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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Developer APIs 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.
Jason Chicola
Founder, CEO of Rev.com
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About Rev.com: Rev’s speech-to-text services are powered by artificial intelligence and perfected by a community of skilled freelancers.
Tammy Camp
Founder & CEO of Stronghold
Tammy is the CEO of Stronghold, an API platform that creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks. Tammy served as the first Head of Growth at Stellar, helping the network grow to 4 million users in its first two months. A former partner at accelerator 500 Startups, she invested in portfolio companies and ran the growth and marketing curriculum for its flagship Silicon Valley location. She is a graduate of Singularity University’s GSP11 in Exponential Technologies at NASA Ames where she first learned about Bitcoin from legendary cryptographer Ralph Merkle.
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About Action Factory, Stronghold: Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that give developers access legacy and next-generation payment networks through a simple API.
Jai Pradeesh
Founder of DeepSource
Founder of DeepSource. Interested in building tools to improve developer productivity.
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About DeepSource: Deepsource is an enterprise tech startup that provides an automated tool to review codes.
Sanket Saurav
Founder of DeepSource
Co-founder of DeepSource: Helping developers ship fewer bugs.
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About DeepSource: Deepsource is an enterprise tech startup that provides an automated tool to review codes.
Matt DeBergalis
Co-Founder and CTO of Apollo
Matt founded and ran ActBlue, the largest political fundraising platform in the world. ActBlue has raised over 700 million dollars for candidates and political groups nationwide. Before that, Matt was a kernel hacker. Some of his technical credits include the NeXT port of NetBSD and work on the NFSv4 and DAFS specifications while at Network Appliance. As an undergraduate at MIT, Matt built a phone system for his fraternity, fabricating the circuit boards and writing the operating system from scratch.
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About ActBlue, Apollo: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Clarence Chio
President, CTO, Co-Founder of Unit21
CTO and Co-Founder of Unit 21 and a Lecturer in UC Berkeley’s School of Information.
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About O’Reilly, Unit21, University of California Berkeley: Unit21 provides a customizable, no-code platform for risk & compliance operations teams to fight fraud, money laundering & financial crimes.
Trisha Kothari
CEO, Co-Founder of Unit21
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About Unit21: Unit21 provides a customizable, no-code platform for risk & compliance operations teams to fight fraud, money laundering & financial crimes.
Surbhi Rathore
CEO & Co-Founder of Symbl.ai
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About Symbl.ai, Women in AI: Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers.
Toshish Jawale
CTO, Co-Founder of Symbl.ai
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About Symbl.ai: Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers.
Iddo Gino
Founder / CEO of RapidAPI
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About RapidAPI: RapidAPI is an API Hub that enables developers to find, manage, and connect to thousands of APIs.
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.
Joe Teplow
Founder of Rebel
Joe Teplow is the founder of Rebel.
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About Good Today, Rebel: Rebel allows users to send interactive emails with no plug-ins required, increasing engagement, conversions, and actions.
Shmulik Fishman
Founder, CEO of Argyle
Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned records in real-time. With a solution that enables coverage of the majority of the US labor market, companies across industries leverage Argyle for frictionless, automated verification of income and employment (VOIE) and direct deposit change. Shmulik started Argyle in 2018, with the backing of Bain Capital and Checkr, after experiencing the complexity of work verification in his previous venture STRATIM, which he founded in 2014. At STRATIM, Shmulik acted as the Chief Operating Officer, raising $42M in venture funding and sold in 2018 to NYSE listed KAR Global (NYSE: KAR). Prior to STRATIM, Shmulik worked on the S1 team at Adap.tv during its IPO that was subsequently acquired by AOL. Shmulik has an undergraduate degree from Hampshire College where he became a philosopher by training and a storyteller by practice. While earning a business degree at Columbia University, a chance meeting catapulted Shmulik into the world of machine learning, setting him on a path of disrupting today’s employment and income verification space. When not writing, sitting on panels, keynote speaking, and conjoining fragmented networks, you can find Shmulik falling down the rabbit-hole of Wikipedia, in awe of our collective wisdom and communal capacity.
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About Argyle: Argyle provides a consumer-controlled, software gateway to employment records.
Joy Tang
CEO & Founder of mai (Markable AI)
Joy Tang is the CEO and founder of Markable.ai, the leading AI computer vision company for the retail sector. It has raised over $5.2M and closing another $6M round from tier one global VCs with billion dollar clients on most continents. Before building Markable’s world class team, Joy won a Gold Medal in Math Olympics in China at age 16 and was the TV anchor of a Chinese television program for ten years. Joy then attended MIT on a full scholarship, with majors in math and economics. Joy sold her first start up, a social media platform for international students built together with Berkeley students to a Chinese company in her last year of college. After college, she worked as a lead machine learning quantitative scientist for seven years that built financial high frequency AI trading programs generating a daily six-figure profit while causing traditional wall street to crash in 2008. Joy left high frequency trading to create Markable.ai, upon noticing a huge gap in the market between e-commerce and digital content. This gap inspired her to develop the AI technology to make all forms of visual digital content such as photos, videos and livestream content immediately shoppable. Markable.ai has a goal to deliver the ultimate shopping therapy for consumers; the future of AI driven fast e-commerce; and the future of AI driven green, user-engaged advertising.
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About mai (Markable AI): Mai is the leading AI visual discovery shopping engine that makes any photo or video content shoppable
Mark Bakken
Founder, Managing Director of HealthX Ventures
Mark Bakken is the Founder and Managing Partner at HealthX Ventures.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Cultivation Capital, HealthX Ventures: Madison, WI based venture fund focusing on seed stage investments in digital health companies
Wally Ibrahim
Technical Co-Founder and CTO of Aloi
Wally Ibrahim is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Aloi. He has 20+ years of tech experience as consultant, sales engineer, and founder. Strong background in platform architecture and APIs.
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Tommy Skinner
Co-Founder of Aloi
Co-founder at Aloi // connecting e-commerce software
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Tom Drummond
Founder & Managing Director of Heavybit
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
James Lindenbaum
Founder of Heavybit
James is a hacker and serial entrepreneur with a background in product development, user experience design, platform marketing, and cloud technology. He is one of the founders of Heroku, an advanced platform for application development and deployment. James is known as an “OCD perfectionist”, and is chiefly responsible for the look and feel of Heroku’s brand and products. Following Heroku’s acquisition by salesforce.com, James founded Heavybit, a San Francisco-based community and program for developer-focused businesses. He speaks regularly about cloud technology, entrepreneurship, and design, and is an advisor to and investor in many technology companies.
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Matt Antoszyk
Co-Founder & CEO of Herald
As product manager, Matt takes At-Bay’s technology products from concept to execution. An average day may include interviewing users, sketching new product ideas with the design team, troubleshooting issues with the engineers, or poring over data to figure out new ways to share insights with brokers and clients. Working with a team with endless ideas has its challenges, but Matt brings patience, an open ear and the ability to weigh many different options—and, when the time comes, the drive to get things done. Matt has a degree in computer science from Yale and experience as a senior business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he solved business problems for senior executives. He puts that experience to use at At-Bay by building business solutions for technical problems.
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About Herald: Herald offers digital infrastructure that connects software developers to commercial insurance carriers through a single API.
Idit Levine
Founder and CEO of Solo.io
Idit Levine is the Founder & CEO at solo.io. She is a former CTO for the cloud management division at EMC and a member of its Global CTO office, where she focuses on management and orchestration (M&O) over the entire stack, microservices, cloud-native apps, and platforms as a service. Idit became fascinated with the cloud when she joined DynamicOps (vCAC, now part of VMware) as one of its first employees. She subsequently took part in developing Verizon Terremark’s next-generation public cloud and served as acting CTO at Intigua, a startup focused on container and management technology. Idit graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a bachelor of science in Computer Science and Biological Science.
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About Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
Prathamesh Juvatkar
Founder of NanoNets
Prathamesh Juvatkar is Founder at Nanonets
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About NanoNets: NanoNets provides machine learning APIs to help developers create machine learning models.
Shamir Karkal
CEO and Co-Founder of Sila
Shamir, a software engineer turned fintech innovator, co-founded Simple with Josh in 2009 and remained the company’s CFO until 2015. Today, he serves as BBVA’s Head of Open APIs. Prior to Simple, Shamir was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. specializing in strategy for financial institutions in Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Shamir holds a bachelor’s in computer science, a master’s in information technology, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Sila: Sila is an API platform that provides banking and payment infrastructure-as-a-service for software teams.
Alexander Lipton
Co-Founder, CTO of Sila
Alexander Lipton is Founder and CEO of Stronghold Labs, Co-Founder of Distilled Analytics, Partner at Numeraire Financial, Connection Science Fellow at MIT, and Visiting Professor of Financial Engineering at EPFL. He is an Advisory Board Member at several FinTech Companies. In 2016 he left Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he served for ten years in various senior managerial roles including Quantitative Solutions Executive and Co-Head of the Global Quantitative Group. Earlier, he held senior managerial positions at Citadel Investment Group, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Bankers Trust. In parallel, Alex held several prestigious academic appointments at NYU, Oxford University, Imperial College, and the University of Illinois. Before switching to finance, Alex was a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois. In 2000 Alex was awarded the first ever Quant of the Year Award by Risk Magazine. Alex published seven books and more than a hundred scientific papers. His next book “Financial Engineering – Selected Works of Alexander Lipton” is to appear shortly.
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About Sila: Sila is an API platform that provides banking and payment infrastructure-as-a-service for software teams.
Isaac Hines
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sila
Isaac is a former finance director and general manager in the energy sector, where he oversaw upwards of $200m in projects.
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About Sila: Sila is an API platform that provides banking and payment infrastructure-as-a-service for software teams.
Shensi Ding
Co-Founder of Merge
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About Merge: Merge integrates HR, payroll, recruiting, and accounting platforms into a unified API.
Gil Feig
Co-Founder of Merge
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About Merge: Merge integrates HR, payroll, recruiting, and accounting platforms into a unified API.
David Casem
Co-Founder & CEO of Telnyx
David Casem is the Co-Founder & CEO.
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About Telnyx: Telnyx is a VoIP service provider that offers a cloud-based platform that offers access to carrier grade voice services over the internet.
Ian Reither
Founder & COO of Telnyx
Ian Reither is the Founder & COO at Telnyx.
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About Telnyx: Telnyx is a VoIP service provider that offers a cloud-based platform that offers access to carrier grade voice services over the internet.
Brandon Foo
CEO and Co-Founder of Paragon
Brandon Foo is co-founder and CEO of Paragon. He previously co-founded and was CEO of Polymail.
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About Paragon: Paragon makes it easy to integrate your product with the SaaS apps your customers use.
Patrick Burns
CEO and Co-Founder of Spruce Holdings
Patrick Burns is a Co-Founder at Spruce Holdings.
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About Spruce Holdings: Spruce Holdings aims to improve title insurance assessment and issuance to reduce the time needed to close a real estate deal.
Ashok Reddy Gudibandla
Founder, CEO of Automate.io
Founder, CEO at Automate.io.
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About Automate.io: Use tens of cloud apps? Connect them the way you want. Sync data, automate workflows – marketing, sales and more.
Tony Zhao
Founder & CEO of Agora.io
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About Agora.io: Agora.io enables developers to add HD interactive broadcast, voice, and video calls into mobile and web apps through SDK.
Sahas Katta
CEO + Founder of Smartcar
CEO of Smartcar.
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About Smartcar: Smartcar is the car API for developers. Our platform allows web and mobile apps to locate and unlock cars using simple HTTP requests.
Sanketh Katta
CTO & Founder of Smartcar
Sanketh Katta is a Founder and CTO at Smartcar.
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About Smartcar: Smartcar is the car API for developers. Our platform allows web and mobile apps to locate and unlock cars using simple HTTP requests.
Dmitry Birulia
Co-Founder of Veryfi
Dmitry Birulia is the Cofounder at Veryfi.
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About Veryfi: Market leader in real-time Data Extraction from Receipts, Invoices and other financial documents https://veryfi.com/api
Ernest Semerda
Co-Founder of Veryfi
Ernest Semerda is the Cofounder at Veryfi.
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About Veryfi: Market leader in real-time Data Extraction from Receipts, Invoices and other financial documents https://veryfi.com/api
Joseph Walla
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloSign
Joseph is the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco based startup HelloSign. The idea behind HelloSign was sparked by Joseph’s first successful product alongside co-founder Neal O’Mara, HelloFax. HelloFax launched in 2011 after attending the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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About HelloFax, HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Akhil Bhiwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Phyllo
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About Phyllo: APIs to access creator economy platform data
Alex Elias
Founder and CEO of Qloo
Alex Elias is the founder and CEO of Qloo, a venture-backed company that pioneered the space of Cultural AI, with strategic backing from firms such as AXA and AI Ventures, and individuals including Barry Sternlicht, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Elton John. Prior to founding Qloo, Alex earned his J.D. at the NYU School of Law where he focused on internet privacy regulation. Elias is a thought leader on AI and anonymization, and has expressed his views in public speeches, television appearances (including Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox, El Pais), and opinion pieces for various publications including Investors Business Daily. Elias resides in manhattan with his wife and son, and is an avid jazz pianist.
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About Qloo: Qloo is a cultural artificial intelligence platform that operates via an application programming interface.
Victor Kabdebon
Co Founder, CTO & Product of Truework
Victor’s passion for technology led him to one of the top engineering schools in his home country of France. From there, he went on to earn his master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech. At LinkedIn, he led the Profile Security team before joining forces with fellow LinkedIn alum, Ryan Sandler, in founding Truework.
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About Truework: Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment.
Harry Zhang
Co-Founder of Lob
Harry Zhang is the Co-Founder and Board of Directors member for Lob. Harry is responsible for the company’s sales and marketing organizations. He built the first version of Lob’s APIs and launched the initial revenue streams for the company. Prior to Lob, Harry worked at Microsoft where he managed Project and Visio field sales, channel partners, and integrated end-to-end marketing activities across all customer segments in the US. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Ford Motor Company. Harry was most recently recognized on Forbes 30 under 30 list and holds two degrees in Informatics and Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
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About Lob: Lob provides direct mail and address verification APIs which allows businesses to send personalized mail to their customers.
Leore Avidar
Co-Founder & CEO of Lob
Leore Avidar serves as Co-Founder at Lob.com, Inc. Prior to Lob, Mr. Avidar worked as a Technical Business Developer at Amazon Web Services and as a Quant/Derivative trader at Citigroup.
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About Alt, Lob: Lob provides direct mail and address verification APIs which allows businesses to send personalized mail to their customers.
Avikam Agur
Co-Founder of Weav
Avikam Agur is a Co-Founder at Weav Inc.
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About Weav: Weav is an API for commerce platforms that allows its users to access their customers’ standardized transaction data in real-time.
Steve Heffernan
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Mux
Steve Heffernan is the creator of Video.js, an open source web video player in use on over 1 million websites and with over 1 billion videos played per month. He’s currently leading product at Mux, building video performance monitoring and APIs for video streaming. Steve has been helping run the SF Video Tech Meetup and the Demuxed video engineering conference for the last five years.
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About Mux: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Matt McClure
Co-Founder of Mux
Matt McClure is the Co-Founder of Mux.
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About Mux: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Uri Tintore
Co-Founder of Belvo
Uri Tintore is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Belvo. Before that, he worked as CEO of Verse Technologies and co-founded Capella Space
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About Belvo: Belvo is the open finance API platform that enables users to connect their accounts to an app.
Jacob Eiting
CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat
Jacob Eiting is the CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Michael Tung
Founder and CEO of Diffbot
Mike Tung is CEO at Diffbot.He is also an adviser at the Stanford StartX accelerator and the leader of Stanford’s entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Prior to Diffbot,Mike was a patent lawyer, a grad student in the Stanford AI lab, and a software engineer at eBay, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Mike studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Artificial Intelligence at Stanford.
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About Diffbot: Diffbot is an AI startup that provides knowledge as a service to power intelligent applications.
Jennifer Blumenthal
CEO and Co-Founder of OneRecord
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About CommonWell Health Alliance, OneRecord, The Sequoia Project: Your Health, Your Life, Your OneRecord.
Prashant Bhuyan
Founder, CEO and Chairman of Accrete
Founder, CEO and Chairman at Accrete.
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About Accrete, Shinrai: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Mayank Patel
Co Founder, President & COO of Accrete
Co-Founder, President & COO Accrete.ai.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Josh Adam
Co Founder & Advisor of Accrete
Josh Adam is a Co-Founder.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Adam Kelly
Co-Founder & Chief Knowledge Officer of Accrete
CKO at Accrete.AI.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Azhar Khan
Founder and CEO of Agnitus
CEO at PhotoGAUGE.
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About Agnitus, Cornell University, PhotoGAUGE: Agnitus is a developer of touch-enabled learning applications.
Michael W. Wellman
CEO & Founder of Virgil Security
Michael W. Wellman is CEO &Founder at Virgil Security.
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About Bloomberg Beta, MACH37, NextGen Venture Partners, SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
Dmitry Dain
Co-Founder of Virgil Security
Dmitry Dain is the Co-Founder at Virgil Security, Inc.
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
Ali Jelveh
Founder & Chief Revolutionary Officer of Protonet
Ali Jelveh is Co-Founder and CEO of Protonet. The German-Iranian software engineer previously was amongst the first developers at XING and studied physics. He’s on a mission to transform the Internet from centralization in the cloud to a state of distributed infrastructure and independent users. Ali is also the initiator of the Free Your Data campaign, which opts for a new kind of transparency law in Europe. When he isn’t working, he spends his time thinking, planning and simulating.
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About Protonet: Protonet provides a cloud-based social project management and collaboration platform.
Toby Scammell
Founder & CEO of Womply
Toby Scammell is the founder and CEO of Womply, a technology company that helps small businesses attract, engage, and retain more customers. Mr. Scammell founded Womply in 2011 after seeing first-hand how underserved America’s small businesses were by technology. Today, he leads the strategic vision for many of the company’s core functions and works closely with all members of Womply’s executive team, with a particular focus on the intersection of product development and go-to-market activities. Under Mr. Scammell’s leadership, Womply has acquired more than 100,000 paying small business customers, become the leading software partner to America’s credit card processing industry, raised $50 million in growth funding, and expanded to hundreds of employees across offices in San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; and Lehi, Utah. Mr. Scammell is a serial entrepreneur with a strong business background. Prior to founding Womply, he co-founded Feastery, where he spent over a year solving customer acquisition and loyalty problems for restaurants in San Francisco. Before that, he was a successful associate consultant at Bain & Company, one of the world’s top management consulting firms. During high school and college, Toby started and ran a variety of small online businesses including a Costco-delivery service and company that sold advertising to local restaurants, bars, and lounges. Mr. Scammell graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, with an emphasis in global business.He is an active angel investor and advisor to a variety of startups.
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About Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Cory Capoccia
Co-Founder, Chief Business Development Officer, and President of Womply
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About Verifi, Inc., Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Troy Goode
Founder & CEO of Courier
Troy is the Founder and CEO of Courier, a service that dramatically increases user engagement by intelligently routing user notifications to the best channel for each user – e.g. email, SMS, mobile, Slack, WhatsApp. Prior to Courier, Troy led the U.S. engineering team for Eloqua – the Bessemer-backed leader in email-based marketing automation – which he helped take public in 2012 and subsequently sold to Oracle for $800MM.
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About Courier: Courier is a notification-creation program for app developers that offers push notifications, emails, chat, slack, and custom channels.
Mark Lawrence
Founder & CEO of SpotHero
Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug early, Mark started his first business in the 2nd grade. Through his career, he quickly realized his passion for innovation, both in technology and in everyday living. This drive ultimately led Mark to parking, where he found an entire industry ripe for innovation.Prior to his professional experience, Mark graduated with BS in Finance from Bradley University.
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About SpotHero: Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
Lawrence Kiss
Co-Founder & CTO of SpotHero
After receiving his Master’s in Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder, Larry spent a number of years designing Microprocessors for Advanced Micro Devices, and then building mobile devices for Motorola. This experience helped Larry break off from the traditional corporate job, and pursue a lifelong goal of being an entrepreneur. A few iPhone apps later, SpotHero found Larry, and the rest is history.
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About SpotHero: Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
Rosa Shores
CEO and Co-Founder of BlockSpaces
Rosa Shores is the CEO and Co-Founder of BlockSpaces.
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About BlockSpaces: BlockSpaces offers managed blockchain infrastructure and prebuilt connectors between various blockchain networks and business applications.
Gabe Higgins
CBO and Co-Founder of BlockSpaces
Gabe Higgins is the Co-Founder and CBO of BlockSpaces. He is an entrepreneur and investor in blockchain tech startups and the ecosystem.
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About BlockSpaces: BlockSpaces offers managed blockchain infrastructure and prebuilt connectors between various blockchain networks and business applications.
PJ Gupta
Founder & CEO of Checkbook
PJ Gupta is from the payments industry and the founder of Checkbook Inc.Checkbook has built a payment system that makes it remarkably easy for online Merchants to accept or send Digital Checks online.
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About Checkbook: Checkbook is connecting the last mile in push payments using DigitalChecks for Instant Payments.
Jonathan Abelmann
President & Co-Founder of Bestow
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About Bestow: Bestow is an insurance technology company offering term life insurance that is accessible and affordable to families.
Melbourne O’Banion
CEO & Co-Founder of Bestow
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About Bestow: Bestow is an insurance technology company offering term life insurance that is accessible and affordable to families.
Olivier Porté
Co-Founder of Alpha Vantage
Olivier Porte is the Co-Founder of Alpha Vantage.
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About Alpha Vantage: Alpha Vantage is a Y Combinator backed company building the modern data platform for the next generation of financial market participants.
Cyrus Khajvandi
Co-Founder of Mobius
Cyrus S. Khajvandi Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. Experience: Incentru co-founder and CEO, Credo and BitBounce.io consultant, BTC, early recipient of ETH/C, NSF and HHMI researcher.
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About Mobius, Passfolio: Mobius connects developers, devices, and data streams to the blockchain ecosystem.
David Gobaud
Co-Founder of Mobius
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About Anne N, Mobius, Passfolio: Mobius connects developers, devices, and data streams to the blockchain ecosystem.
Andrei Pop
Founder & CEO of Human API
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About Human API: Human API is a real-time health data network that gives consumers a simple way to view and share their health data from everywhere.
Chris Dean
Founder & CEO of Treasury Prime
Chris Dean is the Co-founder & CEO at Treasury Prime.
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About Treasury Prime: Treasury Prime is a Banking-as-a-Service company that connects banks and FinTechs through an API.
Jim Brusstar
President and Co-Founder of Treasury Prime
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About Treasury Prime: Treasury Prime is a Banking-as-a-Service company that connects banks and FinTechs through an API.
Mike Ross Kane
Co-Founder of Hydrogen
Mike Ross Kane is the Co-Founder of Hydrogen, helping to build the global fintech acceleration platform. At Hydrogen, Mike oversees business and growth functions, along with the Molecule DeFi libraries. Previously, Mike was the Co-Founder at Hedgeable, a digital investing platform he started to help young investors in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Hedgeable was the first retail wealth management platform to invest in Bitcoin. Mike is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and has a strong interest in movie making, cooking, writing, and other creative projects. Mike’s career began at Bridgewater Associates, and Spruce Private Investors, a multi-billion dollar CIO for wealthy families. Mike resides in Miami and NYC.
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About Hydrogen: Hydrogen is embedded finance simplified.
Matthew Kane
Co-Founder of Hydrogen
Matthew Kane is the Co-Founder at Hydrogen, helping to build the global financial platform of the Web 3.0. Matthew is also the CTO and Co-Founder of Hedgeable, a technology-enhanced investment management firm. Hedgeable was the first retail wealth management platform to invest in Bitcoin. Before getting involved in the startup world, Kane worked on a credit derivatives desk at a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. Matt has a B.S. with Distinction from Penn State in Finance and Engineering/Entrepreneurship. He resides in New York City.
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About Hedgeable, Hedgeable, Hydrogen, Sam’s Clan, WeatherWoo!: Hydrogen is embedded finance simplified.
Mitch Thrower
Founder & Chairman of Events.com
He is the Founder and Chairman of Events.com, an innovative cloud-based Event Management Platform provider that provides a state of the art mobile-first SaaS application that enables the full event life-cycle, connecting event organizers and event goers. Events.com enables event organizers to plan, promote, and ticket their events while also providing event goers the tools to discover, register, collaborate, share, and celebrate their experiences. Thrower also serves as Chairman of The La Jolla Foundation, a 501c3 foundation whose primary initiative is Project Active, providing funding, mentoring, encouragement and education to areas of world tension. Specifically — sending sports equipment to children in war zones. Thrower Co-Founded active.com (The Active Network, Inc.). He also launched ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) as Co-Founder and CEO. Active went public before selling to Vista for 1.05 billion. Thrower was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Triathlete Magazine, the world’s largest triathlon magazine where he also served as Chairman. He has also served as the Chief Interactive Officer, Strategist & Senior Correspondent for the Competitor Group (CGI), the active lifestyle industry’s leading media and event entertainment company. Thrower spoke at his university graduation at St. Lawrence University, and has lectured at many colleges such as Stanford University, Anderson School at UCLA, UCSD and the University of San Diego where he served as the “Entrepreneur in Residence” teaching Entrepreneurship. Thrower is an active member of TED.com and the Executive Producer of TEDxLaJolla, an independently organized TED event. He is the Author of “The Attention Deficit Workplace: Winning Strategies for Success in Today’s Fast-Paced Business Environment,” published by Lyons Press and he was author of the popular monthly column, “Starting Lines” in Triathlete Magazine for more than a decade. He was also co-author of the travel guide “The Passport” which, for several years was distributed to 50,000 college students before traveling abroad each year. In 1990, Thrower co-founded his first company and served as CEO of The College/Rail Connection, Inc., serving American Express, AT&T, and Eurail until he sold the venture in 1997. Thrower graduated from the Executive Institute at Stanford University. He holds a MBA from the University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree from Saint Lawrence University. He has competed in 22 Ironman Triathlons, including 13 World Championships. He is the only photo journalist to ever photograph and film the Ironman Triathlon World Championships while competing in the event. Thrower is an East Coast native whose father, Fred Thrower was a television pioneer as Vice President of NBC, and also as president of WPIX-TV in New York City and is known for his holiday creation of the televised “Yule Log.” Thrower’s mother, Lori, worked as an assistant for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in NYC. Thrower is happily married to his lovely wife Amanda and lives in La Jolla, California.
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About Events.com, La Jolla Foundation, Inc, La Jolla Holding: Events.com is an event management platform that manage, market, and monetize low-key fundraisers, massive festivals, and marathons.
Christopher Brown
Co-Founder and CEO of Zabo
Christopher Brown is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zabo & Modular & he attended Southern Methodist University in 2010.
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About Modular, Zabo: Zabo connects any crypto wallet to any application in a few lines of code.
Alex Treece
Co-Founder, President of Zabo
Alex Treece is the co-founder of Zabo. Zabo is full bank with support for cryptocurrency. Zabo offers: – A full bank account: checking, savings, debit card, direct deposit, and more – Bitcoin and Ether wallets – Cryptocurrency exchange: buy and sell your crypto inside your bank account
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About The University of Dallas, Zabo: Zabo connects any crypto wallet to any application in a few lines of code.
Rachel Carpenter
Founder and CEO of Intrinio
Rachel Carpenter is a Founder and CEO at Intrinio. She received her Undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double major in Finance, Investment and Banking as well as Management and Human Resources, and a double minor in Spanish and European Studies. During her second year at UW-Madison, Rachel spent a semester in Barcelona, Spain, and studied International Trade and International Business. Rachel is a graduate of The Starter League Advanced Front-End Development course, with proficiencies in HAML/HTML5, CSS, SASS, Javascript, and CoffeeScript. Rachel has proficient knowledge of equity research and analysis, valuation techniques, building online communities, social media and content marketing, SaaS business models and SaaS marketing strategies.
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About Intrinio: Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface.
Joseph French
Co-Founder & Board Member of Intrinio
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About Intrinio, Workiva: Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface.
Steve Kirkham
Co-Founder of Berbix
Steve Kirkham is a Co-Founder of Berbix. He spent 5 years leading the proactive Trust & Safety efforts at Airbnb. With a deep interest in behavioral economics and technical background, Steve brings a unique perspective to the world of risk and fraud.
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About Berbix: Berbix is an automated identity verification solution that helps businesses accelerate growth and stay compliant.
Eric Levine
Co-Founder of Berbix
Eric Levine is a Co-Founder of Berbix. He leads the engineering, product, and design efforts at the company. Prior to founding Berbix, Eric led the Trust & Safety engineering team at Airbnb.
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About Berbix: Berbix is an automated identity verification solution that helps businesses accelerate growth and stay compliant.
Robert Frederick
CEO, President & Co-Founder of Sirqul
Robert Frederick, founder and CEO of Sirqul, has been focused on connected communities of devices, people, and businesses since 1993. He was inspired by the boundless future potential of smart connected devices and leveraged this passion to attend MIT, to work on projects in the MIT Media Lab, and to join one of the first startups focused on standards that would later be called BlueTooth in the late nineties. The startup’s licensed product, DeviceTalk.com, was a central server running Intelligent Agents that used event-based logic to complete actions on behalf of its users via simple commands and conditional triggers. Identity and Presence was important then and still tends to be important now. Amazon acquired the company in 1999, and Robert led the internal team, Amazon Anywhere, that focused on making it possible to interact with Amazon Anywhere, Anytime, on Any device. After becoming the technical co-founder of Amazon Web Services and setting the stage for Amazon to become profitable leveraging the Cloud, Rob started Sirqul to create an Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem on top of the cloud that also works at the edge. Sirqul has numerous partners that span Retail, Smart Buildings, Autonomous Vehicles, and Robotics.
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About GripWire, Sirqul: Sirqul enables startups and ecosystems to leverage application templates, platform, & APIs to create solutions and ecosystems rapidly.
John S. Kim
Co-Founder & CEO of Sendbird
John founded two startups. SendBird is the chat API for mobile apps and websites, a Y Combinator and Techstars company. His first startup, Paprika Lab – a social gaming company, was acquired by GREE. His focus is on problem solving, building teams, and business development. A car enthusiast and Korea’s all-time no.1 and world’s no.3 Unreal Tournament player in 2000.
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About Sendbird: Sendbird developed a messaging-as-a-service API that provides chat, voice, and video messaging for mobile apps and websites.
Harry Kim
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of Sendbird
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About Sendbird: Sendbird developed a messaging-as-a-service API that provides chat, voice, and video messaging for mobile apps and websites.
Jonathan Zweig
CEO / Co-Founder of AppOnboard
Jonathan Zweig is Founding CEO of AppOnboard Inc – the Premium Private Platform for Full-Fidelity App Demos & Next-Gen Heat-Map Analytics. Zweig, creator of 14 of the first 100 native iOS games in 2008 — was previously CEO and President at AdColony, which he also founded and sold to Opera in 2014 for $350M Jonathan Zweig was the Founding CEO/President of AdColony which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June 2014. AdColony is the largest independent mobile advertising platform in the world. AppOnboard is his new company focused on monetization through download-less app technology and playable ads with patent-pending fraud protection. Jonathan has also was Founding CEO of Jirbo, Inc which developed 14 of the first 100 games ever on the iPhone AppStore: https://www.macworld.com/article/1134395/jirbo.amp.html Under his guidance as CEO, Jirbo would eventually put out over 200 games and apps for ESPN, Sony Music, Universal, Kaplan Test Prep, and many more global brands. Jirbo would eventually pivot to become AdColony, the largest independent mobile ad network in the world.
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About AdColony, AppOnboard, Literati Labs, Inc.: AppOnboard is a software company that empowers creators to build businesses without any programming experience.
Adam Piechowicz
Co Founder of AppOnboard
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About AppOnboard: AppOnboard is a software company that empowers creators to build businesses without any programming experience.
Benny Czarny
Founder and CEO of OPSWAT
Benny Czarny is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at OPSWAT. As CEO, Benny oversees OPSWAT’s day-to-day-operations, as well as leading the company’s overall business strategy. Benny has over 20 years of experience in the Computer and Network Security field. From the early days of computer viruses he was interested and involved in the fields of encryption, network operations, security vulnerabilities detection and research. He worked as a programmer, team leader and engineering manager in several companies before founding OPSWAT in 2002. Benny earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
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About OPSWAT: OPSWAT is the global leader for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cybersecurity for ICS and OT environments
Ben Lyon
Co-Founder & CEO of Hover
Ben Lyon is the Co-Founder & CEO at Hover Developer Services, Inc.
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About DFS Lab, Hover: We unlock commerce by making mobile money accessible to developers.
Andy Powers
Co-Founder – CEO of Clique API
Andy Powers is a coach, coder, business builder, and entrepreneurial philanthropist. Inspired by the presence of big problems and inevitability of simple solutions, he has spent his career designing the future. He’s an avid basketball fan and, at an early age, played at a very high level leading to multiple scholarship offers out of high school. Andy began building computers in high school and, as his basketball career stalled due to injuries, he began his entrepreneurial endeavors in college with RCSI. The company was at the beginning of the Cloud Computing revolution and was instrumental in the inception of web based applications and the creation of NFUSE (acquired by Citrix). After RCSI, Andy was a part of a number of startups both as investor and founder and in 2003 he founded Reggie Software. With Reggie, Andy built protocols to allow for HTML enabled apps and first became engaged with Roy Feldings Representational state transfers (REST API). Andy found himself obsessed with the information sharing possibilities that were made available by the API, specifically in the communications industry. Inspired to enable project teams to communicate more efficiently, Andy sold Reggie to Blue Phoenix Solutions (MDSYF), and teamed up with two communications experts to start CommuniClique in 2006. The company began with a product focus with a vision to connect distributed teams on demand. In 2008 CommuniClique spun out the product (which became known as Speek, (acquired by Jive)) and pivoted its focus to the REST API strategy and the new vision of connecting people to conversations that matter began to take form. Today, the company is a world leader in enterprise collaboration and helped pioneer both the CPaaS space, and the API economy as a whole. Clique currently delivers 500mm minutes a month of seamless voice solutions, and 9 petabytes of Chata, to its 3000 enterprise customers. Andy oversees Clique’s overall operations, but, especially enjoys creating the future of communication at CliqueLabs, and focusing on an innovative wellness program for the company’s employees and partners. He has also developed the TWO-EIGHT-O initiative – a platform to give the 28mins/day that we all waste waiting for conference calls back to the 2.8bn people without connectivity. 280’s first initiative is a system for the world’s 60mm displaced to seamlessly connect with their each other, their loved ones, and aid workers. Concurrently, Andy is a founding partner of Sabotage Institute – a DC based startup laboratory focused on building the future by breaking the conventions of the present. An avid tech investor, Andy has participated in the early rounds of 100s of companies; including Uber, GroupMe, and ArmorText through his investment office, Empower Investments as well LP relationships with multiple funds. He is also director of the Empower Foundation, through which he invests in organizations that promote efficient governance, unencumbered communication, universal human dignity, and his under-connected neighbors in DC metro area. Andy lives in California with his wife, five kids, and two dogs. He has run over 20 marathons, trains daily with a professional boxer, and spends much of his spare time making funny tee shirts for friends, or coding. His only allergy is to Patagonia vests. Andy Powers is a convicted Felon, convicted of 6 counts of fraud and defrauding investors out of $25 million dollars. On July 15, 2020, Powers was sentenced to 150 months in a federal prison.
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About Clique API, Sabotage: Clique API provides web-based voice and text application programming interfaces.
Matthew Parker
Founder & CEO of ModernTax
Matt Parker is the CEO and founder of Rapidly.
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About ModernTax: ModernTax is API platform that democratizes access to tax records for business services companies.
Nate Maslak
Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon Health
Nate Maslak is the Co-Founder and CEO at Ribbon Health.
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About Ribbon Health: Ribbon Health is a predictive analytics and data platform for the healthcare industry.
Nate Fox
Co-Founder/CTO of Ribbon Health
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About InSITE Fellows, Ribbon Health: Ribbon Health is a predictive analytics and data platform for the healthcare industry.
Gregory Koberger
Founder & CEO of ReadMe
Gregory Koberger is the Founder at ReadMe.io
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About Phileas & Fogg, ReadMe: ReadMe provides every company the ability to quickly create beautiful documentation, and build loyal, productive developer communities.
federico dubini
Co-Founder & COO of Yobs
Not a talented person, but an individual driven by passion and persistence to make his dreams happen. I am interested in emerging technologies, investment management, traveling and entertainment. I would like to be a technology entrepreneur and investor. Also, I am interested in philanthropy by creating technologies and programs that have a long-lasting impact. https://angel.co/federico-dubini
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About Yobs: Instantly record, transcribe and analyze Zoom interviews to hire better, faster.
Mike Wior
CEO & Co-Founder of Omnivore
Responsible for the overall vision of Omnivore. Expert in cloud solutions, technology and business initiatives, with career successes at Wells Fargo Bank and company-critical consulting projects for clients including Adobe, Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Google, and Intel.
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About Omnivore: Omnivore offers a point-of-sale integration API allowing uniform access to the POS systems.
Scott Stephenson
Co-Founder & CEO of Deepgram
Scott Stephenson is a dark matter physicist turned Deep Learning entrepreneur. He earned a PhD in particle physics from University of Michigan where his research involved building a lab two miles underground in China to detect dark matter. Scott left his physics post-doc research position to co-found Deepgram, a San francisco-based Speech AI company. Deepgram joined YCombinator in 2016 and leads private companies in research and deployment for deep learning based Speech AI.
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About Deepgram: Deepgram is an AI Speech Platform that provides developers with a simple to use Speech-to-Text API
Keith Horwood
Founder & CEO of Autocode
Keith Horwood is the Founder & CEO at Autocode .
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About Autocode, Polybit: An online code editor with API autocomplete, instant hosting, and a Standard Library. Sync data, build bots and customize workflows.
