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 San Francisco, California based Founder operating in the E-Commerce 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.
Edward Lando
Co-Founder & CEO of Goody
Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.
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About Alpha, Catalina Crunch, CodeCombat, Conduit, Goody, Horizons School of Technology, Overtime, Pareto Holdings, Svrf: Goody makes sending gifts as easy as sending a text.
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Sahil Lavingia
Founder & CEO of Gumroad
Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad. Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience. Previously, he was early at Pinterest — a service that lets users collect, organize, and share the things they are into — and worked on turntable’s mobile apps. He designs and builds products for fun and profit.
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About Crate, Gumroad, shl.vc: Gumroad owns and operates an online service through which users can buy and sell digital goods such as design templates and source codes.
Ryan Breslow
Co-Founder and CEO of Bolt
Ryan is cofounder and CEO at Bolt, an end-to-end platform that replaces fragmented online shopping, payment, and fraud software. Ryan is also a thought-leader in the digital currency space, having cofounded the Beam currency and started the original Stanford Bitcoin Group. Mr. Breslow is a former Co-Founder and CEO at Sites by Hand. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University.
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About Bolt: Bolt is developing a checkout experience platform that helps retailers convert and retain more of their shoppers.
Katrina Lake
Founder and CEO of Stitch Fix
Katrina is passionate about helping women achieve everyday confidence. She founded Stitch Fix to help women everywhere discover and explore their style through a truly client-focused shopping experience. Prior to founding Stitch Fix, Katrina developed extensive experience at the intersection of fashion, retail, and technology. She managed the blogger platform at venture-backed social commerce company Polyvore and consulted with a variety of e-commerce and traditional retailers during her time at The Parthenon Group. Additionally, she has invested in and worked with dozens of entrepreneurs and start-ups at Leader Ventures. Katrina holds a B.S. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Grubhub, Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Joseph Zwillinger
Co-Founder and CEO of Allbirds
Joseph Zwillinger is a CEO and Co-Founder of Allbirds. He has long been passionate about making things from renewable resources, which led him to start Allbirds and begin tackling sustainability issues in the footwear industry. Prior to co-founding Allbirds, he spent six years at biotech firm Terravia (formerly Solazyme, Inc.) leading its renewable chemical business, developing and selling high performance algae-based chemicals into various industries such as CPG, personal care, and industrials. Previously, Joey worked in advisory and investment roles at Industry Ventures, Deloitte Consulting and Goldman Sachs. He sits on the Board of education nonprofit Stiles Hall, as well as the Advisory Board of Wharton’s Baker Retail Center. He earned an MBA from Wharton with honors, and a BS in industrial engineering from UC Berkeley
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About Allbirds: Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes.
Tim Brown
Co-Founder of Allbirds
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About Allbirds: Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes.
Domm Holland
Co-Founder & CEO of Fast
Domm Holland is the co-founder and CEO of Fast, the world’s fastest online login and checkout platform. An entrepreneur and self-taught engineer, Domm has founded and scaled companies in the logistics, transportation and technology sectors. He previously founded and served as CEO of Tow, an on-demand vehicle towing platform in Australia that processed more than $50M in transactions. During his tenure there, Domm was awarded the top spot on the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 and recognized as the Brisbane Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Domm has worked across Australia and the U.S., working in national and multinational telecommunications and technology companies, including Dell, with deep cross-function experience. Domm’s background provides him with a unique perspective that spans R&D, sales and operations, all of which have contributed to his vision for Fast.
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About Fast, FAST Group: Fast provides an online login and checkout solutions designed to provide users with a secure shopping experience.
Allison Barr Allen
Co-Founder & COO of Fast
Allison Barr Allen is the co-founder and COO of Fast, the world’s fastest online login and checkout platform. Previously, Allison was the head of global product operations for the Money Team at Uber, where she helped scale Uber from 2,000 employees to more than 26,000 worldwide. Allison’s team launched and scaled Uber’s payments, risk, and compliance products globally, including on-demand payments, cash products, debit cards and credit cards. Prior to Uber, Allison served as a healthcare strategy consultant at PwC. In addition to her role at Fast, Allison is a limited partner at Operator Collective, a venture capital firm that brings together leaders from diverse backgrounds to invest in the next generation of enterprise technology. Allison is also deeply committed to supporting entrepreneurs through Trail Run Capital, her angel investment fund. Allison graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
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About Fast: Fast provides an online login and checkout solutions designed to provide users with a secure shopping experience.
Andy Ruben
Founder & CEO of Trove
Andy Ruben is the CEO and Founder of Trove. The world’s most innovative brands trust Trove to run their resale platforms. Andy left his executive role at Walmart to pursue his dream of building the next generation of retail. Andy was hired by Walmart to work with the Board of Directors and build a strategy department for Walmart. He led a number of transformational efforts over his tenure, including launching Walmart’s heralded sustainability effort, re-imagining Walmart’s $20 Billion private brands business, and integrating online and stores.
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About Trove: Trove builds white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping for premium and luxury brands.
Jeffrey Kolovson
Co-Founder and COO of Faire
Jeffrey Kolovson is the co-founder and COO of Faire.
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Marcelo Cortes
Co-Founder & CTO of Faire
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Max Rhodes
Co-Founder and CEO of Faire
Prior to starting Faire, Max was the first product manager for several key initiatives at Square, including Square Capital ($1Bn+ deployed) and Square Cash (Square’s only Top 50-ranked app in the iOS App Store). He first came up with the idea for Faire while introducing the Blunt Umbrella to the United States.
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Daniele Perito
Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer of Faire
Prior to starting Faire, Daniele led Risk and Security for Square Cash, where he designed and implemented the anti-abuse and anti-fraud systems that have made Cash possible. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on security and machine learning.
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Mohit Saxena
Founder & COO of Rizort
Mohit Saxena is the Founder of Rizort, Rizort is a first of its kind luxury vacation marketplace that enable users to plan and book a memorable vacation, designed and curated around specific intent and experience to create perfect memories. Prior to Rizort Mohit, was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at InMobi. He oversaw all things tech, including infrastructure, application management, and IT during its growth and scale phase. Before InMobi, Mohit managed technology operations at Virgin Mobile, designing and deploying their post-paid billing system and their pre-paid revenue recognition system. Mohit earlier worked at AT&T and has contributed to many patents filed in the telecommunications area. Fascinated by small ideas that turned into global powerhouses, and innovation, simplicity, and the potential of technology have always been his passions. InMobi is a both a passion and a dream come true for him. Mohit has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Mohit’s passion for technology doesn’t stop at work and is always on the look-out for ways that he can use it to make his life easier.
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About InMobi, Rizort: Rizort is a luxury vacation marketplace that brings immersive vacation planning and booking services for travelers.
Sachin Kanodia
Founder and CEO of Rizort
Founder & CEO at Rizort.com.
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About Rizort: Rizort is a luxury vacation marketplace that brings immersive vacation planning and booking services for travelers.
Doreen Bloch
CEO & Founder of Poshly
Doreen Bloch is the CEO & Founder of Poshly Inc., a data analytics company focused on consumer intelligence. Inc. Magazine named her one of the 30 Under 30 CEOs of 2015, and she is the winner of L’Oreal’s NEXT Generation Women in Digital Award. Doreen is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (Class of 2010), where she was awarded the Jack Larson Fellowship for Entrepreneurship & Innovation for her work founding BARE magazine, one of the nation’s first collegiate fashion publications. She was a three-time Yahoo! Inc. intern during college, and after graduation she worked at SecondMarket, where she helped on auctions for shares of pre-IPO companies, including Facebook Inc. Doreen is also the Author of “The Coolest Startups in America” published February 2012, and a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Her work is regularly featured by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Inc., ForbesWoman, Feministing, Women 2.0, and more.
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About Makeup Museum, Poshly: Poshly is the consumer intelligence company that specializes in the fields of internet, data, consumer packaged goods, and technology.
Taylor Wang
Founder & COO of Mayvenn
Taylor Wang is Founder at Mayvenn.
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About Groop Swoop, Mayvenn: Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
Na’ama Moran
Co-Founder & CEO of Cheetah
Na’ama Moran is Co-Founder and CEO at Cheetah. Growing up in Israel with a family of farmers and small business owners, she’s seen first-hand the imminent need for a more efficient, accessible food supply. She came to the US to study economics, math, and political science at Cornell University, and started her career with Greylock Capital Management as an analyst. She soon left finance and moved to Silicon Valley to pursue her dream of building products that make people’s lives better with technology. She’s founded several companies including Zappedy and Sourcery, where she encountered many restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs, and discovered the hardships of running a restaurant, including the lack of transparency and ease-of-use in such an important industry. Remaining committed to building products that help food businesses thrive, she saw an opportunity to solve the very real problem that legacy distributors created for independent restaurants with Cheetah. Today, Na’ama is scaling Cheetah at an unprecedented pace. Since its inception in 2015, Cheetah has served over 2,000 independent restaurants with a mission to improve their supply chain. In early 2020, Cheetah turned their fleet of refrigerated trucks into mobile fulfillment centers, to provide the safest option for grocery pickup without contact and away from crowds. Consumers and restaurant owners simply place their order through the Cheetah mobile app and drive to one of multiple designated locations in the Bay Area, where products are placed in the trunk of customer’s cars without leaving the driver’s seat.
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About Cheetah: Cheetah is an e-commerce platform offering contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies.
Christopher Elliott
Co-Founder & COO of Cheetah
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About Cheetah, Cheetah Technologies: Cheetah is an e-commerce platform offering contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies.
Chris Tsai
Co-Founder & CEO of Resolve
Chris Tsai is the Co-Founder & CEO at Resolve.
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About Resolve: Resolve is a B2B payments platform that offers buy now, pay later billing for business purchases.
Brian Nguyen
Co-Founder of Resolve
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About Resolve: Resolve is a B2B payments platform that offers buy now, pay later billing for business purchases.
Ronak Trivedi
Founder & CEO of Pietra
Ronak Trivedi is the founder and CEO of Pietra.
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About Pietra: Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
Roth Martin
Co-Founder and President of Rothy’s
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About Rothy’s: Rothy’s is a global lifestyle brand transforming sustainable materials into timeless shoes, handbags and accessories.
Stephen Hawthornthwaite
Co-Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Rothy’s
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About Rothy’s, Rothy’s: Rothy’s is a global lifestyle brand transforming sustainable materials into timeless shoes, handbags and accessories.
Jai An
CEO & Co-Founder of TrustToken
Jai is the CEO and co-founder of TrustToken
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About TrustToken: TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world.
Rafael Cosman
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering and Product of TrustToken
Rafael graduated from Stanford where his focus was on artificial intelligence and cryptography. He got interested in cryptocurrency after studying with Professor Dan Boneh, one of the world’s leading experts in applied cryptography. Rafael went on to work at Palantir and Google Brain before leaving Google to found TrustToken. TrustToken is creating a platform that bridges blockchains and the $256 trillion of real-world assets. Rafael holds multiple patents in machine learning.
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About TrueFi, TrustToken: TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world.
Gregg Brockway
Co-Founder & CEO of Chairish
Co-founder and president of TripIt. Co-founder of Hotwire. This fearless leader is constantly leaning forward and pushing us to do what seems impossible, but somehow manages to miraculously occur. He’s a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, travel freak and former member of the 1980s US Ski Team (complete with Miami Vice-ish speed suit.) While his first love is turning good ideas into amazing products that become great companies, it turns out he also covets Palm Springs modern. Other current obsessions include Maker Faire, mountain biking and tangerine swivel chairs. Gregg earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Dartmouth College.
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About Chairish: Chairish is an online marketplace for high-end home furniture, art, and decor.
Andy Denmark
Co Founder and VP engineering of Chairish
Andy Denmark is the former Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of Chairish.
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About Chairish, Groupize: Chairish is an online marketplace for high-end home furniture, art, and decor.
James Berdigans
CEO & Founder of Printify
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About Printify: Printify is a marketplace connecting online merchants to major print on demand and dropshipping manufacturers worldwide.
Michael Preysman
Founder and CEO of Everlane
Michael Preysman is the founder and CEO of Everlane. Prior to starting Everlane, he was an investor at Elevation Partners for both their New York and Menlo Park offices investing in media and entertainment companies. Michael enjoys sitting at the intersection of design and technology. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon with degrees in Computer Engineering and Economics.
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About Everlane: Everlane designs, manufactures, and sells clothing items for men and women via online e-commerce website.
Chris Clark
Co-Founder & CTO of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Stuart Landesberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative
Stuart Landesberg is the Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative, the leading digital-first brand & ecommerce platform for natural home and personal care. Stu has long been passionate about sustainability. He founded Grove, which has been a Certified B Corp since its founding, after learning that offline distribution meant that just a small percentage of families were choosing healthy, sustainable home care products. Grove now serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month and has raised over $100 million in total capital. Stu was previously an investor at TPG Growth, where he was involved in over $400 million in consumer and technology investments. Stu and his wife Caitlin live in San Francisco with their daughter and dog, and spend as much time outside as possible.
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Jordan Savage
Co-Founder & VP, Creative of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Ashvin Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO of Tophatter
Ashvin Kumar Co-founded Blippy Inc. in 2009 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Ashvin Kumar served as the Vice President of Engineering at Affinity Circles, where he managed an engineering team across Development & QA, Operations, and Technical Support. Ashvin Kumar graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a degree in computer science.
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About Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Chris Estreich
Co-Founder & CTO of Tophatter
Chris Estreich Co-founded Blippy Inc. in 2009 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Chris Estreich served as a Senior Software Engineer at Oodle helping build the platform that powers MySpace, Walmart, and Facebook Classifieds. He graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a Degree in Computer Science.
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About Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Eddie Machaalani
Co-Founder of BigCommerce
Eddie Machaalani is the co-founder and co-CEO of BigCommerce. He runs the company alongside Mitch, working with our leadership team to ensure our aggressive growth targets are met and exceeded.
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About BigCommerce: BigCommerce is a SaaS provider for merchants running online businesses.
Keith McCarty
Founder & CEO of WAYV
Keith McCarty is the CEO and founder of WAYV. His leadership defines the overall vision and direction of the company and he touches all aspects of strategy, operations, marketing, product development, investor relations and company culture. Prior to WAYV, McCarty was a founding team member at the social enterprise platform Yammer, where he grew sales and marketing from one person to over 350 employees globally and contributed to the white-hot investor interest in workplace productivity software. In 2012, Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion. In 2013, Keith founded a technology that allowed consumers to safely order home delivery of cannabis (Eaze). He lead the company to become one of the top funded cannabis companies in the U.S. market with $51.5M in funding to-date. As California legalized adult use, Keith turned his attention to challenges upstream in the cannabis supply chain. In early 2017, Keith began developing a technical solution for the complex logistics required to get product to market. WAYV is the answer – a B2B platform that helps businesses move product quickly, safely, tracked in real-time, from producers to market, within a day. McCarty is a proven expert in the on-demand economy, entrepreneurship, software applications and business automation. He has successfully navigated complex, highly regulated spaces, balancing growth with compliance while deploying game-changing technology. McCarty has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in finance and marketing from Chapman University, The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics in Orange, California where he grew up. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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About WAYV: WAYV is an automated, e-commerce platform serving California’s cannabis industry.
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.
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.
Arvind Patel
CEO and Co-Founder of Rowzzy
Seasoned Silicon Valley executive and CEO with direct experience in managing multi-million dollar companies. Wide range of experience in tech management, raising capital, revenue growth and M&A. Tenure in technology has spread across many verticals to include Hardware, Contract Manufacturing and Software. His multilingual skills leverage his wide network. Current activity is to lead a next-gen AI platform to funding, product launch and rapid growth.
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About Rowzzy: Innovators of NVU™ a PaaS /A.I. Voice-to-Display solutions for eCommerce and beyond.
Andy Moss
Founder and CEO of Roadster
Andy Moss is CEO at Fabkids.
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Trey Matteson
Co-Founder of Roadster
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Vincent Lo
Co-Founder of Roadster
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Mike Lenz
Co-Founder of Roadster
Mike Lenz is Vice President of Engineering at POPSUGAR. In this role, Mike oversees engineering for POPSUGAR’s commerce properties and mobile applications, which include ShopStyle by POPSUGAR and DesignerApparel. Mike was a co-founder of ShopStyle, which POPSUGAR acquired in 2007. Prior to POPSUGAR, Mike held several senior technology and management roles at Netscape, Apple, VeriSign and various startups. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in symbolic systems and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Mika Kozma
Co-Founder of Roadster
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About Roadster: Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Rob Spiro
Founder of Good Eggs
Rob Spiro is co-founder and CEO of Good Eggs. Before launching Good Eggs,Rob founded the social search engine Aardvark, which was acquired by Google in 2010, and was a product lead on the Google+ project. Prior to joining Aardvark, he worked to revitalize a family farm in upstate New York, helping to raise chickens and harvest tomatoes. It was getting his hands dirty on the farm that sparked his passion for food and sustainability.
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About Good Eggs: Good Eggs is an online grocer and meal kit delivery service with a mission to reinvent the food system, for good.
Shashank P S
Founder & CEO of CasaOne
Shashank is the founder and CEO of CasaOne. Prior to CasaOne, he worked at Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners. He previously founded two companies in the e-commerce and marketing automation respectively.
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About CasaOne: CasaOne is an online store for furniture, decor, and home goods. Furniture is also available on rent in SF, LA and NY!
Binu Girija
Founder & CEO of Way
Mr. Binu Girija is the Founder and CEO at Way.com, Inc. Mr. Binu is responsible for building products that meet the changing demands of Way.com’s users and partners. Prior to Way.com, he was an Enterprise Architect at BEA Systems, Oracle Corp and Computer Sciences Corp., and led the Enterprise Infrastructure, ERP, CRM and Database team. He has started multiple successful software companies that continue to grow and thrive today. He has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science.
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About Way: The No.1 Car Insuretech, Fintech Super App
Richard Aberman
Founder & VP Product of WePay
Rich oversees the company’s product and marketing efforts. Before joining WePay, Rich briefly attended NYU Law in the Academic Scholars Program in Law and Business. In 2010, he was named one of Business Insider’s Silicon Valley 100. He is a prolific blogger and the co-curator of NextDigest Payments, a weekly newsletter about the payments industry.
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About WePay: WePay is an online payment service company that provides secure and comprehensive APIs designed for ISVs and SaaS providers.
Bill Clerico
CEO, Co-Founder of WePay
Bill drives the company’s vision, strategy, and growth. Before joining WePay, Bill worked in technology investment banking at Jefferies & Company, where he advised enterprise software, digital media, and financial technology companies on M&A and capital market transactions. Previously, he worked for the U.S. Army’s Communications Engineering Research Command and in electronic trading at Goldman Sachs.
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About WePay: WePay is an online payment service company that provides secure and comprehensive APIs designed for ISVs and SaaS providers.
Jonathan Ellman
Co-Founder & President / CBO of Flip Fit
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About Flip Fit: Flip is a social shopping app that connects customers to beauty products through video reviews.
Shizu Okusa
Founder & CEO of Apothékary
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About Apothékary: Apothékary is a global plant-based farmacy that offers clean alternatives to over the counter synthetic supplements & beauty products.
Jordan Brown
Founder, CEO of Lugg
Jordan Brown is the Founder, CEO at Lugg
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About Lugg: Lugg provides anything moved with the push of a button. Download Lugg on the App store and instantly get connected to a truck and 2 movers.
Eric Kreutzer
Founder of Lugg
Eric Kreutzer is the Founder at Lugg
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About Lugg: Lugg provides anything moved with the push of a button. Download Lugg on the App store and instantly get connected to a truck and 2 movers.
Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan
Co Founder and CTO of Lily AI
Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan currently serves Lily AI as co-founder and CTO. Prior to joining Lily AI, Narayanan was a software engineer designer for Texas Instruments, Informatica, and Yahoo!, and mobile apps Pocket Games and Gem Box.
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About Lily AI: Lily AI is the customer intent platform built to power the present and future of ecommerce.
Tejas Konduru
Co-Founder & CEO of Via
Tejas Konduru is the Co-Founder and CEO at Via. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance at Brigham Young University.
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About Via: Mobile commerce platform for D2C brands
Bo Fishback
Co-Founder & CEO of Zaarly
Bo Fishback is the Founder and CEO of Zaarly. He was previously vice president of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the president of Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation.
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About Zaarly: Zaarly is an American private company focused on developing a proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered market platform.
Gabrielle Chou
CEO & Co-Founder of Allure Systems
Gabrielle Chou is founder & CEO at Allure Systems.
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About Allure Systems, New York University Shanghai: Allure Systems uses AI to produce apparel images for eCommerce.
Terry Garnett
Co-Founder and Board Member of Inxeption
Terry and partner David Helfrich formed Garnett & Helfrich Capital in 2003. He was also actively involved in forming and funding Crossworlds Software, whose founder and CEO was his wife Katrina Garnett. Crossworlds went public in 2000 and was acquired by IBM in 2001. Prior to founding his own company, Terry spent eight years with Venrock Associates where he was an early investor in Siebel, Checkpoint Software, Niku, Neoforma, and Neon Software. Prior to Venrock, Terry reported to Larry Ellison at Oracle Corporation, where he was a member of the Executive Management Committee and served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development.
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About Garnett & Helfrich Capital, Inxeption: Inxeption is a cloud-based digital commerce platform that helps B2B companies accelerate growth and manage logistics.
Lee Hnetinka
Founder & CEO of FastAF
Lee Hnetinka is the Founder and CEO of FastAF.
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About Darkstore, FastAF: Grocery and other daily essentials from premium brands delivered instantly.
Jerry Hum
CEO & Co-Founder of Touch of Modern
Jerry Hum is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Touch of Modern, the curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products, fashion brands and accessories to elevate their lifestyle.Jerry and his three co-founders started the company in 2012 as a place to showcase one-of-a-kind, in-season products from well-known brands and up-and-coming designers that men can’t easily find in mainstream retailers or at better prices. Today, the site is one of the most popular men’s lifestyle destinations, with more than seven million registered customers and $100 million in annual run rate. Jerry plays a key role in determining which products, brands and designers are featured on Touch of Modern. Trained in architecture and with a strong background in design, Jerry applies a systematic approach to curation, evaluating each proposed item against a strict set of criteria to meet customer demand and brand standards. Jerry is also a self-taught coder and when Touch of Modern launched, he handled all the front-end design and development. Prior to starting Touch of Modern, Jerry was an architect with Swanke Hayden Connell Architecture. He received his architectural degree at Cornell University, where he focused on how the use of technology influences space and experience. A native of New York, Jerry now resides in San Francisco, where Touch of Modern is headquartered.
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About Touch of Modern, Touch of Modern: Touch of Modern is a curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products to elevate their lifestyle.
Steven Ou
Founder & CTO of Touch of Modern
Steven Ou is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Touch of Modern,the curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products, fashion brands and accessories to elevate their lifestyle. Steven leads the strategic vision and development of the company’s technology, including the website, mobile applications and backend infrastructure. Steven, a self-taught coder and computer scientist, started his first company in high school after moving between Argentina, Guatemala, Taiwan and Spain throughout his childhood. After graduating college, Steven moved to San Francisco to join his three cofounders, and lead the technical development of three ventures, Skyara, Ravn and finally Touch of Modern. For Touch of Modern, Steven streamlined all internal processes and automated almost all business functions by building the necessary software and technology in-house. All of the company’s technology is vertically integrated including the website, mobile apps, CRM, inventory system, calendaring system, payments system and fulfillment system.
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About Touch of Modern: Touch of Modern is a curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products to elevate their lifestyle.
Amy Errett
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Madison Reed
Amy is a partner at True Ventures. With years of experience as a senior executive, venture capitalist, and social-mission visionary, she founded the hair color company Madison Reed in 2013. Before Madison Reed, Amy was general partner for venture capital firm Maveron where she ran the company’s Bay Area office and focused on consumer-facing companies. While CEO at Olivia, Amy was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. She founded and served as chair and CEO of The Spectrem Group, which was acquired by an IPG subsidiary, NFO Worldwide (NYSE:NFO). After the sale, she joined E*Trade where she diversified the company’s business beyond brokerage and ran a $200 million wing of the business. A passionate humanitarian, Amy is a member of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization. She serves on the boards of non-profits Common Sense Media, Glide, and the University of Connecticut Foundation, in addition to several startups. A New York native, Amy earned an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from the University of Connecticut. She is a former student athlete and fanatical UCONN Huskies fan. She and her wife, Clare, live in San Francisco with their daughter, Madison.
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About Madison Reed, True Ventures: Madison Reed is a beauty company revolutionizing the way women color their hair.
Daniel Undurraga
Founder & CTO of Cornershop
Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.
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About 0BS, Cornershop: Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.
Oskar Hjertonsson
Founder & CEO of Cornershop
Oskar Hjertonsson is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Cornershop.
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About Cornershop: Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.
Mark Lovas
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Trumaker
Mark Lovas serves as Executive Director, Co-Founder, and Chief Executive Officer at Trumaker, Inc.
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About Trumaker: Trumaker is a new kind of men’s apparel brand where every guy gets a client
Chai Mishra
CEO & Founder of The Essential
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About The Essential: The Essential creates an altogether new grocery store for a new era.
Preston Rutherford
Founder of Chubbies Shorts
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About Blend, Chubbies Shorts: Chubbies Shorts is an e-commerce company offering radical shorts for men.
Rainer Castillo
Founder of Chubbies Shorts
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About Chubbies Shorts: Chubbies Shorts is an e-commerce company offering radical shorts for men.
Henry Shi
Co-Founder of Snapcommerce
Co-Founder of Snapcommerce. Ex-Googler. Waterloo and GATech Alum
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About Snapcommerce: Snapcommerce is a commerce platform that connects price-conscious consumers to the right product deals.
Matt Schlicht
CEO and Founder of Octane AI
Matt Schlicht is the founder and editor of Chatbots Magazine, the #1 place to learn about chatbots. He is a YC Alum, a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and was also previously a product manager at Ustream as well as an advisor to several other startups. Several months ago, Matt decided to launch a community dedicated to messaging and bots. Chatbots Magazine was born and now reaches over 200,000+ people per month. Matt joins us to share his story, how he got into startups and tech, how he created the opportunity to join the team at uStream, how he approaches building products, why he’s so passionate about bots and messaging, what’s next for Chatbots Magazine.
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About Chatbots Magazine, DominateFund, Hamster Pad, Octane AI, ZapChain: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Sebastian Rymarz
CEO and Co-Founder of Heyday
As the Chief Business Officer, Sebastian oversees sales, marketing, business and corporate development. An early U.S. hire, he brings rich experience in financial services and credit risk management. Prior to Fundbox, he was VP at TPG Special Situation Partners and an investment professional at Sageview Capital. Sebastian began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs after graduating with a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Heyday: Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.
Tristan Walker
Founder & CEO of Walker & Company Brands
Tristan Walker is the Founder and CEO Walker and Company Brands.
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About Walker & Company Brands: We make health and beauty simple for people of color.
Joe Moss
Founder and Head of Product of Extend
Joe Moss is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Extend. He is a former As Senior Director of Growth, Joe Moss taps into his 15+ years of experience as a product leader at early-stage startups to drive product innovation at DocuSign. Previously, Joe was a co-founder and Head of Product for Estate Assist, acquired by DocuSign in 2015. Prior to Estate Assist, he served as Head of Product at BringIt, helping grow the startup to successful acquisition by IGT. At IGT, Joe led the product team tasked with exploring new business opportunities for the Fortune 100 company. Before that, he directed the development of pioneering video game competition and community products at GGL and World Cyber Games USA. Joe earned a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, and remains thrilled that he finally saw a major Cleveland sports championship in his lifetime.
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About Extend: Extend provides extended warranties as a service to merchants and innovates the broken customer experience associated with them.
Rohan Shah
Co-Founder & Head of BD & Partnerships of Extend
Rohan Shah is the Co-Founder and Head of BD & Partnerships at Extend, and an investing partner at Shah Capital Partners. Formerly led product at BCG Digital Ventures and was CEO and founder of Within.
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About Extend: Extend provides extended warranties as a service to merchants and innovates the broken customer experience associated with them.
Michael Darmousseh
Co-Founder, SVP Engineering of Extend
Michael Darmousseh is the Co-Founder and SVP of Engineering at Extend. He was an Engineering Manager and Lead Developer on the new DocuSign Payments product. The team built the DocuSign payments feature from the ground up to be robust and meet the needs of our customers. Prior to joining DocuSign, Michael lead multiple startups in engineering building new products from social video to document storage and management. He also consumed payments products previously and was excited for this opportunity. Aside from making payments successful, Michael enjoys spending time with his wife, three-year old daughter, two-year old twin boys, and one month old son at the park.
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About Extend: Extend provides extended warranties as a service to merchants and innovates the broken customer experience associated with them.
Allan Grant
Founder & Executive Chairman of Talkable
Allan Grant is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Talkable. Prior to that, he was the Founder of Hired. He was a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Talkable: Talkable is a technology platform that enables marketers to run customizable Refer A Friend Programs.
Michael Young
Founder & CEO of Photon Commerce
Founder of multiple venture-backed and exited tech startups. CEO of Photon Commerce: AI for invoices, receipts, and payments.
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About IBM, Photon Commerce, Smart Focus: AI for instant payments, invoices and receipts
Michael Golomb
Founder and CEO of FanVestor
A hands-on company builder, Michael’s background as an entrepreneurial CFO with three exits behind him, is the culmination of twenty years of senior management experience across a broad spectrum of industries. His expertise has been successfully applied across verticals ranging from startups to large public corporations including Blockchain, manufacturing, digital health & medical devices, consumer electronics & hardware, software/SaaS, and real estate. In addition to Michael’s global experience in raising equity though variety of public and private equity/debt instruments, as well as experience in handling complex M&A transactions, he also brings exceptional knowhow of Blockchain technology to DASAN Zhone Solutions. Earlier in 2017, (prior to joining DASAN) together with the other Blockchain industry veterans, Michael co-founded the ICO Governance Foundation, a non-profit decentralized global organization with a protocol-based global community mission that performs a self-regulatory function for ICOs in decentralized capital markets. In Oct 2016, Michael founded EdenCoin – a global cryptocurrency quantitative market-maker start-up with offices in San Francisco and New York: a proprietary liquidity aggregation platform to consolidate trading volume and data from major cryptocurrency market sources to run algorithmic market-making and liquidity provisioning, as well as other, quantitative strategies. From June 2015 to May 2017, while CFO at Breathometer, a hyper-growth digital health and medical device company, he helped take that company from pre-revenue to shipping in the FDA regulated space, forming OEM partnership with Philips, raising capital from venture capital firms and global strategic investors, as well as successfully achieving the ISO13485:2003 Certification milestone. Prior to Breathometer, Michael was the first employee (CFO, Board Member, and Head of SF Office) at BitFury, and helped build the market leading full-service Blockchain technology company, and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the Blockchain ecosystem, taking it from zero to over $500M valuation and from 3 to over 120 employees in 7 countries between December 2013 through April 2015. Other notable roles include: ” Co-Founder and Co-President at Mayak RE, where he led the formation of JV with Morgan Stanley and MCP Private Equity Fund in Europe. ” CFO of Sistema Hals, he directed a highly successful London/LSE IPO with market capitalization at $2.7B. ” Head of Compliance / Sr. Finance Manager at Trimble, he effectively implemented global Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, participated in private debt placement, as well as acquired/integrated several international technology companies. Michael received MSc in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2013, his MBA from Santa Clara University in 2000, and his B.A. with double major in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College in 1996. He is also a CPA (inactive) in California.
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About FanVestor: FanVestor is a FINRA-regulated crowdfunding platform that enables entertainment and sports celebrities to capitalize on their fanbases.
Kimball Thomas
Co-CEO/Founder of Baby
Kimball Thomas is the Co – CEO & Founder at Baby.com.br . He earned his MBA from, Harvard Business School. His B.S. (Finance) from University of Utah.
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About Baby, Walrus Health: Baby is an e-commerce retailer of baby products in Brazil.
Kjerstin Erickson
CEO and Co-Founder of Public Market
KJ has 14 years experience as an entrepreneur, having been backed by top VCs including Greylock, Foundation Capital, Norwest, and Maveron. Her Y Combinator-backed company, Simbi, is the world’s largest services marketplace run on a digital currency. A graduate of Stanford University and Oxford Business School, KJ has received numerous awards, including being named by Rolling Stone as one of “25 People Shaping the Future”, by CNN as a “Person You Should Know”, by the New Leaders Council as a “Top 40 Leaders Under 40”, and by Bill Clinton as a Clinton Foundation Honoree. To Public Market, KJ brings her entrepreneurial and managerial skills honed from 14 years of building companies up to 200 employees, her passion for building intuitive consumer-facing web products, her experience building marketplaces backed by alternative currencies, and her training in economics and game theory.
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About Public Market: Public Market is a decentralized eCommerce platform.
Andrei Negrau
Founder & CEO of Cartloop
Andrei Negrau currently works as the founder and ceo of Cartloop.
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About Cartloop: Cartloop is a conversational SMS marketing and text marketing platform for e-commerce.
Toby Zhang
Founder of Shop LIT Live
Toby leads the firms investments in consumer and emerging technologies. At CRCM, Toby co-founded CRCM Frontier Technology Fund, a joint early stage venture fund between CRCM and Youku focused on media, AR/VR, and A.I. Prior to CRCM, Toby was an venture investor at Edison Partners, a growth-stage VC focusing on interactive marketing, e-commerce, and financial technologies. Toby previously worked as a technical program manager in the Windows Division at Microsoft building Windows 8 and 8.1. He has also spent a number of years building and advising tech startups. He co-founded Tradeversity, an online textbook market platform backed by RPM Ventures. He also served as a consultant at the Wharton Small Business Development Center. Toby holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Engineering from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
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About Shop LIT Live, Youku Global Media Fund: Shop LIT Live is a live streaming platform that connects brands and merchants to consumers through immersive shopping experiences.
Fahim Aziz
Founder & CEO of Backpack
Hacker at Backpack
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About Backpack, Kyokushin Wooster: Backpack is a website that connects travelers and shoppers globally.
Chris Folayan
Founder & CEO of MallforAfrica
Chris is well established successful serial entrepreneur, mentor, and speaker with over 20 years of C level roles experience in marketing, technology, startups, and corporate companies. Born and raised in Nigeria, Chris founded his first venture at age 7 recycled tires with a group of friends which he ran for 2.5 years prior to attending boarding school in Nigeria. He migrated to the U.S to attend college where he decided to teach himself various programming, design and software languages which he used as a foundation to catapult himself into various high level roles in fortune 500 companies, while pursuing a BA degree in marketing. After graduating from San Jose State University, he founded and sold several companies globally, while establishing new companies in Africa, USA, Middle East and Asia. Before Chris founded his current venture, the award-winning Mall for Africa and Mall for the World platform, Chris was the Founder and CEO of OCFX Inc a globally recognized silicon valley based, award winning software agency serving and consulting clients such as SONY, LSI, Cisco, HP, EPSON, TYCO, Accenture, CapitalOne, EMC and many others in over 60 countries. Chris has a learn as you grow, out of the box thinking philosophy that drives strategy and business growth. Chris is also the founder of the Africa Made Product Standards (AMPS) goods standards, which he founded to help companies in Africa develop a standard of quality products and ethics for doing business in Europe and USA. Chris is also the board chairman for the African Diaspora Network which is the largest network of African diaspora in the USA, and a member of the US Nigeria Council. He also serves on several boards and mentors various CEO’s in companies based in Africa.
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About MallforAfrica: MallforAfrica is an online mall that enables Africans to find and purchase items from international retailers.
Chini Krishnan
Founder & CEO of GetInsured
With more than 20 years of experience in the high technology industry, Chini Krishnan is Co-Founder and CEO of GetInsured. Prior to GetInsured, Chini most recently founded and served as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Valicert Inc., a leader in public-key infrastructure (PKI) validation. At Valicert, Chini served in multiple roles including running the technology and services arms and also helping to complete several acquisitions. Valicert went public in 2000 and ultimately merged with Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD) in 2003. Prior to founding Valicert, Chini was Product Marketing Manager at Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT), where he was seminally involved in releasing the world’s first secure browser. Chini holds an MS in Computer Science from Duke University and a BS also in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners, GetInsured, Vimo Inc: Deliver the best health insurance ecommerce experience for consumers, employers, brokers and insurers.
Ray Grieselhuber
Chairman & Founder of GinzaMetrics
Ray Grieselhuber is the founder of Ginzamarkets, and creator of Ginzametrics. Ray has built marketing and advertising systems for the last five years, helping clients such as Proctor & Gamble, Intel, Kakaku.com and Cisco scale their online campaigns to global markets, cut costs and increase sales. Before founding Ginzametrics, he ran Firewatching Media, K.K., in Tokyo, Japan. Before that, he was the Chief Architect and Director of Product Development at Covario, Inc. in San Diego, CA., an award-winning Inc. 500 company.
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About DemandMarkets, DemandSphere, GinzaMetrics, Gridjit: GinzaMetrics offers an SEO and content marketing platform that provides recommendations and competitor analytics to agencies and marketers.
Manish Chandra
Founder & CEO of Poshmark
Manish Chandra is the founder and CEO of Poshmark, the largest social marketplace for fashion where millions of people come to buy, sell and share their personal style. Manish has always been passionate about building communities and founded the first social shopping company, Kaboodle, which was acquired by Hearst Corporation in 2007. With Poshmark, Manish has applied his understanding of technology to change the way women think about shopping, building a passionate community based around people’s love for fashion and each other. Manish received a BTech from IIT Kanpur, MS from UT Austin, and an MBA from Haas School of Business.
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About Poshmark: Poshmark is a social marketplace for fashion where anyone can buy, sell, and share their style with others.
Tracy Sun
Co-Founder, SVP New Markets of Poshmark
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About Poshmark: Poshmark is a social marketplace for fashion where anyone can buy, sell, and share their style with others.
Michael Sharkey
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Autopilot
Michael Sharkey co-founded Autopilot and is the CEO. Prior to founding Autopilot, Michael joined his brother Chris to grow start-up Stayz into a top Australian rental booking site (acquired by FairFax Digital in 2006 and again by HomeAway for $225M in 2013). He also co-founded Sharkey Media with his brother Chris, where he helped grow Australian startups, marketing programs, and websites.
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About Autopilot: Switch ON better marketing for your business. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce
Matt Wilkinson
Founder & CEO of SameSide
Entrepreneur, Growth Exec, Crossover B2B/B2C. Now CEO @ SameSide
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About Esellas, SameSide: B2B Commerce Enablement Platform for Buyers
Peter Louis Johnston
Founder & CEO of Kalo
Peter Johnston is the founder and CEO of Kalo, the world’s leading freelancer management platform used by clients including AirBnB, Google, Popsugar and The Economist to manage over 70,000 freelancers globally. As a Design Lead at Google, Johnston relied heavily on freelancers and found that much of his time was spent coordinating with little time left for design. Frustrated by these processes, he set out to improve them and so created Kalo.
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About Kalo: Kalo provides an online platform that enables businesses to manage their external workforces.
Kyle Wong
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pixlee TurnTo
Kyle Wong is the CEO & Co-Founder of Pixlee, a visual marketing platform that helps brands market and sells with customer photos and videos. The company works with more than 150 brands such as Kenneth Cole, Gaiam, Levi Strauss and Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants to develop a more authentic marketing experience and create stronger relationships with their most passionate customers. Apart from that, he is currently working as a contributor with Forbes magazine and as a leadership council with Ad Council. Kyle attended Stanford University where he studied engineering and co-founded Pixlee out of his dorm room in 2012. He is a mentor for the Stanford Accelerator (StartX) program, where he advises several early-stage VC backed tech startups. Kyle has been featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List and is a regular speaker and domain expert on influencer marketing and driving consumer engagement through social media. He is also an active contributor for Forbes and Fortune Magazine where he writes on digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and various leadership and career topics.
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About Ad Council, Forbes Magazine, Pixlee: Pixlee TurnTo ia a Social UGC, Influencer Marketing, and Ratings & Reviews company.
Sachin Garg
Co-Founder of Saara
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About MintM, Saara: An intelligent returns management platform that uses AI-ML-powered technology to reduce and automate returns for eCommerce businesses.
David Zeng
Co-Founder of Beacons
David Zeng is the Co-Founder of Beacons.
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About Beacons: Beacons is a link-in-bio website builder for creators.
Gena Vazquez
Co-Founder of Fundpire
Gena’s background is primarily in Technology (Hardware Manufacturing/Engineering), Entertainment, Film Production and Venture Capital.
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About Fundpire, Legacy Entertainment Partners, Monte Carlo Pictures, LLC: Online plateform matching the best ideas with the best investment.
Mariam Naficy
Founder & CEO of Minted
Mariam Naficy, Founder and CEO of Minted, is a pioneer in e-commerce and crowdsourcing. Growing up traveling the world with her family, she learned to appreciate artisanal design and exceptional craftsmanship by experiencing unique design first-hand. In 2007, Mariam saw an opportunity to leverage the internet to help crowdsource great design, starting with stationery. She founded Minted, a marketplace of independent designers, with the mission of bringing the best in independent design to consumers everywhere. Today, Minted sells wall art, stationery, and home goods designed by independent designers and artists to consumers, and also serves as a platform for sourcing design for other retailers and brands. Prior to Minted, Mariam co-founded Eve.com, the first online cosmetics retailer, in 1998 and sold it successfully in 2000. She sits on the Boards of Every Mother Counts and Williams College and on the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. Mariam was named one of the 100 Powerful Women in 2009 and again in 2019 by Entrepreneur, one of the 100 top Female Founders in 2019 by Inc. and one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2014. Mariam is a graduate of Williams College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Minted: Minted is a design marketplace that connects users with artists to help them create something one-of-a-kind.
Meaghan Rose
Founder & CEO of Rocksbox
Meaghan started Rocksbox by lending pieces from her own personal jewelry collection, and quickly saw a need amongst women to simplify the jewelry shopping process. Before Rocksbox, Meaghan was a consultant with McKinsey & Co, and Bain & Co, leading product innovation and social media strategy for some of the largest consumer and retail brands around the world. Meaghan holds a BS in Economics from George Mason, an MS in Economics from Johns Hopkins, and an MBA from the Wharton School.
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About Rocksbox: Rocksbox is a jewelry membership service transforming the way women discover and buy jewelry.
Simon Yencken
Founder & CEO of Fanplayr
Simon Yencken is the CEO & Founder at Fanplayr Inc.
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About Blackbird Ventures, Dokio, Fanplayr, Moda Operandi: Convert browsers into buyers with real-time offers & messaging responding dynamically to shopping behavior
Marcelo Camberos
CEO & Founder of ipsy
Founder of ipsy.
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About ipsy: ipsy is an online beauty community that home delivers a box of 5 beauty samples for a monthly subscription fee.
