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 Internet 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.
Kong Pham
CEO & Founder of Jumpcut
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About Jumpcut: Jumpcut creates captivating online courses.
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.
Christopher Rudy
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cut.com, Inc.
Christopher Rudy is the CEO, Co-Founder at Cut.com.
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About Cut.com, Inc.: Cut makes little stories of some interest.
Jennifer Parke
Co-Founder of Fair
For over fifteen years Jennifer has used her background in art direction and design to create advertising platforms and help set the vision for global brands like Apple,Cisco, Old Navy and HBO to name a few. And she’s worked at agencies across the country, including Chiat, Deutsch, BBDO and Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Her entrepreneurial smarts and innovative spirit have also led to the creation of several companies including: Sugar Shots, an organic liquid sugar alternative, SubGiant, a motion graphics company that served as a creative collective helping usher students into the business and Boombang Inc., an innovative think tank where Jen partnered to help with product development and branding. Her creativity and leadership have helped her break barriers in the business; and she’s honored to be part of the 3% of women ECDs in the world of advertising.
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About Fair: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Craig Nehamen
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Fair
Craig has a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. He has a passion for creating new financial technology products. Previously Craig was head of strategy and corporate development at Westlake Financial Services, a national auto finance company.
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About Fair: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Boone Park
Co-Founder, General Counsel & Board Memb of Fair
Boone Park is one of the nation͛s most knowledgeable experts on auto regulatory compliance.He comes to Fair from TrueCar, where he played an integral role in all aspects of legal operations. Prior to TrueCar, Boone practiced at the law firm of Alston & Bird. He graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif from the University of Kentucky College of Law.
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About Fair, TrueCar: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Ryan Chan
Founder and CEO of UpKeep
Founder @CEO at UpKeep. Angel Investor
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About UpKeep: UpKeep is a platform developed for technicians and maintenance workers that provides them with a computerized maintenance management system.
Will Jessup
Founder, Head of Services of TheoremOne
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About TheoremOne: We are an engineering and innovation firm. We solve complex business problems through optimization of process, technology, and culture.
Alex Hofmann
CEO and Co-Founder of 9 Count
Hofmann most recently held the role of musical.ly’s President in North America, where he led expansion efforts to build the world’s fastest growing entertainment social network. Within three months of Hofmann joining the team, app downloads increased from 200 to 400,000 per day. musical.ly hit the top of the app chats in 21 countries and has grown to over 200 million users globally. During his time at musical.ly, Hofmann helmed the company’s global content, brand, entertainment, and talent partnerships, in addition to heading all corporate functions for North and South America. He oversaw the closure of deals with all three major music labels and publishers. Under his leadership, the company closed its largest product partnership with Apple Music, as well as original content partnerships with Viacom, NBCU, and Hearst Digital. Hofmann also orchestrated partnerships with top artists like Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Jason Derulo and 250+ other artists worldwide. In early 2018, Hofmann announced he was moving on from musical.ly to pursue new ventures following the company’s successful merger with Chinese tech giant, Bytedance. He is currently investing in and advising new startups. He remains an ally and advisor to musical.ly. In 2017, Hofmann was chosen by Variety as one of “30 Execs to Watch” for its Digital Entertainment Impact Report and featured by Billboard on its Digital Power Players List: Guiding the Future in Music and Tech. Most recently, he accepted the WSJ Technology Innovator Award. A German native, Hofmann currently resides in Los Angeles.
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About 9 Count: 9count exists to create products that help and connect people
Nathan Candaner
Co-Founder of JobzMall
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About JobzMall: JobzMall is a next-generation, cloud-based job finding platform empowering both the job seeker and employer with unprecedented innovations.
Ilya Pozin
Co-Founder (acquired) of Pluto TV
Ilya Pozin is an entrepreneur, writer and investor. He is the founder of Pluto TV, Open Me (acquired), and Coplex. He is a columnist for Forbes and Inc. In 2012, Inc. Magazine recognized Ilya as a ’30 Under 30′ Entrepreneur. In 2013, LinkedIn selected Ilya as one of 100 Top Influencers, along with the likes of Richard Branson, Barack Obama, Tony Robbins and Mark Cuban. An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Coplex (formerly Ciplex) when he was 17-years-old. Coplex is a multi-million dollar interactive agency that has been behind the build of thousands of websites and applications, as well as management of millions of dollars of marketing and media buys. After stepping down from the CEO role at Coplex, Ilya founded Open Me, a consumer-focused social greeting and gifting company. After partnering with Threadless and successfully raising capital for the business, the company quickly grew to millions of users. Open Me was acquired by Rowl in 2015. In 2013, Ilya co-founded Pluto TV, an OTT television platform that combines digital and traditional content into 100+ linear channels. Pluto TV raised $13M led by US Venture Partner, Sky, Universal Music Group, UTA, and other prominent investors. The service is available for free on connected TV devices, PC and Mac, mobile platforms (iOS and Android) as well as on the web at http://pluto.tv Ilya resides in Los Angeles where he works, writes, invests, mentors and on occasion, attempts to golf. Follow Ilya on Twitter (@ilyaNeverSleeps) and LinkedIn.
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About Coplex, Forbes, Inc.com, Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Tom Ryan
CEO & Co-Founder of Pluto TV
Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership with hundreds of major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.
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About Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
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.
Robert Jadon
Co-Founder & Director of Startup UCLA Accelerator
Robert is a technology investor and entrepreneur in Los Angeles for the past 15 years, with experience founding and scaling businesses, along with multiple, successful exits. Robert’s passion is working with great entrepreneurs and product developers, adding value both as an investor and an operator. Prior to joining Altpoint and leading it’s LA office, Robert co-founded ScaleFunder, the leading crowdfunding and online giving SaaS platform in higher education. ScaleFunder has helped numerous nonprofit institutions raise tens of millions of dollars through the platform, in addition to acquiring new donors and retaining existing ones. ScaleFunder was successfully acquired by Ruffalo Noel Levitz, a leader in the nonprofit fundraising and enrollment space. Robert’s first company, Micro Memory, was a leader in the signal processing and storage networking markets. . Split primarily between storage and mil-aero verticals, the company’s customers included EMC, Network Appliance, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and many others. Micro Memory was acquired by Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). Robert has also worked with early stage companies for many years. Robert co-founded the Startup UCLA entrepreneurship and accelerator program at UCLA. The first of it’s kind in Los Angeles, the Startup UCLA program took best practices from the private sector, and applied them to UCLA students and alumni. The summer accelerator has spawned numerous companies, and has been the basis for best-practices at universities across the country and internationally. Robert has been an angel investor for many years, helping entrepreneurs with product and fundraising from the earliest stages. He formed the Dauntless Fund to focus on investments in consumer-facing startups. Robert is also an investor in and advisor to the Amplify.LA startup accelerator in Venice, Calif, and a former member of the Tech Coast Angels. Robert holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UCLA.
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About NeuralX, Presence.Fit, Startup UCLA Accelerator: Startup UCLA Accelerator provides a workspace, guidance, legal services, and mentors to early-stage companies.
Kosala Hemachandra
Founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet | MEW
With 8 years of experience as a computer engineer under his belt, Kosala dabbled in crypto during his senior year at college. He later applied his technical programming skills to develop a storage solution for Ether which became MEW: one of the most popular and widely used cryptocurrency wallets in the space.
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About MyEtherWallet | MEW, Nanopuppet: MyEtherWallet is a free, open-source, client-side tool for easily and securely interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.
Rex Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of AIVON
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About AIVON, Famecast Media, Intelligent Video Solutions: AIVON is a decentralized blockchain platform and protocol built on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) network.
Jason Nazar
Co-Founder & CEO of Comparably
Jason Lawrence Nazar is an active tech entrepreneur, investor, and writer. Jason is the Co-founder and CEO of Comparably, the online platform to understand compensation and culture. He was the co-founder and CEO of Docstoc (Acquired by INTUIT), the premier content site to start, grow and manage small businesses. Docstoc hosts the best quality and widest selection of professional documents and resources including articles, videos, & productivity tools to make every small business better. Docstoc has over 50 million registered users. Jason is also the creator and host of Startups Uncensored, the longest running and most widely attended technology gathering in southern California, which regularly brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, techies and investors. Before starting Docstoc, he was a partner in a venture consulting firm in Los Angeles where he worked with dozens of startups. He holds a BA from UCSB and his JD/MBA from Pepperdine University, where he was the Student Body President of both Universities. Jason was named one of the “Most Admired CEOs in Los Angeles” by the LA Business Journal. He’s also a popular and regular writer on Forbes, WSJ, and BusinessInsider.
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About City of Los Angeles, Comparably: Comparably, a platform that provides culture & compensation data for public and private companies.
Rodney Williams
Co-Founder | Chairman of LISNR
Rodney Williams is the co-founder of SoLo Funds and LISNR.
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About LISNR, LISNR, SoLo Funds: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
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.
Jordan Rothstein
Founder, CEO of King Tide Creative
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About Furious M, King Tide Creative, Raziel, TravelZeeky: King Tide is a full-service creative agency specifically and intricately designed to surpass the reach of the modern branding machine.
Gabriel Halimi
Co-Founder & CEO of Flo Technologies
Gabriel is a former law partner turned corporate operations executive, with extensive startup experience, including in business development and brand marketing.
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Henry Halimi
Co-Founder, Chairman of Flo Technologies
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
David Cremin
Founder & Managing Partner of Frontier Venture Capital
David Cremin is a Co-founder of Frontier Venture Capital and serves as its Managing Partner. David Cremin leads fund management, fundraising, and portfolio management efforts since 2002. Before that, he was a founding partner at Zone Ventures. He has helped lead investments in over 100 startups since 1998.
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About Frontier Venture Capital: Frontier Venture capital is a venture capital firm that finances early-stage media and technology companies.
La Mer Walker
Co-Founder and CCO of Valence Community
La Mer Walker is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Valence Community.
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About ORIGYN Foundation, Valence Community: Valence is an internet company that connects, showcases, and empowers the global black professional community.
Yves Bergquist
Founder and CEO of Corto
Yves Bergquist is the director of the “AI & Neuroscience in Media” Project at the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), where he and his team are developing next-generation applications drawn from AI and neuroscience for the media and entertainment industry. His research includes applying machine intelligence to model structures of narrative and “interestingness” in film, TV and music, as well as building neurobiological models of audience emotions using social media and fMRI data. Yves is also the founder and CEO of AI startup Corto, which is building a comprehensive knowledge engine to help media and entertainment companies develop deep insights into media content, audiences, and the cognitive relationship between the two.
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About Corto, ETC Entertainment Technology Center: An open source application framework for applications on the edge that make data-driven decisions at the speed of light.
Ryan Ogle
Co-Founder of Ripple
Ryan Ogle is the co-founder of Ripple and former CTO of Tinder. Engineer-turned-entrepreneur. He passionate about creating new products – like Ripple – and building businesses around them.
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About Ripple: Ripple is a mobile-first alternative to LinkedIn that addresses some of the problems common to the aging.
Milana Lewis
Co-Founder & CEO of Stem Disintermedia
Prior to founding Stem, Milana spent the last five years as a Digital Media Agent at United Talent Agency (UTA). Rabkin represented top digital creators, and sourced investment opportunities for UTA’s VC division. She has been recognized as one of Hollywood’s New Leaders by Variety and was named one of the “30 under 30” most influential young executives by Refinery29 in 2012.
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About Stem Disintermedia: Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings.
Danny Leonard
Co-Founder of Ramped
Early in his career, Danny was a continuous top-3 and top-1 performer at Groupon (over 1,000 reps at that time) – almost entirely new business / hunter. He was promoted into sales management, running a 40+ person team that carried a P&L of $70M+. Danny has launched sales teams at various VC-backed (Sequoia, August, and Spark, amongst others) startups from scratch, bringing them through initial traction and onto scale/profitability. He’s closed deals upwards of $2M on his own and managed SDRs, Ops and City Managers, Sales Ops, AEs, Sales Managers, and Account Managers. He’s mentored, coached, and advised hundreds of startups via Keep Scaling, 500 Startups, and MGV. Currently, he’s a Co-Founder at Ramped (www.rampedcareers.com) where he’s helping to build the largest job skilling marketplace for early-career talent.
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About 500 Startups, Keep Scaling, Maschmeyer Group Ventures, Maschmeyer Group Ventures, Ramped: Job skilling platform for early career professionals
Merrick Lackner
Founder and CEO of Rently
Merrick Lackner is Founder and CEO @ Rently.
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About Oaks Lab, Rently: Rently offers a self-service showing and smart home solution for property managers, real estate developer, and multifamily operators.
Clark Li
Technical Founder | CTO of Rently
Clark Li is Founder @ Rently.
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About Rently: Rently offers a self-service showing and smart home solution for property managers, real estate developer, and multifamily operators.
Tuan Ma
Founder & CEO of PlayersOnly
A entrepreneur, computer scientist and Founder of PlayersOnly. He holds a M.S. in Computer Science from DePaul University, and a M.B.A. from Durham University (UK).
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About PlayersOnly: PlayersOnly is a sports social network focused on athletes.
Eytan Elbaz
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Afterparty
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About Afterparty, Persona, Render Media, Scopely, Social Native, TenOneTen Ventures: Afterparty is a technology company that enables creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships.
David Fields
Founder & CEO of Afterparty
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About Afterparty: Afterparty is a technology company that enables creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships.
Wared Seger
CEO & Co-Founder of Parrot Analytics
Operating at the intersection of science, technology and entrepreneurship. Author of the world’s first quantitative thesis on founder succession in technology firms. 2017 Variety 30 Under 30 Hollywood Leaders. 2018 Broadcasting & Cable 40 Under 40 Media Execs / 2018 NYC TV Week Awards. Bringing to life The Wisdom of Crowds.
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About Parrot Analytics: Parrot Analytics is a data science company that measures and predicts global demand for content, across all platforms, around the world.
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
Sarah Martin
Founder & CEO of Hiyoume Inc.
Current – CEO & Founder Hiyoume inc. Founder of Direction Ventures LLC with an interest in hybrid and ESG capital models. Former JPMorgan trader, and helped form and accelerate 2 start ups – JASK inc. and Anomali. Passionate about private and public companies, and change markers.
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About Hiyoume Inc.: Hiyoume Inc. is a social dating app that connects people through shared video experiences.
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
Ben Goldhirsh
Founder of GOOD
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About GOOD: GOOD is an integrated media platform for pragmatic idealists working towards individual and collective progress.
Nikhil Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of ObEN
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About ObEN: ObEN is an AI company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars.
Saujin Yi
CEO and Founder of Liquid
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About 79 Studios, Liquid: Liquid is a global vendor and freelancer payments platform providing agile SMBs consolidated payments, automation and business controls.
Lea Endres
Co-Founder & CEO of NationBuilder
Lea Endres is the Co-Founder & CEO at NationBuilder.
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About NationBuilder: NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Jim Gilliam
Founder & Executive Chairman of NationBuilder
Jim Gilliam is the founder and CEO of 3dna, a startup building internet tools to shake up a broken political system. Previously, he co-founded Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films, building a non-profit grassroots media company of a million members and producing four documentaries. In the late 90’s, he launched Business.com as its Chief Technology Officer, and worked at Lycos, one of the first internet search engines.
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About NationBuilder: NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Cody James
Founder of Open X
Cody James is a Forbes 30 under 30 in Manufacturing and Industry, formerly the Boeing Company’s youngest robotics programmer and currently the founder of Open X and a consultant in Aerospace.
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About Open X: Open X helps people learn advanced skills, then helps them find a great career at leading companies
Patrick Maloney
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Inspire
Clean Energy Entrepreneur and Investor
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About Inspire: Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Trevor Short
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Millennium Entertainment
Co-founder and CFO Trevor Short oversees legal, finance and administrative operations for Nu Image, Inc., Millennium Films and all related companies. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, Short obtained a Bachelor of Law from the University of Rhodesia and an MBA at the University of Cape Town where he was awarded the Gold Medal. In 1980 Short entered the world of banking and commerce, joining Standard Chartered Merchant Bank in Harare as head of Corporate Finance, responsible for takeovers, mergers and IPO’s. He then moved to Hill Samuel Merchant Bank in Johannesburg in 1984 as head of its Corporate Finance Division and subsequently to Investec Bank where he was responsible for eight IPOs on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, as well as numerous mergers and acquisitions Short’s finance background led him to develop a tax based financing formula to produce motion pictures in South Africa. He succeeded in procuring over $200 million from private investors to fund the production of international films made in South Africa. Much of the financing he secured was for films produced by Avi Lerner’s Nu Metro group for international film companies. He also became a consultant to the Government of South Africa regarding film incentive legislation.
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About Millennium Entertainment: Millennium Entertainment – Theatrical Film/Movie Distribution Company based in Los Angeles, CA
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.
Reeve Collins
Co-Founder of SmartMedia Tech
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About SmartMedia Tech: SmartMedia Tech is a self-serve audience activation and real-time programmatic buying platform.
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.
Jack Dangermond
Founder, CEO, and President of Esri
Jack Dangermond is the founder, CEO, and president of Esri.
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About Esri: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Larry Fitzgibbon
Founder of Tastemade
Larry Fitzgibbon is the co-founder of Tastemade.
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About Tastemade: Tastemade is a media company that engages a global audience on all major digital, mobile, and streaming television platforms.
Sam Wang
Founder & CEO of ProGuides
Founder & CEO of ProGuides.
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About ProGuides: ProGuides is an esports training platform where millions of committed gamers get better.
Matthew Adell
Co-Founder and CEO of OnNow.tv
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About MetaPop Inc., OnNow.tv: Discover, Share and Promote Livestreams
Mehdi Daoudi
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Catchpoint
Mehdi Daoudi Co-Founded Catchpoint Systems, Inc in September 2008. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mehdi Daoudi combines in-depth expertise in developing and operating large on-demand software platforms with hands-on experience in application monitoring, performance management and IT operations practices. He was Vice President Quality of Service of Google from March 2008 to August 2008. As an industry pioneer, he created the Quality of Services group at DoubleClick Inc. in 2000 and has more than nine years of extensive experience in the monitoring, SLA and operations excellence fields. He served at Double Click Labs R& D from January 2006 to August 2008. At DoubleClick, Mehdi Daoudi managed over $20 million devoted to monitoring for the improvement of the quality of user experience, increasing availability and performance and in turn, promoting accountability throughout the IT, business and product development teams. He served as Vice President of Operations Quality of Services of DobleClick from 2000 to August 2008.
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About Catchpoint: Catchpoint is a digital experience observability company.
Ori Ayonmike
Founder of Myreelty
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About Myreelty, Repray, Repray: On-demand platform that connects real estate agents to professional photographers and videographers in minutes.
Edmond Wong
Co-Founder & COO of BuzzMob
Edmond Wong is an Operations and Strategy executive focused on delivering great customer experiences while scaling VC and PE backed growth stage companies. He currently advises growth stage companies in consumer products, eCommerce, SaaS and subscription based services and is an angel investor and co-founder of the Asian American Investors Group. Most recently, Edmond was co-founder/COO of Chatter, Inc (Appletree), a SaaS based communication platform that encourages engagement between parents and teachers within K-8 schools. He also co-founded and was COO of BuzzMob, a crowd engagement and fan technology app for live events. BuzzMob connects on-site attendees and delivers exclusive curated content to revolutionize the live event experience. Prior to BuzzMob, Mr. Wong created, built and scaled many iconic fashion and consumer product brands both in the US and worldwide.
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About BuzzMob, UCI Applied Innovation, UCI Paul Merage School of Business, VHA Corp: Connecting classrooms and schools to engage and empower parents and students.
Andrew Blackmon
Co-Founder & CEO of The Black Tux
Andrew Blackmon is a Co-Founder & Co-CEO at The Black Tux.
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About The Black Tux: The Black Tux is a tuxedo and suit rental service.
Jason Fairchild
Co-Founder and CEO of tvScientific
Jason is a recognized leader in the ad tech industry with a proven track record of innovating and scaling new technologies and business models at the intersection of media and technology. Jason is the co-founder and CEO of tvScientific, a ConnectedTV (CTV) advertising and attribution platform. An Idealab company, tvScientific is the only CTV platform to offer a direct, hands-on solution that combines direct media buying with comprehensive measurement and attribution, making it easy for businesses of all sizes to buy CTV inventory and deliver outcomes that are as measurable as digital ads. Most recently, Jason served as co-founder and CRO at OpenX, where he built and managed business development and sales, under his leadership the company’s annual revenue grew to $700M+/year. During his tenure at OpenX, Jason and team introduced several industry-changing technologies, including the first programmatic ad exchange for digital media, the first programmatic ad exchange for mobile advertising (via a partnership with Samsung), and the invention/development of Header Bidding technology, which has become a standard ad infrastructure for programmatic digital media across all formats–display, mobile, video and OTT/CTV. Prior to OpenX, Jason was an early executive of GoTo.com/Overture (acquired by Yahoo), where he was responsible for the development of the “paid layer’ search product that unlocked the company’s syndication business model and attracted large partners like MSN, AOL and Yahoo. Jason ran global BD at GoTo.com/Overture until the Yahoo acquisition and then ran global BD for pioneering behavioral tech platform company, Claria. Jason was also an early exec at EarthLink Network. Jason was a board member for Cognitive Networks, a pioneering CTV data company acquired by VIZIO, and is an investor/advisor in several emerging technology companies, including QuickFrame, Boom Payments, Recrue Media, RideZiro and Binary Advertising. Jason holds six patents in the areas of behavioral technology and search, and several more pending patents in the areas of audience data aggregation, CTV attribution and Social/Influencer commerce.
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About OpenX, tvScientific: It is the only CTV platform to offer a hands-on solution that combines direct media buying with comprehensive measurement and attribution.
Brian Nolan
Co-Founder & CEO of BookOutdoors
Brian Nolan is the Co-Founder and CEO at BookOutdoors.
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About BookOutdoors: Outdoor travel, reimagined
Christine Carrillo
Founder & CEO of Butlr Health
Christine Carrillo is a 3x founder and software engineer. Currently the CEO and co-founder of Butlr Health. Prev founder/CEO @ JOANY.
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About Butlr Health, Techstars: Managed marketplace that matches people with highly vetted therapists.
Ann Greenberg
Founder and CEO of Entertainment AI ™
Ann Greenberg is a serial entrepreneur and inventor. Ann’s new venture, Entertainment AI™ (Sceneplay, Inc.) is developing groundbreaking, patented systems using AI and Blockchain to automate media creation, distribution and analysis. In 1998, Ann co-founded Gracenote, the world’s largest entertainment data company, and the first crowdsourced company. Gracenote helps consumers to discover and engage with relevant, personalized content across platforms—from smart TVs, to smartphones and the streaming media in their cars. Gracenote was acquired by Nielsen for $560M in 2017. Prior to founding Gracenote, Ann co-founded ION, an early digital studio who worked with David Bowie, Brian Eno, Todd Rungren, The Residents, Primus and leading technology companies. Ann also ran marketing for Edward R Pressman Film Corporation.
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About Entertainment AI ™, Fanpulse: The Smart Content Company – Entertainment AI merges human and machine creativity to engage a new generation.
Patrick Lu
Co-Founder and CEO of Playfull
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About Playfull: Playfull is a rewards platform for gamers and their mission is to make play more fulfilling
Alex Hesselgrave
Co-Founder and CTO of Playfull
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About Playfull: Playfull is a rewards platform for gamers and their mission is to make play more fulfilling
Zhuping Hu
Co-Founder, iOS Developer of Playfull
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About Playfull: Playfull is a rewards platform for gamers and their mission is to make play more fulfilling
Kevin Yu
Founder & CEO of SideChef
Kevin Yu joined SideChef as Founder & CEO in 2013.
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About SideChef: SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and amateur cooks.
Keith Hoerling
Founder & CTO of Dimension Software
Keith Hoerling is the CTO // Founder of big brands such as Dimension Software and WeedMaps
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About Amaze, Dimension Software: Dimension Software is software architecture, engineering & creative design firm that grows businesses
Phil Stover
Co-Founder and CEO of PvP.com
Phil Stover is the Co-Founder and CEO of PvP.com.
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About PvP.com: The first true gamer social community.
Keith Richman
Co-Founder and CEO of Boosted Commerce
Keith is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and board member. He co-founded Boosted Commerce because he is passionate about taking products that successful sellers have developed and helping scale those products on a global level. Previously, he was a co-founder of Voi Technology, a leading European based mobility company with operations in 34 cities across 11 countries. From 2005 until October 2013, he served as the co-founder and CEO of Break Media, where he developed an expertise in digital marketing across multiple brands and vertical. Prior to Break Media, he was the co-founder and vice president of OnePage, which was acquired by Sybase in 2002, and co-founder of Billpoint Inc., which was acquired by eBay in 1999. Keith currently serves on the board of directors of GrubHub (Nasdaq: GRUB), The Meet Group (Nasdaq: Meet) and Vostok New Ventures (Nasdaq: VNVSDB:SS). Keith received a B.A. in International Relations and M.A. in International Policy from Stanford University.
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About Boosted Commerce, Voi: Boosted Commerce is a CPG platform that buys a variety of verticals and business sizes.
Jeffrey Tinsley
Founder and CEO of MyLife
As a serial Internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey founded MyLife.com in 2002 and is the company’s CEO and Chairman. He is responsible for the company’s overall direction and strategies toward building the leading social site to help members find and maintain personal AND work connections, all in one place as they define the Personal Relationship Management (PRM) category. Through his direction, MyLife.com has grown consistently to more than 60 million registered members, is adding more than 2 million per month, prompting VentureBeat to write the recent article entitled, “Is MyLife the biggest social site you’ve never heard of?” The company has received many accolades, and Jeffrey himself was recognized as Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009. Previously, Jeffrey was a founder and CEO of GreatDomains.com, the world’s leading secondary domain name marketplace. The company was acquired by publicly-traded VeriSign for $100 million. Jeffrey is also involved in a number of private Internet companies as an investor and advisor.
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About MediaPass, MyLife, MyLife: MyLife provides the leading Reputation Platform, making consumers safer & marketplaces more trusted.
B.J. Novak
Co-Founder of The List App
B.J. Novak is perhaps best known for his work on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series The Office as an actor, and executive producer. He is also known for his work as a standup comedian and his performances in films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks. He will next appear in The Founder alongside Michael Keaton. Novak’s debut collection of short stories, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, was an immediate New York Times Best Seller and received rave reviews. His children’s book, The Book With No Pictures, is a #1 New York Times Best Seller with over a million copies in print and is currently sold on international bookshelves in 24 additional languages. Novak’s stories have been published in The New Yorker and featured on This American Life. He is also the co-founder and chairman of The List App, which launched in October 2015 and can be found at http://li.st.
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About The List App: The List App is a new way to create and discover lists about anything and everything.
Donovan Janus
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of 17hats
World traveler, pilot, motorcyclist, and entrepreneur. Coming from a long line of business owners, Donovan had his first paper route at age 9, and officially started his first company the day he turned 18. He managed the Netherlands’ largest small business website, and has been helping business owners become more successful for nearly 20 years, all while cooly maintaining a domineering streak as undisputed foosball king of 17hats.
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About 17hats, ExposureManager: 17hats is the complete system that helps automate, organize, and optimize small business management for freelancers and entrepreneurs.
Myles Hunter
Co-Founder and CEO of TutorMe
Co-Founder & CEO @ TutorMe.
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About TutorMe, YEC: TutorMe is an online education platform that offers on-demand tutoring and online test preparation courses.
Sheldon Owen
Founder and CEO of Vana
Sheldon is a proven entrepreneur and senior business operator with over 20 years of experience developing emerging technology companies. Sheldon is the Founder of Digital Tower, Inc. (dba Muncheez) and the Co-Founder of Unified. Prior to starting Muncheez, Sheldon was the founding CEO of Unified for nearly five years. During his tenure as CEO, Unified successfully raised over $60 million in venture financing, grew to hundreds of customers and 150 employees, made two successful acquisitions, won countless awards, and became one of the industry’s most recognized marketing technology startups. Prior to co-founding Unified, Sheldon held many senior executive roles throughout his career including Vice President at CA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA), EVP/General Manager at Connexus and Founder of tmpSocial, an early Facebook Marketing Partner. Sheldon is an active startup advisor, mentor, board member, speaker and angel investor. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), an advisor for Techweek, and an advisor to hedge funds and professional investment firms on industry trends in software, marketing technology, mobile, digital advertising, and social media.
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About Vana: Leading recommendation engine and compliant marketing platform for the legal cannabis and CBD industry
Shaun Moore
Founder & CEO of Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell
Shaun Moore is a Founder & CEO at Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell.
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About 500 Startups, Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell, OAKED, Tech London Advocates, Trueface: First product – Intelligent doorbell that uses facial recognition and proprietary tech to make the front door a gateway to a connected home.
Travis Kell
Co-Founder & CFO of Metropolis
Travis Kell is an entrepreneur, investor and former financial services professional. He is the Co-Founder, COO and CFO of Metropolis Technologies, Inc. Prior to founding Metropolis, Travis was in the financial services industry in New York with a focus on private investments. Most recently, he was a senior business development professional at Winton Group. Winton is a $30 billion computer-driven global investment management and data science company. Previously, Travis was a Director at BlackRock Alternative Advisors where he led the New York-based Product Strategy team responsible for $5 billion of client assets invested across a range of hedge fund strategies. His primary focus was to develop and structure customized portfolio solutions with sophisticated investors across the U.S. and Canada. During his tenure with BlackRock, Travis was involved in negotiating and structuring several portfolios of hedge funds and opportunistic co-investments totaling $3 billion. His career began as an Analyst in 2006 at Quellos Group in Seattle. Quellos was a boutique alternative investment management firm that was acquired by BlackRock in 2007 to create the firm’s $25 billion global hedge fund solutions platform.
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About Metropolis: Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility.
Alexander Israel
Co-Founder & CEO of Metropolis
Alex Israel is an active mobility entrepreneur, investor and advisor. Alex is the Co-Founder & CEO of Metropolis, a stealth start-up based in Los Angeles. Previously, Alex was the General Manager of an enterprise division of INRIX, the leading global traffic intelligence provider, delivering smart technology and data analytics to help improve urban mobility. INRIX is at the forefront of connecting cars to smarter cities in more than 60 countries around the world. The company leverages big data analytics to reduce the individual, economic and environmental toll of traffic congestion. In 2009, Alex co-founded ParkMe to facilitate a paradigm shift within navigation. Between 2009 and 2015 ParkMe grew to become the world’s most comprehensive parking database, including more than 29 million spaces in 100,000+ worldwide locations, 4,000 cities, and 64 countries. Mr. Israel managed the Product, Marketing, Business Development and Engineering departments. ParkMe acquired millions of users, as an “Apple Store Ranked: Top 5 U.S. Navigation Application”. Alex also serves on the Board of Directors of Defy Ventures, the leading U.S. anti-recidivism organization.
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About Metropolis: Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility.
Jeni Abramson
Founder & CEO of Deep Drawer
With a multidisciplinary career in the realms of real estate development, RegTech and digital media, Jeni Abramson combined her passions and launched Deep Drawer, a digital marketing agency for home remodelers. Jeni started out in digital media in early 2005 at Turner Broadcasting during the launch of online advertising operations for CNN.com. She later joined Reuters Media where she managed digital advertising, online content syndication and the launch Reuters Mobile. Later in her career Jeni ventured into the RegTech and focused on reference data management and process automation for some of the world’s largest financial institutions. Throughout her professional journey Jeni also stayed actively involved with her family’s real estate development business. She has designed and managed numerous residential and commercial construction projects in Washington, DC, New York City and Los Angeles. Jeni holds an MBA from Columbia University.
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About Arachnys, Deep Drawer: Digital Marketing Agency
Alex Wang
Co-Founder, CEO of Ember Fund
Alex is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ember Fund. He attended the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Ember Fund: Ember Fund develops a mobile app to invest like a cryptocurrency hedge fund.
Mario Lazaro
Co-Founder. CIO of Ember Fund
Mario Lazaro is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Ember Fund. He was the Engineer Manager of GumGum prior to that. He studied Computer Science in both Spain and Finland and he holds a M.Sc in Computer Science.
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About Ember Fund: Ember Fund develops a mobile app to invest like a cryptocurrency hedge fund.
Eric Wimer
Co-Founder and CEO of Returnmates
Eric Wimer is the Co-Founder & CEO at Returnmates.
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About Returnmates: Returnmates is a provider of shipping services that allows returning an online purchase without leaving home.
Tony Alfaro
Founder & CEO of Ribbon
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About GetMyFunds.com, Ribbon: Ribbon helps people plan events with friends faster and easier.
Maryam Rofougaran
Co-CEO, Founder, Board Member of Movandi
Maryam is a transformational inventor, technology executive, and entrepreneur in the field of electrical engineering, with a focus on wireless technologies. She was co-founder of Innovent Systems in 1998, and has been listed on the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology. Maryam was instrumental in starting and building the wireless business at Broadcom and in growing it to annual revenues of more than $3 billion. Maryam holds over 250 issued patents.
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About Movandi: Movandi is a wireless systems company tackling the technical challenges of 5G millimeter wave networks.
Nathan Lew
CEO, Co-Founder of OpenFan
Award-winning product and marketing executive for early & growth stage, and Fortune 500 companies, inc. Songkick (fka CrowdSurge), Live Nation and Indaba Music.
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About OpenFan: OpenFan arms every business with Amazon-level customer intelligence via consumers’ SKU-level purchase data at more than 1,000 retailers.
Levon Shahbaghyan
Founder and CEO of Jazva
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About Jazva: Jazva is the most powerful cloud-based software available for the e-commerce market.
Doron Kim
President & Founder of Mobile Motion
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About BJJ Marketing, Christian Dating For Free, eDating For Free, Mobile Motion, TheColor.com: Mobile Motion is providing helping ordinary people to connect with the internet.
Zack Parker
CEO & Co-Founder of LÜK Network
3X Founder / CEO. Founded a video startup for athletes, agencies, and brands including Nike, Quiksilver, and GoPro. Created the “Give A Crap” campaign, which earned a top-25 awareness campaign by a charity.
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About LÜK Network: LÜK Network is a fintech-enabled B2B marketplace for the advertising industry.
Matt Finelli
Co-Founder of LÜK Network
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About LÜK Network: LÜK Network is a fintech-enabled B2B marketplace for the advertising industry.
Dami Rafael Jegede
Founder & CEO of Roombus
In 2012, I founded Swipe, a SaaS and Product Design B2B company, powering some of the biggest banks across Africa. Swipe’s operational and monitoring products process over a combined value of USD $4 Billion in transactions yearly for the banking sector. I also co-founded Nairabox, a Lagos-based FinTech startup, with a few friends. Nairabox created the de facto standard of banking in Africa — Lifestyle Banking. Today, Nairabox powers 90% of the mobile banking apps in Nigeria — Africa’s largest market by volume and GDP. I am training to become a kick-ass Jazz Pianist.
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About Roombus: Building smarter cities – starting with fully autonomous and modular smart houses.
Russ Ruffino
Founder & Owner of Clients on Demand
Russ Ruffino is the founder & CEO of Clients on Demand. COD helps coaches, consultants, thought-leaders and service pros attract the right clients, at the right price, anytime they want. Visit our site to learn more: www.clientsvalley.com/workshop
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About Clients on Demand: Clients on Demand is the most reliable client attraction system in the world, with experts to help you maximize your business’ potential.
Paris Benson
Founder and CEO of Wizely Finance
Paris Benson is a Founder & CEO at Verifico.
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About Wizely Finance: Wizely Finance is a web-based platform that helps financial institutions offer credit card debt consolidation loans.
Evan Birenbaum
Founder & COO of Chai Energy
As COO for Chai Inc., Evan Birenbaum is responsible for all things related to business strategy and development, energy-market dynamics, customer engagement, disruptive technologies, and day-to-day business operations. Chai is building products that give consumers a simple and mobile way to understand and reduce their energy use by over 20 percent. Leveraging these consumer products, Chai provides multiple services for utility companies, including customer engagement, behavioral energy efficiency, and interactive demand response. Prior to joining Chai, Evan was the program manager for Environmental Strategy and Sustainability at Southern California Edison (SCE), where he was responsible for the development, strategy, and implementation of SCE’s corporate responsibility and sustainability program. He worked with company executives, business managers, regulators, NGO’s, and internal and external stakeholders to identify and prioritize emerging issues in order to address challenges related to climate change, water impact, habitat protection and biodiversity, and energy and water availability. He has been partly responsible for Edison’s charitable contributions in the area of environmental giving. Evan also works with the Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator to develop sustainable jobs in Southern California.
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About Chai Energy: Chai is an energy education and technology development company that helps customers save energy in their homes.
Grant Kirkwood
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Unitas Global
Grant Kirkwood is the founder and CEO at Unitas Global, a worldwide provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and IT outsourcing solutions. The company’s mission is to serve companies needing IT infrastructure solutions delivered as a fully-managed service. Prior to founding Unitas Global, Grant Kirkwood served as CTO at PacketExchange, a global network service provider with 65 points of presence throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As CTO of PacketExchange, Grant Kirkwood oversaw all aspects of its technology vision and execution, driving towards the successful execution of the company’s business objectives and customer commitment. Prior to PacketExchange, Grant Kirkwood was the founder and CTO at Mzima Networks. Created to serve the unique needs of media, entertainment and online content providers, Mzima operated a global IP backbone and built a reputation as the performance leader in Internet bandwidth solutions. Before founding Mzima in 2002, Grant Kirkwood was the CTO at Netixs, a managed hosting service provider. His entry into the Internet technology industry was in 1997, as one of the founding partners of Vision Imaging Internet, a web application development and infrastructure engineering consultancy. Grant Kirkwood is an accomplished speaker and industry analyst. He is passionate about the intersection of technology and people’s lives, and believes that the proliferation of technology and global communications can be harnessed to improve the quality of life of people around the world. He believes in the strength of a unified team working towards common objectives, and his management style encourages individual strengths and creativity. Grant Kirkwood currently serves as the chairman of the board at Web Wise Kids, a national non-profit dedicated to educating kids and their parents about Internet safety through a series of innovative, challenging games.
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About Unitas Global: Unitas Global is a platform=based managed network service provider connecting edge to cloud everywhere.
Farrah Kashef
Co-Founder & EVP of Business Development of Unitas Global
Farrah’s career spans over 15 years as a sales executive. Prior to Unitas Global, Farrah held senior level business development and sales roles at Mzima, PacketExchange, GTT, Arbinet, and NTT/VERIO.
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About Unitas Global: Unitas Global is a platform=based managed network service provider connecting edge to cloud everywhere.
Keemia Ferasat
Founder & CEO of Style Salute
Keemia Ferasat is the founder & CEO of Style Salute, a mission-driven digital media, and entertainment company with a global audience footprint of 400 thousand a month across platforms. Focused around the core values of individuality and creativity, Style Salute delivers content and experiences that speak to an audience that’s highly engaged across a variety of devices and destinations, from original content and email newsletters, to live experiences and social storytelling. Our audience is comprised of self-made dreamers who are smart and passionate, always seeking out the next thing and living to their full potential in every aspect of their lives. As a next-generation women’s media company, Style Salute is changing the way content speaks to and represents women, always sparking the conversations that matter most. Delivering on that mission, Keemia is driven every day to celebrate women and to help them see, feel and own their power — walking the walk in all that she does.
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About Style Salute: Style Salute is a digital media and entertainment company dedicated to inspiring young women to live a smarter, more stylish life.
Ilan Zerbib
Co-Founder & CTO of Earny
Ilan Zerbib is CTO & Co-founder at Earny. He is a graduate in Information Technology from Edinburgh Napier University and Masters in Cybersecurity from Telecom ParisTech.
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About Earny: Earny is your personal assistant who automatically gets you money back on almost every item you buy.
Rafi Fine
Co-Founder & CEO of FBE
Benny and Rafi Fine are pioneering content creators, digital media entrepreneurs, and co-founders of Fine Brothers Entertainment—a media company, studio, and network with a staff of more than 50 employees that creates innovative and entertaining programming for a global audience. From their first launch of content online in 2004, Benny and Rafi have told dynamic stories through their diverse original content, including their genre-defining “REACT” videos, YouTube Red half-hour comedy “Sing It!,” and animated series “Emo Dad.” Expanding outside of digital, FBE also recently finished production on its first feature film F#!& THE PROM, and has created TV shows for Nickelodeon, truTV, and Freeform. Each week, the company produces ten serialized shows for 20 million YouTube subscribers– totaling 150 million views per month and over 5 billion lifetime views.
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About FBE, FBE: FBE has pioneered the digital revolution for over a decade.
Rafi Fine
Co-Founder & CEO of FBE
Benny and Rafi Fine are pioneering content creators, digital media entrepreneurs, and co-founders of Fine Brothers Entertainment—a media company, studio, and network with a staff of more than 50 employees that creates innovative and entertaining programming for a global audience. From their first launch of content online in 2004, Benny and Rafi have told dynamic stories through their diverse original content, including their genre-defining “REACT” videos, YouTube Red half-hour comedy “Sing It!,” and animated series “Emo Dad.” Expanding outside of digital, FBE also recently finished production on its first feature film F#!& THE PROM, and has created TV shows for Nickelodeon, truTV, and Freeform. Each week, the company produces ten serialized shows for 20 million YouTube subscribers– totaling 150 million views per month and over 5 billion lifetime views.
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About FBE, FBE: FBE has pioneered the digital revolution for over a decade.
Joe Nuzzolo
Founder / Owner of The Salvador Dali Society
Joe Nuzzolo has spent several decades developing a reputation as an expert in the art of Salvador Dali. Since 1993, he has sold more than 11,000 Dali pieces in his capacity as a dealer. Also an authenticator, he has leveraged his Dali expertise to provide authentication services that have resulted in collectors receiving nearly $1 million in refunds for forgeries of the Spanish artist. A collector himself, Joe Nuzzolo owns one of the world’s largest collections of Dali art. Joe Nuzzolo continues to sell, authenticate, and acquire Dali pieces through the Salvador Dali Society®, a Torrance, California, organization that he founded and owns. Through the Salvador Dali Society®, Mr. Nuzzolo maintains additional focuses on educating collectors and consulting with museums. His experience in the latter capacity includes work with such institutions as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba and Centre Pompidou Paris in France. Joe Nuzzolo plans to share his extensive Dali knowledge through the forthcoming two-volume reference set Salvador Dali Prints: The Catalogue Raisonne. Already a published writer, he stands out as the author and editor of the 2001 book Salvador Dali: A Fifty-Year Retrospective.
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About The Salvador Dali Society: The Salvador Dali Society was founded with the intention of establishing transparency in the Dali art world.
Al Ovadia
Co-Founder & Chairman of Wonder Transmedia
Al Ovadia, Chairman (former 20th Century Fox Division President, former Sony Pictures Ent. Division Head)
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About Wonder Transmedia: Wonder Transmedia develops intellectual property to be shared across multiple digital media platforms.
Omar Kaczmarczyk
Co-Founder, CDO of Wonder Transmedia
Omar Kaczmarczyk, CDO (former Noble Ent. Group Founder)
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About Wonder Transmedia: Wonder Transmedia develops intellectual property to be shared across multiple digital media platforms.
Chris Fure
Co-Founder, COO of Wonder Transmedia
Chris Fure, COO and acting CEO (former TransGlobal Ventures Partner)
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About Wonder Transmedia: Wonder Transmedia develops intellectual property to be shared across multiple digital media platforms.
Chris Miglino
Co-Founder & CEO of SRAX
Mr. Chris Miglino, Chris co-founded Social Reality Inc. in April 2010 and also has been its Chief Executive Officer since April 2010. Mr. Miglino is responsible for leading the product development and capital structure of the company. He has helped the company raise all of its capital and go public on the NASDAQ capital market. Mr. Miglino has a long history of starting companies and working in public company environments.
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About SRAX: SRAX is a financial technology company that unlocks data and insights for publicly traded companies.
