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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the iOS 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.
Adam Moffitt
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RecipMe
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About RecipMe: RecipMe is a mobile application that suggests recipe ideas to a user based on what the user has in his/her kitchen.
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Michael Ritter
Founder & CEO of Maple Media
Michael Ritter is the Founder and CEO of Maple Media, a mobile apps and games company backed by private equity firm Shamrock Capital. Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising and technology company that acquires, manages and operates mobile applications focused on the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. Popular titles include Snowboard Party: World Tour, Skateboard Party, Minesweeper Classic, Sudoku 🙂 and CalConvert. Previously he was SVP of Business & Corporate Development for Jam City, a large social and mobile game company based in Los Angeles where he oversaw mergers & acquisition activities, publishing, licensing, distribution, sales, legal and partnerships for social and mobile games. Michael was also the Founder and Publisher of Saturday Night Magazine, which at the time, he built into the largest circulated monthly collegiate lifestyle and entertainment magazine in the country.
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About Fantasy Baseball Arbitration, Maple Media: Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising, and technology company that acquires and operates category-leading, consumer apps.
Uri Raz
Founder & Executive Chairman of Tango
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About Tango: Tango Live is a leading global social media platform connecting influencers and their followers through live mobile video engagement.
Susan Brazer
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of LionShare Media
Susan is a commercial visionary with a 2020’s view. She’s led the successful development, launch and scale of consumer-facing platforms, apps and services for world-leading media, tech and telecom companies: Apple, DirecTV, SES Astra, FIFA World Cup, Viacom, Virgin Mobile, and Nokia. Susan is the CEO of LionShare Media, which is launching the THIN/AIR™ Metaverse, a 5G cloud-native, blockchain-enabled distribution platform for premium entertainment and immersive media. Previously, Susan was VP, Strategy and Business Development at Nokia, and VP, Corporate Development and Entertainment Services at Virgin Mobile USA). Prior to this, Susan was EVP, Corporate Development at KirchMedia’s Venture Fund for the FIFA World Cup, where she raised $50M+ for interactive TV, gaming and mobile app ventures. Susan was the SVP, Networks & Marketing for Viacom’s Showtime service in the Middle East and Africa, overseeing a P&L and operations for MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, TV Land, Bloomberg, Paramount, Style and Discovery. Susan led the launch of DirecTV as VP, Marketing at Compression Labs and the migration of 85M European TVHH to digital satellite and cable services for SES ASTRA. The genesis of Susan’s product development and UI/UX expertise began at Apple Computer, where she launched its 1st portable computer, the Newton, and Knowledge Navigator (prototype for the iPAD and Siri). She was also served as an M&A analyst at PepsiCo and International Treasury Analyst at Phillip Morris. Susan holds a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and attended the London School of Economics. Susan is on the Board of Global Women in Blockchain, a UN Delegate for Media for Social Impact and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller School of Engineering for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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About LionShare Media: LionShare Media develops a media distribution platform-as-a-service to harness the power of converging and emerging technologies.
Wesley Pettit
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Kandji
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About Kandji: Kandji is a management platform for apple devices such as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.
Mark Daughters
Co-Founder & VP Operations of Kandji
Founder & Head of Operations of Kandji.
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About Kandji: Kandji is a management platform for apple devices such as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.
Adam Pettit
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kandji
Adam Pettit is the founder and chief executive officer at Kandji.
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About Kandji: Kandji is a management platform for apple devices such as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.
Sonny Caberwal
Founder of Exclusively.In of Zuldi
Founder & CEO of BOND.
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About Zuldi: Zuldi extends Legacy Point-of-Sale systems to Mobile
Gerard Cunningham
Founder & CEO of Winistry
Gerard is a Blue Chip & Startup CEO, Board Member, Adviser and Investor. He is a former CMO, with expertise in strategy, operations, Big Data, AI, Digital Transformation, Mobile.
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About Winistry: The Intelligent Mobile App Platform: “WordPress for Mobile Apps, plus AI”
Bo Fishback
Co-Founder & CEO of Zaarly
Bo Fishback is the Founder and CEO of Zaarly. He was previously vice president of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the president of Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation.
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About Zaarly: Zaarly is an American private company focused on developing a proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered market platform.
Boaz Hecht
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SkyGiraffe
Boaz Hecht is the Co-founder and CEO of SkyGiraffe.
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About SkyGiraffe: SkyGiraffe is an enterprise mobility platform that mobilizes back-end data, enabling employees to manage business processes on any device.
Hrish Lotlikar
Co-Founder & CEO of SuperWorld
Hrish is Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer of The Rogue Initiative (therogueinitiative.com). The Rogue Initiative is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company composed of award-winning entertainment industry professionals including alumni from Amblin Entertainment, Pixar, Dreamworks Animation, Disney and Activision Entertainment creating new AAA cinematic interactive virtual reality, digital media experiences, feature film, and television content. Hrish is Co-founder of SuperWorld (http://superworldapp.com), a social Augmented Reality app on iPhone. SuperWorld allows users, brands and influencers to tag anything anywhere in AR with photos, videos, texts, and 3D objects, and share their AR world with friends, followers and fans. Hrish is a founding Managing Partner of EastLabs, a seed stage venture capital fund based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was the Senior Business Developer/Global Evangelist at Toptal (https://www.toptal.com/), backed by Andreessen Horowitz, providing elite talent (software engineers, designers and finance professionals) to companies globally. He is also a Director at Startup Labs, a seed stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco, California, investing in emerging markets around the world. He is also a Mentor at TechPeaks, an information technology accelerator based in Trento, Italy and and Grand Central Tech, an early stage accelerator in New York City.(https://grandcentraltech.com/). He is on the Supervisory Board of TechMinsk (https://techminsk.com/), an international technology entrepreneurship school based in Minsk, Belarus. Previously, he was in venture capital at Spencer Trask Ventures, an investment banker at HSBC Securities in New York, and at UBS Investment Bank in investment banking/M&A and in global business development at management consulting firm Aon Hewitt. Hrish earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Pre-Med from Rice University, a Master of Public Health and MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Illinois at Chicago. A U.S. Congressional Scholar, Hrish Lotlikar served as a Board Member of the New York Executive Forum, and is a member of the New York City Venture Connection and the New York Private Equity Network.
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About Diarize, Eastlabs, GLG, Growth Engine, Startup Labs, SuperWorld, The Rogue Initiative: Social Augmented Reality Platform
Max Woon
Co-Founder of SuperWorld
Co-founder of SuperWorld (AR real estate + ad marketplace on the blockchain: https://superworldapp.com), SKIT! (animations by kids for kids), Phizzle (mobile sports marketing for Knicks, Cavaliers, HBO, Comcast, etc), Xfire (social gaming, acquired by Viacom/MTV for $102m in 2006).
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About Flowroom, Foundry Six, SuperWorld, Xfire: Social Augmented Reality Platform
Omer Perchik
Founder & CEO of Any.do
Omer Perchik is the Founder & CEO of Any.do . A passionate entrepreneur who loves putting simple yet effective products in the hands of millions. Fascinated with behavioral economics, neuroscience and people at large, Omer sought to explore new ways of how people interact with the world and those around them. As the Founder & CEO of Any.DO, he aims to revolutionize the way people get things done.
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About Any.do: Over 25M people rely on Any.do to stay organized and get more done.
Natalie Gray
Co-Founder and Design of Cover
Natalie is the co-founder and head of product at Cover where she is responsible for setting the direction for product and design. Prior to Cover, Natalie co-founded Stylekick––an e-commerce fashion app––which was acqui-hired by Shopify in 2015. Natalie is a Y Combinator Fellow and Alumnus, and she was selected for the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017. She has spoken at a variety of events including Forbes Women Summit, Insurtech Insights, Tech Intersections, Empire Conference and TechTO. She has also been interviewed for publications like Forbes, Business Insider, Thrive Global and Buzzfeed.
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About Cover: Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure.
Anand Dhillon
CTO & Co-Founder of Cover
Anand Dhillon is the CTO of Stylekick.
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About Cover: Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure.
Omar Gabr
Co-Founder & CEO of Instabug
Omar Gabr is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Instabug.
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About Instabug: Instabug is a computer software company that offers services for mobile app developers to help them in testing their applications.
Dave Swartz
Founder, President and CCO of Hang w/
Dave has served as MEDLʼs creative director since its inception. While at MEDL, Dave has overseen the development and design of hundreds of mobile applications for names as diverse as About.com, Encyclopedia Britannica, Medtronic, Taco Bell and Universal Picturesʼ Ted. Prior to MEDL, Dave served as the Creative Director of DGWB Advertising, named by Creativity Magazine as one of the top 20 Creative Agencies in the U.S. Dave has led strategic and creative marketing efforts for regional and national advertising accounts in a variety of industries such as publishing, banking, multi-unit retail, fast food, healthcare and technology.
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About Anonymous Philanthropy LLC, Hang w/, MEDL Mobile: Hang w/ empowers users to stream and broadcast live high-quality video to other phones using their standard wireless service.
Andrew Maltin
Founder & CEO of Hang w/
Andrew co-founded MEDL Mobile in March 2009. Prior to founding MEDL Mobile, Mr. Maltin served as the Chief Executive Officer of Momentum Gaming, Inc., where he led the company’s marketing, business development and technology efforts to build a world class online gaming infrastructure which both operated independently and licensed its technology to several of the world’s leading gaming sites. He has been featured in Entrepreneur, 944, Success, The Wall Street Journal and The LA Times. He is also the CEO of Hang w/ a company that he also co-founded in 2012.
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About Hang w/: Hang w/ empowers users to stream and broadcast live high-quality video to other phones using their standard wireless service.
Dhanush Balachandran
Founder & CEO of Sortly
Founder, Sortly • Former: Marketing @Intel , iOS apps lead @Jiff • Self taught coding • Reinventing people’s relationship with physical stuff through technology
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About Sortly: Sortly is the leading “mobile centric” inventory platform that is simplifying how businesses and consumers keep track of their stuff.
Vlada Bortnik
CEO & Co-Founder of Marco Polo
Vlada Bortnik is the Founder at Joya Communications.He is Co-Founder & CPO at Happy Bits Company.
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About Happy Bits Company, Marco Polo, YPO: Marco Polo is a video communication application designed to help foster closeness between friends and family.
Carter Russ
Founder & CEO of Champions Round
I am an entrepreneur with a passion for creating exceptional products and building fantastic working cultures. I am the founder and CEO at Champions Round. I’m interested by sports tech, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, physics, investing, art and music, and pretty much anything nerdy or cool under the sun.
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About Champions Round: Fantasy & sports betting operator offering hyper casual skill based contests.
Keith Siilats
Founder of Bytelogics
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About Bytelogics, Denario: Software for fixed income investing and micromobility
Bill Gelpi
Founder & CEO of Rocket Games
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About Rocket Games: A great team building great games
Sean Fannan
CTO & Co-Founder of Chartboost
Sean Fannan is co-founder and CTO of Chartboost, a technology platform for mobile developers to find new users and monetize their games. Chartboost works with over 32,000 games, serves over 12 billion game sessions per month and has raised $21M from Sequoia Capital and other investors. Prior to Chartboost, Fannan was one of the early employees at Tapulous, that was acquired by Walt Disney in 2010 to become Disney Mobile.
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About Chartboost: Chartboost is one of the largest mobile-games only marketplace to increase revenue and discover new players.
Miten Mehta
Co-Founder & COO of KloudData Inc.
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About Fractal Analytics, KloudData Inc., Xoogler: KloudData is providing software solutions and services.
Alex Fishman
Founder & CEO of Bugsee
Alex is currently Founder and CEO of Dishero, Inc. and previously served as Sr. Director of Business Development and Director of Engineering at Lytro Inc, Alex brings 17 years of experience in product development and ODM relations with background in engineering, manufacturing and business development with focus on camera technologies.
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About Bugsee: Bugsee is a mobile software kit that adds information to computer crash reports.
Dmitry Fink
Founder/CTO of Bugsee
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About Bugsee: Bugsee is a mobile software kit that adds information to computer crash reports.
Manik Juneja
Founder & CEO of Vinsol
Manik Juneja is the Co-Founder & CTO at SnackMagic.
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About Senstream, SnackMagic, STADIUM, Vinsol: Leading Ruby & Mobile app development agency
Sam Osman
Founder & CEO of Playas Play
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About Playas Play, SocialVenu: Playas Play is a new mobile app that rewards sports fans for doing what they love — betting and talking trash.
Yi Shi
CEO & Founder of Dotc United Group
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About Avazu, Dotc United Group, Net Impact: DotC United Group creates and architects internet platforms to simplify globalization complexities
Darin Buxbaum
Co-Founder, President & COO of WiderCircle
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About WiderCircle: WiderCircle is a provider of an in-personal social platform designed to connect older adults.
Nolan Amy
Founder of Plickers
Nolan Amy joined Plickers as Founder in 2011.
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About Plickers: Plickers is an online assessment tool used by teachers to check the student’s understanding.
Joseph Terzi
CEO & Co-Founder of Priv
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About Priv: PRIV is a mobile and web platform where clients can book vetted beauty and wellness professionals to their location.
Sian Morson
Founder and CEO of Kollective Mobile
Sian manages Kollective Mobile’s operations and Biz Dev. She also speaks and writes about mobile when she’s not arguing with Henry. Before founding Kollective Mobile, Sian worked at some of the top agencies in the US & UK.
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About Kollective Mobile, Republic, Starfish Accelerator: Kollective Mobile is a mobile development agency located in Oakland, CA.
Esben Friis Jensen
Co-Founder and CGO of Userflow
Esben Friis-Jensen is the co-founder of Userflow and Cobalt.
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About Cobalt, Userflow: Userflow is a platform for building onboarding guides, product tours and more. No coding needed.
Sebastian Seilund
Founder and CEO of Userflow
Sebastian Seilund is the founder of Userflow – a powerful, modern solution to no-code user onboarding software. Sebastian previously worked as a software engineer at Google and founded the Danish accounting software Billy.
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About Userflow: Userflow is a platform for building onboarding guides, product tours and more. No coding needed.
Srinivas Sriramdas
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Edyst
Srinivas (Vasu) Sriramdas is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Edyst. He is also Vice President at Deloitte – Marketing, Communications and Business Development (Australia EDC) at Deloitte. Sriramdas is a former Project Manager at Satyam and Manager of VisualSoft Technologies. Srinivas earned an MBA in Marketing at Andhra University.
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About Edyst: Edyst is an early stage online learning & employability startup for aspiring software developers.
Guy Pistone
Founder & CEO of Fitivity
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About Elete, Fitivity, Playbook: Collection of over 400 sports/fitness mobile workout apps.
Frederic Joye
Co-Founder & Head of Business Development of Arcanys
Co – Founder & Head Of Business Development at Arcanys
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About Arcanys: Arcanys specializes in building highly-skilled teams of software developers for tech-enabled companies in need of robust software solutions.
Ravi Rishy-Maharaj
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of GigSky
Founder & CEO – GigSky.
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About GigSky, The Fast Mode: GigSky is global mobile data service provider. The service was launched in 2015 on Apple SIM for iPad and in 2018 on eSIM based iPhone.
Nick Halavins
Founder & CEO of AntiLand™
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About AntiLand™: AntiLand is a community of likeminded people. Saves people from depressions, boredom, and loneliness by anonymous talk therapy.
Arthur Iinuma
President and Co-Founder of ISBX
Arthur derives his business experience through the culmination of various disciplines acquired throughout years of professional experience both in the United States and Southeast Asia and leads in the development of new business, growth strategy and capital finance. Arthur’s financial experience includes managing investments at Morgan Stanley, as well UBS Private Bank where he served as Vice President of Investments – the youngest within the region. He has also worked overseas leading in the expansion of a Southeast Asian real estate development company as their Executive Director. During this time, Arthur had been involved in the internet marketing and consulting fields, alongside Kelly, on various projects as a Project and Account Manager. Arthur currently serves as a Principal of a private equity firm centered around the acquisition and development of real estate properties and maintains an agency managing the import of goods into the United States. He holds a Bachelor’s in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Riverside. Arthur’s experience as a promoter of business development will serve as the cornerstone for the allocation of resources and investment in regards to the future expansion of the company.
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About Iinuma.io, ISBX: ISBX is a digital agency providing creative, technology, marketing, and app development services to Fortune 500 companies.
Eric Wise
President & Co-Founder of ISBX
Eric is the President and founder of ISBX, Inc. (ISBX). ISBX is one of the top mobile technology developers in the US. ISBX’s, customers include Apple, Sony, Honda, Anhueser Busch, Coca-Cola and many other corporations. ISBX has been listed on Inc’s 5000 fastest growing companies for the past three years. Eric is primarily responsible for leading the product development team across the Website, iOS/Android applications, and Backend.
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About ISBX, Picturizr: ISBX is a digital agency providing creative, technology, marketing, and app development services to Fortune 500 companies.
Haroon Elsarrag
Founder and CEO of Trust Sourcing
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About Cygility Inc., Mr. Tomato, Trust Sourcing: Trust Sourcing is a Software Development company that specializes in web design and software, mobile apps and web development and testing.
Mark Alan Prior
Co-Founder of Reach
Mark leads Rocket Fuel’s business in Mobile, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. As a 15-year veteran of online ad technology, he enjoys finally realizing the long-time industry promise to deliver marketing performance by evaluating the interest and intent of individual consumers. Previously, as Yahoo!’s International Behaviouralist, Mark owned the localization and growth of Yahoo!’s international media targeting products, finally making it possible to reach motorcyclists in Taiwan, consumers of marriage services in India, or residents of certain Spanish pueblitos. Earlier at Yahoo!, he managed its inventory-prediction system and shipped a media-pricing and RFP proposal system still in use by 2,000 salespeople in 17 markets. Prior to that, he led product management at DoubleClick for their flagship DFP for Enterprise tool, which became the global standard for publisher ad-revenue management. This built upon his experience in client services at NetGravity, provider of the web’s first advertising platform, where he helped define the online ad business model for early leaders like CNN, The Weather Channel, Sina.com, and Deutsche Telekom. Mark holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a joint MBA from the University of Navarra (IESE) in Spain and China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in China.
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About Reach, Rocket Fuel: Be A Better Friend
Rajaraman Periasamy
Co-Founder & CTO of Reach
Rajaraman Periasamy is the Co-Founder & CTO at Reach.
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About Reach: Be A Better Friend
Yalda Moshiri
Co-Founder of SaF
Yalda Moshiri is a dynamic and strategic leader with a career history of shaping, launching and managing front-line marketing strategies that position companies and their products for sustainable revenue growth and heightened consumer engagement.
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About SaF: SaF is a peer to peer marketplace that allows clients to skip the wait time and avoid long lines by hiring a line concierge proxy.
Bret Cox
Founder, Chairman & CEO of TRUE
Bret Cox is Founder and CEO at True.
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About TRUE: Private Group Sharing
Terence Huang
Co-Founder of sndbx
Terence Huang is a co-founder at sndbx. Prior to that he was a business development manager at LiveRamp and throughout his career; an equity tech analyst at BTIG and Nuveen Investments. Terence obtained a degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About sndbx: New event based dating app that leads users to actual meetups. People want dates NOT penpals!
David Sanderson
Founder & CEO of Reelgood
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About Guidebox, Reelgood: Reelgood provides a complete guide to online streaming content.
Joice Perumalil
Founder of TeamHandOut
Joice has well known experience in working as a Visual Effects Supervisor, Film Editor, Cinematographer and Computer Programmer.
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About SphereHunt, TeamHandOut: TeamHandOut is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, which focuses on the development of mobile apps and games.
Gideon Marks
Co-Founder of DogLog Inc.
Gideon is a seasoned executive in high tech companies with a strong operational background in finance, business & corporate development. He took 3 companies public on the NASDAQ stock exchange and lead 4 others to successful M&A transactions. Global player with strong ties in Silicon Valley, Israel, Japan, Portugal, Investment banks and VC firms. Gideon is also a successful private investor in start up companies as an angel investor.
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About DogLog Inc.: DogLog, available on iOS and Android, a free and easy-to-use pet care app that lets pet owners to track their pet’s health and wellness.
Greg Cohn
Founder & CEO of Burner
Greg Cohn is co-founder & CEO of Burner.
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About Burner: Burner is a mobile application and service that enables users to obtain temporary, disposable numbers for voice and SMS communication.
Emre Fadillioglu
Co Founder and CEO of AppSamurai
Emre combines a successful corporate career with serial entrepreneurship as a co-founder of multiple companies. Currently, he leads AppSamurai as the CEO and Co-founder to create a global mobile technology company. AppSamurai is a venture capital-backed startup with mobile growth as its passion.
Having been featured in Europe’s Top 100 Hottest Startups list recently, AppSamurai continues to be a product driven company with its namesake mobile acquisition platform AppSamurai and the first mobile user engagement tool that brings the well-known, mobile native story format into mobile apps and websites; Storyly.
Before AppSamurai, he co-founded Netvent (2013), a digital marketing agency that still operates today, and Growth Tower (2015), a mobile marketing agency. Previously, he worked in finance, sales, and business development roles at PwC, Inta Spaceturk, Enerjisa, and Oracle. His educational background includes a degree in Business Administration from METU (in Turkey) and an Executive Leadership degree from UC Berkeley. Right now, he is focused on scaling AppSamurai with an amazing team of talented people.
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About AppSamurai: AppSamurai is a mobile marketing technology company providing pinpoint solutions with in-house technologies.
Jeb Terry
Co-Founder and CEO of Gridiron Grunts
Jeb Terry is CEO & Co-founder of Cosm company.
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About Cosm, Gridiron Grunts, Unblockable: Gridiron Grunts is an iOS application that allows NFL athletes and fans to create, manage, and listen to audio grunts.
Michael Flexer
Co-Founder, CTO of Duck Duck Moose
Co-Founder and CTO at Duck Duck Moose.
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About Duck Duck Moose: Duck Duck Moose (a subsidiary of Khan Academy) is an award-winning creator of educational mobile apps for children.
Radu B. Rusu
CEO & Co-Founder of Fyusion
CEO and Co-Founder at Fyusion, Inc.
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About Fyusion, Open Perception Inc.: Fyusion develops products powered by 3D computer vision and machine learning.
Stefan Holzer
CTO & Co-Founder of Fyusion
Stefan is the CTO and Co-Founder of Fyusion, and a worldwide renowned scientist in the field of Computer VisionBefore Fyusion, Stefan was affiliated with the Computer Vision group at the Institute for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP), a PhD student at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), and a maintainer with the Point Cloud Library (PCL) project.
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About Fyusion: Fyusion develops products powered by 3D computer vision and machine learning.
Ken Winer
Founder of Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Kevin Hammond
Founder of Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Kevin Hammond
Founder of Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Asim Rais Siddiqui
Co Founder & CTO of TekRevol
Co-founder and CTO of Tekrevol LLC, Asim has over a decade’s worth of hands-on experience in development and enterprise digitalization and is an expert in next-generation technology and software solutions. As a methodical leader with immaculate attention-to-detail, his vision is to make a real difference in people’s experience of technology, through cutting-edge innovations and progressive approach.
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About BzzChatter, Compt Financial Consulting LLC, CydoMedia LLC, TekRevol: TekRevol prides itself for being the pioneer of App Development Services, Digital Marketing Services, Web Development, in the United States.
Bill Hu
CEO & Co-Founder of Kika Tech
Bill Hu is the Founder and CEO of Kika Tech, Inc. Bill has acquired a master degree in EMBA from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Bill Hu is versed in company management and a veteran in the internet industry. As the Vice President of SKY-mobi Limited (Nasdaq:MOBI), Bill took charge of marketing, administration, payment center and Beijing branch. Prior to that, he was the Deputy General Manager of TOM Group Limited and manager of Wireless Department in China.com. Bill has received plenty of industry acknowledgments, achieving the Person of the Year in China’s Internet Economy of 2018, a member of the board of trustees of Beijing Foreign Studies University, etc. Bill is dedicated to making the world’s communication more productive, expressive and fun.
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About Kika Tech: Kika revolutionizes communications with AI technology.
Osman Celik
Co-Founder of Smartface Inc.
As a forerunner of mobility, Osman is a serial entrepreneur who has involved in mobility-oriented companies since 2001. In his previous ventures as a co-founder, he pioneered mobile technologies such as P2P sharing in mobile devices and mobile streaming, all with successful exits. Currently, he is the co-founder of Smartface, which brings the power of the cloud to cross-platform native development and to enterprise mobility.
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About Appcircle, Smartface Inc.: Cloud-native, end-to-end integrated platform with multi-channel app development, mobile CI/CD and next gen middleware
Inam Haq
Founder & CEO of Corpa
Serial Entrepreneur | Thinker | Advisor | Serial Investor | Conscious Capitalist | Challenging the status quo | Building the future of enterprise and work
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About Corpa, LAM Inc: No-Code Workflow Management & Collaboration Platform
Cory Mekanik
Founder, CEO of Irvine Software Company
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About Irvine Software Company: Custom Product Development, ERP Integration, eCommerce, and Mobile Application Development
Evi Meyer
Co-Founder & CEO of uMake
Led Design and Product Management at Autodesk’s AutoCAD mobile project. Unrelenting solution creator, with a natural knack for problem solving.
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About uMake: uMake offers an application that enables iPad users to create designs in 3D form.
Erik Sapir
Co-Founder & CTO of uMake
Erik Sapir joined uMake as CTO & Co-Founder in 2014.
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About uMake: uMake offers an application that enables iPad users to create designs in 3D form.
Andres Gonzalez
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Swapps LLC
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About Swapps LLC: Websites maintenance and support for nonprofit organizations. Agile web development for web and mobile apps. Based in Washington DC.
Sophia Li
Founder & CEO of ClearMob
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About ClearMob: ClearMob is an innovative mobile startup focused on delivering efficiency, transparency and performance for digital marketers
Eugene Virnik
Co-Founder & CPO of Qonversion
Eugene Virnik Co-Founder and CPO at Qonversion.
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About Qonversion: The subscription data platform for mobile-first companies
Scott Lewallen
Founder & CEO of Mezic Media
Scott Lewallen is Founder and CEO of Mezic Media (mezic.com), a consultancy specializing in design, UI/UX, and branding of products. A design, marketing, and branding whiz with quite the pedigree, Scott’s been in the game 10 years and counting, creating killer identities that make products really pop in the marketplace, and designing fun mobile apps that people love to use. You know Scott best as Co-Founder of Grindr, the world’s largest gay social network. After Grindr’s 2009 launch in Los Angeles, Scott became Senior Vice President of Product and Design. He directed all product development, UI/UX design, and graphic design at the Hollywood headquarters for both Grindr (grindr.com) and its sister app Blendr (blendr.com). His leadership and his team’s efforts defined the brand and helped Grindr grow into the most popular all-male geosocial mobile app, from zero to 6 million users in 192 countries. In March 2013, Scott left Grindr to return to the world of consulting, resurrecting the Mezic Media brand that he’d launched prior to creating Grindr. Mezic has done projects for various industries, including health and fitness; entertainment; and technology; and is keyed into niche audiences, including the LGBT community. Scott’s other career highlights include stints as Art Director at E! Entertainment (eonline.com) and Creative Director for Atlantis Events (atlantisevents.com). Born and raised in Southern California, Scott is, by his own admission, a gay geek. He also happens to be a University of Southern California alumnus (USC Annenberg School for Communication) and overall nice guy whose favorite things include art, technology, skyscrapers, football, beer, and, of course, sharks.
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About Inked By SKÜT, Mezic Media, Prince Mafia, TAG Gallery: Mezic Media is a provider of fun mobile applications and specializes in digital graphic design, UI and UX design and services.
Amir Manji
Co-Founder & Head Barista of Tenjin
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About Tenjin: Tenjin brings transparency and insight into your mobile marketing.
Arun Parimi
Founder & CEO of Arevea Inc.
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About Arevea Inc., BOOKMYCARGO: Arevea is an online end to end event experience platform that enables users to create memorable experiences for any type of event.
Laura Yip
Co-Founder & Chief People Officer of Storm8
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About Storm8: Storm8 is the leading mobile game network for iOS and Android.
Seth Miller
Founder & CEO of Rapchat
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About Rapchat: Rapchat is democratizing music creation by enabling anyone to record and share songs from their phone.
Pat Gibson
Co-Founder of Rapchat
Apper X Rapper X Producer
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About Rapchat: Rapchat is democratizing music creation by enabling anyone to record and share songs from their phone.
Chris Tanimoto
Co-Founder of National Carrier Exchange (NCX)
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About National Carrier Exchange (NCX): A Global Exchange and Long Tail for the Third-Party Logistics Industry
Aaron Platshon
Co-Founder & CEO of TapResearch
Aaron Platshon is the CEO and co-founder of [TapResearch](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tapresearch#/entity), a market research technology company focused on reaching targeted audiences through innovative digital channels and methods. He is also the co-founder and head of marketing at Wheelz and product marketing manager at Better Place. Early in his career, he worked as the head of strategic initiatives at Turo. Platshon holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bucknell University and a bachelor’s degree in clinical laboratory science from Duke University.
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About TapResearch: The new standard in research. Bringing the scale of mobile apps to the insights industry.
Peter K.
Co-Founder and CEO of Motoread
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About Motoread: Motoread is a mobile app that lets you speed listen to articles
Brian Lamb
Founder and CEO of Swivl
Brian Lamb is the co-founder and CEO of Swivl, maker’s of the award winning solution for mobile video communications. Swivl uses robotics with connected cloud services to make video more natural, useful and engaging for educators and businesses around the world. Before Swivl, he was a leader in the product design industry at D2M. He has also lectured at Stanford University in the foundational design class “Introduction to Visual Thinking”. Brian has a BSME from the University of New Hampshire and an MSME from Stanford University.
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About Swivl: Swivl offers online tools that enable teachers and students use video to help improve and share their skills.
Scott Lahman
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of textPlus
Scott Lahman is Founder and CEO of GOGII In March 2000, Scott Co-Founded JAMDAT Mobile with Austin Murray and Zachary Norman. JAMDAT Mobile had a successful IPO in 2004 and was eventually sold to Electronic Arts for $680 million in February 2006. Scott was JAMDAT’s President, and served as its first CEO, leading its early fundraising efforts. Before founding JAMDAT, Scott joined Activision as one of its first several dozen employees in 1994 and served as Vice President, Studios. As a corporate officer, Scott was on Activision’s M&A team responsible for integrating multiple acquisitions as well as representing the company in outward corporate sales. Scott began his career in the film and television industry, most notably as a development executive for Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Productions from 1990 to 1994. Scott holds a BA from Columbia University
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About textPlus: Gogii is a mobile communications service that enables users to text, talk, and share for free.
Josh Chen
Co-Founder & CTO of Monogram
Josh grew up in a rural village in China. A college dropout, Josh moved to Shanghai 10 years ago and taught himself to program before landing a $100usd/month web development job. Josh continued to hone his programming skills which landed him an engineering position at Newegg.com. Most recently, Josh led the development, launch and scaling of Yintai.com (a popular fashion e-commerce site in China) as the site grew from $0 to $50 million in sales. Josh has been building full-stack, massive e-commerce platforms for 8 years. Prior to Monogram, Josh founded Packagetrackr.com (a side project) and grew the site to 2 million monthly page views and 40,000 registered users. Josh teamed up with Leo in 2011 to work on Packagetrackr and launched an iPhone version of the package tracking app. Packagetrackr generates enough revenue to cover Josh & Leo’s living expenses.
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About Fara, Guruin.com, Monogram, Oscart, Packagetrackr: Monogram is an online information platform providing news, fashion and lifestyle articles.
Eric N. Shapiro
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ArcTouch
Eric N. Shapiro is the CEO at ArcTouch .
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About 4.0 Partners, ArcTouch: We design lovable apps and develop technology for the connected world.
Adam Fingerman
Founder & Chief Experience Officer of ArcTouch
Over 25 years experience conceiving, creating, and marketing award-winning products.
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About 4.0 Partners, ArcTouch: We design lovable apps and develop technology for the connected world.
Aswan Morgan
Founder & CEO of The Know
Founder & CEO at The Know
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About Silicon Climate, The Know: The Know lets you anonymously track other people’s dating activity so you can make smarter decisions around current & future relationships.
Alex Baca
Founder of Magbak
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About Magbak: The world’s thinnest iPad mount.
Joel Seligstein
Founder & CEO of Parallel Plaid
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About Parallel Plaid: Building sweet mobile games.
Surya Jayaweera
President and Founder of GXB Interactive
Surya Jayaweera is an American entrepreneur, inventor, and angel investor. In May of 1996 Surya graduated from Harvey Mudd College with a B.S. in Engineering. Soon after graduating college, while sitting at a park reading a Popular Science article about Motorola’s new PageWriter, Jayaweera hatched an idea for a breakthrough software application that would allow consumers to visit websites wirelessly, using a 2-way pager. Surya drove 240 miles to Las Vegas and pitched the idea directly to Motorola during COMDEX, a computer trade show. In early 1997, while at Motorola’s headquarters in Florida, they were able to strike a deal. And with that, WolfeTech Development Corporation was formed. The breakthrough app, PocketGenie, was officially launched in 1998 and it was the first information-on-demand software app made commercially available for the Motorola PageWriter 2000 and Research In Motion (BlackBerry Limited) RIM Wireless Handheld devices. PocketGenie allowed consumers access to over 200 pre-set informational services such as flight times, weather forecasts, movie times, among others. At its height, Surya grew WolfeTech to an $85 million dollar company while simultaneously employing over 50 people. In 2005, Surya launched a second tech startup, GXB Interactive, which developed interactive learning games for Nintendo’s handheld gaming consoles: Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. To do this, GXB formed a partnership with TOMY Company, ltd., one of the oldest toy companies in the world, and together they brought the games to market. The most notable releases were two games for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, Math Patrol – The Kleptoid Threat (2007) and Word Safari: The Friendship Totem (2007). GXB’s most recent project, MIDI Piano Teacher MusicMaster, was an app released for Android in 2015. Surya is also a member of the Southern California investment network, Tech Coast Angels, which is the largest angel investor group in the world. In 2011, Jayaweera was the youngest elected president of the network (Inland Valley Network) and also served as an Executive Board Member in which he oversaw a $3 million sidecar investment fund. While no longer having an official leadership role in the group, Surya continues to advise and mentor multiple startups, which includes having acted as an advisor for the US Small Business Development Center to assist entrepreneurs.
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About GXB Interactive: GXB invests in the development of mobile applications and web services that we believe will help the world to be a better place
Jigar Dave
Co-Founder of MealHi5
Jigar Brings more than 15 years of technology and software engineering leadership experience with large-scale enterprise systems and Digital Marketing strategy. Prior to MealHi5, Jigar was Business Development Director at Nulite Global Technologies,. Where he led engineering and operations supporting over 2 Million page views a month, thousands of social actions, driving 99.99% up-time for the Product Marketing. – See more at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jigar-dave/35/aa7/75b
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About MealHi5, RUBIX NETWORKS, Zonic Digital Inc.: Mealhi5 is a free service where you can Order Meal Online!
Shalin Gandhi
Co-Founder of MealHi5
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About MealHi5: Mealhi5 is a free service where you can Order Meal Online!
Sander Pick
Co-Founder & CTO of Textile
Sander Pick is the Co-Founder & CTO at Textile.
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About Textile: Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
Hiraa Khan
Founder of GiveMob
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About GiveMob: GiveMob is a charitable giving application that enables its users to donate money to featured charities through SMS.
Lubo Smid
Co-Founder & CEO of STRV
Startup-minded entrepreneur with deep technical background in software development and huge interest in cutting-the-edge technology, especially mobile. Lubo is co-founder & COO of STRV, the preferred software development partner of many successful startups and well established brands across the United States. His main duty is scaling the business and crafting the processes that help STRV to stay ahead of the game. Lubo lives in Los Angeles and constantly travels between other STRV’s offices in San Francisco, New York and Prague. He enjoys running, crossfit and high quality entertainment. His approach to lifestyle is often described as living on the edge, in other words taking the most of all the opportunities.
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About STRV: STRV is a software design & engineering company. We use technology to unlock business opportunities.
Adam Webber
Co-Founder of Chatterpop
Adam Webber is Founding Partner: Product Manager at LocalHitz.
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About CallCast, Chatterpop, LocalHitz: Chatterpop is a location based video service for iPhone.
Shawn Bishop
Founder & CEO of Playerline
Shawn Bishop is the Co-Founder of Simplexity Ventures LLC.
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About Playerline, RankPay, Simplexity Ventures: The #1 Fantasy Football & NFL News App
Alex Daoudi
Founder of Phoenician Voyager (PV Pass)
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About Phoenician Voyager (PV Pass): Travel and Tour company with amazing mobile application
Michel Bayan
Co-Founder of Flex Connect
Michel has always been focused on one thing as an entrepreneur: Making a real difference in people’s lives. It started with story telling. Michel began his career in the film industry. As a producer, Michel’s indie films, including one starring “Social Network” lead, Jesse Eisenberg have won numerous awards and accolades. As the founder of boutique digital agency, Mingling Media, he created and managed numerous web, mobile, social media and video projects for businesses and brands of all sizes. Now, with Atlas apps, Michel and his co-founder, Hunter Gray are developing a platform inspired by many of the principles in the novel Atlas Shrugged. Tools to help sellers and the rest of us move the engine of the world. In his personal life Michel is an avid world traveler and Sunday yoga teacher. Specialties Web/Mobile Development, Film/video/web/commercial Production. Digital marketing. Consulting.
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About Atlas Apps, Directalytics, DirecTech Labs, Flex Connect: The omnipresent productivity assistant.
Marc Fischer
Co-Founder & CEO of Dogtown Media
Marc Fischer is the founder and CEO of Dogtown Media, a mobile technology studio based in Venice, California with offices in San Francisco and New York City. Marc has over a decade of experience designing, developing, and launching digital products for tech startups and multi-national organizations; including Lexus, Google, CitiBank, and the United Nations. Marc is also a Professor at Santa Monica College where he teaches Mobile App Design to computer science and graphic design students. He is a mentor with the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship as well as a board member of Beauty Earth, a non-profit focused on revitalizing urban areas thru local art initiatives. Community Involvement: – Professor, Mobile App Design @ Santa Monica College (http://smc.edu) – Tech Lead @ Beautify Earth Foundation (http://beautifyearth.org) – Mentor @ Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (http://nfte.com) Front-end iOS & Android developer with an entrepreneurial background, striving to continually push the limits of technology and find logical solutions to seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Specialties: Mobile app design, UX/UI design, iPhone app development, product strategy, app marketing, startup fundraising
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About Dogtown Media, Forbes Technology Council, The App Association: Dogtown Media is a mobile app development company develops mobile apps to solve everyday problems and simplify frustrating activities.
Rob Pope
CTO and co-Founder, Ethical Hacker of Dogtown Media
Rob Pope is an IT security veteran turned app developer. Hailing from the UK and residing in Los Angeles, he has founded two start-ups operating in the IT security space. Both companies were bootstrapped and resulted in successful exits. As the co-founder of DogTown Media, Rob codes for iOS as well as working his magic on server side operations.
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About Dogtown Media: Dogtown Media is a mobile app development company develops mobile apps to solve everyday problems and simplify frustrating activities.
