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 California based Founder operating in the B2B space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Eyal Shinar
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Fundbox
Founder and Executive Chairman of Fundbox, Eyal is an expert in financial technology, AI and technology management. Prior to Fundbox, Eyal served as VP at Battery Ventures, leading projects and investments in finance, machine learning and SaaS. Notable examples are IDI Direct Insurance, Istra Research, Cortera, cVidya, Leadspace, Champions Oncology, Relay Foods, and Sportority. Prior to his work in Battery Ventures, Eyal was one of the first employees of Old Lane, a $5.5B NYC-based global hedge fund (later acquired by Citigroup) and also worked for Castle Harlan, a leading $6B NYC-based buyout firm. Eyal graduated from the special program for outstanding students at the Hebrew University with an LLB in Law and advanced degree in Finance. He earned his MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Eyal was recently recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2016 at its Builders + Innovators Summit.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
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Mark Mullen
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Bonfire Ventures
Mark Mullen has added 20 years of investment banking experience and relationships in investing and raising capital. He launched his second fund in early 2012, Double M Partners LP. The fund currently has 14 investments as of December 31, 2012. The fund focuses on early stage investments in Southern Cal.
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About Bonfire Ventures, Double M Partners: Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for talented founders building the next generation of software giants.
Jim Andelman
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Bonfire Ventures
Jim is co-founder and Managing Director of Bonfire Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners. In this capacity, he is responsible for driving the firms’ investment activities, as well as the firm’s operations. Jim is in his sixteenth year as a VC. Previously, Jim led software investing at Broadview Capital Partners, a $250 million expansion-stage venture capital firm based in the Bay Area. Before BCP, Jim was a member of the Technology Investment Banking Group at Alex. Brown & Sons (and its successor, Deutsche Bank Securities). There, he concentrated on equity private placements and initial public offerings for software companies. Jim began his career with Symmetrix, a boutique management consulting firm founded by a Bain & Co. founder, which helped to create strategic advantage through the application of technology. At Symmetrix, Jim specialized in strategy formulation and economic modeling. Jim received his MBA with highest distinction (first in his class) from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College, and his BS in Economics (magna cum laude) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Jim serves on the Boards of Directors of Campus Explorer, Conversion Logic, Keen IO, Mobcrush, Rentlytics, Rainforest QA, Steelhouse, TaxJar and Tradesy. He previously served on the Boards of Cadforce (acquired by Neilsoft), Packet Island (acquired by BroadSoft), Burstly (acquired by Apple), DataPop (acquired by Criteo), and Shift (acquired by Brand Networks). In addition, he serves on the Boards of Directors of Friends of Yosemite Search and Rescue and the Los Angeles Venture Association, on the Advisory Board of the Douglas Family Preserve.
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About Bonfire Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners: Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for talented founders building the next generation of software giants.
Shreesha Ramdas
CEO & Co-Founder of Strikedeck
Shreesha’s an entrepreneurial executive with a track record of launching and growing products in competitive markets. He has demonstrated experience as a GM in the areas of product conception and development, growth hacking, go-to-market strategy and execution. Shreesha is currently VP of Corp Dev & Partnerships at CallidusCloud. Shreesha Ramdas was the co-founder & COO at LeadFormix, a marketing automation platform, where he raised the initial funding, built the company and contributed to a successful acquisition by CallidusCloud in January 2012. Prior to LeadFormix, Shreesha was a co-founder of OuterJoin, an online marketing services company and an early member at Yodlee, where he held the role of General Manager of Yodlee’s offshore development center in Bangalore, India.
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About Aavenir, AccuKnox, BuyerAssist.io, Cultivate, Enact Systems, Forbes Communications Council, Fullcast.io, Medallia, Metadata, Promethium, Revv, Rocketlane, Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Shabd Vaid
Co-Founder, CTO of Strikedeck
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About Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Waleed Mohsen
Founder & CEO of mynurse.ai
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About mynurse.ai: a digital health program to help seniors with chronic conditions live their best lives.
Ryan Chan
Founder and CEO of UpKeep
Founder @CEO at UpKeep. Angel Investor
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About UpKeep: UpKeep is a platform developed for technicians and maintenance workers that provides them with a computerized maintenance management system.
Kevin Leland
Founder & CEO of Halo
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About Halo, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Village Global: Halo is a market network that moves science forward by connecting companies directly with scientists for research collaborations
Chris Tsai
Co-Founder & CEO of Resolve
Chris Tsai is the Co-Founder & CEO at Resolve.
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About Resolve: Resolve is a B2B payments solution that streamlines accounts receivables by offering net terms-as-a-service and outsourced credit management to maximize revenue, fuel growth, and speed up invoice collections.
Brian Nguyen
Co-Founder of Resolve
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About Resolve: Resolve is a B2B payments platform that offers buy now, pay later billing for business purchases.
Domenic Merenda
CEO and Co-Founder of Ceqoo
Domenic Merenda is a seasoned Silicon Valley software executive with a passion for disrupting markets. At BeOpen.com (later PythonLabs) Domenic was an early and influential member of the business development and technology teams, and helped shape the direction of the Python programming language, which was the basis for Google’s search technology.
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About Ceqoo: Ceqoo makes sales teams better by helping sales development reps start faster, produce sooner and become prospecting “rock stars.”
Jason B. Hart
COO and Co-Founder of Ceqoo
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About Ceqoo: Ceqoo makes sales teams better by helping sales development reps start faster, produce sooner and become prospecting “rock stars.”
Preetish Nijhawan
Co-Founder & General Partner of Cervin Ventures
Preetish Nijhawan is Managing Director of Cervin Ventures. Most recently, Preetish was Chief Financial Officer for Neon Enterprise Software. Before that, Preetish was Vice President of Strategic Alliances at NeoEdge Networks, a video game advertising company. Preetish was also Vice President, Portfolio and Program Management for BMC Software. Prior to BMC, he was Vice President, Operations of iVita Corporation, an asset management software startup he helped found. Preetish has advised senior executives in hardware, software and telecom industries for McKinsey and Company. He co-founded Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) in 1998, He also worked for nearly six years in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) division at Intel in various engineering and program management roles. Preetish earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from The University of Southern California, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Cervin Ventures, QuanticMind, Replay Technologies: Cervin Ventures is a seed and early stage venture firm, focusing solely on opportunities in the B2B software space.
Neeraj Gupta
Co-Founder & General Partner of Cervin Ventures
Neeraj Gupta is Managing Director of Cervin Ventures. Most recently, Neeraj was a member of the executive team at Patni, a publicly listed IT services company where he led global sales and marketing with top line responsibility for ~$700M. Prior to that, he was a General Manager with responsibility for telecom, media, and growth industries. Neeraj founded Cymbal Corporation, an IT services company focused on telecom operators which he led as CEO from its inception to successful exit to Patni Computers (NYSE: PTI). In his earlier career, he held engineering and product management positions at Octel (acquired by Lucent) and Genesys (acquired by Alcatel). Neeraj has had significant global experience including stints in UK and India. Neeraj has a Bachelors in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Punjab University in India and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama.
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About Cervin Ventures, QuanticMind, Replay Technologies: Cervin Ventures is a seed and early stage venture firm, focusing solely on opportunities in the B2B software space.
Carson Kahn
Co-Founder & Board Director of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for his innovations across AI and Natural Language Processing, Carson Kahn is currently the co-founder of Spindle (www.spindle.app), a no-code AI startup backed by Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT/Notion/Airtable), and diverse Fortune 100 executives. Previously, he served as President of Brainspace AI (acquired by Reveal with $200 million from K1 Capital), the world’s leading natural language analytics engine, originally backed by the CIA. Mr. Kahn is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Computer Science at the University of Colorado; Stanford University AII; UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research; and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC); and advises venture-backed startups in AI/ML, PaaS, FinTech & InfoSec as a Techstars Mentor and angel investor. Mr. Kahn also invests with the $100 million Pandemic Impact Fund (PIF), Thiel-backed VC firm SI Capital, and Transpire Ventures. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and elsewhere; and he has been tapped for expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and Future of Work by members of the Congressional Caucus on AI & National Economic Council. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as CEO (promoted from CTO) of JPMorgan In–Residence business Volley ML, saving Fortune 500 firms >$52 million in real labor annually with the first fully autonomous training & sales enablement platform for financial & health services. Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for Volley’s innovations, Mr. Kahn designed, built, and sold Volley’s machine learning platform alongside an NLP team from Google, the NSA/CIA, Carnagie Mellon, and Goldman Sachs, seeded by $10 million from JPMorgan, Silicon Valley Bank, Zuckerberg Ventures, and execs from Goldman, Apple, and Facebook; before being recruited to lead Brainspace AI prior to its acquisition. Formerly, as Head of Product and co-founder at Keystone Learning Systems (KLS), the first LMS to offer cloud-native analytics and ML features for U.S. secondaries supporting >355,000 accounts, Mr. Kahn helped pioneer its now widely-imitated “extended enterprise” deployment model, before co-leading the entity sale to SPPEF Stirup Partners. On the heels of an externship at Google (via the ATLAS Institute), he formerly spanned product & technical marketing on the founding team at Vetica.com, whose real-time collaboration product Draftboard garnered users like Adobe & AOL while generating revenue from day 1. When the product was acquired by UK investors, Vetica launched Chalk.com, today the one of the 10 most popular learning analytics platforms in North America. A Black Belt in Karate and avid sportsman, Mr. Kahn can frequently be found training in a racquetball court or behind the wheel of an ATV. In his spare time, Mr. Kahn also moonlights behind a jazz piano near his home in the East Cut, San Francisco. Media Contact: Stacey Murray (stacey.murray.consulting@gmail.com) Press Kit: carsonkahn.com/press-kit
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Stanford University, Techstars, University of Colorado: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Ryan Atallah
Co-Founder & CEO of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
As co-founder and CTO, entrepreneur and engineer Ryan Atallah sold his natural language analytics startup Cleargraph to Tableau for $30 million in 2017; after which Tableau was acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), where Ryan served as a senior Software Engineer Manager overseeing the NLP-powered Ask Data product now featured in Tableau’s offerings. He departed to co-found intelligent No-Code enterprise data applications platform Spindle (www.spindle.app) with his twice-cofounder Carson Kahn. Spindle is now backed by Accel Partners (Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT, Notion, Airtable, Vercel), and diverse Fortune 100 executives who share in its mission to give teams data superpowers.
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Tableau: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Tom Harel
CTO and Co-Founder of Routable
Tom Harel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Routable.
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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.
Steven Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO of Moov
Steven Zhou is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Moov.
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About Moov: Moov is a software platform for buying and selling preowned manufacturing equipment.
Maxam Yeung
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Moov
Maxam Yeung is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Moov.
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About Moov: Moov is a software platform for buying and selling preowned manufacturing equipment.
Michia Rohrssen
Co-Founder, CEO of Prodigy
Michia Rohrssen is CEO at Prodigy, a growing Auto Startup.
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About Prodigy, Upstart: Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
Isaac Silverman
CEO & Founder of Daydream
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About Daydream: Democratizing the financial model. Stealth.
Keith McCarty
Founder & CEO of WAYV
Keith McCarty is the CEO and founder of WAYV. His leadership defines the overall vision and direction of the company and he touches all aspects of strategy, operations, marketing, product development, investor relations and company culture. Prior to WAYV, McCarty was a founding team member at the social enterprise platform Yammer, where he grew sales and marketing from one person to over 350 employees globally and contributed to the white-hot investor interest in workplace productivity software. In 2012, Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion. In 2013, Keith founded a technology that allowed consumers to safely order home delivery of cannabis (Eaze). He lead the company to become one of the top funded cannabis companies in the U.S. market with $51.5M in funding to-date. As California legalized adult use, Keith turned his attention to challenges upstream in the cannabis supply chain. In early 2017, Keith began developing a technical solution for the complex logistics required to get product to market. WAYV is the answer – a B2B platform that helps businesses move product quickly, safely, tracked in real-time, from producers to market, within a day. McCarty is a proven expert in the on-demand economy, entrepreneurship, software applications and business automation. He has successfully navigated complex, highly regulated spaces, balancing growth with compliance while deploying game-changing technology. McCarty has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in finance and marketing from Chapman University, The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics in Orange, California where he grew up. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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About WAYV: WAYV is an automated, e-commerce platform serving California’s cannabis industry.
Chris Grouchy
President and Co-Founder of Convictional
Chris Grouchy is the president and co-founder of Convictional. He is also a guest lecturer at Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. Chris previously worked at Shopify Plus.
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About Convictional: Convictional is a supplier enablement platform that helps enterprise B2C retailers and B2B distributors build and scale digital marketplace.
Mike Chen
CEO, Co-Founder of Magic
Mike Chen is the CEO at Magic
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About Bettir, Magic: Magic provides a 24/7 SMS based on-demand personal assistant service.
Nic Novak
Co-Founder of Magic
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About Magic: Magic provides a 24/7 SMS based on-demand personal assistant service.
Shay Bloch
Co Founder & CEO of JOBOX.ai
Shay Bloch, a serial global entrepreneur, is the CEO and co-founder of Jobox. He is also a board member in a number of external startups. Bloch holds over 15 years of experience in managing business development, sales, product marketing, and internet application development for the tweens demographic. Bloch sold his first startup at age 27, and led his second, Tweegee.com, from a garage stage startup to a successful global company that raised over $12M in funds and within two years became the leading web platform for kids in Russia, Turkey and Israel. The company launched successful activities in Argentina and Brazil, and is heading towards the rest of LATAM and Europe. Today, Shay is the CEO of Jobox, which serves over 5,000 pros in 39 states and has processed over $1B of transactions on its platform.
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About JOBOX.ai: JOBOX.ai is a AI startup disrupting the on-demand economy. Jobox officially launched from stealth mode in April 2022.
Maci Peterson Philitas
Founder & CEO of On Second Thought
Maci is the co-founder and CEO of On Second Thought, a messaging app whose patented technology lets users take back text messages before they get to the other person’s phone. She was recognized on Inc Magazine’s “30 Under 30 List” of 2016, and Washington Business Journal’s “40 Under 40 List” of 2015. In addition, Maci has been identified as “Tech’s Newest Innovator” by Essence Magazine, a rising leader in technology by Revolt TV, one of the “29 People You Should Know” by BET, and one of the “25 Black People in Tech You Should Know” by The Huffington Post. Maci began On Second Thought after winning 1st Place in the #StartupOasis pitch competition at South by Southwest in 2014. Maci is a member of the Internet Marketing Association’s Women Leaders Group. She was a member of the Founder’s Council at the 1776 Incubator in Washington, D.C., and an alumna of the MindShare Class of 2015. She has been invited to speak at a variety of leadership and business conferences including South by Southwest, The White House Initiative on HBCUs’ National HBCU Week Conference, Inc Magazine’s GrowCo, IdeaFest and Cox Communications’ Tech Summit.
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About On Second Thought: On Second Thought is a messaging app that enables its users to undo and edit messages before they get to the recipient’s phone.
Philip Dur
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of PeakSpan Capital
Phil has been a software investor for 15 years and has served on the boards of over twenty growth stage companies in his career.Before co-founding PeakSpan, Phil worked at Investor Growth Capital for ten years as a leader in the software investment team. Prior to joining IGC, Phil also worked at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners (the firm’s expansion and growth stage fund) as part of the technology investment team and started his career at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (the firm’s private equity fund) focusing on, among other things, investments in software and other technology areas. Phil is a graduate of Princeton University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and also served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve for seven years. Phil enjoys cooking (a graduate of the Peter Kump School and L’Escoffier de Gastronomie but still a very humble student), tennis, running, and spending time with his wife and two children enjoying everything Northern California has to offer.
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About Ecwid, PeakSpan Capital, Vyond, Yodeck: PeakSpan Capital is a growth stage investment firm partnering exclusively with disruptive B2B software companies.
KV Rao
Founder of Aviso
K. V. Rao is the co-founder of Silicon Valley-based unicorn Zuora, Inc, which held its IPO on April 12, 2018 (NYSE: ZUO). Rao also served as Zuora’s Chief Strategist and President. Previously, Rao was Director of Technology at WebEx (acq. by Cisco), and also worked for Salesforce.com and SGI. He started his career as the proverbial rocket scientist, as an Associate Scientist at NASA, then spent several years developing products at General Motors. He’s currently CEO of Aviso, serves as a member of the Advisory Board at Zuora, and is a US patent holder in computing technology. Rao earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from Iowa State University, an M.S. from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Ram Jambunathan
Managing Director & Founder of SAP.iO
Ram Jambunathan is the Managing Director & Founder of SAP.iO & he Attended University of Michigan.
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About SAP.iO: SAP.iO helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP.
Christian Lanng
Co-Founder & Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Tradeshift
Christian Lanng is founder of Tradeshift.com. Previously he was Head of the Center for Service oriented Infrastructure in the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency. Christian has 10 years of experience working with mobile-services, e-business, SOA and large scale payment systems. He managed the roll-out of service oriented infrastructure in the Danish public sector and supervised the next generation of SOA e-business infrastructure for all Danish companies and the public sector. He is an active member of a number of European e-business and infrastructure initiatives. He holds a bachelor degree in Sociology and is currently writing his master on emergent social systems.
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About The World Economic Forum, Tradeshift: Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers.
Felix Orwa
Founder/CEO of SOTE
Felix Orwa is the Founder & CEO of Sote. He is a former professional pilot.
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About SOTE: Sote is building the digital logistics infrastructure and largest B2B marketplace for Africa.
Scott Yacko
Founder/CTO of SOTE
Scott Yacko is the CTO & Co-founder at Sote.
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About SOTE: Sote is building the digital logistics infrastructure and largest B2B marketplace for Africa.
Eitan Bek
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of TLV Partners
Eitan is a founding partner of TLV Partners. He currently focuses on Mobile, IoT, Marketing Analytics and Fintech. His passion is working with great entrepreneurs and helping them build their dream. Eitan invested and partnered with the founders of Check (acquired by INTU), Videosurf (acquired by MSFT), AppsFlyer, Duda, 3DV (acquired by MSFT), Sckipio and Neura. Previously Eitan was a General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital and led Pitango’s Silicon Valley activity since 2007. Before that he was part of the founding team of an internet startup focused on bringing the internet to the elderly and held Executive positions at Elbit Systems. Eitan holds an MBA from the University of Michigan. Eitan also served as a Pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
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About TLV Partners: TLV Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to investing in innovative early-stage rounds.
Terry Garnett
Co-Founder and Board Member of Inxeption
Terry and partner David Helfrich formed Garnett & Helfrich Capital in 2003. He was also actively involved in forming and funding Crossworlds Software, whose founder and CEO was his wife Katrina Garnett. Crossworlds went public in 2000 and was acquired by IBM in 2001. Prior to founding his own company, Terry spent eight years with Venrock Associates where he was an early investor in Siebel, Checkpoint Software, Niku, Neoforma, and Neon Software. Prior to Venrock, Terry reported to Larry Ellison at Oracle Corporation, where he was a member of the Executive Management Committee and served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development.
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About Garnett & Helfrich Capital, Inxeption: Inxeption is a cloud-based digital commerce platform that helps B2B companies accelerate growth and manage logistics.
Brian Zatulove
Co-Founder & CEO of Emotive
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About Emotive: Emotive is a conversational texting platform for eCommerce brands, enabling two way text message communication at scale.
Zach Wise
Co-Founder of Emotive
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About Emotive: Emotive is a conversational texting platform for eCommerce brands, enabling two way text message communication at scale.
Bhavuk Kaul
Founder & CEO of Plate IQ
Co-Founder & CEO at Plate iQ.
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About Plate IQ: Plate IQ saves restaurants time and money by automating their invoice processing and accounts payable.
Brian Zotter
Co-Founder and CTO of Cacheflow
Brian Zotter has 15+ years of engineering and product management experience building and delivering enterprise-class products. Brian is currently VP and Technology and Products at ClearStory Data. Previously, Brian was Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce.com. Prior to Salesforce, Brian held senior engineering positions at EMC, BEA Systems and MobiTV. He is also a two-time founder and entrepreneur having founded Connectize and Boxcar Software (acquired by Documentum). With 8 patents in PaaS, SaaS and multiple other fields, he’s passionate about building and leading innovative, high-performance engineering teams.
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About Cacheflow: Sell more, Sell faster. With Flexible Payments.
Kris Rudeegraap
CEO, CoFounder of Sendoso
Kris Rudeegraap is CEO at Sendoso
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About CoffeeSender, Sendoso: Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.
Joseph Walla
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloSign
Joseph is the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco based startup HelloSign. The idea behind HelloSign was sparked by Joseph’s first successful product alongside co-founder Neal O’Mara, HelloFax. HelloFax launched in 2011 after attending the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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About HelloFax, HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Russell Middleton
Co-Founder of Zumper
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About Zumper: Zumper is a software platform that connects people with real estate rental properties.
Taylor Glass-Moore
Co-Founder of Zumper
Taylor Glass-Moore is a Co-Founder of Zumper.
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About Zumper: Zumper is a software platform that connects people with real estate rental properties.
Matt Wilkinson
Founder & CEO of SameSide
Entrepreneur, Growth Exec, Crossover B2B/B2C. Now CEO @ SameSide
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About Esellas, SameSide: B2B Commerce Enablement Platform for Buyers
Mark Fleming
Co-Founder of Creator Nova
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About Creator Nova: Creator Nova is a B2B marketplace that turns complicated business operations into inspiring beauty brands
James Tong
Co-Founder of Creator Nova
James Tong is a Co-Founder at Creator Nova
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About Creator Nova: Creator Nova is a B2B marketplace that turns complicated business operations into inspiring beauty brands
Michael Petter
Director/Founder of Eyvo Procurement Software
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About Eyvo Procurement Software: Eyvo eProcurement is a software development company specializing in Enterprise grade SaaS procurement solutions with worldwide clients.
Brent Jackson
CEO and Founder of Torpago
Brent Jackson is the CEO and founder of Torpago.
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About Torpago: Torpago is a financial technology company that provides corporate cards equipped with spend management software.
Kosta Popov
Founder & CEO of Cappasity
Kosta Popov, CEO and Founder, has 20+ years of experience and a successful track record as a software company CEO. Under Kosta’s lead, Cappasity has so far successfully raised $6.4M. Kosta is an expert in 3D technologies, SaaS solutions and mobile applications and was named one of the top innovators by Intel Software.
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About Cappasity: Cappasity is a cloud-based platform that lets online stores easily create and deliver 3D, VR and AR shopping experiences
Lily Ostapchuk
Co-Founder and CPO of Rentberry
Product strategy and creative direction at Rentberry.
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About Rentberry: Rentberry is a rental service platform that provides rental and price negotiation services to tenants and landlords.
Tommaso Trionfi
Co-Founder and CEO of Tocca
Tommaso co-founded Tocca in January 2018 and he is serving as its CEO. Before then Tommaso was the CEO of Monsoon Commerce, a holding company owned by PE firm Oak Hill Capital, between January 2014 and August 2017, when the last of the holding companies was successfully sold. Prior to joining Monsoon Commerce in January 2014, he had joined Merchantry along side investors Greycroftpartners and eVentures. Before then he was the Chief Executive Officer of Wimba from 2000 to 2009. He led the growth of the company from a Research Institute technology to the leading provider of Web-based SaaS collaboration software for the education market. At Wimba, Tommaso built a team of more than 140 people spanning three countries, and organized marketing, sales, business development, product management and finance into a structured organization before the company was sold to Blackboard (BBBB). Prior to Wimba, Tommaso led business development at Omniticket Network, worked as Chief Operating Officer of Southern Europe for Colorlux, a global engineering company, and served as Chief Operating Officer of Fontenay Industries, where he led operations and key acquisitions. Tommaso received his MBA from INSEAD, and master’s degree in Science and Technology with honors from the University of Grenoble. Tommaso is currently a member of the US council of INSEAD and a trustee of the INSEAD foundation.
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About Tocca: A virtual event solution focussed on demand generation for B2B companies that want to engage with prospects and customers.
Simon Maynard
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Bugsnag
Simon Maynard is a co-founder of bugsnag. Originally from the UK, Simon has over ten years experience in the tech industry. Whilst at university Simon began contracting his services as a developer, working on SoundPix and Microspot Interiors. Upon leaving university he continued as a contractor working for Vodafone, Thales, Nationwide and Swiss Re. In 2011 Simon moved to San Francisco to work for the USV and Y Combinator funded Heyzap before leaving to work on bugsnag.
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About Bugsnag: Bugsnag provides an automated crash detection platform for web and mobile applications.
Matt Danna
Co-Founder & CEO of Boulevard
Matt Danna is the Co-Founder and CEO at Boulevard.
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About Boulevard: Boulevard is a business management platform developed to help streamline the operations of appointment-based businesses.
Rob Weedn
Founder, CEO of DealSignal
Focused and driven executive & entrepreneur with 15 years experience in sales & business development, product strategy, marketing and finance. Created multipliers on revenue growth at 3 companies by taking new solutions to market. Built revenue streams key to successful exits at my last 2 companies. Delivered $20M revenue in the past 4 years with 175% average annual achievement and unparalleled 90% win rate. Created new business with customers such as Visa, Paypal, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, Union Bank, Walmart, Home Depot, Walgreens, Best Buy, Famsa, McKesson, Kaiser Permanente, American Medical Response, Sandisk, Sandia Labs, the FBI, US Air Force. I love building businesses in mobile, sensors, speech recognition and big data. Specialties: • Mobile, CRM, BPM, NLP, Big Data, Analytics, Visualization • Strong Technical background • Enterprise Sales • Consultative Sales • Leadership, Team Building • Product Strategy & Marketing • Lean Startup • Business Planning, P&L • Business Process Design & Execution • Demand Generation • Packaging, Pricing & Negotiation • BD & Alliances – VAR, SI, OEM • Keen sense of Mobile UX Design • Project Management (PMP) • Consulting & Project Delivery
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About DealSignal: DealSignal helps B2B companies maximize growth and conversions with targeted lead and account discovery and CRM data enrichment.
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.
Claire Schmidt
Founder and CEO of AllVoices
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About AllVoices: AllVoices is an employee feedback management platform that enables employees to share feedback directly to their company’s leadership.
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.
Erik Larson
Founder & CEO of Cloverpop
Cloverpop is a product of Erik’s desire for people to be happy at work, his passion for building great things and his curiosity about how our brains create our minds, our minds perceive our world, and our world becomes what we decide it to be. An Illinois farm boy turned MIT rocket scientist and Harvard MBA, Erik spent the past decade launching a dozen v1.0 SaaS products at Adobe and Macromedia. He’s also happily married to a wonderful wife with two cute kids and two dazzling dogs. On the weekends you’ll find them hiking, biking and skiing around Northern California.
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About Cloverpop: Cloverpop’s enterprise platform is the way to keep track of decisions in Slack. Make better decisions 2x faster with 100 percent visibility.
Roger Graves
CTO & Co-Founder of Cloverpop
Roger Graves is the Co-founder & CTO at Cloverpop
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About Cloverpop: Cloverpop’s enterprise platform is the way to keep track of decisions in Slack. Make better decisions 2x faster with 100 percent visibility.
Nicolas Stehle
Co-Founder & CEO of Scalefast
Nicolas Stehle is the founder and CEO at Scalefast, a leading full-service e-commerce solution provider that builds and operates Direct-to-Consumer online stores for brands that want to accelerate online sales without the time, cost, and risk of in-house development. After creating five companies in just 15 years, Nicolas is considered a serial entrepreneur in high tech fields. With Scalefast, his biggest venture to-date, Nicolas helps clients build and manage brands’ global e-commerce channels so they can focus on their customers’ needs. Since its inception in 2014, Scalefast Enterprise Cloud Commerce Platform has processed more than 14 million transactions, in 240 countries, for major brands like Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco Entertainment. With offices in Los Angeles, Paris and Madrid, Scalefast brings a synchronized, international team to deliver consistent digital consumer experience around the globe. Throughout his career, Nicolas has developed a reputation for creating successful start-ups and managing the high-impact growth within each of the companies. In total, Nicolas founded and held executive roles in three companies (Scalefast, Like Me I’m Famous and Everbee), and non-executive director and board member positions in two others (Flexycore and Slimpay). Before he graduated university, Nicolas patented an innovative approach to Network Security, raised 3M€ for the technology and had a fully operational business. He has a wide swath of experience with tech companies in a variety of industries ranging from Network security (Everbee), big data (Like Me I’m Famous), Payment (Slimpay) and successfully exited Flexycore, first French company acquired by Google Inc.
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About Scalefast: Scalefast is a digital commerce solution that simplifies and streamlines e-Commerce for inspirational brands.
Jagmeet Lamba
Founder and CEO of Certa
2x entrepreneur: Previously, co-founder of a startup backed by Microsoft and TechStars Social media consulting: Guided clients’ social media strategy with McKinsey Product manager for collaboration platform: Led development of enterprise collaboration tools Venture capital: Investment professional with Sonoma Management Partners, an India-focused series-A fund Engineer and MBA (Wharton) Traveler and foodie: Visited 40+ countries
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About Certa, The Vetted: Certa is an operational management platform that provides a fully integrated suite of products for third-party lifecycle management.
Stas Matviyenko
Founder & CEO of Allset
Founder of Allset.
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About Allset: Marketplace for restaurants and local diners. Online ordering and contactless solutions to serve customers commission-free.
Anna Polishchuk
CDO & Co-Founder of Allset
Anna Polishchuk is COO at Advice Wallet.
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About Allset: Marketplace for restaurants and local diners. Online ordering and contactless solutions to serve customers commission-free.
Joseph Terzi
CEO & Co-Founder of Priv
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About Priv: PRIV is a mobile and web platform where clients can book vetted beauty and wellness professionals to their location.
Vivek Joshi
Co-Founder & CEO of Entytle
Vivek is founder and CEO of LumaSense Technologies, a sensor & instrumentation company focused on the energy, cleantech and industrial markets. Vivek brings significant leadership experience to LumaSense Technologies. He is an executive with experience in various industries, spanning private equity, high technology, diversified industrial manufacturing and healthcare. Most recently, Vivek was an Operating Partner at Shah Capital Partners and Senior Vice President of Marketing for Sun Services, a $3.6 billion division of Sun Microsystems. He also served at Webvan as Vice-President of Program Operations, at GE Transportation as General Manager, Off Highway/Transit Systems, GE Corporate as Manager of Corporate Initiatives; Management Consulting with Booz Allen & Hamilton and operational experiences with Johnson & Johnson. Vivek has an M.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia , Charlottesville and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Mumbai.
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About Entytle: Entytle uses AI and ML to empower manufacturers to unlock installed base value.
Christine Moseley
Founder & CEO of Full Harvest
Christine Moseley, Full Harvest Founder + CEO, is a passionate serial social entrepreneur. At age 17, she started a music education non-profit, which is still growing 14 years later. Currently, at Full Harvest, she is solving the food waste problem at the farm level. Full Harvest is the first institutional B2B platform connecting large farms to food companies to sell surplus and imperfect produce. Christine has over 10 years of experience in the logistics and food industries at both Fortune 100 companies (P&G, Maersk- world’s largest logistics company) as well as high-growth food start-ups. In her last corporate role, she assisted Organic Avenue, a NYC healthy food + juice start-up, double in size as Head of Strategic Projects and Business Development. Christine holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and BA from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill.
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About Full Harvest: Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Matthew Sedigh
CEO & Founder of XCLAIM
Matt Sedigh has more than 15 years of experience in distressed legal, trading, advisory, and interim management roles. He has advised distressed businesses, debtors, creditors, and parties to transactions conducted in and out of court. He has extensive in-court experience overseeing all aspects of the Chapter 11 process as a Chief Restructuring Officer to companies in various industries. Mr. Sedigh has also provided expert testimony on behalf of his clients on a broad range of bankruptcy issues.
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About XCLAIM: XCLAIM is digitizing the financial market for selling bad debt receivables.
Ashwin Kumar
Co-Founder, CEO of Sway Finance
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About Sway Finance: Sway Finance is bringing artificial intelligence to the accounting industry.
Catherine Jue
Co-Founder, CTO of Sway Finance
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About Sway Finance: Sway Finance is bringing artificial intelligence to the accounting industry.
Amnon Mishor
Founder & CTO of Leadspace
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About Leadspace: Leadspace is a B2B customer data platform that drives personalized customer engagement for sales and marketing.
Jessika Lora
Founder and CEO of CarForce
A management consultant by training and Stanford BS and MS graduate with 10+ years of automotive and e-commerce experience. Previous GM of ebay’s Vehicles C2C business and Head of Automotive Corp Dev, managing strategy and operations for a $7.3B division and responsible for double-digit growth on ebay’s $1.6B vehicles C2C sector.
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About CarForce: CarForce is a multi-brand enterprise software platform that delivers real-time vehicle health insights using EDGE computing and ML
Paulo Martins
CEO & Co-Founder of Arena.im
CEO & Co-Founder at Arena.im Arena.im is a cloud-based marketing platform for live experiences. Our mission is to empower media companies to take back ownership of their audience from social networks and grow their community in their website.
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About Arena.im: Arena.im is Live Chat for Streaming, Live shopping and CDP
Sachin Bhat
Co-Founder & CTO of Scribe
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About Scribe: Scribe lets you convert all your favorite apps into completely customizable Slack Bots, within 5 minutes.
Andrew Rasmussen
Founder of Canny
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About Canny: Canny helps teams collect & manage feedback from their customers
Sarah Hum
Founder of Canny
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About Canny: Canny helps teams collect & manage feedback from their customers
Sam Oshay
CEO and Founder of Recurrency
Sam Oshay is the Founder and CEO of Recurrency.
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About Recurrency: Recurrency helps wholesale distributors and B2B retailers automate and optimize their pricing and sales processes.
Ujwal Battar
CTO and Co-Founder of Recapped
Ujwal Battar is the CTO and Co-founder of Recapped.
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About Recapped: Recapped is a Collaboration Platform for B2B revenue teams and their customers.
Yeskendir Kassenov
Co-Founder of LocateAI
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About LocateAI, Streamline: LocateAI is using geospatial data and machine learning to transform the antiquated, $4T real estate industry.
Peter Hu
CPO/Co-Founder of LocateAI
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About LocateAI, Streamline: LocateAI is using geospatial data and machine learning to transform the antiquated, $4T real estate industry.
Anush Ramani
CTO & Co-Founder of Xola
Anush Ramani is the Co-Founder & CTO at Xola.
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About Xola: Booking Software for Tour and Activity Companies
Antonio J Espinosa
Founder and CEO of Corlina
A results-focused CEO, entrepreneur and senior operating executive who has successfully led fast growth technology teams in start-ups and public corporations. Multiple-time CEO with a sales/marketing/operations background. I progressive career has been based upon cutting edge commercial knowledge and dynamic business success. I have worked with several highly innovative, international technology organizations in the US, EMEA, Asia and Latin America markets. I am a senior market strategist, with a proven track record of delivering positive results in both revenue & profitability. My hobbies include photography, the outdoors, and sports.
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About Corlina, Jackson Bay Group, LLC: The Corlina Trust System provides a real-time security management to Industrial IoT device tampering, TrustScore, and traceability.
Daniel Zito
Co-Founder & Director of Engineering of StructionSite
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About StructionSite: StructionSite is a new category of construction software – Intelligent Project Tracking. Cameras and AI automate the tracking of work onsite
Luke Deka
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Growbots
Founder at Growbots
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About Growbots: Growbots develops AI based platform for automating the outbound sales process.
Greg Pietruszynski
Founder & Board Member of Growbots
CEO and founder at Growbots (link: growbots.com) – 500 Startups company. Growbots goal is to create A.I. for sales. Serial entrepreneur, he was running 3 companies in China & Poland before Growbots and developed more than 200 different web/mobile products over last 6 years. Thanks to that experience he has mastered customer/user acquisition and metrics/funnel optimization. Mentor at Founder Institue, Lean Startup Machine and InfoShare. Automation freak and growth geek.
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About Growbots: Growbots develops AI based platform for automating the outbound sales process.
Nicholas Lau
Co-Founder.Design of Sendbloom
Nick is responsible for design, UI / UX, and front-end engineering at Sendbloom. He’s been lobbying for an in-house chef since the company was first founded. Nick holds a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics, both from Northwestern.
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About Sendbloom: Tailored outbound messaging for sales
Francis Brero
Co-Founder & CRO of MadKudu
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About MadKudu: MadKudu helps SaaS companies identify, qualify, and engage their leads throughout the buyer journey.
Sol Eun
CEO and Co-Founder of Uiflow
Sol Eun currently works as the Chief Executive Officer and the Co-Founder of Uiflow. He previously worked as Manager, Product Management, Data Discovery Platform at Workday.
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About Uiflow: Uiflow is a no-code platform that allows its users to build production applications using their enterprise data.
Eric Rowell
CTO and Co-Founder of Uiflow
Eric Rowell currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Uiflow. He previously worked as Head of Data Visualization at Workday.
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About Uiflow: Uiflow is a no-code platform that allows its users to build production applications using their enterprise data.
David Shi
Co-Founder & CEO of Operator
David Shi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Trimwire.
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About Operator: Operator makes it easy to connect and work with business data.
John Rittenhouse
CEO & Co-Founder of Fortera
John Rittenhouse is the Founder & CEO at Cavallino Capital
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About Cavallino Capital, Fortera, VinAsset: Membership based B2B Group Purchase Organization for the Beverage Industry
Michael Lippold
Founder & CEO of FreshRealm
Michael R. Lippold, also known as Mike, CFA, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of FreshRealm, LLC. Michael Lippold undertakes a wide range of responsibilities that include identifying potential mergers and acquisitions, valuations, new product identification and assessment, and capital-markets outreach, among other duties. He is a food-industry Securities Analyst. Michael Lippold served as the Director of Strategic Development of Calavo Growers Inc., Michael Lippold joined Calavo from Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, where he served as a Senior Research Analyst in the Consumer Sector since 2007. He also served as an Equity Analyst of Craig-Hallum Capital Group, Research Division. Michael Lippold spent seven years in the investment-management business before joining Craig-Hallum. Prior to that, he served as a Quantitative Portfolio Manager of Telluride Asset Management LLC, where he had oversight and traded a fundamental equity portfolio for two years. He served first as a Research Analyst and subsequently co-managed a small-cap stock portfolio with Rocket Capital Management LLC. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Michael Lippold earned his B.A. degree in Financial Economics from Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minn.
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About FreshRealm: FreshRealm partners with grocery, convenience, and omni channel retailers to provide meal destination solutions.
Ruben Vardanyan
Founder & CEO of Joomag, Inc.
Dr Ruben Vardanyan is an innovative and result-driven leader with more than a decade of experience in building hi-tech companies. He is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joomag, a US based SaaS company that provides integrated solution for creating interactive digital publications. Under Vardanyan’s guidance the company developed a series of revolutionary products and became an industry leader. He has extensive experience working with SMBs as well as large enterprises including Fortune 500 companies. He is an angel investor, advisor and serves as a board member for various tech startups. Prior to his Joomag experience, he was the founding CEO of mobile app development company Magy. The company produced several best-seller and award winning apps. In addition to being a master strategist, Vardanyan is an aficionado of all aspects of computer programming, security, databases, software, protocols and web servers. In fact, he co-authored “Principles of C++” and authored “Programming in Macromedia Flash Action Script.” Along with his Executive Education from Harvard, Vardanyan holds a PhD in Computer Science and maintains active involvement in workshops, trainings and is a guest speaker at several international conferences.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
David Aslanyan
Chief Customer Officer & Co-Founder of Joomag, Inc.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
Margot Schmorak
Co-Founder and CEO of Hostfully, Inc.
Margot Schmorak A proud graduate of the Blue Startups accelerator program, Margot is CEO and Co-Founder of Hostfully, a venture-funded startup in the vacation rental space. Hostfully helps companies save valuable time and make more money from their properties with best in class business tools. Founded in 2015, Hostfully’s customers have created content 40,000 times on the platform, and span across 80 countries. Prior to Hostfully, Margot was Head of Marketing and Strategy for the $200M business unit at ServiceSource (NASAQ: SREV). Before that, she launched the iPhone Developer Launch at Apple in 2008. She was also on the founding team of Coveroo, a venture-funded startup acquired by Zazzle in 2012. Margot graduated from Vassar College and holds an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She is originally from Minnesota, and now lives in San Francisco with her two kids and husband Ari.
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About Hostfully, Inc.: Making vacation rentals easier to book and more fun to stay in.
Stephan Osmont
Co-Founder and CTO of Hostfully, Inc.
Stephan is a seasoned entrepreneur, vacation rental owner, and relentless traveler. He founded three companies before founding Orbirental, which merged with Hostfully in 2018. Steph’s first job was working under Marc Andreessen at Netscape in 1998 as a Senior Software Engineer. He went on to found Intweetiv (acquired by PostPlanner) and PItchbrite (acquired by CapRally). Originally from Marseille, France, Stephan reluctantly came to the U.S. to attend the University of Wisconsin, Madison and warmed up to American entrepreneurial culture. Steph lives in San Francisco with his family, avidly following I’OM (Marseille) football and managing his vacation rentals and beehives around Point Reyes National Seashore.
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About Hostfully, Inc., Orbirental, Pitchbrite, Post Planner: Making vacation rentals easier to book and more fun to stay in.
David Jacoby
Co-Founder & President of Hostfully, Inc.
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About Hostfully, Inc.: Making vacation rentals easier to book and more fun to stay in.
Davit Baghdasaryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Krisp
Co-Founder & CEO at Krisp.
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About Krisp: Krisp makes remote workers more professional. It uses AI to mute background noise during the calls.
Vasco Pedro
Founder and CEO of Unbabel
Dr. Vasco Pedro is the co-founder and CEO of Unbabel. He owns the vision, overall business strategy and sets the direction for Unbabel’s product development. Responsible for the company’s culture, Vasco is heavily involved in recruiting and spearheads Unbabel’s fundraising efforts, which total USD$91 million in venture capital to date. He is a leading presence in the burgeoning Lisbon startup scene, with Unbabel known for being the first Portuguese company to be accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator program. In 2016 he won the Startup Founder of Year award by Startup Portugal, and has mentored several startups both at the Founders Institute and the Lisbon Challenge. He is currently serving on the Financial Board of Beta-i, a startup accelerator based in Lisbon who count the European Commission as one of their institutional partners. Vasco is no stranger to startups. Previous to Unbabel he was the technical founder and VP of Engineering at Dezine (dezine.com), a startup focused on disrupting the way new brands reached potential customers. There, he led the technical team in developing the product. His responsibilities included building a world-class engineering team, building prototypes at breakneck speed and bringing products to market. At Dezine, he worked with Unbabel’s now-CTO, João Graça and two other Unbabel co-founders, Hugo Silva and Bruno Silva who therefore have a long history of professional and personal collaboration together. In 2011, Vasco co-founded a startup called Flashgroup (flashgroup.com), where he was responsible for building the team in Portugal and initial business development deals, and was directly responsible for the first major partner. From 2009 – 2011 he was Founder and CEO of a startup called Bueda, Inc, where he led the vision and was responsible for the creation of a semantic matching platform for user-generated content. He took the company from inception to the successful release of three products and two rounds of funding. Previously in his career, in 2007, he was an Engineering Intern at Google, in the company’s famed HQ in Mountain View, California. His work focused on developing tools for large scale natural language semantic processing. Vasco also has a strong academic background. From 2011-2012 he was an invited Research Professor at the Technical Institute of Lisbon (IST) where he was responsible for the development and coordination of research projects at the intersection of Big Data and Social Network Semantic Analysis. Vasco received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in May 2009 from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), working with Jaime Carbonell and Eric Nyberg. His thesis, titled “Federated Ontology Search,” focused on developing new methods using ontologies (a set of concepts which compartmentalizes variables for computations and establishes the relationships between them) in large scale data-processing scenarios. From 2001-2009 he was a Research Assistant at the Language Technologies Institute, contributing in the field of Question Answering (a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language), alongside the team that eventually went on to create IBM’s Watson. Vasco was a Fulbright Scholar, 2001-2005, and was awarded a scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Ph.D. Scholarship, 2006-2010. He is married to Maria João and has four girls aged 12 and under: Beatriz, Mariana, Sofia and Teresa.
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About Beta-i, Replai, Unbabel: Unbabel allows modern enterprises to understand and be understood by their customers in dozens of languages.
Grant Wernick
CEO & Co-Founder of Fletch
Grant Wernick is a Co-founder at the local search and discovery company, Weotta. Worked with Venturehacks on the creation of Angellist, and the Kauffman Foundation on the creation of Kauffman Labs.
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About Fletch: Fletch provides ready-to-use analytics organized in solutions sets that are easy to understand and actionable on day one.
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.
Ketu Patel
Co-Founder, CTO of Rockbot
Ketu dreamt up Rockbot at his hometown bowling alley, Porterville Lanes. He’s a huge music nerd but isn’t afraid to admit the first tape he ever owned was C+C Music Factory’s seminal classic, “Gonna Make You Sweat”. When he’s not furiously coding and picking 5+ upvote jams on Rockbot, Ketu likes to snowboard and be disappointed by Cal football.
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About Rockbot: Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app and digital signage applications.
