As President, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Grafoid Inc., Gordon Chiu is engaged in the discovery and research of graphene on behalf of Grafoid, as well as the development of graphene applications with Grafoid’s joint venture application development partners. He is also Focus Graphite Inc.’s Chief Scientist. Gordon Chiu is a former research scientist at Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co., Inc. and has healthcare and marketing experience with strong links to Wall Street and Asia. Gordon Chiu holds a B.Sc. degree summa cum laude in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduated with a M.Sc. degree in chemistry from Seton Hall University with honors, and is globally distinguished by his acceptance as an MD/PhD candidate under the National Institutes of Health’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Gordon Chiu jointly combined his cumulative training with a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND) degree from the University of Bridgeport.
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About Grafoid, Hemptown Organics: Grafoid invests and develops markets for processes that produce pristine graphene for energy storage and other applications.
Andrew Boryk
Co-Founder and CTO of Lunchbox Technologies
Co-founder at Lunchbox Technologies.
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About Lunchbox Technologies, Tapt: Lunchbox Technologies offers digital marketing and ordering solutions for brick and mortar restaurants.
Matthias Kadenbach
CTO & Co-founder of Templarbit
CTO & Co-founder at Templarbit Inc.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Severin Hacker
CTO & Co-founder of Duolingo
Severin Hacker a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon, has created a technology that could transform the way we communicate with one another in a more connected, globalized society. Duolingo is a language learning program that teaches anyone who can access the Internet or a smartphone any number of languages. Right now, they have 10 million users. Learning a language can be time consuming and costly, but Duolingo seems to avoid both of these problems. The program itself is free, and it focuses on an interactive game-based model where you answer questions and practice speaking with immediate feedback on pronunciations. Helping people learn languages is just the beginning. Severin’s long-term vision is to make quality education accessible to everyone.
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About Duolingo: Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.
Mukund Balasubramanian
Chief Technology Officer of Photon
Mukund Balasubramanian is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Photon. His strategic technology agenda is the driving force for mobile presences developed by over 25% of the Fortune100 companies. As a trusted technology advisor, CIOs seek his advice on technology direction, design and architecture of enterprise-class mobile and digital presences. Mukund oversees and guides one of the largest pool (over 1500) of trained digital and mobile consultants in the world. He was previously the Vice President of Product development at webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM), which acquired Infravio for $40mn, where he was the founder and CTO. Infravio was the leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) registry and governance company. He has served as an active member and adviser to several standards organizations such as XML schema, W3C Web services architecture and Open Source web services. Mukund has a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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About Photon: Photon is a technology corporation that provides Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology Services to global enterprise.
Claire Hough
Chief Technology Officer of Carbon Health
Claire Hough is the CTO of Carbon Health.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Alex Yurkowski
Co-Founder & CTO of ClickUp
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
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.
Satish Raghunath
CTO / Co-Founder of Twin Prime
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About Twin Prime: Twin Prime, a company that came out of stealth this week
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.
Vibol Hou
Chief Technology Officer of Pluto TV
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About Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Matt Schrage
CTO and Co-Founder of Fig
Matt Schrage is the Co-Founder and CTO of Fig.
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About Fig: Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Jeff Dibartolomeo
CTO of Comixology
Jeff DiBartolomeo is the Chief Technology Officer at comiXology. Before joining comiXology, Jeff spent 11 years at HBO where, as SVP of Consumer Technology, he was one of the three founders of the industry-leading HBO GO service and led the technology team responsible for building and operating the service along with HBO’s other multiplatform services: MAX GO, HBO.com, and Cinemax.com. Prior to joining HBO, Jeff was CTO of the urban Internet portal Volume.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBO. Jeff began his career in 1995 “on the ground floor of the dot-com boom” at Time Inc’s Pathfinder before moving into the interactive agency space working for Neographic, Spiral Media, Rare Medium and Agency.com. Jeff attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jeff is currently reading The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born from MAX – “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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About Comixology: Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
Christian Posta
CTO of Solo.io
Christian Posta is a Principal Middleware Specialist/Architect at Red Hat and well known for being an author, frequent blogger, speaker, open-source enthusiast and committer on Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, Fabric8 and others. Christian has spent time at web-scale companies and now helps companies creating and deploying large-scale distributed architectures – many of what are now called Microservices based. He enjoys mentoring, training and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, devops, and cloud-native application design.
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About Red Hat, Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
Aber Whitcomb
CTO and Co-Founder of Jam City
Aber Whitcomb is co-founder and CTO of Jam City, where he oversees the software architecture underlying the company’s global gaming and analytics platform. Director and Co-founder at Core Scientific.
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About Core Scientific, i/o Ventures, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Debo Olaosebikan
Founder & CTO of Gigster
Debo Olaosebikan talks with Dave Rael about shooting for the stars, lessons from physics, learning from mistakes, thinking positively, and delivering solutions Debo Olaosebikan is the CTO and co-founder of Gigster. He worked formerly at IBM where he worked on theoretical/computational frameworks for analyzing experimentally observed transitions in spin transfer devices in collaboration with Yaroslaw Bazaliy and Barbara Jones He has a Ph.D. and Masters from Cornell where he worked on building world’s first electrically activated silicon laser.Hme went from Nigerian rapper to co-founder of high flying Silicon Valley startup in just three short years and was a part of the Y-combinator class of 2015.
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About Gigster: Gigster is the first team intelligence engine, enabling software development teams to achieve 30% higher efficiency.
Andrew Mackenzie-Ross
Founder & CTO of HappyCo
Andrew Mackross is the Founder & CTO at HappyCo.
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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.
David Harrison
Chief Technology Officer of Samba TV
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About Samba TV: Samba TV enables the next-generation TV experience powered by its first-party data and helps viewers engage with relevant media.
Jim Inoue
CTO of Little Otter
Jim Inoue is the Chief Technology Officer of Little Otter.
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About Little Otter: Little Otter is a children’s mental health company that developed an app that focuses on the mental health of children and their families.
Jason Sperske
Co-Founder & CTO of Zeality Inc.
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About Grammarly, Zeality Inc.: Zeality Inc. is the leading provider of innovative cloud solutions for delivering immersive media content across all connected devices.
Thien Tran
CTO & Co-Founder of Honeydue
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About Honeydue: Honeydue is a mobile app for couples that offers tools to share information on respective account balances and spending.
Michael Wojcieszek
Co-Founder & CTO of Playbook
Michael Wojcieszek is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Matt Senter
Co-Founder and CTO of Lolli
Matt Senter is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lolli. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CTO of Cosmic, Founder and CEO of Phream, Co-Founder and CTO of SeedMatrix, Founder and CEO at Kungfuters, and Founder and CEO at Senternet.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Anand Dhillon
CTO & Co-Founder of Cover
Anand Dhillon is the CTO of Stylekick.
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About Cover: Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure.
Simon Ratner
CTO & Founder of Proxy
Simon Ratner, CTO & Co-Founder Simon Ratner is the co-founder and CTO of Proxy, a company on a mission to empower all people with a digital identity signal that’s universally accessible, secure and private. At Proxy, he strives to create technologies that revolutionize the way we experience the physical world while empowering people to maintain complete control of their identity, data, and privacy. Before Proxy, Ratner was the co-founder of Inporia and Omnisio, which was acquired by Google, and an engineer at Jive Software, Youtube, and Sensory Networks. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as dual Bachelor’s degrees in Software Engineering and Biochemistry from the University of Sydney.
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About Proxy: Access More, Share Less. Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies. With Proxy ID, your world is now open.
Jin Shieh
Co-Founder & CTO of CloudTrucks
Jin Shieh is the CTO and Co-Founder at CloudTrucks.
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About CloudTrucks: CloudTrucks offers a virtual trucking carrier application designed to reduce operating costs for truck drivers.
Roman Zaks
Co-founder and CTO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Angky William
Co-founder & CTO of Stoqo
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About Stoqo: An application that can facilitate business owners in the field of culinary.
Alex Cram
Cofounder & CTO of Abound
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About Abound: Abound is the independent benefits API for businesses that serve independent workers.
Jim Butler
CTO of HqO
Dr. Jim Butler is an accomplished technology executive and responsible for the Engineering and Technology group at Nexage. His laudable career spans various architecture, engineering, and consulting roles, in addition to serving as the founding Chairman of the Boston Technology Leadership Council since 2002. Prior to Nexage, Jim was CTO of matchmine, a media discovery network, where he provided technical leadership in the areas of Architecture, Engineering, and Operations. In the aftermath of the dot-com era, Jim was instrumental in the dramatic turnaround of eCredit.com, an enterprise software company later acquired by Fidelity Ventures. Jim has held Chief Architect positions at EC Cubed and American Management Systems. Jim holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, an MSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an BSEE Magna Cum Laude from the University of Lowell.
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About HqO, NEXAGE: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Zachary Goldberg
Co-founder, CTO/COO of Lynk Messenger
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About Lynk Messenger: Lynk Messenger is a hyper-local messaging application that lets its users to chat with friends nearby for free.
Jay Jamison
Chief Technology Officer of Quickbase
Jay Jamison is a Partner at BlueRun Ventures. At BlueRun, he focuses on early stage consumer mobile and enterprise mobile investments. He currently serves on the boards of AppCentral, AppRedeem, Foodspotting and Thumb.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Suyu Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of Chowbus
Suyu Zhang is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chowbus.
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About Chowbus: Chowbus is a delivery platform that provides authentic Asian food sourced from local independent restaurants and stores.
Valentin Podkamennyi
Co-Founder and CTO of Datamart
Co-founder and CTO at Datamart, MS in Informatics, previously Senior Software Engineer at Google, specializing in Software Development and Architecture Design.
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About Datamart, Towards Data Science: Datamart is a global full-service software development company that offers technical consulting and software engineering services.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Thomas Christmann
CTO of Cake
After many years of gathering experience in large scale enterprise settings, I decided it’s time for a change and to apply my talents in the startup sector. I am the CTO at Cake, where we help making a complex subject easy to understand. We break down the daunting task of advance care and end-of-life planning into simple, bite-size chunks, and provide expert opinion and advise to help you in the process.
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About Cake: Cake is the world’s largest platform for helping people navigate end-of-life.
Hamel Kothari
Co-founder & CTO & CDO of Brigit
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About Brigit: A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.
Justin Santamaria
Co founder & CTO of Future
Justin Santamaria is the co-founder and CTO at Future Research.
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About Future: Future offers one-on-one digital training with fitness coaches at home, the gym, or on-the-go.
Alan Messer
Chief Technology Officer of MOJIO
Alan Messer has been a worldwide leader in advanced software and intelligent services for connected consumers for more than 20 years. Alan is the CTO of Mojio and leads InnovationShift, where he works with autonomous, automotive, consumer and IoT companies, helping define or revise their technology strategies. Formerly, he was Vice President of Software and Innovation and CTO of Global Connected Consumer Experience at General Motors. Alan was also Vice President of Advanced Software Technology at Samsung Electronics. Currently, he also serves several industry organizations in advisory or board roles, including the Microsoft AI Advisory Council and the DAV Alliance.
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
William Bares
Co-founder & CTO of Smile Identity
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About Smile Identity: Smile Identity solve identity for banks, telecoms, financial services and shared economy applications in Africa and beyond.
Gabe Coyne
Co-Founder & CTO of Affinity.is
Gabe Coyne is the Chief Executive Officer at Stix Golf Co.
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About Affinity.is, Prota Ventures, Stix Golf: Affinity.is helps retailers attract more customers through a customer rewarding system that involve celebrities.
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.
Nick Galbreath
CTO/Founder of Signal Sciences
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About Fastly, Signal Sciences: Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Taylor Brown
CTO of You Need a Budget (YNAB)
Taylor Brown is the CTO at You Need a Budget.
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About You Need a Budget (YNAB): You Need a Budget (YNAB) develops finance apps for iPhone and iPads.
Yu Fang
CTO and Co-Founder of Sonatus
Yu Fang is the CTO and co-founder at Sonatus.
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About Sonatus: Sonatus builds game-changing vehicle and cloud-based software solutions that create a future-proof foundation for software-defined vehicles.
Jorgen Birkler
Founder & CTO of InsideMaps
Jorgen Birkler is Founder & CTO at InsideMaps.
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About InsideMaps: InsideMaps is a smartphone and tablet app that enables anyone to easily create photorealistic 3D models and virtual tours of their homes.
Masoud Jalali
Co-Founder and CTO of Fintor
Masoud received his Ph.D. in machine learning and mechanical engineering from UC San Diego. He has extensive experience in data science, machine learning, product management, and real estate. After Masoud’s last exit from the startup he Co-founded in the AI and computer vision industry, he wanted to make real estate more accessible and efficient with technology for the new generation. He is currently the co-founder at Fintor.
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About Fintor: Fintor is a platform for buying and selling fractional equity shares in real estate properties.
Drew Wingard
CTO, Board Member & Co-Founder of Sonics
Dr. Drew E Wingard co-founded Sonics in September 1996 and has served as Chief Technical Officer, Secretary and Director since 1997. Dr. Wingard has currently been awarded 30 US patent during his time at Sonics. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Wingard led the development of advanced circuit and CAD methodology for MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. Dr. Wingard co-founded and worked at Pomegranate Technology from 1992 to 1994, where he designed an advanced SIMD multimedia processor. Dr. Wingard has served as the secretary and a director of the OCP-IP, and currently serves on the board of directors for Accellera Systems Initiative. Dr. Wingard received a B.S. from the University of Texas, Austin and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering.
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About Sonics: Sonics supplies on-chip communications solutions for home entertainment, wireless, networking and mobile devices.
Mauricio Giordano
Chief Technology Officer of InEvent
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About InEvent: Virtual and in-person corporate events, meetings and conferences
Stuart Parmenter
CTO of One Medical
Stuart Parmenter is the Chief Technology Officer at One Medical.
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About One Medical: One Medical is a members-only technology platform offering an array of concierge medical services.
Lawrence Kiss
Co-Founder & CTO of SpotHero
After receiving his Master’s in Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder, Larry spent a number of years designing Microprocessors for Advanced Micro Devices, and then building mobile devices for Motorola. This experience helped Larry break off from the traditional corporate job, and pursue a lifelong goal of being an entrepreneur. A few iPhone apps later, SpotHero found Larry, and the rest is history.
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About SpotHero: Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
Sean Fannan
CTO & Co-Founder of Chartboost
Sean Fannan is co-founder and CTO of Chartboost, a technology platform for mobile developers to find new users and monetize their games. Chartboost works with over 32,000 games, serves over 12 billion game sessions per month and has raised $21M from Sequoia Capital and other investors. Prior to Chartboost, Fannan was one of the early employees at Tapulous, that was acquired by Walt Disney in 2010 to become Disney Mobile.
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About Chartboost: Chartboost is one of the largest mobile-games only marketplace to increase revenue and discover new players.
Peter Shelus
CTO / Lead iPhone & Android Developer of DatChat
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About DatChat: DatChat, Inc. is a personal privacy platform, focused on Encrypted Communication, Internet Security and Digital Rights Management.
Michael Cirello
CTO of OkCupid
Mike Cirello is the Co – Founder & CTO of Silver Living. Mike CirelloAfter graduating from Cornell, Mike started his career as a developer on the Microsoft Office team. He spent a few years writing super-secret code for Raytheon’s missile defense systems, and he has worked for startups in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City. Most recently he was the VP of Engineering for Oyster.com, an online hotel review site. As Silver Living’s CTO, he is responsible for product management and engineering of the site. Mike enjoys working on products that help people solve difficult problems. He started Silver Living to build something that can give families an important tool to guide them through a difficult time in their lives. He lives on the banks of the Hudson River in New Jersey with his wife Christine and their baby boy.
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About OkCupid: OkCupid is an online dating website that uses quizzes and multiple-choice questions to find a match for the user.
Adam Rowell
Cofounder & CTO of Lucid
Stanford PhD and entrepreneur converting human vision to computer vision.Adam develops image processing and 3D graphics in any language onto any device. After his previous startup, he worked on building software for military vision and radar systems under highest pressure and conditions.
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About Lucid: AI platform extracting insights out of images and videos to serve the best content to convert users
WeiHua Li
Cofounder and CTO of Thunkable
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About Thunkable: Thunkable makes a drag-and-drop programming tool to allow anyone to make beautiful, native mobile apps.
Hari Subramanian
Founder & CTO of Appify
In his role as VP of Engineering at ServiceMax, Hari provides the technology leadership and direction for product engineering. He manages the ServiceMax global engineering teams; and works with ServiceMax’s global PS teams and strategic customers on product enrichment initiatives. Hari has more than 22 years of experience providing architectural and functional solutions in ERP, CRM, and Service Chain Management Applications for organizations across the globe such as Hewlett-Packard, Singapore Telecom, John Hancock, Agilent Technologies, Coherent Lasers, and many other large enterprises. Hari brings a deep understanding of a variety of technologies ranging from document imaging to workflow management to database and web development to SaaS applications. Hari has a Technology Degree in Electrical Engineering from Madras University, India.
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About Appify: Appify is a no-code business apps platform for the modern workforce.
Ethan Sutin
Co-founder/CTO of Squad
Ethan has been coding since he was 6 years old and is passionate about the intersection of social cognition and computer science. He spent 4 years as the lead engineer at Harvard’s Implicit Bias Project. His career spans low-level programming languages for container security to front-end mobile development at GoGrid, Sysdig and Code for America. Ethan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and a pursued a Master’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Virginia (incomplete). Follow Molly on TwitterGet FeaturedSend Feedback
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About Squad: Acquired by Twitter in 2020. Hang out with friends in audio and video rooms.
Eric Chan
CTO of Bill.com
Eric Chan has over 10 years of experience in software development, specializing in highly scalable SaaS applications. Prior to Bill.com, Eric led the Service Cloud Team as a senior member at Salesforce.com developing the framework, scaling the application, and co-authoring multiple patents. Eric served seven years contributing to Salesforce.com success during its early years. Eric’s passion for building innovative software has led him to advise several start-ups such as VetPrep.com, Offerpal Media, Okta.com, CloudWords.com and Intuwit Design. Eric received a BA in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley. When Eric’s not playing practical jokes on his coworkers at Bill.com, his serious interests include snowboarding, talking tech, and helping various new companies get started.
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About Bill.com: Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies and automates back-office financial operations.
Brian Jones
CTO & Co-Founder of Latch
Brian is a full stack hardware engineer with experience building remote data acquisition systems that have been deployed in some of the world’s most challenging environments. From smart grid monitoring in Haiti to remote soil sensing in rural Mexico, Brian has built products that capture, synthesize, and present data to enterprise customers of all sorts. Brian holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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About Latch: Latch specializes in keyless entry security systems to open and manage every door in an apartment building from a smartphone.
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.
Ben Magolan
Co-Founder & CTO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
Jonathan Richards
Co-Founder & CTO of GoLorry
Jonathan Richards is the Co-Founder & CTO at GoLorry
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About GoLorry, GoLorry: GoLorry provides transport and logistics services and company.
Jameson Toole
CTO and cofounder of Fritz AI
Jameson Toole is Currently the co-founder and CTO at Fritz. Fritz helps developers optimize, deploy, and manage machine learning models on mobile devices. Formerly, data scientist and machine learning at Jana and Google[X]. BS in physics, economics, and mathematics from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and MS, PhD in Engineering Systems from MIT.
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About Fritz AI: Fritz AI is a machine learning platform for iOS and Android developers.
Christoph Oberhofe
CTO of Starship
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About Starship: Starship is mobile health savings account (HSA) with automated investing built for humans.
Matthew King
CTO of Keeper Tax
Matthew King is the CTO at Keeper Tax.
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About Keeper Tax: Discover the tax write-offs you’ve been missing
Albert Mavashev
CTO of Nastel Technologies
Albert Mavashev is Chief Technology Officer for Nastel. As the chief architect of Nastel’s suite of products, Albert is instrumental in the creation of some of the most comprehensive and advanced tools for monitoring, managing and performance analysis of complex transactions and integrated application processes. Albert is an expert in Java and middleware, including IBM’s WebSphere family of products, and in implementing middleware-centric architectures, helping companies achieve business agility through technology and aligning IT with business processes in the real-time enterprise. Albert is a sought-after speaker and author of numerous articles and white papers.
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About CyBench.io, jKool, Nastel Technologies: Nastel Technologies provides middleware-centric application performance and business transaction management software solutions.
Chuks Onwuneme
Co-Founder & CTO of Pillsy
Chuks Onwuneme is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pillsy (now Optimize.health)
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About Optimize.health, Pillsy: Pillsy is a connected pill container platform and mobile app that makes it easier to manage medications.
Aaron Rankin
Co-Founder & CTO of Sprout Social
Aaron Rankin is a co-founder and the CTO of Sprout Social, a leading Social Media Management (SMM) platform.
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About Self Employed, Sprout Social: Sprout Social provides a platform for businesses to manage social media engagement, publishing and analytics.
Paul English
CTO & Co-founder of Lola.com
Paul is a co-founder of Lola, the only online travel service dedicated to serving the needs of small business. Paul was previously the cofounder of Kayak (sold to Priceline), GetHuman (ongoing), Boston Light Software (sold to Intuit), Intermute (sold to Trend Micro), World Xiangqi League and WickedMagic. Non-profit work: Paul is the cofounder of Martin Luther King Boston, Summits Education (a school system with 10,000 students in Haiti), the Winter Walk (Boston homeless awareness), and also serves on the boards of Humanity Rises (refugees), Partners In Health (global health) and Village Health Works (Burundi).
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About Blade LLC, GetHuman, Lola.com, Summits Education: Lola.com is an easy-to-use travel management tool that makes managing corporate travel easy, fast, and agile.
Kaiwalya Kher
CTO of Joy
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About Joy: Joy helps users with their wedding, from engagement to honeymoon and everything in-between.
David Cramer
Co-founder & CTO of Sentry
David Cramer is founder at Sentry. He is interested in right-winging, bitter-clinging proud clinger of red bull, soylent, and python.
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About AppSumo, Sentry, tenXer: Sentry is a developer of an application monitoring platform that helps developers monitor apps in real time to catch bugs early.
Gabriel Monroy
CTO of Engine Yard
Gabe Monroy joined Microsoft as Vice President Of Product Management in 2021.
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About Engine Yard, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft: Engine Yard is Platform-as-a-Service providing tools for creating software applications.
Ben Dilts
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Lucid
Ben Dilts is the CTO and Co-Founder of Lucidchart & he attended Brigham Young University in 2002.
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About Lucid, Lucidchart: Lucid is a visual collaboration suite that helps teams see and build the future from idea to reality.
Joel Bechtel
CTO of Baby Doctor, Inc.
Entrepreneurial-spirited, pioneering technology executive with 20+ years of experience identifying, qualifying, building consensus for, and implementing enabling technologies and enterprise information systems that facilitate business processes and strategic objectives. Powerful blend of technology vision and business acumen results in consistent development of powerful business strategies supported by cost-effective, high-performance IT infrastructures and applications. Broad expertise in software development, network architecture/infrastructure design, client/vendor relationship management, in addition to business strategy, policy, budgeting, and management. Degrees in both Business and Engineering.
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About Baby Doctor, Inc.: Baby Doctor, Inc. was a healthcare startup that offered pediatric services on demand
Troy Venis
CTO of BILLMO, LLC
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About BILLMO, LLC: BillMo is a Latin American Mobile Wallet focused on the receive side of a Money Transfer enabling the recipient to spend money digitally.
David Wyatt
CTO of PixelDisplay, Inc.
Built first company 1993 in Taiwan, learning Mandarin on the fly, developing computer hardware/software, before coming to the US through an Intel acquisition. Track record for creating valuable IP (around 200 patents filed), leading teams delivering platform-wide innovations, aligning co-travellers and tackling the ecosystem challenges to successfully launch industry leading products that transform sectors. Including those shipped by Apple, Asus, DELL, HP, Intel, Lenovo, NVIDIA, Sharp, Sony, and more. David has a passion for addressing challenging problems from a fresh perspective, with cross domain solutions, building cross-functional/cross-industry collaborations, to make it happen. But finds the challenge of mapping an idea, into a breathtaking new business model, can be when innovation is most disruptive. Specialties: IoT, Display Technologies (Color, HDR, LCD, OLED, MicroLED TCON, Panel), Security & Cryptography, FinTech & Payments, Computer Architecture (CPU, GPU, Memory & IO), Wireless/NFC, Fuzzy & Convolution Neural Net AI/ML and more.
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About PixelDisplay, Inc.: Imagine light in all colors, as bright and dark as the real world. Imagine Mobile HDR, IoT, AR/VR display devices, running days not hours.
Pierre Drescher
CTO & Co-Founder of BentoBox
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About BentoBox: BentoBox empowers restaurants to own their presence, profits, and relationships, directly through their website.
ShivaKumar Chandrasekaran
Co-Founder & CTO of Dentulu
Founder and member of the Board of Directors for CA Infotech India Private Limited, has served as President and CEO since the division’s inception in 2005. Shiva is a proven leader whose entrepreneurial spirit has led him to successfully create and sustain high level of competition and market fluctuations. Currently Shiva is running successfully his operations in various IT enabled services around the globe. Dentulu being his new venture.
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About Dentulu: Dentulu is a provider of teledentistry and mobile dentistry technology solutions to existing non-profits around the world.
Peter Hanneman
Co-Founder & CTO of SEQL
Peter Hanneman is a Co-Founder and CTO at STAC.
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About SEQL: SEQL is an athletic recruiting platform that connects high school amateur athletes and collegiate coaches.
Jeromee Johnson
President & CTO of Tellus
Now leading the team at Tellus where he is delivering something new and special at the intersection of FinTech and PropTech – blending Personal Finance with Property Management with Sustainable Housing. Mr. Johnson also serves as a board director, mentor and advisor, focusing his time on high impact initiatives with tangible ESG outcomes. He is a widely recognized FinTech executive, an electronic trading and capital markets systems expert. He has been acknowledged globally for innovating and sharing insight in the areas of trading technology, financial markets, market networks and regulation. He was Executive Vice President and a member of the executive team at Miami International Holdings, responsible for their global markets initiatives. Prior, he was responsible for the options business at BATS Global Markets. He led their entry into derivatives and the creation, management, and strategy of the BATS Options Exchange. During his seven years on the management team at BATS, the company scaled from a single U.S. equity exchange to operate almost a dozen of the largest cross-asset exchanges, globally. Mr. Johnson was President of 3D Markets-the first options “dark pool”-a crossing network for equity options, designed to help bring large institutional OTC trades back to the listed, regulated environment. At 3D, he was responsible for strategy, product development, technology, sales, and broker dealer operations. Prior to 3D, at the TABB Group, Jeromee advised capital market participants, and their providers, on technology and strategy issues. He has held multiple securities industry licenses including the Series 4 and Series 24 Principal licenses. He is the author of a number of seminal industry titles including: Locating the Invisible: Aggregating Dark Book Liquidity, Groping in the Dark: Navigating Crossing Networks and Other Dark Pools of Liquidity, and Trading at Light Speed: Analyzing Low Latency Market Data Infrastructure Mr. Johnson currently resides in the Kansas City, KS., area with his family.
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About Cboe Global Markets, Demand Derivatives, Forbes Technology Council, Tellus, The Ayadee Foundation: Making finance and real estate work for you – with tools ranging from high-yield savings all the way to property management.
