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 United States based CEO’ operating in the Developer Tools space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Omoju Miller
Technical Advisor to the CEO of GitHub
Omoju Miller is the Technical Advisor to the CEO at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
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Daniel Dines
Co-founder & CEO of UiPath
Daniel Dines is Co-founder and CEO of UiPath, the fastest growing and leading provider of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI software worldwide. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is to make software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace — a vision dubbed One Robot for Every Person. Dines is committed to ushering in the “automation first” era, helping businesses of all sizes digitize everyday business operations and apply AI to drive true digital transformation. This era brings tremendous value to businesses and new career opportunities for people – which is why Dines aims to democratize RPA via free training and software, as well through UiPath’s Academic Alliance program, which trains and certifies university students, youth, and traditionally underrepresented groups – with an eye toward preparing people for the jobs of the future. Since incorporating UiPath in 2015, and moving its headquarters to New York in 2017, Dines has led the company through substantial growth – delivering intelligent automation solutions to thousands of companies around the world, including government agencies and many of the Fortune 500. He has raised more than $1B from top-tier venture capital firms, with a post-money valuation of $7B. Dines began his engineering career at Microsoft where he designed and developed the SQL Server Agent. Still a hacker at heart, he is active in driving the company’s RPA platform and supporting the 250,000 developers who are building automations on UiPath’s RPA platform.
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About UiPath: UiPath is a software company developing robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software.
Jyoti Bansal
Co-Founder & CEO of Harness
Jyoti Bansal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Harness.
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About BIG Labs, Harness, Traceable, Unusual Ventures: Harness is a Continuous Delivery as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Gil Hirsch
Co-Founder & CEO of StreamElements
Gil Hirsch is an angel investor. Gil has over ten years of experience in software architecture, product and general management in computer technology. Before co-founding face.com, Gil held multiple R&D, Product and Sales executive roles at Amdocs, Xacct Technologies and Telrad Networks. Gil is also the co-founder of the garage geeks community in Israel to drive non-commercial innovation activities.
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About StreamElements: StreamElements provides content creators the tools they need to engage, grow, and monetize their audiences.
Grant Miller
Founder & CEO of Replicated
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About Replicated: Replicated provides a platform for delivering and managing Kubernetes applications in any environment.
Yuval Rooz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset
Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk for more than three years and has held positions at DRW Trading Group and Citadel. He has experience investing in successful startups and has significant experience managing large teams of developers in financial products and operations.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Varun Talwar
Co-founder and CEO of Tetrate
Varun Talwar is the founder and CEO of Tetrate.
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About Tetrate: Tetrate provides enterprise-ready service mesh for all workloads and all environments.
Jon Roskill
CEO of Acumatica
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
Clark Stacey
CEO of WildWorks
Clark Stacey is the Co-Founder & CEO of WildWorks, attended University of Utah.
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About WildWorks: Leading developer of online free-to-play games for players of all ages.
Gabe Newell
President & Owner & CEO of Valve Software
Gabe Newell is the President & Owner & CEO of Valve Corporation. Gabe held a number of positions in the Systems, Applications, and Advanced Technology divisions during his 13 years at Microsoft. His responsibilities included running program management for the first two releases of Windows, starting the company’s multimedia division, and leading efforts on the Information Highway PC. Then he started Valve. His most significant contribution to Half-Life, the company’s debut title, was his statement: “C’mon, people, you can’t show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.”
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About Steam, Valve Software: Valve is an American entertainment software and tech company developing video games and other related technologies.
Steve Sloan
CEO of Contentful
Steve is responsible for Marketo’s long-term product roadmap, corporate strategy and partner ecosystem. Previously he led our product and engineering teams. He joined Marketo from Amazon Web Services, where he led product management for one of AWS’s emerging services and helped open the Silicon Valley development center. Prior to Amazon, Steve led product management for a range of products at Microsoft including Office 365, Exchange, Windows Azure and BizTalk. Steve also led various efforts at the XML and Web Services security startup Reactivity prior to its acquisition by Cisco. Steve holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Contentful, SendGrid: Contentful offers a headless content management system that helps organizations deliver content across channels.
Jay Larson
Chief Executive Officer of Optimizely
Jay Larson is Optimizely’s CEO. Previously, Jay worked as chief executive officer of Birst. Jay holds a BA degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Gideon Mendels
Co-Founder and CEO of Comet.ml
Gideon Mendels is co-founder and the CEO of CometML & Comet AI. Gideon is an experienced data scientist and entrepreneur. He worked on Deep Learning research at Google and Columbia University and previously co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet AI, Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Geoff Schmidt
CEO and Co-founder of Apollo
Geoff Schmidt is the CEO and Co-founder at Meteor.
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About Apollo, Meteor Development: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
Lukas Biewald
Co-founder & CEO of Weights & Biases
Lukas Biewald is the CEO and the Co-Founder of Weights & Biases. Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. Lukas has also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science. He is an expert-level Go player.
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About Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Yuri Frayman
Co- Founder & CEO of CAST AI
Yuri Frayman has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across four very successful ventures. As a serial entrepreneur, Yuri has helped lead four venture-backed companies to successful exits for his investors. Specialties:Global Entrepreneurship, Global Go-to-Market, Strategic Marketing, Raising Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Sales, Open Innovation, B2B Social Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Senior Advisory and Board of Director roles.
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About CAST AI, Zenedge: AI-driven cloud optimization platform that slashes cloud cost, optimizes DevOps, and automates disaster prevention.
Usama Abid
Co-founder & CEO of Inventhub
Usama Abid is a technology entrepreneur. As an engineer-turned-entrepreneur, he has dedicated himself to improving the hardware design process, and is an active contributor to the open-source community. His company, InventHub, Inc., is founded on the idea that innovation can happen at scale if: one, engineers are provided with a new way to collaborate; and two, the open-source community is empowered with resources. Prior to InventHub, Usama founded DIY GEEKS, a startup that focuses on robotics education in his native Pakistan, where Usama helped cultivate the community and ushered in a love of making with his self-learning DIY kits, workshops and seminars. He was recognized by TechJuice in 2018 as one of Pakistan’s “25 Under 25” — an annual list of those helping to change the landscape in the country’s startup ecosystem. His work has been featured in numerous tech blogs and magazines, including TechJuice, StartUp Magazine, Geo TV.
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About Inventhub: Inventhub is an electronics design collaboration and data management platform that helps maximize product quality.
Dmitry Shapiro
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Koji
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About Koji: Koji is the world’s most powerful link in bio platform, building the app store for the Creator Economy.
Ram Shanmugam
Founder & CEO of AutonomIQ
Ram Shanmugam is the Founder & CEO at AutonomIQ.
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About AutonomIQ: AutonomIQ is a cloud platform uses AI and ML to autonomously test, release and deploy software on any cloud.
Brendan Falk
CEO and Co-Founder of Fig
Brendan Falk is the co-founder and CEO of Fig.
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About Fig: Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Anurag Gupta
Founder and CEO of Shoreline.io
Anurag Gupta is the founder and CEO of Shoreline Software. Prior to this, Anurag has served as a vice president of Amazon Aurora at Amazon Web Services.
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About Shoreline.io: Shoreline provides fleet-wide debugging and incident remediation tools that increase availability and streamline production operations.
Sean Li
CEO & Co-founder of Magic
CEO @ Magic
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About Magic: Plug and play auth that grows with you
Shlomi Ben Haim
Co-Founder & CEO of JFrog
Shlomi is Co-Founder and CEO of JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform. He brings over 20 years of experience in building profitable, high-growth information technology companies. Prior to JFrog, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP (acquired in 2005 by MalamTeam) and a Major in the Israeli Air Force. Shlomi holds an MS from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA) and a BA from Ben-Gurion University (Israel).
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About JFrog: JFrog provides software developers with a binary repository management solution.
Ian Coe
CEO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Ian Coe is the CEO and Co-Founder at Tonic. For over a decade, Ian has worked to advance the use of data by removing barriers impeding teams from answering their most important questions. As an early member of the commercial division at Palantir Technologies, he led teams solving data problems in industries ranging from financial services to the media. At Tableau, he continued to focus on analytics, driving the vision around statistics and the calculation language. As a founder of Tonic, Ian is directing his energies toward synthetic data generation to break down traditional data silos, protect customer privacy, and drive analytic efficiency.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Paul McCabe
CEO of JetBrains
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About Chronon Systems, JetBrains: JetBrains is a software vendor specializing in the creation of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams.
Cillian Kieran
Founder & CEO of Ethyca
Cillian Kieran is the Founder and CEO at Ethyca. Prior to joining Ethyca, he was a Founder & CEO of CKSK. Cillian is originally a Physics & Computer Science student who dropped out to work in the early 2000’s web application industry in data analysis and visualization tools.
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About Ethyca: Ethyca is a developer-first company that provides tools to make trust, respect and privacy a native feature of any data-driven system.
Taylor Otwell
Chief Executive Officer of Laravel
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About Laravel: Laravel reignited my passion for code, reinforced my understanding of MVC, and made development fun again!
Derek Steer
CEO of Mode Analytics
Derek Steer is the CEO of Mode, a new startup enabling data scientists to share and discover work. With Mode, analysts are more productive and connected, both publicly within the data community and privately within organizations.Before co-founding Mode in 2013, Derek was an early member of Yammer’s Analytics team. There, he built tools to identify strong leads and customers at risk of attrition within a pool of freemium users. Derek has also worked in antitrust economics and on the Monetization Analytics team at Facebook.
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
Kevin Wang
Founder and CEO of FOSSA
Kevin Wang is the CEO and Founder of FOSSA. He is among the third set of young entrepreneurs to be awarded a “20 Under 20″ Thiel Fellowship to begin to build the innovative companies of tomorrow. Kevin has been entrepreneurial and engineering-focused since the age of nine, beginning ventures in game development and then shifting towards software and the web. He worked at TechStars and was involved in the Chicago technical scene before moving to Silicon Valley in 2012 and joining XSeed Capital. In August 2012 he began the Thiel Fellowship and worked in engineering for companies such as Cloudera. Kevin was pursuing a Computer Science degree at UC Berkeley as a freshman before taking a leave of absence for the Thiel Fellowship. He is currently focused on big data, distributed computing and legal software technology. Kevin has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Chicago Tribune and other publications.
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About FOSSA: FOSSA provides a platform that helps enterprises manage and maximize open source use at scale.
George Deglin
Co-founder and CEO of OneSignal
George Deglin is the Co-founder and CEO at OneSignal.
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About OneSignal: OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to create meaningful customer connections.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Tony Zhao
Founder & CEO of Agora.io
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About Agora.io: Agora.io enables developers to add HD interactive broadcast, voice, and video calls into mobile and web apps through SDK.
Diego Oppenheimer
CEO & Co-Founder of Algorithmia
Diego Oppenheimer is co-founder and CEO of Algorithmia. Previously, he designed, managed, and shipped some of Microsoft’s most used data analysis products including Excel, Power Pivot, SQL Server, and Power BI. Diego holds a Bachelors degree in Information Systems and a Masters degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Bryan Helmkamp
Co-Founder & CEO of Code Climate
Bryan is the co-founder and CEO of Code Climate, a SaaS automated code review service that helps engineering teams identify defects earlier in the software development process.
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About Code Climate, Efficiency 2.0, Weplay: Code Climate is an open extensible platform for static analysis that helps enforce code quality standards on every commit.
Akhil Bhiwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Phyllo
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About Phyllo: APIs to access creator economy platform data
Jonathan Hayes
Founder & CEO of RewardStock
Jonathan Hayes Founder & CEO of RewardStock.
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About RewardStock: RewardStock is a free web application that shows you how to to travel on points and miles.
Drew Lanham
CEO, Board Member of Cypress.io
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About Cypress.io: Cypress.io develops a front-end automated testing application for running unit and integration tests in a browser.
Nathan Kundtz
Founder and CEO of Rendered.ai
Nathan Kundtz is the Founder and CEO at Rendered.AI.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Duke University, Rendered.ai: Rendered.ai develops data engineering tools built to help medical, automotive, robotics, security, and other industries.
Quinn Slack
CEO of Sourcegraph
Quinn Slack is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sourcegraph.
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About Sourcegraph: Sourcegraph provides universal code search for developers and companies so they can innovate faster and manage billions of lines of code.
Jon Dahl
Co-founder, CEO of Mux
Jon is a co-founder at Mux where he builds software to help online video get better. Before that, he was co-founder of Zencoder, and then VP of Technology at Brightcove, two pioneering companies in the world of online video. Jon moved to San Francisco from Minneapolis in 2011 with Zencoder. He has two kids, a graduate degree in philosophy and theology, and enjoys writing in the third person.
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About Mux, Zencoder: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Jacob Eiting
CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat
Jacob Eiting is the CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Karri Saarinen
CEO & Co-founder of Linear
Karri Saarinen is the Co-Founder & CEO at Linear.
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About Linear: Linear allows users to manage software development and track bugs.
Matthew Calkins
CEO of Appian
Matthew Calkins has been CEO & Chairman of the Board since founding Appian in 1999. He has been recognized as an Innovator by InformationWeek, Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and a top entrepreneur by the Washington Post and the Washington Business Journal. Matt worked at MicroStrategy (MSTR) from 1994-1999, serving on the board from 2005-2014. As a board game designer and player, he won “Wargame of the Year” and finished third in the 2012 World Boardgaming Championships.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Mark Levitt
Co-Founder and CEO of Trixta
Four-time SA Open chess champion, with many years history in Chess commerce, including: publishing, software and retail business. Levitt was also an early investor & CIO of search engine marketing company www.incubeta.com, and a founding member of TEIM Ventures.
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About ChessCube.com, Trixta, Trixta: Trixta’s low-code tools revolutionize how teams build software – faster, better, with fewer developers
Praveen Seshadri
CEO & Co-Founder of AppSheet
Over Praveen’s career, he has pursued the “dream” of declarative end-user programming in various incarnations. In a previous life, he was a CS professor at Cornell. And in another, he was a partner engineering manager at Microsoft in the SQLServer and Bing teams.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Wayne Jackson
CEO of Sonatype
Wayne Jackson is CEO of Sonatype. Prior to joining Sonatype, Wayne was the CEO of open source network security pioneer Sourcefire, Inc. www.sourcefire.com, which he guided from fledgling start-up through IPO in March of 2007 to a peak valuation of over $750 million. Before joining Sourcefire, Wayne co-founded Riverbed Technologies, a wireless infrastructure company, and served as its CEO until the sale of the company for approximately $1 billion. While at Riverbed, Wayne built strategic relationships with industry leaders Palm, Oracle, IBM, Symbol and Microsoft, growing the company from start-up to category winner in less than two years. Wayne holds a B.B.S. in Finance from James Madison University and has completed the Executive Education program for Corporate Governance at Harvard University.
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About Sonatype: Sonatype is the developer-friendly full-spectrum software supply chain management platform helps organizations and software developers.
Michael W. Wellman
CEO & Founder of Virgil Security
Michael W. Wellman is CEO &Founder at Virgil Security.
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About Bloomberg Beta, MACH37, NextGen Venture Partners, SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
Rosa Shores
CEO and Co-Founder of BlockSpaces
Rosa Shores is the CEO and Co-Founder of BlockSpaces.
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About BlockSpaces: BlockSpaces offers managed blockchain infrastructure and prebuilt connectors between various blockchain networks and business applications.
Alex Fishman
Founder & CEO of Bugsee
Alex is currently Founder and CEO of Dishero, Inc. and previously served as Sr. Director of Business Development and Director of Engineering at Lytro Inc, Alex brings 17 years of experience in product development and ODM relations with background in engineering, manufacturing and business development with focus on camera technologies.
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About Bugsee: Bugsee is a mobile software kit that adds information to computer crash reports.
Maggie Louie
Founder and CEO of otto by DEVCON
Maggie Louie is the founder and CEO at Devcon Detect. She has a proven experience in developing startups within corporations. Maggie has spent more than a decade as a digital leader in the publishing industry, developing products for The E.W. Scripps Company, The Los Angeles Times, American Public Media Group and Morris Communications, where she also served as the Vice President of Audience and corporate intrapreneur. She enjoys composing music with DEVCON co-founder Josh Summitt.
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About otto by DEVCON, SpoonWest: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Arun Saigal
Cofounder and CEO of Thunkable
Arun Saigal is the Co-founder and CEO of Thunkable, a Y Combinator-backed startup where anyone can build their own mobile apps. Thunkable is based on Arun’s work with MIT App Inventor, which he worked on during his SB and MEng at MIT. Recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30, Arun has held a variety of leading roles at technology companies, including Quizlet, Khan Academy, Aspiring Minds, and Google. Outside of the office, Arun conducts orchestras and plays viola and mridangam in several SF-based music groups.
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About PJC, San Francisco Civic Music Association, Thunkable: Thunkable makes a drag-and-drop programming tool to allow anyone to make beautiful, native mobile apps.
Ron Yekutiel
Cofounder & CEO of Kaltura
Ron is the cofounder Chairman and CEO of Kaltura, Inc., the most widely used online video platform in the market, powering over 150,000 publishers and service providers globally. As the first and only open-source video platform, Kaltura is disrupting its market in similar ways that Apache, MySQL, and PHP have disrupted theirs. Ron is a serial technology entrepreneur, starting and leading companies in Israel, US, and Canada in the fields of Internet, mobile applications, and security. Previous ventures include Destinator Technologies, Paradigm Advanced Technologies, and VisualGate Systems. A former helicopter pilot, Ron enjoys extreme travel and sports. He holds an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business.
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About Kaltura: Kaltura develops video SaaS solutions for enterprises of all industries.
Lyal Avery
Founder & CEO of PullRequest
Lyal Avery is the founder & CEO of PullRequest, a Google-backed platform that combines automation with a network of on-demand reviewers to improve and simplify the code review process. Lyal Avery’s career as a leader in the technology industry spans over 18 years, with multiple exits across Vancouver BC, San Francisco CA, and Austin TX. Previous to PullRequest, Lyal cofounded Playerize, a payment and distribution platform for mobile and social games (exited to TSE:PER in 2015).
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About PullRequest: PullRequest’s code review as a service helps development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.
Arjun Narayan
Co-founder and CEO of Materialize
Arjun Narayan is the Co-Founder and CEO at Materialize.
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About Materialize: Materialize is a streaming SQL database company that simplifies the application development for developers.
Dan Abdinoor
CEO and cofounder of Fritz AI
CEO and cofounder of Fritz AI, engineering & startups. Also food, travel, fitness, DJing.
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About Fritz AI: Fritz AI is a machine learning platform for iOS and Android developers.
Howie Liu
Co-founder & CEO of Airtable
Howie Liu is CEO of Airtable, the platform democratizing software creation that he co-founded in 2016. Netflix, TIME, Conde Nast, jetBlue, Shopify, Glossier, The City of Los Angeles, and half the Fortune 1000, currently use Airtable to power their most ambitious operations. The company has been named among the Davos World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Cloud 100, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, and Fortune’s 100 Greatest Designs of All Time. Prior to Airtable, Liu was a product leader at Salesforce after its acquisition of his first company, the intelligent CRM Etacts. Originally from Texas, he taught himself how to code C++ at the age of 13, after finding an unread training book in his dad’s office, and has been interested in software as a medium for creative expression and economic value creation ever since.
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About Airtable: Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Rob Brewster
CEO of GoFormz
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About GoFormz, Stage 2 Capital: GoFormz helps its customers to transform into data-driven businesses with its mobile-first business productivity platform.
Jinglei Ren
CEO of Merico
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About Merico: Merico develops code analytics technology to support engineering teams in understanding and optimizing productivity and code quality.
Abel Mathew
CEO and Co-Founder of Backtrace
Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.
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About Backtrace: Backtrace is an error debugging platform that helps teams quickly find out what is behind application errors.
Brian Bell
CEO of Split Software
Brian Bell is the CEO of Split Software.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Jeremy Bondy
Chief Executive Officer of Vungle
VP, Global Sales at Vungle.
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About Vungle, Vungle: Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.
Jonathan Zweig
CEO / Co-Founder of AppOnboard
Jonathan Zweig is Founding CEO of AppOnboard Inc – the Premium Private Platform for Full-Fidelity App Demos & Next-Gen Heat-Map Analytics. Zweig, creator of 14 of the first 100 native iOS games in 2008 — was previously CEO and President at AdColony, which he also founded and sold to Opera in 2014 for $350M Jonathan Zweig was the Founding CEO/President of AdColony which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June 2014. AdColony is the largest independent mobile advertising platform in the world. AppOnboard is his new company focused on monetization through download-less app technology and playable ads with patent-pending fraud protection. Jonathan has also was Founding CEO of Jirbo, Inc which developed 14 of the first 100 games ever on the iPhone AppStore: https://www.macworld.com/article/1134395/jirbo.amp.html Under his guidance as CEO, Jirbo would eventually put out over 200 games and apps for ESPN, Sony Music, Universal, Kaplan Test Prep, and many more global brands. Jirbo would eventually pivot to become AdColony, the largest independent mobile ad network in the world.
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About AdColony, AppOnboard, Literati Labs, Inc.: AppOnboard is a software company that empowers creators to build businesses without any programming experience.
Milin Desai
CEO of Sentry
Milin Desai currently serves as the CEO of Sentry.io. He joined Sentry from VMware where he was General Manager, Cloud Services. Milin and his team were responsible for VMware’s cloud strategy, the company’s transition to SAAS and expanding the portfolio with solutions for public cloud. Prior to this role, he started network virtualization and grew the NSX product line into a billion+ dollar a year business. Earlier in his career, he held engineering roles at Veritas and was early at Riverbed in a product role. Milin Desai has a Masters in Compute Science from University of Southern California.
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About Sentry: Sentry is a developer of an application monitoring platform that helps developers monitor apps in real time to catch bugs early.
Eric Berg
CEO of Fauna
Eric Berg is the CEO of Fauna.
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About Fauna: Fauna is transforming the database into a productive, programmable, secure and operations-free data API with GraphQL.
Sheffie Robinson
CEO & Founder of Shamrck Business
Sheffie Robinson is a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and sociologist that specializes in solving racial and gender equity with technology. She is currently the CEO of Shamrck Software and the creator of Shamrck Education, an artificial intelligence platform designed to bring data mining and predictive analytics to career and technical education programs. She has over 20 years of experience in technology development and over 15 years of experience in retail sales and marketing. She has spent significant time in her career working to impact gender and racial equity to enhance diversity and inclusion. She is a second time founder, her first company being a fintech product that brought banking services to virtual currencies. Sheffie is a graduate of Thomas Edison State University with a degree in Sociology and is currently pursuing her MBA at Georgia Southern University. Sheffie has been named the Top 10 under 40 and a Top CEO by the Mississippi Business Journal In addition to her business, she regularly mentors startups on product development, branding, and project management to help them stay lean as they build a business. Her work with underrepresented founders has helped her to become a steward for diversity, equity, and inclusion. In her personal life, Sheffie is a military spouse and mother of 3 hailing from their current duty station in Vicksburg, MS, but she’s a Georgia native. She also enjoys virtual live-action roleplay and is a huge Anime fan.
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About Bantunium Labs LLC, Bantunium Ventures LLC, Shamrck Business: Shamrck Business is a complete website and business management suite for small businesses powered by human-assisted artificial intelligence.
David Apirian
Co-CEO of Trunk
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About Trunk: Land Code Faster. Develop Happier.
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.
J.J. Allaire
Founder & CEO of RStudio
In 1995 J.J. Allaire created the web development tool Cold Fusion and co-founded Allaire Corporation. Macromedia acquired Allaire in March 2001. In 2002 J.J. Allaire founded Onfolio to create web research, syndication, and publishing tools. Microsoft acquired Onfolio in March 2006. At Microsoft, J.J. led the integration of Onfolio products into Windows Live, including the release of the weblog publishing tool Windows Live Writer. In 2007 J.J. Allaire co-founded Stax Networks to create a Platform-as-a-Service for Java applications. CloudBees acquired Stax Networks in December 2010. In 2008 J.J. Allaire created the iPhone application Lose It! and founded FitNow, Inc. Lose It! was the top free iPhone Health and Fitness application in both 2009 and 2010. In 2008, J.J. Allaire founded RStudio to build projects around the open-source R Statistical Computing environment. RStudio was recognized as one of the top 25 technology products of 2014 by InfoWorld.
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About RStudio: RStudio develops open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R statistical computing environment.
Chaoyu Yang
Co-found & CEO of BentoML.ai
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About BentoML.ai: The machine learning model serving platform, from the creators of open-source BentoML.
Feross Aboukhadijeh
CEO of Socket
Feross is the founder and CEO of Socket. He’s also the author and maintainer of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and 100s of other open source projects. His software is downloaded 500+ million times per month. He was a lecturer at Stanford where he created the course CS 253 Web Security.
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About Brave, Socket, Standard JS, WebTorrent: Socket is a cybersecurity platform that protects companies from software supply chain attacks.
Artyom Keydunov
CEO of Cube Dev
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About Cube Dev, Statsbot: Cube Dev is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of open source, analytics, databases, and developer tools.
Mike Wior
CEO & Co-Founder of Omnivore
Responsible for the overall vision of Omnivore. Expert in cloud solutions, technology and business initiatives, with career successes at Wells Fargo Bank and company-critical consulting projects for clients including Adobe, Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Google, and Intel.
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About Omnivore: Omnivore offers a point-of-sale integration API allowing uniform access to the POS systems.
Matt Provo
Co-founder & CEO of StormForge
Matt Provo is an experienced entrepreneur, product manager and leader, as well as an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. Matt is currently the founding CEO @ StormForge.io Matt is a founder of ParkedIn–an SMS and machine-learning based service for finding, managing and reserving parking. Prior to starting ParkedIn, Matt spent five years leading a large technical team at Apple. He also works as an organizational consultant, and has led projects at various companies and non-profits, including the Advisory Board Company and is a co-founder of Invisible Children (the organization that created the documentary film Kony 2012). While at Invisible Children, Matt and his wife Nicole lived in Uganda, and pioneered the development of the Schools 4 Schools program, which has provided access to quality education for thousands of Ugandan children. Proud husband and father of two, the best part of Matt’s week is enjoying Saturday morning breakfast and spending time at the beach with his family.
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About *gram Labs, StormForge: StormForge brings together data scientists and software engineers to enable businesses to drive breakthrough IT and operations efficiency.
Dominic Holt
CEO of harpoon
My passion for technology has enabled me to be a trusted resource from start-ups all the way up to multi-billion dollar organizations due to my vision to design aggressive growth plans leveraging advanced technologies. I have a unique skill set as a Technology Executive because I am constantly learning and applying new technologies personally by writing code, which gives me an edge over other executives who don’t truly understand the technologies their teams use. I thrive in creating new revenue streams that have generated billions of dollars in income and helped emerging tech leaders secure vital VC funding. I am a fast-achieving executive that began my career as a Software Engineer and have grown to be an international business leader that is highly sought after to provide strategic counsel on product development, technology selection, software architecture, customer experience and other areas central to business success.
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About harpoon, Valerian Technology: harpoon is a No Code Kubernetes platform
Itai Sadan
Co-Founder & CEO of Duda
Itai Sadan is the co-founder and CEO of DudaMobile. Prior to founding DudaMobile, Sadan was a director at SAP, where he managed the SAP Discovery System program and led relationships with IBM, HP and Fujitsu. He also worked for Amdocs and Finjan and founded InterSight, a start-up for data storage. He has more than a decade of experience in business development, partner management, program management and development and has a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics from the Ben Gurion University in Israel.
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About Duda, Duda: Duda is a responsive website builder for digital marketing agencies, hosting companies, and online directories.
Ana Robakidze
CEO & Founder of Theneo
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About Theneo: Generate API Documentation That Competes With Tech Giants
Yuval Goren
Founder & CEO of Success Wizard
Yuval Goren is the Founder/CEO of Success Wizard, a company he founded with the goal of helping million people worldwide live happier, more authentic and fulfilling lives. Success Wizard develops customized software platforms and interactive online programs for the personal development, life coaching and education markets. Prior to founding Success Wizard, Yuval enjoyed a very successful and rewarding two-decade-long career as an entrepreneurial executive in the hi-tech industry. He made a career transition when he felt it was time to re-define his life purpose, follow his passion and pursue his dream. He then spent a few years going through an intensive process of self-discovery, exploration and education in the areas of personal development, human psychology, and life coaching. As a result of his own midlife transition and personal transformation, he decided to utilize his skills, experience and passion to help others gain insight, develop themselves, and improve their overall well-being.
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About Success Wizard: Online and Mobile Life and Success Coaching Programs
Amine Bellakrid
Co-founder & CEO of Waldo
Amine Bellakrid is a Co-founder & CEO at Waldo.io.
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About Amolo Atelier, Waldo: Waldo creates software to help iOS and Android mobile application teams deliver mobile UX perfection.
Adam Smith
Founder, CEO of Kite
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About Kite: Kite augments coding environment with the use of internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning.
Divanny Lamas
CEO of Transposit
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About Sutter Hill Ventures, Transposit: Transposit delivers connected workflow, giving TechOps and SREs visibility, context, and actionability across people, processes, and APIs.
Rahil Sondhi
Founder/CEO of PopSQL
Rahil Sondhi is the founder and CEO of PopSQL. Prior to this, Rahil spent more than four years with Instacart as a tech lead and as a senior software engineer. Rahil Sondhi holds a degree in Marketing Management from the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
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About PopSQL: PopSQL is a modern, collaborative SQL editor for teams.
Stanton E. Ross
CEO of Digital Ally
Mr. Stanton E. Ross is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Ally Inc. From March 1992 to June 2005, Mr. Ross was the Chairman and President of Infinity Energy Resources, Inc., a publicly held oil and gas exploration and development company (“Infinity”), and served as an officer and director of each of Infinity’s subsidiaries. He resigned all of his positions with Infinity in June 2005, except Chairman, but was reappointed President in October 2006. Mr. Ross served on the board of directors of Studio One Media, Inc., a publicly held company, from January 2013 to March 2013. From 1991 until March 1992, he founded and served as President of Midwest Financial, a financial services corporation involved in mergers, acquisitions and financing for corporations in the Midwest. From 1990 to 1991, Mr. Ross was employed by Duggan Securities, Inc., an investment banking firm in Lenexa, Kansas, where he primarily worked in corporate finance. From 1989 to 1990, he was employed by Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., a member of the New York Stock Exchange, where he was an investment executive. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Ross was self-employed as a business consultant. From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Ross was President and founder of Kansas Microwave, Inc., which developed a radar detector product. From 1981 to 1985, he was employed by Birdview Satellite Communications, Inc., which manufactured and marketed home satellite television systems, initially as a salesman and later as National Sales Manager.
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About Digital Ally: Digital Ally is a manufacturing company that provides digital video cameras and surveillance for law enforcement and commercial companies.
Yasyf Mohamedali
Co-Founder & CEO of Sym
Yasyf is a Master’s student studying computer science at MIT. Hailing from Vancouver, BC, he’s spent the past few years exploring new technologies, hacking on quirky side projects, and bringing together his academic and real-world engineering experiences to form a passion for entrepreneurship and technology startups. Most recently, Yasyf has spent time as chief software architect at Foxtrot, and as a summer intern at Square. He also spends time on campus spreading his passion as Sloan Business Club’s MD of Entrepreneurship. In the little free time he has, you’ll find Yasyf reading, pretending to be a foodie, and engaging in long, pointless debates with friends.
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About Sym: Sym is a security workflow platform that solves the intent-to-execution gap between policies and workflows.
Gaurav Ragtah
Co-founder & CEO of CatalyzeX
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About CatalyzeX: Productivity tools for machine learning R&D
Robi Ganguly
CEO & Co-Founder of Apptentive
Early on, Robi learned about customer experience as a paperboy for The Seattle Times. From there he instructed Tae Kwon Do, learning that 7 to 14 year olds are some of the toughest customers on Earth. As a bag boy (nee’ Courtesy Clerk) for Olson’s Food Stores he learned the value of a simple conversation and taking the bags out for each and every customer. “How you leave them is how they leave,” his store manager repeated and it hit a chord. Years later, whether it was working for Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown advising companies like Ameritrade on their M&A strategy or helping WebEx pioneer and popularize the SaaS business model, Robi was lucky to always be close to customers in his roles. At Yahoo!, he spent his time with teams in product, design and sales, working closely with global CPG brands. Robi constantly found that global business leaders were yearning for deeper, more direct customer relationships and that they were convinced that advertising had to change. In 2011, Robi founded Apptentive with the goal to help brands around the world give each of their customers a voice. Outside of Apptentive Robi enjoys running, cooking for his wife and friends, reading, and is a long-time board member at the Developer Alliance.
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About Apptentive: Apptentive’s mobile customer experience software helps the World’s largest Consumer companies collect and act on 100x feedback at scale
Reid Lappin
CEO of VOKAL Interactive
Reid is CEO and a founding partner of VOKAL. He takes the role of lead strategist and operations manager where he directs the company to help cultivate innovation and deliver unique client solutions. Prior to starting VOKAL, he co-founded and managed Fresh From the Hills, an organic farm, catering to restaurants, residential delivery, and farmers markets. Reid is an active volunteer in the entrepreneurship community and a board member at the DePaul Coleman Center for EMerge. He has been featured on CNBC, spoken at PRSA America, and the Extreme Entrepreneur Tour. Additionally, he often guest lectures at several local universities, including DePaul and Northwestern.
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About GoodMogul, VOKAL Interactive: Vokal is a leading-edge digital agency in Chicago, specializing in mobile apps. We design, develop and deploy digital experiences.
Sundar Krish
CEO & co-Founder of Sken.ai
Sundar Krish is a Serial Tech Entrepreneuer. He is currrenlty the CEO and co-Founder of sken.ai. He was previously the CEO and Founder of a venture funded startup waygum.io
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About Sken.ai, Waygum, Inc.: Sken.ai, offers a “DevOps first AppSec”.
Sol Eun
CEO and Co-Founder of Uiflow
Sol Eun currently works as the Chief Executive Officer and the Co-Founder of Uiflow. He previously worked as Manager, Product Management, Data Discovery Platform at Workday.
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About Uiflow: Uiflow is a no-code platform that allows its users to build production applications using their enterprise data.
Evan Sparks
Co-Founder and CEO of Determined AI
Evan Sparks serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Amplify Partners. While earning his PhD in Computer Science as a member of the UC Berkeley AMPLab, he contributed to the design and implementation of much of the large-scale machine learning ecosystem around Apache Spark, including MLlib and KeystoneML. He has also published numerous scientific papers. Prior to Berkeley, Evan worked as a quantitative analyst at MDT Advisers, a leading asset management firm, and on the analytics team at the start-up Recorded Future. He also holds an MS from Berkeley, an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, and has been a CFA Charterholder.
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About Amplify Partners, Determined AI: Determined AI is a machine learning tech company that revolutionizes the way deep models are trained and deployed.
Manish Gupta
Founder & CEO of ShiftLeft
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About ShiftLeft, TiE: ShiftLeft delivers a new model for protecting cloud or data center hosted software.
Max Lynch
Co-founder & CEO of Ionic
Max is the Co-founder & CEO of Ionic, empowering millions of web developers to build top-quality apps for the app stores (http://ionicframework.com/).
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About Ionic: Ionic is the leader in enterprise app development, powering 15%+ of all app store apps and thousands of critical enterprise apps.
Albert Santalo
Founder / CEO of 8base
Global Head of Community at LinkedIn.
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About 8base, LinkedIn: 8base is a low-code development platform for building and running enterprise-grade digital applications.
Jedd Gold
CEO & Co-Founder of The Kive Company
Jedd Gold is the Founder and CEO at The Kive Company.
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About Food Forward, The Kive Company: The Kive Company offers Artkive – a service to help parents save and celebrate their kids’ art.
Yonas Beshawred
Founder & CEO of StackShare
Yonas studied Information Systems at University of Maryland. He then spent 18 months at Accenture’s IT Strategy Practice before quitting to study Human-Computer Interaction at University of Maryland for one year. Shortly after he moved to Mountain View, California to join Cube/SlidePay (YC W12) as a Marketing & Sales and iOS Design Grad Intern. He launched what is now StackShare, as Leanstack.io in May 2013 and has been working on it full-time ever since.
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About StackShare: StackShare is on a mission to connect every developer in the world with the right tools and the companies using them.
Jason Laster
CEO & Co-founder of Replay.io
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About Mozilla, Replay.io: Replay is a browser that records all of the context you need to fix bugs faster.
Alan Naumann
Chief Executive Officer of Contrast Security
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About Contrast Security: Contrast Security is a modernized application security, embedding code analysis, and attack prevention directly into the software.
Derric Gilling
Co-founder & CEO of Moesif
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About Moesif: Powerful API analytics and tools to help you activate, understand, and monetize customers
Hassan Syyid
Co-Founder and CEO of hotglue
Hassan Syyid is the Co-founder and CEO of Hotglue.
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About hotglue: Hotglue allows developers to embed user-facing SaaS integrations to control how their product receives customers’ data.
Aditya Sharma
Co-Founder, President & CEO of CodeLogic
Aditya Sharma is the Co-Founder, President & CEO at Crosscode.
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About CodeLogic: CodeLogic provides an automated application code dependency mapping tool
