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 California based Founder operating in the Computer 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.
Ari Meilich
Founder of Big Time Studios
Ari Meilich is the Founder at Big Time Studios.
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About Big Time Studios: Big Time Studios is a new game company dedicated to crafting online adventures through space and time.
Sahil Gupta
CEO & Co-Founder of Onera
Sahil joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2010. In the summer of 2011, he moved to Silicon Valley to help start Bain Capital Ventures’ Palo Alto office. Sahil is a strong advocate of social content discovery and data-intensive platform services; therefore, he spends most of his energy with early-stage companies in consumer, mobile and social. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Sahil started Zodah, an Internet startup focused on improving consumer bill management. Zodah was a DogPatch Labs and First Growth Venture Network portfolio company and exited to Hearst Corporation in 2010. Prior to Zodah, Sahil worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
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About Onera: Onera is building the Onera Decision Engine—the cognitive operating system that harnesses AI to power the modern commerce supply chain.
Randy Chou
Founder and CEO of Nubeva
Randy Chou is the Founder and CEO of Nubeva. Randy’s experience spans 15 years of technical and management leadership in the security, networking, and application acceleration fields. Prior to co-founding Panzura, Randy was a member of the founding software team at Aruba Networks, where he managed the architecture and development of the company’s security software. The combination of his technical expertise and business acumen helped Aruba become the leader in the enterprise Wi-Fi security market. Prior to Aruba Networks, Randy led the development of SSL security and load balancing software at Alteon WebSystems. Randy holds a degree in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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About Nubeva: Nubeva is a cloud security software company that provides decryption solution for real-time, historical or on-demand decryption.
Stefan Roever
CEO & Co-Founder of Aikon
Stefan has a broad entrepreneurial, technology, and finance background. He is Founder and CEO of Genia Technologies, a next generation DNA sequencing company based in Mountain View, CA. Genia Technologies was sold to Roche in 2014. He’s also Founder of OnCircle, an online content syndication and distribution platform. He is an active private equity investor and currently serves as Chairman of WRS Materials, a roll-up of wafer reclaim companies. He was Founder and CEO of Brokat Technologies, an encryption and banking software company. Brokat went public in 1998 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on NASDAQ in 2000, where it reached a several billion dollar market cap. He is active worldwide in fostering m-commerce and is a popular speaker at business and technology conferences. Stefan was honored with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Germany. He is also a two time award holder of Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
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About Aikon, Gbox by OnCircle, Inc.: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Betsabe Botaitis
Co-Founder and CFO of Aikon
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About Aikon, Kueski: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Tray Lewin
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer of Aikon
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About Aikon: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Greg Shenkman
Founder of EIS Group
Greg Shenkman is the founder of EIS Group.
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About EIS Group, Exigen Capital: EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets.
Darshan Desai
Founder & CEO of Plan
Darshan Desai is the Founder & CEO at Plan, Inc.
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About Plan: Plan is a better way to manage everything you have to do and everywhere you have to be.
Shikhar Shrestha
Co-Founder & CEO of Ambient.ai
Shikhar Shrestha is the co-founder and CEO of Ambient.ai.
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
Ken Kalopsis
Co-Founder + Vice-Chair of Startech.Com
Ken Kalopsis is co-founder of StarTech.com and as the company’s most senior ambassador, he maintains strong partnerships with key customers. Ken also spearheads StarTech.com’s global customer expansion so you will frequently find him at airports and hotels around the world. As a key member and contributor to the Executive team, Ken provides critical input and direction to StarTech.com. Having been actively involved with all aspects of the company throughout the years, he knows the business inside and out – with a particular focus in sales and operations. As a member of TEC Canada, Ken provides insights into company best practices and continuous improvement. Ken has a longstanding record of community involvement. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Grand Theatre Foundation and the Greater London International Airport. He also served as Executive Director of the Canadian Economic Development Assistance for South Sudan (CEDASS) after serving as a director for the previous five years. Ken earned a degree in History & Political Science from The University of Western Ontario.
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About Startech.Com: StarTech.com operates as a manufacturer of hard-to-find connectivity parts.
Fouad ElNaggar
Co-Founder & CEO of Array
Fouad ElNaggar is the Co-Founder and CEO at Array.
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About Array: Array is an information technology company that specializes in developing computer software.
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Harsha Pamulaparthi
Founder and CEO of Standav Corp.
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About Standav Corp.: Standav offers CRM, CPQ , API Integration delivery and Contract Analytics
Filip Victor
Founder, CEO of MetaMap
Filip Victor is the Founder and CEO at Mati.
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About MetaMap: MetaMap is a digital trust management platform that empower service providers to reach more customers through customizable trust workflows.
Hakan Gultekin
Co-Founder and CTO of Chooch AI
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Emrah Gultekin
Co-Founder and CEO of Chooch AI
Emrah is the CEO and Co-Founder of Chooch, an AI recognition and autonomous training platform. He is an entrepreneur and visionary.
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Daniel Chu
CEO and Co-Founder of MakersPlace
Daniel Chu is the CEO and co-founder at MakersPlace. He is a product and engineering leader with a passion for applying technologies to drive real-world change.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Anurag Kanungo
Co-Founder and CTO of Voxel
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About Sherbit, Voxel: Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time,.
Alex Plugaru
Co-Founder & CTO of Gorgias
Alex Plugaru is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gorgias.
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About Gorgias: Gorgias is a multi-channel helpdesk integrated for online and e-commerce merchants.
Romain Lapeyre
Co-Founder & CEO of Gorgias
Romain Lapeyre is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Gorgias.
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About Gorgias: Gorgias is a multi-channel helpdesk integrated for online and e-commerce merchants.
David Holz
Co-Founder & CTO of Leap Motion
David Holz is the CTO & co-founder of Leap Motion. Prior to founding the company, David contracted for NASA’s Langley Research Center and conducted neuroscience research while at The Max Planck Institute. He studied Applied Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ultimately leaving his PhD program to co-found Leap Motion in 2010.
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About Leap Motion: Leap Motion is a software and hardware company that develops 3D motion-control technology for virtual reality and additional platforms.
Cory Tucker
CTO & Co-Founder of Windfall
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About Windfall: Windfall Data is on a mission to help organizations make better informed data-driven decisions.
Jianxiong Xiao
Founder and CEO of AutoX
Jianxiong Xiao (a.k.a., Professor X) is the Founder and CEO of AutoX Inc., a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles. AutoX’s mission is to democratize autonomy and enable autonomous driving to improve everyone’s life. Dr. Xiao has over ten years of research and engineering experience in Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, and Robotics. In particular, he is a pioneer in the fields of 3D Deep Learning, RGB-D Recognition and Mapping, Big Data, Large-scale Crowdsourcing, and Deep Learning for Robotics. Jianxiong received a BEng. and MPhil. in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. And he was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and the founding director of the Princeton Computer Vision and Robotics Labs from 2013 to 2016. His work has received the Best Student Paper Award at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in 2012 and the Google Research Best Papers Award for 2012, and has appeared in the popular press. He was awarded the Google U.S./Canada Fellowship in Computer Vision in 2012, the MIT CSW Best Research Award in 2011, NSF/Intel VEC Research Award in 2016, and two Google Faculty Awards in 2014 and in 2015 respectively. He co-lead the MIT+Princeton joint team to participate in the Amazon Picking Challenge in 2016, and won the 3rd and 4th place worldwide. He was named to be one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2017, and one of the 12 of the most promising entrepreneurs to keep an eye on in 2018 by Next Visionaries.
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About AutoX: AutoX is a self-driving car startup that offers AI drivers to enable universal access to transportation for the people.
Laurentiu Russo
Founder of Softvision
As Softvision’s CEO and Founder, Laurentiu manages the company’s overall corporate business development and strategic initiatives. Prior to founding Softvision, Laurentiu worked in the consulting division of Hewlett Packard. His experience and success in this role contributed to founding Softvision in 1998. Prior to HP, he worked in a variety of U.S.-based technology companies including Microsoft, AOL and IBM. Laurentiu holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Engineering and Finance, and a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Softvision, Softvision: Cognizant Softvision provides digital product engineering services, helping global enterprise brands digitally transform.
Vitaliy Goncharuk
CEO and Founder of Augmented Pixels
I am CEO and founder of Augmented Pixels, based in Palo Alto, California, which provides software for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for augmented reality(AR/VR Glasses) and autonomous navigation(Robots / Drones). In 2016 I was honored to be a mentor and a judge at NASA(USA) Space Race project (link: http://bit.ly/2k1pTRX ) and was also asked to report in front of the board of directors of National Academy of Sciences (USA) about the long-term impact of Artificial Intelligence in several industries(link: http://bit.ly/2jPQ3Vy ). My hobbies: Skydiving, Good books, Mafia game(not Werewolf :=)), Jiu Jitsu(japanese style) and Control Line.
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About Augmented Pixels: Augmented Pixels – a leader in precise 3D geolocation and 3D maps crowdsourcing technologies
Kosala Hemachandra
Founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet | MEW
With 8 years of experience as a computer engineer under his belt, Kosala dabbled in crypto during his senior year at college. He later applied his technical programming skills to develop a storage solution for Ether which became MEW: one of the most popular and widely used cryptocurrency wallets in the space.
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About MyEtherWallet | MEW, Nanopuppet: MyEtherWallet is a free, open-source, client-side tool for easily and securely interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.
Prathamesh Juvatkar
Founder of NanoNets
Prathamesh Juvatkar is Founder at Nanonets
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About NanoNets: NanoNets provides machine learning APIs to help developers create machine learning models.
Joseph Reisinger
Co-Founder and CEO of Facet
Joe is an engineer and data hacker exploring the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UT Austin and spent his academic career building natural language understanding systems at Google Research and IBM T.J. Watson. Prior to co-founding Premise, he was Chief Scientist at Metamarkets.
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About Facet: Facet is a computer software company that provides artists and engineers, aiming to redefine and humanize the creative process.
Matt Ivester
Co-Founder & CEO of Hotshot
Matt Ivester is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is currently CEO of Kindr Inc., a company dedicated to making online kindness fun and easy. In 2011, through Serra Knight Publishing, he published lol…OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying. And in 2012, he published the high school edition of the same. Since its release, lol…OMG! has become Amazon’s top-selling book on the topics of digital citizenship and cyberbullying. He has spoken at various institutions around the country on these topics. Prior to writing lol…OMG! he started several companies, including a concert ticket auction site, a multi-million dollar investment fund, and a college gossip site. In 2005, Ivester graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. In 2012, he graduated from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with an MBA.
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About Hotshot: Screenshot technology
Suman Kanuganti
CEO, Founder of Personal AI
I am a creator, entrepreneur, father and husband. I love robots, technology, and humans. I create things that solve meaningful problems, see aira.io and luther.ai (current). I have a desire to learn, college in engineering, a master’s in robotics and a master’s in business.
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Sharon Zhang
CTO & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies that evolve alongside humanity. I have pursued expertise in artificial intelligence for over the past decade, building NLP products that impact the lives of patients, employees, and everyday people. I strive to build companies that move the world forward – embracing the principles of original thinking and humane AI. And that is why my partners and I are creating Human AI Labs (hu.man.ai).
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Kristie Kaiser
Head of Design & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a designer and a craftsman that sees the world in pixels, grids, color codes, and typefaces. I previously designed impactful products like Aira.io for the blind, and now focusing on human memory retention and recall. My core design principles are simplicity, inclusivity, and beauty.
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Brandon Iles
Co-Founder of Ampleforth
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About Ampleforth: Ampleforth is a developer of a cryptocurrency (AMPL) which is to be used for diversification.
Rajesh Ram
Co-Founder, Chief Experience Office of Egnyte
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About Egnyte: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Kumar Ganapathy
Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of Virident Systems
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About Ampool, PrimaryIO, Virident Systems: Virident Systems is a computer company designing and building enterprise-class data storage devices.
Sumit Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO of Boom.tv
Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics. Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom Fantasy Previously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M
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About afkVR, Boom.tv: BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs.
Vishal Sikka
CEO & Founder of Vianai
Vishal Sikka is the Founder and CEO of Vianai, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides advanced technological software and services in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to large companies around the world. He currently also serves on the board of the BMW Group and as an advisor to the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered AI. Prior, Sikka served as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys and former Indian American CEO and MD of Infosys. On August 18, 2017, he stepped down as managing director of Infosys. He quit as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys on August 24, 2017, when Nandan Nilekani was appointed as the new Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining Infosys, Sikka was a member of the Executive Board and the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, leading all SAP products and innovation globally. In his 12 years at SAP, Sikka led SAP’s product portfolio including the breakthrough in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and all their applications, cloud and technology solutions. He is credited with accelerating SAP’s development processes, transforming its innovation culture and leading several successful product co-creation initiatives with clients. He is also the creator of the concept of ‘timeless software,’ which represents the renewal of products without disruption to customer environments. Sikka left the SAP board in May 2014 for “personal reasons,” and was announced as CEO and MD of Infosys on June 12, 2014. After three years at Infosys, Sikka left on August 18, 2017. India Today magazine ranked him #32nd in India’s 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list.
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About Vianai: Vianai provides enterprise artificial intelligence solutions.
Andrew Ng
Founder & CEO of Landing AI
Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera in 2012, served as the company’s Co-CEO until 2014, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Coursera Board. He is the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, a Chinese language search engine, where he was responsible for driving the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. Dr. Ng is also an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. In 2011, he led the development of Stanford’s Massive Open Online Course platform and taught an online machine learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students – the initiative that led to the co-founding of Coursera. Previously, Dr. Ng was the founding lead of the Google Brain deep learning project. Dr. Ng has authored or co-authored over 100 research papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. In 2013 he was named to the Time 100 list of the most influential persons in the world. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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About AI Fund, Coursera, Deeplearning.ai, Landing AI, Stanford University, Zunavision: Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
Devaki Raj
CEO and Founder of CrowdAI
Devaki Raj is the CEO and Cofounder of CrowdAI. Prior to this, she completed her undergraduate and Masters in Statistics at the University of Oxford, and subsequently used her expertise at Google (Maps, Energy and [X] teams) to optimize renewable energy allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. She noticed that even with the power of Google Maps, there was a significant deficit in high-resolution on-the-ground information, such as locations of homes, villages, and farms in rural areas. This gap in knowledge prompted her to start CrowdAI in 2016, which was picked up by Y-Combinator and selected by TechCrunch as one of their top 8 companies to watch, Forbes’ Top 25 Machine Learning Companies, Nvidia Deep Learning Inception Awards Finalist, and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and Inc Magazine’s 30 companies under 30.
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Pablo Garcia
Co-Founder of CrowdAI
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Nicolas Borensztein
Founder & CTO of CrowdAI
Founder at CrowdAI
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, Chairman, and head of admissions and oversee investment vehicles of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Cameron Teitelman is the Founder and Chairman of StartX, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that runs an accelerator for Stanford affiliated entrepreneurs. Under his management, StartX has supported more than 1,100+ founders building 500+ companies. StartX companies have raised over $3.3B to date. In 2013, the Stanford-StartX Fund was launched. To date, SSF has invested in 250 StartX companies across 400+ rounds, investing $130 million in capital.
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Ali Sammour
Founder of FLATLAY
ali sammour joined FLATLAY as founder in 2016.
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About FLATLAY: The end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, customers & creatives.
Justin Giudici
Founder & Head of Product of Telos
Justin Giudici is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Telos. With a decade of experience in a variety of roles leading product, marketing, and design efforts Justin has a strong reputation for delivering emerging technology solutions.
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About Telos: Telos provides the third-generation blockchain platform.
Bill Huang
Founder & CEO of CloudMinds
Bill Huang is the Founder and CEO of CloudMinds, the world’s first intelligent cloud robot operator. Mr. Huang has been a new technology advocate for the telecom industry with near 30 years of work experience in the development of key technologies. He has in-depth experience and insightful thoughts in the areas of next generation mobile switching systems (3G/4G/5G), IP media streaming (IPTV/OTT), EPON/GPON, Multi-service mobile Softswitch, Operation Support System (OSS/BSS), Mobile Internet and mobile communication industry.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Patrick Kann
CEO and Co-Founder of Papaya
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About Papaya: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Dmitry Birulia
Co-Founder of Veryfi
Dmitry Birulia is the Cofounder at Veryfi.
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About Veryfi: Market leader in real-time Data Extraction from Receipts, Invoices and other financial documents https://veryfi.com/api
Ernest Semerda
Co-Founder of Veryfi
Ernest Semerda is the Cofounder at Veryfi.
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About Veryfi: Market leader in real-time Data Extraction from Receipts, Invoices and other financial documents https://veryfi.com/api
Adil Virani
Co-Founder of Blitz App
Adil Virani is the Co-Founder at Blitz.
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About Blitz App: Your personal gaming coach for League of Legends, Valorant, CSGO, Fortnite and more— powered by AI and built with professional players.
Andy Dinh
Co-Founder and CEO of Blitz App
Andy Dinh is the founder and CEO at Blitz App.
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About Blitz App, Team SoloMid: Your personal gaming coach for League of Legends, Valorant, CSGO, Fortnite and more— powered by AI and built with professional players.
Lisa Falzone
CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Security
Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder & CEO of Athena Security, an award-winning Gun Detection solution enterprises. Since starting the company from the ground up in 2017, Falzone has been a trailblazer in technology. She is spearheading her last company Revel Systems which rasied over 100m in funding and a evalution over 500m. Revel’s mission was to help entrepreneurs around the world build their dream business.
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About Athena Security: Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Sean Lie
Chief Hardware Architect & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Sean is Chief Hardware Architect and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Sean was Lead Hardware Architect of the IO virtualization fabric ASIC at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired by AMD, Sean was made an AMD Fellow and Chief Data Center Architect. Earlier in his career, he spent five years at AMD in their advanced architecture team. He holds a BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has authored 16 patents in computer architecture.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Chief System Architect & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Jean-Philippe (J.P.) is Chief System Architect at Cerebras Systems. Before co-founding Cerebras, J.P. was Senior Hardware Architect at rack-scale flash array startup DSSD (acquired by EMC). Prior to DSSD, J.P. was Lead System Architect at SeaMicro where he designed three generations of fabric-based computer systems. Earlier in his career, J.P. was Director of Hardware Engineering at Alcatel-Lucent and Director of Hardware Engineering at Riverstone Networks. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and has authored 24 patents.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Michael James
Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Michael is Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Michael was Lead Software Architect responsible for distributed system software at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired, Michael was made an AMD Fellow and Lead Software Architect. Throughout his career, he has designed operating systems, compilers, real-time feedback controls systems, signal process, and recognition systems. Michael has degrees in Molecular Neurobiology, Mathematics, and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Andrew Feldman
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Andrew is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Ram Varadarajan
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
Jerry Luk
Co-Founder and COO of Firework
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About Firework: Firework is a short video startup that enables short, vertical video technology for everyone.
Neil Raina
Co-Founder of Piccolo
Neil Raina is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Portal Technologies and the Co-Founder of Piccolo.
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About Piccolo, Portal Technologies: The world’s first Vision Assistant.
Jags Kandasamy
Co-Founder and CEO of Latent AI
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About Latent AI, OtoSense: Latent AI accelerates AI implementation and workflows for the enterprise cost-effectively anywhere on the edge continuum with Adaptive AI.
Luis Dussan
Founder, CTO and President of AEye
Luis Dussan is a co-founder and CEO of AEye.
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Petro Estakhri
Founder, CEO, President & Board of Directors of Avalanche Technology
Petro Estakhri co-founded and has served as Chief Executive Officer for Avalanche Technology since August 2006. Prior Petro Estakhri served as the Chief Technology Officer of Lexar Media, Inc. which he founded in 1996. Lexar Media is a pioneer in flash memory technology for the digital photography, consumer electronics, and communications markets and grew from a private start-up to the 55th largest company in Silicon Valley prior to its acquisition by Micron Technology, Inc. in June 2006. From 1993 to 1996, Petro Estakhri served as the Senior Director of Mass Storage Controller Engineering at Cirrus Logic, Inc., a supplier of semiconductors for Internet entertainment electronics, where he developed one of Cirrus Logic’s primary micro-controllers and co-founded the mass storage memory group. Petro Estakhri also worked at IBM and National Semiconductor. Petro Estakhri has served as a member of a number of boards, including Lexar Media’s as well as Silicon Stor, a company that Petro Estakhri co-founded in 2002. Petro Estakhri is a co-author of over 95 patents related to magnetic media, flash storage controller and systems architecture. Petro Estakhri holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Davis.
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About Avalanche Technology: Avalanche is developing innovative, ultra high performance enterprise solid-state storage arrays.
Tony Han
Founder & CEO of WeRide
Former Chief Scientist of Baidu’s Autonomous Driving Unit. Tenured Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri (MU). Original contributor of DeepSpeech2, selected as one of ten breakthrough technologies in 2016 by MIT Technology Review. Winner of multiple worldwide challenges in computer vision and machine learning.
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About WeRide: WeRide is a leading Level 4 autonomous driving company to provide safer and more efficient mobility service and solution.
Philip Smolen
Co-Founder, CTO of Trade Ideas
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About Trade Ideas: Trade Ideas provides idea generation technology and real-time risk management analytics to investors.
Jedidiah Yueh
Founder ,Executive Chairman & CEO of Delphix
In 1999, Jedidiah Yueh founded Avamar, a software company that pioneered data de-duplication and shipped a billion-dollar product in the backup and recovery industry, with over 20,000 current customers. Today, de-duplication is a high priority for enterprise data centers, and the technology has become a must-have feature or product for major storage and software vendors. Data de-duplication strips away redundant data to make disks more cost effective than tape media for storing a wide variety of data types, such as daily, repeated backup sets. EMC acquired Avamar in November 2006 for $165 million. EMC executives have stated that Avamar is the best performing investment for EMC since VMware.Yueh has demonstrated a successful track record for identifying new market opportunities and staying ahead of industry trends. As VP of Product Management at EMC, Yueh helped launch the Avamar Data Store and the Avamar Virtual Edition in 2007, two innovative and successful products that have helped EMC maintain a leadership position in the industry. Prior to Avamar, Yueh served as Chief Operating Officer for NTD, an optical storage startup. He brings over a decade of experience in the software and data storage industries and has more than 6 patents or patents pending. Yueh graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with an AB from Harvard University. Under former President George H. Bush, he was designated a US Presidential Scholar, one of the highest academic achievements awarded nationally.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Tuomas Artman
Co-Founder of Linear
Tuomas Artman is a Co-Founder at Linear.
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About Linear: Linear allows users to manage software development and track bugs.
Arjita Sethi
Co Founder of Equally
Arjita is a teacher and a serial entrepreneur since 2004. She is currently the co-founder of Equally. Equally is building learning experiences using Augmented Reality adn Camera Vision that bring children closer to real world. She is currently serving on the Young Executive Advisory Board on the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. She is also the co-founder of Startupindia.in , a startup based out of India that is providing tools and resources for entrepreneurs in India to create impactful startups Arjita is a passionate Social entrepreneur who completed her masters in social entrepreneurship from Hult international Business School. She works on projects which give social entrepreneurs & women entrepreneurs around the world an ecosystem of impact metrics, resources and right stakeholders to create maximum impact. She hopes to create awareness of social entrepreneurship globally. Leveraging her theatre background, she gives talks around her experiments with entrepreneurship. She was a speaker at TEDx San Francisco in 2015.
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About Equally: AR game platform for kids to learn and grow.
Tyler Shultz
Co-Founder & CEO of Flux Bioscience
Tyler Shultz is an entrepreneur fostering innovation in healthcare.
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About Ethics in Entrepreneurship, Flux Bioscience: Flux Biosciences is a company spun out of Stanford University, where the technology used to read and write computer hard drives .
Shan X Wang
Co-Founder of Flux Bioscience
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About Flux Bioscience: Flux Biosciences is a company spun out of Stanford University, where the technology used to read and write computer hard drives .
Greg Castle
Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of Anorak Ventures
Greg is the Managing Partner of Anorak Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging technology. Based in Silicon Valley, the firm focuses on VR/AR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Portfolio companies include Against Gravity, Catalog, Lightform and 6d.ai. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 26 investments counting Flexport and two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in, and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform (acq. 2011) and for Autodesk’s Game Technology Group.
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About Anorak Ventures: Investing at the earliest stages in transformational people and technology
Jorge Torres
Co-Founder &CEO of MindsDB
Jorge Torres Is currently Co-founder & CEO of MindsDB and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley researching machine learning automation and explainability. He has worked for a number of data-intensive start-ups, most recently working with Aneesh Chopra (the first CTO in the US government) building data systems that analyze billions of patients records and lead to highest savings for millions of patients, he started his work on scaling solutions using machine learning in early 2008 while working as first full time engineer at Couchsurfing where he helped grow the company from a few thousand users to a few million. Jorge had degrees in electrical engineering & computer science, including a masters degree in computer systems (with a focus on applied Machine Learning) from the Australian National University.
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About AllFreed, MindsDB: Open Source In-SQL Machine Learning
Krishna Motukuri
CEO & Co-Founder of Zippin
Krishna Motukuri is the CEO of Zippin, drawing on his deep retail technology, ecommerce and startup experience to lead Zippin. Most recently, he was a portfolio company CEO at Naspers Group, where he built and grew multiple e-commerce businesses in India and South Africa. Earlier in his career, Krishna spent seven years at Amazon leading teams in search, marketing, global expansion and supply chain. In 2006 he left Amazon to start Ugenie, a next-gen comparison shopping site that was acquired in 2008 by Lulu.com. Post-acquisition, Krishna assumed the role of SVP, Business Development at Lulu and established key partnerships with Apple, McGraw Hill, Google and others. Krishna has a Master’s degree from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. In his spare time, he enjoys travel and spending time outdoors with his family.
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About Zippin: Zippin is the next generation of checkout-free technology enabling retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores.
Stefan Stokic
Founder of Slik
Stefan Stokic is the founder of Slik.ai (YC S17), a platform that automate sales for B2B companies.
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About Slik: Slik is a company that helps sales teams automate email marketing and generating leads.
Soroush Ghodsi
Founder of Slik
Soroush Ghodsi is the Co-Founder of Slik.
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About Slik: Slik is a company that helps sales teams automate email marketing and generating leads.
Justin Newton
Co-Founder and CEO of Netki
Justin Newton is the CEO at Netki, Inc.
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About Netki, Singapore University of Social Sciences: The leading provider of tools to foster the adoption of blockchain technology.
Dawn Newton
COO / Co-Founder of Netki
Dawn Newton serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Netki, Inc.
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About Netki: The leading provider of tools to foster the adoption of blockchain technology.
Ruggero Gramatica
Founder & CEO of Yewno
Ruggero has over 20 years of experience in startups and company turnaround. He is the founder and CEO of Yewno, a knowledge discovery platform. He has championed the growth and expansion of 5 successful start-ups both in the United States and across Europe. Ruggero holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from King’s College London, an MBA from University of Chicago, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University Politecnico of Milan.
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About Yewno: A leading provider of AI solutions for Finance, Education and Publishing, Yewno’s mission is to transform information into knowledge.
Chad Carson
Co-Founder of Pepperdata
Chad Carson At Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Inktomi, Chad led teams using huge amounts of data to web-scale products, including social search at Bing and sponsored search ranking and optimization at Yahoo!. Before getting into web search, Chad worked on computer vision and image retrieval, earning a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Chad also holds bachelor’s degrees in History and Electrical Engineering from Rice University.
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About Pepperdata: Pepperdata products provide observability and continuous tuning for the big data analytics stack.
Suhas Ahuja
Co-Founder, COO of SIERA.AI
Suhas is an experienced entrepreneur with multiple successful exits in the high-tech sector. Suhas leads all of Stocked Robotics’ sales and business development operations globally.
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About SIERA.AI: SIERA.AI is a mobility tech company that helps warehouses and factories increase safety and efficiency of their industrial vehicle fleets.
Ariel Smoliar
Co-Founder of PlanetWatchers
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About PlanetWatchers: PlanetWatchers is a geospatial intelligence and enterprise natural resource monitoring service.
Zuk Avraham
Founder, CEO of zecOps
Zuk Avraham is a world-renowned white-hat security researcher, 2X entrepreneur, angel investor, the founder and Chairman of mobile security company Zimperium, Inc. and the founder and CEO of ZecOps, Inc. An innate hacker with a passion for detecting code vulnerabilities, Zuk started his career as a security researcher in the IDF before being recruited by Samsung Electronics, where he published the first return-oriented programming technique for ARM architecture at DEFCON 18 and Blackhat. His security work has been the subject of academic research and is often quoted in leading publications such as Forbes, MIT Technology Review, TIMES and Engadget. Founded in 2010, Zimperium have already earned innovation awards for their cutting-edge enterprise Mobile IPS and considered the leader in Mobile Threat Defense. Since its foundation, Zimperium raised more than $70m in capital from top-tier investors, helped many Fortune 500 companies to secure their mobile fleet and has more than 100 employees globally. Zuk and his team have pioneered many new security approaches, including signature-independent protection. In July 2017, Zuk founded ZecOps, Inc. Stealth mode cyber security firm.
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About zecOps, Zimperium: ZecOps is a cybersecurity automation company that finds attackers’ mistakes.
Taly Slachevsky
Co-Founder, COO of zecOps
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About zecOps: ZecOps is a cybersecurity automation company that finds attackers’ mistakes.
William Andregg
CEO, Co-Founder & President of Fathom Computing
William Andregg is the Co-Founder at Fathom Radiant.
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About Fathom Computing: Fathom Computing is building optics-based hardware to run artificial intelligence with unprecedented performance.
Vivian Shen
Co-Founder and CEO of Juni Learning
Vivian Shen is the Co-Founder and CEO at Juni Learning
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About Juni Learning: A learning platform helping every student achieve their best future.
Sanj Goyle
Co-Founder & CEO of Finxera
Sanj Goyle is the co-founder and CEO of BancBox, the first API driven approach to enabling banking services for non-financial institutions.In his leadership role, Sanj is focused on driving forward the product vision of BancBox as a compelling solution for fintech clients, maintaining the trust of our partner banks, and ensuring that BancBox remains a good financial steward of consumer funds and up to date on the current regulatory environment. Prior to BancBox, Sanj spent several years in Online Marketing focusing on Lead Generation and Offer Optimization. Sanj was most recently at Yahoo, where he led the performance marketing team that developed and operated Yahoo’s first Cost-per-Lead (CPL) line of business. The Yahoo CPL team launched multiple products (namely, Yahoo Tagline in Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Cross Sell in Yahoo Games, and CPL ad units in Yahoo Messenger). Prior to Yahoo, Sanj managed the consumer finance lead generation lines of business at Adteractive and Nextag. At Adteractive, Sanj managed a 20-person team that generated over $40m in annual revenue and managed ad spend of over $1m per month in online and offline channels. While at Nextag, lead gen revenue grew from inception to over $25m within 2 years. Sanj has spoken at industry conferences such as LeadsCon and Affiliate Summit. Sanj started his career as a corporate attorney specializing in Corporate Securities, M&A, and Privacy. Sanj has considerable experience with the privacy and legal issues related to the marketing of consumer finance products— in particular, FTC TSR and Disclosure Guidelines, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and PCI compliance. Sanj is admitted to practice in California and New York, is a licensed real estate broker in California, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). Sanj graduated from Boston University School of Law (magna cum laude) and Duke University. He currently resides in Menlo Park, CA.
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About Finxera: Finxera offers an API-driven approach that enables clients to seamlessly integrate banking services into their applications.
Alexandre Elkrief
Co Founder & President of Knowhere
Alexandre Elkrief joined Knowhere as Co-Founder & President in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Dylan Rhodes
Co Founder – CTO of Knowhere
Dylan Rhodes joined Knowhere as Co-Founder & CTO in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Madhu Konety
Founder & CEO of Icecream Labs Inc
Madhu Konety is tinkerer, entrepreneur, angel investor and advises Asian family offices on technology investments.
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About Icecream Labs Inc: Icecream Labs is the only AI powered platform which provides on-demand Intelligent Merchandising solutions
Rosanna Myers
Co-Founder of Carbon Robotics
Rosanna is the Co-Founder of Carbon Robotics.
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About Carbon Robotics: Carbon Robotics makes advanced robotics dramatically more accessible to help solve some of society’s most intractable problems.
Ben Hsieh
Co-Founder and COO of Synapbox
Ben Hsieh is the co-founder and COO of Synapbox. He is a former director at Nest.vc.
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About Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Daniel Koppel
Co-Founder & CEO of Prospera Technologies
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About Prospera Technologies: Prospera is an agriculture technology data company that develops intelligent solutions.
Matt Stern
Co-Founder & COO of Mira
Matt Stern is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Mira. He is also one of the thirty inaugural students in Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young’s Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at USC.
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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.
Benjamin Taft
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
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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.
Shiraz Akmal
CEO & Co-Founder of Spaces
CEO & Co-Founder at SPACES Inc.
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About SABH’s Big Adventure, Spaces: SPACES designs VR, AR and MR experiences for theme parks, retail, and other public locations worldwide.
Charles Fan
Founder and CEO of MemVerge
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About MemVerge: MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure system, built with proprietary DMO technology.
Rohit Seth
CEO and Founder of CloudNatix
Rohit Seth is an ex-Google executive and Founder of CloudNatix Inc.
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About CloudNatix: CloudNatix is a provider of efficient infrastructure across multiple clouds and on-premise environments.
Dinakar Munagala
Co-Founder and CEO of Blaize
Dinakar Munagala is the co-founder and CEO of Blaize.
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About Blaize: Blaize is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets.
Ke Yin
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Engineering of Blaize
Ke Yin is the co-founder and VP of engineering at Blaize.
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About Blaize: Blaize is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets.
