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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Augmented Reality 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.
Anand Agarawala
Co-Founder & CEO of Spatial
Anand Agarawala is the creator of BumpTop, an irresistible new desktop interface with a satisfyingly three-dimensional physicality and a fresh approach to interactivity. Anand completed his Master thesis in 2006 which pioneered a novel physically based desktop interface leveraging expressive power and casual nature of real desks. His Masters of Computer Science was completed at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate thesis in 2004 at the University of Calgary. In his free time, Anand enjoys competitive team sports such as hockey and basketball. He often travels to India and across Europe and North America.
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About BumpTop, Spatial: Spatial allows NFT creators to customize a virtual space and gather for events such as exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences.
Jinha Lee
Founder & Chief Product Officer of Spatial
Designer, inventor, and entrepreneur. Cofounder of Spatial, a social immersive platform for creators. Named as a young global leader by World Economic Forum in 2015, MIT TR35, Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, and one of FastCompany’s 32 greatest living designers. Spatial has been listed as one of the most innovative company in the world by FastCompany magazine in 2021. Prior to founding Spatial, Jinha created technologies to physically interact with digital data for the past decade: SpaceTop was a pioneering Augmented Reality desktop that allowed people to reach inside the screen. He also created a physical pixel, ZeroN, that levitates and moves freely as his master thesis project at MIT. At Samsung, he led the redesign of Smart TVs, turning screens into a collaboration platform and artistic data visualization. As an advocate for inclusive design, he co-designed Bradley Timepiece, an award-winning tactile wristwatch for the blind. These projects became viral and brought him to the TED stage in 2013.
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About Spatial: Spatial allows NFT creators to customize a virtual space and gather for events such as exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences.
Kevin Hart
Founder / CEO of Aireal
As the Founder and CEO of Aireal, Kevin has created Aireal’s Patent Pending Intellectual Property & lead business operations (including fundraising, business development and planning, marketing and project management). In this role, Kevin has also provided the necessary insight on user experience design and human sciences to help Aireal become the standard for the future of UX/UI design.
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About Aireal: Augmented Reality platform that allows digital content to coexist with reality, creating infinite ways to experience the world around you.
Marcy Boyle
Co Founder, CEO of Hot Bit VR
Marcy Boyle is the CEO and co-founder of Hot Bit VR, a upcoming webVR marketplace of experiential social shopping. Hot Bit VR has been featured on ZDnet, Entrepreneur, Fox News, and listed as one of the “30 Best Virtual Reality Companies to Change Your World Soon.” She and her co-founder’s VR experiences have been featured in art galleries, universities, conferences, and festivals including FIVARS in Toronto and VRUK in London. Hot Bit VR was selected for the first class of the AR/VR/XR accelerator at the Green Screen Institute, and Silicon Valley’s Women’s Startup Lab. Prior to working in VR, she co-directed the feature film, NOBODY CAN COOL, which was released internationally. Marcy is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and is a member of Women in VR, Women in Film, and on the Board of the Alliance of Women Directors.
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About Hot Bit VR, Oculus: An experiential marketplace in virtual reality.
Brian Schimpf
Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries
Brian Schimpf is Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries. Previously, Brian was Director of Engineering at Palantir Technologies, where he led a large engineering organization developing and deploying data integration and analysis products. He served numerous domestic and international government organizations across the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement sectors. Previously, Brian was the Founder and Lead of Cornell University’s autonomous vehicle research program where his teams competed in DARPA’s Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge. Brian graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Matt Grimm
Co-Founder and COO of Anduril Industries
Matt Grimm is Co-Founder and COO of Anduril Industries. Matt was profoundly moved by the tragedy wrought on his community and many others around the world by the attacks of 9/11. It was then that he decided to combine his passion for building with a deep sense of mission to further the country’s national defense—a career path that ultimately led him to co-found Anduril. While classmates at Cornell University, Matt co-founded with Brian Schimpf the university’s autonomous vehicle entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge competitions. He graduated from Cornell with both a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering. After consulting for the Department of Defense at Booz Allen Hamilton, Matt was an early hire at Palantir. In this role, he deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan to ensure U.S. forces had the best technology for the mission. Matt co-founded Anduril after some time working in venture capital in the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives in Orange County, California with his wife and two children.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Palmer Luckey
Founder & CTO of Anduril Industries
Palmer Luckey is the Founder of Anduril Industries. He is also the designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display, and the founder of Oculus VR. Frustrated with the inadequacy and high cost of the existing HMDs on the market, Palmer began experimenting with his own designs in 2009 at the age of 16. In 2012, he formed Oculus VR, which was acquired two years later by Facebook for $2.3b. Palmer began attending Golden West College and Long Beach City College at the age of 14, and studied at California State University, Long Beach before dropping out to found Oculus VR. His deep interest in defense technology was driven by his time at the USC ICT MxR lab, where he built hardware used to research immersive PTSD treatment for US veterans. He continued to support various military applications of VR during his time at Oculus, informing his belief that radical modernization of US military technology is a prerequisite for preserving our way of life.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Anthony Borquez
Founder & CEO of Grab Games
Anthony is experienced in building and scaling creative tech businesses. His first company he co-founded, Spacient Technologies, was an early mobile GPS software platform that was acquired by Trimble Navigation. Anthony’s prior game company, Blue Label Games, built some of the first mobile gaming technology and content. In 2006, Blue Label Games was acquired by Japanese gaming leader Konami. The acquisition helped enable Konami’s mobile gaming division to become a top worldwide mobile game publisher. Anthony is also a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Gaming.
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About Faceroll Games, Flightly, Grab Games, University of Southern California, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business: Grab is focused on creating high-quality entertainment content across all major interactive platforms.
Phoenix Wilder
Co-Founder of Wilder World
Phoenix Wilder is the Co-Founder of Wilder World.
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About Wilder World: Wilder World is a multilayered immersive 3D platform that allows users to collect and experience 3D augmented reality artworks.
Neha Singh
Founder & CEO of Obsess
Neha Singh is the Founder & CEO of Obsess, a platform for Immersive Mobile Commerce.
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About Obsess: Obsess is a platform for immersive mobile commerce.
Kumail Jaffer
CTO, Co-Founder of Gather
Mohammed Kumail Jaffer is the CTO and Cofounder at Gather.
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About Gather: Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human.
Phillip Wang
CEO/Co-Founder of Gather
Phillip Wang is the CEO and Cofounder at Gather.
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About Gather: Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human.
Nathan Foss
Co-Founder of Gather
Nathan Foss is the Co-Founder at Gather.
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About Gather: Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human.
Alex Chen
Co-Founder and VP of Product of Gather
Alex Chen is the Co-Founder and VP of Product at Gather Town.
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About Gather: Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human.
Alex Hern
Founder and CEO of Tsunami XR
Alex Hern has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years. During his career, he has focused on early stage companies and on the incubation of technology companies. Alex Hern co-founded and served as a Director of Inktomi Goldman Sachs-led IPO (INKT), which powered and was the search technology for MSN, Yahoo and AOL. He was also the co-founder and Director of Yesmail Alex Brown led IPO (YESM), an email marketing and web directory company, which went public and then sold to CMGI, now ModusLink Global Solutions, for $650 million ten months later. Alex Hern co-founded Military Commercial Technologies a technology commercialization incubator funded by Lockheed and L-3, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of Arcsight (ARST), a cyber security company, which also went public and was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.5 billion. Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of CloudShield a network security company which sold to SAIC, a large technology and engineering firm specializing in government and commercial projects. Alex Hern also founded and served on the Boards of NewHomes.com and of Triton Network Systems (TNSI). Alex Hern has also served on the board of Zero Knowledge Systems, a security and encryption company now named Radial Point.
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About Tsunami XR: Tsunami develops and delivers advanced digital collaboration services for teams.
Snehal Dhruve
CEO & Founder of Cameraah
CEO & Founder at Cameraah
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About Cameraah, Dakiyaa App, Superfan Studio, Superfan.ai: Cameraah is a no-code tool to create AR experiences for Social & Commerce in minutes
Kelly Peng
Founder, CEO & CTO (Electrical / Optical / Software Engineer) of Kura Technologies
Kelly Peng is the CEO, CTO, and Founder of Kura Technologies.
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About Greylock, Kura Technologies, Particle House (AKA Inventor Lab), Radio Astronomy Lab, Stanford University, The AAT Project (American’s Amazing Teen): Kura Tech is a tech firm and platform that produces compact AR glasses, with customized displays, optics, ASICs, system.
Rizwan Virk
Founder & Executive Director of playlabs
Riz Virk is the Founder & Executive Director at Play Labs.
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About 500 Startups, Bayview Labs, BitMovio, Griffin Gaming Partners, MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, playlabs: Play Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT-affiliated startups using playful technologies in any industry.
David Holz
Co-Founder & CTO of Leap Motion
David Holz is the CTO & co-founder of Leap Motion. Prior to founding the company, David contracted for NASA’s Langley Research Center and conducted neuroscience research while at The Max Planck Institute. He studied Applied Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ultimately leaving his PhD program to co-found Leap Motion in 2010.
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About Leap Motion: Leap Motion is a software and hardware company that develops 3D motion-control technology for virtual reality and additional platforms.
Gene Munster
Managing Partner and Founder of Loup Ventures
Gene Munster is the Managing Partner and founder at Loup Ventures.
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About Loup Ventures: Loup Ventures is a research-driven venture capital firm based in Minneapolis and New York investing in frontier technology.
Doug Clinton
Managing Partner and Founder of Loup Ventures
Doug Clinton is a managing partner and co-founder at Loup Ventures. Prior to Loup Ventures, Doug was a research analyst at Piper Jaffray where he covered the internet space with Gene Munster. Covered companies included Apple, Google, and Facebook. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray in 2008, Doug was an early employee in sales and operations at Enpocket, which was later acquired by Nokia. Doug’s experience at Enpocket led to his interest in startups. Doug holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Boston University.
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About Loup Ventures: Loup Ventures is a research-driven venture capital firm based in Minneapolis and New York investing in frontier technology.
Andrew Murphy
Managing Partner and Founder of Loup Ventures
Andrew Murphy is the Managing Partner and founder at Loup Ventures. Before that, he was the Senior Marketing Manager at Ecolab.
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About Loup Ventures: Loup Ventures is a research-driven venture capital firm based in Minneapolis and New York investing in frontier technology.
Ramses Alcaide
Co-Founder , CEO & President of Neurable
Ramses Alcaide is an electrical Engineer, neuroscientist, previous CEO of Pharo LLC and current CEO of Neurable. At Pharo, he managed high impact health projects, such as a malaria prediction system, a rehabilitation technology for stroke patients and a health monitoring system. As a researcher, he has worked extensively to develop the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology for people with amputations, children with cerebral palsy and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was also the CTO and CSO at NeuroStride, developing their go to market strategy and technology. Lastly, he is also the inventor and primary developer of Neurable. His honors include the Neuroscience Innovator Award, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Fellowship.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Shawn Frayne
Co-Founder & CEO of Looking Glass Factory
Shawn Frayne is the CEO and co-founder of Looking Glass Factory, a Brooklyn-based startup that makes the Looking Glass, a desktop holographic display for 3D creators that groups of people can see and touch without VR or AR headgear. His favorite hologram is the shark that tries to swallow Marty outside the Holomax theatre in Back to the Future II. Shawn has his B.S. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Looking Glass Factory: Looking Glass Factory is building the holographic future, starting with the Looking Glass, the world’s best selling holographic display.
George Palikaras
Founder, President/CEO of Metamaterial Inc.
Founder at Metamaterial Technologies
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About Metamaterial Inc.: Mastering Light using Smart Materials & Photonics. Changing the way we use, interact and benefit from Light.
Vitaliy Goncharuk
CEO and Founder of Augmented Pixels
I am CEO and founder of Augmented Pixels, based in Palo Alto, California, which provides software for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for augmented reality(AR/VR Glasses) and autonomous navigation(Robots / Drones). In 2016 I was honored to be a mentor and a judge at NASA(USA) Space Race project (link: http://bit.ly/2k1pTRX ) and was also asked to report in front of the board of directors of National Academy of Sciences (USA) about the long-term impact of Artificial Intelligence in several industries(link: http://bit.ly/2jPQ3Vy ). My hobbies: Skydiving, Good books, Mafia game(not Werewolf :=)), Jiu Jitsu(japanese style) and Control Line.
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About Augmented Pixels: Augmented Pixels – a leader in precise 3D geolocation and 3D maps crowdsourcing technologies
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.
Aaron Koblin
Co-Founder, President of Within (VR/AR)
Aaron Koblin is the Co-Founder, President at Supernatural. He is also the Co-founder and President of Within, an augmented and virtual reality company.Prior to Within, Aaron created and lead the Data Arts Team at Google from 2008-2015. Aaron has received many awards including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Interaction Design and the National Science Foundation’s award for science visualization. He received an Emmy in 2014, and two of his music video collaborations have been Grammy nominated. In 2010 Aaron was the Abramowitz Artist in Residence at MIT. He received his MFA in Design|Media Arts from UCLA. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His projects have been shown at international festivals including TED, Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and more.
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About Here Be Dragons, Supernatural, Within (VR/AR): Within is a virtual reality and augmented reality media and technology company.
Jonathan Waldern
Founder & Chief Scientist of DigiLens
Optimistic technologist Jonathan Waldern received a PhD in Virtual Reality at Loughbrough University of Technology under the United Kingdom’s advanced computing initiative. His first company, Virtuality Inc., became a pioneer in virtual reality training and entertainment. After a successful IPO, Jon came to California and founded DigiLens, the leading waveguide optics platform. A named inventor on over 70 patents, Jon has also received three national small business awards for innovation, manufacturing and management.
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About DigiLens, Metamaterial Inc.: DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR).
Simon Ratner
CTO & Founder of Proxy
Simon Ratner, CTO & Co-Founder Simon Ratner is the co-founder and CTO of Proxy, a company on a mission to empower all people with a digital identity signal that’s universally accessible, secure and private. At Proxy, he strives to create technologies that revolutionize the way we experience the physical world while empowering people to maintain complete control of their identity, data, and privacy. Before Proxy, Ratner was the co-founder of Inporia and Omnisio, which was acquired by Google, and an engineer at Jive Software, Youtube, and Sensory Networks. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as dual Bachelor’s degrees in Software Engineering and Biochemistry from the University of Sydney.
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About Proxy: Access More, Share Less. Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies. With Proxy ID, your world is now open.
Neil Voss
Co-Founder of Anima
Neil Voss is the Co-Founder of ANIMA.
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About Anima, Signals: Making the metaverse real.
Taylor Freeman
Founder & CEO of Axon Park
Taylor Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Axon Park, a virtual campus where students from around the world can learn together in VR. He has been working at the intersection of VR and education over the last five years during which time he established two incubation spaces in LA and San Francisco housing over 150 AR and AI startups, hosted over 500 events focused around VR and AR, oversaw the training of nearly 1,000 students in-person on VR development, consulted with companies like NASA, Stanford Medical, Google, and IDEO and built a news media platform focused on VR that reaches millions of people per month. Taylor was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 for his work building the industry and he taught the first remote in-VR class with at MIT in 2018. He is deeply passionate about using VR to unlock new levels of human cognition and overcome the challenges many students face in the classroom around geographical limitations, student and teacher bias, and overall accessibility.
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About Axon Park: Welcome to your new virtual campus. Empowering organizations and individuals to harness the power of XR + AI for learning.
Victor Shtrom
Founder/CTO of Augmented Radar Imaging
Co-Founder, Chief Wireless Architect at Ruckus Wireless.
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About Augmented Radar Imaging: Augmented Radar Imaging delivers radar and advanced machine learning algorithms to power autonomous vehicles and warehouse robots.
Cameron Brown
CCO & Co-Founder of Rec Room
Cameron Brown is co-founder and CCO of Against Gravity, makers of the popular social VR app Rec Room. Cam has worked in video games for over twenty years (Pandemic Studios, Beam Software), and was also a creative director on the Microsoft HoloLens program. He believes the future of computing is social, physical, and very exciting!
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About Rec Room: Rec Room is an online universe that enables users to play and create games with friends.
Nick Fajt
CEO & Co-Founder of Rec Room
Nick Fajt is the CEO & Co-Founder of Against Gravity.
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About Rec Room: Rec Room is an online universe that enables users to play and create games with friends.
Ashley Crowder
CEO & Co-Founder of VNTANA
Ashley Crowder is the co-founder and CEO of VNTANA, an industry leading augmented reality platform for creating and distributing premium mixed reality experiences. Prior to co-founding VNTANA she graduated from USC with a bachelors and masters in engineering and gained valuable manufacturing experience at Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman and BP. She leverages her engineering background to guide VNTANA’s overall direction and technology development. Ashley was featured as one of USC’s leading engineering CEOs of 2016. Ashley is a part of the Microsoft Early Developer Program along with the Microsoft Bizspark Plus program. Ashley has been a speaker at SXSW, Digital Summit, Internet Summit, Augmented World Expo, TEDx Venice, the World Economic Forum’s Global Growth Companies & Technology Pioneers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, The Montgomery Summit, Siemer Summit, Digital LA, and others.
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Ben Conway
COO/Co-Founder of VNTANA
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Gabe Paez
Founder and CEO of The Wild
Gabe Paez is the founder of WILD, a software company building a platform for design collaboration leveraging the power of shared virtual reality. WILD makes it easy to share 3D design ideas with a group of people together in realtime. Gabe has been a Technical Director and coder for 15 years. He specializes in creating immersive digitally augmented spaces. He is proud to have worked with a diverse roster of agencies and clients including Adidas, Verizon, Google, Nike, and Samsung. Gabe is an avid problem solver and finds great joy in bringing big ideas to life.
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About The Wild: SaaS, collaboration platform
Remy De Vlieghere
Founder and CEO SmarTECHS, LLC of SmarTECHS
Remy is a serial entrepreneur with a track record in building businesses and high-performance teams, and delivering break through innovation. Remy brings 20 years of broad international operations and commercial experience.
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About SmarTECHS: SaaS – Delivering context relevant work and safety instruction for technicians in the field
Kosta Popov
Founder & CEO of Cappasity
Kosta Popov, CEO and Founder, has 20+ years of experience and a successful track record as a software company CEO. Under Kosta’s lead, Cappasity has so far successfully raised $6.4M. Kosta is an expert in 3D technologies, SaaS solutions and mobile applications and was named one of the top innovators by Intel Software.
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About Cappasity: Cappasity is a cloud-based platform that lets online stores easily create and deliver 3D, VR and AR shopping experiences
Arjita Sethi
Co Founder of Equally
Arjita is a teacher and a serial entrepreneur since 2004. She is currently the co-founder of Equally. Equally is building learning experiences using Augmented Reality adn Camera Vision that bring children closer to real world. She is currently serving on the Young Executive Advisory Board on the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. She is also the co-founder of Startupindia.in , a startup based out of India that is providing tools and resources for entrepreneurs in India to create impactful startups Arjita is a passionate Social entrepreneur who completed her masters in social entrepreneurship from Hult international Business School. She works on projects which give social entrepreneurs & women entrepreneurs around the world an ecosystem of impact metrics, resources and right stakeholders to create maximum impact. She hopes to create awareness of social entrepreneurship globally. Leveraging her theatre background, she gives talks around her experiments with entrepreneurship. She was a speaker at TEDx San Francisco in 2015.
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About Equally: AR game platform for kids to learn and grow.
Greg Castle
Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of Anorak Ventures
Greg is the Managing Partner of Anorak Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging technology. Based in Silicon Valley, the firm focuses on VR/AR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Portfolio companies include Against Gravity, Catalog, Lightform and 6d.ai. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 26 investments counting Flexport and two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in, and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform (acq. 2011) and for Autodesk’s Game Technology Group.
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About Anorak Ventures: Investing at the earliest stages in transformational people and technology
Kirin Sinha
CEO & Founder of Illumix
Kirin Sinha, 25, is the founder and CEO of Illumix, a Lightspeed and Maveron backed AR gaming and technology company focused on developing adaptive and immersive experiences for the mobile phone. Previously, she founded SHINE for Girls, a national nonprofit targeted at encouraging middle school girls to pursue the study of mathematics. Not your typical gamer or CEO, Kirin is a Marshall Scholar and holds Masters degrees with honors in mathematics and statistics focused on machine learning, specifically computer vision, from the University of Cambridge and LSE respectively. She received a degree in electrical engineering / computer science and mathematics from MIT, and her MBA from Stanford University.
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About Illumix: Illumix develops augmented reality games.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Joe Martin
Founder and CEO of Snatch
Forensic scientist turned entrepreneur and tech company founder. Joe has used his background in to behavioral psychology to take the unlikely step into brand and mobile marketing to huge effect. His first venture ‘Snatch’ – a mobile marketing platform packaged as augmented reality treasure hunt hit the #1 spot on the UK app stores in 2017 and fast became the #1 customer acquisition platform for the majority of over 200 brand partners thanks to the productization of his deeper level understanding of consumer behaviour that resulted in average offer redemptions of 34% (industry average 2%-5%) across a 9 month test period that accumulated over 1 million active users and resulted in Joe being invited to speak at some of the worlds most prestigious tech and marketing events from SXSW, CES, Founders Forum and Cannes Lion. He now returns with his second venture ‘Tickle’ to once again challenge the stat quo and to once again prove that advertising can and should entertain and reward.
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About Snatch, Tickle Global: Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.
Anthony Fenu
Founder & CEO of Soar
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About Soar: Soar is a real-time streaming platform for volumetric video
Justin Baker
Founder & CTO of Soar
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About Soar: Soar is a real-time streaming platform for volumetric video
Nikhil Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of ObEN
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About ObEN: ObEN is an AI company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars.
Andrew Wyatt
CEO, Co-Founder of CALA
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About CALA: CALA is a marketplace that provides retail infrastructure for influencers and fashion brands to design and launch their own fashion brands.
Dylan Pyle
Co-Founder, CTO of CALA
Dylan Pyle joined CALA as Co-Founder, CTO in 2016.
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About CALA: CALA is a marketplace that provides retail infrastructure for influencers and fashion brands to design and launch their own fashion brands.
Brian Streem
Founder, CEO of Vermeer
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About Vermeer: AR/VR & AI Enable Mission Planning Tool
Matt Stern
Co-Founder & COO of Mira
Matt Stern is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Mira. He is also one of the thirty inaugural students in Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young’s Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at USC.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Benjamin Taft
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Montana Reed
Co-Founder & CPO of Mira
Montana Reed is working to define the future of augmented reality product experiences.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Shiraz Akmal
CEO & Co-Founder of Spaces
CEO & Co-Founder at SPACES Inc.
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About SABH’s Big Adventure, Spaces: SPACES designs VR, AR and MR experiences for theme parks, retail, and other public locations worldwide.
Youssri Helmy
Founder, CEO of Eonite Perception
Youssri brings over 25 years of experience in engineering, product management, marketing, and business development in a wide range of technologies to Eonite. He is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully cofounded, operated and exited several startups globally.
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About Eonite Perception, Si-Ware Systems: Eonite Perception is a 3D mapping and tracking company on a mission to enable machines to understand the real world.
Tony Mugavero
Co-Founder & CEO of Rad
Tony Mugavero is an experienced tech entrepreneur and executive with a media, business, blockchain, and computer engineering background. He is the Founder and CEO of Littlstar, a premium immersive network putting viewers at the center of experiences, and creator of the blockchain platform Ara. Ara is a distributed and decentralized system for all digital content and assets to be made available for sale on the blockchain.. Littlstar leverages this technology, and has the best content in the world from companies like NBCU, Warner Brothers, Universal Music, Showtime, Nat Geo, Discovery, PBS, Red Bull, Virgin, Disney, and more. He was a Co-founder and CTO at Galvanize, Inc., having co-founded and launched the 6-month gSchool engineering program, the co-working space, and Galvanize Venture Fund I focusing on early stage venture capital. In addition, he evaluated tech and media investments, raised money for Galvanize, and mentored startups on a daily basis. His work there won awards and countless features in the press. While at Galvanize his efforts took the company from $0 to $200k per month recurring revenue, sold out classes at Galvanize University with all graduates getting $60k per year jobs or better, and multiple investments in companies like Keen.io, Dabble, Pangea Organics, and more. Prior to building Galvanize, he was the Founder/CEO of MoovAtom, a simple API for providing cloud-based media encoding and delivery, which was successfully acquired in 2012. MoovAtom had clients like American Airlines, Pepsi, MEC Global, and TriNet. He was a Co-Founder of the music discovery app GigBeat, which was a Google MWC/IO Partner and AppCircus winner with over 1 Million users.
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About ARA Blocks, Rad: Rad is the Netflix of Blockchain, with NFTs, Crypto Rewards, and tokenized subscriptions.
Matthew Collado
Co-Founder, CCO Chief Content Officer of Rad
Co-Founder, CMO at Little Star Media, Inc.
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About ARA Blocks, Rad: Rad is the Netflix of Blockchain, with NFTs, Crypto Rewards, and tokenized subscriptions.
Farris Wu
Co-Founder & CEO of DecorMatters
Mingfeng (Farris) Wu is an interdisciplinary entrepreneur who has successfully co-founded and expanded three businesses in three industries: consumer technology, venture capital and commercial real estate. Farris conceived of, co-founded, and served as CEO of a VC-backed fast growing company: DecorMatters. DecorMatters is building a user-centric platform to re-define the experience of home design and furniture shopping, by leveraging patented pending technologies of Augmented Reality (AR), Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI). DecorMatters is making home design easy and fun. Prior to DecorMatters, Farris co-founded and served as managing director of ZenStone Venture Capital (ZenStoneVC.com), to bridge China capital and innovations in Silicon Valley. He invested in 40+ technology companies at early stage. The entire portfolio has been valued more than $2 billion and raised more than $500 million capital. Farris was named to Top 20 Best Cross-Border Venture Capitalists by China Venture and Hurun Midas List in 2016. Prior to ZenStone, Farris co-founded and served as managing director of Alpha Realty Capital (ARC, ARealtyCapital.com), a vertically integrated firm offering commercial real estate investment, property value add, and property management services to HNW families and financial institutions in China. This firm currently has more than $100M asset under management, and generates more than 8% annual cash distribution and 25% IRR to limited partners. Prior to ARC, Farris developed the most sophisticated fast computing algorithms for solving cutting-edge physics problems. After Ph.D. graduation, he joined Applied Materials to conduct strategic project development and help executives bring strategic technology from concept to product. Farris obtained Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin, and B.S. and M.S. from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He published 30+ papers in top academic journals and 8+ technology patents.
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About DecorMatters, ZenStone Venture Capital: Building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem for the trillion dollar home renovation industry
Jing Xue
Co-Founder & COO of DecorMatters
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About DecorMatters: Building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem for the trillion dollar home renovation industry
Scott Montgomerie
Co-Founder, CEO and CTO of ScopeAR
Serial entrepreneur, Scott Montgomerie, has over 15 years of consumer software and AR experience that he brings to his roles of co-founder, CEO and CTO at Scope AR. In addition to managing day-to-day company operations, Scott is one of the true pioneers in the industrial AR space and passionate about how AR can help organizations achieve their goals quickly. Scott is also a full-stack developer, in everything from iPhone games to Ruby-on-Rails corporate tools, and has experience founding and creating products and teams from the grassroots startup stage through to acquisition. Throughout his career, Scott has aimed to make the world a better place by solving complex problems with transformative tech. He sees AR as having tremendous potential to simplify complex issues across industries. Scott graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science and is a published researcher in the field of Bioinformatics.
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About ScopeAR, Xfire: Scope AR develops augmented reality solutions and products for industrial clients focused around field maintenance.
Sly Lee
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Sly is a first generation American Entrepreneur & Scientist who is passionate about creating positive global impact through design and exponential technologies. He is co-founder & CEO of Emerge, a teleportation company with a vision to connect people’s emotions and feelings, on the path to ultimately “teleporting” our presence. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2018 recipient, a Singularity University Global Solutions Program 2015 Alumnus, World Economic Forum Global Future Council Member for AR/VR, has presented at the Skoll World Forum, and can be found surfing Venice Breakwater most mornings.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Mauricio Teran
Co-Founder & Head of Insights of Emerge
Mauricio Teran is the Co-Founder and the Head of Insights at Emerge.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Isaac Castro
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Isaac Castro is an immigrant entrepreneur and co-founder & co-CEO of Emerge, a Los Angeles-based company bringing touch and emotion to the metaverse. Emerge’s mission is to empower those who are separated to feel more present when it is not possible to be physically together. Isaac believes in a future where technological progress brings us closer together and where nobody is left behind. He is an MIT Technology Review ‘Innovator Under 35’ recipient for the invention of a medical device for more effective cancer treatment. As a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper, he actively worked on inspiring youth and fostering peace and reconciliation with former FARC guerrilla members in Colombia, work for which he was invited to participate and speak at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Isaac holds a master’s degree in telecommunications engineering, and he is a graduate of Google X and NASA sponsored Global Solutions Program at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Ariel Imas
Co Founder of The Glimpse Group
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About : The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Braden Ferrari
Co Founder of The Glimpse Group
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About : The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Dj Smith
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Glimpse Group
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About The Glimpse Group: The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Maydan RothBlum
CFO & COO, Co-Founder of The Glimpse Group
Maydan Rothblum is CFO & COO at The Glimpse Group.
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About The Glimpse Group: The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Alon Grinshpoon
Co-Founder & CEO of echo3D
Alon Grinshpoon is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at echoAR. Alon is a big-believer in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and is working on building the world’s best 3D-first content management system (CMS) and delivery network (CDN) to help companies scale their AR/VR solutions. Alon is a Java native-speaker with countless hours of programming in Java, Android, Unity, C#, C and Bash. Alon loves to create AR/VR apps, GUI and graphically design applications, open-source programs and API integration alongside his experience and passion for cloud and computer communication networks. Alon received his MSc in Computer Science from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science specializing in computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and human-computer interaction. Alon wrote his thesis on an Augmented Reality Guidance System for Endovascular Surgery advised by Prof. Steven K. Feiner. Alon received his BSc as a double major in Computer Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Tel Aviv University specializing in software engineering, computer networks, and cyber-security. During his studies, Alon served as a graduate researcher at the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory of Columbia University. Alon also served as a research assistant and teaching assistant in the fields of computer networks and distributed cloud.
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About echo3D, vasAR Technologies: echo3D is a cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that allows developers to quickly build and deploy 3D games, apps, and content.
Arjun Nagendran
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Mursion
Arjun completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Manchester, UK, specializing in landing mechanisms for Unmanned Air Vehicles. Prior to Mursion, he worked for several years as an academic researcher leading the ground vehicle robotic system for Team Tumbleweed, which was one of the six-finalists at the Ministry of Defense (UK) Grand Challenge. During his academic career, he has contributed to several projects and manuscripts including the development of a robot to explore the Great Egyptian Pyramid, adaptive robots to catch fast-moving objects, and robots that can grasp objects of any shape. The latter parts of his academic career were focused on developing camera-based computer vision systems to detect faults in railroad tracks, aerial video gathering platforms for action recognition, and the bridging of virtual reality and robotics to impact social behavior in people.
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About Mursion: Mursion, a virtual reality environment or platform where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills.
Shai Rozen
Co-Founder & CPO of Suggestic
Human being, currently living on planet earth. Serial entrepreneur, growth hacker and product builder. Passionate about life and the quest for immortality.
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About 0BS, Suggestic: Suggestic operates as a personalized nutrition platform that utilizes AI to deliver food recommendations.
Ondrej Panek
Co-Founder of SmartGuide
Ondrej holds MSc in cybernetics and he was #4 in cybersecurity startup Cognitive Security that got acquired by Cisco. Ondrej saw the full journey from startup inception at the university to growth and merger in a larger corporation. He is passionate about product, data analytics and marketing.
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About SmartGuide: SmartGuide B2B2C platform turns every phone into a personal tour guide that enables safe tourism recovery post-Covid.
Sabrina Kemeny
President, Co-Founder of Tap Systems
Sabrina Kemeny is a cofounder of TAP, a high tech start-up that is changing the way people interact with the electronic world. Dr. Kemeny co-invented the camera-on-a-chip technology which revolutionized digital imaging and is at the core of every cell phone camera, while working for Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Subsequently, she was cofounder and CEO of Photobit Corporation, the company that successfully commercialized the fledgling CMOS sensor technology. After managing several rounds of equity financing and negotiating many strategic alliances with players such as Kodak, Intel and Hitachi, she oversaw the acquisition of Photobit to Micron Technology, Inc. • BS, MS and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University o Received the Helena Rubinstein “Outstanding Women in Science” award • Member of the technical Staff at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory o Co-Inventor of the CMOS active pixel image sensor technology: the Camera-on-a-Chip that revolutionized digital imaging and is at the core of every cell phone camera today o The United States Space Foundation inducted her into the Space Technology Hall of Fame • Co-Founder and CEO of Photobit Corporation, the industry-leading supplier of CMOS image sensors that was acquired by Micron Technology, Inc o Negotiated exclusive license for the JPL patent portfolio o Negotiated strategic alliances with companies such as Intel, Kodak and Hitachi o Managed equity financing and oversaw the Micron exit. • Business advisor to several high tech start-ups in the Los Angeles area and an angel investor with Tech Coast Angels.
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About Tap Systems: Tap Systems is a developer of a wearable Bluetooth keyboard designed to help users type by tapping fingers on any surface.
Devin Daly
Co-Founder & CEO of SpinCar
Devin co-founded SwipeToSpin in 2011 with the goal of making online shopping more intuitive and engaging than ever before. With a background in venture capital consulting, Devin was afforded a unique perspective on cutting-edge software solutions. After watching one tech company, which enabled eCommerce websites to easily add zoom functionality to their websites, rise to its now ubiquitous position he saw a similar opportunity for 360 content. Devin knew from his own shopping experience and numerous industry studies that consumers feel much more confident in their online purchase if they can view a product from 360 degrees. As an early advocate of growth hacking, Devin teaches traditional businesses how to apply lean business methodologies to increase profitability. In long-established industries like automotive, SwipeToSpin flips conventional growth theory on its head. By promoting total optimization of the online sales funnel prior to advertising spend, SwipeToSpin helps retailers get significantly more leverage out of their marketing dollars and dominate competition. Devin earned his Bachelors degree in Finance and Economics from Saint Joseph’s University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude while playing Division I Men’s Varsity Lacrosse.
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About SpinCar: SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising.
Michael Quigley
Co-Founder, President & CSO of SpinCar
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Mentor.
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About SpinCar, StartFast Ventures: SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising.
Anthony Duca
Founder and CEO of Cavrnus
Anthony Duca is CEO and Founder at Cavrnus.
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About Cavrnus: Cavrnus is a software company that specializes in spatial collaboration via extended reality.
Devkumar Gandhi
CEO & Co-Founder of Moback
Devkumar is the Founder of NEXAGE, and was the CEO from 2006 till early 2010. For last 20 years, Devkumar has been involved in wireless carrier operations and high-tech entrepreneurialism with experience in developing and marketing mobile & online advertising and media technology. Devkumar has experience in management team recruiting, company formation, entrepreneurial finance, capital acquisition, strategic business development, technology and marketing strategy. Devkumar raised over $10M in financing for companies he has founded, including venture capital and angel investments.
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About Dobango, Hmatix Inc, Moback: Moback is a specialist in Robotics Telepresence, Autonomous Vehicles’ User experience and Enterprise software development.
Andreas Forsland
Founder & CEO of Cognixion
Andreas Forsland is the Founder & CEO at Cognixion.
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About Cognixion: Cognixion is a neural interface startup creates AI-powered products for individuals with disabilities.
Suzanne Borders
CEO and Co-Founder of BadVR
Suzanne is the founder of BadVR, the world’s first immersive data analytics platform. She is best known for leading the design of 2D data analytics platforms at Remine, CREXi, and Osurv. In her spare time, she’s traveled to 75 countries, lived through the Egyptian revolution, and met her hero, Alejandro Jodorowksy.
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About BadVR: BadVR uses virtual reality to craft immersive data experiences that help you see the whole picture and gain actionable insights.
Sean Di Ianni
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Exhibitions of Meow Wolf
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About Meow Wolf: Meow Wolf creates entertainment that delights audiences through location-based and digital media experiences.
Ciro Donalek
CTO & Co-Founder of Virtualitics
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About Virtualitics: Visualize and understand your data as never before thanks to our innovative use of VR/AR, Machine Learning and Natural Language.
Yuja Chang
Co-Founder of Aira
Yuja Chang is a Co-Founder of Aira Tech Corp.and serves as its Vice President of Product.
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About Aira: Aira provides tech-enabled services for the 300 million visually impaired people around the globe.
Brett Jones
CEO & Co-Founder of Lightform
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Kevin Karsch
CTO & Co-Founder of Lightform
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Rajinder Sodhi
Co-Founder of Lightform
Rajinder Sodhi is the co-founder of Lightform, where we’re making the first computer for projected augmented reality. Connect Lightform to any projector and instantly create magical experiences with light.
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Botao Hu
Founder of Amber Garage
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About Amber Garage: Amber Garage is a creative art and technology studio based in Silicon Valley.
Jennifer Richey
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Gravity Jack
Jennifer is a southern California native, transplanted to the Great Northwest. Along with being a mother, a triathlete, fitness model, extreme athlete and skydiver, Jennifer is a technology futurist and entrepreneur. With extensive experience speaking to groups of all sizes and background — ranging from Fortune 500 executives to college students — Jennifer helps provide an understanding of augmented reality and mobile technology. Jennifer discusses the past, how technology has gotten to this point, and what investors, consumers and developers can expect as technology continues moving at lightning speed into the future. Jennifer has been in the technology sector, since leaving college to help kickoff a startup in 2002. Her first foray into technology startups was as the CFO of Tometa Software, a custom software company that was acquired in 2007. From this, Jennifer went on to take the same role at PlayXpert, a gaming company and in 2009, helped spearhead the formation of Gravity Jack.
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About Gravity Jack: Gravity Jack is a custom software development company offering mobile AR software for the iPhone, iPad, and Android operating systems.
Danny Gordon
Founder & CEO of AugiArt
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About AugiArt, CultureSphere: Web3’s Yelp + NFTs For The Hospitality Industry
Salvador Nissi Vilcovsky
Founder & CEO of Memomi
Salvador Nissi Vilcovsky is a serial entrepreneur and interaction design expert. Prior to founding MemoMi, Salvador founded and exited three successful network systems integration companies. An recognized leader in experience-based design, Salvador has 15 years of international, executive-level management experience, specializing in rapid product development. He completed the ACSE Program at MIT Sloan School of Management, a MA in Design from Domus Academy, and BA in Business from the University of Manchester.
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About Memomi: Memomi is a smart mirror software that transforms the luxury shopping market.
Ofer Saban
Co-Founder, CTO of Memomi
Ofer Saban is a Co founder & CTO at Memomi Inc.
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About Memomi: Memomi is a smart mirror software that transforms the luxury shopping market.
Gavin Weigh
Co-Founder & COO of Revieve
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About LandInChicago, Revieve, ULLAC: Market-leading beauty customer-experience personalization solution for beauty brands and retailers
Ryan Fink
CEO, Co-Founder of Streem
Ryan is the CEO, Co-founder of Streem, Inc. Past: CEO, Founder of ONtheGO Platforms (Acquired by Atheer), VP Business Development @ Atheer. Built GhostRunner, an augmented reality application in 2010.
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About Streem: Making the worlds expertise more accessible.
Sean Adkinson
CTO, Co-Founder of Streem
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About Streem: Making the worlds expertise more accessible.
Arthur Goikhman
Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealVR, Inc
Arthur Goikhman co-founded Surre.al in 2011. He previously co-founded Cellufun, an early leader in the mobile gaming space, which he took from a vision to a company with a run rate of $10 million annual revenue and the top tier of the Inc. 500 Startups list by growing it 2400 percent within three years. Prior to Cellufun, Goikhman co-founded Spiderphone Conferencing and S&G, a boutique Wall Street consultancy whose clients included Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank One, and Prudential. Goikhman has been a frequent speaker at mobile industry conferences and was honored to accept the Best Mobile Game 2008 Award for Cellufun’s Call of the Pharaoh at the World Mobile Congress.
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About SurrealVR, Inc: Surreal Games is an immersive game world where players engage in real-time interactive adventures of their choosing.
Johnny Monsarrat
Founder, CEO of Monsarrat
In 1994, Johnny Monsarrat invented the MMO at founder and CEO of Turbine, which won two videogame “Oscars”, created a market now earning $20 billion a year, and was bought by Warner Brothers for $160 million. Now as CEO of Monsarrat, Inc., Johnny Monsarrat and a team of former Turbine staff are inventing the next big thing after Pokemon Go. Johnny Monsarrat is an Ivy League award-winning public speaker educated at Harvard, Brown University, MIT, and MIT Sloan.
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About Monsarrat: The next big thing in mobile AR walking games
Bruno Francois
Founder of CAR360
Bruno Francois is the Co-Founder and CEO of Egos Ventures.
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About CAR360, Carvana: Car360 is changing the way companies capture and tell a vehicle’s story.
Sanjay Jhawar
Co-Founder and President of RealWear
Sanjay Jhawar is Co-founder, President and Chief Product Officer at RealWear – makers of the world’s first head-mounted tablet computer – a wearable that completely frees the hands of industrial workers. Known as a strategist, innovator and leader for over 25 years, Sanjay has a deep product background in mobile devices including smartphones and wearables, mobile SaaS cloud services, client apps, accessories and core network infrastructure.
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About RealWear, St. Paul Venture Capital: RealWear develops a small screen tablet to be worn with an industrial helmet for workers in the field, factory, or warehouse.
Andy Lowery
Co-Founder of RealWear
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About RealWear: RealWear develops a small screen tablet to be worn with an industrial helmet for workers in the field, factory, or warehouse.
Chen-Ping Yu
Co-Founder, CTO of Phiar Technologies
Co-Founder & CEO at Phiar. Extensive cutting-edge research background in artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, and cognitive science.
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About Phiar Technologies: Phiar’s Ultra-lightweight Spatial AI Engine enables vehicles to perceive its surroundings, and powers our first use case in AR Navigation.
Sekhar Puli
Co-Founder, President & CEO of LifeVoxel
Sekhar Puli is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of LifeVoxel.
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About LifeVoxel, MAROSHI Partners: LifeVoxel is an Interactive Streaming and AI Platform for Diagnostic Imaging Centers.
Mike Rothenberg
General Partner & Founder of Rothenberg Ventures
Mike founded Rothenberg Ventures in 2012 to build communities and solve problems while a student at Harvard Business School. Mike couchsurfed across the country to raise $5m from 50 founders & CEOs for the first fund. As a student, Mike ran the fund and led the investments including Robinhood, SpaceX, Matterport, Revel Systems, and Patreon. Today, Rothenberg Ventures manages $50m with more than 100 startup holdings, three unicorns, and at least a dozen exits. In January 2015, Mike launched the River Accelerator program to help build early stage Frontier Technology startups and the Virtual Reality ecosystem. Mike is a globally recognized thought leader in Frontier Technology known for calling the Virtual Reality tipping point, and has keynoted major conferences on Frontier Technology and Virtual Reality on multiple continents. In 2016, Mike founded River Ecosystem LLC with Nick Canafax, which now operates the River Accelerator program for early-stage frontier technology startups, the River Lounge creative space in SOMA, and the River Network. Together, Rothenberg Ventures and River Ecosystem help Frontier Technology startups grow from the R&D stage and mass market adoption. As of 2017, Rothenberg Ventures is the top ranked Venture Capital firm in Frontier Technology and Virtual Reality (according to Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook).
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About Rothenberg Ventures: Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups.
