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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 California based CEO’ operating in the Computer 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.
Mitch Liu
CEO of Theta Labs
Mitch Liu is most recently the co-founder and CEO of Theta Labs and Theta.tv. In 2007 Mitch co-founded Tapjoy, Inc. and was one of the pioneers of social and mobile video advertising. In 2010 Mitch co-founded Gameview Studios, the creator of Tap Fish, one of the first free-to-play mobile games on iOS and Android to top the charts for highest grossing and highest downloads within 90 days of launch. Gameview was acquired six months later by DeNA Global, one of the leading Japanese mobile gaming companies. Since 2015 Mitch has been building cutting edge technology, most recently launching Theta Network, the leading decentralized video delivery network powered by blockchain technology. Mitch is the co-inventor and holds four patents in the video streaming, virtual reality and blockchain space. He has a BS in Computer Science Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Theta Labs, THETA.tv: The leading decentralized video delivery network powered by users and a native blockchain
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Sahil Gupta
CEO & Co-Founder of Onera
Sahil joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2010. In the summer of 2011, he moved to Silicon Valley to help start Bain Capital Ventures’ Palo Alto office. Sahil is a strong advocate of social content discovery and data-intensive platform services; therefore, he spends most of his energy with early-stage companies in consumer, mobile and social. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Sahil started Zodah, an Internet startup focused on improving consumer bill management. Zodah was a DogPatch Labs and First Growth Venture Network portfolio company and exited to Hearst Corporation in 2010. Prior to Zodah, Sahil worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
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About Onera: Onera is building the Onera Decision Engine—the cognitive operating system that harnesses AI to power the modern commerce supply chain.
William Jeffrey
President and CEO of SRI International
William Jeffrey, Ph.D., is president and chief executive officer of SRI International, a leading research and development organization serving government and industry. Jeffrey joined SRI in 2014. From 2008 to 2014, Jeffrey was president and CEO of HRL Laboratories, a corporate R&D organization owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. Prior to joining HRL, Jeffrey served in the George W. Bush Administration as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Jeffrey also served in the Executive Office of the President as senior director for homeland and national security and as assistant director for space and aeronautics within the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Earlier in his career, Jeffrey was deputy director for the Advanced Technology Office and chief scientist for the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and assistant deputy for technology at the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. Jeffrey started his professional career at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). Jeffrey is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected Honorary Member of the International Society of Automation, a recipient of the 2008 Navigator Award from the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Jeffrey is a member of the Board of Directors of TE Connectivity Ltd. Jeffrey received his M.A. and Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University, and his B.Sc. in physics is from MIT.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Andrew Wilson
Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts
As CEO of Electronic Arts, Andrew Wilson has aligned the company around three core strategic pillars: putting players first, driving a digital transformation and operating as one team. During Andrew’s tenure as CEO, EA has launched groundbreaking new games and services, reached record player engagement levels across its global franchises, and transformed into one of the world’s leading digital entertainment companies. Andrew has held several positions during his over 15 years at EA, providing leadership on product and brand development for both packaged goods and digital services. Prior to being appointed CEO in 2013, Andrew served as executive vice president of EA SPORTS and Origin where he oversaw all aspects of the EA SPORTS business and development, as well as EA’s digital PC service. Andrew has also led EA’s Online Organization overseeing the direct-to-consumer business, Asia Online Publishing as well as the EA studio in Seoul, Korea. In addition, he previously served as vice president and executive producer of all EA SPORTS FIFA games, growing the property into one of the largest videogame franchises of all time.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Randy Chou
Founder and CEO of Nubeva
Randy Chou is the Founder and CEO of Nubeva. Randy’s experience spans 15 years of technical and management leadership in the security, networking, and application acceleration fields. Prior to co-founding Panzura, Randy was a member of the founding software team at Aruba Networks, where he managed the architecture and development of the company’s security software. The combination of his technical expertise and business acumen helped Aruba become the leader in the enterprise Wi-Fi security market. Prior to Aruba Networks, Randy led the development of SSL security and load balancing software at Alteon WebSystems. Randy holds a degree in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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About Nubeva: Nubeva is a cloud security software company that provides decryption solution for real-time, historical or on-demand decryption.
Stefan Roever
CEO & Co-Founder of Aikon
Stefan has a broad entrepreneurial, technology, and finance background. He is Founder and CEO of Genia Technologies, a next generation DNA sequencing company based in Mountain View, CA. Genia Technologies was sold to Roche in 2014. He’s also Founder of OnCircle, an online content syndication and distribution platform. He is an active private equity investor and currently serves as Chairman of WRS Materials, a roll-up of wafer reclaim companies. He was Founder and CEO of Brokat Technologies, an encryption and banking software company. Brokat went public in 1998 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on NASDAQ in 2000, where it reached a several billion dollar market cap. He is active worldwide in fostering m-commerce and is a popular speaker at business and technology conferences. Stefan was honored with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Germany. He is also a two time award holder of Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
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About Aikon, Gbox by OnCircle, Inc.: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Francois Chaubard
CEO of Focal Systems
CEO at Focal Systems.
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About Focal Systems: Automate and optimize retail through the use of deep learning computer vision. With focalOS, Focal provides the operating system of retail.
Alec Miloslavsky
founder and CEO of EIS Group
Alec Miloslavsky is the founder and CEO of EIS Group.
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About EIS Group: EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets.
Darshan Desai
Founder & CEO of Plan
Darshan Desai is the Founder & CEO at Plan, Inc.
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About Plan: Plan is a better way to manage everything you have to do and everywhere you have to be.
Shikhar Shrestha
Co-Founder & CEO of Ambient.ai
Shikhar Shrestha is the co-founder and CEO of Ambient.ai.
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
Fouad ElNaggar
Co-Founder & CEO of Array
Fouad ElNaggar is the Co-Founder and CEO at Array.
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About Array: Array is an information technology company that specializes in developing computer software.
Manu Sharma
Co-founder & CEO of Labelbox
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Soroush Salehian
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aeva
Soroush Salehian is a Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aeva.
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About Aeva: Aeva develops a sensing and perception paradigm for autonomous machines.
Harsha Pamulaparthi
Founder and CEO of Standav Corp.
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About Standav Corp.: Standav offers CRM, CPQ , API Integration delivery and Contract Analytics
Filip Victor
Founder, CEO of MetaMap
Filip Victor is the Founder and CEO at Mati.
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About MetaMap: MetaMap is a digital trust management platform that empower service providers to reach more customers through customizable trust workflows.
Emrah Gultekin
Co-Founder and CEO of Chooch AI
Emrah is the CEO and Co-Founder of Chooch, an AI recognition and autonomous training platform. He is an entrepreneur and visionary.
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Daniel Chu
CEO and Co-Founder of MakersPlace
Daniel Chu is the CEO and co-founder at MakersPlace. He is a product and engineering leader with a passion for applying technologies to drive real-world change.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Alex Senemar
CEO of Voxel
Experienced CEO and advisor working at the cutting edge of technology. Expertise in enterprise applications, healthcare, manufacturing, and AI.
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About Huma Therapeutics, Sherbit, Voxel: Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time,.
Romain Lapeyre
Co-Founder & CEO of Gorgias
Romain Lapeyre is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Gorgias.
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About Gorgias: Gorgias is a multi-channel helpdesk integrated for online and e-commerce merchants.
Arup Banerjee
CEO & Co-founder of Windfall
Arup is the CEO and Co-founder of Windfall Data. Arup is a product enthusiast. Prior to Windfall he defined and implemented product strategy at companies like Radius, GoodData and Box. Arup holds degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
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About Windfall: Windfall Data is on a mission to help organizations make better informed data-driven decisions.
Jianxiong Xiao
Founder and CEO of AutoX
Jianxiong Xiao (a.k.a., Professor X) is the Founder and CEO of AutoX Inc., a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles. AutoX’s mission is to democratize autonomy and enable autonomous driving to improve everyone’s life. Dr. Xiao has over ten years of research and engineering experience in Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, and Robotics. In particular, he is a pioneer in the fields of 3D Deep Learning, RGB-D Recognition and Mapping, Big Data, Large-scale Crowdsourcing, and Deep Learning for Robotics. Jianxiong received a BEng. and MPhil. in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. And he was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and the founding director of the Princeton Computer Vision and Robotics Labs from 2013 to 2016. His work has received the Best Student Paper Award at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in 2012 and the Google Research Best Papers Award for 2012, and has appeared in the popular press. He was awarded the Google U.S./Canada Fellowship in Computer Vision in 2012, the MIT CSW Best Research Award in 2011, NSF/Intel VEC Research Award in 2016, and two Google Faculty Awards in 2014 and in 2015 respectively. He co-lead the MIT+Princeton joint team to participate in the Amazon Picking Challenge in 2016, and won the 3rd and 4th place worldwide. He was named to be one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2017, and one of the 12 of the most promising entrepreneurs to keep an eye on in 2018 by Next Visionaries.
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About AutoX: AutoX is a self-driving car startup that offers AI drivers to enable universal access to transportation for the people.
James Crawford
Chief Executive Officer of Orbital Insight
James Crawford has two decades of experience leading innovative software projects: empowering farmers with climate data at the Climate Corporation, working to get a commercial robot on the moon at Moon Express, making the world’s books searchable at Google, and managing robotics at NASA Ames Research Center. At Orbital, he’s using software expertise to create a whole new source of market data for all kinds of industries.
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Kevin E. O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer of Orbital Insight
Kevin leads all commercialization strategy and activities for Orbital Insight, as well as leading financial oversight, reporting and strategy. Prior to his role at Orbital Insight, Kevin was the Regional Director for the Americas, Global Banking & Brokerage, for FactSet Research Systems. Kevin joined FactSet in conjunction with the acquisition of Revere Data, LLC, where he was President and CEO. Originally trained as a software engineer, Kevin earned a BBA in Management Information Systems from James Madison University. He earned an MBA in Innovation, Strategy & Information Technology from the EDHEC Business School in Nice, France.
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Hariharan Kolam
CEO and Co-founder of Findem
Hariharan Kolam is the CEO and Co-founder of Findem (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/findem). Previously, he was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of [Instart Logic]. Before that, he was employed at Aster Data, where he worked on all features across the entire development stack, ranging from the kernel to BI application layer. Kolam holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India, and Stony Brook University respectively.
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About Findem, Instart: Findem is a People Intelligence company that helps you search for talent like never before and make amazing hires.
Alex Capecelatro
CEO of Josh.ai
Alex Capecelatro is the founder and CEO of Josh.ai, a voice controlled home automation system focused on artificial intelligence for high-end homes. Josh.ai utilizes a proprietary natural language understanding (NLU) engine with state of the art home control integrations for a powerful smart home experience. Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and later Sandia National Laboratory. He then ventured into consumer technology first with electric car manufacturer Fisker Automotive, then through founding two social software products “At The Pool” and “Yeti” with members in more than 120 countries. Alex focuses on the intersection of cutting edge software and hardware to offer transformational experiences.
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About Hyphos, Josh.ai: Josh.ai is an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services.
Andres Angelani
Chief Executive Officer of Softvision
As the CEO of Softvision, Andres is responsible for both the day-to-day operations and the strategic vision of the firm. He most recently served as the Chief Solutions Officer at Globant, responsible for the design and development of digital solutions while leading strategic customer engagements globally. His areas of expertise include product development, agile transformation, and gaming. Before becoming Chief Solutions Officer, Andres founded and served as the EVP and GM of Globant’s gaming studio, leading business on the West Coast, as well as VP of Engineering and Director of Global Presales Consulting from the U.K. Andres has spoken at many leadership, strategy, and tech conferences and co-authored the book The Never-Ending Digital Journey: Creating New Consumer Experiences Through Technology. Originally from Argentina, he speaks English, Spanish and Italian. Andres holds a Bachelors of Science in Business from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and enjoys cross-fit training, skiing with his wife, Laura, and their four kids, running and playing classical piano.
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About Alliance of Chief Executives, Cognizant Microsoft Business Group, Forbes Technology Council, Softvision: Cognizant Softvision provides digital product engineering services, helping global enterprise brands digitally transform.
Vitaliy Goncharuk
CEO and Founder of Augmented Pixels
I am CEO and founder of Augmented Pixels, based in Palo Alto, California, which provides software for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for augmented reality(AR/VR Glasses) and autonomous navigation(Robots / Drones). In 2016 I was honored to be a mentor and a judge at NASA(USA) Space Race project (link: http://bit.ly/2k1pTRX ) and was also asked to report in front of the board of directors of National Academy of Sciences (USA) about the long-term impact of Artificial Intelligence in several industries(link: http://bit.ly/2jPQ3Vy ). My hobbies: Skydiving, Good books, Mafia game(not Werewolf :=)), Jiu Jitsu(japanese style) and Control Line.
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About Augmented Pixels: Augmented Pixels – a leader in precise 3D geolocation and 3D maps crowdsourcing technologies
Kosala Hemachandra
Founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet | MEW
With 8 years of experience as a computer engineer under his belt, Kosala dabbled in crypto during his senior year at college. He later applied his technical programming skills to develop a storage solution for Ether which became MEW: one of the most popular and widely used cryptocurrency wallets in the space.
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About MyEtherWallet | MEW, Nanopuppet: MyEtherWallet is a free, open-source, client-side tool for easily and securely interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.
Reed Henry
CEO of Aquera
Reed Henry is the chief marketing officer at Genesys. He is responsible for the company’s worldwide marketing, including product and solution marketing, go-to-market programs and lead generation. Reed joined Genesys in 2012. Prior to Genesys, Reed led marketing for ArcSight Corporation where he transformed marketing to fuel the company’s growth from a private company to a successful fast-growing public company. Previously, Reed led marketing and business development for SeeBeyond, a public company focused on business process and composite applications, and prior to that strategy, mergers and acquisitions and new business categories for eBay. Reed also co-founded Vertical Networks, a company delivering contact center and unified communications solutions for small to midsize companies and branch offices. Reed holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Aquera: Aquera offers integration connectivity for the identity access and governance marketplaces.
Sarthak Jain
CEO of NanoNets
Sarthak Jain is the CEO of NanoNets
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About NanoNets: NanoNets provides machine learning APIs to help developers create machine learning models.
Joseph Reisinger
Co-Founder and CEO of Facet
Joe is an engineer and data hacker exploring the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UT Austin and spent his academic career building natural language understanding systems at Google Research and IBM T.J. Watson. Prior to co-founding Premise, he was Chief Scientist at Metamarkets.
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About Facet: Facet is a computer software company that provides artists and engineers, aiming to redefine and humanize the creative process.
Matt Ivester
Co-Founder & CEO of Hotshot
Matt Ivester is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is currently CEO of Kindr Inc., a company dedicated to making online kindness fun and easy. In 2011, through Serra Knight Publishing, he published lol…OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying. And in 2012, he published the high school edition of the same. Since its release, lol…OMG! has become Amazon’s top-selling book on the topics of digital citizenship and cyberbullying. He has spoken at various institutions around the country on these topics. Prior to writing lol…OMG! he started several companies, including a concert ticket auction site, a multi-million dollar investment fund, and a college gossip site. In 2005, Ivester graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. In 2012, he graduated from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with an MBA.
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About Hotshot: Screenshot technology
Suman Kanuganti
CEO, Founder of Personal AI
I am a creator, entrepreneur, father and husband. I love robots, technology, and humans. I create things that solve meaningful problems, see aira.io and luther.ai (current). I have a desire to learn, college in engineering, a master’s in robotics and a master’s in business.
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Sanjay Mehrotra
President and CEO of Micron Technology
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Vineet Jain
Co-founder & CEO of Egnyte
Vineet is the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte. Prior to Egnyte, Vineet founded and successfully built Valdero, a supply chain software solution provider, funded by KPCB, MDV and Trinity Ventures. He has held a rich variety of senior operational positions at KPMG and Bechtel. He has 20 years of experience in building capital-efficient and nimble organizations. Vineet earned a BS in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and received an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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About Egnyte: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Sumit Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO of Boom.tv
Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics. Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom Fantasy Previously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M
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About afkVR, Boom.tv: BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs.
Vishal Sikka
CEO & Founder of Vianai
Vishal Sikka is the Founder and CEO of Vianai, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides advanced technological software and services in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to large companies around the world. He currently also serves on the board of the BMW Group and as an advisor to the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered AI. Prior, Sikka served as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys and former Indian American CEO and MD of Infosys. On August 18, 2017, he stepped down as managing director of Infosys. He quit as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys on August 24, 2017, when Nandan Nilekani was appointed as the new Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining Infosys, Sikka was a member of the Executive Board and the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, leading all SAP products and innovation globally. In his 12 years at SAP, Sikka led SAP’s product portfolio including the breakthrough in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and all their applications, cloud and technology solutions. He is credited with accelerating SAP’s development processes, transforming its innovation culture and leading several successful product co-creation initiatives with clients. He is also the creator of the concept of ‘timeless software,’ which represents the renewal of products without disruption to customer environments. Sikka left the SAP board in May 2014 for “personal reasons,” and was announced as CEO and MD of Infosys on June 12, 2014. After three years at Infosys, Sikka left on August 18, 2017. India Today magazine ranked him #32nd in India’s 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list.
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About Vianai: Vianai provides enterprise artificial intelligence solutions.
Andrew Ng
Founder & CEO of Landing AI
Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera in 2012, served as the company’s Co-CEO until 2014, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Coursera Board. He is the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, a Chinese language search engine, where he was responsible for driving the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. Dr. Ng is also an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. In 2011, he led the development of Stanford’s Massive Open Online Course platform and taught an online machine learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students – the initiative that led to the co-founding of Coursera. Previously, Dr. Ng was the founding lead of the Google Brain deep learning project. Dr. Ng has authored or co-authored over 100 research papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. In 2013 he was named to the Time 100 list of the most influential persons in the world. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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About AI Fund, Coursera, Deeplearning.ai, Landing AI, Stanford University, Zunavision: Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
Devaki Raj
CEO and Founder of CrowdAI
Devaki Raj is the CEO and Cofounder of CrowdAI. Prior to this, she completed her undergraduate and Masters in Statistics at the University of Oxford, and subsequently used her expertise at Google (Maps, Energy and [X] teams) to optimize renewable energy allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. She noticed that even with the power of Google Maps, there was a significant deficit in high-resolution on-the-ground information, such as locations of homes, villages, and farms in rural areas. This gap in knowledge prompted her to start CrowdAI in 2016, which was picked up by Y-Combinator and selected by TechCrunch as one of their top 8 companies to watch, Forbes’ Top 25 Machine Learning Companies, Nvidia Deep Learning Inception Awards Finalist, and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and Inc Magazine’s 30 companies under 30.
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Hayes Mackaman
CEO of 8i
Hayes Mackaman is the CEO of a volumetric video technology company, 8i, which he joined in 2016. At 8i he has brought volumetric video to partners in the United States, Japan, Korea, China, and the Middle East. Hayes is responsible for spearheading several initiatives at 8i, including the development of its “ZigPro” stage, its first deployable realtime and pre-recorded volumetric video stage. He has also overseen the development of 8i’s mobile AR suite of services. Hayes Mackaman is a talented and seasoned finance and strategy executive. Over the past 7 years he has been focused on emerging technology and media as a consultant, finance executive, and business leader. He brings a wealth of expertise with emerging technology and media business models, specifically in the areas of OTT digital medal and immersive computing. His experience at 8i has given him a strong understanding of markets for augmented and virtual reality throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to joining 8i, Hayes served as a finance executive at AwesomenessTV, where he was responsible for financial planning as the company transitioned from a start-up to a $100M annual revenue media company. Before joining AwesomenessTV, he consulted various emerging technology start-ups on the West Coast. When not focused on bringing volumetric video to the world over, Hayes spends his time with his wife and two young sons. He’s a dedicated youth rugby coach and he and his wife are active in their local public school education foundation.
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About 8i: 8i is a virtual reality software development company focused on volumetric video capture.
Bill Huang
Founder & CEO of CloudMinds
Bill Huang is the Founder and CEO of CloudMinds, the world’s first intelligent cloud robot operator. Mr. Huang has been a new technology advocate for the telecom industry with near 30 years of work experience in the development of key technologies. He has in-depth experience and insightful thoughts in the areas of next generation mobile switching systems (3G/4G/5G), IP media streaming (IPTV/OTT), EPON/GPON, Multi-service mobile Softswitch, Operation Support System (OSS/BSS), Mobile Internet and mobile communication industry.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
Patrick Kann
CEO and Co-Founder of Papaya
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About Papaya: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Andy Dinh
Co-Founder and CEO of Blitz App
Andy Dinh is the founder and CEO at Blitz App.
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About Blitz App, Team SoloMid: Your personal gaming coach for League of Legends, Valorant, CSGO, Fortnite and more— powered by AI and built with professional players.
Lisa Falzone
CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Security
Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder & CEO of Athena Security, an award-winning Gun Detection solution enterprises. Since starting the company from the ground up in 2017, Falzone has been a trailblazer in technology. She is spearheading her last company Revel Systems which rasied over 100m in funding and a evalution over 500m. Revel’s mission was to help entrepreneurs around the world build their dream business.
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About Athena Security: Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Anjney Midha
Co-founder & CEO of Ubiquity6
Anjney Midha is the CEO and co-founder of Ubiquity6, a massively multiplayer augmented reality platform focused on bringing people together in physical spaces. Previously, Anjney was an investing partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he founded the firm’s dedicated seed fund KPCB Edge and worked with AR, VR and computer vision companies including Magic Leap and TheWaveVR. Anjney pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Ubiquity6: Ubiquity6 uses computer vision to enable massively multiplayer, persistent AR experiences on top of the physical world.
Andrew Feldman
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Andrew is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Daniel Putterman
Co-CEO of Kogniz
Founder and Co-CEO at Kogniz.
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About Kogniz, PogoPlug: Kogniz offers leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to create safer, smarter workspaces using predictive safety.
Ram Varadarajan
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
Vincent Yang
Co-founder and CEO of Firework
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About Firework: Firework is a short video startup that enables short, vertical video technology for everyone.
Ayal Yogev
CEO and co-founder of Anjuna
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About Anjuna: Anjuna enables organizations to securely embrace the cloud by leveraging confidential computing technologies without changing applications.
Jags Kandasamy
Co-Founder and CEO of Latent AI
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About Latent AI, OtoSense: Latent AI accelerates AI implementation and workflows for the enterprise cost-effectively anywhere on the edge continuum with Adaptive AI.
Petro Estakhri
Founder, CEO, President & Board of Directors of Avalanche Technology
Petro Estakhri co-founded and has served as Chief Executive Officer for Avalanche Technology since August 2006. Prior Petro Estakhri served as the Chief Technology Officer of Lexar Media, Inc. which he founded in 1996. Lexar Media is a pioneer in flash memory technology for the digital photography, consumer electronics, and communications markets and grew from a private start-up to the 55th largest company in Silicon Valley prior to its acquisition by Micron Technology, Inc. in June 2006. From 1993 to 1996, Petro Estakhri served as the Senior Director of Mass Storage Controller Engineering at Cirrus Logic, Inc., a supplier of semiconductors for Internet entertainment electronics, where he developed one of Cirrus Logic’s primary micro-controllers and co-founded the mass storage memory group. Petro Estakhri also worked at IBM and National Semiconductor. Petro Estakhri has served as a member of a number of boards, including Lexar Media’s as well as Silicon Stor, a company that Petro Estakhri co-founded in 2002. Petro Estakhri is a co-author of over 95 patents related to magnetic media, flash storage controller and systems architecture. Petro Estakhri holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Davis.
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About Avalanche Technology: Avalanche is developing innovative, ultra high performance enterprise solid-state storage arrays.
Poojan Kumar
Co-founder & CEO of Clumio
Poojan Kumar is the CEO and co-founder at Clumio. Poojan brings 18 years of experience in cloud computing and storage and is known for seeing an opportunity for change, innovating and capitalizing on it. Poojan founded and built PernixData that was acquired by Nutanix in 2016, he then served as Vice President of Engineering and Products. Earlier in his career, he was Head of Data Products at VMware and founder at Oracle Exadata.
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About Clumio: Clumio is a data backup and recovery software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider.
Ali Arsan
CEO of Edlio
Ali Arsan, Chief Executive Officer Ali has been working in ed-tech for 17 years, and founded one other company prior to Edlio. He’s visited hundreds of schools to be able to build products that help improve educational outcomes. He loves learning from educators and having the opportunity to visit a school and learn about what makes it special. On the weekends and outside the office, he spends most of his time with his three daughters and wife. He also enjoys ping-pong, long-distance running, and learning about sharks.
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About Edlio: Edlio creates custom designed websites with an intuitive content management software.
Tony Han
Founder & CEO of WeRide
Former Chief Scientist of Baidu’s Autonomous Driving Unit. Tenured Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri (MU). Original contributor of DeepSpeech2, selected as one of ten breakthrough technologies in 2016 by MIT Technology Review. Winner of multiple worldwide challenges in computer vision and machine learning.
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About WeRide: WeRide is a leading Level 4 autonomous driving company to provide safer and more efficient mobility service and solution.
Jedidiah Yueh
Founder ,Executive Chairman & CEO of Delphix
In 1999, Jedidiah Yueh founded Avamar, a software company that pioneered data de-duplication and shipped a billion-dollar product in the backup and recovery industry, with over 20,000 current customers. Today, de-duplication is a high priority for enterprise data centers, and the technology has become a must-have feature or product for major storage and software vendors. Data de-duplication strips away redundant data to make disks more cost effective than tape media for storing a wide variety of data types, such as daily, repeated backup sets. EMC acquired Avamar in November 2006 for $165 million. EMC executives have stated that Avamar is the best performing investment for EMC since VMware.Yueh has demonstrated a successful track record for identifying new market opportunities and staying ahead of industry trends. As VP of Product Management at EMC, Yueh helped launch the Avamar Data Store and the Avamar Virtual Edition in 2007, two innovative and successful products that have helped EMC maintain a leadership position in the industry. Prior to Avamar, Yueh served as Chief Operating Officer for NTD, an optical storage startup. He brings over a decade of experience in the software and data storage industries and has more than 6 patents or patents pending. Yueh graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with an AB from Harvard University. Under former President George H. Bush, he was designated a US Presidential Scholar, one of the highest academic achievements awarded nationally.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Karri Saarinen
CEO & Co-founder of Linear
Karri Saarinen is the Co-Founder & CEO at Linear.
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About Linear: Linear allows users to manage software development and track bugs.
Tyler Shultz
Co-Founder & CEO of Flux Bioscience
Tyler Shultz is an entrepreneur fostering innovation in healthcare.
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About Ethics in Entrepreneurship, Flux Bioscience: Flux Biosciences is a company spun out of Stanford University, where the technology used to read and write computer hard drives .
Marcus Gomez
CEO and Co-founder of Luminous Computing
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About Luminous Computing: Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry.
Greg Castle
Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of Anorak Ventures
Greg is the Managing Partner of Anorak Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging technology. Based in Silicon Valley, the firm focuses on VR/AR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Portfolio companies include Against Gravity, Catalog, Lightform and 6d.ai. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 26 investments counting Flexport and two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in, and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform (acq. 2011) and for Autodesk’s Game Technology Group.
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About Anorak Ventures: Investing at the earliest stages in transformational people and technology
Nadir Ali
CEO of Inpixon
Nadir Ali leads Inpixon with a collective two decades in enterprise software, business analytics, and information technology. Mr. Ali first served as Vice President of Strategic Programs at Sysorex from 1995 to 1998, wherein he ushered their transition to Vanstar and managed over $1 billion in multi-year contracts. This marked his trajectory into mergers and acquisitions totaling $150 million. He then shifted gears to Isadra Inc., an e-commerce software start-up, as VP of Finance and Marketing. Before stepping into Sysorex Consulting Inc. as President, he spent three years as Managing Director of Tira Capital. For over 15 years, his executive-level roles at Inpixon (formerly Sysorex) tapped into the $12 billion industry of indoor positioning and data analytics, growing to $23 billion by 2021. A University of California Berkeley 1989 alum, Mr. Ali earned a BA in Economics.
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About Inpixon: Inpixon, an indoor data company, specializes in capturing, interpreting and giving context to indoor data to deliver actionable intelligence
Jorge Torres
Co-Founder &CEO of MindsDB
Jorge Torres Is currently Co-founder & CEO of MindsDB and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley researching machine learning automation and explainability. He has worked for a number of data-intensive start-ups, most recently working with Aneesh Chopra (the first CTO in the US government) building data systems that analyze billions of patients records and lead to highest savings for millions of patients, he started his work on scaling solutions using machine learning in early 2008 while working as first full time engineer at Couchsurfing where he helped grow the company from a few thousand users to a few million. Jorge had degrees in electrical engineering & computer science, including a masters degree in computer systems (with a focus on applied Machine Learning) from the Australian National University.
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About AllFreed, MindsDB: Open Source In-SQL Machine Learning
Krishna Motukuri
CEO & Co-Founder of Zippin
Krishna Motukuri is the CEO of Zippin, drawing on his deep retail technology, ecommerce and startup experience to lead Zippin. Most recently, he was a portfolio company CEO at Naspers Group, where he built and grew multiple e-commerce businesses in India and South Africa. Earlier in his career, Krishna spent seven years at Amazon leading teams in search, marketing, global expansion and supply chain. In 2006 he left Amazon to start Ugenie, a next-gen comparison shopping site that was acquired in 2008 by Lulu.com. Post-acquisition, Krishna assumed the role of SVP, Business Development at Lulu and established key partnerships with Apple, McGraw Hill, Google and others. Krishna has a Master’s degree from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. In his spare time, he enjoys travel and spending time outdoors with his family.
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About Zippin: Zippin is the next generation of checkout-free technology enabling retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores.
Justin Newton
Co-Founder and CEO of Netki
Justin Newton is the CEO at Netki, Inc.
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About Netki, Singapore University of Social Sciences: The leading provider of tools to foster the adoption of blockchain technology.
Ruggero Gramatica
Founder & CEO of Yewno
Ruggero has over 20 years of experience in startups and company turnaround. He is the founder and CEO of Yewno, a knowledge discovery platform. He has championed the growth and expansion of 5 successful start-ups both in the United States and across Europe. Ruggero holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from King’s College London, an MBA from University of Chicago, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University Politecnico of Milan.
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About Yewno: A leading provider of AI solutions for Finance, Education and Publishing, Yewno’s mission is to transform information into knowledge.
Ashfaq Munshi
CEO of Pepperdata
Before joining Pepperdata, Ash was executive chairman for Marianas Labs, a deep learning startup sold in December 2015. Prior to that, he was CEO for Graphite Systems, a big data storage startup that was sold to EMC DSSD in August 2015. Ash also served as CTO of Yahoo, as a CEO of both public and private companies, and is on the board of several technology startups. Ash attended Harvard University, Brown University, and Stanford University.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Pepperdata, Terabitz: Pepperdata products provide observability and continuous tuning for the big data analytics stack.
Zuk Avraham
Founder, CEO of zecOps
Zuk Avraham is a world-renowned white-hat security researcher, 2X entrepreneur, angel investor, the founder and Chairman of mobile security company Zimperium, Inc. and the founder and CEO of ZecOps, Inc. An innate hacker with a passion for detecting code vulnerabilities, Zuk started his career as a security researcher in the IDF before being recruited by Samsung Electronics, where he published the first return-oriented programming technique for ARM architecture at DEFCON 18 and Blackhat. His security work has been the subject of academic research and is often quoted in leading publications such as Forbes, MIT Technology Review, TIMES and Engadget. Founded in 2010, Zimperium have already earned innovation awards for their cutting-edge enterprise Mobile IPS and considered the leader in Mobile Threat Defense. Since its foundation, Zimperium raised more than $70m in capital from top-tier investors, helped many Fortune 500 companies to secure their mobile fleet and has more than 100 employees globally. Zuk and his team have pioneered many new security approaches, including signature-independent protection. In July 2017, Zuk founded ZecOps, Inc. Stealth mode cyber security firm.
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About zecOps, Zimperium: ZecOps is a cybersecurity automation company that finds attackers’ mistakes.
Han Jin
Cofounder & CEO of Lucid
Han is the founder/CEO of Lucid, an AI startup building a deep learning platform to generate 3D data in images/videos. Their product LucidPix allows consumers to transform photos into multi-dimensional masterpieces and share them anywhere. Jin was named by Business Journal as one of the 40 Under 40 in 2019, he received the global Lumiere and Golden Stevie Award for Best Entrepreneur of the year 2018, and is one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in consumer electronics. Inc Magazine featured him on its May 2017 cover as one of America’s 30 rising stars.
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About Lucid: AI platform extracting insights out of images and videos to serve the best content to convert users
William Andregg
CEO, Co-Founder & President of Fathom Computing
William Andregg is the Co-Founder at Fathom Radiant.
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About Fathom Computing: Fathom Computing is building optics-based hardware to run artificial intelligence with unprecedented performance.
Vivian Shen
Co-Founder and CEO of Juni Learning
Vivian Shen is the Co-Founder and CEO at Juni Learning
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About Juni Learning: A learning platform helping every student achieve their best future.
Kate Endress Doerksen
CEO, Cofounder of Ditto
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About Ditto: Ditto licenses virtual try-on and frame recommendation technology to the world’s best eyewear retailers.
Sanj Goyle
Co-Founder & CEO of Finxera
Sanj Goyle is the co-founder and CEO of BancBox, the first API driven approach to enabling banking services for non-financial institutions.In his leadership role, Sanj is focused on driving forward the product vision of BancBox as a compelling solution for fintech clients, maintaining the trust of our partner banks, and ensuring that BancBox remains a good financial steward of consumer funds and up to date on the current regulatory environment. Prior to BancBox, Sanj spent several years in Online Marketing focusing on Lead Generation and Offer Optimization. Sanj was most recently at Yahoo, where he led the performance marketing team that developed and operated Yahoo’s first Cost-per-Lead (CPL) line of business. The Yahoo CPL team launched multiple products (namely, Yahoo Tagline in Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Cross Sell in Yahoo Games, and CPL ad units in Yahoo Messenger). Prior to Yahoo, Sanj managed the consumer finance lead generation lines of business at Adteractive and Nextag. At Adteractive, Sanj managed a 20-person team that generated over $40m in annual revenue and managed ad spend of over $1m per month in online and offline channels. While at Nextag, lead gen revenue grew from inception to over $25m within 2 years. Sanj has spoken at industry conferences such as LeadsCon and Affiliate Summit. Sanj started his career as a corporate attorney specializing in Corporate Securities, M&A, and Privacy. Sanj has considerable experience with the privacy and legal issues related to the marketing of consumer finance products— in particular, FTC TSR and Disclosure Guidelines, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and PCI compliance. Sanj is admitted to practice in California and New York, is a licensed real estate broker in California, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). Sanj graduated from Boston University School of Law (magna cum laude) and Duke University. He currently resides in Menlo Park, CA.
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About Finxera: Finxera offers an API-driven approach that enables clients to seamlessly integrate banking services into their applications.
Veerbhan Kheterpal
Co-founder & CEO of quadric.io
Co-founder & CEO, quadric.io, Co-Founder, 21.co, Co-founder Fabbrix.
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About quadric.io: quadric.io is an end-to-end architecture optimized for real-time edge computing.
Madhu Konety
Founder & CEO of Icecream Labs Inc
Madhu Konety is tinkerer, entrepreneur, angel investor and advises Asian family offices on technology investments.
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About Icecream Labs Inc: Icecream Labs is the only AI powered platform which provides on-demand Intelligent Merchandising solutions
Jason Devitt
CEO of Compound Eye
Jason Devitt is CEO and co-founder of Mr. Number, a company that helps consumers to control who can call their mobile phone and when. An advocate for open networks, open devices, and open development platforms, Jason has testified on these issues before Congress and the FCC. Previously, Jason co-founded Skydeck, a company that enabled consumers to back up and manage all of their cell phone data online. Jason developed the idea for Skydeck while an entrepreneur-in-residence at iHatch, a venture capital firm that focuses on the mobile market. Prior to Skydeck, Jason co-founded Vindigo, one of the first companies to publish content and applications for mobile phones in the US. Products included Mapquest Mobile, MovieGoer, and the Vindigo City Guide. Jason led the company from inception to over $10 million in revenue and profitability in 2005. Jason spent four years working for the technology-driven investment firm D. E. Shaw & Co. in London and New York, where he structured OTC equity derivatives. He grew up in Ireland and has a Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Diploma in Law from UCD and the King’s Inns in his hometown of Dublin.
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About Compound Eye: Compound Eye develops 3D vision systems for autonomous machines.
Peer Richelsen
Co-founder & CEO of Mage App
Peer Richelsen is the co-founder and CEO of Mage.
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About Mage App: Mage Market is an marketplace app built specifically for buying and selling cards from Magic using computer vision.
Ambuj Kumar
CEO of Fortanix
Ambuj Kumar is co-founder and CEO of Fortanix, Inc., the Runtime Encryption company, whose mission is to solve cloud security and privacy. Ambuj is a recognized leader in cryptography with more than 30 patents in the field. Prior to founding Fortanix, Ambuj was lead architect at Cryptography Research Inc. where he led and developed many of the company’s security technologies that go into millions of devices every year. Previously, he worked for NVIDIA where he designed world’s most advanced computer chips including world’s fastest memory controller. Fortanix has established itself as a leader in Runtime Encryption with strategic partnerships with IBM and Equinix.
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About Fortanix: Fortanix solves cloud security and privacy using Runtime Encryption(R) technology build upon Intel SGX.
Daniel Koppel
Co-Founder & CEO of Prospera Technologies
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About Prospera Technologies: Prospera is an agriculture technology data company that develops intelligent solutions.
Marcin Kleczynski
CEO of Malwarebytes
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About Malwarebytes: Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Pascal Millaire
Chief Executive Officer of CyberCube
Pascal Millaire is the CEO of CyberCube, a Symantec Ventures company dedicated to providing data-driven cyber underwriting and aggregation management analytics to the global insurance industry. The CyberCube platform was established in 2015 by Symantec to apply the cyber security company’s unique sources of data, intelligence and expertise to cyber insurance analytics and now operates as a standalone company. Previously, Pascal was President of a hotel software company and spent 7 years at McKinsey and Company where he served companies in the insurance. Pascal holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About CyberCube: CyberCube delivers data-driven cyber analytics built specifically for the insurance industry.
Benjamin Taft
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Shiraz Akmal
CEO & Co-Founder of Spaces
CEO & Co-Founder at SPACES Inc.
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About SABH’s Big Adventure, Spaces: SPACES designs VR, AR and MR experiences for theme parks, retail, and other public locations worldwide.
Charles Fan
Founder and CEO of MemVerge
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About MemVerge: MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure system, built with proprietary DMO technology.
Rohit Seth
CEO and Founder of CloudNatix
Rohit Seth is an ex-Google executive and Founder of CloudNatix Inc.
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About CloudNatix: CloudNatix is a provider of efficient infrastructure across multiple clouds and on-premise environments.
Dinakar Munagala
Co-Founder and CEO of Blaize
Dinakar Munagala is the co-founder and CEO of Blaize.
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About Blaize: Blaize is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets.
Stephen Russell
CEO & Founder of Prism Skylabs
Steve Russell is a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience in building and managing disruptive content networking, video search, and video intelligence technology companies. Steve is CEO and Founder of Prism Skylabs, the global leader in visually understanding and optimizing offline commerce. Its unique cloud service transforms any video camera into a visual merchandising, auditing, and business intelligence tool that can be accessed from any device. Prior to Prism Skylabs, Steve served as the CEO and Chairman of 3VR, the world’s leading video intelligence company, which he founded in 2002. In less than 10 years, Steve took 3VR from a small group of engineers working in his basement to an industry leader serving global customers including Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, GAP, Hilton, and many more of the world’s leading brands. Before 3VR, Steve was VP and GM of the Content Networking group at Internet search giant Inktomi. In 2000, Inktomi Acquired eScene Networks, a consumer video management platform company he founded. In addition, he also served as managing partner at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and President of a pioneering Silicon Valley ISP. Steve is an early investor and advisor to a number of companies across the video intelligence, social media and analytics spaces, including StumbleUpon, LongTail Video, MesmoTV, Qumu, OpenDNS and UberCab, among others. He also sits on the Board of the Center for Secure Information Technologies and is an active speaker and writer, posting frequently on his blog, InHardFocus.com, which explores the many intersections of technology and society. Steve holds 11 patents and was named #8 in the American Venture’s Top 40 under 40™ list. He Studied Economics and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was the recipient of the university’s Anna Laura Meyers prize for outstanding research.
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About InHardFocus.com, Prism Insights Fund, Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
Alex Kehr
CEO of Superlocal
CEO at Superlocal.
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About Science, Superlocal: Superlocal is a social network that makes every day life feel like a fun game.
Simon Newstead
CEO and Co-Founder of Frenzoo
Simon Newstead is CO-Founder and CEO of Frenzoo, creator of mobile 3D lifestyle games with it’s Me Girl™ series.
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About Frenzoo: Frenzoo creates 3D fashion and lifestyle games for iOS and Android devices.
Robert Fly
Co Founder & CEO of Elevate Security
Robert Fly is an advisor at Qualia.
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About Elevate Security: Proactive Defense Against Insider Risk
Chandra Sekhar Pulamarasetti
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sanovi Technologies
With more than 20 years of sound business and technology vision and delivery experience with large scale enterprise systems in disaster recovery, storage, server and networking areas, Chandra Sekhar is one of the founders and also the CEO of Sanovi. As founder and CEO, Chandra, as he is fondly called, has been one of the driving forces behind Sanovi’s successful transition from just another start-up to the industry leader in Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) space. In his earlier role as Sanovi’s CTO, Chandra was responsible for the strategization, development, and delivery of Sanovi’s unique DR Management Platform. Prior to founding Sanovi, Chandra worked as the Director of SAN Engineering at Sanrise Inc., a leading storage service provider, where he delivered intelligent service-centric storage solutions in the disk, backup, and recovery areas. During his stint there, he was responsible for 70% of the company’s revenues. Earlier, he also held the role of Architect at Sequent (now with IBM), where he built several features from concept to product in NUMA/SMP kernels and IO Subsystems. He has also worked at Sun, Auspex, and Wipro. Chandra holds a BS in Computer Science from India’s premier technology institute, the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) at Pilani. He has also co-authored five patents.
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About Sanovi Technologies: Sanovi is a business continuity and IT recovery software company enabling continuity for enterprises and cloud service providers.
Matt Vaezi
Founder & CEO of Wave Technology Solutions
Matt Vaezi is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Wave Technology Solutions Group. Matt ezrned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Irvine.
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About Wave Technology Solutions: Wave Technology Solutions offers information management systems, backfile conversion, and data hosting solutions.
Tolga Tarhan
CEO of Kibsi
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About Kibsi: Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications
Austen Collins
Founder, CEO of Serverless
Austen is an entrepreneur and software engineer located in Oakland, CA. His specific focus is on building cheap, scalable Node.js applications while minimizing DevOps requirements as much as possible. An enthusiastic AWS Lambda user from day one, Austen founded the Serverless Framework (formerly JAWS), an open source project and module ecosystem to help everyone build applications exclusively on Lambda, without the hassle and costs required by servers. AWS Lambda can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of all software projects. Every ambitious developer and company should take advantage of Lambda, and Austen will help you get started.
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About Serverless: Serverless provides development framework for building serverless architectures.
Russell Ladson
CEO of Drop
Russell Ladson is the CEO of Drop Software Inc. (“Drop”). At Drop, he leads a team of designers, human-computer interaction researchers, and engineers who are obsessed with future of spatial and immersive computing. The team at Drop is currently looking to answer the question, “As our iPhones become ineffective and we move into a post-smartphone world, how will we navigate the immersive web?” Today, Drop provides an immersive internet searching and browsing experience designed for virtual reality and augmented reality users. It is one of the most popular and top downloaded VR titles on the HTC Vive – the leading virtual reality headset. It is commonly referred to as the “Google Chrome for VR.” Drop is venture backed by HTC, one of the world’s leading smartphone makers, Macro Ventures, Autochrome Ventures, Backstage Capital, and Matter Ventures. After a close call with mortality in a near-fatal accident, he finally understood the sanctity of life and doing what one loves so he co-founded Drop. He spent his postgraduate years as an investment banking analyst at two leading Wall Street firms – Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Rice Financial Products Company. Russell lives and works in San Francisco, California. Most of his free time is spent hiking, practicing vinyasa yoga, or playing chess. He graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. in Economics.
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About Drop: Drop lets people dive into an immersive internet searching and browsing experience designed for virtual reality.
Dean Sweetman
Co-founder & CEO of Tithe.ly
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About Tithe.ly: Helping your church grow financially with fast, elegant and innovative solutions.
Saïd Ziouani
CEO and Founder of Anchore
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About Anchore: Anchore helps organizations implement secure container-based workflows without compromising velocity.
David Goeckeler
Chief Executive Officer of Western Digital
As Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Security Business Group (SBG), David Goeckeler is responsible for Cisco’s global, industry-leading security business, which includes all solutions related to network security, content security, secure access and mobility, and threat defense. He also drives the company’s cross-portfolio security strategy, architecture and internal security platforms. Prior to this role, Goeckeler served as Vice President of Product and Platform Engineering for SBG where he was responsible for the hardware and software architecture, specification, design, development and support of Cisco’s network and content security platforms and products. He also led the integration of the Sourcefire engineering team and associated offerings, including Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services and Advanced Malware Protection. Goeckeler has been instrumental in defining Cisco’s end-to-end security architecture, including the integration of security into the broader Cisco portfolio. A Cisco veteran of 14 years, Goeckeler has led systems and product development for both service provider and enterprise markets, including voice-over-IP, mobility, and video. Prior to Cisco he worked at Bell Laboratories and BellSouth Telecommunications. He has also been active in several entrepreneurial ventures. Goeckeler holds a bachelor’s degrees computer science and mathematics from the University of Missouri at Columbia, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and master’s degree in business administration from both Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Western Digital: WD is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
David Graham
Co-founder and CEO of Tortoise
David Graham is the Co-founder and CEO at Tortoise.
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About Tortoise: Tortoise is an automated delivery platform for the retail and logistics industries.
