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 Information Services 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.
Jonathan Manzi
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Protocol
Jonathan Manzi is the CEO and co-founder of Beyond Protocol, the company developing a new internet based on a universal platform that enables inter-device communication. He is considered a global expert in frontier technology, specializing in building multiple successful businesses in divergent industries. Prior to Beyond, Manzi left Stanford University, where he presided as the Chair of Entrepreneurship and co-founded a non-profit for youth entrepreneurship, to co-found and serve as CEO of ink.
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About Beyond Protocol, Ink: Blockchain, cybersecurity, IoT, payment
Sam Lessin
Co-Founder of Fin.com
Sam is currently the co-CEO of Fin and a General Partner at Slow Ventures. He was formerly a vice president of product management at Facebook from 2010 to 2014, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Prior to joining Facebook Sam founded drop.io, a file-sharing platform that was acquired by Facebook in 2010. Before drop.io Sam was an associate at Bain and Company. In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He writes a column at The Information, where he interns.
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About Fin.com, Slow Ventures, SocialGreat, Thimble: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Charlie Cheever
Co-Founder of Expo
Charlie Cheever is the co-founder of [Quora](/organization/quora), formerly Alma Networks. Before founding Quora Charlie worked as an engineer and manager at [Facebook](/organization/facebook), where he oversaw the creation of Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform. Prior to joining Facebook, Charlie served as a Software Development Engineer at [Amazon](/organization/amazon). Charlie graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Computer Science.
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About Expo: Expo lets you write apps that run on web, iOS, and Android with a single React codebase.
Michelle Tandler
Founder and Chief Researcher of Life School
Category Manager at Thumbtack
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About Life School, Parachute Home, Thumbtack: Life School teaches people one new skill at a time by providing lessons structured into short courses.
Adam D’Angelo
Founder & CEO of Quora
Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded. Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the Facebook Platform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
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About Quora: Quora is a Q&A platform with a mission to share and grow the world’s knowledge.
Michael Perone
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
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About 345 Partners, Opensense, Switch9, Inc.: Everyday email, evolved.
Amit Gupta
CEO & Founder of Opensense
Amit spent most of his career in high technology, media, and infrastructure. He co-founded SenderGen in 2013, and spearheaded development on the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where Amit serves as co-founder and CEO. Prior to SenderGen, he co-founded Affle Limited which is a mobile media company with extensive operations in the Asia Pacific. While there, he was responsible for driving new product initiatives and helped to source and complete Microsoft’s strategic investment in Affle. Affle’s flagship product and campaigns later won a top global award by the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to Affle, Amit worked at Bloomberg New York, and subsequently at Bloomberg London helping to plan and implement major new projects such as “Bloomberg Anywhere” that helped to drive $500M+ in new revenues annually. While there, he also designed and implemented highly scalable system architectures that were used to support millions of users. Systems integration is his specialty. He is a technology enthusiast and likes to get his hands dirty with new projects. He also has spent time at various high technology companies developing virtual reality applications, medical imaging algorithms, neural networks and financial trading systems. Amit holds a B.S. in Computer Science (Honors) from the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Bobby Narang
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
Bobby co-founded SenderGen in 2013, where he led sales and marketing for the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where he serves as co-founder and VP, Sales. Prior to SenderGen, Bobby was sales lead at Intralinks (NYSE: IL), where he was responsible for sales to the largest firms in the financial services industry, as well as selling directly into the C-Suite at firms within the Fortune 1000. As a highlight, In 2013, Bobby secured Intralinks first full enterprise agreement at a major investment bank in New York, marking a significant win for the organization. Prior to Intralinks, was in sales at Yext, where he was responsible for generating new business within a dozen different SMB verticals. Additionally, he served in a Business Development role where he successfully spearheaded the launch of six new vertical-focused product lines. Bobby has a passion for evangelizing cutting-edge technology solutions that disrupt “the old way of doing things.” Bobby holds a BSBA with a concentration in Finance from Boston University.
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Valery Vavilov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury Group
Seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in information technology and business management. Original founding member of BitFury. Assumed the role of BitFury CEO in 2011. Prior to that, held numerous technology and business leadership positions. MS in Computer Science, Riga Transport & Telecommunication University.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Valery Nebesny
Founder and CTO of Bitfury Group
Founder and CTO of BitFury Group.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Nathan Resnick
CEO and Founder of Sourcify
Nathan Resnick is the CEO of Sourcify, a platform that makes manufacturing easy. In the past, Nathan has brought dozens of products to market, ran three ecommerce companies (sold one), and been a part of projects on Kickstarter raising over seven figures. He writes for media outlets like Entrepreneur, The Next Web, Business.com, and more. Nathan also used to live in China and speaks Mandarin.
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About Bubble Hotels, Business 2 Community, Entrepreneur Media, HuffPost, Social Media Today, Sourcify: Sourcify is a manufacturing platform that directly connects customers with factories overseas.
Jonathan Hirsch
Founder of Syapse
Jonathan Hirsch is the Founder and President of Syapse, a software company transforming healthcare by bringing omics into routine medical use. At Syapse, Jonathan works closely with diagnostic and healthcare providers, helping translate customer problems into software solutions. Jonathan is an Advisory Board member of the SXSW Accelerator, a mentor for UCSF Lean Launchpad for Healthcare course, and a member of the Steering Committee of Free the Data!, an effort started by Genetic Alliance and UCSF to crowdsource the interpretation of cancer genes. Earlier in his career, Jonathan worked in Neuroscience Commercial Development at Abbott Laboratories, where he developed strategies to fund drug development through partnerships and private equity financing. His research at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago helped establish the effect of exercise on promoting hippocampal neurogenesis and combating Alzheimer’s disease. Jonathan received an M.Sci. in Neuroscience from Stanford University, and an A.B. in Biology and Political Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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About Syapse: Syapse is a real-world evidence company dedicated to extinguishing the fear and burden of serious disease by advancing real-world care
Lily Xu
Underrepresented Founder Startups of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Jacob Orrin
Co-Founder and COO of Merit
Jacob Orrin is the COO and Co-founder of Merit. Merit’s verified identity platform brings visibility, liquidity, and trust to people-data, giving organizations the clarity to make better-informed decisions, engage with individuals effectively, and pursue their mission efficiently. Merit works with trusted private, state, and municipal organizations to solve critical real-world problems in sectors such as workforce development, emergency services, licensing, education, and defense readiness.
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About Merit, Merit: Merit develops a verified identity platform to help organizations in managing personnel data.
Faraz Sayyed
Founder of VIVID Technologies
Omer Khan is one of the co-founders for Vivid technologies. He has over 10 years of experience working with several blue chip telecom companies and banks, including AT&T, Barclays, Telenor, Apple and BNYM. He has been project managing and leading the telephony infrastructure that runs a business of more than $200 M. His last engagement was for Barclays UK where he was leading the Contact Center infrastructure engineering team responsible for implementing speech recognition IVRs. In recent past, Vivid technologies has been incubated by Microsoft Ventures, UK and now a part of acceleration program in Silicon valley (Blackbox). Omer has also published research papers on SIPs weaknesses and how to mitigate them. He has also been a speaker at Black Hat, Chase and HITB Malaysia. Interestingly Omer is not only a techy/co-founder but also a part-time musician who has played with mainstream bands (Noori, MHB, EP) in Pakistan and a half baked writer. He has assisted in scripts for 2 feature films in Pakistan (Khuda key liye, Bol).
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About Living Amsterdam, Living Amsterdam, Notion Technologies, systemini internet technologies, VIVID Technologies: VIVID Technologies are transforming the traditional customer service experience.
Ken Kalopsis
Co-Founder + Vice-Chair of Startech.Com
Ken Kalopsis is co-founder of StarTech.com and as the company’s most senior ambassador, he maintains strong partnerships with key customers. Ken also spearheads StarTech.com’s global customer expansion so you will frequently find him at airports and hotels around the world. As a key member and contributor to the Executive team, Ken provides critical input and direction to StarTech.com. Having been actively involved with all aspects of the company throughout the years, he knows the business inside and out – with a particular focus in sales and operations. As a member of TEC Canada, Ken provides insights into company best practices and continuous improvement. Ken has a longstanding record of community involvement. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Grand Theatre Foundation and the Greater London International Airport. He also served as Executive Director of the Canadian Economic Development Assistance for South Sudan (CEDASS) after serving as a director for the previous five years. Ken earned a degree in History & Political Science from The University of Western Ontario.
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About Startech.Com: StarTech.com operates as a manufacturer of hard-to-find connectivity parts.
Jahan Khanna
CEO & Co-Founder of Firemaps
Jahan leads Sidecar’s technology vision. As a University of Michigan Student, Jahan was the lead programmer on the “Magic Bus Project,” a transit application that tells passengers how long they’ll wait for the next bus. This school project became Shepherd Intelligent Systems, a transportation software company for public transit, taxi, limo, school, and shuttle bus fleets that is still used by the University of Michigan today. In 2011, Jahan, Sunil and Nick came together to create Sidecar. Under Jahan’s leadership, the engineering team has developed a dynamic, intuitive and scalable platform that has matched more than 250,000 shared rides to date. In the winter of 2011 Jahan found himself stranded when he left a party in the Marina District of San Francisco and couldn’t find a cab. He grabbed a ride home with a pizza delivery guy and gave him $20 for helping him out. Just like that, an idea was born.
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About Firemaps: Firemaps operates a wildfire management platform that offers home defense plans.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Aart Geus
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Synopsys
Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis enterprise to the world leader in electronic design automation.
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About Synopsys, Tinfoil Security: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Pranay Kapadia
Co-Founder & CEO of Notable
Pranay Kapadia is a VP of Product at Blend Labs.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Adam Ting
Co-Founder & CPO of Notable
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Justin White
CTO and Co-Founder of Notable
Justine White is the Co-Founder & CTO at Notable.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Lalit Singh
President & Co-Founder of Vareto
Founder, angel investor, and former COO at Udacity and HPE.
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About Vareto: Strategic Finance Platform for finance and executive teams
Dwayne Lafleur
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ezoic
Dwayne Lafleur is an entrepreneur, hands-on technologist, founder and CEO of venture-backed start up Ezoic Inc. Previously, Dwayne founded Cubics, the first display ad network for Facebook app developers. The ad network was unique, because it used anonymous demographic data to target advertising to Facebook app users (and launched in 2007, prior to Facebook’s own ad targeting system). After selling Cubics to Adknowledge Inc in 2007, the social display division grew to serve more than 500 million ads per day. Dwayne continued to innovate within the company including spearheading the use of cloud computing architecture to handle the huge volume of ads being served within Facebook apps; becoming Amazon’s biggest AWS customer at the time. As founder and CEO of Ezoic, Dwayne has once again founded a business that is technically interesting, a first of its kind and can scale to a large online market. He is originally from Alberta, Canada and now lives with his family in San Diego, CA.
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About Ezoic: Ezoic is a website optimization platform for digital publishers and website owners powered by true machine learning.
Dhruba Borthakur
Co-Founder & CTO of Rockset
Dhruba Borthakur is CTO and co-founder of Rockset, responsible for the company’s technical direction. He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the RocksDB data store. Earlier at Yahoo, he was one of the founding engineers of the Hadoop Distributed File System. He was also a contributor to the open source Apache HBase project. Dhruba previously held various roles at Veritas Software, founded an e-commerce startup, Oreceipt.com, and contributed to Andrew File System (AFS) at IBM-Transarc Labs.
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About Rockset: Rockset is a computer software company that offers a cloud data infrastructure.
Venkat Venkataramani
CEO & Co-Founder of Rockset
Dhruba Borthakur is CTO and co-founder of Rockset, responsible for the company’s technical direction. He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the RocksDB data store. Earlier at Yahoo, he was one of the founding engineers of the Hadoop Distributed File System. He was also a contributor to the open source Apache HBase project. Dhruba previously held various roles at Veritas Software, founded an e-commerce startup, Oreceipt.com, and contributed to Andrew File System (AFS) at IBM-Transarc Labs.
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About Rockset: Rockset is a computer software company that offers a cloud data infrastructure.
Tom Serres
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Animal Ventures
Founder of Rally, Founder of Animal Ventures, Managing Partner at Warburg Serres. Spending my days investing in legendary founders.
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About Animal Ventures, Rally, Warburg Serres Investments: Partnering your company with the hottest startups and emerging tech companies coming onto the market.
Ted Price
Co-Founder & CEO of GovInvest
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About GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Jasmine Nachtigall
Co-Founder & President of GovInvest
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About GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Stephen Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Kitman Labs
Stephen is co founder of Kitman Labs, the worlds most advanced athlete management platform. Stephen holds a Higher Diploma in Human Physiology and Health Science, a BSc (Hons) in Sports & Exercise Rehabilitation and an MSc in Football Rehabilitation. He worked with Leinster Rugby as a Sports Injury Rehabilitation Coach within the Strength & Conditioning Department between 2008-2014. Stephen founded Kitman Labs in 2012 and now lives in Palo Alto, CA where he focuses on expanding Kitman Labs in elite US sports. His areas of expertise include injury prevention, rehabilitation and analytics and he has a strong interest in the use of technology and emerging trends in sport science to further enhance sport science and medicine.
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About Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is a sports analytics platform that generates insights to help professional athletes perform better.
Carlos Watson
Co-Founder & CEO of OZY Media
Carlos Watson co-anchors MSNBC 2 p.m. news program from NBC headquarters at 30 Rock. A Harvard grad, he got his start in politics, serving as campaign manager and chief of staff for Florida Representative Daryl Jones and managing Bill Clintonâs 1992 Election Day effort in Miami-Dade County. While at Harvard, he also worked with Senator Bob Graham, DNC Chair Ron Brown, and Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez. After graduating from Stanford Law, where he edited the Law Review, Watson joined the business world, advising Fortune 500 companies as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. He later struck out on his own and co-founded Achieva College Prep Services, which helped thousands of high school students prepare for college and was written about in Time and Forbes, among others. Watson sold the firm to the Washington Post/Kaplan in 2002.
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About Achieva.com, OZY Media, The Stimulist: OZY Media is a premium media and entertainment for curious people — across TV, events, podcasts and news.
Jim McKelvey
Founder & CEO of Invisibly
Jim co-founded Square, where he now serves as a Director. Jim is also a General Partner at FINTOP Capital and Green Visor Capital. He serves as a Director of the St. Louis Federal Reserve and as a Trustee to Washington University in St. Louis. Jim’s first venture was co-founding Mira Digital Publishing in 1990, which is a leader in electronic publishing for scientific conferences. In 2013, he founded the LaunchCode Foundation, currently bringing free computer education and jobs to 5 US cities. In addition to his businesses and philanthropy, Jim is a glassblowing artist and co-founded one of the nation’s top glass centers, Third Degree Glass Factory. He has published two books on computer programming and one on glassblowing. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Arch Grants, FINTOP Capital, Invisibly, LaunchCode, Mira Smart Conference, Square, Third Degree Glass Factory, Washington University in St. Louis: Invisibly puts the power of your data back in your hands.
Jeroen Cappaert
CTO & Co-Founder of Spire Global
Mechanical/Electrical/Aerospace engineer, passionate about space and astronautics. Currently Lead satellite payload and avionics engineer and co-founder at Spire Global Inc. in San Francisco. Previous work and research includes high-enthalpy flow simulation, computational mechanics and fluid dynamics, spacecraft avionics and payload design, geo-engineering, and low-thrust astrodynamics at institutions such as NASA Ames, Von Karman Institute, International Space University.
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About NASA Ames Research Center, Spire Global: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Chris Bruce
Founder & CEO of BlockJoy
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About BlockJoy, Helium: BlockJoy is a venture-backed Web3 infrastructure company that enables to run their own blockchain nodes on any infrastructure they prefer.
Jonathan Bullock
Co-Founder & Managing Director of LX
Jonathan Bullock is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of LX. He is involved in business advisory projects focused on the tech and investment sectors, including supporting numerous tech start-ups and spin-outs, either directly or through their VCs, PE, or corporate investors. He holds a BA and MEng from Cambridge University in Engineering and Management.
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About LX: LX offers an AI-powered personality survey that promotes personal development for individuals, teams, and leaders.
Jon Watte
Founder of Observe
Jon Watte is a co-founder at Observe Inc.
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About Observe: Observe provides performance management tools based on a versatile observability platform.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Shadiah Sigala
Co-Founder & CEO of Kinside
CEO and cofounder of Kinside, the modern child care benefit.
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About Kinside: Curated child care marketplace accessible only through employers
Abe Han
Co-Founder & CTO of Kinside
Abe is from Vancouver, Canada, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Interactive Arts & Technology. Since then, he has worked professionally as a UX Designer / Information Architect, as well as developing Web, Mobile, & Multimedia Software for 8 years.
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About Kinside: Curated child care marketplace accessible only through employers
Tianyue Yu
Chief Development Officer, Co-Founder of Quanergy Systems
Tianyue Yu co-founded Quanergy and serves as the Chief Development Officer. She has a strong technical foundation with extensive experience in high-resolution imaging, 3D laser scanning and microfabrication, high throughput sensing, nanotechnology, and advanced electronics materials. She oversees the company’s product design, architecture, engineering, and construction to ensure the successful implementation of the product roadmap. Prior to founding Quanergy, she had various roles at established technology companies as well as startups from principal scientists to leadership positions building cross-functional teams, and leading technology development and commercialization. She started her career at Affymetrix on sensor miniaturization and high-resolution imaging. She holds more than 15 patents in sensing, nanotechnology, and system design. Dr. Yu earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University with a concentration on nanomaterials and nanotechnology and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China.
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About Quanergy Systems: Quanergy is a developer of solid state sensors used to offer smart sensing services for self-driving cars.
Cindy Warner
Founder/Chair of the Board of 360ofme
Technologist meets Strategist. Cindy is one of those all too rare individuals that started her career as a technologist and evolved it into a sought after strategist, all while retaining her technology chops, still able to code to this day. She started her career as a developer, moving onward to a process analyst, business analyst then strategist. On that path, she became known as one of the best technology enterprise architects for Global 1000 companies, due to her ability to match enabling technologies to the thorniest of business problems, beginning with design, and moving all the way through development and execution. From a business perspective, Cindy began her career in the back office, developing distribution systems, then moved into the front office, working on customer facing solutions for the past 18 years. She is a subject matter expert in the area of helping organizations connect with their markets more effectively and efficiently. What do others say about Cindy you may ask? The words used to describe her would be “wicked smart, endless passion, intense, curious, and empathetic”. She is a leader others love to follow, as evidenced by those that have followed her to no less than three career stops. Through the years Cindy has been blessed to work for some of the greatest brands in the world including FEDEX, Ernst & Young, Salesforce, PwC and IBM. Each time she has come to these companies to build something. Most would say they leverage her keen vision to help develop a model for their future, enabled by technologies. That is a key strength of hers. While a corporate citizen for much of her career, she is also an entrepreneur, owning a 1938 diner for 12 years whose revenues have grown 400% during her ownership. She has also been a board advisor to many other technology startups including Apcera, InfoReady, ArdentCause, and others. In her spare time she pursues balancing the gender inequity of women in tech, as the President of a 700 member non-profit, Michigan Council of Women in Technology. Cindy believes that her extensive knowledge of technology, exceptional leadership, passion for whatever she pursues, adaptability, and keen market vision, make her a fabulous candidate to try her hand as an entrepreneur at this point in her career
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About 360ofme, Michigan Council of Women in Technology: Personal Digital Asset and Insights Platform
Peter Louis Johnston
Founder & CEO of Kalo
Peter Johnston is the founder and CEO of Kalo, the world’s leading freelancer management platform used by clients including AirBnB, Google, Popsugar and The Economist to manage over 70,000 freelancers globally. As a Design Lead at Google, Johnston relied heavily on freelancers and found that much of his time was spent coordinating with little time left for design. Frustrated by these processes, he set out to improve them and so created Kalo.
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About Kalo: Kalo provides an online platform that enables businesses to manage their external workforces.
Phil Martie
Co-Founder, CEO of Nicolette
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About Nicolette: Nicolette operates as a patient empowerment company.
Deepak Savadatti
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of BlueDot
Deepak Savadatti is Founder & CEO at RIFFIT.
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About BlueDot, Punch’d Energy, RIFFIT: Our mission is to identify the most promising technological innovations at NASA & National labs
Rory Cutaia
Founder, Chairman, Pres. & CEO of VERB Technology Company
Rory originated the concept of bBooth and the idea that it could be used as a revenue-generating casting vehicle for TV shows. Rory created the Company’s business plan and marketing strategies, financed its start-up costs, including all research and development, then assembled a world-class management team of successful Hollywood, entertainment, and technology veterans to execute his vision to disrupt the talent discovery and fan engagement industries. Keenly focused on building shareholder value, Rory provides the vision and leadership for his management team and sets the goals and objectives for the Company’s growth and expansion. A successful serial entrepreneur, Rory’s previous endeavors include Founder, Chairman and CEO of telecom technology icon, The Telx Group, which he built and sold in 6 years for approx. $250M, returning 18x invested capital to early investors; and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Allied Fiber, a new nationwide fiber-optic network, being deployed along railroad rights-of-way; among other successful endeavors.
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About VERB Technology Company: VERB Technology Company specializes in business-focused interactive video webinars, CRM, sales, and marketing applications.
Sabeer Bhatia
Co-Founder of ShowReel
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About Biscuit, InstaColl, Live Documents, Sabse Technologies, ShowReel, Stealth Startup, Stealth Startup: With ShowReel you can create, share and track video resumes. Create professional video resumes that make you stand out of other job seekers.
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.
Nico Sand
Founder, CEO of Zanbato
Nico Sand is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zanbato. Mr. Sand is co-founder of Oolong and serves as its Chairman of the Board. He is a serial entrepreneur with experience founding and growing several businesses in Norway and the United States. He led sales for several years at Zanbato. He built and ran a medium-sized food retail business in Norway. He serves as a Director of Zanbato, Inc.
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About Sutter Securities, Zanbato: Zanbato is a private securities crossing network that provides market data, counter-party verification, and order execution.
Stefan Stokic
Founder of Slik
Stefan Stokic is the founder of Slik.ai (YC S17), a platform that automate sales for B2B companies.
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About Slik: Slik is a company that helps sales teams automate email marketing and generating leads.
Soroush Ghodsi
Founder of Slik
Soroush Ghodsi is the Co-Founder of Slik.
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About Slik: Slik is a company that helps sales teams automate email marketing and generating leads.
Saket Saurabh
Co-Founder & CEO of Nexla
Saket Saurabh is the Co-founder and CEO of Nexla.
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About Nexla: Nexla is a data operations platform that helps teams collaborate. Create scalable, repeatable, and predictable data flows quickly and easily
Bryton Shang
Founder & CEO of Aquabyte
A graduate of Princeton University, Bryton has led several venture-backed startups. Bryton built deep learning algorithms to diagnose cancer as CTO of HistoWiz, a biotechnology firm. He also co-founded iQ License, a brand licensing platform, and Nikao Investments, an algorithmic trading firm. Bryton enjoys singing a capella and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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About Aquabyte: Aquabyte builds machine learning camera IOT software to directly solve the world’s food sustainability issues
Xander Oltmann
Co-Founder, CEO of Scope
Xander Oltmann is the founder and CEO of Scope.
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About Scope: Scope is an Implementation-as-a-Service platform that scales and reduces the cost of implementations.
Hyunjun Park
Co-Founder & CEO of Catalog
Hyunjun Park is the Co-Founder & CEO at CATALOG.
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About Catalog, Forbes Technology Council, GIST: Catalog is a developer of a data conversion and storage platform used to offer the next generation of digital data archives.
Hari Subramanian
Founder & CTO of Appify
In his role as VP of Engineering at ServiceMax, Hari provides the technology leadership and direction for product engineering. He manages the ServiceMax global engineering teams; and works with ServiceMax’s global PS teams and strategic customers on product enrichment initiatives. Hari has more than 22 years of experience providing architectural and functional solutions in ERP, CRM, and Service Chain Management Applications for organizations across the globe such as Hewlett-Packard, Singapore Telecom, John Hancock, Agilent Technologies, Coherent Lasers, and many other large enterprises. Hari brings a deep understanding of a variety of technologies ranging from document imaging to workflow management to database and web development to SaaS applications. Hari has a Technology Degree in Electrical Engineering from Madras University, India.
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About Appify: Appify is a no-code business apps platform for the modern workforce.
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.
Prabhu Palanisamy
Co-Founder of SpringML
Prabhu Palanisamy is the Co-Founder at springML.
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About SpringML: SpringML is a data analytics company that helps its customers make informed decisions through seamless machine learning integrations.
Girish Reddy
Co-Founder of SpringML
Girish Reddy is the Co-Founder at SpringML.
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About SpringML: SpringML is a data analytics company that helps its customers make informed decisions through seamless machine learning integrations.
Rajiv Jain
Founder & CEO of ThinkSys
Rajiv Jain, an internet and software executive with more than 20 years of experience, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ThinkSys Inc. since January 2012. Rajiv was most recently Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Perion (Nasdaq PERI), where he led revamping of their infrastructure and creating new innovative products. Rajiv also led the technology integration of Perion’s $32M acquisition of SmileBox. Prior to that, Rajiv was Executive Vice President for Corbis.com and Chief Technology/Innovation Officer for Corbis, where he was responsible for the company’s technology operations as well as its online consumer business. Prior to Corbis, Rajiv was Chief Technology Officer for American Greetings Interactive (AGI) for almost four years and played an instrumental role in the company’s growth. During his tenure at AGI, Rajiv successfully completed four acquisitions. Rajiv’s experience also includes senior and executive management positions with AT&T Wireless, Portal Software Inc. (now Oracle), IBM, Taligent (a joint venture between Apple, HP and IBM) and Autodesk. Rajiv served on the board of Mobile Entertainment Forum from 2007 to 2008 and currently serves on the Founding Board of University of Washington’s Information School. Rajiv holds 11 Software US patents. Rajiv has a B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur and a Masters degree from University of Rochester, NY US.
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About ThinkSys: ThinkSys Inc has set up a benchmark by delivering excellent, cost effective and efficient IT solutions to its clients all around the world.
Casin Ward
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer, and COO of Hoo.be
Casin Ward is the COO, CMO, and co-founder of hoo.be.
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About Hoo.be: Hoo.be is a social media platform allowing users to filter their favorite content in one place.
Pavan Bayyapu
CTO, Co-Founder of Regology
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About Regology: Regology is curating the world’s regulations to help businesses with compliance.
Mukund Goenka
Co-Founder, CEO of Regology
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About Regology: Regology is curating the world’s regulations to help businesses with compliance.
Matt Vaezi
Founder & CEO of Wave Technology Solutions
Matt Vaezi is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Wave Technology Solutions Group. Matt ezrned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Irvine.
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About Wave Technology Solutions: Wave Technology Solutions offers information management systems, backfile conversion, and data hosting solutions.
Jon Farjo
Founder and Chief Product Officer of LunarCrush
Jon Farjo is the Co-Founder and CPO at LunarCRUSH.
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About LunarCrush: Social Intelligence for Crypto
Joe Vezzani
Founder and CEO of LunarCrush
Joe Vezzani is the CEO of LunarCrush and an advisory board member of the Above Market. Joe previously worked as a product and service design director at Innocean USA, as a co-founder at LifeLine Response, as an area sales manager at Owens Corning, as a production business manager at Draftfcb, and as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
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About LunarCrush: Social Intelligence for Crypto
Dan Faiman
Founder of Revyrie
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About Bubby Dog Academy, Go RN, Gravity, Revyrie, Upfront: Incubator / Accelerator / Venture Capital / Technology and Business Development
Mehul Patel
Founder & CEO of EDDASwap
Mehul Patel is the Founder and CEO at EDDASwap and LXMI.IO.
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About EDDASwap, LXMI.IO: EDDASwap is an ecosystem of NFT + DeFi Applications that engaging in cryptocurrencies.
JT Giri
CEO & Co-Founder of nClouds
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About nClouds, nOps: nClouds is an award-winning provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services.
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.
Linden Tibbets
Co Founder and CEO of IFTTT
Linden is co-founder and CEO of IFTTT, a platform that helps your products and services work better together. With a background in engineering and design, Linden is passionate about wild ideas of all kinds.
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About IFTTT: Every thing works better together.
Alexander Tibbets
Co-Founder of IFTTT
Alexander the director of marketing at Livepeer and a co-founder of IFTTT. Originally from Texas, Alexander studied filmmaking and animation at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. An instinct for design landed Alexander at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, as a digital media producer before heading west and swan-diving into software, business, and media technology.
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About Livepeer: Every thing works better together.
Jeff Linnell
Founder & CEO of Formant
Jeff Linnell is the Founder & CEO at Formant.
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About Formant: Formant is a monitoring and operations software that connects people, processes, sensors, and robots through a robotic approach platform.
Benjamin Gleitzman
CTO & Co-Founder of Replicant
Benjamin Gleitzman is CTO and Co-Founder of Replicant, a Conversational AI platform founded on the belief that machines are ready to have useful, complex conversations that will transform the way they interact with the world. He is also a technologist, artist, and founder of the hacker collective Ruse Laboratories, creator of the The Algorithm Auction, originator of Pup’s Pool Party, and producer at Sublimate NYC. He was the CTO and Co-Founder of MONA, a non-drug, non-invasive Virtual Reality Therapy platform used by doctors to safely and effectively treat pain, discomfort and anxiety. Gleitzman was Senior Software Engineer at Hunch, a collective intelligence decision making system based in NYC and acquired by eBay. Gleitzman invented and developed the technologies powering the personalized eBay Feed, the largest redesign of the eBay homepage and functionality since its launch. Gleitzman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked with Hal Abelson to enhance introductory programming experiences using mobile devices. Gleitzman was a visiting researcher at Google Research in Mountain View, California where he built App Inventor for Android, a graphical programming language for creating Android phone applications that is now at the core of the MIT Center for Mobile Learning. He was the founder of NextStep Tech, an organization teaching software engineering, creative thinking, and entrepreneurship to junior and high school students. He was the CTO at Network Awesome, a new kind of online TV experience and the largest curated video site in the world. In his spare time he enjoys creating electronic music, discussing programming concepts, and playing WikiMaze, his remake of Encarta 95’s classic trivia game. He posts useful bits of knowledge at http://gleitzman.com and http://blog.gleitzman.com
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About Replicant: Replicant is an AI voice technology that solves problems over the phone, improves customer experience, and reduces cost.
Adam Smith
Founder, CEO of Kite
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About Kite: Kite augments coding environment with the use of internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning.
Yin Yin Wu
Founder of Pulley
Yin is the Founder of Pulley. He was a Founder of DIRT, a protocol that allows decentralized curation of trusted data sets. DIRT defines a set of rules for writing and validating information, and uses token staking to incentivize honesty. Yin sold her previous startup to Microsoft and was one of the youngest principal engineers there working on AI and mobile products. She is a YCombinator alumnus and studied Computer Science at Stanford.
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About Pulley: Pulley offers a cap table management platform designed to help startup founders, employees, and investors monitor their equity information.
Cathryn Chen
Founder & Managing Director of MarketX
Cathryn Chen is the Founder & Managing Director at MarketX Ventures.
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About Affirm, ByteDance, Committee of 100, MarketX, Meituan, Palantir Technologies, Postmates by Uber, Stack Overflow: MarketX is an online investment platform revolutionizing access to the private equity market.
Pep Gubau
Executive Chairman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aizon
Pep is an IT entrepreneur and has been working in IT for the last 25 years, being pioneer in Linux adoption in the 90s, cloud in the 2000s and big data in the last years. Although having a theoretical economics and maths profile, his early career was as a software developer for the chemical industry. He later was CTO & COO of an IT consulting firm, leading a team of more than 200 engineers until 2003 when Pep created his first IT company with a clear core principle: customer centric focus. Two more followed. In 2013 Pep started thinking on the next thing to work on. bigfinite is the result of this initial spark that immediately caught fire in Pere and Toni. Pep is Economist (University of Barcelona) with an engineering background.
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About Aizon: Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Kip Quackenbush
Co-Founder, President of Nex Cubed
Kip Quackenbush is President of Accelerate-IT and brings a broad range of enterprise software experience to the company. With over 20 years of experience in driving strategy and revenue for public and private companies in leading edge technologies and services sectors, Kip brings operational and sales mastery as well as entrepreneurial spark to AITA. Before joining AITA, Kip was President and CEO at Sendio, Inc. Kip was also EVP of Global Sales at Profitline which was acquired by Tangoe. Prior to ProfitLine, Kip was VP of Worldwide Sales at email security leader Red Condor and managed the transition through its acquisition by Edgewave. Before that, Kip was VP of Worldwide Sales at Akonix, where he grew the customer base from under 200 to over 2,000, which lead to a successful acquisition by Quest Software. Kip also held the role of Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Commerce One, the pioneer in e-procurement and e-marketplaces. Kip began his career at recognized market leaders such as Oracle, Digital Equipment Corporation and Pacific Bell and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
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About AITA, Nex Cubed, Nex Cubed Digital Health: Nex Cubed is an investor and innovation partner that invests in, accelerates, and scales frontier tech companies.
Matt Dalio
Founder of ENDLESS
After living in China for a year as a child, Matt founded China Care Foundation at the age of 16 to offer orphaned children a brighter future. China Care has since raised over $14 million to provide surgery for over 1,200 special needs children, and has provided nearly 300 financial aid grants and 600 foster placements to children in need. China Care also supports over 60 high school and college clubs where thousands of students have been able to run community service programs, fundraise, and volunteer at the China Care medical home in Beijing, China. Matt was honored as one of Oprah Winfrey’s “People Changing the Lives of Children Around the World”, was one of Teen People’s “20 Teens Who Will Change the World”, and is the youngest recipient of the Fulbright Award for furthering peace and international understanding. In founding China Care, Matt fell in love with the process of building organizations of consequence.
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About ENDLESS: Endless purpose is to connect the unconnected, enhancing the development and education of all people in emerging markets.
Helton Souza
Co-Founder & CTO of Labdoor
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About Labdoor: Labdoor is an online marketplace that tests and ranks supplements, providing consumers an easy way to research and buy the best products.
Kit Codik
Founder and CEO of Liquor.com
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About Dotdash, Liquor.com, The Gap: Liquor.com is a website providing recipes, information and news on cocktails and spirits.
Nader Fathi
Founder & CEO of Kiana Analytics
Nader Fathi is a serial entrepreneur and veteran of the Big Data and IoT industry. He is currently the CEO of Kiana Analytics, a Big Data company that helps brick-and-mortar businesses to strengthen on-site security and understand visitor behavior. He was CEO of SigmaQuest, a Big Data for Supply Chain solution, which he co-founded in 2002. Camstar Systems successfully acquired SigmaQuest in 2010 and Nader lead its Supply Chain Quality practice until 2012. Nader mentors and advises startups as the Executive-in-Residence (EIR) at the University of Southern California Stevens Institute for Innovations and the Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley. He is currently on the advisory board of Glassbeam, Machine-to-Machine analytics. He has coached Big Data companies in various vertical markets including sports, retail, finance, health/fitness, and environmental analytics. Previously, Nader held executive positions at IntraStage, IKOS, Cadence, and Daisy systems. He started his career as software and chip designer at Xerox Microelectronics.Nader holds a bachelor and masters in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and completed his coursework toward a Ph.D.
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About Kiana Analytics, Plug and Play Tech Center: Kiana cloud-based software and patented device detection enhance physical security, optimizes operations and delivers proximity solutions.
Raghu Varadan
Founder & Managing Director of Agile 3 Solutions
Raghu Varadan was formerly the Chief Architect of IBM’s SOA Center of Excellence and the SOA Solutioning Leader responsible for IBM Global Business Services top clients and SOA opportunities worldwide. He is a published writer, a sought-after speaker, an accomplished inventor with over 30 patents in the pipeline with the USPTO. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (where he teaches Enterprise Architectures and sponsors student projects), and he is also a budding entrepreneur in next generation SOA business services and solutions. Raghu is a co-inventor of IBM’s SOA Governance and Management Method (SGMM) and Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM), among other key SOA offerings and consulting assets that have made a major business impact for IBM Global Business Services SOA capabilities to deliver value for its clients. Raghu has led major initiatives for SOA enablement across IBM worldwide and has been leading the customer-facing delivery of SOA capabilities for IBM. Enterprise SOA Transformation at Toyota Motor Sales USA, Visa SOA Strategy and numerous SOA implementations which have been the first-of-its-kind for IBM and its clients have been Raghu’s primary focus since 2002. During Jan. 2007- Jan 2009, Raghu has also held the responsibility of IBM’s SOA Solutioning Leader where he was responsible for delivering complex SOA solutions for some very large client initiatives.
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About Agile 3 Solutions: Agile 3 Solutions builds products to aid clients in transforming their business operations.
Manish Gupta
Founder & CEO of ShiftLeft
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About ShiftLeft, TiE: ShiftLeft delivers a new model for protecting cloud or data center hosted software.
Amitaabh Malhotra
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Omnyway
Amitaabh Malhotra is an entrepreneurial executive who has been leading innovative FinTech, Mobile and Payments companies globally for over 20 years. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at Omnyway Inc, a contextual digital platform for retailers that focuses on providing online to offline experiences as well as acceptance of alternate payment types to Retailers in the US. Omnyway pioneered the concept of no integration QR based payment acceptance at physical retail in the US and is currently the driving force behind successful programs such as Kohl’s Pay and WeChat Pay acceptance in the US. He is leading the move into Livestream Commerce as the Third Rail of Retail with the new Omnyway offering VISX. Prior to Omnyway, Amitaabh was the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DeviceFidelity, Inc., a pioneer in mobile payments and NFC enablement, where he was responsible for creating the first plug and pay NFC devices in the world – establishing the groundwork for architectures now being deployed in iOS, Android and MPOS devices. He also launched the award winning “moneto”, that pioneered a single app backed by a cloud based platform that combined mobile banking, mobile payments, peer-to-peer transfers, card-linked offers, international remittance, and pluggable NFC. DeviceFidelity was acquired by Square in 2015, and Cachet Financial acquired moneto in 2014. Amitaabh started his career at Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies) where he headed up New Product Introductions for mobile networks. He was a pioneer in the emerging CDMA technology that now forms the basis of high speed wireless communications worldwide. Amitaabh also held executive roles at Superconductor Technologies, where he was responsible for commercializing the adoption of High Temperature Superconductors worldwide. He then moved his focus to emerging smart devices and the optimization of app performance over high latency wireless links as an executive at Venturi Wireless. Amitaabh focuses on the cross section of design and function, and strongly believes that experiential commerce will be the key to the evolution and adoption of hyper utility apps Commerce.
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About Centaur Partners, Omnyway: Livestream commerce with integrated global payments
Vincent Liu
CEO & Co-Founder of Bishop Fox
Vincent Liu (CISSP) is the co-founder and CEO of Bishop Fox. He is an expert in security strategy, red teaming, and product security; and at Bishop Fox, he oversees firm strategy and client relationships.
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About Bishop Fox: The leader in offensive security, providing continuous pen testing, red teaming, attack surface management, & security assessments.
Guillaume Laliberte
Founder & CEO of Setter
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About Setter: Setter is a home service that takes care of all your home maintenance and repairs.
Pelin Thorogood
Co-Founder & Executive Chairwoman of Radicle Science
Pelin Thorogood is a new media marketing and analytics expert, recognized for her leadership in both venture-backed startups and public companies. Her career as a high-tech innovator includes leading the go-to-market strategy as CMO of WebSideStory (acquired by Omniture/Adobe), extending Peregrine Systems’ enterprise software business (acquired by HP) into web-based applications, and, in the mid 90s, launching one of the very first mobile B2B applications. Since the WebSideStory acquisition, Pelin has been involved with several cloud-based technology leaders and new media companies either as advisor or board member, including InsideView, InboundWriter, Limelight Networks, Technology Leaders, and Online Marketing Institute. In both 2011 and 2012, she was named one of the “20 Women to Watch” in sales lead management. Pelin holds a BS in Operations Research, Masters in Engineering, and MBA degrees, all from Cornell University, where she also serves as Executive-in-Residence for the Johnson Graduate School of Management.
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About Radicle Science: Radicle Science is a health tech company that offers an accelerated, non-FDA route to drug validation.
Jeff Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Radicle Science
Jeff Chen currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Radicle Science. He previously worked at The National Institutes of Health as the Mentor.
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About Radicle Science: Radicle Science is a health tech company that offers an accelerated, non-FDA route to drug validation.
Praveen Yalagandula
Co-Founder and CTO of MerQube
Praveen Yalagandula is the Co-Founder and CTO at MerQube.
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About MerQube: Cloud-native financial indexing platform
D. Bommi Bommannan
Founder and CEO of MaxVal Group
D Bommi Bommannan is the CEO of MaxVal Group, Inc.
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About MaxVal Group: MaxVal Group is a tech-enabled managed solutions provider known for its cutting-edge products and automated solutions.
Tom Beale
CTO & Co-Founder of Corax
Veteran penetration tester and go-to source for technical perspective on data breaches and cyber security.
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About Corax: Cyber risk intelligence platform providing data and modelling on the cyber exposure of millions of companies worldwide.
Jeffrey Noles
Founder & CEO of LabStar
Before LabStar software, Jeff founded and operated a dental laboratory in Los Angeles where he used web-based supply chain technology to connect with overseas manufacturers.
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About LabStar: Cloud-based lab management software that makes your lab better.
Cesar Pino
Co-Founder of Truora
Cesar Pino is a co-founder of Truora.
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About Truora: Truora provides fast, innovative, and safe solution in background checks and identity theft detection.
Corey Hulen
Founder & CTO of Mattermost
Corey Hulen is CTO & Co-founder of Mattermost, and previously founded Tempo AI, a machine intelligence startup spun off from Stanford Research Institute, where he served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Tempo AI raised $12.5M in financing, led by Sierra Ventures and Relay Ventures, and released a popular mobile smart calendaring application in 9 languages and 26 countries before being bought by Salesforce.com for Tempo’s industry-leading platform. Before then, Corey served as engineering manager and architect for Microsoft Office in its enterprise software business across SharePoint and Business Intelligence product lines. Prior he was an architect for VerticalNet, a publicly-traded enterprise software company providing supply chain management solutions for the Global 2000. Corey is an alumnus of California Polytechnic State University.
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About Mattermost: Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
Michael Malis
Co-Founder of Freshpaint
Michael Malis serves as a co-founder at Freshpaint.
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About Freshpaint: Freshpaint develops a software that facilitates marketing by collecting customer data.
Steven Fitzsimmons
Co-Founder of Freshpaint
Steven Fitzsimmons serves as a co-founder at Freshpaint.
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About Freshpaint: Freshpaint develops a software that facilitates marketing by collecting customer data.
Walter B.
Founder & CEO of VoiceBase
Walter founded VoiceBase in 2010, with the idea of creating wide spread access to spoken information, everywhere. Walter is the company’s visionary. Raised in Switzerland, he studied data mining and economics, before following his entrepreneurial dreams to the US. Walter is passionate about making access to spoken information fast, low cost and accurate.
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About VoiceBase: Speech Analytics for the Data-Driven Enterprise
Richard Arscott
Co-Founder of Names & Faces
Richard was formerly Managing Director of AMV BBDO, the UK’s leading ad agency. Richard is currently co-founder of Names & Faces and an angel investor.
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About Names & Faces: Names & Faces creates tools to help organizations build directories of their teams.
Taylor Monahan
Founder and CEO of MyCrypto
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About MyCrypto: MyCrypto is an open-source, client-side tool for interacting with the blockchain.
David Ebersman
Co-Founder & CEO of Lyra Health
David is founder and CEO of Lyra Health, a health care technology company focused on behavioral health. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Facebook, Inc. from 2009 through 2014. Prior to joining Facebook, David worked at Genentech, Inc. for 15 years in various positions, including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Product Operations, and Vice President, Product Development. David holds an A.B. in International Relations and Economics from Brown University and was selected as a Henry Crown Fellow in 2000.
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About Lyra Health: Lyra helps companies improve access to effective mental health care for their employees.
