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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 Founder operating in the Consumer Electronics 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.
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Mike Einziger
Co-Founder & Co-Chairman of Mixhalo
Michael Aaron “Mike” Einziger (born June 21, 1976) is an American musician, best known as the guitarist and co-songwriter of the rock band Incubus. Einziger is widely known as an innovator and enthusiast of the use of pedalboard guitar effects during live concerts, and was voted #41 in Total Guitar’s top 100 guitarists of all time in 2002. In an interview with Gibson Guitars, writer Steven Rosen states “[Einziger] hasn’t played the guitar so much as he has manipulated it, submitted it to his own needs. Einziger fashions a sonic tapestry that draws heavily from the Zappa/Vai/Hendrix school of rock.”[1] Mike is also an active composer, writing his first full-scale orchestral concert entitled “End.>vacuum”, as well as “Forced Curvature of Reflective Surfaces”; an experimental composition that was featured at the “West Coast, Left Coast” Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall. He co-wrote and played acoustic guitar on Avicii’s 2013 worldwide hit “Wake Me Up”.[2] Alongside this, Einziger also recently co-wrote and played guitar on David Guetta’s Lovers on the Sun. Outside of his work with Incubus, Einziger founded his own project Time Lapse Consortium in 2003. The group featured Incubus musicians Jose Pasillas II and Ben Kenney (who was not a member of Incubus at the time), Neal Evans of the band Soulive, and long-time collaborator Suzie Katayama contributing string arrangements. The band had their debut show at The Roxy in LA, and would go on to play Jimmy Kimmel and the Knitting Factory in New York City. In 2003 Einziger contributed to Ziggy Marley’s debut solo album Dragonfly alongside fellow Incubus member Chris Kilmore as well as Flea and John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers.[3] Einziger expanded into the realm of video games when he and his bandmates worked on the soundtrack of the popular game Halo 2, writing a 26-minute song that also featured Flea on trumpet. In 2006 Einziger produced the debut album “Red Rover” by Agent Sparks; a collaboration with younger brothers Benjamin Einziger and Paul Fried. In 2007, Einziger produced Nighttiming, the debut album of long-time friend and former Phantom Planet drummer and actor Jason Schwartzman’s Coconut Records project.[4] The album featured appearances by Kirsten Dunst, Zooey Deschanel, and Robert Schwartzman, and was recorded at Einziger’s own home studio in Malibu, CA (Casa Chica).
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About Mixhalo: Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events.
Ann Marie Simpson
Co-Founder & Co-Chairman of Mixhalo
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About Mixhalo: Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events.
Steven Yang
Founder & CEO of Anker
Steven Yang is the Founder and CEO of Anker Innovations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Peking University and a master’s in computer science from the University of Texas – Austin. He was a senior engineer at Google in California before leaving to found Anker in 2011.
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About Anker, Hunan Ocean Wing: Anker is a multinational team of techies that provides a range of products from batteries and chargers to hubs and readers, and more.
Markus Levin
Co-Founder of XYO
Markus mined his first Bitcoin in 2013 and has been captivated by blockchain technologies ever since. Markus has over 15 years experience in building, managing and growing companies around the globe. Markus is originally from Germany (with English as his second language), and specializes in getting the most out of companies by implementing data-driven systems and utilizing the key talents of each employee to get the best out of his team. After dropping out of his Ph.D. studies at Bocconi University, Markus began working with companies in hyper-growth industries around the globe. Markus has led cutting-edge technology ventures such as Novacore, “sterkly”, Hive Media and Koiyo.
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About XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Arie Trouw
CEO & CTO & Founder of XYO
Ten years before Elon Musk wrote his first line of computer code, another young prodigy from South Africa was busy writing software on his TRS-80 Model I. In 1978, at the age of 10, Arie Trouw started developing software on the TRS-80 Model I, moving on to Atari, Apple, and PC. He then ran a series of bulletin boards centering on game-theory modification. Arie is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with a rich history of technological breakthroughs and business successes involving multiple 8-figure exit events. He is a strong believer in decentralization and the creation of the integrated owner/user model. Arie founded XY in 2012 (incorporated as Ength Degree, LLC before it was converted to a C Corporation in 2016). He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to starting XY-The Findables Company, Arie was CEO and Chairman of Pike Holdings Inc and Chief Technology Officer of Tight Line Technologies LLC. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology. Fun Fact: He is a member of one of the first Afrikaans speaking families to emigrate to the US from South Africa in 1976.
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About XY Labs, XY – The Persistent Company, XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Scott Scheper
Founder, Vice Chairman & CMO of XYO
Scott has worked on many exciting ventures with exceptionally talented people, including the Co-founder of Uber. Scott’s first “real boss” was Arie Trouw, who hired Scott in 2009 during an economic recession, when very few companies were hiring, and even fewer were starting companies. What began as a Facebook app startup with four guys and a ping pong table, grew to over 200 employees and 9-figures in revenue in less than two years. In 2013 Scott took a break from corporate life to pursue the dream of working remotely on a laptop while sipping tropical drinks on the beaches of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (U.S.). During this period, Scott launched Greenlamp, a programmatic advertising agency specializing in direct-response media buying. The agency was fully automated; built entirely using algorithms to manage the campaigns. The team was built with project-basis software engineers, and had only one full-time employee: that being Scott. The advertising campaigns were managed by an automated system, nicknamed “Stewie” (Family Guy). 24-hours a day, Stewie managed everything, making automated tweaks to the advertising campaigns. He even emailed Scott to chat about the changes made (Stewie’s emails included signature Stewie lines). In its first year of operation, Greenlamp generated over $12M in revenue. When not working, Scott can be found reading books by his idols, Gary C. Halbert and Charlie Munger, or sometimes even outside with friends and family in San Diego, California.
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About XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Michael Leabman
Founder & CTO of Energous Corporation
Mr. Leabman became the Company’s Chief Technology Officer in October 2013. From September 2010 to September 2013, Mr. Leabman served as President of TruePath Wireless, a service provider and equipment provider in the broadband communications industry. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Leabman served as Chief Technology Officer for DataRunway Inc., a wireless communication company providing broadband internet to airlines. Mr. Leabman received both his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Leabman’s extensive knowledge of the Company, its technology and the consumer and commercial electronics industry position him well for service on our board of directors.
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About Energous Corporation: Energous Corporation is the creator of WattUp, charging technology for electronic devices.
Stina Ehrensvard
CEO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Internationally awarded entrepreneur, innovator and speaker with an unfaltering energy and passion for making the internet safer for all. Education in industrial product design at the University of the Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Jakob Ehrensvard
CTO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Built his first computer at the age of 15, self-employed software and hardware engineer since 19, designed the security system for Sweden’s largest nuclear plant at 25. Leading inventor of the YubiKey and FIDO/WebAuthn standards.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Jonathan Um
Co-Founder, COO of Hollar
Co-Founder & COO at Hollar.
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About Hollar: Hollar is an online dollar store that features toys, apparel, electronics, beauty, accessories, party supplies, to home essentials.
Eddie Rhyu
Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer of Hollar
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer at Hollar.
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About Hollar: Hollar is an online dollar store that features toys, apparel, electronics, beauty, accessories, party supplies, to home essentials.
Robert C. Walker
Founder, Investor, and Board Member of LARQ
Robert C. Walker has 20 years experience in the LED and compound semiconductor world, particularly in Asia, and 6 years of venture capital experience. He was formerly a Partner at Sierra Ventures and CEO of BridgeLux. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech.
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About LARQ: LARQ helps people access pristine drinking water easily and sustainably.
Gower Smith
CEO & Co-Founder of Swyft
Gower Smith is the founder of ZoomSystems and Co-Chairman of the Board. Prior to starting the company in 2002, Gower founded and led several other successful technology startups, including ComputerLand (a retailer of PC and technology products, acquired by Random Access), CGF Electronics (Australian distributor for Apple computer products), Archives Computers (a networking and software company, acquired by Impact Systems), and Boomerang Imaging Supplies (a leading printing supplies business, acquired by TCR). Gower completed his radio technician certificate with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, and studied microprocessors at the Melbourne Institute of Technology and Caulfield Institute of Technology.
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About Swyft: Swyft sells great products from leading brands in strategic high profile locations, serving customers.
Brian Levin
Co-Founder and VP of Global Sales of Swyft
Brian Levin is the Co-Founder and VP of Global Sales at Swyft
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About Swyft: Swyft sells great products from leading brands in strategic high profile locations, serving customers.
Nicholas Woodman
Owner, CEO & Founder of GoPro
While the eight-person staff of GoPro was enjoying the success of their first HD HERO camera in 2009, founder and CEO Nick Woodman realized one thing: to support his vision, he was going to need a bigger staff. But before Woodman could think bigger, he had to start out small. After receiving a degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, Woodman founded an online promotions company, Fun Bug. In 2001, Woodman sold Fun Bug and took off surfing and traveling the world. The decision inspired more than the personal – Woodman’s passion for surfing sparked the idea to create the now-popular wearable and gear mountable camera and in 2002, Woodman founded GoPro. After years of research and planning, the company released its first product, the GoPro HERO, a 35mm film-based camera that was worn on the wrist. Made up of some of Woodman’s friends and family members, the early GoPro team established the company as a true innovator by continually iterating on the product, moving from a film-based camera to a digital still and video camera. A lifetime extreme sports enthusiast, Woodman was learning how to race cars when he was compelled to move the camera from his wrist to the top of his car. This simple idea led to an array of camera mounting devices – for everything from helmets to surfboards, and even dog collars.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Brad Eckert
Co-Founder, CEO of Koko
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About Koko: Koko makes a device to monitor the health and safety of older adults in a completely passive way–with no wearables required.
Nick Weaver
Co-Founder and CEO of eero
Nick Weaver is Co-founder of eero inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Nick Weaver is an Associate at Menlo Ventures. Nick Weaver joined Menlo in 2012 and focuses on investments in mobile, consumer internet, digital media, and enterprise software. Prior to this, Nick Weaver worked at McKinsey & Company and advised technology and private equity clients on ecommerce, go-to-market strategy, and acquisitions. While at Stanford, he was involved Stanford Student Enterprises and helped found StartX (formerly, SSE Labs).
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
Nate Hardison
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of eero
Nate is a Preceptor in Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford in 2010 and his M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford in 2011.
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
Vikas Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wonder Workshop
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About Wonder Workshop: Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky
Founder and CEO of Instrumental
I’m the CEO of Instrumental, a company I founded to solve manufacturing’s biggest problem: the 20 to 35 cents of every dollar spent in manufacturing that is wasted. I have two degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and was an Apple Product Design Engineer for six years. I designed mechanical components for three iPods and led system product design for the Apple Watch Series 1. I spent over 300 days in China finding and fixing issues on one of the most admired manufacturing supply chains in the world. I regularly speak about the future of manufacturing and automation and write technical articles at www.instrumental.com/blog. As an advocate for increased diversity in technology, I founded the Women in STEM Mentorship Program WISMP.org in 2013, which has matched hundreds of women university students studying in STEM fields with practicing industry mentors to support their transitions into fulfilling STEM careers.
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About Instrumental: Ship hardware products on time with high-resolution manufacturing data.
Samuel Weiss
Founder & CTO of Instrumental
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About Instrumental: Ship hardware products on time with high-resolution manufacturing data.
Pierre-Emmanuel Evreux
Founder & CFO of Leia
Pierre has a passion for creating businesses with a profound competitive edge. Having moved from Wall Street to Silicon Valley to found Leia Inc. in 2013, Pierre believes that Leia Inc. is reimagining the way we experience and interact with content. Much more than nano-technology, it’s about humanity and beauty: allowing millions of people to get closer to the things they love. What Pierre loves the most is to see the smile on people’s face when they experience LitByLeia products for the first time.
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About Leia: Leia is an experience platform offering 3D Lightfield products and software applications.
David Fattal
Founder & CEO of Leia
David has had a lifelong fascination for Physics. In his early scientific career, he became an expert in the manipulation of light at the nanoscale – including single photon guns, quantum teleportation and holographic displays. Today as the CEO and Chief Innovator at Leia Inc, David has a passion for “making magic”. He gets up in the morning to share this passion with his team and the world at large.
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About Leia: Leia is an experience platform offering 3D Lightfield products and software applications.
Zhen Peng
Founder, CTO of Leia
Zhen has always been enthusiastic in adopting technologies to enrich life, bringing wow moments to the everyday through nano-photonics. At Leia Inc., Zhen is leading the efforts in nano-fabrication to implement it’s core technology in mass production, putting his fingerprint on a product that can truly make an impact in people’s life.
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About Leia: Leia is an experience platform offering 3D Lightfield products and software applications.
Liam Casey
Founder & CEO of PCH International
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH. He has lived 23 years in China and is recognized as a thought leader in new product introductions, supply chain orchestration, sustainability and startup initiatives. He is on the boards of the California College for the Arts, and UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.
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About PCH International: PCH provides a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands.
Jerome Scholler
Co-Founder of Osmo
Jerome Scholler is Co-founder of Osmo, and he is deeply passionate about the intersection of creative design, education and technology. He is a seasoned engineer from the game industry, having previously worked at Lucasarts and Ubisoft and worked on the user interface of Chrome for Android at Google.
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About Osmo: Osmo is an interactive play company bringing harmony between physical and digital.
Fahim Aziz
Founder & CEO of Backpack
Hacker at Backpack
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About Backpack, Kyokushin Wooster: Backpack is a website that connects travelers and shoppers globally.
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Florian Bohn
CEO & Co-Founder of GuRu
Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization. As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Hugo de Gentile
Co-Founder & CEO of Willo
Hugo de Gentile is the Co-Founder and CEO at Willo
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About Willo: Willo develops technology in oral health that automatically empowers everyone to achieve the best at-home clean possible.
James Bower
Founder of Wikipad
James Bower is the president of MasterImage 3D, LLC.
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About Citizens Reserve, SUKU, Wikipad: Wikipad is an Android-powered gaming tablet that has the features of a high quality tablet and is tough enough to take all.
Jason Hardi
Founder & CEO of Muzik
Jason Hardi is the visionary founder & CEO of Muzik, a hardware & software (“Smartware”) platform that is powering a new generation of connected, intelligent, wearable ambient technology. Jason and his team have created the worlds first smart headphone that seamlessly integrates with 3rd party apps and controls all connected devices. He invented the first motion controlled peripherals that send motion tracking data in real time without any latency. Over the last 5 years Jason has invented & designed many disruptive consumer electronic products, received 5 CES Innovation Awards, and has been issued several patents. In 2016, Jason and his team successfully launched and sold out of their first product (Muzik One) in Best Buy, Amazon, Brookstone, and Jet. He was the keynote speaker at the Microsoft Developer Build Conference in 2015 & 2016, and has been featured in Huffington Post, Billboard, Rolling Stone, TechCrunch, USA Today, Innovation & Tech Today and many other media outlets. Jason has successfully raised over $80 for Muzik, funded by some of the most strategic partners, industry leaders, celebrities, professional athletes, and Twitter. Jason graduated with a Bachelor of Science from NCSU, with concentrations in finance and marketing.
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About Muzik: Creators of The Worlds First Smart headphones designed to connect artists, fans, and brands like never before.
Raul Polakof
Founder & CEO of Scanntech
Raul Polakof is Founder & CEO at Scanntech.
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About Scanntech: Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores.
Johnny Hou
Founder / CEO of NZXT
Johnny Ho is a Founder and CEO at NZXT. He is also Co-Founder at Acaia. Mr. Ho received a bachelor of science in Computer Engineering at UC Irvine.
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About Acaia, NZXT: NZXT builds PC hardware for enthusiasts and gamers globally.
Charles Huang
Co-Founder of Green Throttle Games
Charles is the Co-Founder of Blue Goji Corp and CEO & Co-Founder of Indigo 7 and also the Advisor of Berkeley SkyDeck. He is a former co-founder of RedOctane and the co-creator of the Guitar Hero video game franchise. Guitar Hero launched in 2005 and went on to become the fastest video game to reach $1B in sales. Charles left Guitar Hero in 2010 and is currently the co-founder of Indigo 7, a startup focused on brands in fashion apparel and entertainment. He is an active, serial angel investor. Charles immigrated to California as a young child and currently resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and two daughters. He holds a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Green Throttle Games, Sinovation Ventures: Green Throttle Games develops quality, innovative games and hardware for mobile devices.
Charles Michael Yim
Founder and CEO of Breathometer
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About Breathometer, CMY Ventures, Cohabit Labs, Inc., Cointopia, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, VitaBowl, Walt Disney Television: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Stefan Lederer
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitmovin
Stefan Lederer is co-founder and Head of Business of bitmovinin 2012, a company which focuses on products, cloud services and consulting in the area of adaptive HTTP streaming. He received his B.Sc. (Bakk.) in Information Management in Aug’10, his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in Computer Science in Mar’12 and his M.Sc. (Mag.) in Marketing and International Management in Jun’13, all with distinction from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. He gained practical and international expertise in various companies (IBM, McKinsey&Company, Dolby, Hillside, Ilogs, etc.) and has a strong business focus in marketing and international management. He founded his first company in 2008 and led several IT projects in central and eastern Europe. In his position of an Assistant Professor at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group he participated in several EC-funded projects (ALICANTE, SocialSensor). His research topics include transport of modern/rich media, multimedia adaptation, QoS/QoE as well as future internet architectures and he has published more than 20 papers in these areas. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization, contributed several open source tools (DASHEncoder, DASHoverCCN VLC plugin) and datasets.
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About Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin: Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company providing adaptive streaming video infrastructure for global digital media companies.
Christopher Mueller
Co-Founder & CTO of Bitmovin
Christopher Mueller is CEO and Co-founder of bitmovin and Head of Technology. He received his M.Sc (Dipl. Ing.) in Computer Science from the Aplen-Adria University Klagenfurt with distinction. He gained practical expertise in various companies, notably Infineon Semiconductors and Dolby Laboratories Inc. Los Angeles, USA. His main research interests are multimedia streaming, networking, and multimedia adaptation. In his position as an Assistant Professor (Univ. Ass.) at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group (MMC) he has published more than 20 papers in these areas and currently holds 2 U.S. patents. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization and is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash. He contributed several open source tools, notably MPEG-DASH VLC plugin and libdash, worked in various EC-funded projects, e.g., ALICANTE and SocialSensor, and he is the supervisor and main contributor of the MPEG-DASH ITEC blog (dash.itec.aau.at) with more than 100k views per year.
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About Bitmovin: Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company providing adaptive streaming video infrastructure for global digital media companies.
Zach Supalla
Founder & CEO of Particle
Zach Supalla is the founder and CEO of Particle, an IoT startup that’s making it easier to build, connect and manage internet-connected hardware products deployed at massive scale. Supalla earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MEM (masters in engineering management) from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern. Before Particle, Supalla worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy, operations and product development. He is a graduate of HAX, the world’s first, and most prolific hardware accelerator.
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Derrick Xiong
Co-Founder & CMO of Ehang
Yifang (Derrick) Xiong is the Co-Founder of EHang, Inc.Prior to this, he Co-founded theRocketSpace Inc. He worked as Chairman of Student Council at Nanyang Technological University. Before that, he was the Analyst at Credit Suisse.
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About Ehang: Ehang is a technology enterprise focused on R&D and production in airplane and aircraft field.
Clay Alexander
Founder and CEO of Ember Technologies
Clay Alexander is an American inventor and serial entrepreneur who holds more than 100 patents worldwide and is the Founder and CEO of Ember, a global consumer electronics brand and maker of the World’s First Temperature Control Mug. As a lifelong entrepreneur, Alexander started his first company, Radiance Lightworks, in 1999 at the age of 23. It has become one of the top lighting design firms in the country, boasting an extensive client list which includes Universal Studios, Mattel and 20th Century Fox. He then launched his second company, Journée Lighting, in 2005 and created the world’s first LED track light. He scaled it to be one of the most respected brands in LED lighting and it was during this time that Alexander also invented General Electric’s LED light bulb, the GE Infusion™. With decades of experience building and scaling successful companies, Alexander combined both his business savvy and talent as a world-class inventor to launch Ember.
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About Ember Technologies, Radiance Lightworks: Ember Technologies is a design-led temperature control brand that produces a patented temperature adjustable dishware and drinkware.
Simon Weaver
CTO & Co-Founder of HomeX
Simon Weaver is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of HomeX. He currently leads the technology innovation efforts of the company, with a determination to build quantifiably better experiences for HomeX customers by solving previously unsolved problems in the engineering and science fields. Simon has been devising and building distributed and autonomous systems for 20 years, solving problems for Salesforce and Microsoft in the fields of big data, lights-out infrastructure, and artificial intelligence. Born and raised in England, Simon moved to the United States in 2004. He now resides in the Bay Area with his wife, three children, and their Siberian Husky. He enjoys serving on the board at his children’s school and advises a number of companies.
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About HomeX: HomeX is a home services platform designed for homeowners and service providers offering virtual solutions with remote assist.
Ken Goto
Co-Founder and CTO of Level Home
Ken Goto is the co-founder and CTO of Level Home Inc.
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About Level Home: Level Home is a startup that specializes in home automation and smart home control.
John Hui
Founder and Chairman of Fuhu
John Hui is the Founder and Chairman of Fuhu.
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About Fuhu: Fuhu is a designer and seller of cloud-served software, apps and products and services for children.
Rosanna Myers
Co-Founder of Carbon Robotics
Rosanna is the Co-Founder of Carbon Robotics.
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About Carbon Robotics: Carbon Robotics makes advanced robotics dramatically more accessible to help solve some of society’s most intractable problems.
Eric Sanchez
Co-Founder, CEO of Revl
Eric Sanchez is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Bruce Pla
Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer of Revl
Bruce Pla is a Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Nelson Vazquez
Co-Founder & CTO of Revl
Nelson Vazquez is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Ely Tsern
Co-Founder & CEO of Bryte
Ely is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bryte. He served as the vice-president and chief technologist at Rambus, leading new business and technology roadmap initiatives from concept to production, including licensing and IP development and the invention of over 180 U.S. patents.
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About Bryte: Bryte is a sleep technology company that designs and sells restorative intelligence products and services.
John Tompane
Co-Founder of Bryte
John Tompane is the Chairman, President, and Co-Founder of Bryte.
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About Bryte: Bryte is a sleep technology company that designs and sells restorative intelligence products and services.
Jacob Fraden
CEO, Founder of SensorJacket
Jacob is an electronic engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. Three of his nearly 60 inventions started Billion dollar industries: the instant ear (tympanic) thermometers, home blood pressure monitors and motion light switches. He was the founder of Thermoscan Inc. (Thermoscan Ear Thermometers), Advanced Monitors Corp. (veterinary imaging products) and SensorJacket, Inc. From 2006 till 2011Dr. Fraden was Chief Technical Officer of Kaz, Inc. He published over 80 technical papers and two books. His Handbook of Modern Sensors (5 editions) for the last 25 years has been used as a principal textbook on sensors by many universities worldwide. Dr. Fraden teaches the course on sensors at University of California, San Diego.
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About SensorJacket: SensorJacket is the market for protective phone cases (jackets) is saturated with huge number of designs.
Neeraj Bhardwaj
President and Founder of Loto Labs
Neeraj Bhardwaj is the CEO and co-founder of Loto Labs. Loto Labs was created with the simple goal of creating the best vaporizer possible. We formed our company in Redwood City, CA, where all of us met through our love of recreational ice hockey. From there, we discovered that none of us were happy with the vaporizers we used. We soon realized that all four of us had lots of experience in different fields that when put together would create an ideal company to make the best possible product out there. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University and and MBA from Santa Clara University. Neeraj has worked in sales and business development for 10 years in ultrasonics and medical worldwide. Wanting a change in life, he decided to attend Santa Clara University and get on the startup track. After graduate school, he and some of his cohort decided to start a bank to bank instant payment platform. Searching for investment, they latched on to the concept of crowdfunding. After working with his legal team, he worked to change the current crowdfunding laws and pass reforms. During that time he came up with the idea for the Evoke Vaporizer, and started Loto Labs (www.lotolabs.com). He and his team raised over $225,000 crowdfunding via Indiegogo (igg.me/at/evoke). Now Neeraj and his team are working diligently to get their product, the Evoke, up and running. He is married to a marketing manager at Ebay Inc. His parents started and run a high tech manufacturing company in State College, PA where Neeraj was born.
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About Loto Labs: The makers of the world’s first induction vaporizer
Noyan Berker
Founder & CEO of Mimiq
Noyan Berker is the Founder & CEO at Smart Mimic .
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About Mimiq: Mimiq Inc. (formerly Smart Mimic) is a Silicon Valley company that develops fifth-generation, long range, connected consumer devices.
Sly Lee
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Sly is a first generation American Entrepreneur & Scientist who is passionate about creating positive global impact through design and exponential technologies. He is co-founder & CEO of Emerge, a teleportation company with a vision to connect people’s emotions and feelings, on the path to ultimately “teleporting” our presence. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2018 recipient, a Singularity University Global Solutions Program 2015 Alumnus, World Economic Forum Global Future Council Member for AR/VR, has presented at the Skoll World Forum, and can be found surfing Venice Breakwater most mornings.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Mauricio Teran
Co-Founder & Head of Insights of Emerge
Mauricio Teran is the Co-Founder and the Head of Insights at Emerge.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Isaac Castro
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Isaac Castro is an immigrant entrepreneur and co-founder & co-CEO of Emerge, a Los Angeles-based company bringing touch and emotion to the metaverse. Emerge’s mission is to empower those who are separated to feel more present when it is not possible to be physically together. Isaac believes in a future where technological progress brings us closer together and where nobody is left behind. He is an MIT Technology Review ‘Innovator Under 35’ recipient for the invention of a medical device for more effective cancer treatment. As a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper, he actively worked on inspiring youth and fostering peace and reconciliation with former FARC guerrilla members in Colombia, work for which he was invited to participate and speak at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Isaac holds a master’s degree in telecommunications engineering, and he is a graduate of Google X and NASA sponsored Global Solutions Program at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Grant Prigge
Founder, CEO & Head Product Design of Mila Cares
Product and UI designer. Design-driven tech entrepreneur and co-founder of 3 startups across the healthcare, enterprise IT, and consumer IoT space.
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About Mila Cares: A refreshingly thoughtful air purifier
Jason Alvarez Cohen
CEO & Co-Founder of Popl
Jason Alvarez-Cohen is a tech entrepreneur and Forbes 30 under 30 honoree. He is the CEO, Co-Founder and chief engineer at Popl, a technology company based in Los Angeles that is building the next generation business card.
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About Popl: Popl allows users to share their social media and contact info with a tap.
Nick Eischens
COO and Co-Founder of Popl
Nick Eischens is the COO and Co-founder at Popl.
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About Popl: Popl allows users to share their social media and contact info with a tap.
Kevin Primat
Founder & CEO of Primed Technologies
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About Primed Technologies: Primed is redefining Conversational AI with the development of a fuzzy, friendly and talkative toy for children.
Robin Han
Founder & CEO of Zepp
Han, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, was a student at Peking University when the impact of the internet was first felt in broader society. But the vibrant discussions the internet initially spurred would prove too much for the ruling Communist Party which, over time, has become more sophisticated in reasserting control over information.
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About melo, Zepp: Zepp provides wearable sports technology products for baseball, golf, and tennis players.
Charlene Consolacion
CEO & Co-Founder of Biig
Charlene Consolacion co-founded the World’s First Smart Lockbox for Cars: The BiigVault, transforming the automotive industry by introducing a secured and smart lockbox into vehicles, enabling a wide-array of on-demand automotive services such as in-car trunk delivery. Charlene is constantly innovating in the dynamic and high-tech sphere. This patented system is easy to install, allowing customers to use their smartphones to control, monitor a wide range of connected car capabilities, and access on-demand services.
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About Biig, Phrame: BiigVault: The Smart Lockbox for Cars
Akshita Iyer
Co-Founder and CEO of Ome
Akshita Iyer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Inirv.
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About Ome: Ome reinvents the way people live through smart home technology.
Hugo Mercier
Founder of Dreem
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About Dreem: Dreem is a neurotechnology company composed of sleep pioneers, a team of experts fascinated by science, technology and design.
Colin Billings
Founder and CEO of Orro
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About Orro: Orro is the world’s first truly responsive lighting system.
Sabrina Kemeny
President, Co-Founder of Tap Systems
Sabrina Kemeny is a cofounder of TAP, a high tech start-up that is changing the way people interact with the electronic world. Dr. Kemeny co-invented the camera-on-a-chip technology which revolutionized digital imaging and is at the core of every cell phone camera, while working for Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Subsequently, she was cofounder and CEO of Photobit Corporation, the company that successfully commercialized the fledgling CMOS sensor technology. After managing several rounds of equity financing and negotiating many strategic alliances with players such as Kodak, Intel and Hitachi, she oversaw the acquisition of Photobit to Micron Technology, Inc. • BS, MS and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University o Received the Helena Rubinstein “Outstanding Women in Science” award • Member of the technical Staff at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory o Co-Inventor of the CMOS active pixel image sensor technology: the Camera-on-a-Chip that revolutionized digital imaging and is at the core of every cell phone camera today o The United States Space Foundation inducted her into the Space Technology Hall of Fame • Co-Founder and CEO of Photobit Corporation, the industry-leading supplier of CMOS image sensors that was acquired by Micron Technology, Inc o Negotiated exclusive license for the JPL patent portfolio o Negotiated strategic alliances with companies such as Intel, Kodak and Hitachi o Managed equity financing and oversaw the Micron exit. • Business advisor to several high tech start-ups in the Los Angeles area and an angel investor with Tech Coast Angels.
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About Tap Systems: Tap Systems is a developer of a wearable Bluetooth keyboard designed to help users type by tapping fingers on any surface.
Anush Elangovan
Founder & CEO of Nod
With over 15 years of experience building innovative products, 30 patents pending or issued, and a couple of legendary mountains climbed, Anush is one of those “impossible is nothing” types. Prior to founding Nod Labs, he was part of the original Chromebooks team at Google, and a lead engineer at Agnilux, FireEye and Cisco.
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About Nod: Nod seamlessly transforms your movements into commands. Nod accurately tracks your body and convey intent and identity to your environment.
Abdur Chowdhury
Co-Founder and CEO of Aura Frames
Abdur Chowdhury was the co-founder of Summize which he sold to Twitter in 2008. He then became Twitter’s Chief Scientist. A few years ago, he left and started a new company called Pushd, which is backed by a couple of million in seed funding from various angels, as well as Betaworks. On September 4, 2014 Pushd, Inc. released an Emoji based mobile app called Steven.
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About Aura Frames: Aura Frames is a smart picture frame designed to fill their home with beautiful photos of their family and friends.
Eric Jensen
Co-Founder & CTO of Aura Frames
Eric Jensen is a chief technology officer at Pushd, Inc. He also co-founded Summize, Inc., which was later acquired by Twitter. Prior to Pushd, Inc., Jensen worked at Twitter as a relevance tech lead. Jensen earned his PhD in computer science from [Illinois Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/illinois-institute-of-technology-chicago).
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About Aura Frames: Aura Frames is a smart picture frame designed to fill their home with beautiful photos of their family and friends.
Ram Fish
Founder, CEO of 19Labs
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About 19Labs, Samsung Electronics: Bringing The Clinic to you. Solution for Healthcare Providers that brings together Telehealth, RPM and smart diagnostic devices
Zeev Collin
Founder/VP Engineering of Semitech
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About Semitech: Semitech is an electronics company that provides a device for a semiconductor that converts the electricity grid into a smart grid.
Jonathan (Yoni) Ofir
Co-Founder & CEO of LEAF
Founder and CEO of Leaf – Automatic Cannabis Home Grow System. Previously Co-Founder and CPO of Alcohoot (now Vertisense) (Acquired).
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About LEAF: LEAF is a smart home appliance that lets users grow their own cannabis, food, and herbs.
Ann Crady Weiss
Founder, CEO of Hatch
Ann is a partner at True Ventures. She has deep experience as an entrepreneur, having founded and run two companies, both funded by the firm. Her experience to date spans early-stage consumer, mobile, and IOT companies. Her passion is working with early stage founders who have a clear vision and quiet confidence. Ann is currently the CEO and co-founder of Hatch Baby, creator of smart nursery products that use technology and user-centric design to make caring for a baby a little easier and more joyful. A testament to the company’s traction, Hatch Baby products appear on 20 percent of all baby gift registries. Ann previously founded and ran Maya’s Mom, a social network that was acquired by Johnson & Johnson. She was an executive in the search and marketplace division of Yahoo and also served as the senior vice president of consumer experience for BabyCenter. Ann received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego and a law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown Law Center. When she’s not working at True or Hatch Baby, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. She aspires to exercise more and reads fiction to relax her mind.
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About Hatch, True Ventures: Hatch offers a suite of smart sleep products to help humans of all ages and stages develop and maintain natural healthy sleep habits.
Hasty Granbery
Founder and CEO of Currant
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About Currant: Currant creates smart home products that enable people to control their homes and their energy bills.
Julie Uhrman
Founder & CEO of OUYA
Julie Uhrman is a video game entrepreneur. She is founder and CEO of OUYA—an innovative gaming console that enables any developer to publish a console game by bringing the mobile app model to the TV. OUYA is a powerful, beautifully designed, open and inexpensive alternative to traditional game consoles. Julie started in the game business ten years ago. Before launching OUYA, she held several executive roles with video game companies such as GameFly, IGN (where she led digital distribution and business development) and Vivendi Universal. Julie loves to play games: she plays platformers, 3rd person shooters and she loves playing games on a TV. But the last few years, she’s played more on mobile phones, because that’s where the action’s been. She wants to go back to playing on a TV. By combining a classic console format with the ease of access of open mobile SDKs, Julie seeks to make OUYA the open pathway for all developers—AAA and indie alike—to bring their craft to the world.
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About Angel City, Highway1, OUYA: OUYA develops and delivers open video game consoles for televisions.
Li Han Chan
Founder & Chairman of DynaOptics
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About DynaOptics, Sierra Angels, Zoox: Miniature advanced optics using IP-protected freeform lens technology for mobile phone cam, self-driving auto, military/UAV, IoT, security
Thomas Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Brava Home
Thomas Cheng is the co-founder and COO at Brava Home Inc Prior to his current role, he worked as advisor, head of hardware, at August Home, Inc., as technical co-founder at Streetline Networks, and as an engineering consultant at Dust networks. Cheng, through his businesses, has also won various awards including Global Entrepreneur of the year from IBM, Technology innovation award in transportation from the Wall Street Journal, and 10 most innovative companies in transportation from the Fast Company magazine.
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About Brava Home: Brava Home is an IoT and domestic automation company that integrates technology and design to enable joyful experiences in the home.
Scott Novich
Co-Founder & CTO of Neosensory
Scott Novich is the Co-Founder & CTO at Neosensory, Inc.
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About DEF CON, Neosensory: Neosensory gives people new senses via haptic feedback.
David Eagleman
Founder/CEO of Neosensory
Eagleman is a neuroscientist, an adjunct professor at Stanford, and a Guggenheim Fellow, with first-author scientific publications in journals from Science to Nature. Eagleman has spun two successful companies out of his laboratory: NeoSensory and BrainCheck. He is an internationally bestselling author about the brain, with his books translated into 32 languages. He is also the author and creator of the Emmy-nominated international television series, “The Brain with David Eagleman”. He writes for the New York Times, Discover, Slate, Wall Street Journal, and many other venues.
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About BrainCheck, Neosensory: Neosensory gives people new senses via haptic feedback.
Sanjay Jhawar
Co-Founder and President of RealWear
Sanjay Jhawar is Co-founder, President and Chief Product Officer at RealWear – makers of the world’s first head-mounted tablet computer – a wearable that completely frees the hands of industrial workers. Known as a strategist, innovator and leader for over 25 years, Sanjay has a deep product background in mobile devices including smartphones and wearables, mobile SaaS cloud services, client apps, accessories and core network infrastructure.
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About RealWear, St. Paul Venture Capital: RealWear develops a small screen tablet to be worn with an industrial helmet for workers in the field, factory, or warehouse.
Andy Lowery
Co-Founder of RealWear
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About RealWear: RealWear develops a small screen tablet to be worn with an industrial helmet for workers in the field, factory, or warehouse.
Sankar Thiagasamudram
Founder & CEO of Audeze
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About Audeze: Audeze is a California-based high-end audio manufacturer delivering the most accurate sound reproduction available today.
Stephen Svajian
CEO and Co-Founder of Anova Culinary
Steve is the Co-Founder and CEO of Anova. Since its founding in 2013, the company has become one of the most successful startup hardware brands in the Bay Area.
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About Anova Culinary: Anova is changing the way people cook, making it easy for everyone to create restaurant-like experiences, everyday.
Shaun Moore
Founder & CEO of Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell
Shaun Moore is a Founder & CEO at Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell.
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About 500 Startups, Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell, OAKED, Tech London Advocates, Trueface: First product – Intelligent doorbell that uses facial recognition and proprietary tech to make the front door a gateway to a connected home.
Prachi Baxi
Co-Founder of SmartyPans
Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer electronics industry. Skilled in Nutrition Education, School Nutrition, Wellness Coaching, Yoga, and Fitness Training. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master’s in Clinical Nutrition
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About SmartyPans: We are the cookware brand for fitness focused home cooks. Our patented cookware automate nutrition tracking of home cooked meals
Suresh Singamsetty
Founder & CEO of WiSilica
Suresh Singamsetty joined TraceSafe as Chief Technology Officer in 2020.
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About TraceSafe, WiSilica: WiSilica’s platform is the smartest, most flexible way to converge infrastructure
Andrew Rickman
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Rockley Photonics
Andrew Rickman currently serves Rockley Photonics as CEO. Prior to this, Andrew spent six years with Kotura as a chairman.
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About Rockley Photonics, The Rockley Group: Rockley Photonics manufactures photonics chips and custom integrated packaged products.
Roel Peeters
Founder & CEO of Roost
Roel Peeters is the CEO & Co-founder of Roost. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of startup experience ranging from enterprise software to consumer electronics and semiconductors. Before starting Roost in 2014, he was the co-founder of Ozmo Devices, a pioneer in low-power Wi-Fi. Ozmo delivered the enabling technology for the world’s first WiFi mouse (marketed by HP) and the WiFi remote control shipping with the Roku 3 box.
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About Roost: Roost is a Sunnyvale, CA-based developer of affordable smart home technology.
James Blackwell
Founder & CTO of Roost
James is a wireless industry veteran with over 20 years of leadership experience in the design and manufacturing of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi systems, including CSR and Ozmo Devices.
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About Roost: Roost is a Sunnyvale, CA-based developer of affordable smart home technology.
Eric Glader
Co-Founder, CEO of PowerDot
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About PowerDot: PowerDot offers access to cutting-edge health and wellness technology from the comfort of your home.
Clément Perrot
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Prynt
Clément Perrot Co-founder and CEO holds two Master degrees in Innovation Management and Polytechnic Entrepreneurship from the French Ecole Polytechnique and the UC Berkeley. While Clément was a full-time student, he worked as a Junior Consultant on several projects for DuoConseil X-HEC, Paris. He also acquired international experience during his internship in Shanghai, China, where he participated in M&A development and industrial partnerships between China and Europe. Towards the end of his studies, Clément was a Visiting Associate for the Boston Consulting Group in Paris, where he participated on projects such as the reorganization of a major consumer goods company in Europe. These international experiences lead him to participate in the creation of several startups, including Prynt, which he currently is the CEO.
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About Prynt: Prynt develops a photo-printing phone case that brings photos to life.
Tim Feess
Co-Founder and CEO of MYGNAR
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About MYGNAR: MYGNAR is the developer of GNARBOX, a rugged backup device for professional content creators.
Will Africano
Co-Founder and CMO of MYGNAR
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About MYGNAR: MYGNAR is the developer of GNARBOX, a rugged backup device for professional content creators.
Ryan Howard
Founder, CEO, & Chairman of 100Plus
Ryan is the founder, chairman and CEO of Practice Fusion. He founded the company in 2005 and has grown it into the largest physician-patient community in the US. Serving over 80 million patients, the platform connects doctors, pharmacies, labs, and imaging centers to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges. Under Ryan’s leadership, the company has raised $150 million in capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Orbimed Advisors, Deerfield Management Company, Artis Ventures, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures and Band of Angels to fuel its rapid growth. Ryan has spoken on health technology and innovation at Microsoft, Stanford, UC Berkeley, HIMSS, SDForum and Commonwealth Club events and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Wired as an innovative leader in the sector. He has been recognized as one of the Top 40 under 40 by the San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
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About 100Plus: 100Plus is the fastest-growing Remote Patient Monitoring Platform for doctors to manage their chronic patients to avoid episodic care.
Sarah McDevitt
Founder & CEO of Core
Sarah McDevitt, a college basketball star turned hardware founder whose product she hopes to have in consumers’ hands by this holiday season — even while she’s acutely aware that a lot has to go right first.
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About Core: Core provides a meditation experience device that uses haptics and biofeedback to guide progress and personalize techniques.
Brian Bolze
Co-Founder, CTO / CPO of Core
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About Core: Core provides a meditation experience device that uses haptics and biofeedback to guide progress and personalize techniques.
Michael Gordon
Founder and VP, Software Engineering of Blustream
Michael Gordon is the Vice President of Software Development at Blustream Corporation.
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About Blustream: Blustream is an after-sale customer engagement platform that connects physical goods companies with customers using product usage data.
Mohamed Mohamed
Founder and CEO of Linka
Founder at Velasso
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About Linka: Linka is a auto-unlocking bike lock to combine theft-tracking GPS and global tamper alerts.
Mo Maghsoudnia
Founder and CEO of UltraSense Systems
Mo Maghsoudnia is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of UltraSense Systems.
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About InvenSense, UltraSense Systems: UltraSense Systems offers sensor solutions for smartphones, home appliances, automotive, and medical industries.
Vivek Khandelwal
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Locix
Vivek Khandelwal is the VP of Business Development at Locix. Prior to joining Locix, Vivek served as the VP of Business Development and Marketing at PROWLER.io. He holds an MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University.
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About Locix: Locix develops solutions to provide spatial and contextual awareness to buildings, homes, and connected devices.
Vikram Pavate
Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Locix
Vikram Pavate is the CEO of Locix. Prior to that, Vikram served as the Vice President of Business Development at LuxVue Technology. He holds an MBA in entrepreneurial management from The Wharton School, an MS in materials science and engineering from Purdue University, and BS in ceramic engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi.
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About Locix: Locix develops solutions to provide spatial and contextual awareness to buildings, homes, and connected devices.
