Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Small and Medium Businesses space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jeff Seibert
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Digits
As Senior Director of Product at Twitter, Jeff has led the company’s consumer, developer, and publisher facing products, including Twitter for iOS, Android, and the Web, Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, Twitter Kit, TweetDeck, Twitter’s Publisher Platform, and Gnip. Previously, Seibert was Twitter’s Director of Developer Platform where he led Fabric, the company’s suite of mobile developer tools, as well as its enterprise Data Platform and Content Syndication efforts. Seibert was the co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics, an award-winning crash analysis service for iOS and Android apps. Crashlytics was acquired by Twitter in 2013 and has become an essential piece of the mobile developer toolchain – today powering over a million apps across well over two billion devices worldwide. Seibert co-founded Increo in 2007 and served as its COO and lead architect until its acquisition by Box in 2009. He subsequently oversaw the integration of Increo’s document preview and annotation technologies into Box’s cloud content platform. Seibert gained experience at Apple in both marketing and engineering capacities and led Stanford University’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series as Co-Coordinator. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008. Seibert is a frequent presenter on both entrepreneurship and technical topics and has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, as well as keynoted Twitter Flight, AppsWorld, AnDevCon, EclipseCon, and others. Find him on Twitter at @JeffSeibert.
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About Digits: Digits is building financial technology so powerful.. you’ll think they stole it from the future
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Nitesh Banta
Co-Founder & CEO of B12
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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About B12, Getaround, Rough Draft Ventures, Stellar Capital: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
Brad Birnbaum
CEO & Founder of Kustomer
Brad is an innovator and a trailblazer in creating disruptive enterprise technologies. He has spent more than 20 years as a C level executive and a serial entrepreneur, building companies and solutions for customer service and support. Mission driven and passionate, he believes in leading with purpose and building solutions that solve real world problems. As co-founder and CEO of Kustomer, Brad set out together with Jeremy Suriel and the Kustomer team to build something the world desperately needs: a modern, customer-centric platform for building applications while modernizing the customer support tool landscape. Before founding Kustomer, Brad co-founded Assistly which was acquired by Salesforce and rebranded as Desk.com; making it the Salesforce SaaS SMB support solution. Brad began his career by founding eShare Communications while in college. As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development at eShare Technologies, he took part in revolutionizing community chat and launching the first chat tool used for customer support. eShare was later sold to Melita International where he continued his role as CTO for the larger entity which rebranded as eShare Communications. Brad held executive roles at Divine Interventures, eAssist and Talisma all the while focusing on improving customer support for enterprise companies. Additionally, Brad lead the community chat team at AOL and was CTO for Airtime. Brad contributes regularly to Forbes where he writes about trends that affect the customer service industry today. As a born and raised New Yorker, Brad insists on building the next great NYC based tech startup. Brad serves as Kustomer’s Chairman of the Board. Birnbaum served as a Justice Louis Brandeis Scholar at Brandeis University and a Simon’s fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he conducted advanced organo-metallic research in chemistry. Birnbaum has been published in a variety of publications and has also served as a technical editor for some of Macmillan’s best-selling Java and Internet books. Birnbaum holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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About CRMXchange, Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Lloyd Armbrust
Chief Executive Officer of OwnLocal
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About Armbrust American, OwnLocal: OwnLocal offers a platform that automatically transforms data and offline advertisements into multichannel online marketing campaigns.
Anthony Tassone
CEO and Founder of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Nader Shwayhat
CEO of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Jorge Sun
CEO & Co-Founder of LendingFront
Founding team member and Chief Credit Officer for OnDeck. Most recently, Head of Small Business Credit at Capital One Bank.
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About GATHER & SAVE, LendingFront: Small business lending software platform for banks and other financial institutions
Omri Mor
CEO and Co-Founder of Routable
Omri founded ZIIBRA in 2011 with the goal of helping artists turn their creative projects into full-time gigs. He has become renowned for his email-slaying skills and tireless attention to design and product. When he’s not in the office, you can find him picking up a new record to listen to, eating copious amounts of sushi, or cheering for his alma mater, the University of Washington.
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About Routable: Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments.
John Jacobs
CEO & Founder of ArtFire
John Jacobs is the Chief Executive Officer & President & Founder of ArtFire.com . John keeps everyone here at Art Fire on track and motivated. He’s the one who started the idea for a free online marketplace. John runs other companies and grew up in a crafty household watching his mom try to create a successful business with her own designs. He has an MBA in international business, and has always been a strong supporter of the arts.
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About ArtFire, Magnitude Media, MenoLabs: ArtFire is an online marketplace for handmade products, designed by artisans worldwide, with no listings or final value fees.
Eugen Cozonac
Founder and CEO of Firstly, Inc.
Founder and CEO of Firstly, Inc..
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About Firstly, Inc., Optivus Ventures: Firstly enables users to create and share step-by-step guides for personal and work processes.
Moshe Bar
Chairman, CEO of CodeNotary
Moshe Bar is a general partner of Texas Atlantic Capital. Previously, he was a co-founder of Qumranet, sold to Red Hat. He previously co-founded software company XenSource which was sold to Citrix. Moshe has frequently acted as a private angel investor in leading high- tech companies. He is the author of several text books in computer science and also taught computer science at Tel Aviv University. Before entering the high‐tech business, he was a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously a board member/advisor of Hyper9 (sold to Solarwinds), of Qlayer (sold to Sun Microsystems), Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK), Zooppa, and of Zimory. Moshe is at this time a board member/advisory board member of tape.tv, Correlsense, GreenSQL, H-Farm, Amplidata, Racktivity, Neebula, and Squido GmbH.
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About CodeNotary, vChain: CodeNotary is a software company based on Taxes.
Mike Shim
Founder & CEO of True North Cos.
True North Cos. is a private investment and advisory firm building valuable, enduring businesses in technology, financial services and consumer products. Founded in 2012 by Mike Shim, a corporate/M&A lawyer-turned tech executive, entrepreneur and venture investor based in Silicon Valley, True North Cos. works with world-beating leaders at startups and Fortune 500 companies alike to build more purposeful companies. Purposeful companies share a common mission of improving the world through business, while delivering superior long-term returns to their employees, investors and the communities they serve.
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About DigiSure, Nextury Ventures, True North Cos.: Building companies with purpose.
Karen Herman
Founder & CEO of Gustie
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About Gustie: Gustie creates disruptive retail products, services, and solutions for brands and businesses
John Fanning
Founding Chairman & CEO of Netcapital
John Fanning is the Founding Chairman & CEO at NetCapital .
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About Napster, Netcapital: Netcapital enables investors to invest in entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital using technology.
Jason Frishman
Founder & CEO of Netcapital
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About Netcapital: Netcapital enables investors to invest in entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital using technology.
Guy Goldstein
CEO and Co-Founder of Next Insurance
Guy Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Next Insurance. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Pageonce, and member of the company’s Board of Directors, brings nearly two decades of management, strategy and product development experience to his role as CEO. Since founding Pageonce in 2007, Guy has raised $10 million in venture capital funding and grown its membership from zero to more than four million. He has a proven track record in corporate development, mergers and acquisitions and as research and development leader. At Hewlett-Packard, Guy led inorganic growth expansion acquisitions to develop HP’s Business Intelligence strategy. During his seven year tenure at Mercury Interactive (later acquired by Hewlett-Packard) Guy helped establish the company-wide inorganic growth roadmap and strategic planning process, resulting in three acquisitions and $200 million in revenue. He was a key member of the executive team that developed the business plan for Mercury Interactive’s $5 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. As Senior Director of Mercury Interactive’s R&D division, Guy managed an international team of engineers and QA that built products generating $350 million in sales. Early in his life Guy was handpicked for an elite group of candidates to train for the Israeli Air Force based on his record-level test scores and technical aptitude. He excelled and rose to the top military rank of major and fighter pilot in one of world’s most respected air force programs. Ever the prolific innovator, he holds two patents. Guy graduated cum laude from Tel-Aviv University with a bachelor’s degree in Business and Computer Science.
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About Mint Bills, Next Insurance: Next Insurance is an online-based insurance company for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Vilash Poovala
CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster
Vilash Poovala has over 19 years of product management and business development experience (mobile, e-commerce, financial services and payments). He has joined Allegro as Chief Product & Technology Officer of Allegro EMEA in January 2017. As a member of the leadership team he focus on the successful execution of Allegro’s strategic Objectives by Establishing the company’s tech and product vision, steering the product roadmap and leading all aspects of the company’s technology development. Vilash has served as an adviser and / or developer for several payments / commerce startups; most notably, they Of These startups, PlayerScale, was acquired by Yahoo in May 2013. His fascination and passion for payments was first sparked while building cutting edge products to ease wallet online checkout payments at his first startup, Globeset which was acqui-hired to Visa in 2000. Most recently, Vilash was the co-founder and CTO of Clip, and mobile POS provider in LATAM. In addition this being the CTO, he helped raise $ 40M in multiple rounds of funding. Prior joining this clip, Vilash was the Sr. Director of Products for Consumer and Merchant Acceptance at V.me by Visa. He successfully launched V.me wallet and checkout across the top 33 of the US e-tailers. Vilash also worked at PayPal where he focused on rolling out new markets and products like PayPal debit card and Transactional Credit.
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About Infinitec Solutions GmbH, Oyster: Oyster is a provider of digital financial services intended for freelancers, startups, and SME’s.
Ty Crandall
CEO of Credit Suite
With over 16 years of financial experience Ty has become the authority in business credit business credit building, business credit scoring, and business credit repair. Ty began his career in finance brokering mortgage loans as he started his own mortgage company that brokered over 100 million in loans in its first year. While building his mortgage company Ty noticed that many loan applicants desperately needed help with improving their credit files. He started a credit repair company to answer this need and help more of his clients qualify for loans. That small credit company exploded with growth to become one of the most reputable credit repair firms in the Southeast United States. After adding business credit services and further growing the business Ty accepted an offer to sell the credit company in 2012. Today Ty is one of only a few credit repair business owners in the United States to successfully build a credit repair company from the ground up and sell it for a profit. Ty serves as the Director of Business Credit Services at DisputeSuite. In his first year alone he helped hundreds of clients start offering business credit and funding to their clients. He has overseen the business credit building for thousands of clients and has been crucial to growing the most credible business coaching operation in the United States. With DisputeSuite Ty consults with and advises some of the largest finance companies and lenders in the nation on business credit building and scoring.
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About Credit Suite: Credit Suite helps businesses get capital by improving fundability, building business credit, and getting loans & credit lines
Suresh Sambandam
Founder & CEO of Kissflow
Suresh Sambandam is the CEO of Kissflow, the first unified digital workplace for organizations to manage all of their work on a single, unified platform. Kissflow is used by over 10,000 customers across 160 countries, including more than fifty Fortune 500 companies. Suresh is an expert and renowned entrepreneur on a mission to democratize cutting-edge technologies and help enterprises seamlessly orchestrate their work through an intuitive blend of collaboration, coordination and control. He has three US patents to his credit.
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About Kissflow, OrangeScape: Kissflow is a leading SaaS software provider in the work management space.
Ben Wright
Founder & CEO of Velocity Global
Ben Wright is the Founder & CEO at Velocity Global, LLC.
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About Velocity Global: Velocity Global is a global employment solutions provider that has reinvented the way companies expand overseas.
Ali Sabeti
CEO of ZeroCater
As Chief Executive Officer, Ali is responsible for scaling and expanding ZeroCater nationally to achieve the company’s vision of becoming the #1 food company serving the workforce. He is focused on building and enabling a world class executive team to lead the company to the next stage of growth and profitability. ZeroCater has a unique opportunity to disrupt a $202B+ industry, and Ali is excited to lead the company’s operational and financial health in capitalizing on that opportunity. Over his career Ali has held a variety of roles and led functions across operations, sales, marketing, product, and finance. He has built and led global teams across companies of all stages from startups to the Fortune 500. Ali is a California native and graduated from the University of California Irvine with a degree in Economics and Accounting.
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About ZeroCater: ZeroCater is a provider of office meals and snacks, bringing employees together to build culture and foster community.
Gilles Gade
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of Cross River Bank
Gilles Gade is a founder of Cross River Bank (CRB) and has served as its Chairman, President and CEO since its inception in 2008. Gilles is steering CRB as an innovation-driven state-chartered bank and a provider of fully compliant financial solutions to the marketplace lending and payments sectors. Gilles possesses over 20 years of experience in investment banking and venture capital including Co-Founder and Managing Director of Chela Technology Partners and Chela Internet Ventures, a boutique investment bank and venture fund focusing on emerging technologies and telecommunications; technology investment banker at Barclays Capital; and FIG investment banker at Bear Stearns. Gilles started his career in 1990 at Citicorp Venture Capital. Gade graduated from the MBA Institute IMIP (Groupe IPESUP) in Paris with an MS in International Management.
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About Cross River Bank: Cross River is a financial institution that offers technology and banking services to consumers and businesses.
Ruslan Fazlyev
Founder and CEO of Ecwid
Ruslan Fazlyev is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ecwid.
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About Ecwid, Qualiteam Software: Ecwid is a software-as-a-service e-commerce company that provides online selling solutions for small businesses.
Anthony Oduu
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Verto
Anthony Oduu is the co-founder and co-CEO at VertoFX.
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About Verto: We power cross‑border payments for the world’s fastest‑growing startups and enterprises.
Dhanush Balachandran
Founder & CEO of Sortly
Founder, Sortly • Former: Marketing @Intel , iOS apps lead @Jiff • Self taught coding • Reinventing people’s relationship with physical stuff through technology
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About Sortly: Sortly is the leading “mobile centric” inventory platform that is simplifying how businesses and consumers keep track of their stuff.
Anatoly Chubais
CEO & Founder of RUSNANO
Anatoly Chubais is the CEO & Founder of RUSNANO.
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About RUSNANO: Rusnano is a joint-stock company aimed at commercializing developments in the nanotechnology industry.
Jared Hecht
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fundera
Jared Hecht is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Fundera, an online marketplace that matches small business owners to the best possible lender. He started Fundera after his cousin experienced the frustration and lack of transparency of applying for a small business loan. Previously, Jared co-founded GroupMe, a group messaging service that in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011. Prior to GroupMe, he led Business Development at Tumblr where he focused on international expansion and strategic partnerships. Jared currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Entrepreneurship Organization and is an investor and advisor to startups such as Codecademy, SmartThings, and TransferWise. Jared received his BA in Political Science from Columbia University where he served as the publisher and managing director of Inside New York.
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About Fundera: Fundera is a marketplace for small business financial solutions.
Marco Boerries
CEO and Founder of Enfore
Marco Boerries is a German entrepreneur with a passion for making ideas work. Inspired by a Silicon Valley school exchange back in 1984, he founded his first company Star Division, as a 16-year-old in 1985. The company created the popular office suite StarOffice and later OpenOffice.org. Marco sold Star Division to Sun Microsystems in 1999 and stayed on as Vice President of Desktop & Webtop Software until 2001. In parallel to Star Division he started his second company Star Finanz as a joint-venture with the Deutsche Sparkassen Organisation in 1996, to re-invent online banking with StarMoney – that became the leading product in Germany. Marco sold his share in StarFinanz to his joint venture partners in 2001. After leaving Sun Microsystems and selling Star Finanz, Marco started his third company Verdisoft in the summer of 2001 based in Palo Alto, California and Hamburg, Germany. At Verdisoft Marco and his team developed the Connected Life platform for connected devices like computers, smart phones and connected TV’s. Starting in 2003 Verdisoft was able to showcase solutions on the ConnectedLife platform, that resemble what we know from services like iCloud today. Marco sold Verdisoft to Yahoo in early 2005 and stayed on to lead the ConnectedLife division until early 2009 – driving Yahoo’s Broadband, Mobile and TV efforts, globally. Returning back to Germany in 2009 Marco started his fourth company NumberFour in Berlin to re-imagine the way small businesses are run, and later established offices in Hamburg, Germany and Palo Alto, California. Together with his team he is working extremely hard to develop and design a business platform to fulfill NumberFour’s Mission “Helping 200 Million+ Run Their Business”. Marco Quote: I deeply care about enabling small businesses to become more competitive and successful. Having started four businesses myself, I know how hard and rewarding it can be at the same time. Small is beautiful!
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About Enfore: Enfore is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile apps for smartphones, tablets and personal computers.
Yasin Abbak
CEO / Founder of The Convoy
Yasin Abbak is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Convoy, a B2B group buying marketplace that helps small and independent businesses access big savings and cut their business expenses. Past: CEO / Founder @FantasyLifeApp (exit), VP @JPMorgan, EFS Director @MorganStanley
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About The Convoy: The Convoy is a B2B Marketplace pooling the buying power of small & independently owned businesses to reduce business expenses.
Denis Goriainov
Founder & CEO of Estereum
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About CoinCentre, Estereum, IVENGA: Estereum is a crypto startup that is creating a new direction in blockchain commerce for small and medium businesses in a legal framework.
John Swigart
Co-Founder and CEO of Pie Insurance
John is the CEO and Co-founder of Pie Insurance.
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About Pie Insurance: Pie Insurance is a leading tech-enabled provider of workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses.
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.
Alex Minicucci
Founder / CEO of RELENTLESS Management Group
Alex Minicucci is the Founder / CEO at Relentless Management Group Mr. Minicucci carries a passion for innovation with the ability to execute. Battle-tested and proven to know how to build a viable model, assemble a great team and achieve success. His specialties include Mobile marketing strategies & technology, Business plan development & forecasting, Sales automation & conversion, Customer retention strategies, Web application development, and Public company experience. Accolades – Top 20 under 40, Top 30 under 30, INC5000 Fastest Growing Companies (#731), Featured in SUCCESS Magazine, Deloitte’s Fastest Growing Companies 2016 (#185).
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About RELENTLESS Management Group, The Restaurant Heroes: Private equity investors and SaaS accelerator
Neeraj Shah
CEO of supplier.io
Neeraj Shah is the CEO at supplier.io
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About CVM Solutions, supplier.io: Supplier data and analytics to power supply chain solutions.
Oleg Campbell
CEO and Founder of Reply.io
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About Reply.io: Reply is the leading AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates multichannel touchpoints throughout the sales process.
Irv Henderson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Talech
Irv is the CEO and co-founder of talech. Irv brings his passion for the “small data opportunity” to talech having successfully held product leadership positions at Yahoo! mobile and Obopay, a payments startup. Irv is originally from Belize and is an identical twin.
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About Talech: Talech is a POS system that provides merchants with analytics and insights.
Saujin Yi
CEO and Founder of Liquid
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About 79 Studios, Liquid: Liquid is a global vendor and freelancer payments platform providing agile SMBs consolidated payments, automation and business controls.
John Graham Cvinar
CEO of BPOSeats.com
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About BPOSeats.com: BPOSeats.com allows business to run BPO and call-center solutions with video-centric facility, recruitment, and payroll solutions.
Raja Jindal
CEO of barkback
Raja founder, an MIT Electrical Engineering graduate and currently on leave from UCSB, founded a company called Jentryx two and a half years ago. Their product/service is called “bioiq“, which provides quantitative analysis for one’s health status. His idea was inspired by a family tragedy – a sudden death of his father. Recognizing that many important items in life, such as the total assets you have, how many friends you have in your network, can be precisely quantified but not one’s health status, he started a service that uses some dedicated test kits for examining one’s health status.
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About barkback: Barkback’s SaaS platform enables business owners to gain new insights in their operations and customer relations.
Julian Rodriguez
Founder & CEO of Bazaar
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About Bazaar: Bazaar is New York City’s largest online B2B food service distributor.
Eric Groves
CEO & Co-Founder of Alignable
Co-Founder & CEO at Alignable & Board of Directors at More Than Words (MTW).
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About Alignable, Constant Contact: Alignable is a social network where small business owners gather to connect, collaborate, and succeed together.
Rohit Arora
CEO & Co-Founder of Biz2Credit
Rohit Arora is the co-founder and CEO of Biz2Credit. He is known for his immense expertise in the field of small business finance. Under his tutelage, Biz2Credit has witnessed a stupendous growth since its inception. Rohit Arora was named Crain’s NY Business “Entrepreneur of the Year 2011.” due to his pioneering business model and entrepreneurial vision. His expert opinions on small business lending have been covered by major news media that include New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, American Banker, CNNMoney, MSNBC, Inc., and Washington Post. Besides, he is a frequent guest speaker for small business lending seminars and conferences. Rohit’s columns are published on SMB finance for FOX Small Business Center, SmallBizTrends, Franchise Handbook, NewJerseyNewsroom and New York Enterprise Report, just to name a few.
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About Biz2Credit: Biz2Credit is a digital-first provider of small business funding and offers its Biz2X Platform to help financial institutions manage risk.
Cathrine W. Andersen
Co-Founder, CEO of Corpay One
Cathrine Andersen is the co-founder and CEO at Roger.
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About Corpay One: Corpay One is a leading company card and bill pay solution for small-and-medium-sized businesses.
Andrew Bertolina
CEO & Co-Founder of Finvoice
Founder at Finvoice
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About Finvoice: Finvoice offers cloud-based software to help financial institutions grow sales and comply with regulations.
Sharon Rowlands
Chief Executive Officer of ReachLocal
Sharon Rowlands has been a Director of Pega since April 2016. Rowlands was named CEO of ReachLocal, an internet-based provider of advertising and marketing services, in April 2014. Rowlands has more than 20 years’ experience leading complex, multi-billion dollar business services and software companies serving enterprise customers. From 2011 to 2013, she was CEO of Altegrity, which she transformed from a holding company into three independent business units, each with its own growth strategy. From 2008 to 2011 Rowlands was CEO of Penton Media, and prior to that she was with Thomson Financial. During her more than ten-year tenure at Thomson, she held a variety of executive-level positions, including President and CEO from 2005 to 2008 and established the company as one of the most innovative partners to the global financial community. Previously, Rowlands held executive leadership roles at Financial Times Information (now Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc.). She was previously a Member of the Board of Directors of Constant Contact (Nasdaq: CTCT) and served on the Board of Directors for Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADP) from 2008 to 2011. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Local Search Association, the largest trade organization of companies engaged in local advertising and marketing. Rowlands received her Postgraduate Certificate of Education from Goldsmiths, University of London and her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Newcastle, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
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About Newfold Digital, ReachLocal: ReachLocal provides online marketing solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Dan Johnston
Co-Founder & CEO of WorkStep
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About WorkStep: WorkStep helps industrial companies hire and retain their hourly workforce.
Clate Mask
CEO of Keap
As CEO of Infusionsoft, Clate leads the company’s vision, strategy and growth. His entrepreneurial spirit sparked early in his career and evolved into the software industry while he was at About.com. From there, Clate co-founded Infusionsoft with brothers Scott and Eric Martineau as a way to give small businesses a leg up with smart marketing automation tools designed just for them. His passion for helping small businesses grow is the driving force behind the company’s success.
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About Keap: Keap helps small businesses get organized to deliver services and close more business.
Michael A Butler
Chief Executive Officer & President of Radius Bank
Since joining Radius Bank in March 2008, Mr. Butler has transformed the Bank into an innovative leader in the financial services industry, one focused on delivering superior customer service and leading-edge technology to its clients. He is an experienced banking executive with an extensive background in all facets of commercial and consumer banking. Prior to joining the Bank, Mike served as President, National Consumer Finance at KeyCorp in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a graduate of Providence College and the ABA’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking. Mike serves as a member of the Financial Services Committee for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, on the Board of Trustees for Thompson Island Outward Bound, and has been active with the Habitat for Humanity program. He was recently recognized as an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® New England 2016 Finalist.
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About Grasshopper Bank, Radius Bank: Radius Bank is a forward-thinking community bank offering a full complement of convenient, leading-edge personal and business products.
Albert Roberson
Chief Executive Officer of Clerksy HR
Albert Roberson is an entrepreneur and investor | Alumnus of WUSTL in St Louis | Minimalist | Lover of Product | Colombian Coffee & Travel. Albert works to accelerate innovation by developing access focused companies.
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About Chapman University, Clerksy HR: Clerksy is an HR-tech company based in California. We‘re focused on building people operations tools for everyday companies.
Doug Devlin
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zuman
Founder of Zuman.
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About tabulera, Zuman: Zuman provides the premium solution for HR, payroll, and benefits administration.
Sharon Kan
CEO and Co-Founder of Pepperlane
Sharon’s mission is to unleash the creativity and imagination of children by giving them an environment to design and share their original creations online and in print. With this goal in mind, she co-founded Tikatok.com, the first online book community that empowers children to use their imagination to write, illustrate, and publish their own books and read other books created by children from around the world. Tikatok has been embraced by parents and educators as a creative platform to inspire self-expression in children. Children all over the world have created books using Tikatok’s Web 2.0 platform, while teachers are using it in the classroom as part of their creative writing curriculum. Recognized by the online community for its innovativeness in inspiring children and creating a safe community for children to interact, Tikatok.com received the 2010 Parents’ Choice Approved Award and 2010 Moms Gold Award. Before Sharon co-founded Tikatok she was CEO of Zoomix, a data management solution provider that was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 (Nasdaq: MSFT). Prior, Sharon was President North America (NA) of c-Ark, a PLM (product lifecycle management) company. c-Ark was acquired by SSA (now Infor). Prior to c-Ark, Ms. Kan spent 5 years with Demantra Inc., a leading global provider of SCM (supply chain management) and established its activity in NA. Demantra was acquired by Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) in 2006. Sharon is a mentor at The MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS). VMS is an organization formed to support entrepreneurial activity throughout the MIT community by matching prospective entrepreneurs with skilled mentors. Sharon is on the advisory board of Entrepreneurship Program at Simmons College School of Management. Sharon has been a speaker at conferences and educational institutions on the subjects of entrepreneurship, innovation, core values and leadership. Sharon holds an Executive MBA from the University of Bradford in the UK, a BA degree in Business from the College of Management in Israel, and is a graduate of the French Culture program of the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
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About Pepperlane: Pepperlane is a community of mothers building businesses on their own terms.
Doug W. Naidus
Founder and CEO of World Business Lenders
Founder & CEO of World Business Lenders (WBL), an SME financing company based in Jersey City, NJ., as well as Vice Chairman of the Hispanic Chamber Fund and the African American Chamber Fund. Mr. Naidus has successfully executed and managed business activities on five continents, including high-profile transactions in the United States, Colombia and Saudi Arabia. Doug Naidus has a track record of more than 28 years of business-building and financial industry success. In 1988, Mr. Naidus founded IPI FINANCIAL, a start-up mortgage broker in New York, which later acquired Skyscraper Mortgage in 1998 to become the largest mortgage originator in New York state. In 1999, Mr. Naidus sold IPI Skyscraper for $18 million in a private transaction. In 1999, Mr. Naidus founded MORTGAGEIT, a residential mortgage lender. Between 1999 and 2004, Mr. Naidus grew MortgageIT to become the second largest independent mortgage lender in the United States. MortgageIT conducted a successful 270 million IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2006, with over 3,200 employees in 58 branch offices, MortgageIT funded over 33 billion in loans. In 2006, Mr. Naidus sold MortgageIT to DEUTSCHE BANK for $430 million plus additional consideration and then remained with Deutsche Bank for more than four years as a senior executive running its global residential real estate lending and related trading businesses. In 2009, Mr. Naidus led Deutsche Bank into an agreement to establish a Shari’a compliant home financing company in Saudi Arabia under the name of DEUTSCHE GULF FINANCE. In 2011, Mr. Naidus founded and capitalized WORLD BUSINESS LENDERS as its sole shareholder and funded its first loan in August 2011.
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About World Business Lenders: World Business Lenders provides capital to small businesses.
Darren Bounds
Founder & CEO of Breezy HR
Darren Bounds is Founder & CEO of Breezy HR.
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About Breezy HR: Breezy HR modernizes your hiring process with end-to-end recruiting software built to scale for every-sized team.
Lev Barinskiy
CEO & Co-Founder of Contactability
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About Contactability, Cyber Technology, InsuranceAgents.com, Lob, SmartFinancial: Lead Management and Marketing Automation
Brian Litvack
CEO & Co-Founder of LeagueApps
Brian manages the LeagueApps team and works closely with product, marketing, acquisition and account management. Most importantly he orders pizza and/or trophies to mark company milestones. Brian has been a digital sports junky his whole career and previously worked in business development roles at CBS Sports, College Sports Television and the Official College Sports Network.
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About LeagueApps: LeagueApps is the operating system and professional community for the most enterprising youth and local sports organizers.
Garrett Dodge
Co-Founder, CEO of Rockbot
Garrett is the Co-Founder and CEO Rockbot. As such, he is responsible for all marketing, business development, and operational activities for the company.
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About Rockbot: Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app and digital signage applications.
John Waldmann
Founder, CEO of Homebase
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About Homebase: Homebase helps its users to track and schedule hours.
Andrey Morozov
Founder & CEO of Payment.Ninja
Founder at Payment.Ninja.
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About CardQL, FinHub Global, Payment.Ninja: Payment.Ninja is an online payment gateway that accepts Visa and MasterCard.
Haitham Al-Beik
Founder, CEO of Wings
Rider. Oberserver. Influencer.
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About Wings: Wings produces autonomous businesses with people-first in mind and purpose-built robotics.
Dean Mansfield
President & CEO of Systum
Dean Mansfield, President of Worldwide Field Operations, has spent more than 15 years in the software industry working in global sales and executive leadership roles. In his role, Dean leads Emailvision’s sales, partner and field marketing organization. From 2004-2009, Dean served as President of WW Sales and Distribution at NetSuite Inc. Under Dean’s leadership, revenues grew over twenty fold. Prior to NetSuite, Dean was the VP WW Sales Operations at Brocade Communications, VP of Asia Pacific at Plumtree Software, and SVP WW Sales at McAfee/Network Associates. Most recently, Dean was the President and CEO of Fonality Inc. Dean holds a degree in Law LLB Honors from the University of London.
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About Systum: Systum is a provider of a cloud-based, digital operating platform for small to medium-sized businesses.
Luan Cox
Co-Founder & CEO of FinMkt
Luan Cox is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of FinMkt, a customizable, embedded SaaS solution for home improvement and healthcare point of sale financing. FinMkt’s award-winning, API-driven technology offers speed-to-market for banks, credit unions, and alternative lenders by providing a real-time, end-to-end digital consumer financing platform combined with a marketplace of high-quality home improvement companies and healthcare providers. In addition to its lender client-base, FinMkt provides its embedded multi-lender, full waterfall, and lender integration services to innovative, high-quality home improvement companies and healthcare providers. FinMkt has experienced triple digit growth and earned the trust of major lenders, home improvement companies, and healthcare providers.
Cox is the recipient of many awards from various publications, including NYC FinTech Women’s Inspiring Fintech Females, Top 100 Women in Fintech, and Top 25 Women Leaders. In 2021, FinMkt was invited to join the World Economic Forum’s elite Technology Pioneers Cohort. She served as Founder and General Manager of Interactive Data Managed Solution, EVP of Global Sales and Marketing for Stockpoint, and Executive Director of Partner Solutions for Quote.com. Cox received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of North Texas.
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About CFPA, FinMkt: Revolutionizing point of sale financing through our highly customizable SaaS, multi-lender, omni-channel platform.
Arya Bina
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kobe Digital
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About Kobe Digital: Kobe Digital connects growth-focused brands with their target audiences through customized digital experiences and strategies.
Rob Biederman
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Catalant
Rob Biederman is the co-founder and CEO of Catalant Technologies. Prior to founding Catalant, Rob was a private equity investor at Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital, where he focused on the health care and high technology industries. Originally from New York, Rob attended Princeton University and graduated from Harvard Business School.
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About Catalant: Catalant is a software company that provides global enterprises with software solutions to access business expertise on demand.
Karim Mokhtar
Founder and CEO of Mokhtar Group Inc.
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About Malqart, Mokhtar Group Inc., Multilingualinc, Skillset Academy: The only global B2B lead generation and Lead-to-Opportunity service available in the market today.
Luis Balaguer
CEO and Founder of Latin World Entertainment
Luis Balaguer is the founder and CEO of Latin World Entertainment (LatinWE), the premier Hispanic talent management company in the United States that evolved into a leading entertainment platform which successfully produces content, and offers licensing, branding, public relations and marketing services to corporate America. LatinWE’s brand extension division includes talent endorsement campaigns for P&G (Head & Shoulders, COVERGIRL, Ace, amongst others), Pepsi, Coca Cola, Ford, AT&T, Comcast, Maybelline, Garnier, Colgate, Burger King, and other top brands. The company has marketed over 1,000 major Hollywood studio films to U.S. Hispanics and promoted top Spanish-language music tours for the largest live entertainment companies. LatinWE’s licensing division developed Sofia Vergara’s clothing and accessory line with Li & Fung, as well as, home furnishing with Rooms To Go, a jewelry line with Kay Jewelers and Ninja Coffee Bar with the creators of Shark and Ninja. LWE licensing has also developed a bedding and jewelry line, Gi by Giselle Blondet at Wal-Mart. An early user of social media, Balaguer saw the potential to use digital platforms to reach fans directly, and created new revenue sources for his clients. His successfully launched several ventures reaching more than 300 million subscribers through CNET en Español, Social Media Influencers, and the Spanish-language channel NuevOn on YouTube. Balaguer has been recognized by NY Times and Forbes as an evangelist of Hispanic talent and was voted one of the “25 Most Powerful and Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Magazine.
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About Latin World Entertainment: Sofia Vergara’s marketing & talent agency
ROBERT S. LAZZERI
Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Pentastar Communications
ROBERT S. LAZZERI has served as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of PentaStar Communications, Inc.
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About : PentaStar was formed on March 15, 1999 to become a communications services agent.
Mark L. Rockefeller
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of StreetShares Platform
Mark L. Rockefeller is the CEO & Co-Founder at StreetShares
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About StreetShares, StreetShares Platform: StreetShares Platform is a saas technology that powers banks, credit unions, and non-financial organizations.
Zack Blum
CEO of Fleetsmith
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About Fleetsmith: Fleetsmith puts Apple device management and security on auto-pilot.
Peter Caputa
CEO of Databox
Peter Caputa IV is VP Sales at HubSpot. As HubSpot employee #15, Pete has played a pivotal role in helping to develop the people, processes and systems that have helped HubSpot scale to 1,000+ employees, 2300+ agency partners, 15,000+ customers and $115M in revenue. Pete now oversees teams across the sales department—including the media team, which he helped build from the ground up. An expert on the B2B media industry and inbound marketing, Pete has helped hundreds of companies transform the way they attract, convert, and close customers for both themselves and their advertisers.
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About Databox: Databox is an application that operates as a personal data assistant for businesses.
Eric Shoup
CEO of Peerspace
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About Peerspace: Peerspace is a peer-to-peer marketplace for booking space for events, meetings, and productions.
Eric Griego
Co-Founder, CEO of Betterfin
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About Betterfin: All-in-one financing management tool for business owners. Driven by capital markets data, credit technology, and application.
Tom More
Founder, CEO of Promo.com
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About Promo.com: Promo.com is a video creation platform for businesses and agencies.
Danielle Cohen-Shohet
Co-Founder & CEO of GlossGenius
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About GlossGenius: GlossGenius is a vertical SaaS platform for small business owners across the salon and studio space.
Chris Ronzio
Founder & CEO of Trainual
Chris Ronzio is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Trainual.
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About Trainual: Trainual is a software platform that helps businesses build playbooks to train and grow their team.
David Goldin
Founder, President & CEO of Capify
David Goldin joined Capify as Founder, President & CEO in 2015.
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About Capify, Lender Capital Partners: Capify offers an online technology platform that provides business loans to small and medium-sized businesse in the UK.
Jeph Acheampong
Co-Founder and CEO of Blytix
Co-Founder Blossom Analytics, Entrepreneur, Data Enthusiast
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About Blytix: Blytix builds analytics teams across Africa to accelerate companies.
Eshwar Inapuri
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of InnaMed
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About InnaMed: Launching HomeLab, a gateway to personalized healthcare in the comfort and privacy of your home. Measure + Analyze + Enhance.
Matthew Knippen
Co-Founder & CEO of Charge Running
Matthew builds apps for the iPhone and iPad, and has been doing so since the release of the iPhone SDK in 2008, working on over 50+ applications in his career. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of the CHARGE Running. In his spare time, he likes to perform magic, slalom water ski, play the saxophone, solve the Rubik’s Cube, and play the board game Go.
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About Charge Running, Zwiffer: Charge Running is a mobile fitness app that provides interactive, trainer-led running classes, and live leaderboards.
Owen Brown
CEO of DAVO Technologies
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About DAVO Technologies: DAVO Sales Tax – Hands Free! The only automated sales tax solution for SMBs with daily cash management.
Ryan Belcher
Founder & CEO of Spendwise
Ryan is the Founder & CEO of Spendwise and has over twenty years of experience in accounting and finance working with high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where his clients included Cisco, Polycom and Handspring. He later became the Controller of FoxHollow Technologies where he built and led the accounting team, and helped take the company public as it grew from $0 to 200 million in revenue and from 50 to 550 in headcount. Ryan has served as CFO for multiple startups and is passionate about innovation and building cutting edge companies. Ryan earned his B.A. in Accounting from the University of Utah.
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About RCB Consulting, Spendwise: Spendwise is affordable easy-to-use online software for business spend management.
Francis Wang
Chief Executive Officer of NanoGraf Corporation
Francis received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the Department of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His primary expertise is in the development of novel energy storage materials and systems for portable and stationary applications. His experience in energy storage spans a range of magnitudes from the very small (uW-mW) forms of storage for portable electronics & medical applications to the very large (kW-MW) for transportation and the grid. Francis has had a long career working in some of the world’s largest battery and battery device companies such as Duracell, Boston Scientific and Proctor & Gamble. In 2011, Francis relocated to Beijing, China where he founded the Energy Storage Center for the National Institute of Clean & Low Carbon Energy, serving as Director until 2015. He is the author of over 39 US & International patents and 18 publications in energy storage.
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About NanoGraf Corporation: NanoGraf Corporation is a battery development company researched ways to improve battery life and charging time.
Dan Kazan
CEO and Board Member of Insureon
Dan Kazan is the CEO at Insureon.
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About Insureon: Insureon is the number one independent marketplace for online delivery of small business
Kyle Sherman
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Flowhub
Kyle Sherman is the Founder and CEO of Flowhub. A legalization advocate and entrepreneur, Kyle continually defines the company vision, strategy, and growth as Flowhub innovates the way cannabis retailers manage complex compliance mandates, supply chain data, sales transactions, and reporting.
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About Flowhub: Flowhub is a cannabis retail management platform for modern dispensaries.
Jason Kintzler
Founder/CEO of Pitchengine
Jason Kintzler is the Founder and CEO of Lifekey, a new wearable technology company on a mission to connect people in new ways — starting with personal medical information. Lifekey gives instant, secure access to personal medical data and emergency contact notifications when its needed them most. Simply tap the device from any smartphone to check-in with family or access vital medical data. Jason also founded and is the CEO of Pitchengine, a PR software company whose products are used by more than 50,000 brands and small businesses worldwide. Best known for easy-to-use marketing software, Pitchengine is used by the world’s largest brands including Walmart, Pepsico, Budweiser and more. Jason is the author of “The New American Startup” which details the story of how western independence and self‐reliance led him to create a disruptive technology from the unlikeliest of places.
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About Lifekey, Pitchengine: PitchEngine is PR platform that enables businesses to create content to share via social networks, search engines and mobile devices.
Barry Mione
CEO of SaveDay
Before joining the executive leadership team at Kapitall, Barry served as VP, Product and Asset Growth Strategies at BNY Mellon. Prior to that, Mr. Mione served as Senior Director of Customer Service at E*Trade Financial, and held high-profile positions at Harrisdirect LLC, a division of Bank of Montreal, CSFBdirect LLC, a division of Credit Suisse First Boston, and DLJdirect, a division of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation. Throughout his career Barry has served on various executive guidance committees, and was also a member of the CBOE online advisory board. Barry obtained his degree in Organizational Psychology from Stony Brook University in Long Island, NY.
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About Kapitall, SaveDay: We provide a $0 cost to employer, secure, fully bundled 401k plans; retirement investment plans that grow freely.
Ryan Graves
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Saltwater Capital
Ryan is the Head of Global Operations for Uber Inc. (formerly UberCab.com). He’s helped build the company from 1 to 200+ employees by driving operations, strategy, expansion, and recruiting. Ryan’s business and technology experience ranges from organization scaling, business development, and product management (startups: Uber, foursquare, SocialDreamium) to large ERP implementations & corporate restructuring (corporate: General Electric, CNA Insurance). He consults out of the kindness of his own heart for internet related businesses and not-for-profit ventures. Contact: graves.ryan@gmail.com or @ryangraves Specialties: social web, mobile, business intelligence, product management, business development, publishing, fund-raising, recruiting, hustle
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About Saltwater Capital: Saltwater Capital provide experience-backed strategic and operational support.
Anne-Sophie Le Bloas
Founder & CEO of Ravacan
Anne-Sophie has 13+ years of experience in sourcing and procurement of materials and goods. She worked in France, Spain, Germany, and the US for SNCF (railways), Engie (Energy), Reckitt-Benkiser (FMCG), Rolls-Royce (Aeronautics), Visteon (Automotive) and Fitbit (Wearables). She holds 2 Master’s degrees, included from the famous MAI Bordeaux, specialized in Sourcing. She is also a trained software engineer.
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About Ravacan: Ravacan is a Purchasing & Procurement software for commodity & supply managers, with a central place to analyze costs and manage suppliers.
Frances Dewing
Co-Founder & CEO of Rubica
Frances Dewing is the CEO and co-founder of Rubica. Since the company’s inception, Frances built and directed Rubica’s core operations teams, including cyber operations, customer support, finance, legal, diversity initiatives and human resources. Formerly COO of Concentric Advisors, a consultancy specializing in cyber and physical security for some of the world’s most high-profile figures, Frances was instrumental in developing Concentric’s business in Seattle and Silicon Valley. Frances is a Washington State attorney with a JD from the University of Washington, and a BA in Creative Writing from Loyola Marymount University.
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About Rubica: Advanced cybersecurity for remote workers & mixed-use device environments. Threat detection & prevention built for ease-of-use.
Brandon Baker
Founder & CEO of HubTheme
Brandon Baker is the Founder and CEO of HubTheme and Hubly.io.
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About HubTheme, Truu Digital: HubSpot Custom Themes, Modules & Services
Lillian Roberts
Founder & CEO of Xendoo
Lillian Roberts is the CEO at Xendoo.
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About Xendoo: Xendoo is an innovative cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting platform focused on helping small businesses.
Chaz Tanase
Cofounder & CEO of GoNation
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About GoNation: GoNation helps small businesses easily update their information online and transforms how people discover them.
Alex Brooks
Founder, CEO of Entreprov
Alex Brooks is a Detroit native and the founder of Entreprov, a Seattle based software company that builds tools to help companies increase customer retention and drive revenue. He’s also the founder of Data Science in Action- a monthly meetup based in lower Queen Anne. Alex started his entrepreneurial career at the age of ten by launching a landscaping company. Despite experiencing homelessness and growing up in the inner city of Detroit, Alex managed to make his way through college. Since then he’s been involved in wide range of endeavors from the Chamber of Commerce to being a part of several tech startups in Seattle. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family, getting lost in nature. traveling to different parts of the world and learning about new culture.
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About Entreprov: Entreprov is a firm that helps small and medium sized businesses track and retain customers through data analytics and business strategy.
Brian Browning
Founder & CEO of StartBlox
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About StartBlox: Startup Hub – guided learning, tasks with direct connect to resource vendors, and community features for catalyst ecosystems
Kevin Watson
Chief Executive Officer of Netsurion
Kevin Watson is the CEO of Netsurion, a leading cloud managed network security services company. Prior to Netsurion, Kevin was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of KMC Software, and the Chairman and CEO of Verid, which was acquired by EMC in 2007. At Verid, Kevin led the company through three rounds of private funding and its subsequent sale to EMC. Prior to Verid, Kevin was the Co-founder of C/max Capital and worked as an investment banker in the technology groups of Dean Witter Reynolds and UBS Securities in New York. While at C/max, Kevin led investments in Verid, Adjoined Consulting and About.com, all of which had highly successful exits.
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About Netsurion: Netsurion is a provider of cloud-managed IT security services that protect small-and medium-sized business’ information.
Kimberly Mahan
Founder, CEO & Partner of MAXX Potential
Recognized as one of Southern Living Magazine’s “Innovators Changing the South,” Kim Mahan is the CEO of MAXX Potential, a unique tech talent incubator that has been finding and growing technical professionals from its Richmond, Va. headquarters since 2012. The company hires aspiring security and software development professionals and provides on-the-job training using a completely individualized, hands-on approach. MAXX apprentices gain valuable experience that helps them land high-paying jobs at companies like Capital One, General Electric and numerous mid-size companies in the mid-Atlantic region. Prior to founding MAXX, Kim held global technology leadership positions at GE Corporate, GE Industrial and Genworth Financial. A CISSP since 2010, she also serves on the boards of the RVAmakerfest, CodeRVA High School, and she chairs Richmond’s Technology Education Foundation.
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About MAXX Potential: MAXX Potential has developed a unique tech apprenticeship program.
Anthony Smith
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Insightly
Born in New Zealand, Anthony moved to Perth, Australia when he was young. He built the first version of Insightly in six months from home after identifying a market need for a CRM solution focused on small business. He has previous experience designing and building customer relationship management software for enterprise use. Prior to Insightly, Anthony worked as a consultant for IBM, and as a software engineer for global mining consultancy Snowden.
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About Insightly: Insightly specializes in the fields of CRM, enterprise software, and project management.
Prashant Sengar
Chief Executive Officer of Webby Central
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About AppsChopper, HTMLPanda, Sparx IT Solutions, Webby Central: Webby Central is a growth driven marketing agency, that hold expertise in website design, digital marketing & branding,
Raffaele Mautone
Chief Executive Officer of AaDya Security
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About AaDya Security: AaDya Security is a cyber security company that offers cybersecurity software solutions for small and medium businesses.
Marceau Michel
CEO of werkhorse
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About Black Founders Matter, werkhorse: On-Demand Staffing Platform connecting Businesses and Workers within minutes
Brian Le Gette
Founder & CEO of Zero Chroma LLC
Founder of Zero Chroma LLC.
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About Ammortal, Conscious Venture Lab, Zero Chroma LLC: Uber functional cases for Apple hardware
