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 New York based Founder operating in the Enterprise 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.
Brad Birnbaum
CEO & Founder of Kustomer
Brad is an innovator and a trailblazer in creating disruptive enterprise technologies. He has spent more than 20 years as a C level executive and a serial entrepreneur, building companies and solutions for customer service and support. Mission driven and passionate, he believes in leading with purpose and building solutions that solve real world problems. As co-founder and CEO of Kustomer, Brad set out together with Jeremy Suriel and the Kustomer team to build something the world desperately needs: a modern, customer-centric platform for building applications while modernizing the customer support tool landscape. Before founding Kustomer, Brad co-founded Assistly which was acquired by Salesforce and rebranded as Desk.com; making it the Salesforce SaaS SMB support solution. Brad began his career by founding eShare Communications while in college. As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development at eShare Technologies, he took part in revolutionizing community chat and launching the first chat tool used for customer support. eShare was later sold to Melita International where he continued his role as CTO for the larger entity which rebranded as eShare Communications. Brad held executive roles at Divine Interventures, eAssist and Talisma all the while focusing on improving customer support for enterprise companies. Additionally, Brad lead the community chat team at AOL and was CTO for Airtime. Brad contributes regularly to Forbes where he writes about trends that affect the customer service industry today. As a born and raised New Yorker, Brad insists on building the next great NYC based tech startup. Brad serves as Kustomer’s Chairman of the Board. Birnbaum served as a Justice Louis Brandeis Scholar at Brandeis University and a Simon’s fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he conducted advanced organo-metallic research in chemistry. Birnbaum has been published in a variety of publications and has also served as a technical editor for some of Macmillan’s best-selling Java and Internet books. Birnbaum holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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About CRMXchange, Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Jeremy Suriel
CTO & Founder of Kustomer
Jeremy is a seasoned tech founder with a deep knowledge and expertise in software development & architecture.Jeremy was Co-founder and Chief Architect of Assistly. Previously he was a Co-founder of eAssist, then a Co-founder & CTO at Goowy Media which was acquired by AOL.
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About Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Spencer Kimball
Co-Founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs
Spencer Kimball is the co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he maintains a delicate balance between a love for programming distributed systems and the excitement of helping the company grow smoothly. While in university, he was one of the original authors of the GIMP. He cut his teeth on databases during the dot com heyday, and had a front row seat at Google for a decade’s worth of their evolution.
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About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
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.
Howard Lerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.
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About Confide, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
James Hutchins
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of North Island Ventures
James Hutchins is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at North Island Ventures.
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About North Island Ventures: North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund
Amish Jani
Founder & Partner of FirstMark
Amish Jani is a founder and Managing Director of FirstMark and has been an active venture capitalist for nearly 20 years. He invests broadly across the cloud and Internet landscape, including SaaS applications, ecommerce, infrastructure and more. Amish has been recognized by CB Insights and the New York Times as a Top 100 Venture Capitalist globally. Amish has invested in industry-defining companies that include Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), InVision, Pendo, Starry, Tracelink, Frame.io, Guru, Bluecore, IMImobile (LSE: IMO), Schoology (acquired by PowerSchool), Boomi (acquired by Dell), Aveksa (acquired by EMC), and many more. Prior to founding FirstMark, Amish served as a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Amish holds both a B.S. and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About FirstMark: FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs.
Rick Heitzmann
Founder, Partner, and Managing Director of FirstMark
Rick Heitzmann is a Founder and Managing Director at FirstMark Capital. Mr. Heitzmann focuses on investments in emerging media, advertising, data, and information services. Rick has led or co-led many investments in market leaders in commerce (StubHub, acquired by eBay), gaming (Riot Games, acquired by Tencent), data services (First Advantage, NASDAQ: FADV; acquired by First American), advertising technology (Tapad), media (Pinterest), and more. Previously, Rick was a Managing Director at Pequot Ventures, and a founding member of the senior management team at First Advantage (NASDAQ: FADV). At US Search, Rick, as the Senior Vice President of corporate development and member of the Board of Directors, led the public company turnaround. Mr. Heitzmann graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Business Administration and earned his M.B.A. from The Harvard Business School. Rick sits on the Board of Directors of Pinterest, Dashlane, Omaze, and Hubble Contacts among others. Rick is also on the Board of Directors of the New York Venture Capital Association.
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About FirstMark: FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs.
Kuty Shalev
Founder of Clevertech
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About Clevertech: Clevertech is a custom software and app development company that solves hard problems. Business & systems integration.
David Politis
Founder and CEO of BetterCloud
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About BetterCloud: The SaaS Operations leader: Transform employee experience, centralize data protection, and maximize operational efficiency.
Elias Guerra
Founder & CEO of Popwallet
Elias is the Founder and CEO of Popwallet, a mobile wallet marketing automation platform.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
Robert Douglas
CEO and Co-Founder of Skopenow
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About Skopenow: Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
Erik Shani
CPO, Co-Founder of Fyllo
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About Fyllo: Fyllo is a software company that provides compliance-first solutions for highly regulated industries.
Pieter De Leenheer
Founder of Collibra
Pieter De Leenheer is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and computer scientist. He is Chief Technology Officer at Zenoptics, an analytics catalog and governance software company. Previously, Pieter founded Collibra, a unicorn software venture, that spun off from his data governance research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Pieter writes, teaches and advises on computing and management aspects of data innovation. He serves as expert to several national governments and the European Commission. Pieter has held academic positions across the globe, including Harvard Business School, Columbia University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, VUB Brussels and VU University of Amsterdam. He lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.
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About Collibra, ZenOptics: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Hicham Oudghiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Enigma Technologies
Hicham is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, an open data technology company. In addition to managing the company’s commercial efforts, Hicham contributes heavily to Enigma’s platform product development as well as to the company’s R&D in architecture for semantic linking of data. Prior to Enigma, Hicham was managing a private sustainable finance program in Africa at BMCE Bank in partnership with the World Bank Group. Hicham spearheaded project finance initiatives and created energy models for large-scale alternative energy projects in Africa . He also developed a rating system and software for environmental and social risk management across the bank’s entire commercial loan portfolio. Hicham started his career at an energy fund in Dallas, Texas where he was responsible for hedging physical energy assets against modeled counterparts in the electronic markets. Hicham holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Marc DaCosta
Co-Founder & Chairman of Enigma Technologies
Marc DaCosta is Co-Founder and Chairman of Enigma. Marc has deep expertise in both the technical and cultural aspects of how data can be harnessed to transform the way that organizations operate. In addition, Marc is a fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, collaborating with investigative journalists to develop new approaches to data-driven storytelling. Marc holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of California, where his research examined the social consequences of new forms of data analytics. Marc has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Intel Labs. Marc began his career as an intellectual property strategy consultant to Global 500 technology companies, where he helped develop offensive and defensive licensing strategies.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Mitchell Green
Founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital
Mitchell Green is a Managing Partner and Partner at Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He also founded Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He serves as a Senior Analyst at Eastern Advisors LLC. Mitchell Green primarily invests in public and private companies in the consumer, internet, software, and digital media sectors in Asia and the U.S. He joined Eastern Advisors LLC in 2008. Prior to founding Eastern Advisors Private Investments, Mitchell Green was an investor and Analyst at Bessemer Venture Partners and he worked at UBS Investment Bank in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He has a decade of technology and consumer venture capital/ growth equity investing and operating experience. He is a formerly nationally ranked alpine ski racer. Mitchell Green holds an M.B.A. degree in Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Williams College.
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Scott Booth
Founder of Lead Edge Capital
Scott V. Booth serves as a Founder and Special Advisor at Lead Edge Capital, LLC. Scott Booth serves as the Founder and Managing Partner for Eastern Advisors, LLC and Managing Partner at Eastern Advisors Capital Group Ltd. He was a Portfolio Manager at Kingdon Capital. Scott Booth serves as an Advisor at Fyrfly Venture Partners. He serves as a Director of OrderGroove, Inc., Banks.com Inc., and fisoc, Inc. He served as the Chairman of Remark Media Inc since December 14, 2011 and its Director since December 17, 2009. He holds M.I.A. in International Economics and Finance from School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in 1994 and a B.A. in History from Holy Cross College in 1991 where he was awarded a Watson Fellowship.
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About Eastern Advisors, Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Benjamin Sun
Co-Founder & General Partner of Primary Venture Partners
Benjamin Sun is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Primary Venture Partners.
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About Ollie, Primary Venture Partners: Primary Venture Partners is a seed stage VC firm focused on ecommerce and enterprise SaaS.
Brad Svrluga
General Partner & Co-Founder of Primary Venture Partners
Brad Svrluga is Founder and General Partner at Primary Venture Partners. He got his start in the venture business in time to see the last 12 months of the bubble, which was not early enough to lead to early retirement. Since then he has led over two-dozen investments across a range of software sectors. Brad co-founded High Peaks Venture Partners in 2004 and reinvented it 8 years later. Prior to his venture career, he was a strategy consultant with Monitor Group, leading projects out of the firm’s Cambridge, South Africa, and Brazil offices. Brad focuses his investing activities on SaaS and enterprise mobile applications, with a particular focus on vertical SaaS applications and the transformational impact of mobile computing on traditional business processes. He has led the firm’s investments in Divide (sold to Google), Savored (sold to Groupon), TxVia (sold to Google), Pump Audio (sold to Getty Images), Threadsmith (sold to Vistaprint), and Allworx (sold to PAETEC). Brad is a graduate of Williams College, where he captained the rugby team and majored in economics. He blogs not nearly enough at www.bradsvrluga.com.
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About Handshake, Healthify, Primary Venture Partners, PublicStuff, WhoSay: Primary Venture Partners is a seed stage VC firm focused on ecommerce and enterprise SaaS.
Dave Waiser
CEO & Founder of Gett
► Serial Entrepreneur. Silicon Valley and Israel ► Successfully exited the first two companies, building his third one (Gett) ► 20+ years of CEO experience in hyper-growth startups and public companies ► Passion for building GREAT teams and products ► I thrive on positive energy and feed it right back ► I believe that there is an opportunity everywhere you look At Gett, I am part of a team of entrepreneurs who love to challenge the status quo. Gett is a technology platform solely focused on corporate Ground Transportation Management (GTM), a market worth $101B globally. Gett is the GTM category leader, serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 companies, including: Google, Disney, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Tesla, Coca Cola, Apple and many others. Gett’s cloud-based software aggregates thousands of transportation providers (corporate fleet, ride-hailing, taxi, and limo) into one single platform, helping businesses manage all of their ground transportation spend, saving businesses up to 49% of the cost. We are building the first global grid of ground transportation, embracing the entire World, connecting the dots, similar to telephony and internet grids. At Gett, we are inspired to become the standard in corporate ground transportation, similar to how Zoom has become the standard for corporate communication. Founded in 2010, Gett has raised more than $750M in funding,
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About Gett: Gett is a technology platform focused on corporate Ground Transportation Management (GTM), for spend estimated to exceed $100b globally
Sam Gutmann
CEO, Co-Founder of OwnBackup
Sam Gutmann is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at OwnBackup. He is a software entrepreneur and business builder that pioneered the online and cloud backup and recovery space. Prior to OwnBackup he was an entrepreneur in residence at Golden Seeds focusing his time on helping portfolio companies sharpen their business models as well as the CIO of the global Import/Export trading company, BassTech International. Prior to his current roles, Sam was the CEO of Intronis, an online (cloud) backup software company that he co-founded in 2003. Working as a small-business consultant in the late 1990s, Sam found that many business owners were backing up their data only sporadically when they remembered to do it at all. Sam realized that tapes, disks, and CDs would always create incomplete backup sets. In 2000, together with his co-founders, he began development on the offsite, secure, user-friendly solution that would grow to become Intronis. After three years of research, development, software design, and testing, Intronis was launched in 2003. While CEO of Intronis, Sam focused his time on building a world-class SaaS company with an industry-leading economic model. Through a metrics-driven approach and detailed market segmentation analysis, the team was able to focus on the sales and marketing engine and achieve great ROI while creating a recurring revenue base with organically expanding sales. Prior to Intronis, Sam worked for several years as an independent small-business technology consultant. He is a graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Management Information Systems.
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About OwnBackup: OwnBackup provides backup and recovery solutions for companies that use Salesforce.
Ori Yankelev
CRO, Co-Founder of OwnBackup
Ori is focused on developing great business development and inside sales teams at OpenView’s portfolio companies. Ori also interested in high impact relationship marketing strategies. Ori joined the OpenView Labs team in 2008 as an analyst focused on helping portfolio companies develop business development teams, sales operations reporting, and implementing a variety of business processes in Salesforce.com. In 2010 an engagement with Intronis, an OpenView portfolio company, led to a full-time opportunity at Intronis for Ori. While at Intronis, he led the demand generation function, the development of its outbound prospecting team, and created its customer onboarding process. Ori now returns to OpenView to continue his work with other portfolio companies. Ori graduated from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BBA in Marketing and a Minor in International Relations, magna cum laude. Ori is also a Certified Salesforce.com Administrator.
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About OwnBackup: OwnBackup provides backup and recovery solutions for companies that use Salesforce.
Jack Hidary
Co-Founder & Chairman of Samba Energy
Jack Hidary built his career as an entrepreneur in the finance and technology sectors and is currently focused on clean energy technology and policy. He co-founded Vista Research in 2001 as an independent financial research company serving institutional investors. Jack sold Vista to the Standard & Poor’s division of McGraw-Hill in April of 2005. In 1995, he co-founded and served as President and CEO of EarthWeb/Dice. He raised three private rounds of equity and completed a record breaking IPO. Under his leadership, EarthWeb/Dice earned the prestigious Business Week Info Tech 100 award as the third fastest growing IT Company. Dice.com is currently traded on the NYSE under ticker DHX. Committed to community and philanthropic causes, Jack has received several industry and community awards as well as being recognized as a Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Davos. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Clinton Global Initiative. Jack has been particularly involved in issues of energy and transportation. He is Chairman and Co-Founder of the Freedom Prize Foundation, which provides monetary prizes to cities, schools and other entities that can most reduce their petroleum use. The Freedom Prizes were mandated by Congress in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Title X: 1008). In New York City, he was a leading proponent of switching over the taxi fleet to high mileage hybrids. Jack serves as Chairman of SmartTransportation.org, a non-profit dedicated to promoting clean energy and transportation policy in the US. Jack studied philosophy and neuroscience at Columbia University and was then awarded a Stanley Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Under the fellowship, he conducted research in functional neuroimaging using techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to study brain and disease states. Jack serves on several boards including BT Global Services and Trickle Up. A frequent keynote speaker, he has presented at venues including the business schools of Yale and Columbia.
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About Freedom Prize Foundation, Samba Energy: Samba Energy designs and develops products and solutions that focus on efficient use of energy and offers Samba Sunspotter.
Michael Jaconi
Co-Founder and CEO of Button
Michael Jaconi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Button, the mobile commerce platform that maximizes the value of every tap. Jaconi formerly served as the CEO of Rakuten Loyalty and Executive Officer of parent company Rakuten. Michael helped build Rakuten Loyalty from a fledgling state to a multi-million dollar business in less than two years and led Rakuten’s $100M investment in Pinterest, helping bolster Rakuten’s position as one of the most innovative and aggressive global internet companies. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies and has been a lifelong entrepreneur. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten Loyalty, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies in Washington, D.C. and served in a variety of capacities within various political campaigns.
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Siddhartha Dabral
Co-Founder and Vice President of Platform Engineering of Button
Co-Founder at Button
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Jonathan Finkelstein
Founder & CEO of Credly
Jonathan Finkelstein is founder and CEO of Credly. The company’s enterprise-class digital credential platforms enable thousands of organizations to recognize, reward and market skills and achievement. As founder of LearningTimes, Jonathan’s work has helped hundreds of mission-driven organizations produce and launch innovative online programs, products and platforms that have impacted the lives of millions of learners. Jonathan is also the founder of the popular open source BadgeOS project. Prior to LearningTimes, Jonathan was co-founder and Sr. Vice President of Product Development at HorizonLive (now Blackboard). Jonathan is author of Learning in Real Time (Wiley), contributing author to The Digital Museum (AAM), and recently co-authored a report for the US Department of Education on the potential for digital badges. Jonathan is a frequent speaker on digital credentials, Open Badges, and the future of learning and workforce development. Jonathan graduated with honors from Harvard University.
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About Credly: Credly is a platform for verifying, sharing, and managing digital badges and credentials.
Jared Augustine
CEO & Co-Founder of Thuzio
Jared is the CEO and Co-Founder of Thuzio, and the Founder of Julius.
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About Julius, Thuzio: Thuzio is a client entertainment platform for b-to-b sales organizations and professionals.
Hector Hoyos
Founder, Chairman, CEO & CTO of Hoyos Corporation
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About Hoyos Corporation: Hoyos is an identity management technology solution company focused on developing systems for access control and the identity market.
Ragy Thomas
Founder & CEO of Sprinklr
Ragy Thomas is the CEO and founder of Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. Sprinklr was last valued at more than $1.8 billion in 2016. He founded Sprinklr in 2009, and the company now has 1900 employees around the world serving global clients such as Microsoft and McDonald’s. Prior to founding Sprinklr, Ragy was the president of Epsilon’s (NYSE:ADS) Interactive Services from 2006 to 2008, and the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive, an email marketing leader that Epsilon acquired in 2005. Ragy earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his Computer Science Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in India.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr Japan: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Vangelis Vergetis
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Intelligencia
Vangelis is working on the intersection of data science, technology, and healthcare. In 2017 he co-founded Intelligencia, a company that uses AI to assess and minimize the risk of drug development. Prior to that he was a management consultant for more than 12 years – at both McKinsey and Hakluyt – advising healthcare clients and investors on a variety of topics, including digital technologies, clinical development and early commercialization. Outside of Intelligencia, Vangelis is a board member and member of the Executive Committee of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Cornell’s faculty of Computing & Information Science (CIS), and is an advisor and investor in technology companies in both the US and Europe. He holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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About Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Dimitrios Skaltsas
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Intelligencia
Dimitrios has led McKinsey’s team for big data & AI applications in R&D for life sciences, and has built SaaS products focusing on clinical development. He serves as an advisor, and has also invested, in several technology companies with a focus on big data. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, where he is also currently an Executive in Residence for AI/ Digital.
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About INSEAD, Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Eric Kroll
Co-Founder of Medaptive Health
I’m a catalyst who helps businesses, ideas, & people reach their potential. AKA: I’m an entrepreneur, advisor, investor, and connector with experience in various industries. Main Focus: Co-Founder of Medaptive Health, a digital health company that is seeking to transform patient engagement to enhance health and wellness, where I run BD/Sales/Marketing. Secondary Focus: Investing as a venture partner at a VC & as an angel. Indicator Ventures invests in early stage startups helping with digital efficiency (ie, save time/$ for people/orgs), with existing customers & a product at least in beta, mostly seed & some A. As an angel it’s all about the team – I want amazing founders (especially female/minority) and lean towards tech/retail/consumer then impact then B2B, usually seed but can go earlier/later.
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About Ben’s Friends, Indicator Ventures, Medaptive Health, NYU Entrepreneurial Institute: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
Jeremy Block
Co-Founder of Medaptive Health
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About Baruch College, Medaptive Health, Memorial Sloan – Kettering Cancer Center, Venture Catalyst: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
Clay Williams
Founder & CEO of Medaptive Health
Entrepreneur, computer scientist, healthcare wonk, cyclist, dachshund lover.
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About Medaptive Health: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
Michael Rogan
Co-Founder of Medaptive Health
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About Medaptive Health, Michael Rogan, PhD: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
Jeff Baehr
Founder & CEO of RueOne Investments
RueOne Investments is an independent private investment firm offering family offices and institutional investors exclusive access to direct and co-investment opportunities in private equity and venture capital. I have been involved in the alternative investment industry since 1998. I began my career as an analyst working for Strategic Financial Solutions and continued in increasing roles of responsibility at The Carlyle Group, The World Bank, and ARIS Capital Management. Most recently, I founded Empiric Asset Management, a family of funds focusing on energy infrastructure and energy master limited partnerships(“MLPs”).
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About RueOne Investments: RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
Daniel Ruch
Founder & CEO of Rocketrip
Prior to joining Genacast Ventures, Daniel served as Vice President, Europe for Tremor Video, based in London, England. Prior to his European stint, Daniel was Senior Director of Business Development for Tremor Video US. Before Tremor, Daniel held several director and managerial level positions at TACODA where he was responsible for East Coast business development until TACODA’s sale to AOL. In this role, he identified and solicited key strategic publishers to join TACODA’s network. Prior to TACODA, Daniel worked in strategic media planning at GroupM’s agency Mindshare / MAXUS global, allocating spend by medium for brands such as HSBC, Lufthansa, and Church & Dwight. Daniel graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a BA in Psychology.
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About Rocketrip: Rocketrip helps businesses reduce travel spend by incentivizing employees to save when they travel for business.
Kumesh Aroomoogan
Co-Founder & CEO of Accern
Kumesh Aroomoogan is the co-founder and CEO of Accern, an NYC-based venture-backed AI startup whose mission is to accelerate AI for enterprise with a no-code development platform. Accern was named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology.
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About Accern, Forbes: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Devaraj Southworth
Co-Founder and CEO of Thirstie
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About The Second Chance Foundation, Thirstie, Yureekah: E-commerce solutions for beverage alcohol brands.
Michael Katz
Co-Founder and CEO of mParticle
Michael Katz is Founder of mParticle, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Director. Michael Katz is responsible for creating and overseeing the execution of mParticle’s vision of becoming the premier mobile data solution. Michael Katz served as Vice President of Optimization & Analytics at Yahoo where he came via the acquisition of interclick, the company he founded. As former CEO & co-founder of interclick, Michael led the business as it grew organically to $140M in revenue, while expanding gross margin % and EBITDA before its sale to Yahoo for $270 million in 2011. He was also responsible for building and maintaining analyst, auditor, and investor relationships. Prior, he was an Analyst at Accenture and ZEFER.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Jessica Lin
Co-Founder & General Partner of Work-Bench
Jessica is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Work-Bench, where she focuses on investments in future of work and jobs. Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. Jessica is actively involved with the education and workforce development community in New York City, as a longtime adult GED educator.
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About Work-Bench: Work-Bench is an enterprise technology venture capital investment firm.
Jonathan Lehr
Co-Founder & General Partner of Work-Bench
Jonathan is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Work-Bench, where he focuses on investments in areas including machine learning and AI, cloud-native infrastructure, and security. Jon founded the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup in January 2012 and organizes monthly meetups of the 9,000+ person group as a way to promote collaboration for the enterprise tech ecosystem in New York including entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 technologists, investors, and graduate students. Prior to Work-Bench, Jon worked at Morgan Stanley in the Office of the CIO in IT. There he partnered with internal technology clients to facilitate the selection and on-boarding of emerging technology startups.
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About Kauffman Fellows, NY Enterprise Technology Meetup, Work-Bench: Work-Bench is an enterprise technology venture capital investment firm.
Bill Wise
Co-Founder & CEO of Mediaocean
Bill Wise is the founding CEO of Mediaocean. Bill has spent over a decade unleashing the potential of revolutionary advertising technologies, overseeing more than $5 billion in mergers, acquisitions and public offerings, including the $720 million sale of Mediaocean to Vista Equity Partners in August 2015. He comes to Mediaocean from his role as CEO of advertising software provider MediaBank, one of Mediaocean’s two founding companies along with Donovan Data Systems (DDS). Prior to MediaBank, Bill served as an executive at Yahoo, overseeing global advertising platforms – a role he achieved after serving as president of Right Media, which he helped guide to an $850 million acquisition by Yahoo in 2007. His other executive leadership positions have driven success at companies including DoubleClick, MaxOnline and Ask, which became part of IAC Advertising Solutions. Bill is on the board of directors of the Ad Council and the Centre for Social Innovation. He is also chairman of MediaWallah. Bill is an avid and active angel investor through Click Ventures. Business Insider ranked him as a top digital professional four times, he was listed among Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and he was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology. Bill is a sought-after speaker and frequently writes articles for AdWeek, Ad Age, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He holds a B.S. in accounting and business from the University at Albany and is a CPA. He is the proud father of Connor, Kate and Charlotte.
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About Click Ventures, Mediaocean, MediaWallah, Superpowers Podcast: Mediaocean provides software platforms for the advertising community.
Dilip Rao
Co-Founder & CEO of Sharebite
Dilip Rao is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sharebite.
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About Sharebite: Sharebite is a mission-driven foodtech & expense management platform built exclusively for companies.
Mohsin Memon
Co-Founder, President, & COO of Sharebite
Mohsin Memon is a Co-Founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Sharebite.
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About Sharebite: Sharebite is a mission-driven foodtech & expense management platform built exclusively for companies.
Ahsen Saber
Co-Founder & VP, Business Operations & Customer Success of Sharebite
Ahsen Saber is a Co-Founder and Vice President of Business Operations and Customer Success at Sharebite.
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About Sharebite: Sharebite is a mission-driven foodtech & expense management platform built exclusively for companies.
Tom McOsker
Founder & Director of BloxTrade
Thomas McOsker joined BCMG as Founder & CEO in 2014.
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About BCMG, BCMG Technologies, BloxTrade, Copper Hill Farm, Map Plus, TRACE Platform: BloxTrade is the world’s first full service broker for tax liens and deeds.
Deena (Gianoncelli) Fox
Founder & CEO of Brightfox
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About Brightfox: Brightfox is the world’s first talent experience platform.
Benoit Brookens III
Founder & CEO of Accrue
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About Accrue, nuOctave: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Rohan Deuskar
Founder & CEO of Stylitics
Founder and CEO of Stylitics, the leading visual merchandising platform that powers hundreds of outfitting, styling, and gifting programs for dozens of the world’s leading retailers. Over 35 million shoppers engage with Stylitics shoppable content and recommendations more than 200 million times per day, across site, apps, email, ads, and stores. * Frequent speaker on the future of technology and analytics in fashion retail, including Databeat, New York Fashion Week, Decoded Fashion, and FIT. Recent features in WSJ, Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily, New York Times, Oprah.com, Inc., Economic Times, Wired Japan cover story, and others.
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About Stylitics: Stylitics is a cloud-based SaaS platform for retailers to automate and distribute visual content at scale.
Zach Davis
Co-Founder & VP Business Development of Stylitics
Zach Davis is the Co-founder at Stylitics .
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About InOurBuilding, Stylitics: Stylitics is a cloud-based SaaS platform for retailers to automate and distribute visual content at scale.
Tom Sella
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer of Boxee
Today Tom Sella is a VP of Product at WeWork. Boxee’s inception was a shared Eureka! moment between Tom Sella and Avner Ronen – while they were using XBMC’s open-source software, they envisioned the potential to dramatically change their home media consumption experience. In Boxee’s infancy, Sella jumpstarted the Israeli R&D operation, architecting, coding and deploying the first Boxee software product. As Boxee evolved, Sella was instrumental in Boxee’s foray into the world of Consumer Electronics, and was behind some of the Boxee Box’s most notable ID innovations including the RF remote control and dual-sided QWERTY keyboard design. Later, Sella worked closely with Boxee’s manufacturing and hardware partners, bridging the gap between the amazing Boxee software engineering team and the challenges of managing a hardware device. Prior to Boxee, Sella served various operations and systems engineering roles with infrastructure start-ups. Sella was also active in the WordPress community as an advisor and source code contributor, and started a multi-user Hebrew blogging platform. Before beginning his professional career, Sella served in the elite IDF intelligence unit, 8200.
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About Boxee, WeWork: Boxee is a cross-platform freeware HTPC software application with social networking features, designed for the living room TV.
Eric Ho
Founder, CTO & President of RippleMatch
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About RippleMatch: RippleMatch is a platform for early career hiring that helps build diverse teams and hire the right talent virtually.
Ryan Melohn
COO & Co-Founder of Expansion Venture Capital
Ryan Melohn is co-founder and chief operating officer for Expansion VC. In addition Mr. Melohn is vice-president and property manager for the Expansion Group Inc. , a real estate corporation with holdings in both residential and commercial sectors. As chief facilitator for Expansion VC, Mr. Melohn has been responsible for successfully pairing potential entrepreneurs/companies with ideal investments. Ryan’s networking throughout the venture capital and corporate worlds, have proven extremely valuable to EVC. His portfolio includes but is not limited to Postmates, RelayRides, AngelList, Life360, Firebase, TheRealReal, Enigma.io, Compstak, Engrade and eShares among many others. Ryan’s philanthropic interests are varied and eclectic. He is particularly dedicated to Kids of Courage, an organization focused on improving the daily lives of children and adults battling catastrophic illnesses.
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About Expansion Venture Capital: Expansion Venture Capital is a New York-based company providing investment and mentorship to early- and growth-stage companies.
Vishal Singh
Co-Founder & CTO of LINK3D
Vishal is a computer scientist with nearly 15 years of combined research and software development experience. He has led the development of several products both in enterprise and startup environments focused on security, analytics, and machine learning. He previously co-founded 2 technology startups in New York City focused on networks and big data analytics. He is also an accomplished researcher and has authored several approved US patents and scholarly papers in different top-notch conferences. Vishal’s passion lies in applying the research and growth in software technology to the Additive Manufacturing industry.
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About Dualities Inc., InnCreTech, LINK3D, MyLegalCoverage: Link3D is a SaaS-based solutions to help organizations scale and optimize their additive manufacturing ecosystems.
Shane Fox
Co-Founder and CEO of LINK3D
Shane is a technology evangelist and entrepreneur at the forefront of the Industrial 3D Printing revolution. While working at Within Technologies, a software company that developed and designed software tools for additive manufacturing, Shane’s technology innovation reached over 35 countries. Specializing in topological optimization, he helped create the product known today as Within Medical. In May 2014, Autodesk acquired Within and Shane went on to lead product architecture and business development for the Additive Manufacturing division. Having left Autodesk, Shane co-founded LINK3D. The company’s focus: to automate and optimize the entire additive manufacturing workflow. LINK3D was selected as a ‘FiReStarter Company,’ which previously featured Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) and Michael Dell (Dell), among others. Shane holds a deep understanding of advanced manufacturing, automation, topological optimization and machine learning. He received his B.S in Management Information Systems from California University.
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About LINK3D: Link3D is a SaaS-based solutions to help organizations scale and optimize their additive manufacturing ecosystems.
Sherrard Harrington
Founder & Chairman of EONXI
Sherrard Harrington is the Founder & Chairman @EonXI. He also serves as GP at EonXI Ventures.
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About Catamount Properties, EONXI: Venture Fund and Startup Studio
John Meyer
Founder & CEO of Mosaic
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About Mosaic: AI Workforce Management – Resource Planning & Workforce Intelligence
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.
Samy Bahra
CTO and Co-Founder of Backtrace
Samy Bahra is the CTO and Co-Founder at Backtrace.
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About Backtrace: Backtrace is an error debugging platform that helps teams quickly find out what is behind application errors.
Nitay Joffe
Founder & CTO of ActionIQ
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About ActionIQ: ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Pratham Mittal
CoFounder of VenturePact
Pratham Mittal is the CoFounder at VenturePact
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About 606 VENTURES, Masters’ Union, Outgrow, VenturePact: On Demand Software Development teams
Nick Jordan
CEO / Co-Founder of Narrative
Nick Jordan is the Founder and CEO of Narrative I/O. He founded Narrative in March of 2016 to help organizations more efficiently acquire and monetize raw data sets. Previous to that he served as a Senior Vice President of Global Strategy of Tapad which was acquired by Telenor in early 2016. Mr. Jordan also served as Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy at Tapad. Prior to Tapad, Mr. Jordan served as Director of Product Management at Adobe, overseeing Adobe’s data management platform AudienceManager (formerly, Demdex). He served as Vice President of Partner Solutions at Demdex, Inc. since September 2010. Prior to Demdex, he served as a Senior Director at Yahoo!. At Yahoo!, he ran the non-guaranteed marketplace team of the North America Yahoo! Display Ad Network. He helped integrate both BlueLithium and Right Media after their acquisitions by Yahoo! At Demdex, Mr. Jordan ran partner management focusing on strategic and operational client-facing solutions.
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About Narrative: Narrative empowers participants in the data economy.
Seif Saghri
CEO & Founder of BenefitHub
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About BenefitHub: BenefitHub is the market’s number one online benefit portal and employee discount marketplace in the US.
Kesha Cash
Founder and General Partner of Impact America Fund
Kesha Cash co-launched Jalia Ventures in 2010 with the support of Josh Mailman and Serious Change, LP. Her responsibilities include sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, negotiating deal terms, and providing business support to portfolio companies. Kesha is a Red Rabbit advisory board member and has been instrumental in helping the company grow from less than $1 million of revenue in 2010 with 13 employees to over $7 million of revenue in 2013 with 130 employees. Prior to Jalia Ventures, Kesha spent three years as a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Merrill Lynch and then six years as a consultant to inner-city businesses in Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. She worked with founders to raise seed capital, develop growth plans, and implement operational processes and procedures. In the summer of 2009, Kesha worked in London at Bridges Ventures, a leading $475 million UK private investment firm that delivers both financial and social returns. While at Bridges Ventures, she evaluated investment opportunities in social housing, microfinance and business services, and assisted the deal team with writing approval and investment memorandums. From 2009 – 2013, Kesha served on the Columbia Advisory Committee for Social Responsible Investing and advised the University Trustees on ethical and social issues that arise in the management of the investments in the University’s endowment. Kesha is a member of the Social Venture Network and supports a number of non-profit organizations including Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and Green City Force. She received her BA in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley and her MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Impact America Fund: Impact America Fund is an investment company that funds market opportunities which use technology to enhance the lives.
Javier de la Torre
Founder & CSO of Carto
Javier is CEO and co-founder of Vizzuality. Over the past 10 years has been working on the field of biodiversity Informatics. First on the academia side, working at different research institutions, and later from the private side. During this time he gained strong experience in the social and technical aspects of data sharing while mobilizing bast amounts of Biodiversity on Internet.
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About Carto, Vizzuality: Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements.
Chad Rubin
Co-Founder & CEO of Skubana
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About Skubana: Skubana is a commerce operations platform powering fulfillment, inventory, and business intelligence for multi-channel retailers.
DJ Kunovac
Co-Founder & CTO of Skubana
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About Skubana: Skubana is a commerce operations platform powering fulfillment, inventory, and business intelligence for multi-channel retailers.
Scotte Barkan
CTO & Co-Founder of Catchpoint
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About Catchpoint: Catchpoint is a digital experience observability company.
Rohyt Belani
Co-Founder and CEO of Cofense
Rohyt has over a decade of experience in the information security industry with prior roles including, co-founder and CEO of Intrepidus Group which was acquired by NCC Group, managing director at Mandiant, principal consultant at Foundstone, acquired by McAfee, and researcher at the Software Engineering Institute. He has served as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is a contributing author for Hack Notes Network Security and Extrusion Detection, Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions.
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About Cofense: Cofense provides phishing threat management for organizations concerned about human susceptibility.
Jory Schwach
Founder & CEO of Andium
Mr. Jory Schwach serves as an Executive Director of Andium Inc.
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About Andium: Andium is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company that builds a smarter world and empowers leaders to create meaningful change.
Jesse Sutton
CEO & Co- Founder, Member of the Board of Majesco Entertainment
Jesse is a co-founder and CEO of Majesco Entertainment Company(NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, focused on developing and publishing a wide range of casual and family oriented titles on leading console and portable systems. Jesse brings more than 20 years’ experience in business management and has been instrumental in developing and overseeing all of Majesco’s key strategic alliances. Having been in the industry for so long, Jesse has built a network of relationships in all areas. Finance, Development, marketing, licensing, sales and operations. In true entrepreneurial spirit, Jesse has been founder or lead investor in several businesses.
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About Majesco Entertainment: Majesco Entertainment is an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, focused on developing and publishing a wide range of
Cavan Klinsky
Co Founder & CTO of Healthie
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About First Round Fast Track, Healthie: Healthie is a comprehensive software for health and wellness organizations to deliver preventative, longitudinal care.
Erica Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of Healthie
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About Healthie: Healthie is a comprehensive software for health and wellness organizations to deliver preventative, longitudinal care.
Brandon Reiss
Co-Founder, Engineering of Frame AI
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About Frame AI: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Robbie Mitchell
Co-Founder / Head of Operations of Frame AI
Head of Operations at frame.ai. Previously head of marketing at Cover, head of marketing at Knewton, co-founder at Rhythm, Rhyme, Results, and staff at Harvard Kennedy School.
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About Frame AI, Superstrong Labs: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Devin Daly
Co-Founder & CEO of SpinCar
Devin co-founded SwipeToSpin in 2011 with the goal of making online shopping more intuitive and engaging than ever before. With a background in venture capital consulting, Devin was afforded a unique perspective on cutting-edge software solutions. After watching one tech company, which enabled eCommerce websites to easily add zoom functionality to their websites, rise to its now ubiquitous position he saw a similar opportunity for 360 content. Devin knew from his own shopping experience and numerous industry studies that consumers feel much more confident in their online purchase if they can view a product from 360 degrees. As an early advocate of growth hacking, Devin teaches traditional businesses how to apply lean business methodologies to increase profitability. In long-established industries like automotive, SwipeToSpin flips conventional growth theory on its head. By promoting total optimization of the online sales funnel prior to advertising spend, SwipeToSpin helps retailers get significantly more leverage out of their marketing dollars and dominate competition. Devin earned his Bachelors degree in Finance and Economics from Saint Joseph’s University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude while playing Division I Men’s Varsity Lacrosse.
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About SpinCar: SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising.
Michael Quigley
Co-Founder, President & CSO of SpinCar
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Mentor.
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About SpinCar, StartFast Ventures: SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising.
Jose Cayasso (Caya)
CEO & Co-Founder of Slidebean
José Cayasso (commonly known as Caya) is a Costa Rican graphics designer and entrepreneur. Caya was a Trainer and Senior Support Agent for Intel, covering Desktop Boards and Processors for the North America Region; he obtained extensive experience with hardware and software support over the course of 6 years. In 2011, Caya founded Saborstudio, a creative content company. Their first startup, Pota-Toss, was an iOS game crowdfunded on Kickstarter and released to the App Store on October 2012. It was deemed by Techcrunch and CNN as “The Next Angry Birds” and having its graphics compared to a Pixar movie by Business Insider. Pota-Toss was installed in over 300,000 devices that year. Saborstudio was also the first Costa Rican startup to be selected for a major US Accelerator. In November 2012 Caya was selected as a one of the 40 Under 40 Costa Rican innovators by El Financiero Newspaper; and was also named an Innovation Champion by the Costa Rican Ministry of Science and Technology. Caya was also invited to speak at the 2013 TEDx Joven PuraVida Conference in Costa Rica, along with speakers like Luis Von Ahn and Michael Lindenmayer. In mid-2013, Caya founded Slidebean, a simplified, cloud-based presentation tool. Slidebean was part of Startup Chile, one of the most important accelerators in Latin America and then selected for Batch 11 of 500 Startups, one of the top US Based Accelerators according to Forbes and Techcrunch. Slidebean has been featured in Techcrunch, TheNextWeb and The Economist, as the third most valuable internet startup in Costa Rica.
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About Saborstudio, Slidebean: Slidebean is an online platform that designs and creates presentations on demand with user provided content.
Ryan Urban
CEO & Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
Ryan Urban is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bounce Exchange, Inc the leader in behavioral automation software and analytics. In 2015 he was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. In the same year, under his leadership, Bounce Exchange was ranked number one overall for both employee retention and career development by ComputerWorld, named one of the best places to work in NYC by Crain’s New York and honored as one of Fortune’s top three best places to work. Ryan was formerly Director of Acquisition at Bonobos and prior to that, Brickhouse Security. He has served on the advisory boards of both BabyAge.com and Bonobos. He holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Andreas Spartalis
Executive Conversion Director & Co-Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Marie Chevrier
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sampler
Marie Chevrier is a young entrepreneur originally from Montreal, Canada. Marie started her career in advertising at J. Walter Thompson in Toronto. From there, she had the chance to work at a venture capital firm in New York City. After a few years there, Marie came back to Toronto to merge her passion for marketing and technology. Marie started Sampler with a vision to transform the way consumer packaged good companies distribute promotional offers. Sampler is an end-to-end digital sampling SaaS that helps brands, agencies, publishers and retailers create targeted, measurable and social product sampling campaigns. The platform was developed with the goal of helping consumer packaged goods brands create loyal customers through a targeted sampling strategy. Using Sampler, brands can set up digital sampling programs with just a few clicks and gather real-time analytics on how their campaign is performing and who is participating
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About Sampler, TechToronto: The Leader in Direct-To-Consumer Product Sampling
Eric Fischgrund
Founder/CEO of FischTank PR
Eric Fischgrund is the founder and CEO of FischTank PR, a boutique communications and marketing firm headquartered in New York City. A career MarComm executive, Eric has worked both agency side and in-house prior to launching FischTank PR. The firm specializes in a number of corporate practice areas, including but not limited to B2B and B2C technologies, renewable energy and sustainability, financial services and personal finance products, and non-profits. Eric resides in North Jersey with his wife Monica and dog (Buddy), and enjoys spending time with family and friends, biking, golfing, hiking, reading, and writing.
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About Boom Local, FischTank PR: FischTank PR is a public relations and marketing firm specializing in media relations, content writing, branding, digital/social, & more.
David Wadler
CRO/Co-Founder of Vendorful
David was the co-founder and CEO of Twistage, which he led from inception to a profitable multimillion dollar business to an exit by a Fortune 1000 company. Over the course of his career, he has spent time in sales, software development, product management, and hodgepodge of things unrelated to technology. David became the GM of Rich Media and Cloud Products at Lexmark Enterprise Software after Twistage’s sale to Lexmark International. During his tenure there, he became an active angel investor and adviser to startups. Upon his departure from Lexmark, David fully rejoined the startup world as the co-founder/CEO of a new venture. A graduate of Brown University, he lives in NYC with his wife and two children.
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About Vendorful: Vendorful is a SaaS solution for strategic sourcing and vendor lifecycle management.
Greg Alvo
Founder & CEO of Ordergroove
Greg Alvo is the CEO and founder of Ordergroove, responsible for setting the overall strategic direction for the company and overseeing day-to-day operations. Greg founded Ordergroove from his apartment in 2010 with the vision of making consumers’ lives easier via innovative commerce experiences (before anyone knew what a subscription service was: “huh, like magazines?”). While in school and shortly thereafter, Greg held a variety of enterprise sales roles at Liquidation.com, an eCommerce startup that went public in 2006. Greg graduated from George Washington University, where he created his own Major with a degree in Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management. Prior to attending GWU, Greg founded Voteq, a computer hardware firm which he grew to over 100 clients nationwide. Originally from Miami, Florida, Greg now lives in Brooklyn with his much better half, Caroline, and three daughters Adriana, Daniella and Bleecker (dog included here). In any free time, Greg most enjoys reading, exercising and getting back on the tennis court.
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About Ordergroove: Ordergroove transforms brands & retailers from episodic transactions to recurring revenue via frictionless, recurring customer experiences.
Anand Adya
Founder & CEO of Pathlock
Anand Adya founded Greenlight Technologies in 2004 and has led the company from its inception into the market leading provider of continuous enterprise business controls. Anand has more than 15 years of experience leading technology teams as well as having worked in the management consulting field and for the information technology advisory practice at PwC. As a serial entrepreneur, Anand has been a founding member of two successful technology start-up organizations prior to Greenlight Technologies. As CEO of Greenlight Technologies, Anand is responsible for driving the organization’s strategic agenda, technology vision and business operations. He is considered to be an industry thought-leader on the topic of governance, risk and compliance management and is a frequent speaker at major conferences on this domain. Anand received his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Management.
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About Pathlock: Pathlock is a provider of unified access orchestration.
Aparna Deshpande
Co-Founder & COO of Pathlock
Aparna Deshpande is the COO and co-founder of Greenlight and is responsible for overseeing finance and operations at Greenlight. She has more than 12 years’ experience managing the delivery of diverse business technology initiatives including solutions for regulatory compliance, enterprise web infrastructure, customer relationship management and sales force automation. Prior to Greenlight, Aparna worked in the technology consulting practice for Cap Gemini and PwC. She also held technology management positions with AT&T Bell Labs and Merrill Lynch. Aparna holds a B.S. degree in eElectronics engineering.
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About Pathlock: Pathlock is a provider of unified access orchestration.
Mina Lux
CEO/Founder of Meelo Logic
Ms. Lux is a digital industry veteran with a track record of proven success. As co-founder and VP of Sales and Marketing at FloNetwork (the first email technology in the world, founded in 1995 and acquired by DoubleClick in 2001 for $80 million), she white papered the server/client platform and coupled the technology with account management services assisting brands in direct email as a lead generation, customer retention and revenue growth tool. After FloNetwork, Ms. Lux continued with her interests in marketing, technology and building businesses. In 1998, She took USATODAY.com to the #1 news site ranking, beating out CNN in less than 4 months with little to no budget. For Double Day Select professional book clubs, she managed 22 B2B book clubs and broke records by reducing new account acquisition costs to under $6 per new customer compared to $135 via traditional channels. After Double Day Select, Ms. Lux joined Working Woman Network (a Larry Ellison investment), as the SVP of Marketing to build an ambitious B2B exchange connecting women owned businesses to diversity opportunities in government organizations and Fortune 500 businesses. In 2001, she joined MacMillan to lead Scientific American Digital. In 7 years, Ms. Lux succeeded in aggressively growing the business from zero revenue to 3x the industry average. Through optimized technology and ecommerce, the digital channel became the #1 single source of paid subscribers and renewals for the magazine. She was a digital business/technology advisor to MacMillan companies including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, St. Martin’s Press, Tor/Forge, MacMillan Audio and Nature. In 2008, Ms. Lux founded a boutique consulting practice solving digital business challenges for a large array of companies with continued success in achieving aggressive growth. At Turner Broadcasting Systems (best known for its marquee property CNN), Mina was brought in to take TheFrisky.com from 560K unique visitors to 4.2 million within 18 months on little budget. The Frisky became one of Turner’s largest digital properties after only 9 months under Ms. Lux’s leadership. In addition, she achieved extraordinary revenue growth by working with and training the Turner Broadcasting Systems ad sales group. For Blip, she was tasked with creating a success story for investment/M&S opportunities. Within 6 months, Ms. Lux shifted the business model and build a solid consumer brand by building its audience from 200,000 per month to over 6 million viewers. Blip has since been acquired by Maker Studios which has just recently been acquired by Disney. Her consulting clients include CNN/HLN, Moguldom, truTV, Adult Swim, Bob Vila, RLJ Entertainment (a Bob Johnson company), Discovery Communications and more.
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About Meelo Logic: A causal reasoning enterprise AI that transforms underutilized data into intelligence for optimization, automation, compliance, and growth.
Tim Trinidad
Founder, CTO of Schoology
Tim is the Co-Founder of Schoology Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer and Lead Architect. He is responsible for the architecture of the Schoology application as well as the design and scalability of the back-end infrastructure.
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About New York CTO Club, Schoology: Schoology provides a user-centric learning management system that makes it easy to create and share academic content.
Marc Cenedella
Founder & CEO of Ladders
Marc Cenedella is the Founder at Leet Resumes – we write great professional resumes for free (tips appreciated!) www.leetresumes.com and Founder at Ladders – we apply to $100K+ jobs for you: ldd.rs/jobs He is the author of the largest career advice newsletter in the United States, which reaches an audience of nearly 10 million weekly. Several of his books have reached #1 on Amazon Careers Bestsellers List: www.ldd.rs/amzn A nationally renowned thought leader on careers, career management and recruiting, Marc is frequently sought out by national media organizations for his expert commentary on employment and entrepreneurialism. He has been profiled in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Wired, and Businessweek, appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg and has spoken at Ignition, SHRM, and Internet Summit as well as Harvard Business School, Columbia University, and Yale. Previously, Marc was a Senior Vice President at HotJobs.com, where he served as lead on its sale to Yahoo in 2002 for $436 million. From Fredonia, New York, Marc holds an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar, as well as a B.A. in Political Science from Yale College. A list of Marc Cenedella’s social media accounts is here: o. Ladders: https://www.theladders.com/expert/marc-cenedella o. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcenedella/ o. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/9153 o. Twitter: https://twitter.com/cenedella o. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Marc-Cenedella/e/B0040YIP54/ o. Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cenedella/ o. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/mcenedella o. Github: https://github.com/cenedella o. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cenedella/ o. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZVd-moy_xzNMUWkKEYDejQ o. Angellist: https://angel.co/marccenedella o. Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/marc-cenedella o. GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/22907929-marc-cenedella o. StackExchange: https://stackexchange.com/users/1656820/marc-cenedella o. Medium: https://medium.com/@cenedella o. BusinessInsider: https://www.businessinsider.com/author/marc-cenedella o. Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mcenedella o. Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Marc-Cenedella
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About Ladders: Ladders is the home for $100K+ careers
Michael Averto
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of ChannelApe
Founder at ChannelApe, a SaaS commerce company that helps businesses automate their product catalog, inventory and orders across all commerce channels.
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About ChannelApe: ChannelApe’s enterprise fulfillment SaaS scales direct-to-consumer brands by separating supply chain software from physical operations.
Quinlan Eddy
CEO & Co-Founder of OneCloud, Inc
Quinlan Eddy began his career in financial and consolidations systems at Citibank as a financial analyst in Singapore where he pioneered the use of Essbase for Citicorp as a corporate standard. He joined Arbor Software in 1994, prior to its IPO and subsequent merger with Hyperion Solutions. In 2004 he founded Star Analytics focused on the Oracle Hyperion product suite. In 2013, Star Analytics exited to IBM and in 2017, Quinlan co-founded OneCloud, an iPaaS technology delivering automation & integration solutions in the BI and EPM space. Quinlan holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Vermont.
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About OneCloud, Inc: OneCloud is an iPaaS technologythat enables integration, data transformation, and automation of applications and processes.
Ryan Curtin
CTO & Co-Founder of OneCloud, Inc
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About OneCloud, Inc: OneCloud is an iPaaS technologythat enables integration, data transformation, and automation of applications and processes.
Brian Meyers
CPO & Co-Founder of OneCloud, Inc
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About OneCloud, Inc: OneCloud is an iPaaS technologythat enables integration, data transformation, and automation of applications and processes.
Amir Mizhar
Founder, President & Chief Software Architect of Safe-T
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About Safe-T: Safe-T enables digital business (on-prem & in the cloud) by allowing access to applications, services & networks only after assessing trust.
Michelangelo Sidagni
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Nopsec
Michelangelo Sidagni serves as Chief Technology Officer leading technical development, security research and operations for NopSec. Prior to NopSec, Michelangelo was the Director of IT Security Services at Ciphertechs and served as a lead internal security consultant at Blue Cross Blue Shield advising on HIPAA security and privacy initiatives. Michelangelo holds numerous professional certifications in information security including CISSP, CISA, and CIA and is a frequent speaker at information security events around the country. He holds a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Pavia in Italy.
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About Nopsec: NopSec provides precision threat prediction and remediation solutions for businesses to protect their IT environments from security breach.
Lisa Xu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nopsec
Lisa Xu serves as Chief Executive Officer where she is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic and operational functions for NopSec. Lisa has a passion for connecting business with technology and thrives in transforming disruptive technology into leading solutions. Over the past two decades, Lisa has advised Fortune 500 enterprises on data security, privacy, and technology risk management, and led many diverse teams at Ally Financial (GMAC), KPMG, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Lisa holds a B.A. in Economics and a Master’s in Finance from Boston College.
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About Nopsec: NopSec provides precision threat prediction and remediation solutions for businesses to protect their IT environments from security breach.
Mucteba Celik
Co-Founder & CTO of RevBits
Co-Founder & CTO at RevBits. * 18 years of development experience * 15 years of reverse engineering and penetration testing experience * 15 years of cyber security experience
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About RevBits: RevBits is a leading developer of next-generation endpoint security, privileged access management (PAM), and phishing detection solutions.
Karoline Gross
Founder & CEO of Smartzer
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About Smartzer: Smartzer makes videos and live streams interactive & shoppable on e-commerce, video ads and social.
David-Benjamin Brakha
Founder & CEO of Blackbell
Prior to founding Hotelcloud, David founded another startup known as ACstant in 2009, an email-based personal assistant and concierge service. ACstant has handled more than 5k requests, half of which were travel related. Hotelcloud was the next logical step in his vision. Often times qualified as a visionary and an out-of-the-box thinker, his ambition is to revolutionize the hospitality industry by making it more connected through technology.
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About Blackbell: Blackbell is a SaaS platform that integrates all processes to sell services.
