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 Internet of Things 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.
Marcy Boyle
Co Founder, CEO of Hot Bit VR
Marcy Boyle is the CEO and co-founder of Hot Bit VR, a upcoming webVR marketplace of experiential social shopping. Hot Bit VR has been featured on ZDnet, Entrepreneur, Fox News, and listed as one of the “30 Best Virtual Reality Companies to Change Your World Soon.” She and her co-founder’s VR experiences have been featured in art galleries, universities, conferences, and festivals including FIVARS in Toronto and VRUK in London. Hot Bit VR was selected for the first class of the AR/VR/XR accelerator at the Green Screen Institute, and Silicon Valley’s Women’s Startup Lab. Prior to working in VR, she co-directed the feature film, NOBODY CAN COOL, which was released internationally. Marcy is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and is a member of Women in VR, Women in Film, and on the Board of the Alliance of Women Directors.
Follow Marcy Boyle:
About Hot Bit VR, Oculus: An experiential marketplace in virtual reality.
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.
Follow Markus Levin:
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.
Follow Arie Trouw:
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.
Follow Scott Scheper:
About XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
J.M Sawkat Akbar
Founder and Chairman of BJIT Group
Jem Akbar Shukat is the founder and Chairman of BJIT.
Follow J.M Sawkat Akbar:
About BJIT Group: BJIT Group is an information, communications, and ICT company that provides software development and information technology service.
Jaxon Klein
CEO, Co-Founder of Keyo
Jaxon Klein is an American businessman, entrepreneur, investor and startup advisor. Klein is currently CEO of Keyo, Inc., where he is a co-founder and former CTO. Prior to his role at Keyo, Klein founded two companies in hosting technology and web services.
Follow Jaxon Klein:
About Keyo: We place people’s identities in the palm of their hands.
Cayetana Polanco
Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Keyo
Cayetana Polanco is the co-founder and chief brand officer at Keyo. Prior to co-founding Keyo, Cayetana was the co-founder and COO of Invento Media. She was also the co-founder and COO of Reneweb Hosting Services. Cayetana holds a bachelor of applied science (B.A.Sc.) in public health from Beloit College.
Follow Cayetana Polanco:
About Keyo: We place people’s identities in the palm of their hands.
Raullen Chai
CEO, Co-Founder of IoTeX
Follow Raullen Chai:
About IoTeX: IoTeX is the leading decentralized network to power billions of machines at scale, drive the machine economy (machinefi) applications.
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
Follow Drew Perkins:
About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
Follow Michael Wiemer:
About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Will Jessup
Founder, Head of Services of TheoremOne
Follow Will Jessup:
About TheoremOne: We are an engineering and innovation firm. We solve complex business problems through optimization of process, technology, and culture.
Tomer Schwartz
Co-Founder of Armis Security
Tomer Schwartz Co-Founder and CTO at Dazz
Follow Tomer Schwartz:
About Armis Security, Dazz: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Nadir Izrael
Co-Founder and CTO of Armis Security
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically in unit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
Follow Nadir Izrael:
About Armis Security, Cyberstarts: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
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).
Follow Nick Weaver:
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.
Follow Nate Hardison:
About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
Krishna Kumar
CEO & Founder of App Orchid Inc
Follow Krishna Kumar:
About App Orchid Inc: The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI fueled apps for the energy, utilities, Insurance and healthcare industries.
Robert Jadon
Co-Founder & Director of Startup UCLA Accelerator
Robert is a technology investor and entrepreneur in Los Angeles for the past 15 years, with experience founding and scaling businesses, along with multiple, successful exits. Robert’s passion is working with great entrepreneurs and product developers, adding value both as an investor and an operator. Prior to joining Altpoint and leading it’s LA office, Robert co-founded ScaleFunder, the leading crowdfunding and online giving SaaS platform in higher education. ScaleFunder has helped numerous nonprofit institutions raise tens of millions of dollars through the platform, in addition to acquiring new donors and retaining existing ones. ScaleFunder was successfully acquired by Ruffalo Noel Levitz, a leader in the nonprofit fundraising and enrollment space. Robert’s first company, Micro Memory, was a leader in the signal processing and storage networking markets. . Split primarily between storage and mil-aero verticals, the company’s customers included EMC, Network Appliance, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and many others. Micro Memory was acquired by Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). Robert has also worked with early stage companies for many years. Robert co-founded the Startup UCLA entrepreneurship and accelerator program at UCLA. The first of it’s kind in Los Angeles, the Startup UCLA program took best practices from the private sector, and applied them to UCLA students and alumni. The summer accelerator has spawned numerous companies, and has been the basis for best-practices at universities across the country and internationally. Robert has been an angel investor for many years, helping entrepreneurs with product and fundraising from the earliest stages. He formed the Dauntless Fund to focus on investments in consumer-facing startups. Robert is also an investor in and advisor to the Amplify.LA startup accelerator in Venice, Calif, and a former member of the Tech Coast Angels. Robert holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UCLA.
Follow Robert Jadon:
About NeuralX, Presence.Fit, Startup UCLA Accelerator: Startup UCLA Accelerator provides a workspace, guidance, legal services, and mentors to early-stage companies.
Alan Chan
Co-Founder & CEO of Joy
Alan Chan is the Cofounder & CEO of Joy (https://joy.co)
Follow Alan Chan:
About Joy: Joy is the first Smart Photo Album – an all-in-one hardware, software and cloud solution for families to organize and relive their memories.
Suman Kanuganti
CEO, Founder of Personal AI
I am a creator, entrepreneur, father and husband. I love robots, technology, and humans. I create things that solve meaningful problems, see aira.io and luther.ai (current). I have a desire to learn, college in engineering, a master’s in robotics and a master’s in business.
Follow Suman Kanuganti:
About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Sharon Zhang
CTO & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies that evolve alongside humanity. I have pursued expertise in artificial intelligence for over the past decade, building NLP products that impact the lives of patients, employees, and everyday people. I strive to build companies that move the world forward – embracing the principles of original thinking and humane AI. And that is why my partners and I are creating Human AI Labs (hu.man.ai).
Follow Sharon Zhang:
About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Kristie Kaiser
Head of Design & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a designer and a craftsman that sees the world in pixels, grids, color codes, and typefaces. I previously designed impactful products like Aira.io for the blind, and now focusing on human memory retention and recall. My core design principles are simplicity, inclusivity, and beauty.
Follow Kristie Kaiser:
About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Vivek Ravisankar
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HackerRank
Vivek Ravisankar is the Co-Founder and CEO at HackerRank, a platform that helps programmers hone their skills and connect with companies. HackerRank is the leading player in the programming talent assessment space, and the company is growing. Prior to HackerRank, Ravisankar used to be a part of the Kindle team at Amazon, India. HackerRank is the first company to be accepted by Y-combinator from India.
Follow Vivek Ravisankar:
About HackerRank: HackerRank, the developer skills company, helps businesses attract, evaluate and hire the best technical talent from around the world.
Weili Dai
Co-Founder & President of Marvell
Weili Dai is one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world today. Widely considered a technology visionary, she is the only woman co-founder of a global semiconductor company, and since it began in 1995, she has helped Marvell’s rise to become one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. Dai’s business acumen, strategic thinking, product leadership, endless passion and personal network have contributed greatly to Marvell’s fast rise to success. Her close relationship with her customers and the foundation of the trust shared with them has given her a strong reputation for professionalism and integrity throughout the technology industry.
Follow Weili Dai:
About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Aayush Phumbhra
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nectar
Follow Aayush Phumbhra:
About Nectar: Nectar develops an IoT solution for the hospitality and consumer packaged goods industries.
Rodney Williams
Co-Founder | Chairman of LISNR
Rodney Williams is the co-founder of SoLo Funds and LISNR.
Follow Rodney Williams:
About LISNR, LISNR, SoLo Funds: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, Chairman, and head of admissions and oversee investment vehicles of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Cameron Teitelman is the Founder and Chairman of StartX, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that runs an accelerator for Stanford affiliated entrepreneurs. Under his management, StartX has supported more than 1,100+ founders building 500+ companies. StartX companies have raised over $3.3B to date. In 2013, the Stanford-StartX Fund was launched. To date, SSF has invested in 250 StartX companies across 400+ rounds, investing $130 million in capital.
Follow Cameron Teitelman:
About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Follow Dan Ha:
About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Ben Jorgensen
Co-Founder and CEO of Constellation Labs
Follow Ben Jorgensen:
About A-Five Meats, Constellation Labs, Ittoryu GOZU, Lattice Exchange: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Altif Brown
Co-Founder & CCO,Global Community Architect of Constellation Labs
Follow Altif Brown:
About Constellation Labs: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Wyatt Meldman-Floch
Co-Founder & CTO of Constellation Labs
With over five years of experience as a Software Engineer & Data Scientist in Silicon Valley, Wyatt Meldman-Floch is the CTO and Co-founder of Constellation Labs. Prior to co-founding Constellation Labs, Wyatt contributed to the Graphic User Interface of the Kepler spacecraft’s light curve data and the implementation of Shannon entropy for non-human communication for NASA. He also served as a data engineer for Radius Intelligence and Rally Health, a platform engineer for Zignal Labs, and as the Lead Backend Engineer for Arrived.us. Wyatt holds a B.S. in Physics and in Mathematics from The College of William and Mary.
Follow Wyatt Meldman-Floch:
About Constellation Labs, Lattice Exchange: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Clint Chao
Co-Founder & General Partner of Moment Ventures
Clint Chao is a founding General Partner of Moment Ventures. Moment is a Palo Alto based early stage VC firm investing in the Future of Work: startups bringing technology into and across other industries to transform the business or labor operations in areas such as logistics, food, oil & gas, education, healthcare, construction and more. Clint has invested in companies including Flowspace, Pod Foods, Swing Education, Validere, TARA AI, Netsil (acq by Nutanix), Skyward (acq by Verizon), and Payable (acq by Stripe). Prior to Moment, Clint was a co-founding Managing Director at Formative Ventures, an early-stage VC firm. During his time at Formative, Clint invested a third of the fund’s capital in early-stage technology startups, focusing on software infrastructure, web services, cloud computing applications and advanced semiconductors. Clint’s investment and board leadership experience include Mashery (acq by Intel), SOASTA (acq by Akamai), Silicon Clocks (acquired by Silicon Labs), Vungle (acq by Blackstone) and Zyray Wireless (acquired by Broadcom). Clint is an experienced technology executive who brings more than 20 years of start-up operating experience including marketing, sales and business development to Formative Ventures. Prior to co-founding Formative Ventures, Clint served as the first Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Business Development at SkyStream Networks (acquired by Tandberg TV), a leading provider of video routing solutions. Under his leadership, SkyStream became the worldwide leader in MPEG routing solutions to the broadcast, networking and enterprise markets. Prior to joining SkyStream, Clint served as Senior Director of Marketing at C-Cube Microsystems where he was responsible for marketing for the PC Division, a group he co-founded and grew to run rates exceeding $50M in sales annually. Clint began his tenure at C-Cube as the first Salesperson for the company, where he created the company’s sales representation network around the country. While there, C-Cube became the dominant supplier of digital video and imaging compression chips to the consumer electronics, computing and communications markets. Before joining C-Cube, Clint held numerous sales and sales management positions at Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector, where he was recognized as one of the company’s top salespeople. Clint earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Follow Clint Chao:
About Formative Ventures, Moment Ventures, PANTASTIC: Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work.
Ammar Hanafi
Co-Founder & General Partner of Moment Ventures
Ammar Hanafi joined Alloy Ventures as a general partner in 2005. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in communications and IT infrastructure, as well as internet-enabled consumer and enterprise applications and services.Operating experience:Ammar has over a decade of financial and operational management experience in the communications and technology industry. He previously served as vice president of new business ventures at Cisco Systems, where he led new product efforts in the enterprise datacenter market. From 2000 to 2002, he was vice president of corporate business development, and in that capacity, he was responsible for Cisco’s acquisitions, acquisition integration, investment, and joint venture activity on a global basis. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a member of the Corporate Business Development Group. During Ammar’s tenure at Cisco, he helped the company complete over 100 investment and M&A transactions, including 50 successful acquisitions and over $750 million in venture capital investments. Leveraging his deep industry expertise, he helped lead Cisco into a number of major new businesses, including optical networking and integrated voice and data infrastructure and applications.Prior to Cisco, Ammar held leadership positions at PanAmSat Corp., a global satellite services provider, and the investment banking firms of Morgan Stanley and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.Ammar received a BS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University (1988) and an MBA from Stanford University (1995). Current board seats:Ammar serves on the board of directors of 3Leaf Systems, YouSENDit, Retrevo, Mavenir Systems, GigaOM, Qwaq, Infineta Systems and Moxsie. He also led Alloy’s investment in Cortina Systems. Ammar also serves on the board of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, a non-profit.
Follow Ammar Hanafi:
About Alloy Ventures, Moment Ventures: Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work.
Harpaul Sambhi
Founder of stealth
Follow Harpaul Sambhi:
About Inovia Capital, stealth: Stealth specializes in high performance Industrial grade Displays, Computer Systems & Peripherals.
Michael Winn
CEO and Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Michael Winn is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DroneDeploy, a cloud-based drone platform that provides automated flight safety checks, workflows, real-time mapping, and data processing.
Follow Michael Winn:
About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Jono Millin
Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Jono Millin is a founder of DroneDeploy, the cloud-based drone management platform. Jono completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Systems and Applied Maths at Rhodes University before moving to the UK to obtain an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, and 2/3 of a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Edinburgh. During his time in Edinburgh, Jono co-founded Zoom2Work and AdvertEyes before moving to San Francisco with DroneDeploy.
Follow Jono Millin:
About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Nicholas Pilkington
CTO, Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Nicholas Pilkington is the founder of DroneDeploy, a platform for simple managed drone operations. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, he completed degrees in computer science, maths and information systems at Rhodes University. After graduating he started a Ph.D in machine learning at the University of Cambridge (Magadalene College) on a Nelson Mandela Rhodes University Scholarship. While at Cambridge Nicholas co-founded MyMoneyDog and Curious-Orange as well as the South African Bitcoin Exchange, Bitx. He currently resides in SOMA, San Francisco.
Follow Nicholas Pilkington:
About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Sameer Kalwani
Founder & Advisor of Element Analytics
Follow Sameer Kalwani:
About Element Analytics: SaaS provider transforming IT/OT data into contextualized, graph-based models to support diverse analytical workloads and data governance.
Hugo Fiennes
Founder & CEO of Electric Imp
Hugo Fiennes is CEO and Co-founder of Electric Imp, an innovative and powerful Internet of Things-based cloud service and hardware platform that makes it simple to connect devices to the Internet. Hugo began developing hardware and software for early ARM-based computers in the late 1980s and has been building useful and successful things ever since. After designing many MP3 players for Rio, Hugo led Apple’s hardware team through the first four generations of the groundbreaking iPhone, and was then an early advisor to Nest Labs, architecting the hardware for their first thermostat product before starting Electric Imp in 2011. He graduated first honors from University of Warwick in Coventry, England with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
Follow Hugo Fiennes:
About Electric Imp: Electric Imp provides a secure IoT platform, connecting cloud services with the real world
Tak Miyata
Founder & General Partner of Scrum Ventures
Tak Miyata is a Founding Partner at Scrum Ventures. He has over 15 years of international experience in the IT industry both as an entrepreneur and as a senior executive. NevenVision, Tak’s first US based startup, was acquired by Google in 2006. His second startup, Japan based J-Magic, was acquired in 2009 by mixi. At mixi, Tak served as the Executive Vice President of Alliance. Tak holds a Master’s degree in nano Science from Waseda University. • 15+ years experience in startup, investment, executive management, sales and BizDev. • Proven results-oriented executive with early stage start-up companies. • Designed, developed and managed Japan and APAC(Asia PACific) sales strategies and teams. • Implemented sales, training and development programs and processes • Excellent leadership, business analysis, financial and negotiation skills • Presentation and Panel in many global events such as SXSW, LeWeb, Social Media Forum and etc.
Follow Tak Miyata:
About Scrum Ventures: Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that helps startups and corporations innovate together.
Gabriel Halimi
Co-Founder & CEO of Flo Technologies
Gabriel is a former law partner turned corporate operations executive, with extensive startup experience, including in business development and brand marketing.
Follow Gabriel Halimi:
About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Henry Halimi
Co-Founder, Chairman of Flo Technologies
Follow Henry Halimi:
About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Tyler Raugh
Co-Founder & President of Booster
Follow Tyler Raugh:
About Booster: Booster is energy delivered, integrated logistics, and society’s solution for decarbonizing last-mile delivery.
Iryna Korolenko
Founder and CEO of iSALON Beauty App
The founder of iSALON, a businesswoman and entrepreneur, fashion model and world-traveler, Iryna Korolenko is a portrait of the modern Renaissance woman. Born in Ukraine, she balanced passion and professionalism, ambition and sophistication from an early age, modeling internationally by 16 while prioritizing higher education. After receiving postgraduate degrees both in international economy and psychology, Iryna began a career working for global corporations, negotiating multi-million dollar contracts. By seamlessly navigating between the worlds of business and beauty, from airline to fashion runways, she has gained a worldview unique among her peers. Seeking new opportunities, Iryna packed a single suitcase and moved to the United States in 2014. Despite having no support network, she paved her way in an unfamiliar environment, and continues to trailblaze her singular career workingwith prominent designers and global brands both as a model and businesswoman. In boardrooms and at photo shoots, presentation matters, but it doesn’t have to be inconvenient. It was during a commute in traffic that Iryna realized it was smarter, safer, and simpler to have beauty services delivered directly to her door. Any modern professional will recognize the importance of quickly connecting with services wherever they are, whenever they are – and with iSALON, you can. Iryna is based in California but continues to pursue her passion exploring new places and meeting new people, always looking forward to new challenges and discovering innovative ideas. A consummate Capricorn, culinary dilettante, and classic cinema enthusiast, she most appreciates the simple things in life, especially her French bulldog, Blu.
Follow Iryna Korolenko:
About Coleman Research, Fohr, GLG, iSALON Beauty App, Kelly Moore Paints, Look Model Agency, RED HOT MONDE: Delivering Beauty to Your Doorstep
Slim Souissi
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ospitek Inc.
Dr. Slim Souissi is the co-founder and CEO of OSPITEK, a leading HealthTech company that develops digital AI-IoT software for improving patient experience and surgical center productivity. He is also the founder and CEO of MIOTIV, a developer of IoT platforms specializing in the development of bespoke SAAS platforms for the automotive and the healthcare industries . He is the former president and COO of Novatel Wireless. He began his career at Motorola in ’94 and made key contributions to the architecture FLEX paging data networks. In 1997, he lead the architecture of the company’s location based services platform. In 2000, Dr. Souissi joined Novatel Wireless to lead the Software Defined Radio program. He was promoted to CTO and VP of engineering in 2002. Dr. Souissi guided Novatel Wireless through the worldwide expansion of the mobile broadband market which culminated at a company valuation of more than $800M and an annual revenue of ~ $500M. Dr. Souissi and his team invented the award winning MiFi mobile hotspot creating a global market category worth tens of billions of dollars. Dr. Souissi is the holder of several MiFi essential patents asserted against ZTE and Apple. MiFi was picked by Time Magazine as one of the greatest/most influential gadgets of the century. The company was named by Forbes as one of the top five most innovative technology companies in America. Dr. Souissi was awarded the distinction of being part of ExecRank’s “Top CTO Rankings” of America in 2013 and 2014. Dr. Souissi holds a MSEE degree from Ecole Central de Marseille, a MS degree in DSP from Supelec, France, a MSEE and a Ph.D from Georgia Tech. He was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni of Georgia Tech. Dr. Souissi is a published IEEE author and holds 60 US patents. He is the recipient of the distinguished innovator award from Motorola and the J.D. innovation award from Novatel. He served on the advisory boards of Nextivity, TAM and Zyray Wireless.
Follow Slim Souissi:
About Miotiv Inc., Ospitek Inc.: SaaS Company – Healthcare Technology
Christopher Kryzan
Founder & Managing Director of Brilliant Things
Follow Christopher Kryzan:
About Brilliant Things: Marketing & Product Strategy for the Internet of Things
Tong Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of Timecros
Follow Tong Zhang:
About Timecros: Digital life sharing
Mark Levitt
Co-Founder and CEO of Trixta
Four-time SA Open chess champion, with many years history in Chess commerce, including: publishing, software and retail business. Levitt was also an early investor & CIO of search engine marketing company www.incubeta.com, and a founding member of TEIM Ventures.
Follow Mark Levitt:
About ChessCube.com, Trixta, Trixta: Trixta’s low-code tools revolutionize how teams build software – faster, better, with fewer developers
James Tamplin
Founder Partner of Founder Collective
James has founded 4 startups. His last one, Firebase, was acquired by Google, where he leads product for Firebase as a part of Google Cloud Platform.
Follow James Tamplin:
About Founder Collective: Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Zach Klein
Founder Partner of Founder Collective
Zach Klein is co-founder and CEO of DIY. He was a partner and led product design at Connected Ventures, the creators of CollegeHumor. In 2006, he and his partners sold a major stake of Connected Ventures to IAC. Zach is best known for co-founding and designing [Vimeo](/organization/vimeo), a popular video-sharing community emphasizing authenticity and quality. Time Magazine’s CEO Shimon Haber named Vimeo one of the web’s Top 50 sites. He led product at [Boxee](/organization/boxee), an open-source interface for televisions making it easy to watch shows, movies and homemade videos from the Internet. Zach also serves as a director on the boards of Skillshare and Svpply.
Follow Zach Klein:
About DIY.org, Dwell, Dwell, Founder Collective, Svpply: Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Charles Michael Yim
Founder and CEO of Breathometer
Follow Charles Michael Yim:
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.
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.
Follow Zach Supalla:
About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Meirav Oren
CEO & Co Founder of VERSATILE
Meirav Oren is the CEO and Co-Founder at VERSATILE.
Follow Meirav Oren:
About VERSATILE: VERSATILE uses machine learning and AI to optimize construction and industrial processes.
Raju Indukuri
Co-Founder of Quantela
Follow Raju Indukuri:
About FalconX, Pi Datacenters, Quantela, Swiftly: Quantela is the leading Outcomes-as-a-Service (OaaS) company in the space of IoT enabled smart cities and urban infrastructure digitization.
Raghu Bala
Founder and CEO of NetObjex, Inc.
CEO, NetObjex Inc based in Southern California. Formerly with Yahoo, Infospace, Primedia, Source Interlink Media, PwC, and with 3 successful startup exits. Wharton MBA in Finance, MS in Computer Science from RPI, Ex-Columbia University Adjunct Lecturer, published author and major conferences including IoT India Congress, Google IO, and more. Bala has significant domain expertise in the media industry having led digital operations for 100 brands including MotorTrend, HotRod, Import Tuner, Automobile, Recoil, Shutterbug, and Slam. His responsibilities included managing digital assets across multiple mediums including web, mobile, video/YouTube channels, and social media. The portfolio of digital assets managed had a total visitor profile with monthly statistics of over 16M unique visitors and 100M pageviews. Bala also has deep expertise in search engine advertising and audience conversion from his stints at Infospace and Yahoo. Bala has been working on IoT since 2011 and has deep expertise in end to end IoT in multiple domains.
Follow Raghu Bala:
About : NetObjex’s Matrix Digital Asset-as-a-Service (DAaaS) platform enables enterprises to manage their digital assets using IoT, AI, and DLT
Suhas Ahuja
Co-Founder, COO of SIERA.AI
Suhas is an experienced entrepreneur with multiple successful exits in the high-tech sector. Suhas leads all of Stocked Robotics’ sales and business development operations globally.
Follow Suhas Ahuja:
About SIERA.AI: SIERA.AI is a mobility tech company that helps warehouses and factories increase safety and efficiency of their industrial vehicle fleets.
Yichun Zhang
Founder and CEO of OpenResty
Yichun is founder and CEO of OpenResty Inc, creator of the OpenResty open source web platform, and a contributor to the NGINX, LuaJIT, and SystemTap open source projects. He previously worked on large distributed software systems based on NGINX and OpenResty at Cloudflare, Taobao, and Yahoo! China.
Follow Yichun Zhang:
About OpenResty: OpenResty is a full-fledged web platform.
Amit Narayan
Founder / CEO of Autogrid
Amit Narayan is the Founder and CEO of AutoGrid, Inc. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Director of Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation at Stanford University, where he continues to lead an interdisciplinary project related to modeling, optimization and control of the electricity grid and associated electricity markets. Prior to founding AutoGrid, Dr. Narayan was the Vice President of Products at the publicly traded company Magma Design Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), where he led the product development and product management teams responsible for Magma’s flagship product in the design implementation area. Over one third of all semiconductor chips used in consumer electronic devices — such as smart phones, blue-ray players and video games — were designed using products developed by Dr. Narayan’s team at Magma. Prior to joining Magma, Dr. Narayan founded Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. (BDA), a venture-backed company in analog and radio-frequency semiconductor design software and served as its founding CEO and later Vice President of Engineering, responsible for all research and product development activities, as well as customer engagements. Under Dr. Narayan’s leadership, BDA saw its products adopted by over 100 semiconductor companies in the world (including 20 out of the top 25). For his work at BDA, Dr. Narayan’s received the EDN’s “Innovation for the Year” award in 2006.Dr. Narayan received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He has published over 25 papers about design automation, holds seven U.S. patents and is an active advisor to several startup companies in the Bay Area.
Follow Amit Narayan:
About Autogrid, Berkeley Design Automation: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Cem Koc
Founder & CEO of Ronotic
Entrepeneur since 2000. Cem has developed business strategies for the efficient and effective use of technology and always has an eye on emerging technologies and trends. Cem tends to be an outgoing thinker and naturally has an easy time persuading others. Confident and decisive, Cem is likely to take bold action and articulate ideas to build momentum around the projects that his pursues.
Follow Cem Koc:
About Ronotic: Solar Powered Streetlights, CleanTech Infrastructure
Sridhar Iyengar
Founder & CEO of Elemental Machines
A serial entrepreneur in connected medical devices and wearables, Sridhar is focused on strategy and management at Elemental Machines. Previously, Sridhar was a founder and director of Misfit, makers of elegant wearable products, which was acquired by Fossil in 2015. Prior to Misfit, he founded AgaMatrix, a blood glucose monitoring company that made the world’s first medical device connecting directly to the iPhone. AgaMatrix shipped 15+ FDA-cleared medical products, 2B+ biosensors, 6M+ glucose meters, with partnerships with Apple, Sanofi, and Walgreens. Sridhar holds over 30 US and international patents and received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. Beyond Elemental Machines, Sridhar has been known to run 13.1 miles on occasion and has sometimes been spotted on stage behind a wall of drums.
Follow Sridhar Iyengar:
About Elemental Machines: Smart lab platform delivers powerful, data-driven insights that improve R&D, laboratory operations, and manufacturing outcomes.
Nikhil Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of ObEN
Follow Nikhil Jain:
About ObEN: ObEN is an AI company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars.
Dan Mondor
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Inseego
Dan Mondor was appointed CEO of Inseego Corp. in June 2017 and named Inseego’s Chairman and CEO in August 2018. Mr. Mondor has over 35 years of telecommunications and media technology experience with global Fortune 500 and privately held corporations. Mr. Mondor has received numerous industry awards for innovation and market impact and was named by ExecRank as a top Micro-Cap CEO for driving shareholder value. Prior to joining Inseego, Mr. Mondor provided corporate strategy and M&A advisory services through his private consulting firm. Previously he was President and CEO of Spectralink Corporation, a private-equity owned global company that designs and manufactures mobile-workforce products for global enterprises, including Android powered Wi-Fi smartphones. Mr. Mondor was President and CEO of Concurrent Corporation (Nasdaq: CCUR), a global company that designs and manufactures IP video delivery and real-time Linux software solutions for global service providers, military, aerospace, automotive and financial service industries. Previously, Mr. Mondor was President of Mitel Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Mitel Networks Corporation (Nasdaq: MITL), a global company that designs and manufactures business communications systems and mobile communications technology to serve the enterprise and wireless carrier markets. Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility in general management, marketing, and sales during his 16 year career with Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT). At Nortel, Mr. Mondor was Vice President of Global Marketing of the Optical Internet business during a period of hyper-growth to become a $10B dominant market share leader. Mr. Mondor also served as VP and General Manager of several Nortel business units that designed and manufactured products for the global enterprise and service provider markets. Mr. Mondor holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, and executive education from the Cornell Graduate School of Management and Duke Fuqua School of Business.
Follow Dan Mondor:
About Inseego: Inseego specializes in providing enterprise SaaS solutions, IoT, and mobile solutions.
Blaise Barrelet
Founder & Managing Partner of Analytics Ventures
Blaise Barrelet is the Founder & Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures.
Follow Blaise Barrelet:
About Analytics Ventures, Apmetrix Analytics, Inc., Curematch, CureMetrix, San Diego Venture Group, SouthDoctors, Tinoro: Analytics Ventures is a venture studio fund providing front-to-end infrastructure to ideate, form, launch, and fund new companies in AI
Roderick de Rode
Founder & CEO of Spinn
Follow Roderick de Rode:
About Spinn: Spinn makes wifi connected coffee machines that brew coffee using patented centrifugal technology.
Joe Scalisi
Founder & CTO & Chief Innovation Officer of SkyBell
Joe is the creative genius and inventor behind SkyBell and its entire suite of products, which won a CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award in 2014. Joe holds 110 patents in Technology and is currently ranked at 241 of 1.5 million IoT patent holders. The video doorbell and related home security products is one of the hottest segments of the IoT space. Joe’s innovations have disrupted many markets dominated by industry giants. Joe’s patented technology has been or is used by Apple, AT&T, US Air Force, Honeywell, ADT, Alarm.com, Nest, Amazon and Comcast.
Follow Joe Scalisi:
About SkyBell: SkyBell HD is making homes and neighborhoods safer with a Video Doorbell that sends live video of your front door to a smartphone.
Desiree Mejia
COO & Co-Founder of SkyBell
Desiree leads SkyBell’s supply chain operations and contract manufacturing as well as overseeing the development and rollout of SkyBell Connect (the proprietary back-office system which manages all deployed devices). In addition, Desiree is SkyBell’s Principal Executive with respect to growing existing customer relationships, Customer Support and Order Fulfillment. Prior to starting up SkyBell, she served as the COO of LBT, a GPS tracking solutions company.
Follow Desiree Mejia:
About SkyBell: SkyBell HD is making homes and neighborhoods safer with a Video Doorbell that sends live video of your front door to a smartphone.
Patrick Maloney
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Inspire
Clean Energy Entrepreneur and Investor
Follow Patrick Maloney:
About Inspire: Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Patrick Lo
Co-Founder and CEO of NETGEAR
Patrick Lo is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Netgear.
Follow Patrick Lo:
About NETGEAR, NetgearStore – India: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Ravi Roopreddy
VP of Software Engineering & Co-Founder of Cloudleaf
Ravi is a founder and technical leader of Cloudleaf. He has deep expertise developing enterprise applications and infrastructure on a wide variety of platforms for companies including CallidusCloud, Zaplet and Electronic Arts. Ravi enjoys the outdoors, traveling and video games.
Follow Ravi Roopreddy:
About Cloudleaf: ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that specializes in digital transformation, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical.
Noyan Berker
Founder & CEO of Mimiq
Noyan Berker is the Founder & CEO at Smart Mimic .
Follow Noyan Berker:
About Mimiq: Mimiq Inc. (formerly Smart Mimic) is a Silicon Valley company that develops fifth-generation, long range, connected consumer devices.
Jack Dangermond
Founder, CEO, and President of Esri
Jack Dangermond is the founder, CEO, and president of Esri.
Follow Jack Dangermond:
About Esri: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Kevin Huang
CTO & Co-Founder of Backbone Labs, Inc.
Kevin’s engineering skills and passion form the foundation for the technology that powers Backbone Labs. He began his career as a consultant implementing and integrating enterprise systems where he learned the intricacies of automated systems. He then moved to the world of software engineering, helping develop various applications for companies and consumers. Outside the office, Kevin enjoys following hockey (go Sharks!) and MotoGP.
Follow Kevin Huang:
About Backbone Labs, Inc.: Identify at-risk behavior in the workplace and recommend actions to promote and maintain overall back-related wellness.
Amy Kao
Co-Founder & President / Chief Marketing Office of RxAll
Amy is a graduate of the Yale School of Management MBA program and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She has +5 years of management consulting experience with global pharmaceutical companies in New York and Asia, and has a strong focus on go-to-market strategy in emerging markets.
Follow Amy Kao:
About RxAll: RxAll is a Deep Learning-Hyperspectral IoT Platform for the authentication and real-time global tracking of quality of drugs.
Nitin Gupta
Founder & CEO of FlytBase
Nitin did his B.Tech from IIT Bombay and MS in Aerospace Engineering from University of Maryland, USA. Nitin has worked with multiple startups and with Samsung electronics before founding NavStik. He has extensive background in aerospace control systems, robotics and automation. As the CEO of NavStik, he helps set the vision and strategy for the company, and ensure that NavStik delivers value to all its stakeholders: team-members, customers and investors.
Follow Nitin Gupta:
About FlytBase, NavStik Autonomous Systems: Enterprise Drone Automation Platform
George Minassian
CO-Founder & CEO of Crossbar
Dr. George Minassian has been a co-founder and CEO of Crossbar since 2010.A seasoned veteran of the semiconductor memory industry, Dr. Minassian brings Crossbar 25 years of experience in systems, logic design, new business development, and product development. Over his extensive career, Dr. Minassian has a proven track record of developing commercially successful, leading-edge products. From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Minassian held a variety of positions at Spansion, a leading innovator of Flash memory solutions, most recently as vice president of System and Software Engineering where he led the $1.2 billion Flash Memory business targeting the cellular wireless market segment.While at Spansion, he developed and established new industry standards in emerging technologies such as PISMO and achieved a successful track record for large-scale product development and management. From 1999-2002, Dr. Minassian was director of Wireless Engineering at Advanced Micro Devices, a microprocessor leader, where he developed the industry’s first CMOS RF process and complete 802.11b/a chipset and reference designs.Dr. Minassian holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Follow George Minassian:
About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Cheray Unman
Co Founder of CLOUDCAST
Follow Cheray Unman:
About Blackhawk Partners, CHERAY, CLOUD HORSE, CLOUDCAST, Equestrian Luxury, Gütermann Family Office, Sotheby’s International Realty, Tanner Unman & Co, ULTIMATE Group, Venture Bank, Venture Luxury, WINE LUXE: Patented Edge or Fog computing p2p mesh network for live steaming media & commerce .
Osh. Agabi
Founder & CEO of Koniku
Follow Osh. Agabi:
About : Koniku merges synthetic biology with silicon to build machines that detect smells. We cyborgs capable of detecting smell.
Jessika Lora
Founder and CEO of CarForce
A management consultant by training and Stanford BS and MS graduate with 10+ years of automotive and e-commerce experience. Previous GM of ebay’s Vehicles C2C business and Head of Automotive Corp Dev, managing strategy and operations for a $7.3B division and responsible for double-digit growth on ebay’s $1.6B vehicles C2C sector.
Follow Jessika Lora:
About CarForce: CarForce is a multi-brand enterprise software platform that delivers real-time vehicle health insights using EDGE computing and ML
Roman Arutyunov
Co-Founder & VP Products of Xage Security
Prior to Xage, Roman held Vice President of Product and Engineering roles at ABB, Tropos Networks, and Mimosa Networks solving networking, security, and data analytics challenges for industrial and commercial enterprises enabling millions of IoT devices in production today. Earlier in his career, Roman developed the first generation of Content Distribution Networks (CDN) and secure proxy servers at Blue Coat Systems (Symantec). Roman holds a Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics with an emphasis in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.
Follow Roman Arutyunov:
About Xage Security: Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.
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.
Follow Charlene Consolacion:
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.
Follow Akshita Iyer:
About Ome: Ome reinvents the way people live through smart home technology.
Jia Li
Founder & President of Nonda
Founder at Nonda & Baixing.com.
Follow Jia Li:
About Nonda: nonda makes consumer connected car devices.
Hugo Mercier
Founder of Dreem
Follow Hugo Mercier:
About Dreem: Dreem is a neurotechnology company composed of sleep pioneers, a team of experts fascinated by science, technology and design.
Sharjeel Noor
Founder & CEO of Workerbee Technologies
Follow Sharjeel Noor:
About Workerbee Technologies: Workerbee is an on-demand platform that enables quick and secure completion of human intelligence tasks.
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.
Follow Pep Gubau:
About Aizon: Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Jon Sobel
CEO & Co-Founder of Sight Machine
Follow Jon Sobel:
About Sight Machine, University of Michigan: Sight Machine provides analytics platform that helps address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise.
Ann Greenberg
Founder and CEO of Entertainment AI ™
Ann Greenberg is a serial entrepreneur and inventor. Ann’s new venture, Entertainment AI™ (Sceneplay, Inc.) is developing groundbreaking, patented systems using AI and Blockchain to automate media creation, distribution and analysis. In 1998, Ann co-founded Gracenote, the world’s largest entertainment data company, and the first crowdsourced company. Gracenote helps consumers to discover and engage with relevant, personalized content across platforms—from smart TVs, to smartphones and the streaming media in their cars. Gracenote was acquired by Nielsen for $560M in 2017. Prior to founding Gracenote, Ann co-founded ION, an early digital studio who worked with David Bowie, Brian Eno, Todd Rungren, The Residents, Primus and leading technology companies. Ann also ran marketing for Edward R Pressman Film Corporation.
Follow Ann Greenberg:
About Entertainment AI ™, Fanpulse: The Smart Content Company – Entertainment AI merges human and machine creativity to engage a new generation.
Sylvia Kang
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
Sylvia Kang is the founder and CEO of Quanovate, the company behind Mira.
Follow Sylvia Kang:
About Mira, Quanovate: The first FDA and CE registered comprehensive women’s health and chronic disease monitoring platform with 99% of accuracy
Zheng Yang
Co-Founder of Mira
Zheng Yang is a co-founder of Quanovate, the company behind Mira.
Follow Zheng Yang:
About Mira, Quanovate: The first FDA and CE registered comprehensive women’s health and chronic disease monitoring platform with 99% of accuracy
Vatsal Shah
Founder & CEO of Litmus Automation
Vatsal Shah is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Litmus Automation since July 2013, a startup with a vision of enabling things connectivity to business applications through an IoT platform ‘Loop’, a totally unexplored arena. Along with staying on toes with all tech movements in the valley, Vatsal plays several roles as a leader, engineer, strategist and always a learner. Previously, Vatsal has worked with Rockwell Automation as a Design Engineer, which became the cradle for this startup. Being a social enthusiast, Vatsal makes a point to attend events and meetups relating to opensource, M2M, connected solutions or Internet of Things. Vatsal earned his M.S. in Global Entrepreneurship from Em-Lyon (France), Zhejiang University (China) and Purdue University (USA) jointly and his B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Nirma University, India.
Follow Vatsal Shah:
About Litmus Automation: Litmus provides the solution to transform critical edge data into actionable intelligence that can power maintenance.
Kevin Yu
Founder & CEO of SideChef
Kevin Yu joined SideChef as Founder & CEO in 2013.
Follow Kevin Yu:
About SideChef: SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and amateur cooks.
ALVIN LAM
Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Locbit
Follow ALVIN LAM:
About Locbit: Locbit is a company that helps companies and people connect their devices inside their buildings.
BOIAN SPASSOV
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Locbit
Boian Spassov is the Founder and CEO of Locbit.
Follow BOIAN SPASSOV:
About Locbit: Locbit is a company that helps companies and people connect their devices inside their buildings.
Elhay Farkash
Co-Founder and CEO of Zira
Elhay Farkash is the CEO of Zira. He is also the CEO and co-founder of Lightapp Technologies.
Follow Elhay Farkash:
About Lightapp Technologies, Zira: Zira is a business automation platform that connects machines, people, and processes.
Brett Jones
CEO & Co-Founder of Lightform
Follow Brett Jones:
About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Kevin Karsch
CTO & Co-Founder of Lightform
Follow Kevin Karsch:
About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Rajinder Sodhi
Co-Founder of Lightform
Rajinder Sodhi is the co-founder of Lightform, where we’re making the first computer for projected augmented reality. Connect Lightform to any projector and instantly create magical experiences with light.
Follow Rajinder Sodhi:
About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Steve Poizner
Co-Founder, CEO of oneNav
Steve Poizner has launched, grown, and sold three tech companies in Silicon Valley; managed a portfolio of a dozen start-ups as an SVP for Qualcomm; worked at the highest levels in state and federal government; and volunteered for a year as a public high school teacher. A few of his key accomplishments include transforming the mobile phone market by inventing a way to integrate GPS into handsets thereby saving tens of thousands of lives and enabling a new multi-billion-dollar location-based services sector. While working as a White House Fellow, he helped develop a post-9/11 Homeland Security plan for the National Security Council. As the elected CA Insurance Commissioner, he modernized California’s Department of Insurance, resulting in multi-billion dollars in cost savings for consumers. Mr. Poizner was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014.
Follow Steve Poizner:
About Alliance for Southern California Innovation, oneNav: OneNav provides a mobile positioning system intended for smartphones, wearables, and IoT tracking devices.
Eythor Bender
Co-Founder and CEO of UNYQ
Eythor Bender, the CEO/Co-founder of UNYQ has worked in the prosthetics and bionics industry for 20+ years including leadership roles at two successful startup exits including CEO at Ekso Bionics (IPO) and President at Ossur (IPO), the manufacturer of the prosthetic legs used by ‘blade runner’ Oscar Pistorius in the Olympics.
Follow Eythor Bender:
About Singularity University, UNYQ: UNYQ is a global medical device company with industry-leading innovative mass customized orthopedic products
Yingzhe Reginald Fu
Founder of Pine Park Health
Follow Yingzhe Reginald Fu:
About Pine Park Health: Pine Park Health works with medicare advantage plans, senior living communities, and providers to improve health outcomes for seniors.
George Khasin
Co-Founder & CEO of Pine Park Health
George Khasin is the Co-Founder & CEO at Pine Park Health.
Follow George Khasin:
About Pine Park Health: Pine Park Health works with medicare advantage plans, senior living communities, and providers to improve health outcomes for seniors.
Yoitsu Kamijo
Co-Founder of Pine Park Health
Yoitsu Kamijo is the Co-Founder at Pine Park Health.
Follow Yoitsu Kamijo:
About Pine Park Health, Pine Park Health: Pine Park Health works with medicare advantage plans, senior living communities, and providers to improve health outcomes for seniors.
