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 Enterprise Software space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Dustin Moskovitz
CEO & Co-Founder of Asana
Dustin Moskovitz is a Co-Founder and CEO at Asana. He is also the Co-Founder of Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures. Mr. Moskovitz is a former Co-Founder of Facebook.
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About Asana, Good Ventures, Open Philanthropy Project: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
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Brynne Kennedy
Founder and Chairwoman of Topia
Brynne Kennedy is the Founder and former CEO of Topia, the talent mobility suite that helps companies move their employees between locations. Brynne founded Topia after working in investment banking and private equity. She has raised more than $100 million in venture capital funding for Topia and grown the company to operate worldwide. Topia contributes a % of revenue to support refugees and at-risk populations, and Brynne has pledged a % of personal exit proceeds to charity. Brynne holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Yale, where she was a Division 1 gymnast.
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About Mobility4All, Topia, Topia: Topia is a talent mobility platform that enables employees to work remotely.
Parker Harris
Co-Founder, EVP Technology of Salesforce
Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez in the spring of 1999. As Executive Vice President, Harris oversees the development of all software for salesforce.com. Prior to founding salesforce.com, Harris developed web application and salesforce automation expertise at Left Coast Software, a private consulting company he co-founded, as well as at Metropolis software, an early pioneer in field sales force automation subsequently acquired by Clarify. Harris has over twelve years of software engineering and management experience. He graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Christopher Kirchner
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Slync.io
Christopher S. Kirchner is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO at Slync.io. Prior to this, Christopher has worked as a senior vice president of sales and marketing and a director of marketing and sales at Turner Labels. Christopher holds a degree in communications, minor marketing from the University of Kentucky.
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About Slync.io: Slync.io is a provider of process automation for enterprise supply chains and the global logistics industry.
Raj Patel
Co-Founder and CPO of Slync.io
Raj Patel is the Co-Founder and CPO of Slync.io.
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About Slync.io: Slync.io is a provider of process automation for enterprise supply chains and the global logistics industry.
Peter Kazanjy
Co-Founder of Atrium
Pete Kazanjy (LinkedIn, Twitter) is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor. Pete founded TalentBin, a category-defining talent search engine and recruiting CRM, which exited to Monster Worldwide in early 2014. Pete currently is the founder of Atrium, a proactive sales performance analysis solution, author of Founding Sales, the definitive Startup Sales Handbook, and founder of Modern Sales, the nation’s largest sales operations, leadership, and enablement community.
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About Atrium: Atrium help sales managers with its data-driven management software that provides coaching insights and continuous monitoring.
Sam Lessin
Co-Founder of Fin.com
Sam is currently the co-CEO of Fin and a General Partner at Slow Ventures. He was formerly a vice president of product management at Facebook from 2010 to 2014, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Prior to joining Facebook Sam founded drop.io, a file-sharing platform that was acquired by Facebook in 2010. Before drop.io Sam was an associate at Bain and Company. In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He writes a column at The Information, where he interns.
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About Fin.com, Slow Ventures, SocialGreat, Thimble: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Matt Ocko
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Matt has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matt is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.
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About AngelList, Archimedes Capital, DCVC, Uber: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Zachary Bogue
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Zack has over a decade of experience in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, lawyer, angel investor and advisor for big data startups. Zack is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. Zack also is a cofounder and managing partner of Founders Den, a shared workspace for experienced technology entrepreneurs. He was previously an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a law partner at Virtual Law Partners, where he worked with numerous start-ups and their founders, and developed expertise in technology law and Silicon Valley business practices.
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About aWhere, Cask, Citus Data, Cotendo, DCVC, Founders Den, Montara Capital Partners, Square, The World Economic Forum, Uber: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Phil Black
Co-Founder of True Ventures
Phil is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of True Ventures. He learned the venture trade and met his future True Ventures co-founder during his time at Summit Partners. He held general partner positions for eight years prior to raising and investing a small angel fund called Blacksmith Capital, which became a seminal moment in his career of managing venture fund investments. Phil believes in risk-taking at the earliest stage and that startup founders benefit most when they are supported fully, both professionally and personally. Phil is a product of Oklahoma and Stanford alumni. He loves art, wine, and travel. His favorite place outside of the San Francisco Bay Area is London.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Phil Black
Co-Founder of True Ventures
Phil is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of True Ventures. He learned the venture trade and met his future True Ventures co-founder during his time at Summit Partners. He held general partner positions for eight years prior to raising and investing a small angel fund called Blacksmith Capital, which became a seminal moment in his career of managing venture fund investments. Phil believes in risk-taking at the earliest stage and that startup founders benefit most when they are supported fully, both professionally and personally. Phil is a product of Oklahoma and Stanford alumni. He loves art, wine, and travel. His favorite place outside of the San Francisco Bay Area is London.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Jon Callaghan
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of True Ventures
Jon is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of True Ventures. He has been in the venture capital business since 1991 and built three companies of his own. His first was Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc., which he created at age 18. Jon started his venture career as an associate at Summit Partners and then joined Greenhouse, AOL’s venture capital investment group and incubator. He entered the internet market early by joining CMGI’s @Ventures group in 1996. Before founding True, Jon was a managing director at Globespan Capital Partners. First as a founder and now as an investor in early-stage technology companies, Jon’s direct startup experience has allowed him to see the world through an entrepreneur’s eyes. Jon’s career has been driven by a deep belief in the power of human creativity to improve our world. Jon received a bachelor’s degree in government from Dartmouth College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He was recently the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. When he is not empowering the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, you can find him talking about airplanes or hanging out with his wife and four boys.
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About NexPrise Corporation, True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Jon Callaghan
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of True Ventures
Jon is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of True Ventures. He has been in the venture capital business since 1991 and built three companies of his own. His first was Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc., which he created at age 18. Jon started his venture career as an associate at Summit Partners and then joined Greenhouse, AOL’s venture capital investment group and incubator. He entered the internet market early by joining CMGI’s @Ventures group in 1996. Before founding True, Jon was a managing director at Globespan Capital Partners. First as a founder and now as an investor in early-stage technology companies, Jon’s direct startup experience has allowed him to see the world through an entrepreneur’s eyes. Jon’s career has been driven by a deep belief in the power of human creativity to improve our world. Jon received a bachelor’s degree in government from Dartmouth College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He was recently the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. When he is not empowering the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, you can find him talking about airplanes or hanging out with his wife and four boys.
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About NexPrise Corporation, True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Arash Ferdowsi
Co-Founder of Dropbox
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Aditya Singh
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Adit is a hands-on early stage company builder having helped build three startups with an operating career spanning 15 years before entering venture capital. From 2013 to 2017, he led the b2b/enterprise practice at Foundation Capital as a Partner investing across the stack from enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, analytics and cybersecurity. Adit graduated from University of Illinois (BS/MS in Computer Engineering) and from the University of Chicago (MBA). He started his career as an engineer at Growth Networks (a NEA/Lightspeed company) which was acquired by Cisco for $355m. At Cisco, he led the datacenter infrastructure team as a senior technical leader and delivered several products (converged servers, switches and edge routers) for data center infrastructure. He co-founded a networking appliance company, Bitsplay Systems that streamed video from data centers, out of the EIR program at Foundation Capital. In 2008, he joined Enphase Energy (networked solar microinverters), a Series A startup as their first product manager through IPO on the NASDAQ in 2012. When Enphase went public, Adit was Senior Director of Product Management and responsible for the main microinverter business. He is extremely connected in the the deeply technical circles of silicon valley and has the reputation of building companies from the bottom up by working hand in hand with founders.
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About Bloomreach, Cockroach Labs, Neotribe Ventures, Phantom: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Steven Bragonier
CFO and Co-Founder of Neotribe Ventures
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About Gainspeed, Neotribe Ventures: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Jai Pradeesh
Founder of DeepSource
Founder of DeepSource. Interested in building tools to improve developer productivity.
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About DeepSource: Deepsource is an enterprise tech startup that provides an automated tool to review codes.
Sanket Saurav
Founder of DeepSource
Co-founder of DeepSource: Helping developers ship fewer bugs.
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About DeepSource: Deepsource is an enterprise tech startup that provides an automated tool to review codes.
Muhammet Enginar
Co-Founder, Head of Engineering of UserGuiding
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About UserGuiding: UserGuiding improves product adoption rates through ‘no coding needed’ interactive user onboarding flows.
Osman Koc
Co-Founder & CEO of UserGuiding
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About UserGuiding, YNOT Partners: UserGuiding improves product adoption rates through ‘no coding needed’ interactive user onboarding flows.
Waleed Mohsen
Founder & CEO of mynurse.ai
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About mynurse.ai: a digital health program to help seniors with chronic conditions live their best lives.
Hani Goldstein
Founder & CEO of Snappy
Founder at Snappy App.
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About Snappy: Snappy is an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that allows companies to send gifts to their customers and team members.
Rahul Jain
Founder & VP Business Development of Pendo
Rahul Jain is Founder & Biz Dev at Pendo.io.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Vinshu Gupta
Founder of Blockcluster
Being one of the early players of blockchain revolution in India, Vinshu have been on the DLT bandwagon since late 2012. Over the course of last 6 years, he has worked for 30+ big and small clients in Blockchain space across US, Europe, Middle east, SEA and India. Vinshu sits on board of one of the few profitable service companies for blockchain in India – Nonceblox. In summer of 2017, Vinshu along with the young blockchian prodigy and long term partner Mr.Narayan Prusty conceptualised the idea of Blockcluster – a turnkey automated Blockchain Management System which helps customers set up their Blockchain stack in under “15 mins”. If you have a business requiring blockchain expertise feel free to drop him a message at : vinshu.gupta@blockcluster.io
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About Blockcluster: Legos for Enterprise blockchains – Making DLTs Easier to Implement!
Matt DeBergalis
Co-Founder and CTO of Apollo
Matt founded and ran ActBlue, the largest political fundraising platform in the world. ActBlue has raised over 700 million dollars for candidates and political groups nationwide. Before that, Matt was a kernel hacker. Some of his technical credits include the NeXT port of NetBSD and work on the NFSv4 and DAFS specifications while at Network Appliance. As an undergraduate at MIT, Matt built a phone system for his fraternity, fabricating the circuit boards and writing the operating system from scratch.
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About ActBlue, Apollo: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
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.
Puneet Mehta
Founder / CEO of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Carson Kahn
Co-Founder & Board Director of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for his innovations across AI and Natural Language Processing, Carson Kahn is currently the co-founder of Spindle (www.spindle.app), a no-code AI startup backed by Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT/Notion/Airtable), and diverse Fortune 100 executives. Previously, he served as President of Brainspace AI (acquired by Reveal with $200 million from K1 Capital), the world’s leading natural language analytics engine, originally backed by the CIA. Mr. Kahn is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Computer Science at the University of Colorado; Stanford University AII; UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research; and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC); and advises venture-backed startups in AI/ML, PaaS, FinTech & InfoSec as a Techstars Mentor and angel investor. Mr. Kahn also invests with the $100 million Pandemic Impact Fund (PIF), Thiel-backed VC firm SI Capital, and Transpire Ventures. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and elsewhere; and he has been tapped for expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and Future of Work by members of the Congressional Caucus on AI & National Economic Council. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as CEO (promoted from CTO) of JPMorgan In–Residence business Volley ML, saving Fortune 500 firms >$52 million in real labor annually with the first fully autonomous training & sales enablement platform for financial & health services. Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for Volley’s innovations, Mr. Kahn designed, built, and sold Volley’s machine learning platform alongside an NLP team from Google, the NSA/CIA, Carnagie Mellon, and Goldman Sachs, seeded by $10 million from JPMorgan, Silicon Valley Bank, Zuckerberg Ventures, and execs from Goldman, Apple, and Facebook; before being recruited to lead Brainspace AI prior to its acquisition. Formerly, as Head of Product and co-founder at Keystone Learning Systems (KLS), the first LMS to offer cloud-native analytics and ML features for U.S. secondaries supporting >355,000 accounts, Mr. Kahn helped pioneer its now widely-imitated “extended enterprise” deployment model, before co-leading the entity sale to SPPEF Stirup Partners. On the heels of an externship at Google (via the ATLAS Institute), he formerly spanned product & technical marketing on the founding team at Vetica.com, whose real-time collaboration product Draftboard garnered users like Adobe & AOL while generating revenue from day 1. When the product was acquired by UK investors, Vetica launched Chalk.com, today the one of the 10 most popular learning analytics platforms in North America. A Black Belt in Karate and avid sportsman, Mr. Kahn can frequently be found training in a racquetball court or behind the wheel of an ATV. In his spare time, Mr. Kahn also moonlights behind a jazz piano near his home in the East Cut, San Francisco. Media Contact: Stacey Murray (stacey.murray.consulting@gmail.com) Press Kit: carsonkahn.com/press-kit
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Stanford University, Techstars, University of Colorado: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Vijay Chattha
Founder and CEO of VSC
Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.
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About BlackMahal, The100kPledge, VSC, Wareness.io: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Elias Manousos
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RiskIQ
Elias is a recognized expert in Internet security and fraud prevention. He has been developing and delivering enterprise protection technologies for more than 15 years. As CEO of RiskIQ, he has spearheaded a new approach that helps Internet, financial services, healthcare, media and consumer packaged goods companies protect their brands from online fraud. Elias is also co-chair of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Anti-Malvertising Working Group and is responsible for Malvertisements.com, the first and only public database documenting malvertising incidents on a continuous basis. Prior to RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), which pioneered identity and access management for web applications. At Securant, he was instrumental in creating now-commonplace technologies for single sign-on (SSO) security.
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Michia Rohrssen
Co-Founder, CEO of Prodigy
Michia Rohrssen is CEO at Prodigy, a growing Auto Startup.
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About Prodigy, Upstart: Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
Gidi Cohen
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies, Gidi Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Gidi Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Gidi Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
Ryan Junee
Founder of Parsable
Ryan Junee is a technology entrepreneur and investor – he has started three companies and invested in and advised hundreds of others. He is currently the Founder and President of Parsable, an enterprise software company based in San Francisco with over 100 employees worldwide. He was previously Founder and CEO of Omnisio (a video editing platform) that was acquired by Google. As a product manager at Google he was previously responsible for the consumer-facing features of YouTube. Over the years, in parallel with his own ventures, Ryan spent hundreds of hours advising and investing in other startups. He is a part-time partner at Y Combinator, and has been a mentor at 500 Startups, Stanford’s StartX, and was a founding partner at Startmate (Australia’s leading startup accelerator). He is a technologist at heart and is most passionate about helping the next generation of entrepreneurs create the future. Ryan dropped out of the PhD program in Electrical Engineering at Stanford to pursue his passion for high technology startups. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, as well as Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering, Finance and Commercial Law from the University of Sydney. In his spare time Ryan is an instrument rated private pilot, amateur photographer, musician and snowboarder.
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About Parsable, Rxdefine: Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
Sam Udotong
Co-Founder & CTO of Fireflies.ai
Sam Udotong is the Co-Founder and CTO at Fireflies.ai.
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About Fireflies.ai: Fireflies.ai offers an AI Meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and makes searchable meeting notes.
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.
Loren Appin
Co-Founder & COO of Fishbowl
Cofounder & COO of Fishbowl, a social network that connects professionals within companies and industries. Every day employees come to Fishbowl to stay informed about workplace topics, share professional advice, and learn from both peers and senior leadership. Fishbowl has captured more than 25% of the professionals in the select industries the platform is open to, with almost half of users engaging the app daily.
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About Fishbowl: Fishbowl is a social network that connects professionals within relevant communities to have candid and relevant conversations.
Joshua Reeves
Co-Founder & Head of Gusto of Gusto
Head of Gusto and Co-Founder. On a mission to create a world where work empowers a better life. Building for the long term. [We’re hiring!]
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About Gusto, Gusto: Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
Tomer London
Co-Founder and CPO of Gusto
Tomer leads Product and Design at Gusto. He’s responsible for the development and execution of the product roadmap and for making Gusto’s product vision a reality. Tomer is passionate about creating products that have a true impact on people’s lives while promoting equity and human values. He believes that the key to doing this successfully is to build experiences people truly and passionately love. Before co-founding Gusto, Tomer was the CEO and co-founder of Vizmo, a customer support startup. His prior experience includes computer systems research at Intel, serving as a commander in the Israeli Air Force, and working on product development at Bump Technologies. Tomer was selected to the 2013 Inc. 30 Under 30 list. Tomer holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He was born and raised in Haifa, Israel where he helped grow his family’s small business. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Sara and his daughter Shira.
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About Gusto: Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
Edward Kim
Co-Founder and Head of EPD of Gusto
Edward Kim is the Co-Founder and Head of EPD at Gusto.
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About Gusto: Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
Luke Swanek
Co-Founder & VP Sales of PartnerStack
Luke Swanek is CoFounder & VP of Sales at GrowSumo.
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About PartnerStack: PartnerStack enables companies to accelerate growth with partnerships
Isaac Hall
Founder, Technical Fellow of Recurly
Isaac co-founded Recurly after experiencing billing pain in many different business contexts; ranging from telco to SaaS. Applying his background in e-commerce systems, internet technologies, and scalability, he designed Recurly to deliver the very solution his prior companies never had. Isaac earned a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Isaac’s experience includes being a co-founder and VP of Technology at Syncplicity, Inc & development manager at Grouper/ Crackle (acquired by Sony Entertainment, NYSE: SNY). Isaac requires strong coffee, a steady stream of music, and good dose of exercise to make it all happen.
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About Recurly: Subscription billing management SaaS platform powering 2,000+ brands including Sling TV, BarkBox, Asana, FabFitFun, Cinemark & Twitch
Dan Burkhart
CEO & Co-Founder of Recurly
Dan co-founded Recurly with a deep appreciation for the combination of commerce, marketing, business analytics and good user experience design. Dan brings extensive experience from his background of 14 years in roles spanning internet marketing, product marketing, strategic partnerships, business development and corporate development for eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), and NBC Internet. While at eBay, Dan led the Global Buyer Engagement team, the eBay Global Affiliate Program and the eBay Portal and Partner organization. Prior to eBay, Dan was a Sr. Director of Business Development for NBC Internet, where he played a key role in building the company from $20MM in revenue to $120MM. Dan attended the University of Pennsylvania’s, Wharton School for his undergraduate degree in economics and received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. Outside of the office, Dan enjoys being a dad, and taking full advantage of the many benefits of living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Recurly: Subscription billing management SaaS platform powering 2,000+ brands including Sling TV, BarkBox, Asana, FabFitFun, Cinemark & Twitch
Tom Drummond
Founder & Managing Director of Heavybit
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
James Lindenbaum
Founder of Heavybit
James is a hacker and serial entrepreneur with a background in product development, user experience design, platform marketing, and cloud technology. He is one of the founders of Heroku, an advanced platform for application development and deployment. James is known as an “OCD perfectionist”, and is chiefly responsible for the look and feel of Heroku’s brand and products. Following Heroku’s acquisition by salesforce.com, James founded Heavybit, a San Francisco-based community and program for developer-focused businesses. He speaks regularly about cloud technology, entrepreneurship, and design, and is an advisor to and investor in many technology companies.
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Fangjin Yang
Co-Founder and CEO of Imply
Fangjin Yang is a co-author of the open source Druid project and a co-founder of Imply, a data analytics startup based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he held senior engineering positions at Metamarkets (acquired by Snapchat) and Cisco Systems. Fangjin holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Gian Merlino
Co-Founder and CTO of Imply
Gian Merlino is CTO and cofounder of Imply and is one of the original committers of the Druid project.Previously, he worked at Metamarkets and Yahoo. Gian holds a BS in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Vadim Ogievetsky
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Imply
Vadim Ogievetsky is Co-founder & CPO at Imply.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Josh Mackanic
Founder & CEO of CivilGrid
Energy industry leader, experienced in organizing and leading multidisciplinary teams to implement large capital infrastructure programs and change initiatives. At PG&E, developed solar power plants on the largest utility owned solar program in the nation, and successfully led the integration of safety automation technology new to natural gas utilities across the country.
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About CivilGrid: Local intelligence for global construction.
Ashwath Nagaraj
Founder, CTO of Aryaka Networks
Ashwath Nagaraj is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors at Aryaka since 2009. As part of the founding team, Ashwath has been responsible for building Aryaka’s vision and technology since its inception in 2009. Ashwath has previously been part of three successful San Francisco Bay Area companies. Ashwath was Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Allegro Systems, a security startup. Allegro Systems was acquired by Cisco Systems in September 2001 for $185M. At Cisco, Ashwath held senior management positions in the Security Technology Group, and the Internet Switching Business Unit. Prior to Allegro, Ashwath was part of the founding team at Assured Access Technologies, which developed WAN access and aggregation products. Assured Access was acquired by Alcatel in 1999 for $350M. Before Assured Access, Ashwath was one of the principal architects and Director (Engineering) at Mylex, a leading RAID/storage company in the SF Bay Area. Ashwath has also held management positions at Schlumberger, Tata Elxsi and PSI Data Systems. Ashwath holds 17 patents in storage, security, architecture and networking. Ashwath received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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About Aryaka Networks: Aryaka Networks provides a network optimization and application acceleration platform that addresses the connectivity needs of enterprises.
KV Rao
Founder of Aviso
K. V. Rao is the co-founder of Silicon Valley-based unicorn Zuora, Inc, which held its IPO on April 12, 2018 (NYSE: ZUO). Rao also served as Zuora’s Chief Strategist and President. Previously, Rao was Director of Technology at WebEx (acq. by Cisco), and also worked for Salesforce.com and SGI. He started his career as the proverbial rocket scientist, as an Associate Scientist at NASA, then spent several years developing products at General Motors. He’s currently CEO of Aviso, serves as a member of the Advisory Board at Zuora, and is a US patent holder in computing technology. Rao earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from Iowa State University, an M.S. from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Ram Jambunathan
Managing Director & Founder of SAP.iO
Ram Jambunathan is the Managing Director & Founder of SAP.iO & he Attended University of Michigan.
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About SAP.iO: SAP.iO helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP.
Karthik Ranganathan
Co-Founder & CTO of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Jerome Ternynck
Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Josh Newman
Co-Founder and CTO of Spectrum Labs
A former Software Architect at Salesforce, Josh began his career at a research center of Middlebury College. After transitioning to tech, Josh spent a decade developing scalable data management and distributed systems at Vodori, Syapse, and Krux (acquired by Salesforce). Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Justin Davis
Co-Founder & CEO of Spectrum Labs
Currently Spectrum’s Co-Founder & CEO, Justin previously managed and scaled Salesforce’s Data Studio platform as a Product Director. He’s worked for numerous industry stalwarts – including Krux, Adobe, SAS, and Microsoft. Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Shlomi Ben Haim
Co-Founder & CEO of JFrog
Shlomi is Co-Founder and CEO of JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform. He brings over 20 years of experience in building profitable, high-growth information technology companies. Prior to JFrog, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP (acquired in 2005 by MalamTeam) and a Major in the Israeli Air Force. Shlomi holds an MS from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA) and a BA from Ben-Gurion University (Israel).
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About JFrog: JFrog provides software developers with a binary repository management solution.
Shan Sinha
Founder, Exec Chairman, Board Member of Highfive
Shan Sinha is the CEO and Co-Founder of Highfive. He co-founded Highfive with the vision of making every conversation at work face-to-face. Prior to Highfive, Shan was the Group Product Manager for Google Apps for Enterprise. Shan joined Google via acquisition in 2010 after Google bought his collaboration company, DocVerse, which later became part of Google Drive. Shan founded DocVerse in 2007 after leaving his role as Product Manager for Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server. Shan graduated from MIT with a Masters and Bachelors in Computer Science, where he conducted research in network systems and performance. Highfive is Shan’s fourth startup company.
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About : Highfive simplifies business collaboration with a conferencing platform that builds connected cultures.
Jeremy Roy
Co-Founder of Highfive
Jeremy Roy has served as Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Highfive since 2012. He is responsible for the product engineering and customer support teams. Prior to Highfive, Jeremy worked on Enterprise Google+ and Google Drive, after his previous startup DocVerse was acquired by Google in 2010. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.
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About DocVerse, Highfive: Highfive simplifies business collaboration with a conferencing platform that builds connected cultures.
Deepak Diwakar
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of MindTickle
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About MindTickle: MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
Sahil Jain
Co-Founder and CEO of AdStage
Sahil Jain is the CEO and Co-founder of AdStage. Prior to founding AdStage in May 2012, Sahil co-founded his first company, Y-Combinator backed Trigger.io at 20. He dropped out of UC Berkeley, where he studied Philosophy and Econ, to join AOL Corp Devt. at 19, dropped out of High School to join Yahoo! Mobile as an automation engineer at 17 and worked in the professional video game industry before that.
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About AdStage, inresto: AdStage is an advertising technology startup powering paid marketers to understand the business impact of their campaigns.
Nate Smith
Founder & CEO of Lever
Nate is on a mission to build the next generation of enterprise software. He’s our tech visionary and the author of DerbyJS, our JavaScript framework for realtime, collaborative applications. DerbyJS is the first and only open source MVC framework that syncs all data via Operational Transformation, the same algorithm that powers Google Docs. Nate attended Olin College where he majored in electrical and computer engineering. Prior to Lever, Nate was a product manager on the Google Search team. He led the first major redesign of Google’s image search UI, which launched in July 2010.
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About Lever: Lever is a talent acquisition suite that provides talent leaders with the solutions they need to build strong relationships with candidates.
Gaurav Rewari
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Numerify
Gaurav is a co-founder and CEO of Numerify. Most recently, Gaurav was Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle of a $2.5 billion Business Analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle BI and Siebel Analytics product lines. During his tenure, his team furthered Oracle’s industry leading position in analytics, and measurably advanced its BI Platform market share through the acquisition of Endeca and the introduction of the Exalytics in-memory Analytics machine, a product with one of the fastest ramps in Oracle’s history. Gaurav started his career as the first product manager at MicroStrategy where he rose to become VP/GM with responsibility for MicroStrategy’s Product Management, Professional Services & Analytical Applications divisions. He was part of a management team that grew MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through its IPO and into a $200M+ BI products leader. Before Oracle, Gaurav was co-founder & CEO of FirstRain, a venture-backed leader in SaaS search-based market intelligence. Outside Numerify, Gaurav enjoys going on nature treks in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and children. Gaurav holds BS, MS & EE degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the Tau Beta Pi prize for Engineering Excellence, the Robert A. Boit prize in Humanities and was nominated to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Matt Miller
Founder & CEO of Embroker
Matt Miller is the founder and CEO of Embroker, the first modern solution for business insurance. Prior to founding Embroker, he was a Principal at the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, where he led investments in the insurance and software space. While at H&F, he served on the board of directors of HUB International, Applied Systems, and Renaissance Learning. Prior to joining Hellman & Friedman, Matt was a Vice President for Bain Capital in Boston and Hong Kong and a consultant for Bain & Company in New York. Matt graduated summa cum laude from Duke University, and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and co-president of the Private Equity club.
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About Embroker: Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage.
Kirill Makharinsky
Co-Founder, CEO, President & Board Member of Enki
Kirill is the CEO and Founder of Enki, a tech-enabled skills training company. Previously, Kirill cofounded Emerging Travel, a leading online travel agency; and Quid, an intelligence tool for strategy teams. Both companies have over $40M annual net revenue each. Kirill is an Oxford University alum where he graduated with a double first in Mathematics and as the #1 UK Graduate of the Year.
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About Emerging Travel Group, Enki: Enki is maximizing employee potential through modern, tech-enabled skills training.
Peter Gassner
Founder and CEO of Veeva
Peter is responsible for the overall direction and management of Veeva Systems. In 2010, Peter was named to the PharmaVOICE 100, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in the life sciences industry. Peter is a twenty year veteran of the software industry. Prior to founding Veeva, Peter was Senior Vice President of Technology at salesforce.com where he had responsibility for building the salesforce.com platform including product, marketing and developer relations. During Peter’s tenure, salesforce.com completed its public offering and grew the technology into the most successful SaaS platform in the industry. Before salesforce.com, Peter was with PeopleSoft for 9 years as both Chief Architect and General Manager of PeopleTools. Peter led a team of over 450 professionals who provided the development, strategy, marketing and customer support for PeopleSoft’s technology platform. PeopleTools was widely regarded in the industry as the best application platform of its day. Peter began his career with IBM in relational database development and research at IBM Silicon Valley Lab and then at IBM Almaden Research Center where he had the privilege of working closely with some of the inventors of relational database technology. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University.
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Jayanth Gummaraju
CEO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Jayanth Gummaraju has over a decade of experience in inventing, designing and building complex computer systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Jayanth worked at VMware where, along with a couple of colleagues, he started VMFork (Instant Clone) and Serengeti (Big Data) projects, and invented some of the key technologies powering vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE). He holds many patents and has published several papers in top tier conferences in the areas of distributed systems, virtualization, and security. He is also a recipient of several awards related to innovation throughout his academic and professional career. Jayanth received his PhD from the Computer Systems Lab. at Stanford University, MS from Univ. of Maryland, College Park, and BE from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Banyan Security: Banyan Security provides a zero trust network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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.
Cai GoGwilt
Co-Founder and CTO of Ironclad
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About Ironclad: Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management platform used by companies to handle every type of contract workflow.
Craig Ramsey
Founder, Board Member of Vlocity
Craig D. Ramsey is the Founder of Vlocity, Inc. and serves as its Chairman. Craig Ramsey served as the Chief Executive Officer at Solidus Networks, Inc. (doing business as Pay By Touch) from July 2003 to November 2004. From March 1994 to March 1996, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Support at nCUBE Corporation. He was employed by Amdahl Corporation. He served as an Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Siebel Systems Inc. and also as its Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations from 1995 to April 2000. He served as Vice President of U.S. sales at Oracle Corporation. From February 1986 to March 1994, Craig Ramsey was employed by Oracle Corporation and held a variety of executive positions, including Vice President of U.S. Commercial Sales and Vice President of OEM Strategic Accounts. From 1968 to 1994, he held various positions with IBM. Craig Ramsey serves as Co-Chairman at Verticals onDemand, Inc. He served as Co-Chairman at Veeva Systems Inc He serves as a Director of Fan Appz, Inc. and Pay By Touch. He has been a Director of ArcSight, Inc. since October 2002. He served as a Director of Guidewire Software, Inc. since 2005. He served as a Director of Salesforce.com, Inc from April 2003 to September 9, 2014. He served as a Director of Solidus Networks, Inc. He also serves as a Board member of the Glide Memorial Foundation. He served as a Director of M-Factor, Inc. Craig Ramsey received a B.A. in Economics and Communications from Denison University.
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About Vlocity: Vlocity provides industry-specific cloud and mobile software that drives digital transformation for companies.
Young Sohn
Founder of Vlocity
Young A. Sohn is the Co-Founder of Vlocity, Inc. Young Sohn was the Founder of Nomadic Systems, Inc and served as Chief Executive Officer from April 1994 to November 1997. Young Sohn has been an independent business consultant and advisor since December 2001. Young Sohn led the Siebel Life Sciences Division from November 1997 to December 2001. Prior to her time at Nomadic Systems, Young Sohn held an executive management position at PharmaSystems. Previously, Young Sohn also spent six years at Oracle Corporation in the pharmaceutical vertical organization. She was Director of Vlocity, Inc. She served as a Director at Veeva Systems Inc. from January 2007 to July 2014. Young Sohn received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management from Cornell University.
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About Vlocity: Vlocity provides industry-specific cloud and mobile software that drives digital transformation for companies.
Halle Tecco
Angel Investor & Co-Founder of Techammer
Halle Tecco is an active angel investor and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. Previously she founded and ran Rock Health, the first seed fund devoted exclusively to digital health companies, and worked at Intel and Apple. Tecco has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. She was named as one of Goldman Sach’s Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and listed on the Forbes 30 under 30. Tecco has spoken at Aspen Ideas Festival, CES, SXSW, TechCrunch Disrupt and has guest lectured at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Natalist, Techammer: Angel investments of Jeff Hammerbacher and Halle Tecco
Lior Gavish
Co-Founder of Monte Carlo
Lior Gavish is the Co-Founder of Monte Carlo.
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About Monte Carlo: Monte Carlo is a digital data reliability platform designed to monitor and offer alerts for missing or inaccurate data.
Barr Moses
CEO and Co-Founder of Monte Carlo
Barr Moses is the Co-Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo.
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About Monte Carlo: Monte Carlo is a digital data reliability platform designed to monitor and offer alerts for missing or inaccurate data.
Jason Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Slab
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About Slab: Modern Knowledge Base & Wiki for Teams
Chengyin Liu
Co-Founder of Slab
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About Slab: Modern Knowledge Base & Wiki for Teams
Jim Yu
Founder & CEO of BrightEdge
Jim Yu is the Founder & CEO of BrightEdge, the leading enterprise SEO Platform. He combines in-depth expertise in developing and marketing large on-demand software platforms with hands-on experience in advanced SEO practices. Prior to founding BrightEdge, Jim was at Salesforce.com where he led a core part of the platform products team that delivered the industry’s first cloud computing platform. At Aether Systems, Jim ran the Product Management Team responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the innovative Scoutware line of wireless products. At Mercator Software (now IBM), Jim directed the development of Mercator Integration Broker, an industry leading enterprise software product, generating over $100 million in revenue. Jim holds an MBA from Stanford University. Master’s of Engineering from the University of Virginia. Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of South Dakota.
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About BrightEdge: BrightEdge, an SEO platform delivering an uplifted ROI, enables marketers to increase revenue from organic search.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Elena Masolova
Founder & CEO of Eduson
Founder & CEO at Eduson. Investor at TokenStars, the first celebrity management platform on the blockchain.
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About Eduson: Eduson is a corporate eLearning platform.
Phil Tee
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO and Herd Leader of Moogsoft
Phil Tee is Chairman and CEO of Moogsoft. He made an indelible mark in information technology by co-founding Omnibus Transport Technologies Limited (OTT) in 1993 to build and market Netcool/Omnibus. OTT was folded into Micromuse (Nasdaq: MUSE) in 1994 and Netcool/Omnibus became the company’s flagship product. This technology continues to be the in the core of the management support systems in the world’s largest networks in the form of IBM Tivoli Netcool. In 1997, Phil founded Riversoft (LSE: RSFT) to solve the problem of root cause analysis; the technology acquired by Micromuse and the software subsequently became part of the IBM Tivoli Netcool suite. Phil then went on to lead Njini, producing a revolutionary and early data and storage software layer with data de-duplication and information lifecycle management (ILM) capabilities. The company’s technology was acquired by Riverbed (Nasdaq:RVBD). In 2008, Phil founded Promethyan to gestate multiple startups concurrently. Two Promethyan children of note include Prelert and RiverMuse.
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Benjamin Hindman
Founder of D2iq
Ben Hindman is one of the creators of Apache Mesos, a platform for building and running resource-efficient distributed systems at scale. Ben started working on Mesos as a PhD student at Berkeley before he brought it to Twitter where it runs on thousands of machines. An academic at heart, his research in programming languages and distributed systems has been published in leading academic conferences.
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About D2iq: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
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
Joseph Walla
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloSign
Joseph is the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco based startup HelloSign. The idea behind HelloSign was sparked by Joseph’s first successful product alongside co-founder Neal O’Mara, HelloFax. HelloFax launched in 2011 after attending the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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About HelloFax, HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Kevin Laws
Founder of HipDial
Kevin Laws is the Founder of HipDial.
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About HipDial: Easiest Conference Calling Service
Matthew Greeley
Founder & CEO of Brightidea
Matthew Greeley is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Brightidea, the global leader in On-Demand Innovation Pipeline Management (IPM) software. Prior to founding Brightidea, Matthew consulted for Wrenchead.com, helping them to raise capital at a $100 million valuation from investors including: Polaris Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and CBS Corporation. Before joining Wrenchead.com, Matthew co-founded Silicon Valley enterprise software provider Alyanza Software, which was acquired by Niku eight months after founding, yielding triple digit returns to early investors. Matthew began his career at FMK Advisors, an east coast hedge fund, where he focused on marketing and fund raising. He holds a Degree in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and studied Creativity and Marketing at Stanford University.
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About Brightidea: Brightidea provides on-demand innovation management software and a SaaS platform that supports collaboration and crowdsourced feedback.
Guy Marion
CEO & Founder of Brightback
Guy Marion is Chief Marketing Officer at Autopilot, where he spearheads Autopilot’s go-to-market strategy and operations. Guy has spent the past decade at the forefront of the shift towards all things Cloud & SaaS, having helped grow several enterprise companies into successful businesses. Prior to joining Autopilot, Guy served as Senior Director at Zendesk where he helped rapidly grow Zendesk’s core SaaS business. Prior to Zendesk, Guy grew and eventually sold his own company, Codesion, to CollabNet Inc., where he served as VP/GM of Cloud Services. Guy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Stanford and Ph.D in Paleoceanography from The University of Queensland.
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About Brightback: Brightback offers entreprenurial advice to subscription-based businesses on customer lifetime value.
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.
Orion Hindawi
CEO & Co-Founder of Tanium
Orion Hindawi co-founded Tanium in 2007 and serves as its chief executive officer. Orion leads product strategy and development of the Tanium Platform, in addition to all customer-facing technical operations and management functions. A technology visionary and accomplished inventor, Orion has led the development of enterprise-scale endpoint security and management platforms for the past 18 years at BigFix, Inc. (acquired by IBM in 2010) and Tanium, in addition to holding multiple software patents in the areas of network communications and systems management. Orion works closely with Tanium customers on a daily basis in the pursuit of inventing new approaches for solving the significant challenges IT departments face securing and managing large, global enterprise environments. Orion also serves on the Tanium Board of Directors.
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About Tanium: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
Al Eisaian
Co-Founder & CEO of IntelinAir
Al Eisaian is the Co-Founder & CEO at IntelinAir.
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About IntelinAir: IntelinAir is an agriculture focused aerial imagery analytics company that delivers actionable intelligence to help farmers make decisions.
Ricardo Oliveira
Co-Founder & CTO of ThousandEyes
Ricardo is the co-founder and CTO of ThousandEyes (www.thousandeyes.com), a network intelligence startup based in San Francisco. Ricardo is also the creator of Cyclops (http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu), a platform to detect attacks to the Internet routing infrastructure, like the one that brought youtube.com down in Pakistan in 2008. Ricardo is a technologist at heart and a believer in the importance of simplicity and good design in any product. He is also a caffeine junkie. Ricardo received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Engineering Faculty of Porto University (FEUP), Portugal in 2001, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, and the PhD degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2009. During his PhD he did several internships, including AT&T Labs, Thomson and Juniper Networks in Silicon Valley. During his PhD he developed research in inter-domain routing, network security and Internet topology. He is the main author of several patents and dozens of papers in international conferences and journals, including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS and IEEE Transactions on Networking. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Cisco Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Mohit Lad
Co-Founder & CEO of ThousandEyes
Mohit Lad received a Ph.D. from UCLA where he worked on building systems for Internet routing fault diagnosis and security. Mohit built Link-Rank, tool for visualizing routing dynamics. His work on route hijacking led to PHAS, one of the first systems to detect and alert on routing security problems. Mohit spent a year at Nokia building tools for analyzing the quality of Nokia’s mobile services. Since January 2010, Mohit has been involved in Thousand Eyes, a company he co-founded with Ricardo Oliveira.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Naren Thiagarajan
Co-Founder and CTO of FloydHub
Co-Founder / CTO at FloydHub.
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About FloydHub: FloydHub is a deep learning platform for training and deploying your machine learning and AI models in the cloud.
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
Aneel Bhusri
CEO & Co-Founder of Workday
Aneel Bhusri is co-founder and chief executive officer at Workday. He is also a member of the company’s board of directors, and served as chairman of the board from 2012 until May 2014. Aneel has been a leader, product visionary, and innovator in the enterprise software industry for more than 20 years.In addition to his role at Workday, Aneel serves on the boards of Intel, Cloudera, Okta, and Pure Storage. He is also an advisory partner at Greylock, a leading venture capital firm that he has been associated with since 1999.
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
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.
Benjamin Levy
Co-Founder & General Partner of BootstrapLabs
Founder, Technologist, Corporate Development & Strategy, Product Development, Advisor, Operator. Ben is the CoFounder of BootstrapLabs, a leading venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. Born in France and living in Silicon Valley for the past 18 years, Ben is a repeat entrepreneur who launched, built, and exited two startups in the financial technology space. Praedea Solutions, a data mining software company using machine learning and image recognition technology, was acquired by Mergent in 2005, and InsideVenture, a financial social network for the founders of venturebacked preIPO startups and long only institutional investors on Wall Street, was acquired by SecondMarket in 2009 (and is now part of NASDAQ). Earlier in his career, Ben was a Technology, Media, and Telecom Investment Banker who advised startup founders and CxOs of Fortune 500 companies on corporate strategy, financing, and M&A. Over a period of 10 years, Ben helped his clients raise over $300M from institutional investors and close over $5B in M&A transactions. Always a top performer, he quickly climbed through the ranks, starting as an Analyst at SG Cowen, Associate at Lazard, Vice President at Houlihan Lokey, SVP & Head of Technology Private Equity at Wedbush Securities, and Managing Director & Head of US at QuantumWave Capital. Ben is a frequent keynote and panel speaker on innovation, technology investing, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, and globalization in the US, Europe, and Asia.
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About BootstrapLabs: BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
Nicolai Wadstrom
CEO, Founder & General Partner of BootstrapLabs
Nicolai is the Founder and CEO of BootstrapLabs, a leading venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. And today one of the most active firm in the Applied Artificial Intelligence space. Nicolai launched his first business at 15, first tech startup in his early 20’s, and launched BootstrapLabs in San Francisco Bay Area in 2008. He brings 25+ years of operational experience as founding CEO & CTO scaling software technology platforms in VR (90’s), Internet, Financial Trading Systems (publicly listed on NASDAQ:OMX), Enterprise Software, etc. Through BootstrapLabs he has invested in, advised, and mentored 40+ companies and founding teams, helping them successfully build and scale proprietary technology, products, teams and operations Applying lifetime of operational, entrepreneurial and technology product development experience to support the BootstrapLabs portfolio companies to build and scale He is also a frequent speaker and mentor at top Universities and Conferences in the US and Europe on topics such as Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Disruption, Startups and Venture Capital.
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About BootstrapLabs: BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
David Barrett
Founder, CEO & Director of Expensify
David Barrett is the founder of Expensify, the lead engineer of Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai, from which he was dramatically fired), and all around alpha geek. David started programming when he was 6 and it has been his primary activity ever since, with a brief hiatus for world travel, technical writing, project management, and now running Expensify. David is married to an opera singer, and has without question the cutest beagle known to man. http://twitter.com/expensify http://twitter.com/quinthar **UDPATE** – I’m desperate to hire good folk: check out http://we.are.expensify.com/ for more info.
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About Expensify: Expensify is a financial services company that provides an online expense management service for businesses.
Zachary Rosen
Co-Founder & CEO of Pantheon
Zack Rosen is the CEO & Co-Founder at Pantheon.
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About California YIMBY, Chapter Three., Covid Act Now, Mission Bicycle Company, Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
David Timothy Strauss
Co-Founder & CTO of Pantheon
Will it scale? This is the guiding question for Pantheon CTO David Strauss, whose all-for-one-and-one-for-all improvements to web infrastructure have made the largest content sites in the world more scalable and secure, while saving developers thousands of hours in manual updates. If you’ve ever deployed an enterprise website, chances are you’ve benefited from one of the tools he’s developed. After co-founding Four Kitchens, a successful web development shop, David found himself gravitating away from custom client work and toward infrastructure solutions. Large clients like Creative Commons, Internet Archive, The Economist, and Wikimedia had already benefited from his scalability and database optimization work. Now he wanted to use this expertise to improve websites for everyone. When the opportunity to build an all-in-one website platform came along, he knew he needed to be a part of it. In addition to his role as Pantheon CTO, David also co-maintains the systemd/udev layer that runs on most of the world’s Linux systems, serves on the Advisory Board for the Drupal Association, contributes to the infrastructure and security teams at Drupal.org, and leads the development of Pressflow.
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Matt Cheney
Co-Founder of Pantheon
The creation, dissemination and consumption of information is one of the world’s most important processes. A formally trained librarian and traveler to over 85 countries, Matt Cheney has seen first-hand the global importance of this flow of information and the critical role that open-source technology can play in enabling that flow. Over the past eight years, Matt has been active in the open source community, helping organize events that empower developers (BADCamp, Drupalcon SF), contributing code to the Drupal project that modernizes the end user experience (Panels, Panopoly), and co-founding a website consulting company that works directly with clients to share their information with the world (Chapter Three). He co-founded Pantheon to make freely available development and hosting tools which makes it easier for everyone to launch and run websites. Technology should be an enabler — not a barrier — and Matt’s hope is that Pantheon can make the web better for everyone. When he isn’t working at Pantheon, Matt helps to run a fixed-gear bicycle shop called Mission Bicycle, travels the world, and cooks vegan food using cutting-edge molecular gastronomic techniques.
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About Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
