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 CEO’ operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chris Lamontagne
CEO of Spring
> An enterprising and ambitious business leader, with proven entrepreneurial talent and innovative way of thinking. Strong experience of founding/working in high growth environments. > Successful track record in defining go to market business strategy, leading user acquisition efforts and driving hyper growth. > Interested marketplaces, e-commerce & mobile environments. With a specific interest in distressed or turnaround situations. Founded first business aged 20 – grew to become nationwide provider – successfully exited three years later.
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About Spring: Spring is the link between creators and commerce. Innovative tools and services empower creators to launch products while selling on social.
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.
Brad Griffith
Chief Executive Officer of Gametime
Brad Griffith After nearly missing a San Francisco Giants NLCS game because he didn’t have access to print his tickets, Brad Griffith reimagined a simpler process for buying tickets on the go. Focusing completely on the mobile experience, Brad wrote v1.0 of the Gametime iOS application in 2012 and now leads a passionate team focused on mobilizing the ticket buying process for fans. He’s fascinated with fan experience – answering the question: How can we make it faster and easier to attend games? Brad is a Santa Cruz native and huge S.F. Giants, Golden State Warriors and 49ers fan. After earning an Engineering degree from Stanford, he followed his dreams to work in sports by helping the Colorado Rockies and Chicago White Sox (2005 World Series Champs!) build statistical infrastructure to analyze player value. In 2010, he helped launch Zappedy, which delivered customer analytics for local businesses (sold to Groupon in 2011). At Gametime, he’s able to combine his love of sports and analytics to help fans attend more games and connect with their communities.
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About Gametime: Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater.
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.
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.
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.
Harish Abbott
Co-founder and CEO of Deliverr
Harish Abbott is a Co-Founder & CEO of sneakpeeq.com, a leading social shopping company. At sneakpeeq, Harish manages Product and Marketing. Prior to founding sneakpeeq.com, Harish was the Chief Product Officer at Lulu.com—the premier global marketplace for new digital content on the Internet—where he managed Product and Revenues. He led Lulu toward the largest virtually distributed marketplace for digital content. Prior to joining Lulu, Harish was a Co-Founder and President of Ugenie, the company behind weRead.com—the first social recommendation engine for books. At Ugenie, Harish was responsible for setting the overall product direction and management of the engineering center and company operations. Ugenie was acquired by Lulu.com. Prior to Ugenie, Harish was a Senior Program Manager at Amazon.com, leading initiatives on strategic planning, supply chains and order fulfillment. He helped Amazon launch and build its distribution network through warehousing and drop-shipping in North America and Europe. Harish also wrote the promise ship date and promise delivery date concept at Amazon. Before Amazon, Harish was a Solution Architect at i2 Technologies where he played a key role in the consulting and sales teams of the retail division. Harish graduated with top honors from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He also holds a Masters in Operations Research from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and an MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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About Deliverr, Symphony Commerce: Deliverr is a startup company that provides shipping services for e-commerce businesses.
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.
Chase Harmer
Chief Executive Officer of PayCertify
Integrity, honesty, and longevity. Those are the qualities that have shaped Chase Harmer, a successful entrepreneur, leader, speaker, and innovator. For 15 years, Chase has built businesses, led companies, created products, and helped bring the best out of his employees. As a merchant services professional, Chase has launched several companies and products—such as MLS Hotel, Power Payments, Payment Reservations, and Pay Certify—that focus on hotel and e-commerce verticals. His companies process transactions and create software products that help increase cash flow and longevity of merchant accounts in those industries.
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About PayCertify: The PayCertify Companies Inc. is an All-In-One payments co and digital wallet with a family of brands and services in the US, EU and CA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adam Zbar
CEO of HamsaPay
Adam Zbar works as a Chief Executive Officer at HamsaPay from June 2020.
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About HamsaPay, SunBasket: HamsaPay is the world’s first Smart, X-Border Trade DeFi Network
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.
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.
Bentley Hall
CEO of Good Eggs
Bentley is a passionate, driven entrepreneur, who helps small consumer businesses become big – often very quickly. Ever since he was a kid, he has been fascinated with understanding how high growth companies achieve scale, disrupt industries and change the world we live in. After spending time with Johnson & Johnson and Clif Bar, he joined the Plum Organics team as employee #3 and was fortunate to hold a variety of executive roles, in multiple countries, as the business launched from $0 to ~$100+ million in annual sales in under 7 years. In 2013, the business was successfully sold to the Campbell Soup Co. Others have called him a creative problem solver, a levelheaded leader, an optimist, a self starter, a builder and a collaborator. While he is technically a certified accountant (CMA), he does not mention this at parties. Devoted to a lifetime of learning, he is continually humbled by how little he actually knew the previous year. Originally from just north of Boston, he now lives in Marin, California and spends as much time as possible outdoors (skiing, trail running, cycling, camping, stand up paddle boarding), eating tasty food and laughing with his wife, close friends and two young sons.
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About Good Eggs, Smallholding Investments: Good Eggs is an online grocer and meal kit delivery service with a mission to reinvent the food system, for good.
Scott Cutler
Chief Executive Officer of StockX
Scott Cutler is the CEO of StockX, an online marketplace that enables the buying and selling of high-demand consumer products, including sneakers, streetwear, watches, and handbags. Prior to joining StockX, Cutler served as senior vice president of the Americas at eBay, Inc., from 2017- 2019. From 2015-2017, Scott served as president of StubHub. There, he led the reinvention of the global StubHub brand, expanding the company’s international presence from four to more than 48 countries and launching strategic partnerships across sports and music. Before joining StubHub, Cutler spent nine years as the executive vice president at the New York Stock Exchange, overseeing listings, capital markets, trading, services, and corporate governance. During his tenure there, he helped transform the NYSE into the number one global exchange, leading in tech IPOs, and helping take some of the world’s most iconic brands public. He was responsible for more than $1 trillion in capital market financings. Cutler holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Brigham Young University and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He currently serves on the boards of Brookfield Property Partners and Brookfield Property REIT (NASDAQ: BPY and BPR), Vibrant Emotional Health, and is a trustee on the National Advisory Committee for his alma mater BYU. Cutler is also a longtime sneaker collector with a penchant for Jordan 1s.
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About StockX: StockX is an online marketplace to buy and sell limited edition and high demand sneakers.
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
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.
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.
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.
Ming S. Zhao
Chief Executive Officer of Proven Skincare
Ming S. Zhao is a Co-Founder and CEO at Proven Skincare. She is a former Head Of Partnerships at NerdWalled and Private Equity Investor at Bain Capital.
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About Proven Skincare: Proven Skincare develops skincare products intended to allow customers to design and personalize products that fit their lifestyles.
Farzad Dibachi
CEO and Co-founder of Inxeption
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About Inxeption: Inxeption is a cloud-based digital commerce platform that helps B2B companies accelerate growth and manage logistics.
Stacy Brown-Philpot
Chief Executive Officer of TaskRabbit
One of the most pivotal opportunities in my life came right after I’d moved into operations at Google. I’d just taken on the responsibility of managing a large team when I was asked to commit to running the company’s sales operations in India. I’d always wanted to work abroad, but I didn’t want to put my life on hold to do it. My husband wasn’t in a position to relocate, so the move would mean living apart for an entire year. It would also mean delaying our plans to start a family. Talking with my closest friends was of little use — some encouraged me to go for it, others cautioned that a move to India could derail my plans to start a family and put considerable stress on my marriage. I was torn. I’d lived my whole life on the shoulders of others and didn’t want to let anyone down. Plus, I’ll admit it, I was scared. I’d traveled to India many times, but the thought of living and working there was much more daunting. Not only was there a new language and culture to consider, but India’s classically male-dominated environment wouldn’t be easy for an African American woman to navigate. Still, the more I weighed the pros and cons, the more I realized I wanted the challenge. I sat down with my husband and made a list of all of the things we needed to do to make it work. I took that list back to my manager and he agreed to meet my requests. Within 48 hours, I was on my way to India. I wouldn’t trade that decision for anything. I ended up having an amazing experience and my husband of 13 years is still with me today — along with our daughter. Having a supportive spouse really made the choice a lot easier, and I learned one of the biggest lessons of my career: Never be afraid to ask for what you need to make your whole life — not just your work life — work for you. Realizing this made me confident that I could have the career I wanted without sacrificing my marriage or the opportunity to start a family. I plan to always encourage my daughter to follow her dreams and pursue her passions, even when they seem impossible to achieve.
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About SB Opportunity Fund, TaskRabbit: TaskRabbit is a platform that matches up users with help on furniture assembly, moving, and other handyman services.
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.
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.
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.
Peter Szulczewski
CEO of Wish
Peter Szulczewski is currently the CEO of ContextLogic and previously a coder at Google, Microsoft, ATI, and Nvidia.
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About Wish: Wish is an e-commerce shopping app, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide.
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.
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
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.
Joanne Calabrese
CEO of Soko
Joanne Calabrese is a seasoned retailer, wholesaler, and merchant who is wildly passionate about driving businesses alongside amazing people. She’s led teams at several Fortune 500 companies, including VP roles at Gap Inc. and DFS, and also served as President of The Body Shop, Americas Region, and Head of the Americas for Fossil Group. Joanne joined SOKO in 2018 to operationalize and expand the business. SOKO is a vertically integrated manufacturing platform and ethical lifestyle brand working at the intersection of technology, fashion and social impact to bring beautiful artisan handcrafted jewelry to a global market. SOKO believes the future of ethical business is about leveraging mobile technology and supply chain innovation to create a next-generation business model that is both kinder and more competitive. SOKO is generating measurable social benefits in the lives of artisans and the communities in which they live.
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About Soko: SOKO is a manufacturing platform built using mobile technology to connect independent, distributed artisans to the global marketplace.
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.
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.
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.
Neal Jean
Co-founder, CEO of Beacons
Neal Jean is a Co-founder and CEO of Beacons.
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About Beacons: Beacons is a link-in-bio website builder for creators.
Jugoslav Petkovic
Co-founder and CEO of Flaviar
Jugoslav Petkovic is founder at Flaviar.
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About Flaviar: Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.
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.
James Reinhart
CEO of ThredUp
James is the co-founder and CEO of thredUP.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for secondhand clothing. thredUP’s mission is to “inspire a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first.”James is passionate about public education and the role it plays in our communities. Prior to thredUP, he helped develop one of the nation’s premier public schools, Pacific Collegiate School. James is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School where he earned a joint degree in public policy and business. In his free time, he is an avid golfer, cyclist and whiskey drinker – just not all at the same time. While a proud New Jersey native and diehard Bruce Springsteen fan, he lives with his wife Michele and three children in Oakland, California.
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About ThredUp: ThredUp is a fashion resale marketplace that enables individuals to buy and sell clothing for women and children.
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.
Ram Siddarth Radhakrishnan
Founder & CEO of SILQ
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About SILQ: Delivering in-line intelligence online.
Tianwei Liu
Co-Founder & CEO of Xfers
Founder & CEO @ Xfers
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About Xfers: Xfers is a Major Payment Institution approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for the provision of e-money issuance services.
Jarrett Streebin
Founder and CEO of EasyPost
Before founding EasyPost, Jarrett worked at a family office investing venture.Jarrett is an avid squash player, occasional,cyclist and motorcyclist.
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About EasyPost: EasyPost provides a simple postage API that allows developers to quickly and painlessly integrate shipping into any e-commerce application.
Sarah Hoffman
Co-Founder & CEO of Maker Wine
Sarah Hoffman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Maker Wine.
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About Maker Wine: Maker Wine connects wine lovers to premium canned wines from best-in-class independent producers.
Bianca Gates
CEO & Co-Founder of Birdies
Bianca Gates is the slipper obsessed CEO and Co-Founder of Birdies, the company that is disrupting the slipper market and creating a new category of footwear. Prior to Birdies, Bianca was a Sales Executive at Facebook/Instagram leading retail partnerships. During her time at Facebook, Bianca launched the first Lean In Circle with Sheryl Sandberg and is passionate about bringing women together to support each-others dreams. Bianca is a graduate from the University of California at Irvine and lives in San Francisco with her husband and two kids.
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About Birdies: Direct-to-consumer brand that designs stylish flats that feel like slippers thanks to their exclusive cloud-like comfort technology.
Bruno Leveque
CEO of PrestaShop
Bruno Leveque is co-founder and CEO of PrestaShop, the world’s leading e-commerce solution powering over 250,000 online stores worldwide. Born in the suburbs of Paris in the early 80’s, Bruno witnessed the emergence of the Internet and grew up during its rapid evolution. It didn’t take long for Bruno to discover his passion for technology and entrepreneurial gift. By the age of 8, he began developing his first games in QBASIC and just a few years later he developed his first websites for banking and gaming companies and sold them to media groups. At 16, Bruno joined LeGuide.com, the leading Shopping Guide in Europe, where worked as a Web Designer, Web Developer and Project Manager. Meanwhile, he spent his days and nights at Epitech, one of the most renowned technology schools in Europe, where he mastered C/C#, PHP, SQL, Oracle, etc. and studied subjects such as business, sales and law throughout 5 years. Bruno’s inspiration for PrestaShop materialized during his time at LeGuide.com, where he recognized a strong need for a free, powerful and Open-source e-commerce solution. In 2007 Bruno co-founded PrestaShop with Igor Schlumberger, former President of LeGuide.com, and within one month of PrestaShop’s official launch, the software received 1,000 downloads and was translated into 13 different languages by dedicated community members. Today, PrestaShop powers thousands of online stores in over 209 countries, has growing community of over half a million contributors, is translated into 65 languages and holds headquarters in Miami and Paris. Bruno currently resides in San Francisco, CA where he devotes his time to the evolution of the software and strengthening PrestaShop’s position as the world’s preferred Open-source e-commerce solution.
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About Meowtel, PrestaShop: PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce solution that powers more than 250,000 stores worldwide.
Thatcher Spring
Founder & CEO of GearLaunch
Thatcher Spring is the CEO & Founder of GearLaunch, which offers a sophisticated platform for E2E commerce, a rapidly emerging category that focuses on the full e-commerce value chain. Thatcher’s experience with merchandising and supply chains began when he founded a nationally distributed wholesale apparel company shortly after graduating Georgetown University. Thatcher then went on to receive his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and briefly worked at J.P. Morgan and Mars before his entrepreneurial drive led him to founding GearLaunch. Outside of work, Thatcher is an avid sailor, and helped lead the Georgetown University sailing team to a national championship. He also serves as a Director of the Cape Eleuthera Foundation, Class Ambassador for Georgetown University, and an Associate for the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.
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About GearLaunch: GearLaunch offers a sophisticated platform for E2E commerce, a rapidly emerging category that focuses on the full e-commerce value chain.
Isabella Sun
Founder and CEO of Short Story
Isabella Sun is the Founder and CEO of Short Story.
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About Short Story: Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
Bobby Farahi
CEO & Founder of Dolls Kill
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About Dolls Kill: Dollskill is a website showcasing various fashion designs of women’s clothing.
Nicolas Baum
Co-Founder & CEO of GiftRocket
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About GiftRocket, Tremendous: GiftRocket provides online gift cards for restaurants, bars, spas, shopping, night life and food.
Sascha Mornell
Co-Founder & CEO of GetMyBoat
Sascha Mornell is a serial entrepreneur. He is the Co-Founder of GetMyBoat, ZigAir, and Phacil. Previously, he worked for register.com, where he served as SVP of Sales & Marketing. Mr. Mornell also worked at the National Basketball Association and Dreyer’s, Japan in Tokyo. Mr. Mornell has served as an advisor/investor to several small businesses, including Osmio (acquired by Aramark), Markmonitor, AW Media and others. Mr. Mornell graduated cum laude from UC Berkeley and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About GetMyBoat, SaraGEO, ZigAir: GetMyBoat is the marketplace for boat rentals, yacht charters, and on-the-water experiences.
Peer Richelsen
Co-founder & CEO of Mage App
Peer Richelsen is the co-founder and CEO of Mage.
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About Mage App: Mage Market is an marketplace app built specifically for buying and selling cards from Magic using computer vision.
Matthew Roche
CEO of Extole
Matthew is currently the CEO and Founder of Extole, the Enterprise leader in referral marketing. He has started and run internet marketing software companies since 1997, and has led successful companies in ecommerce, dynamic display advertising, curation, and optimization. Matthew was a founder and the CEO of Offermatica, a landing page optimization and testing infrastructure company. Acquired by Omniture in 2007, it is now known as Adobe Test and Target and serves billions of optimized experiences every week. In 1996 he co-founded Fort Point Partners, an e-commerce systems integrator responsible for building Egghead.com, the first web site to sell $1,000,000 in one day, as well as Bestbuy.com, Nike.com, and others. Matthew is a graduate of Yale University and has served on the boards of Envision Schools, a Charter School and Habitat for Humanity.
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About Extole: Extole helps enterprise companies acquire new customers at scale from their existing customers.
Jeffrey Shaw
Founder & CEO of Underground Cellar
Founder and CEO of UndergroundCellar.com; Y Combinator W15
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About Underground Cellar: Underground Cellar is an online wine marketplace to discover, buy, and store premium wines.
Irv Henderson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Talech
Irv is the CEO and co-founder of talech. Irv brings his passion for the “small data opportunity” to talech having successfully held product leadership positions at Yahoo! mobile and Obopay, a payments startup. Irv is originally from Belize and is an identical twin.
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About Talech: Talech is a POS system that provides merchants with analytics and insights.
Kevin Johnson
CEO of Performance Marketing Brands, Inc.
Kevin Johnson is the CEO at Udemy. He is an Internet veteran with over fifteen years of e-commerce experience and a passion for responsible digital marketing. Prior to joining Ebates, Kevin served as president and general manager of Acxiom Digital (formerly Digital Impact, Inc.). Acxiom Digital is one of the world’s largest and most experienced email marketing service providers, search engine marketing pioneer, leader in dynamic website personalization, and a top twenty-five interactive agency. Before joining Acxiom Digital/Digital Impact, Kevin was the Senior Vice President of client services at Netcentives and general manager of the company’s email marketing services division, formerly Post Communications. Kevin received an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Performance Marketing Brands, Inc.: Performance Marketing Brands owns and operates online rewards programs that pays individuals everytime they make purchases.
Jill Sherman
Chief Executive Officer of Modalyst
Jill Sherman, CEO and Co-Founder of Modalyst, an automated dropshipping platform, co-founded the company after managing the buying team at Harvey Nichols where she learned the inefficiencies of sourcing and selling physical inventory, while realizing the potential of a zero-inventory model for e-commerce. With over 16 years of industry experience, Jill has worked at Prada USA and Asia Pacific, where she managed the Miu Miu Visual Department, as well as worked at American Vogue and Italian Vogue for 5 years. With 5 years of working in China under her belt, Jill has mastered the art of eating a soup dumpling. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Tufts University. Jill was honored by Crain’s as a Woman to Watch in NY Tech and presented at TEDx on “The Rise of the Independents.”
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About Modalyst: Modalyst is a dropshipping platform for e-commerce businesses.
Zachary Goldstein
Founder & CEO of Thanx
Zach Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Thanx. He is passionate about retail customer retention and satisfaction and the Sacramento Kings. Dartmouth College (BA) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA).
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About Thanx: Guest engagement that delights!
RJ JAIN
Founder ,CEO & CTO of Price.com
RJ Jain is the Founder ,CEO & CTO at Price.com.
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About Price.com, Private Angel Investor: Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts.
Jinlin Wang
Co-Founder & CEO of Auryc
Jinlin Wang is CEO at Auryc .
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About Auryc, Tsingyuan Ventures: Auryc’s visual intelligence platform empowers organizations to create exceptional customer journeys and increase revenue.
Yoav Izhar-Prato
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Skai Israel
Yoav is Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board at Kenshoo. As the founder of several startups around the globe in the area of Internet and mobile applications and former manager of ECI Thailand, Yoav brings more than 15 years of product, marketing and business management to Kenshoo.
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About Skai Israel, SKAI LABS: Skai Israel is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, and omnichannel media activation services.
Roger Casals
Co Founder & CEO of Plazah
Currently, co-Founder and CEO of Plazah
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About Plazah: Plazah is the One-on-One Sales Marketplace where anyone can make money recommending the products they love
Christine Moseley
Founder & CEO of Full Harvest
Christine Moseley, Full Harvest Founder + CEO, is a passionate serial social entrepreneur. At age 17, she started a music education non-profit, which is still growing 14 years later. Currently, at Full Harvest, she is solving the food waste problem at the farm level. Full Harvest is the first institutional B2B platform connecting large farms to food companies to sell surplus and imperfect produce. Christine has over 10 years of experience in the logistics and food industries at both Fortune 100 companies (P&G, Maersk- world’s largest logistics company) as well as high-growth food start-ups. In her last corporate role, she assisted Organic Avenue, a NYC healthy food + juice start-up, double in size as Head of Strategic Projects and Business Development. Christine holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and BA from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill.
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About Full Harvest: Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Cory Ondrejka
Co-Founder & CEO of Mori
Cory Ondrejka is the CEO and co-founder of mori, inc. (formerly Overlook Research), a stealth, venture-funded startup in Los Gatos, CA. Prior to mori, Ondrejka led the Mobile Product group at Facebook and was responsible for Facebook’s mobile turnaround and delivering Facebook to over a billion mobile customers worldwide. Ondrejka also led Facebook’s multi-billion dollar acquisition and integration of Oculus VR. Before Facebook, Ondrejka was the co-founder of Walletin, a startup focused on high-performance javascript and Web rendering acquired by Facebook in 2010. He was the Chief Technology Officer of Linden Lab, where he co-created the award-winning virtual world Second Life. He has served as Executive Vice President for Global Digital Marketing at EMI Music, and has been a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he gave classes on online communities. Ondrejka began his career in game development startups, shipping arcade and console video game titles. He holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Weapons and Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and was an officer in the US Navy. Ondrejka also advises several early-state technology companies.
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About Mori: Mori is a branded food company with quality products.
Alex Czarnecki
Founder and CEO of Cottage
Alex Czarnecki is the Founder and CEO of Cottage.
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About Cottage: Cottage is solving housing affordability by making it easy to build an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)
Amar Chokhawala
Founder & CEO of Reflektion
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About Reflektion: Reflektion understands the individual intent and preferences of each customer and intelligently responds in real time.
