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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 New York based Founder operating in the Video 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.
Jeffrey Zirlin
Co-Founder and Growth Lead of Sky Mavis
Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis.
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About Axie Infinity, ResumeGem, Sky Mavis: Sky Mavis is a video game developer that brings the benefits of blockchain through fun and practical applications.
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Itai Tsiddon
Co-Founder of Lightricks
Itai Tsiddon was one of the 5 co-founders at Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn. He leads two deals a year, broadly ranging from 6-60m in size (early A to Pre IPO). Itai serves as a board member at Lightricks, Frame.io, Homesome, and Standard Bots and led Forter’s Series E pre IPO fundraise with Bessemer and Felix capital joining his TS as a solo capitalist.
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About Lightricks: Lightricks develops creativity tools that enable its users to craft and share visual content on mobile devices.
Jon Oringer
Founder and CEO of Shutterstock
Jon Oringer is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of the popular microstock photography site Shutterstock. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Computer Science from Stony Brook University, and completed his Master’s degree in Computer Science at Columbia University. Oringer pioneered the subscription based microstock photography business model when he created Shutterstock in 2003. Jon Oringer originally founded the company to sell his own images, but soon recognized that his work alone would not satisfy his customers’ demand. In response, Jon Oringer decided to become an agent as well, so he could offer other people’s work as a complement to his own. By combining a personal interest in photography with a first hand knowledge of the demand for diverse and compelling imagery in today’s marketplace, Jon Oringer set out to provide high quality photographs in a way that he thought would make sense to his customers. The company has enjoyed robust growth since its inception; it grew from 30,000 royalty-free stock images in 2003 to over 11 million in February 2010, and over 18 million in April, 2012. In 2009, Oringer was selected 41st on the Silicon Alley 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and technologists in Manhattan.
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About Bigstock, Shutterstock, Skillfeed: Shutterstock offers an online platform that enables its users to find and buy images, vectors, videos, and music.
Ali Hamed
Founder of CoVenture Holding Company
Ali Hamed is a managing partner and co-founder of CoVenture Holding Company, a firm that invests across the capital stack of tech-enabled companies. CoVenture often provides the first institutional equity and/or debt financing to business operations across financial services, new forms of media, platform economies or industries we are yet to imagine.
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About CoVenture Holding Company, Crossbeam Venture Partners: CoVenture provides equity and/or debt financing to tech-enabled companies in areas such as financial services, media, and platform economies
Jacob Pechenik
Founder & CEO of Venture Forth Productions
Jacob is currently the Founder & CEO of Venture Forth Productions, a specialty film finance and production company. Previously, Jacob was Founder and CEO of YellowJacket, which was acquired by IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE:ICE) in January 2008. Jacob has nearly two decades of experience in the development and support of enterprise-class trading platforms for large financial services firms and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to establishing YellowJacket in 2003, Jacob founded and served as the CEO of TechTrader, a provider of business-to-business enterprise software for public and private trading exchanges catering to the direct materials markets.
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About Venture Forth Productions: A specialty film finance and production company
Arthur F. Muldoon
CEO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
Arthur Muldoon is CEO and Co-founder of ArcSpan Technologies. Previously, he was co-CEO of Amnet US and the CEO and Co-founder of Accordant Media, a leading technology-driven programmatic media specialist company. Accordant Media was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2016. Over the past 20 years, Art has carved out a digital media career launching innovative solutions to help marketers achieve better audience engagement. Earlier, Art was SVP, Global Data Platforms at Aegis Media; SVP of Client Services and Analytics at BzzAgent; and General Manager, Client Services, Avenue A | Razorfish. Art also led the launch of an e-commerce business at Corbis Images in Seattle and was a corporate strategy consultant in the Media, Entertainment and Telecoms group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles. Earlier, Art was a Corporate Finance Analyst at Lehman Brothers in NYC, focused on high tech. Art holds a BA from Trinity College (CT) and an MBA from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters.
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Garret Vreeland
CCO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
After spending many years at advertising agencies, Garret moved into ad sales at about the time the internet was coming of age. He sold his first banner in 1996 on moneymagazine.com (part of Time Inc’s Pathfinder initiative), and has since led sales teams at some great companies. These include premium publishers (Time Inc), portals (Lycos, Yahoo!), search (Looksmart), and performance networks (24/7 Real Media, Right Media and most recently Akamai/Acerno).
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Rishi Malhotra
Co-Founder & CEO of JioSaavn
Rishi Malhotra is Co-Founder and CEO of Saavn, India’s leading music streaming service. Rishi has led the company through significant and rapid user growth, while helping to secure partnerships with companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Shazam, T-Mobile, and Sonos. He is focused on driving the global Saavn team to deliver award-winning mobile products, big data systems for media, and industry-defining business innovation. Saavn is on track to become one of the largest streaming music companies in the world by 2017. Saavn is backed by leading institutional investors including Tiger Global, Bertelsmann Media, Liberty Media, Steadview Capital, and Mousse Partners. Previously, Rishi was VP, HBO On Demand and Multi-Platform for Home Box Office, Inc., where he pioneered HBO’s SVOD products, digital distribution, and original VOD content for many HBO franchises.
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About [212]Media, JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Cindy Gallop
Founder & CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn
Cindy Gallop is the Founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn and IfWeRanTheWorld. She is a former Board Advisor at Danoo and The Talent Business. Ms. Gallop received a master of arts in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.
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About MakeLoveNotPorn: Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference.
Edo Segal
Founder and CEO of Touchcast
Edo Segal is the Founder & CEO at TouchCast.
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About bMuse, iWise, Kinsa, Touchcast, Touchcast: Touchcast is the world’s leading enterprise metaverse company. We connect people by breaking down barriers of space, time and language.
Bill Paxton
Co-Founder of Rockstar Games
Co-Founder at Rockstar Games.
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About Rockstar Games: Rockstar Games is a multinational video game development and publishing company.
Uzo Ometu
Founder, CEO of Black Oak TV
Uzo Ometu is the Founder at Black Oak TV.
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About Black Oak TV: Black Oak TV focuses on digital media, film, television, video streaming, and content such as black web series.
Richard Gottehrer
Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Orchard
Richard Gottehrer is the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Orchard. Richard began his career in the music industry as a songwriter, penning classics such as “My Boyfriend’s Back” and “I Want Candy” and was an artist in the 1960s pop group, The Strangeloves. In 1966, he co-founded leading independent record label Sire Records with fellow luminary Seymour Stein. Later, Richard went on to make a name as a multi-platinum producer for well-known music acts, including Blondie, The Go-Go’s, The Raveonettes and Joan Armatrading before co-founding The Orchard in 1997. Today, Richard heads Blue Horizon, one of The Orchard’s premier labels, and Instant Records, which was originally founded in the 1970s and revived in 2013 in partnership with long-time business partner and Orchard co-founder Scott Cohen. Through these, Richard supervises recordings of The Black Angels and Dion for Blue Horizon, and Au Revoir Simone, Queen Kwong, Princess Superstar, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas for Instant Records. He also produces The Dum Dum Girls for Sub Pop and has worked with The Raveonettes since their inception. His motto is, and has always been “Move forward, even in times of adversity. Move forward.”
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About The Orchard, TVT Records: The Orchard is a music distribution, marketing and sales company for artists and labels to distribute content to digital and mobile outlets.
Rufus Griscom
CEO & Founder of Next Big Idea Club
I am in an immersive period right now, spending a lot of time talking with people doing innovative things in online media … happy to connect.
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About Next Big Idea Club: Next Big Idea Club is a subscription book club.
Jonathan Steinberg
Founder and CEO of Cheddar
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About Altice USA, Cheddar, CNBC, DropBoxee, SocialGreat: Cheddar is a live video news network focused on covering products, technologies, and services.
Alex Collmer
Founder & CEO of VidMob
Alex Collmer is the founder and CEO of VidMob, the world’s largest video creation platform.As the web transitions to a video-driven medium, Collmer recognized the need for businesses to have access to the world’s best video creators who could produce quality content for a variety of platforms that was affordable. Since founding the company in 2015, Collmer has raised more than $13M and counts the leading brands and agencies as clients. Combing an elegant interface with a roster of more than 5000 video creators enables anyone to maximize their video presence and make a brand impact with video. An engineer by training, Collmer’s career has always been at the intersection of technology, design, and consumer entertainment as those sectors have evolved. Prior to founding VidMob, Collmer was the co-founder and CEO of Autumn Games, a premier publisher of video game franchises. Under his leadership, Autumn Games developed successful partnerships with such personalities as Jimmie Johnson, the 7-time NASCAR champion and companies like Def Jam, the leading urban culture brand, as well as the award-winning fighting game franchise, Skullgirls. Previously, Collmer was a founder and board member of the New York Video School, an online film school focused on empowering people all over the world to become “video literate” (www.nyvs.com). Collmer received a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Engineering and was a certified E.I.T. in the field of structural engineering in the state of New York. Collmer sits on the board of several technology and media companies and has spoken at numerous universities and conferences on entrepreneurship and media. In his spare time, he coaches little league soccer and baseball.
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Jason Donnell
COO & Co-Founder of VidMob
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Suroosh Alvi
Co-Founder of Vice Media
Suroosh Alvi launched VICE with Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes in Montreal in 1994. Originally a punk magazine, VICE has expanded and diluted to include a network of online video channels, including VICE.com, TheCreatorsProject.com, Motherboard.tv and Fightland.com, Noisey.com and Thu.mp), a television production studio, a record label, an in-house creative services agency and a book publishing division. Today VICE produces over 60[quantify] original video series, covering news to travel to music to arts to fashion, and has a network of correspondents and bureaus.
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About Vice Media: Vice Media is a North American digital media and broadcasting company.
John Xie
Co-Founder & CEO of Taskade
John Xie is the Co-Founder & CEO at Taskade.
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About Forem, GitStart, Laserfocus, Outlier, Taskade: Taskade is a real-time organization and collaboration tool for distributed teams.
Daniel Morozoff-Abezgauz
Co-Founder, President, Cloud Infrastructure Dev of Vidrovr
Dan is a PhD candidate at Columbia University working on machine learning applied to neuroscience. He has published research in computational physics, computer multimedia. He has worked at NASA, and HHMI Janelia.
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About Vidrovr: Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video.
Michael Weiksner
Co-Founder and CTO of Pocketful of Quarters
Michael Weiksner is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pocketful of Quarters. He also serves as Chairman of e-thepeople.org and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Princeton University. He enjoys spending time with his wife and four kids.
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About EndlessTV, Pocketful of Quarters, SocialFeet, Tip or Skip: Pocketful of Quarters is a universal virtual currency platform for gaming, usable across different games and platforms.
Virginia Juliano
CEO & Founder of CobbleCord
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About CobbleCord: Free website & app that helps users cobble together the perfect combination of online streaming services and drop cable.
Barak Feldman
Co-Founder of eko
Barak Feldman is Co-Founder at Eko.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Tal Zubalsky
Co-Founder & CPO of eko
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Eko, Tal brings his expertise and experience in interactivity, technology, design and music to make the vision a reality. Prior to starting Eko Tal served as a founding partner at 2 tech startups, oversaw design and development of numerous international web projects, and served on the creative team at McCann-Erickson.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Izzie Lerer
Founder and Editor of The Dodo
Izzie Lerer is the founder and chief creative officer of the Dodo, the No. 1 animal brand in digital media. Lerer is responsible for editorial strategy—leading content creation across the brand’s channels—and overseeing the Dodo’s expansion into original programming. Lerer was named one of “Fast Company” magazine’s Most Creative People in 2014, and was included on the “Business Insider” Silicon Alley 100 list for 2014, as well as the “Forbes” 30 Under 30 ranking in 2015.
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About The Dodo: The Dodo is a digital media company devoted to animals.
Byron Hsu
Co-Founder, President, CTO of Paragon One
Founder at Paragon One.
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About Founders Pledge, Paragon One: Paragon One turns company work into scalable remote externships that help students gain hands-on work experience in different industries.
Wayne Mackey
Founder/CEO of Statespace
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About Statespace: Statespace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential.
Barak Shragai
Co-Founder & CEO of IMGN Media
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About IMGN Media: IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences.
Rachel Tipograph
Founder & CEO of MikMak
Rachel Tipograph is the Founder & CEO at MikMak .
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About Brave Commerce, Cleo Capital, MikMak: MikMak is a platform that enables traditional brick-and-mortar brands to gain insights & view the activity of major online retailers.
Tal Chalozin
CTO & Co-Founder of Innovid
Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, the leading connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hulu, amongst others, to help advertisers bring interactive video to viewers everywhere. Tal is a serial entrepreneur and tireless global leader in video technology. In addition to serving as Innovid’s CTO, Tal is a board member for the IAB’s Digital Video Center of Excellence and for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has been named a 2018 inductee in the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement for his significant impact on the industry via mentorship, inspiration, volunteerism and training. Previous accolades include being named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, one of the “Best Young European Entrepreneurs” by Businessweek, a member of Multichannel News’ “40 Under 40” Class of 2016, and to Cynopsis Digital’s 2016 “It List.” Prior to Innovid, Tal co-founded GarageGeeks – a non-profit organization and one of Israel’s largest hacker spaces and innovation hubs boasting more than 8,000 members. Tal also served as an officer in an elite computer unit in the Israeli Air Force for over eight years where he led the development of several military products with high algorithmic complexity. Tal owns several global patents in digital video technology, and he is a regular speaker at global events, including Cannes Lion, CES, The Drum’s Programmatic Punch, IAB, MWC, NAB, TVOT, AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O, Broadcasting & Cable’s Advanced TV, Wired Magazine’s NEXTFEST, Le Web’s Digital Innovation Conference, Ars Electronica, and eConsultancy’s Creative Programmatic.
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About Garagegeeks, Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
Zvika Netter
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Innovid
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About Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
Oleg Tumanov
Founder & CEO of ivi
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About Frontier Ventures, ivi: ivi is a video-on-demand platform that brings the traditional television experience online with a free video player.
Alex Bornyakov
Co-Founder of Adtelligent Inc.
Alex Bornyakov is the Co-Founder at Adtelligent.
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About Adtelligent Inc., Intersog, WannaBiz: Adtelligent Inc. is a sell side ad technology company providing holistic demand management and intermediation solutions for publishers.
Zak Tucker
Co-Founder & President of Harbor Picture Company
Zak Tucker is the Co-Founder and President of Harbor Picture Company. A feature film and commercial editor and director by trade, Zak founded Harbor Picture Company in 2010 with renowned colorist, Joe Gawler and cinematographer, Theo Stanley. Together they’ve built a company comprised of Hollywood caliber talent and studio facilities serving the feature film, television and commercial industry in NY. Offering the largest post-production footprint and array of services in New York, highlights include the largest and most technologically advanced tent-pole theatrical mix stages, DI theaters and edit suites in New York. Zak’s 17-year career has spanned the feature film, television and commercial landscape, with notable recent Harbor highlights including “Arrival,” for Paramount, “Billions” for Showtime, “Magic Mike XXL” for Warner Bros, “Beauty and the Beast,” for Disney and Ron Howard’s “Inferno” for Sony. Since 2010, Zak has expanded Harbor’s offering to include top-tier artistry and robust services across the full array of production and post-production facets; dailies, offline editorial, VFXm, picture post, sound post, and delivery. In the 6 years since founding the company, Zak has seized the opportunity of the media and entertainment transition from analog to digital to unseat the traditional, old-school players and bring about the new methodology for high production-value content creation. AIn so doing he has created a new culture and facilitation of artistic collaboration while taking the company from 500 square feet to 50,000 square feet, from 4 employees to 50, and multiplying revenues by 800%, establishing Harbor as the newest and most cutting edge studio for highest end artistry and enterprise-level delivery to the studios, networks, brands and agencies.
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About Harbor Picture Company: Harbor Picture Company is a full-service production and post-production studio located in downtown Manhattan.
John Traver
Co-Founder & Creative Technologist of Frame.io
John Traver is the co-founder and CTO of Frame.io.
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About Frame.io: Frame.io is a cloud-based video collaboration platform that allows users to upload source media and assets into private workspaces.
Stephane Guez
CTO and Co-Founder of Dalet
Stephane Guez is the CTO and Co-Founder at Dalet.
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About Dalet: Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Brian Rifkin
Co-Founder and SVP Strategic Partnerships of JW Player
At JW Player Brian is focused on driving growth through strategic partnerships and leads the JW Player Demand team, working with publishers and brands to maximize advertising revenue. He has worked in the online space since 1997, and until 2007 served as president of A Simple Internet, a media services firm he founded in 2001 specializing in performance-based marketing. Previously, he was senior vice president of Business Development at About.com. He holds a BS in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
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About JW Player: JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video player for web content, publishing, and running video ads.
Dave Otten
Founder & CEO of JW Player
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About JW Player: JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video player for web content, publishing, and running video ads.
Lorne Michaels
Executive Producer & Founder of Broadway Video
Lorne Michaels is an Emmy-Award winning producer and writer, best known as the creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live. Michaels is also executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Portlandia, 30 Rock, and other award-winning television shows and films. Michaels’ motion picture credits as a producer include Mean Girls, Wayne’s World, Tommy Boy, and Three Amigos (which he produced and co-wrote with Steve Martin and Randy Newman). His most recent film is 2012’s The Guilt Trip, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen.
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About Broadway Video, Broadway Video Ventures: Broadway Video has grown into an independent studio that produces and distributes original comedic content for every platform.
Eddie Geller
Co-Founder and CEO of Tinybeans
Eddie Geller has been an entrepreneur and investor in the online world since 1994. Eddie was the founder and CEO of Unique World. A successful management consulting business that grew to a 100 person, $15m business before successfully exiting to a large US company in 2011. Since then, Eddie has been actively involved within the startup community and was the founding investor/director of LayPay. He was responsible for driving the strategy and commercial partnerships to ensure that it launched to market. He is now a non-exec director on the board and looks forward to seeing LayPay build a wonderfully successful payments business that customers rely upon and love! As a seed investor in PushStart in early 2012, Eddie saw something special in Tinybeans. Tinybeans was one of the startups that was incubated through the Pushstart program and was a certain standout. Over 2012, Eddie mentored the Tinybeans team and fell in love with the opportunity and decided to invest and become active. Through 2013, Eddie drove the commercial aspects of the business which enabled him to take on the CEO role in early 2014. Now he drives the organisational strategy, partnerships and growth prospects and has aspirations to create the largest nurture network in the world reaching 100M users by 2019.
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About Tinybeans: Tinybeans is a journaling and photo-sharing app that inspires parents to connect with their loved ones.
Matthew Collado
Co-Founder, CCO Chief Content Officer of Rad
Co-Founder, CMO at Little Star Media, Inc.
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About ARA Blocks, Rad: Rad is the Netflix of Blockchain, with NFTs, Crypto Rewards, and tokenized subscriptions.
Sundance DiGiovanni
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Vindex
Sundance DiGiovanni is a seasoned executive, recognized thought leader in video game culture, and veteran creative director with more than 18 years of experience in the media, technology and video game industries. He co-founded MLG in 2002 with Mike Sepso, with the goal of creating a company that would reflect both his lifelong passion for gaming and his deeply competitive nature. Sundance currently serves as the CEO of MLG, focuseing on the long-term growth of competitive video gaming and the various distribution channels that are helping to bring this burgeoning sport to an ever-growing community. Prior to co-founding MLG, Sundance was Worldwide Creative director at Gotham Broadband, a broadband media pioneer. He is a veteran creative executive and has worked closely with a wide variety of brands, including AOL Time Warner, DirecTV, Sony, Pfizer, Nortel Networks, and Sprint.
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About Major League Gaming, Vindex: Vindex is a global esports and technology company that serves as the connective tissue between games and gamers.
Tom Bennett
Co-Founder of Pond5
Tom Bennett is one of the Co-Founders of Pond5 , as well as an editor, shooter and documentarian.
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About Futuur, Pond5, Universal Music Group: Pond5 is the world’s largest, most vibrant video-first content marketplace that helps filmmakers fulfil their creative vision.
Gary Foreman
Co-Founder & CTO of Stakester
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About NextWave Safety Solutions, Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Matthew Lieber
Co-Founder & President of Gimlet Media
Matt Lieber is the co-founder and president of Gimlet Media. In a previous life, Lieber helped launch the public radio programs “The Takeaway” and “Fair Game.” He left radio to get his M.B.A., and worked for several years as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group before chucking it all for this. He knows the value of a dollar.
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About Gimlet Media: Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts.
Alex Blumberg
Co-Founder and CEO and Podcast Businessman of Gimlet Media
Alex Blumberg is a CO-Founder and CEO and Podcast Businessman at Gimlet Media. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College and is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University. From 1999-2014 he was the producer for the public radio show This American Life and his stories were regularly featured on the show. From 2007-2014 he was the executive producer of the television version of This American Life. Prior to This American Life, he worked as a freelance radio reporter, contributing to This American Life, the Savvy Traveller and Chicago Public Radio. In 2008 he collaborated with National Public Radio economics correspondent Adam Davidson to co-host the Planet Money podcast, which posts new episodes twice weekly. In August 2014, he started Gimlet Media along with Matthew Lieber. Initially pitched as the American Podcasting Corporation (APC), Gimlet Media is a podcasting business. Blumberg documented the startup process in the first season of a podcast hosted on Gimlet Media, titled StartUp. The second season follows “Dating Ring”, another startup company. Apart from StartUp, Gimlet Media has launched several other podcasts, including Mystery Show, Surprisingly Awesome, and Reply All. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. After raising most of its initial capital from investment firms Betaworks, Lowercase Capital, and Knight Enterprise Fund, Gimlet invited the listeners of its shows to help raise the last $200,000 through crowdfunding platform Alphaworks. In December 2015, Gimlet closed a Series A round of funding that raised $6 million at a $30 million valuation.
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About Gimlet Media: Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts.
David Bialek
Co-Founder & CEO of ReKTGlobal
With over 25 years in the sports marketing & media world, Dave made the jump to esports with his co-founding of ReKTGlobal. Dave has spearheaded the creation of multiple advertising platforms in the place-based, streaming media and sports advertising space. He is credited with building two groundbreaking initiatives in collegiate sports. First, he led a sales team to create the iconic Allstate Field Goal Net program in NCAA Football. Second, he invented a “profile” position on NCAA and NBA basket stanchions, with which State Farm has become synonymous. The stanchion sign is widely considered to be the most impactful signage position in all of sports. For this latest pursuit, Dave became a recipient of the prestigious Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award. His work in the traditional sports marketplace can be seen far and wide, and he’s bringing the very same creative approach to the esports ecosystem.
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About ReKTGlobal: ReKTGlobal is a business authority in e-sports and competitive gaming.
Evan Nisselson
General Partner and Founder of LDV Capital
Evan Nisselson invests in early stage companies via LDV Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur, professional photographer and digital media expert since the early 1990’s. He started making pictures with his Nikon FM at 13 years old. Mentors: 500Startups, Seedcamp, Mind The Bridge, Founders Institute, Techpeaks, and others. He thrives on helping build teams and businesses that leverage technology to entertain, increase efficiency, and solve problems. Evan’s international expertise ranges from assisting technology startups in raising capital, business development, marketing, content development, recruiting and product development. In January 2007, he was named to American Photo magazine’s “New Power List.” Evan was the Founder, CEO and Chairman of venture backed Digital Railroad which launched in 2004 with the teamwork of incredible people. Digital Railroad provided professional photographers, agencies and image buyers a web services platform and marketplace. We had about 3,000 photographers and 80 photo agencies in 80 countries delivering ~10-20K 50mb images a day pre cloud computing. There were also about 30,000 photo buyers from top publications. As of Nov. 2008, total revenue for that year was estimated to be ~$3M with about half of that being recurring revenue. The company was closed in Nov. 2008. In May 2003 he wrote an article that said camera phones would replace point & shoot cameras. At Telecom Italia in 2003, he helped create the Virgilio.it consumer photo channel. At Excite@Home in 1997, he conceived and collaborated with a great team to create the first broadband consumer photography portal called Making Pictures, with Intel as a $3M joint venture partner. In 1996, he joined @Home Network as one of the 1st four Photo Editors working 100% on the Internet. He is a frequent speaker, moderator and Master of Ceremonies at technology conferences such as The Next Web – Amsterdam & NYC, IDCEE – Ukraine, Pirate Summit – Germany, MSFT BizSpark Euro Summit, Seedcamp Investor Day, Techcrunch – Moscow & Italy, LeWeb – Paris, LDV Vision Summit – NYC and others around the world. Evan keeps alive his Luddite photography website which was created around 1996.
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About LDV Capital: LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams who leverage computer vision, machine learning, and AI to analyze visual data.
Sercan Esen
Co-Founder and CEO of Intenseye
Sercan Esen is the co-founder and CEO of intenseye.
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About Intenseye: Intenseye is an AI-powered workplace safety platform that helps large enterprises to scale employee health and safety across their facility.
Rick Rubin
Co-Founder of Def Jam Recordings
Grammy-winning record producer, named by Time Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,”
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About Def Jam Recordings: Def Jam Recordings is a music company.
John Lemp
Chairman, Founder & CEO of Powr
Revcontent Founder, John Lemp is an entrepreneur who has built two internet companies from the ground up into multi-million dollar businesses, and all with $0 in funding. John graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology. In 2013, John founded Revcontent, a content recommendation network. In 2018, John founded Powr OTT, the new standard in video advertising. He also is the Managing Partner at NextFund Capital Group.
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About NextFund, Powr: Powr is a video marketplace and syndication platform that connects video creators with premium publishers across the web.
Matteo Petrelli
Co-Founder & CEO of Exeest
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About Exeest, Vicker: Exeest is a B2B digital market for premium Film, TV, and digital content that provides an integrated experience from discovery to delivery.
Anthony Costanzo
Co-Founder & Advisor of Exeest
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About Exeest: Exeest is a B2B digital market for premium Film, TV, and digital content that provides an integrated experience from discovery to delivery.
Tim Specht
Co-Founder & CTO of Dubsmash
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About Dubsmash: Dubsmash is a developer of a viral video messaging app that lets users create and share their videos.
Anastasis Germanidis
Co-Founder & CTO of Runway
Anastasis Germanidis is the Co-Founder and CTO of Runway.
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About Runway: Runway is a next generation video editing solution powered by machine learning.
Yoav Hornung
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of VeedMe
Yoav Hornung is the Creative Verticals Group Manager at Fiverr.
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About Coverr, Fiverr, VeedMe: VeedMe is a video creation marketplace that connects businesses with reliable and talented videographer communities.
E.J. Klein
CEO, Founder of MolQ Entertainment
E.J. Klein is CEO/Founder of MolQ Entertainment, Inc., an American Entertainment Company that provides streaming media and subscription video-on demand online. Ms. Klein is an experienced Chief Executive Officer and Entrepreneur, with a demonstrated history of founding content and tech companies. Earlier in her career, Ms. Klein worked as a senior sales and marketing executive in the cable and telecommunications industry. Ms. Klein held the senior executive positions of Vice President of National Affiliate Sales at Universal Music Group, Vice President of National Affiliate Sales at the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), Vice President, Eastern Region, ABC/Disney, Senior Director, Affiliate Sales at Scripps Interactive Networks, and Director of Comcast -National Accounts at HSN, Home Shopping Network. In 2010, Ms. Klein founded Klein Media Works, a leading global content distribution consulting company. In 2016, Ms. Klein founded Cloud Force Digital Media, a tech company that builds, distributes and monetizes TV Connected Apps for global content and advertising clients. In 2018, Ms. Klein founded MolQ Entertainment, a global subscription OTT Streaming Application Platform, offering independent film and documentary content and 24/7 global news, music, sports and e-sports TV Networks. Ms. Klein graduated from Smith College in Northampton, MA with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and holds a Masters in Business Administration in Global Management and a Graduate Degree in Digital Marketing from the Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Ms. Klein is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Business and Science at Bay Path University in Longmeadow, MA.
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About MolQ Entertainment: MolQ Entertainment is an American entertainment company that provides streaming media and subscription video on demand on line.
Tom Pachys
CEO and Co-Founder of EX.CO
Tom Pachys is co-founder and CEO of EX.CO. Tom’s entrepreneurial spirit started early in life when he began coding at an early age. He eventually joined the elite technology intelligence unit followed. He then join Sundaysky as one of the first team members following by his own tech startup.
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About EX.CO: EX.CO is a technology company used by brands & publishers to turn content into engaging and interactive experiences driving results.
Clarkson Logan
Founder & CEO of Maestro
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About Maestro: Maestro is a cloud music platform enabling users to access and manage their entire music library on demand from any connected device.
David Moricca
Founder & CEO of Socialive
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About Socialive: A powerful yet intuitive video platform that helps organizations create, broadcast and distribute high quality video content at scale.
Matthew Craig
Co-Founder & CEO of Blink
Matt spent five years working as Page One Photo Editor at The Wall Street Journal. He is a graduate of Boston University and has worked for Harvard University, The Nieman Foundation and the VII Photo Agency. When he isn’t evangelizing about Blink, Matt can be found researching vintage Porsches or toting a Leica around Brooklyn with members of MJR, an international group of artists he founded in 2007.
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About Blink: Headquartered in New York, Blink is a platform that connects the world’s best storytellers to companies that have a story to tell.
Alexandra Serio
Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder of Nameless Network
Alexandra Serio is a media entrepreneur, producer and cultural strategist straddling the lines between pop culture, technology and digital content. She is currently Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder of Nameless, a video start-up that pairs the best videos on the Internet with realtime chat i.e. television for the next generation. She previously served as Director of Content Development at SFX where she helped launch the Beatport News product. Prior to that she helped launch Noisey, VICE’s music channel where she served as Global Activation Manager. Alex is a proud member and Kate Spade Scholarship recipient of NEW INC, New Museum’s art, technology and design incubator–the world’s first museum-lead incubator. In 2015 she was cited as a creative trailblazer in the media industry by Vanity Fair.
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About Nameless Network: Today’s entertainment company for tomorrow’s curious minds.
Arthur Goikhman
Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealVR, Inc
Arthur Goikhman co-founded Surre.al in 2011. He previously co-founded Cellufun, an early leader in the mobile gaming space, which he took from a vision to a company with a run rate of $10 million annual revenue and the top tier of the Inc. 500 Startups list by growing it 2400 percent within three years. Prior to Cellufun, Goikhman co-founded Spiderphone Conferencing and S&G, a boutique Wall Street consultancy whose clients included Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank One, and Prudential. Goikhman has been a frequent speaker at mobile industry conferences and was honored to accept the Best Mobile Game 2008 Award for Cellufun’s Call of the Pharaoh at the World Mobile Congress.
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About SurrealVR, Inc: Surreal Games is an immersive game world where players engage in real-time interactive adventures of their choosing.
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.
Alexei Orlov
Founder and CEO of MTM
With experience spanning 30 years, 40 countries, and 50 brands, Alexei Orlov has made life his business and business his life as a seasoned leader in Global Marketing. A proven specialist in global brand strategy, marketing deployment, and operational change management, Alexei’s passionate and dynamic leadership has been a driving force throughout his career. Alexei Orlov is Founder and Global CEO of mtm choice worldwide, a boutique network of skilled practitioners specialising in high-precision brand activation and media optimisation. mtm choice is a family of wholly owned, highly accomplished specialist agencies whose people are well-rewarded and incentivized to deliver growth and the very dest creative solutions for their clients. Bolstered by market-enabling technologies, mtm agencies seek to help brands excel at the “moments that matter” for their customers and consumers. They put high precision, tech enables creativity at the core of their service offerings. The company initially raised in excess of $30 Million and has completed three acquisitions, which are all highly regarded specialist agencies in the field of Brand / Media Activation. mtm choice is currently in negotiations to complete a further $100 Million of funding to support additional Top Tier acquisitions, and a fourth acquisition will be finalised by the end of February 2019. The upcoming year will certainly be a busy one for Alexei Orlov and mtm choice — six more brands are in various stages of negotiation to be acquired by the company. Prior to mtm, Alexei Orlov served as Senior Advisor to the CEO & Chairman of DAS, an international division of Omnicom Group. Prior to DAS, he served as Global CEO of RAPP where he oversaw a dramatic turnaround, attracting new business and leadership talent through a successful rebranding initiative. As Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Volkswagen Group China, Alexei Orlov was responsible for the overall marketing and brand positioning for the Volkswagen Brands portfolio across Greater China and ASEAN. Alexei was jointly responsible for the commercial excellence of the company’s significant regional business as a core member of Volkswagen’s executive team. Alexei served the digital specialist agency Wunderman for eight years as President (Europe), then as Global COO and finally as Executive Vice-Chairman (Worldwide). He also served as the Global Strategic Lead for WPP’s automotive business, where he co-led agencies including Ogilvy & Mather, Wunderman, Mindshare, Y&R and JWT on their work for Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda, and Volvo. Before joining Wunderman, Alexei Orlov owned and ran ROCQM and MCW, specialists in brand strategy and commercial recovery. After selling the company to WPP, the company became one of the key cornerstones of what later became RMG Connect, a global strategy service within the WPP portfolio. Prior, Alexei was Global Brand Communications Director for Volvo Cars and Marketing Director of Volvo UK, at the time the second-largest national sales company for the Volvo Corporation. Alexei was the youngest executive to be appointed to a director position at Avon, where he served as Marketing Director of Avon Cosmetics Retail (Europe). At the beginning of his career he was a founding member of the highly-successful Paperchase Retail Group, igniting in him a passion for brand stewardship that carries on to this day. Alexei Orlov has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honors. In 2012 and 2013, Alexei was awarded CMO of the Year / ASEAN by the World Brand Congress. In 2013, Alexei and his team at Proximity received a Cannes Gold Lion Award for their work creating the People’s Car Project, the largest automotive social media platform with 28 million users and 108 million YouKu followers. Alexei was also invited to be one of the top keynote speakers at the highly-acclaimed Global Brand Forum in 2013. Alexei Orlov’s dynamic insight is reflected in his continued ventures, thought leadership, and everyday philosophies. Originally from the United Kingdom, he currently resides in New York City where he spends leisure time with his beloved family, enjoys nature, and writes poetry.
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About MTM: MTM is an independent global network dedicated to creating value between people and brands at the moments that matter.
Chris Henchy
Founder of Funny Or Die
Chris Henchy runs Gary Sanchez Productions, a production company co-founded by comedians Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, which partnered with [Sequoia Capital](/financial-organization/sequoia-capital) to launch [FunnyOrDie.com](/organization/funnyordie). Henchy was involved in the creation of the website and is integral in its ongoing commitment to showcase the best comedy on the web. Henchy has been a writer and producer on such shows as “Entourage”, “Life with Bonnie” and “Spin City”. He also created ABC’s “I’m With Her” and most recently produced a comedy pilot for HBO entitled “East Bound and Down.†He has written the feature film “Land of the Lost” for Will Ferrell and Universal Pictures. In 2010, Henchy wrote and produced “The Other Guys” for Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg and Sony Pictures. Born in New York City, Henchy resides in Los Angeles and New York City, with his wife, actress Brooke Shields, and their two daughters.
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About Funny Or Die, Sequoia Capital: Funny Or Die is a comedy video website that maintains quality user generated content by keeping only the videos with high ratings.
Rashid Galadanci
Co-Founder of Driver Technologies
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About Driver Technologies: Driver is a hardware-free mobile app that allows users to video record their trip while receiving safety alerts.
Michael Yatco
Co-Founder of Driver Technologies
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About Driver Technologies: Driver is a hardware-free mobile app that allows users to video record their trip while receiving safety alerts.
Mary Spio
Founder, Chief Visionary & Product Architect of CEEK
Mary Spio is a Founder, Chief Visionary & Product Architect at CEEK since 2016.
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About CEEK, Ceek VR: CEEK is a mobile VR App for connecting with bands in the ultimate virtual reality experience.
Andrew Horn
Co-Founder and CEO of Tribute
Andrew Horn is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tribute.
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About Tribute: Tribute is a media platform that makes it easy to create a collaborative video montage that can give as a gift on any important occasion.
Will Dean
Co-Founder & CEO of Electric Gamebox
Will Dean is a Co-Founder of Immersive Games Lab and the Founder of Tough Mudder Inc. Dean came up with the idea for a series of a military obstacle course challenges while completing his MBA at the Harvard Business School. Since launching in 2010, Tough Mudder has attracted more than three million participants worldwide and generates annual global revenues in excess of $100m. In 2017, Dean was made MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for his charitable contributions to sport. He chairs the advisory group for the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Bristol University (his undergraduate alma mater). He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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About Electric Gamebox, Tough Mudder: Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team adventures in the world’s smartest room
Mari Joller
Founder & CEO of Snackable AI
Mari Joller is a tech entrepreneur who builds companies that are enabled by artificial intelligence. For the past 4 years, she has been in the trenches driving AI-based startups, observing firsthand the psychology of how people interact with machines and its impact on designing AI-powered products. She is currently Founder at Snackable AI, building a new content discovery engine for the voice-first world. Previously she was Chief Services Officer for Alpha Audiotronics, the makers of Skybuds. Prior to Alpha, Mari founded and led several startups including Scarlet, featuring a new kind of proactive intelligent assistant, and Snazz, a cloud-based software platform powering live events for businesses and brands.
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About Snackable AI: Snackable AI is the content discovery engine for the audio-first world.
Zohar Dayan
CEO & Founder of Wibbitz
CEO & Founder of Wibbitz, the leading automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
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About Wibbitz: Wibbitz is an automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
Ryan Byrne
Co-Founder & CEO of BuzzCast
Ryan Byrne is the Co-Founder and CEO at BuzzCast.
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About BuzzCast, The Buzz Lab: BuzzCast is a virtual events platform that produces large-scale virtual and hybrid events.
Austin Woolridge
Co-Founder / CEO of Players’ Lounge
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About Players’ Lounge: Players’ Lounge is an online platform where gamers can compete for cash.
Zach Dixon
Co-Founder of Players’ Lounge
I am named after my late grandfather, Dave Dixon, a legendary Louisiana sports entrepreneur who believed above all else in the power of people. Show them a vision they can believe in and the sky is the limit. He helped create the New Orleans Saints, the Louisiana Superdome, and United States Football League. My dream is to affect soccer and eSports as my grandfather did football. After receiving a full scholarship to attend Phillips Academy Andover (MA), I received my BA in French Studies from Wesleyan University. I have an immense passion for learning languages, soccer, video games, and experiential marketing. Fluent in French. Self-Taught Intermediate Portuguese, Self-Taught Intermediate Spanish.
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About New York City Football Club, Players’ Lounge: Players’ Lounge is an online platform where gamers can compete for cash.
Chris Danzig
Co-Founder of CameraTag
Media & Tech / Entrepreneur & Investor
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About CameraTag: SaaS Video Platform
Metodi Filipov
Co-Founder of FITE
Seasoned operations manager – 20+ years developing technology solutions. Previously: VP Operations of Cemtrex; Product Manager of Raritan; VP Operations of ISS; Director of Product Development of Intelligent Digital Systems. Several patents and patent applications.Chair of the Computer Society of the IEEE Long Island Section.Education: Technical University of Sofia (MS in Computer Science).
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About Bianor, FITE: FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live sports streaming service for sports and entertainment.
Lauren Foundos
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FORTË
Founder & CEO at FORTË
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About FORTË: FORTË has developed the fitness industry’s only premium live and on-demand, end-to-end digital solution branded and integrated for gyms.
Alex Gould
Co-Founder of ViewX
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About ViewX: ViewX uses AI to unlock the value of video in enterprise
Michael Barnathan
Technical Co-Founder of ViewX
Michael Barnathan leads technology at ViewX, which uses machine learning to understand and recommend premium video content to news organizations. Michael was previously founder of Clipless, which was acquired by 8coupons, as well as a Director of Engineering at Amplify Education, Senior Software Engineer at Google, and founder of The Mountaintop Program, Living Discoveries and Project Polymath. Michael has a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences, specifically machine learning and computer vision applied to medical image diagnosis.
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About ViewX: ViewX uses AI to unlock the value of video in enterprise
Daniel Burke
Co-Founder of ViewX
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About ViewX: ViewX uses AI to unlock the value of video in enterprise
Daniel Burke
Co-Founder of ViewX
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About ViewX: ViewX uses AI to unlock the value of video in enterprise
Gary Gannaway
CEO, Founder & Principal Investor of Worldnow
Worldnow’s CEO Gary is responsible for the day-to-day-operations and leads the company’s product development, technology and revenue strategies. His mission and vision have lead the company to be the #1 CMS/Video/Mobile provider for media management, reaching 91% of US HH. Prior to founding Worldnow in 1998, he was the founder and CEO of Genesis Entertainment where he introduced the Barter concept to off Network Shows. Prior to selling Genesis Entertainment in 1994 to Ronald Perelman’s New World, Genesis Entertainment was the only company in television history to launch 100% of its pilot shows. In 1992, Gary was awarded Merrill Lynch and Ernst & Young’s Entertainment Entrepreneur of the year. Currently Gary sits on the board of the Department of Neurosurgery at John Hopkins University Medical Center. He funded and co-pioneered a new approach for the treatment of head traumas which has now become industry standard in Neuro Critical Care Wards across the country.
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About Worldnow: Worldnow is the only integrated multimedia & monetization platform that unifies WCM, VCM, OTT, Analytics, Advertsing, Mobile & Social.
Albert Marko
Co-Founder and COO, Board Of Directors of Favore Media Group
Albert Marko was a Co-Founder and COO of Favore Media Group, where he managed business operations including business development, human resources, sales, communications, and privacy. Albert Marko is an international operations professional with over 10 years building and managing software and scientific products, with extensive experience leading product development for complex medical software and artificial intelligence programs. Prior to joining Favore Media Group, Albert was COO of Bluwave Software, where he oversaw product development, marketing, strategy, revenue, and business operations. Previously, Albert served as the Director of Business Development and Operations Manager for Vectra Networks and Liquid Light Corporation. Albert is currently a board advisor the Malmgren Strategic Institute and runs his own research firm call Northwest Meridian which caters to governments, political parties and the financial sector.
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About Favore Media Group: Favore Media Group is a media company and publisher network focused on product discovery.
Founder, CEO of ConvertMedia
Yoav Naveh is co-founder & managing director of INT3.
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About ConvertMedia, INT3: ConvertMedia connects publishers and advertisers through a programmatic platform and marketplace that delivers video advertising campaigns.
Christopher Meledandri
Founder & CEO of Illumination Entertainment
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About Illumination Entertainment: Illumination Entertainment is an American animation film production company.
Tiffany Kelly
Founder, CEO of Curastory
Sports, entertainment, and news analytics professional with tangible experience in the industry. Fixing social + cultural issues within sports & entertainment is my passion; machine learning and statistical modeling is my toolkit. Educational background in Sports Management, Statistics, Computer Science, and Deep Learning. Personal interests include modeling for social and cultural issues, startups, empowering athletes, public speaking, and mentoring women and minorities in STEM.
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About Curastory: Curastory allows anyone to shoot and edit high-quality video, monetize shows, and distribute to all of their video channels, 100% free.
Bill Lenahan
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer ,Chairman of Board of OffSite VISION
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About OffSite VISION: OffSite Vision is a developer of fixed and mobile surveillance and motion alarming solutions for property owners.
Brynn Jinnett Putnam
Founder & CEO of MIRROR
Brynn Putnam is the founder and CEO of MIRROR, a fitness technology company poised to revolutionize the way people work out by bringing the boutique studio experience in-home. For more than a decade, Brynn has been well-regarded as a pioneer of the fitness industry. She started her career as a professional ballet dancer for the New York City Ballet, spending years training to peak performance while also working in some of New York City’s top gyms and boutique fitness studios. In 2010, Brynn took her learnings from elite trainers and physiologists across the nation and founded Refine Method, the acclaimed fitness studio dubbed “Best New Workout” by New York magazine. Now, Brynn is applying her deep expertise in fitness, both as an entrepreneur with a proven track record and an accomplished athlete, to transform the fitness industry again. Brynn graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Russian Literature and Culture and is based in New York City.
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About MIRROR, Refine Method: Mirror is a connected fitness system that streams live and on-demand classes to users in-home through a sleek responsive display.
Prashanth Pappu
Founder of Vizbee
Prashanth Pappu is the Founder at Vizbee.
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About Vizbee: Vizbee is a streaming video startup that focuses on cross-platform casting and data.
Caroline Strzalka
CEO and Co-Founder of It’s By U
Entrepreneur, Co-Founder
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About It’s By U, Overplay, Overplay: It’s By U is a do-it-yourself arrangement kit with farm-fresh blooms, by subscription.
John West
Founder & CEO of Whistle
John West, the founder, chairman & CEO of Whistle Sports, is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience launching and building companies. In 1989, West started Enstrat, an environmental services company, which was sold seven years later. In 1996, West joined Mitchell Madison Group, a management consulting firm, and was subsequently elected partner. In 1999, he founded and became chairman of Silver Oak Solutions, a financial software and advisory company that was acquired by CGI, a publicly traded IT outsourcing company, in 2005. In 2008, he formed Whistle to provide young sports fans with engaging content across social media platforms. West holds a BS in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About Whistle, Whistle: Whistle is a global sports and entertainment company that creates, curates, and distributes positive brand safe original content.
Steve Gottlieb
Founder and CEO of Shindig
Serial Entrepreneur and angel investor Steve Gottlieb is the Founder and CEO of Shindig, a patented new video chat technology that enables large-scale interactive events. Shindig participants can see and be seen by one another in a shared environment accommodating thousands. They can move freely in and out of conversations with whomever they chose, and at the same time enjoy a talk, presentation or interview with their favorite author, artist, speaker or personality. Participants can also be called on to share the stage with presenters to ask them questions “face-to-face” in front of the entire gathering. Still in Beta, hundreds of prominent hosts (including Hugh Howey, Michael Pollan, TEDx, Big Daddy Kane, David Houle, and Guy Kawasaki) have already embraced Shindig for their online events. With Shindig, Gottlieb aims to redefine the state of the art of online engagement in a multitude of verticals from online promotional events, conferences, nightclubs, business meetings, games and distance learning. Prior to Shindig, Gottlieb was the founder of TVT Records, one of the largest and most successful independent record labels in US history. Over the course of its 25 year history the label released over 25 Gold, Platinum and Multi Platinum albums. Gottlieb discovered and spearheaded the careers of such artists as Nine Inch Nails, Ja Rule, Lil Jon, Pitbull, Sevendust, Brian Jonestown Massacre and KMFDM among many others. Significant releases on the label also included the Televisions Greatest Hits series, Snoop Dogg and Tha Eastsidaz, XTC, Ambulance LTD, Guided by Voices, Modern English, Jusk Jack, Default, The Connells, Underworld, Gil Scott Heron, Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes and a large number of well known movie and TV soundtracks. Gottlieb has been recognized as a pioneer in digital exploitation of music. He appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Digital Music Rights and has been a pioneering dealmaker providing hit content to many music startups initially denied access to music from the Majors. Under Gottlieb’s leadership TVT was the first label to make its repertoire freely available for download in 2000. TVT was also the first label to settle with Napster and authorize their distribution of TVT copyrights. TVT was one of the first labels to authorize subscription services Rhapsody, emusic and others. Gottlieb was a founding member of A2IM the association of American Independent labels. Gottlieb served on the Board of Directors of MusicMatch. Gottlieb has invested and advised many companies over the years and is currently an investor and advisor to Tune Up Media.
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About Shindig: Shindig is a platform for large scale, participatory virtual events.
Musa Kara
CEO & Co-Founder of Zuuks
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About Zuuks: Zuuks Games was established in 2014 working on games development.
Joshua Cohen
Founder & COO of Tubefilter
Joshua began his career in television, producing documentaries for A&E Television Networks and the Discovery Channel. In April 2007, he co-founded Tilzy.TV, one of the first media outlets dedicated to providing news and reviews for original, online video programming and web series. Joshua is also a co-founder of the Streamy Awards, which is being produced in partnership with dick clark productions.
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About Streamy Awards, Tubefilter: Tubefilter produces a variety of web television content for the online entertainment industry.
Jon Ehrlich
Founder of Qwire
Jon is a founder and one of the original creators of Qwire. He is a three time Emmy nominated composer, having scored over 600 episodes of television. His credits include: Parenthood (NBC), About a Boy (NBC), House, M.D. (FOX), White Collar (USA), Life (NBC), Invasion (ABC), Conviction (NBC), The Guardian (CBS), The Agency (CBS), Roar (FOX), and Party of Five (FOX). Jon has a B.A. in Music from Yale University.
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About Qwire: Qwire creates collaborative solutions for music clearance, licensing music, and cue sheet reporting, for media companies.
Scott Freiman
CEO & Co-Founder of Qwire
Scott is a senior executive and technology entrepreneur with a background in music, technology, and finance. His previous company, Credit Management Solutions (CMSI), revolutionized the automobile financing industry by creating the first nationwide network connecting automobile dealers to financial institutions. Scott developed CMSI’s initial product, and he received several patents for his software design. He spearheaded the company’s rapid growth and led the company to a successful IPO and eventual sale. Since selling CMSI, Scott has been involved in the music industry for over ten years working directly with artists and music publishers, as well as film and television producers. Scott has a B.S. in Computer Science and Music from Yale University and a M.A. in Music Composition from New York University.
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About Qwire: Qwire creates collaborative solutions for music clearance, licensing music, and cue sheet reporting, for media companies.
Gavin Silver
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Allstar
Gavin Silver is the Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Allstar.
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About Allstar: Allstar develops technology that enables gamers to effortlessly capture, personalize, and share their greatest gaming moments.
Christopher Smith
Founder & CEO of Stitch Video
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About Stitch Video: Stitch is a programmatic multi-device video advertising platform for premium publishers and brand advertisers.
Danielle Li
CEO and Founder of Popshop Live
Danielle Li is a founder and CEO of Popshop Live.
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About Popshop Live: Popshop Live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where talented individuals can create and host their own shopping channel.
