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 Los Angeles based Founder operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
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.
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Lauren Schulte Wang
Founder & CEO of The Flex Co.
Lauren Schulte Wang is the founder & CEO of The Flex Company. Lauren has spent over a decade building leading consumer brands for companies including Coca-Cola, Autodesk, and IBM. She frequently speaks on the topics of women’s health and entrepreneurship and has been featured in The Economist, TechCrunch, OZY, The New Yorker, WIRED, The Washington Post and NPR. Lauren holds a Marketing degree from Georgia State University Robinson College of Business.
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About The Flex Co.: The Flex Co. is the top-selling sustainable period care brand known for creating a more comfortable period for everyone.
Jon Buscemi
Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director of Greats
Founder/ Creative Director at Greats.
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About Greats, Lotto Sport Italia Spa, Lusso Cloud, Oliver Peoples: Greats Brands is a men’s footwear brand that offers a wide range of classically-inspired sneakers.
Daniel Rotman
Founder & CEO of PrettyLitter
Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership Fellow. Founder and CEO of PrettyLitter.
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About PrettyLitter: PrettyLitter’s lightweight litter monitors feline health by changing colors when it detects potential issues through your cat’s urine.
Chris Sheng
CEO and Founder of LeadrPro
Chris Sheng is the CEO and Founder of LeadrPro.
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About CircleIn, GoCheck, Growth Team, LeadrPro, Liquid, Metricstory, Oaklo, Pavilion: The first online marketplace directly connecting buyers with sellers of Saas products.
Rory Felton
Board Member / Co-Founder of Airmule
Rory Felton joined Feltone as Founder & Artist Manager/Partner in 2015.Rory began his career as a founder of a tech-savvy music & media company, The Militia Group, out of his USC dorm room. Within a few short years, utilizing innovative digital strategies and marketing programs, the company signed dozens of artists, grew to a team of ten, and became a partnership with Sony Music. He went on to sell millions of products, received an RIAA Certified Gold Record subsequently leading Sony to acquire the major assets.
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About Airmule, Appr.tv, Feltone: Airmule is an “On-Demand Shipping Platform” that allows users to connect and sell their unused luggage space with express shipping demand.
Jonathan Um
Co-Founder, COO of Hollar
Co-Founder & COO at Hollar.
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About Hollar: Hollar is an online dollar store that features toys, apparel, electronics, beauty, accessories, party supplies, to home essentials.
Tal Pink
Founder of Looksy
Tal Pink is an established entrepreneur with over 10 years experience in the internet and startups. One of the early employees of Israeli company ICQ (acquired by AOL), Tal went on to launch Tar Networks (a startup incubator), as well as [Fonogenic](http://www.fonogenic.com) (DRM free music store for independent artists). His latest project, [Dopetracks.com](http://www.dopetracks.com), brings his love of musical collaboration to the web in a fresh new way by connecting producers and emcees in an interactive environment. Tal is an accomplished musician and a world-traveler who has lived in Israel, London, and California.
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About Adly, Dopetracks, Looksy, Sparitual: Fashion and Beauty Social Media
Daniel Broukhim
Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer of FabFitFun
Daniel Broukhim is CEO and Co-founder of Charlie and FabFitFun.
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About FabFitFun: FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Michael Broukhim
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FabFitFun
Michael Broukhim has directed new media strategy for leading entertainment, corporate, non-profit, and political clients. Before Charlie, Michael co-founded and led product initiatives at TotSpot, which earned top honors at Twiistup, Los Angeles’ premiere startup showcase. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College where he was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding research. At Harvard, Michael served as the Editorial Chair for the Crimson and earned a National Pacemaker Award for his writing. In addition to his work at Charlie, Michael is earning his JD/MBA at Stanford and invests in early stage startups.
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About Charlie, FabFitFun: FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Kim Stiefel
CEO & Co-Founder of Repeat
Kim Stiefel is the CEO and Co-Founder of PRZM.
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About Repeat: Repeat is a SaaS platform that enables consumer-packaged-goods brands to turn one-time buyers into repeat customers.
Ryan Hudson
Co-Founder of Honey
Co-founder @ Honey
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About Honey: Honey is a shopping platform that provides access to exclusive savings, deals, rewards, and discovery.
Maryam Henein
Founder of HoneyColony
In 2010, Maryam’s 15-year career as an investigative journalist, professional researcher, and producer hit a milestone with the release of her award-winning documentary Vanishing of the Bees. It also marked her directorial debut.
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About HoneyColony, HoneyColony: HoneyColony is an online magazine and e-commerce site that promotes health through community-curated knowledge.
Jan Wellmann
Co-Founder of HoneyColony
Jan Wellmann is Founder at HoneyColony.
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About Energy For Living, HoneyColony: HoneyColony is an online magazine and e-commerce site that promotes health through community-curated knowledge.
David Renteln
Co-Founder of Soylent
David brings broad experience in operations and sales to Soylent where he sets up strategic business partnerships and drives the sales channels. Prior to this, he was the first employee at a biotech devices start up and co-founded an education technology company. David graduated from Harvard with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology, where he also served as President of the Harvard Rugby Team.
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About Lucy Goods, Rosa Labs, Soylent: Soylent is a pioneer in food tech, producing delicious, functional foods, w/ complete nutrition that are good for the body & the planet
Jonathan Shokrian
Founder & CEO of MeUndies
Jonathan Shokrian was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA.
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About MeUndies: MeUndies brings together sustainable fabric and innovative design to make soft underwear and loungewear for its customers.
Katherine Power
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Clique
Katherine Power is the Co-Founder and CEO of Clique Media Group (CMG), the parent media company of WhoWhatWear (fashion), MyDomaine (lifestyle) Byrdie (beauty) and Obsessee (new omni-channel platform, specifically targeted at Gen-Z). In 2006, Katherine left her editorial role at ELLE to launch Who What Wear with her co-founder, Hillary Kerr. The goal was to disrupt the DNA of the magazine industry with a simple idea: do it digitally. By bringing print magazine sensibilities to the online space, CMG was born to offer readers elevated and curated access to their core passions: fashion, beauty, home and shopping. At CMG, Katherine drives all business operations, advertising and brand partnerships, along with the development of branded technology products. Just within the last year, Katherine has led the charge on exciting new initiatives for CMG, which include announcing the brand’s first foray into product with the launch of the Who What Wear collection at Target, a Series B round of funding that Amazon participated in, international expansion to the UK and Australia, and the acquisition of Wantering, a Canadian startup and social shopping search engine. Additionally, a third co-authored book, The Career Code, which serves as the modern girl’s guide for creating your own professional success, came out in the spring of 2016. As a leader that constantly innovates about what readers and consumers might want next, Katherine and her CMG team are continuing to enhance their offerings and user experience for the new generation of consumers.
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About AVALINE, Clique, MERIT Beauty, Sonoma Brands, Versed, Who What Wear: Clique is a media and commerce company
Mark Thomas Lynn
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of DSTLD
Mark T. Lynn co-founder @winc @dstld. Founder and CEO of @AMASS.botanics
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About AMASS Botanics, Digital Brands Group (DBG), DSTLD: DSTLD is a direct-to-consumer premium denim brand.
Jason Landver
Founder of Essential Man
Founder at Essential Man
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About Essential Man: Essential Man is a online shopping site that enables clients to discover and purchase unique and appropriate products.
Jason Honey
Founder of Essential Man
Founder at Essential Man.
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About Essential Man: Essential Man is a online shopping site that enables clients to discover and purchase unique and appropriate products.
Melissa Lim
Founder of MelissaWithLove.co
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About GoFibre, M Travels, MelissaWithLove.co, Tech Nation, Tech Nation: Global Retailer of Luxury Organic Beauty and Personal Care Products
Daria Shapovalova
Co-Founder of DRESSX
Daria Shapovalova is a DressX co-founder with 15+ years of experience in fashion. Called ‘Kiev Fashion’s Queen Bee’ by Vogue UK, Daria is famous for putting Ukraine on the world’s fashion map, establishing Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days and Paris-based showroom More Dash. Shapovalova merged her work with education and technology industries by founding Kiev Fashion Institute and international tech-conference Fashion Tech Summit, spearheading discussions on bridging fashion with technology. As the next career spin, Daria moved to San Francisco, got an MBA, and undertook her internship at Walmart. Daria is featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe and BOF 500 Most Influential People lists.
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About DRESSX: DRESSX is a fashion startup that offers digital-only collections from brands and 3D designers.
Natalia Modenova
Co-Founder of DRESSX
Natalia Modenova is a DressX co-founder with 10+ years of experience in the fashion industry. Natalia’s main activities include founding the international tech-conference Fashion Tech Summit and Paris-based showroom More Dash alongside Daria Shapovalova, initiating and curating showcases for promotion and sales of the designers’ collections internationally. In 2019 More Dash expanded to the US with Fashion Experience Pop-Up Stores in Los Angeles, which led Natalia and Daria to founding their first tech company DressX in 2020. Natalia dedicates a lot of her time to educational work, previously curating a Fashion Business course at Kiev Fashion Institute, and later becoming a speaker at Google Women Digital Academy.
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About DRESSX: DRESSX is a fashion startup that offers digital-only collections from brands and 3D designers.
Geoff McFarlane
Co-Founder and CEO of Winc
Geoff McFarlane is the Co-Founder and CEO of Winc. He is an entrepreneur incorporating over seven years experience in project management and finance. Proven track record in building highly customized projects and successful businesses. Has successfully acquired unsuccessful businesses and made them profitable, while creating an effective business model. His specialties: Skills include budgeting, financial analysis, and management of construction process.
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About Winc: Winc is a winery company with a direct connection to the consumer, building a portfolio of brands for the next generation of wine drinkers.
Xander Oxman
Chairman & Co-Founder of Winc
Xander Oxman is a Co-Founder of Winc.
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About Winc: Winc is a winery company with a direct connection to the consumer, building a portfolio of brands for the next generation of wine drinkers.
Imran Khan
Co-Founder & CEO of Verishop
Imran Khan is the Chief Strategy Officer at Snapchat.
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About Verishop: Verishop is a premium lifestyle company that offers everyday luxury in fashion, beauty, home, and more.
Alex Becker
Co-Founder & CRO of Amuse
Co-Founder of Amuse, a cannabis delivery company founded by some of the most influential companies in cannabis. Co-Founded Internet marketing company Highly Relevant which was acquired by Wpromote, named the Leading Performance Marketing Agency in the new Forrester Wave.
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About Amuse: Amuse is an online retailer that sells and delivers cannabis at the doorstep.
John Tabis
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Bouqs Company
John is passionate about disruptive businesses, cool brands, and showing love to the important people in his life. The Bouqs Company is a combination of those things, and he is thrilled to bring it to you and yours. Prior to Founding The Bouqs Company, John worked in strategy consulting at Bain & Company, followed by marketing & brand strategy for Disney, ESPN, ABC, Marvel, ShoeDazzle and Gerber Baby. John received his BS in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from UCLA Anderson.
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About The Bouqs Company: The Bouqs Company is a cut-to-order online flower delivery service.
David Calvert-Jones
Co-Founder of Whilo
David Calvert-Jones is an Australian entertainment entrepreneur and private equity executive who has been based in Los Angeles for over a decade. He owns a number of companies including Los Angeles based film and television production company Everywhere Studios, Vancouver based 50° North Productions, global aerial filming company Helifilms USA, and is the former Managing Director of Australian Private Equity Firm Seafirst Australia.
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About Whilo: Whilo’s transformative technology is reshaping the way we shop, wish-list and gift designer products with brands and magazines.
Karina Calvert-Jones
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Whilo
Karina Calvert – Jones is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Whilo.
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About Whilo: Whilo’s transformative technology is reshaping the way we shop, wish-list and gift designer products with brands and magazines.
Michael Silton
Managing Director and Founder of Act One Ventures
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About Act One Ventures: Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that leads rounds in business software.
Alejandro Guerrero
General Partner and Founder of Act One Ventures
Alejandro Guerrero is a General Partner at Act One Ventures, a community focused, early-stage micro-vc fund based in Los Angeles. He and his partner Michael Silton have been working together since 2013, when Alejandro was a Volunteer Associate and Michael was the Managing Director at UCLA Ventures. They joined forces again in 2015 to create Act One Ventures.
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About Act One Ventures: Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that leads rounds in business software.
Matthias Metternich
Founder CEO of Art of Sport
Matthias Metternich is a German-American entrepreneur based in Los Angeles and the CEO and Co-Founder of Art of Sport. Matthias’ work has been backed by notable venture capitalists including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Index Ventures and featured in NYT, LA Times, NBC, Forbes, Techcrunch, Wired, FT, BBC, WWD, and Business Insider. Prior to Art of Sport, Matthias was the Founder and CEO of COCODUNE, a vertically integrated direct-to-consumer e-commerce company and Believe.in, an Enterprise Software company offering payment processing, CRM and marketing automation technology to customers in the US, UK, IE, ZA and AU. Matthias was also a Client Partner at AKQA in London and Managing Partner at Poke where he developed new products and platforms for L’Oreal, Barclays, XBox, Skype, American Express, ING Bank and Virgin. Matthias is a graduate from UCLA and the Humboldt University in Berlin.
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About Art of Sport: Art of Sport offers a complete line of daily essential body and skin care products.
Chris Kantrowitz
CEO, Founder of Gobbler
Chris is a serial entrepreneur in gaming, technology, and music. At age 14, he founded his first company– a game testing business for clients like Sony Imagesoft. After university, he co-founded 3D Groove, online gaming technology company that powered the first online 3D games at sites like shockwave.com and nickelodeon.com. In 2003, he started ODVD games, whose premiere title, “Shout!â€, a pop culture interactive DVD trivia game,was distributed globally by Hasbro and is returning in 2011. In 2006, Chris combined his passion for creative and technology and co-founded Frank the Plumber, a leading concert design and production company creating digital and live experiences for such artists as Akon, The Strokes, Lady Antebellum, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Madonna and brands like Ford, Apple and AOL. Most recently, he founded his third technology company, Gobbler, along with his sister Jamie. Gobbler is a purpose built cloud for media creators and the software companies who provide tools to them.
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About Gobbler, Mootral: The largest marketplace for subscription pro-audio plugins.
Ali Sammour
Founder of FLATLAY
ali sammour joined FLATLAY as founder in 2016.
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About FLATLAY: The end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, customers & creatives.
Brian Anderson
Founder & CEO of Nacelle
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About Nacelle: Nacelle turns slow eCommerce sites into fast PWAs for online retailers who are dissatisfied with slow page load speeds.
Brian Ree
Founder and CEO of DAILYLOOK
Brian Ree, is an entrepreneur who has established a number of consumer online businesses. Brian started his career as an entrepreneur when he launched a business named GoldMine.com, which specialized in selling fine gold jewelry and wedding bands. After gaining experience in online marketing, Brian then launched a network of other online content properties.
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About DAILYLOOK: DAILYLOOK is a premium styling experience that delivers a personalized box of style for women.
Leon Wu
Founder & CEO of Sharpe Suiting
Leon Wu is the CEO and Founder of agender luxury clothing label Sharpe, which creates custom and ready-to-wear clothing, accessories and lifestyle products. Two years ago, inspired by the LGBTQ community, Wu created the trademarked formula AndropometicsTM, which revolutionizes how one measures the body based on an individual’s gender identity and queer style. Using over 4000 measurements from custom clients, Wu developed a new gender-neutral standard of sizing for the Sharpe ready-to-wear line, now available at the online store at www.sharpesuiting.com. Sharpe has become a rising name in Hollywood providing custom clothing for celebrity and entertainment industry clients. Sharpe suits have been photographed on the red carpet at Cannes, Oscars, and Emmy’s, worn in Top 40 music videos, and featured in numerous publications including The Huffington Post, Fashionista, The Advocate, Frontiers Media, Curve, Dapper Q, Qwear, and Buzzfeed. Wu was selected as fashion design judge on RACKED.com “Young Guns” 2015 for up-and-coming designers. As an entrepreneur, Wu has been featured on AT&T Business Circle, Wall Street Journal, Canvas8, Workaholic and Native Society. Wu holds a B.A. in Economics at UCLA and an M.B.A. at New York University Stern School of Business with an emphasis on Marketing, Change Leadership and Luxury & Retail focus.
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About Sharpe Suiting: Custom-constructed and Ready to Wear suits with an intellectual approach, a classic feel, and a modern twist.
Elliott Darvish
Co-Founder, COO & CFO of Switch
Co-Founder and Co-Ceo of Switch
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About Switch: Unlimited access to luxury, designer jewelry.
Adriel Darvish
Co-Founder & CEO of Switch
Co-Founder and CEO at Switch.
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About Switch: Unlimited access to luxury, designer jewelry.
Valerian Bennett
Founder of POP Network
Valerian Bennett is founder & CEO of PopChest. Mr. Bennett is a veteran television producer/editor having worked on hit TV shows for E!, MTV, A&E, and many more. Valerian is a Silicon Valley native and graduated from the University of Southern California film school.
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About POP Network: The POP Network is a decentralised solution to the delivery of monetised video using micro payments and token rewards.
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.
Michelle Phan
Co-Founder of ipsy
Michelle Phan is an American make-up demonstrator, entrepreneur, and YouTube personality. She produces, directs, stars in, and edits all of her own work, and has released over 300 videos since 2007. Her videos come with easy-to-follow titles and voiceover instruction. Phan is an award-winning content creator, and was honored with the first-ever Streamy ICON award, and the 2015 People’s Voice Webby Award for Best How-To and DIY Channel. Michelle has also been on Forbes 2015 30 Under 30 list in the category of Art and Style and Inc’s 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs of 2015. In addition to her YouTube channel, in 2011 Michelle co-founded [ipsy](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/personalized-beauty-discovery), an online beauty community. She also launched ipsy Open Studios, a studio space for up-and-coming beauty creators that will allow access to the tools and advice necessary to develop their creative talents further. In August 2013, Phan teamed up with cosmetics titan L’Oreal to launch her make-up line em Michelle Phan. em is the first make-up line co-created by a community of beauty lovers and a beauty expert. Phan joined forces with Cutting Edge Group (CEG) to launch Shift Music Group, a model for a recording and music publishing company that leverages the power of social media to spread awareness for new and existing artists. In addition, she has partnered with Endemol Beyond USA to launch a new premium lifestyle network named ICON. Phan also launched a book in October 2014, called “Make Up: Your Life Guide to Beauty, Style, and Success – Online and Off.” Michelle Phan was born on April 11, 1987, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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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.
Alex Beller
Co-Founder and President of Postscript
Alex Beller is the co-founder and president at Postscript. He was a director of business development at StackCommerce. He studied philosophy at University of Southern California.
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About Postscript: Postscript is an SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing.
Reese Witherspoon
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Draper James
Reese Witherspoon is an American actress and producer who is also the founder of Draper James.
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About Draper James, Hello Sunshine: Draper James is an online shopping site selling apparels and home accessories.
Sandeep Kella
Co-Founder, CEO of assembly
Co-Founder and CEO of Assembly.
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About assembly, FranchiseHelp, Metric Collective, SmallBusinessPost: Assembly is an eCommerce growth platform powered by software, community, and data.
Stephen Forte
Chief Scientist, Founder and CEO of The BuildClub
Stephen Forte lived in China for 10 years, and is a software architect and entrepreneur, with a special focus artificial intelligence and computer vision. Mr. Forte is an expert in mobile apps and software with 28 patents filed with 14 awarded, and has deep insight into Asia tech. Mr. Forte has founded and exited multiple tech startups, been CEO of public and private companies, managed operations in 63 countries, and led P&Ls from startups to over $1 billion.
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About Ascendent Systems, Bixby Creek Capital, LLC, Chief Executives Organization, GLG, The BuildClub, Third Bridge Group, YPO: Mobile App – Building materials delivered in about an hour
Jason Goldberg
Co-Founder & President of CARRO
President & Co-founder of VYRL.
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About CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Patrick Herning
CEO & Founder of 11 Honore
Patrick Herning is a leading executive in brand marketing and influencer engagement, and co-founder and CEO of 11 Honoré, the first size-inclusive shopping site to offer women luxury fashion straight from the runway. His impressive background spans from business development during the initial tech boom of Silicon Valley to fashion, lifestyle and philanthropic clients, projects and major marketing initiatives throughout the country. Patrick was one of the first 50 employees at Cybersource in Silicon Valley responsible for business development for their partner channels. After the company he helped build and grow IPO’d, he held two other business development positions at leading technology companies in Silicon Valley, ultimately culminating in VeriSign’s Payment Services division acquisition to PayPal. From there he relocated to Los Angeles where he formed Fathom Event Strategy, a marketing and communications agency, which was eventually acquired by global communications agency HL Group. After leading business development efforts on the West Coast at HL Group for 5 years, Patrick combined his vast experience, talent for business development and extensive client and influencer relationships to form PMH partners, before teaming up with co-founder Kathryn Retzer to start 11 Honoré.
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About 11 Honore, Thirteen lune: 11Honoré a size-inclusive shopping site that for the first time ever, gives more women the option to experience the best designer clothing
Frasier Lipton
Founder of Frasier Sterling
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About Frasier Sterling: Frasier Sterling is a celeb-loved jewelry, accessories, and fashion brand that offers affordable accessories and jewelry for women.
Michael Barlow
Co-Founder & CEO of Fernish
Michael L. Barlow is the Co-Founder of Fernish. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Atom Tickets.
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About Fernish: Fernish is a furniture rental startup company that offers furniture as a subscription model to consumers living a mobile lifestyle.
Lucas Dickey
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Fernish
Lucas Dickey is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Fernish, a Board Observer at Fractal, and an Angel Investor of Lucas Dickey. He is also an Advisory Board Member at Trellis Research and an Advisor at Chatlingual. Prior to that, he was the Advisory Board Member of Mapfit, the Principal Product Manager at Rival and Atom Tickets, and VP of Product at Thinknear. Earlier in his career, he was also the Head of Product at doubleTwist. Prior to joining doubleTwist, he was product manager for Amazon Cloud Player, Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon MP3 Uploader, and Amazon MP3. He’s also an active angel investor.
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About Fernish: Fernish is a furniture rental startup company that offers furniture as a subscription model to consumers living a mobile lifestyle.
David Garrett
Co-Founder of CELLAR
Dave is an experienced entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in technology and wine businesses all around the world. In the 90s he was the co-founder and CEO of IntraACTIVE, building the first intranet for the US Navy. Later, he co-founded the ground- breaking Vines of Mendoza Wine Resort in Argentina, and the Sant Marcell Vineyard & Winery in Spain. He sits on boards and advises wine-related businesses on three continents, ranging from producers to retailers to wine tourism, and spent several years developing the Entaste iPad wine list platform in Hong Kong. As EVP and head of business development for CELLAR, Dave brings a wealth of relationships in the wine industry around the world, and deep knowledge and experience in the sometimes-complicated workings of the International wine trade.
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About CELLAR: Through cinematic TV storytelling, Cellar is the agent of discovery and affinity for the best and most interesting winemakers in the world.
Christian Levy
Co-Founder and Head of Engineering of MagicLinks
Co-founder and head of development for Magiclinks.org. Helping YouTubers and other social media content creators monetize shopping trips they inspire through their content.
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About Chippmunk, MagicLinks: The leader in social commerce for video influencers and the world’s top brands
Samuel Jurist
Co-Founder & CEO of SHO Products
Samuel Jurist is the CEO of SHO Products, an international ancillary product distributor for the cannabis industry housing the brands Rosin Tech Products, Dab Nation and Masterminded Distribution.
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About SHO Products: SHO Products is the leading equipment and technology provider in the world for solventless agricultural equipment
Manish Goyal
Founder & CEO of friendbuy
Manish is founder & CEO of Friendbuy, where his deep e-commerce experience is put to good use. Prior to Friendbuy, Manish managed behavioral targeting solutions for Zappos, Ticketmaster and AT&T U-verse. A serial entrepreneur, Manish was also Founder & VP of Isovia, a provider of mobile solutions to large enterprises. When he’s not starting companies, Manish acts, writes and produces independent films such as the festival darling Kissing Cousins and the short-film comedy Call Center. Manish graduated from MIT with a Bachelors & Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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About friendbuy: Powering referral marketing for the hottest companies in e-commerce.
Stephen Ready
Founder & CEO of Inspired
Stephen Ready is the CEO and Founder of Inspired. He is a former Co-Founder of Synergy and CEO & Founder of VCT – Member Experience Advisors. Stephen received a bachelor’s degree in Finance at Lehigh University.
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About Inspired: Anti-status quo social impact.
Bryan Cheung
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Liferay
Bryan Cheung steers the company’s strategic direction and worldwide business development efforts as one of the founders serving with the company since its inception in 2004. Drawing on his technical experience, understanding of customer needs, and a passion for end users, Bryan leads Liferay in meeting its commitment to deliver focused and effective business solutions to its customers and its community. Bryan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science, and is a sought-after keynote speaker at major IT and open source industry events.
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About Liferay: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices.
Brian Kim
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Liferay
Brian Kim, Chief Operating Officer and a founding partner, leads the company’s Professional Services Organization and orchestrates the ongoing operations of a fast-growing global organization. He is also managing the strategic growth of the company’s partnership network. Prior to Liferay, Brian worked alongside upper management at HubbardOne on internal company operations. He is also an alumnus of Accenture where he worked with marquée clients within the financial services sector. Brian holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.
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About Liferay: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices.
Mark Geller
COO & Co-Founder of Happy Returns
Entrepreneur and executive with strong background in product/development, strategy, and marketing. Cofounder and COO of Happy Returns, an e-commerce service, technology, & logistics provider based in Los Angeles. Previously, led the mobile effort at NordstromRack.com | HauteLook, the online off-price division of Nordstrom, including creating and leading HauteLook’s Return to Rack program. Prior to HauteLook, worked in PM roles at Google, United Online, and several startups.
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About Happy Returns, Launchpad LA: Happy Returns provides comprehensive return solutions for leading online and omni-channel retailers and their customers.
David Sobie
Co-Founder/CEO of Happy Returns
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About Happy Returns: Happy Returns provides comprehensive return solutions for leading online and omni-channel retailers and their customers.
Josh Payne
Co-Founder & CEO of StackCommerce
Josh Payne is the Founder & CEO of StackCommerce, the leading native commerce platform. With a network reach of over 500 million monthly visitors across more than 750+ publisher partners, the company provides turnkey solutions to monetize and engage online audiences through the seamless integration of content + commerce.
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About StackCommerce, StackSocial: StackCommerce is a native commerce platform with turnkey solutions that increases user engagement, growth, and monetization.
Matthew Gallagher
Founder & CEO of Watch Gang
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About Watch Gang: Founded by Matthew Gallagher, Watch Gang is the world’s largest watch club.
Nicolas Stehle
Co-Founder & CEO of Scalefast
Nicolas Stehle is the founder and CEO at Scalefast, a leading full-service e-commerce solution provider that builds and operates Direct-to-Consumer online stores for brands that want to accelerate online sales without the time, cost, and risk of in-house development. After creating five companies in just 15 years, Nicolas is considered a serial entrepreneur in high tech fields. With Scalefast, his biggest venture to-date, Nicolas helps clients build and manage brands’ global e-commerce channels so they can focus on their customers’ needs. Since its inception in 2014, Scalefast Enterprise Cloud Commerce Platform has processed more than 14 million transactions, in 240 countries, for major brands like Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco Entertainment. With offices in Los Angeles, Paris and Madrid, Scalefast brings a synchronized, international team to deliver consistent digital consumer experience around the globe. Throughout his career, Nicolas has developed a reputation for creating successful start-ups and managing the high-impact growth within each of the companies. In total, Nicolas founded and held executive roles in three companies (Scalefast, Like Me I’m Famous and Everbee), and non-executive director and board member positions in two others (Flexycore and Slimpay). Before he graduated university, Nicolas patented an innovative approach to Network Security, raised 3M€ for the technology and had a fully operational business. He has a wide swath of experience with tech companies in a variety of industries ranging from Network security (Everbee), big data (Like Me I’m Famous), Payment (Slimpay) and successfully exited Flexycore, first French company acquired by Google Inc.
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About Scalefast: Scalefast is a digital commerce solution that simplifies and streamlines e-Commerce for inspirational brands.
Matthew Morrison O’Connor
Co-Founder of AdQuick
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About AdQuick: AdQuick is a marketplace to buy and sell outdoor advertising.
Connor Burden
Co-Founder of AdQuick
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About AdQuick: AdQuick is a marketplace to buy and sell outdoor advertising.
Josiah Gordon
Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Drinks
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About Drinks: DRINKS is disrupting the way wine is sold by bringing consumers the highest quality wine at the lowest prices, direct to their door
Matthias Kurwig
Co-Founder & CEO of Enervee
Prior to putting #WattsInYourWallet with Enervee, Matthias was the global COO of Neo@Ogilvy, the digital media and marketing arm of WPP’s Ogilvy Group. He headed operations of Neo@Ogilvy’s 30 offices around the world, and lead the development of technologies, systems and processes for a staff of 700. Matthias is founder of Planetactive, one of the leading full-service digital agencies in the German-speaking markets with more than 80 specialists at offices in Düsseldorf, Zurich and Vienna. Planetactive was acquired by the Ogilvy Group in 2006, and is now part of Neo@Ogilvy.
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About Enervee: Enervee is a platform-oriented company that drives energy efficiency and consumer engagement through a suite of innovative SaaS products.
Andrew Bilinsky
Co-Founder/ CEO of Lensabl
Andrew Bilinsky is co-founder at Lensabl.
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About Lensabl: Lensabl offers an online prescription lens replacement service.
Michael Rahimzadeh
Co-Founder/ COO of Lensabl
Michael Rahimzadeh is co-founder at Lensabl.
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About Lensabl: Lensabl offers an online prescription lens replacement service.
Mark Levine
Co-Founder of Dollar Shave Club
Mark Levine is the president of Next Innovation Plus, a provider of Razor blades and related aspects services. Previously, he co-founded [Dollar Shave Club](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dollar-shave-club#/entity).
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About Dollar Shave Club: DSC is a lifestyle brand and e-commerce company that delivers razors and other personal grooming products to customers by mail.
David Derval
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Hyperr
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About Hyperr: Hyperr’s plug-in Poll-Builder leverages social sharing to create highly qualified online customers.
Michael landau
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Drybar
Michael is Drybar’s Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. He may not have any hair, but he has tons of experience building and growing world-class brands. Michael spent almost 10 years at Yahoo! in numerous management roles, including serving as Vice President of Brand Marketing. Most recently, Michael launched the podcast “Raising the Bar” with his sister Alli. Be sure to give it a listen, and you’ll understand why we always say: “every business needs its own Michael.”
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About Drybar, Squeeze Massage: Drybar is a retail chain exclusively for blow-drying hair for a reduced price compared to traditional salons.
Tal Riesenfeld
Head of Sales (Co-Founder) of Sunbit
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About Sunbit: Sunbit is a buy now, pay later technology of local service providers and retailers.
Patrick Stavro
Founder of Tixr
Founder at Tixr
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About Tixr: Tixr leverages unique technology to redefine the fan experience and evolve the way large-scale event creators do business.
Melissa Coker
Founder & Creative Director of Wren Studios
Melissa Coker is the founder of Wren, a women’s apparel brand and creative consultancy. A content disruptor with over a decades worth of senior level leadership experience in the apparel and media industries, Coker got her start as an editor at top fashion publications such as Vogue and W magazines. This unique editorial point of view has allowed her to consistently create a definitive, clear and signature narrative that adds value to brands and meaning to customers. The viral marketing campaign, First Kiss, she created for Wren’s Fall 14 collection is the most viewed fashion film of all time and won a Grand Clio for Prestige Film and the Gold Cannes Lion for Internet Film.
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About Wren Studios: Wren Studios functions as a women’s fashion brand and content studio.
Grace Lee
Founder & CEO of Birdy Grey
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About Birdy Grey: Direct-to-consumer bridal startup providing millennial bridal parties with aspirational gowns at affordable prices.
Gordon Gould
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of SmartyPants Vitamins
Gordon Gould is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at SmartyPants.
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About SmartyPants Vitamins: SmartyPants Vitamins offers gummy vitamins that include multivitamin, omega-3, and vitamin D supplements for kids and adults.
Jake Stone
Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder of CHEQ
Jake Stone is the Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder at CHEQ.
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About CHEQ, Stone Cold Capital: The World’s First Social Order & Payments Platform
Harindar Keer
CEO & Founder of Flixstock
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About Flixstock: FlixStock enables fashion houses to create on model images quickly and at a fraction of the conventional costs.
Dileepan Siva
Founder and CEO of Upscribe
Dileepan Siva is co-founder and CEO of Upscribe, a platform powering the next generation of subscription eCommerce. Prior to Upscribe, he led the growth teams at two venture-backed eCommerce startups focused on scaling direct-to-consumer brands and also worked on social commerce initiatives at Twitter and eBay. Before his startup career, he advised Fortune 50 consumer goods companies on emerging market expansion and worked with the US Department of State on leveraging technology to promote civic engagement in fledgling democracies.
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About Upscribe: Powering the next generation of subscription eCommerce.
Erik Allen Ford
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Buck Mason
Erik Allen Ford is Buck Mason’s CEO. Buck Mason designs updated, modern American classics.
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About Buck Mason: Buck Mason designs modern American classic clothing.
Sasha Koehn
Co-Founder of Buck Mason
Sasha Koehn is the co-founder of Buck Mason, a men’s clothing brand designing modern American classics.
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About Buck Mason: Buck Mason designs modern American classic clothing.
Steve Flagg
Founder & CEO of SupplyFrame
Currently CEO & Founder at Supplyframe where we are organizing the world of engineering knowledge to help people build better hardware products. Before founding SupplyFrame, Steve was VP of Sales & Business Development at eConnections, a pioneering supply chain management platform for high-tech manufacturing. Previously, Steve ran business units at electronic component distributors Avnet and Marshall Industries. Specialties: General Management, corporate development, strategy, M&A, product development, business operations, international expansion, product marketing, sales, business models
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About EEFOCUS, Hackaday, SupplyFrame: Supplyframe is the Industry Network for electronics design and manufacturing.
Jesse Genet
Co-Founder and CEO of Lumi
Jesse Genet is the CEO and co-founder of Lumi.com — a modern packaging partner for e-commerce brands.
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About Lumi: Lumi is a packaging supply chain platform for online brands.
Stephan Ango
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Lumi
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About Lumi, Slash Packaging: Lumi is a packaging supply chain platform for online brands.
Hillary Kerr
Co-Founder of Who What Wear
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About Clique, Who What Wear: Who What Wear is an online platform for premium and original style and shopping content.
Ethan Gromet
Co-Founder & Product Designer of Hutch Interiors
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About BCG Digital Ventures, Hutch Interiors: Hutch Interiors is a mobile app that transforms spaces from before to after, faster than ever.
Catalina Girald
Founder, CEO, & Creative Director of Naja
Catalina is the Founder, CEO, and Creative Director of Naja. She started Naja with the goal of empowering women through lingerie — from the wearer to the garment worker. Catalina is also the founder of Underwear for Hope, a program that trains and employs at-risk single mothers to sew Prior to Naja, Catalina travelled the world for 18 months living with nomads in Mongolia. Before becoming an “entrepreneur” she was an attorney in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Skadden, Arps in New York City. She is a Term Member at The Council of Foreign Relations. Catalina has an MBA from Stanford University and a .1D from Boston College. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
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About Naja: Naja is a brand of luxury lingerie.
Terri Rockovich
Co-Founder & CEO of Jinx
Seasoned executive with 12+ years of combined agency and client-side experience at fast-moving companies. Proactive and results-driven leader adept at managing multi-million dollar projects, with a solid history of generating impressive growth and profitability on media investments for a range of small businesses to major corporations. High comfort level executing diverse strategic mandates with killer teams that demonstrate intelligent risk-taking, cross-departmental project management, sharp organizational skills, creative and analytical thinking, and problem solving. Advanced experience driving the vision, strategy and execution of marketing activities.
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About Jinx: Jinx is a dog wellness brand that primarily sells dog foods online.
Sisun Lee
Founder and CEO of More Labs
Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.
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About More Labs: More Labs is a dietary supplement that helps the body’s natural detoxification process after a crazy night out.
Matt Rhodes
Chief Development Officer & Co-Founder of Foundry Brands
An experienced digital brand and e-commerce investor, Matt previously worked in private equity at Ares Management, where he identified investment opportunities and supported the growth of businesses including Mytheresa (highest valued profitable consumer IPO of the past decade), DevaCurl, American Crew, Neiman Marcus, and Fashionphile. Matt lives with his wife, soon‐to‐be baby boy, and 2 golden retrievers in Playa Vista, CA. He’s been an entrepreneur since age 15, when he founded a tutoring business that has since helped thousands of students.
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About Foundry Brands: Foundry Brands is a platform that supports and acquires online brands.
Lior Elazary
Founder / CEO of inVia Robotics
Lior is a serial entrepreneur with several companies under his belt, all with very successful exits. Along with his partners Alex Kazarani and Marc Afsharieh, Lior co-founded HostPro (now Web.com) which grew into a leading hosting provider in the industry with over 70,000 customers. After HostPro, Lior co-founded KnowledgeBase, and EdgeCast with Alex Kazarani, Phil Goldsmith, James Segil and Jay Sakata. At all three companies he has been the chief architect responsible for designing and implementing key patented technologies that are now critical to the backbone of the Internet and are used by many Fortune 500 customers. With more than twenty years of leadership and business experience bringing to market many of the systems that power the Internet, Lior has directed and guided teams developing everything from back-office systems to the core technologies of the business. While working on his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, Lior closely worked with inVia Robotics co-founders Dan and Rand on various robotics and neuroscience projects. These DARPA funded projects ranged from object recognition for drones, implementing the star-wars binoculars used to help soldiers in field, to the latest DARPA Robotic Challenge. Working on strict metrics and deadlines from DARPA, the projects often included implementations of massive parallel grid computing which were used to achieve the required results in real time. The development of these projects led to the Neuromorphic Robotics Toolkit (NRT) which has been designed to outperform the Robotic Operating System (ROS). Currently on a leave of absence from the Ph.D., Lior holds a Masters in Robotics from the University of Southern California and has several publications ranging from neuroscience to robotics.
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About inVia Robotics, Verizon Digital Media Services: InVia Robotics provides next-generation robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains.
Randolph Voorhies
Co-Founder / CTO of inVia Robotics
Rand has extensive experience working on robotics projects ranging from autonomous submarines to ground robots to quadrotors. He earned both his Masters and PhD degrees in Robotics from the University of Southern California.
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About inVia Robotics: InVia Robotics provides next-generation robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains.
Daniel Parks
Co-Founder / COO of inVia Robotics
Dan has a rich background in software development and robotics innovation. Prior to joining inVia, Dan was the head of software and customer support at CAMotion, an innovative motion control and industrial automation company focused on high speed robotic solutions for material handling.
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About inVia Robotics: InVia Robotics provides next-generation robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains.
Joe Dahan
Founder & Creative Director of Joe’s Jeans
Joe Dahan is a Founder & Creative Director at Joe’s Jeans.
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About Joe’s Jeans: Joe’s offers a full range of styles for men, women and children through their casual chic denim line and lifestyle collection.
Tina Cheng
Founder & CEO of Capsul Jewelry
Tina Cheng is the Founder & CEO at Capsul.
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About Capsul Jewelry: Capsul Jewelry is a D2C brand focused on premium customized jewelry in the accessible luxury segment.
Adam Kanner
Entrepreneur, Founder, and CEO of Zingly
Adam Kanner is an Entrepreneur, Founder, and CEO of Zingly.
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About Zingly: Zingly is a platform that allows brands and retailers to leverage the visual content generated by their customers shared on social media.
Jonathan Saven
Co-Founder of LOOK OPTIC
Jonathan Saven is a Co-Founder at Look Optic.
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About LOOK OPTIC: Look Optic is a retail platform designed to make readers wear comfortable eyewear.
Heath Wells
CoFounder & CoCEO of NuORDER
Heath Wells is the CEO and Co-Founder of NuORDER, a B2B eCommerce platform that is revolutionizing the wholesale industry. Heath is an entrepreneur at heart, starting his first Internet-based business at the age of 15 in Adelaide, Australia. From 2004-2008, Heath served as the the Managing Director at Furst Media in Australia, where he and partner Olivia Skuza led the company to great success across publishing, creative, and digital commerce.
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About NuORDER: NuORDER is a cloud and mobile B2B eCommerce platform empowering brands and retailers to streamline their business operations.
