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 Los Angeles based Founder operating in the Information Technology 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.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Founder of Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004), and has been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. A committed environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism. At the 2007 Oscar ceremony, DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore announced that the Academy Awards had incorporated environmentally intelligent practices throughout the planning and production processes, and on July 7, 2007, DiCaprio presented at the American leg of Live Earth.
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About Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation: Leonard DiCaprio Foundation’s mission is to protect the world’s last wild places.
David Moss
Co-Founder and CEO of StrongBlock
David Moss is a blockchain expert, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. He has the distinction of holding two prominent roles in the creation of EOS, the decentralized blockchain operating system: as SVP of Technology Operations at Block.One leading EOS technology development; and directing the EOS mainnet launch with the worldwide Block Producer community. Previously David was the founder of a technology and management consultancy for Fortune 100 companies, the founder of a predictive crowd analytics platform, the founding CIO of Edmunds.com, and President of an entertainment production company working with top international artists for major label and television networks.
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About StrongBlock: StrongBlock is a team of highly experienced blockchain, governance, security, and database technology experts.
Devon Townsend
Co-Founder & CTO of Cameo
Devon Townsend is a co-founder and CTO at Cameo.
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About Cameo: Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
Martin Blencowe
Co-Founder of Cameo
Martin Blencowe is a co-founder and EVP at Cameo.
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About Cameo: Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of WndrCo
Jeffrey Katzenberg is the Founder, Managing Partner at WndrCo.
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About Quibi, WndrCo: WndrCo is a holding company that invests in, acquires, develops, and operates consumer technology businesses for the long term.
E.G. Galano
Co-Founder of Infura
E.G. Galano is the Co-Founder and Chief Infrastructure Engineer of INFURA, a service providing scalable Ethereum infrastructure and developer APIs. He previously was the Director of Site Reliability at Los Angeles based hotel software start-up KEYPR, and an early employee of cloud gaming company Gaikai which was acquired by Sony in 2012.
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About ConsenSys, Infura: We strive to deliver the best infrastructure and tools for developers to build amazing Web 3.0 applications.
Tony Velleca
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CyberProof
Tony is CyberProof’s CEO and is CISO at UST Global. Tony previously co-founded and was CTO at huddle247.com, rated by PC Magazine as one of the top virtual workspace solutions in 2000. He previously worked for Boeing and Rolls-Royce, Inc. focusing on conceptual design and optimized propulsion systems for next generation aircraft. He holds a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from University of California, Irvine.
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About CyberProof, UST: CyberProof is a security services company that intelligently manages your incident detection and response requirements.
Brad Brooks
Co-Founder, CEO of TigerConnect
Brad is the Co-Founder and CEO of TigerConnect and a Co-Founder of Whisper. He previously ran DIC Entertainment as President for 6 years after working for Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette as an Investment Banker. After acquiring the company with Bain Capital from the Walt Disney Company in 2000, he helped grow the company from less than $10mm of revenues to over $80mm in 2005 when he took the company public on the London Stock Exchange at a $200mm valuation. Brad received his BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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About TigerConnect, Whisper: TigerConnect is a healthcare collaboration platform that streamlines clinical workflows and systems.
Chris Milk
Co-Founder, CEO and COO of Supernatural
Chris Milk is the Co-Founder, CEO, and COO of Supernatural. He is an artist, director, and technologist.He is the founder and CEO of [Vrse](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vrse#/entity). Milk has gained recognition as a music video director, working with Arcade Fire, U2, Kanye West, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley, Chemical Brothers, John Mellencamp, Courtney Love, and Modest Mouse. He has been honored with the top industry awards for his music video and commercial work, including the Grand Prix Cannes Lion, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, and SXSW’s ’Best of Show’, as well as multiple Grammy nominations, MTV Moon Men, and the UK’s MVA Innovation Award. Milk’s short film, Last Day Dream, played at film festivals around the world, and he directed the second unit of A Mother’s Promise, the film that introduced Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards recognized his work in design and art in 2011. The Wilderness Downtown was named as one of TIME Magazine’s 30 Best Music Videos of all time, and was exhibited at MoMA in NY for 6 months in 2011. Milk builds multiple projects with Virtual Reality as the canvas. The collaboration with Beck called “Sound & Vision” has been exhibited in an Oculus Rift at the Future of Storytelling Summit, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festival. Chris Milk was born in New York.
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About Here Be Dragons, Supernatural, Within (VR/AR): Supernatural is an immersive, virtual reality fitness experience that combines music, coaches, destinations, and movements.
Danny JJ Wang
CSO and Co-Founder of Hura Imaging
Danny JJ Wang is the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Hura Imaging.
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About Hura Imaging: Hura Imaging develops and commercializes novel CT technology that decreases radiation dose significantly in patient management.
Joanna McFarland
Co-Founder & CEO of HopSkipDrive
Joanna has more than 15 years experience in product and general management. She has a MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Joanna drives her two boys, Jackson (7) and Sam (4), to school, karate, T-ball and cub scouts.
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About HopSkipDrive, XFactor Ventures: HopSkipDrive is a vehicle for hire company focused on shuttling kids to school.
Rex Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of AIVON
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About AIVON, Famecast Media, Intelligent Video Solutions: AIVON is a decentralized blockchain platform and protocol built on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) network.
Ted Price
Co-Founder & CEO of GovInvest
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About GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Jasmine Nachtigall
Co-Founder & President of GovInvest
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About GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Brian Anderson
Founder & CEO of Nacelle
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About Nacelle: Nacelle turns slow eCommerce sites into fast PWAs for online retailers who are dissatisfied with slow page load speeds.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Patrick Kann
CEO and Co-Founder of Papaya
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About Papaya: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Armen Adjemian
Co-Founder & CEO of DISQO
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About DISQO, Survey Junkie: DISQO develops an audience insights platform designed to connect brands and people.
David Cremin
Founder & Managing Partner of Frontier Venture Capital
David Cremin is a Co-founder of Frontier Venture Capital and serves as its Managing Partner. David Cremin leads fund management, fundraising, and portfolio management efforts since 2002. Before that, he was a founding partner at Zone Ventures. He has helped lead investments in over 100 startups since 1998.
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About Frontier Venture Capital: Frontier Venture capital is a venture capital firm that finances early-stage media and technology companies.
La Mer Walker
Co-Founder and CCO of Valence Community
La Mer Walker is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Valence Community.
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About ORIGYN Foundation, Valence Community: Valence is an internet company that connects, showcases, and empowers the global black professional community.
Yves Bergquist
Founder and CEO of Corto
Yves Bergquist is the director of the “AI & Neuroscience in Media” Project at the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), where he and his team are developing next-generation applications drawn from AI and neuroscience for the media and entertainment industry. His research includes applying machine intelligence to model structures of narrative and “interestingness” in film, TV and music, as well as building neurobiological models of audience emotions using social media and fMRI data. Yves is also the founder and CEO of AI startup Corto, which is building a comprehensive knowledge engine to help media and entertainment companies develop deep insights into media content, audiences, and the cognitive relationship between the two.
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About Corto, ETC Entertainment Technology Center: An open source application framework for applications on the edge that make data-driven decisions at the speed of light.
Phil Martie
Co-Founder, CEO of Nicolette
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About Nicolette: Nicolette operates as a patient empowerment company.
Prashant Samant
Founder & CEO of Akido Labs
Prashant Samant is Founder & CEO at Akido Labs.
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About Akido Labs, University of Southern California’s Digital Health Lab: Akido is a care delivery platform based in Los Angeles with the mission to ensure our most vulnerable communities thrive.
Vahe Kuzoyan
President & Co-Founder of ServiceTitan
As co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Vahe is the principal domain expert and product visionary behind ServiceTitan’s innovations. Vahe’s father is a plumber, and Vahe built ServiceTitan as a “thank you” to his dad and fellow contractors. Vahe holds degrees in Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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About ServiceTitan: ServiceTitan is a service management software that helps home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales.
Nick Galbreath
CTO/Founder of Signal Sciences
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About Fastly, Signal Sciences: Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Josh Bruno
Co-Founder & CEO of Path
Josh Bruno is the Founder & CEO of Path. Prior to Path, he founded Hometeam when his family struggled to care for his 93-year-old grandfather. He believes that home care should go beyond the basics to provide a safe, reliable, and interactive service that creates happier days for seniors. Prior to Hometeam, Josh worked as an investor, operator, and engineer at companies like Bain Ventures, Bain & Co, and Yahoo. Learn More: www.pathccm.com
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About Path: Path makes it easy to find a world class mental health provider that’s covered by your insurance.
Gabriel Diop
Co-Founder & Head of Partnerships of Path
I enjoy working hard, being scrappy, and bringing people together. Whether it is prospecting clients for a sale or candidates for an all-star team, I enjoy connecting with people on a personal level. Learn More: www.pathccm.com
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About Path: Path makes it easy to find a world class mental health provider that’s covered by your insurance.
Edward Churchward
CTO & Co-Founder of Arch Platform Technologies
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About Arch Platform Technologies, Solstice Studios: Plug and play creative facilities as a service. The Arch SaaS Platform creates cloud infrastructure for collaborative teams in all markets.
Matt Stern
Co-Founder & COO of Mira
Matt Stern is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Mira. He is also one of the thirty inaugural students in Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young’s Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at USC.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Benjamin Taft
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Marcin Kurc
Founder – CEO of Nobl9
marcin kurc is the Chief Executive Officer at Meshmark.
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About Nobl9: Nobl9 is a service level objective platform that connects reliability metrics to business goals via a modern engineering workflow.
Walter O’Brien
Founder & CEO of Scorpion Computer Services, Inc.
Walter O’Brien (hacker name: “Scorpion”) was designated a child prodigy after scoring 197 on an IQ test at age nine. At 13 years old, he started his company Scorpion Computer Services at first to service local businesses and financial institutions and navigate their introduction to analytics, computerization, and the internet. At 16, O’Brien ranked first in Irish national high-speed computer problem solving competitions. At 18, he competed in the World Olympics in Informatics and has ranked as high as the sixth-fastest programmer in the world. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with honors from Sussex University in the United Kingdom. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security certified Scorpion as being of National Interest to the United States economy and granted him an “Extraordinary Ability” EB 1-1 Visa (also granted to Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill). O’Brien is a frequent public speaker for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and teaches as a mentor with the Founder Institute, the world’s largest idea-stage incubator. O’Brien has worked with the world’s largest mutual fund company, Fujitsu, Microsoft-Trados, Oracle Corporation, Baltimore Technologies, and Critical Path. Walter serves as chairman or board member for Strike Force Solutions, Talentorum Alliance, Lawloop, Pantheon Energy and previously has served on the boards of American Environmental Energy, Starglobe and Toin Corp. In addition, O’Brien is frequently called on by news media, the government, and the federal court system for his technology expertise.
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About Scorpion Computer Services, Inc., Scorpion Studios: Advanced Problem Solving Solutions
Nikhil Pooviah
Co-Founder of Elly
Nikhil Pooviah is the Co-Founder at Elly.
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About Elly: Elly is the world’s first empathetic audio companion for patients living with a chronic disease.
Troy Pospisil
Founder, CEO of Ontra
Troy Pospisil is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at InCloudCounsel. Prior to IncloudCounsel, He was an Investment Professional at H.I.G. Capital and Management Consultant at Deloitte. Mr. Pospisil received a bachelor’s degree in Economics at New York University.
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About Ontra: Ontra is a provider of technology and services for contract automation and intelligence.
Jake Stone
Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder of CHEQ
Jake Stone is the Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder at CHEQ.
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About CHEQ, Stone Cold Capital: The World’s First Social Order & Payments Platform
Dan Faiman
Founder of Revyrie
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About Bubby Dog Academy, Go RN, Gravity, Revyrie, Upfront: Incubator / Accelerator / Venture Capital / Technology and Business Development
Mehdi Daoudi
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Catchpoint
Mehdi Daoudi Co-Founded Catchpoint Systems, Inc in September 2008. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mehdi Daoudi combines in-depth expertise in developing and operating large on-demand software platforms with hands-on experience in application monitoring, performance management and IT operations practices. He was Vice President Quality of Service of Google from March 2008 to August 2008. As an industry pioneer, he created the Quality of Services group at DoubleClick Inc. in 2000 and has more than nine years of extensive experience in the monitoring, SLA and operations excellence fields. He served at Double Click Labs R& D from January 2006 to August 2008. At DoubleClick, Mehdi Daoudi managed over $20 million devoted to monitoring for the improvement of the quality of user experience, increasing availability and performance and in turn, promoting accountability throughout the IT, business and product development teams. He served as Vice President of Operations Quality of Services of DobleClick from 2000 to August 2008.
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About Catchpoint: Catchpoint is a digital experience observability company.
Louisa Spring
Founder of SAM immersive
Louisa Spring, CEO – Lawyer, producer, entrepreneur, Louisa Spring is an accomplished executive in the immersive media and gaming field. Louisa has worked on award winning VR campaigns for Mini-Cooper and NYTVR, the award winning game Firebird: La Peri, we well as worked with other major game distributors on PC and VR games. She has moved the needle at every VR company she has worked with including bringing Walmart to Spatialand which resulted in a successful acquisition.
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About SAM immersive, Spring Alliance: Spring Alliance Media Immersive (SAM-i) is a full service business strategy and creative development consulting firm.
federico dubini
Co-Founder & COO of Yobs
Not a talented person, but an individual driven by passion and persistence to make his dreams happen. I am interested in emerging technologies, investment management, traveling and entertainment. I would like to be a technology entrepreneur and investor. Also, I am interested in philanthropy by creating technologies and programs that have a long-lasting impact. https://angel.co/federico-dubini
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About Yobs: Instantly record, transcribe and analyze Zoom interviews to hire better, faster.
Steve Flagg
Founder & CEO of SupplyFrame
Currently CEO & Founder at Supplyframe where we are organizing the world of engineering knowledge to help people build better hardware products. Before founding SupplyFrame, Steve was VP of Sales & Business Development at eConnections, a pioneering supply chain management platform for high-tech manufacturing. Previously, Steve ran business units at electronic component distributors Avnet and Marshall Industries. Specialties: General Management, corporate development, strategy, M&A, product development, business operations, international expansion, product marketing, sales, business models
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About EEFOCUS, Hackaday, SupplyFrame: Supplyframe is the Industry Network for electronics design and manufacturing.
Klee Irwin
Founder of Quantum Gravity Research
Klee Irwin is an author, researcher, and entrepreneur, who now dedicates the majority of his time to Quantum Gravity Research (QGR), a non-profit research institute that he founded in 2009. The mission of the organization is to discover the geometric first-principles unification of space, time, matter, energy, information, and consciousness. As the Director of QGR, Klee manages a dedicated team of mathematicians and physicists in developing Emergence Theory to replace the current disparate and conflicting physics theories. Since 2009, the team has published numerous papers and journal articles analyzing the fundamentals of physics. Outside of his work in physics, Klee is active in supporting students, scientists, educators, and founders in their aim toward discovering solutions to activate positive change in the world. He has supported and invested in a wide range of people, causes and companies including Change.org, Upworthy, Donors Choose, Scanadu, Moon Express, Hana Arts on Maui, Hero Science Foundation, Mayasil, the X PRIZE Foundation, and Singularity University where he is an Associate Founder. Klee is also the founder and owner of Irwin Naturals, an award-winning global natural supplement company providing alternative health and healing products sold in thousands of retailers across the globe including Whole Foods, Vitamin Shoppe, Costco, RiteAid, WalMart, CVS, GNC and many others. Irwin Naturals is a long time supporter of Vitamin Angels, which aims to provide lifesaving vitamins to mothers and children at risk of malnutrition thereby reducing preventable illness, blindness, and death and creating healthier communities. Being a Southern California native, Klee and his family split their time between his hometown of Los Angeles and his favorite place to be – Hana, Maui.
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About : Quantum Gravity Research, they work on a theoretical physics theory that we call “Emergence Theory”.
Bernardo Herzer
Founder & CEO of LEHR
Captain Bernardo Herzer, the Founder and CEO of LEHR Incorporated is committed to the application of environmentally friendly technology and finding green energy solutions for retail and commercial products. Captain Herzer developed, commercialized and patented the use of an eco friendly, 16.4 ounce propane canister to fuel small engines like the ones that power hand held lawn and garden tools. This “twist ‘n go” fueling system is at the heart of the LEHR Eco Series and is truly a clean air innovation in a sector that is long overdue for a clean air solution. Bernardo Jorge Herzer has spent a large portion of his life at sea. As a licensed ship’s captain, he developed a passion and a deeply felt connection to the ocean, logging over 40,000 nautical miles across the globe including trips to Australia, the Red Sea, the North Sea, the Caribbean, the waters of Central and South America and the North Sea. While doing environmental research for Her Majesties Royal Fisheries, Captain Herzer was shocked and heartsick at how much damage had been done to the underwater terrain of the North Sea by the not so eco friendly commercial fishing industry. He noticed that among other things, the residue spillage from the use of gasoline on the vessels had contributed to the degradation of the area. Humbled by the impending birth of his first child, Captain Herzer returned to Los Angeles, inspired to do something to benefit the environment on a global scale. At sea, he had become highly skilled at solving engineering problems where creativity is often heightened by the need for an eco friendly solution using the limited resources available. Having already used propane to power small engines on several other ships in his years at sea he used these skills to research how to run a smaller generators on clean burning propane, thus lessening the impact of gasoline on the environment. With that knowledge, determination and a lot of hard work, a plan emerged and two and a half years later a patent was awarded for the technology to use propane to run small engines like the ones that power a gasoline string trimmers. When you enter Captain Herzer’s office, there are posters, prototypes, models and renderings of different applications using twist ‘n go fueling including lawn and garden tools like a grass trimmer, and an eco blower. The company, however, like its founder, is already thinking about where the next breakthrough will come from. “We practice a green strategy and propane is an eco friendly green gas which is good. ” says Captain Herzer. “But we won’t stop there. LEHR will continue to develop ideas and solutions that allow us to replace old technology with greener, cleaner products whose use reduces or eliminates the deterioration of our planet for future generations.” In addition to his stewardship of LEHR, Captain Bernardo Jorge Herzer is an Editor-at-Large of Ocean Realm Journal. He lives and works in Southern California, enjoys spending time with his family and of course, his first love – the sea.
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About LEHR, World LPG Association: A cleaner planet through environmentally friendly technology.
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.
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About Entertainment AI ™, Fanpulse: The Smart Content Company – Entertainment AI merges human and machine creativity to engage a new generation.
Jason Pratts
Co-Founder, COO & CIO of Appetize
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About Appetize: Appetize develops point-of-sale and payment systems for entertainment, leisure and education enterprise businesses around the world.
Bill Dallas
Co-Founder of Cloudvirga
Bill Dallas is co-founder and chief executive officer for cloudvirga. He is responsible for founding and managing more than a dozen mortgage and financial tech companies over the past 40 years, including Skyline Homes and New Leaf. His first venture, First Franklin, grew to be one of the nation’s largest lenders and eventually sold for $330 million. Other successful ventures include risk management solution, interthinx, and lending process automation company, MindBox, which he sold for $27 million and $20 million respectively. Most recently, Dallas sold a minority stake of his company, OwnIt, to Merrill Lynch for $500 million. Although technology has disrupted and improved many industries, the antiquated mortgage lending process remains manual, slow and costly. Along with his co-founders, Dallas created the intelligent mortgage platform, which leverages data and an intelligent workflow to drastically cut the time and costs associated with closing a loan. The system, which has already processed nearly $5 billion in loans, is transforming home lending by digitizing, automating and simplifying the process for consumers, lenders and realtors. Dallas holds a law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, as well as an undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also founded and serves as the chairman of the board of directors for Oaks Christian School.
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About Skyline Financial: Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Kyle Kamrooz
Co-Founder of Cloudvirga
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About Cloudvirga: Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Nicole Clark
Founder and CEO of Trellis Research
Nicole Clark is the Co-Founder and CEO at Trellis Research Inc. She was an Associate at Newmeyer & Dillion and Associate Attorney at Andrews Lagasse Branch + Bell LLP. Ms. Clark received a bachelor of arts in Journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Trellis Research: Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.
Aubrey Chernick
Founder of Celerium
Aubrey Chernick is the Founder of Celerium. He is a philanthropist and entrepreneur with a passion for helping America’s youth. He is originally from Deloraine, a small town in Manitoba, Canada, but currently resides in Los Angeles, California. In 1976, he founded Candle Corporation, a software company that built software to manage IBM’s Operating System. IBM itself eventually became a customer of Candle, and ultimately acquired the software company in 2004. Aubrey and his wife, Joyce, have given back and helped youth for decades through their involvement in a variety of organizations including the Candle Foundation, the Los Angeles Rebuild LA project, and Children Uniting Nations. Currently, Aubrey is focused on helping young entrepreneurs who want to create their own startup companies.
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About Celerium: Celerium is a new technology company providing innovative cyber defense solutions for critical supply chains.
Aleksander Dyo
Board Member/Co-Founder of Token IQ
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About EcoBuilders, Co., EcoBuilders, Co., EMPWR GROUP, INC., LifeXcel LLC, Profectus Financial, Wealth Excel: They at Token IQ is a financial services company that specializes in fintech, cryptocurrency, and compliance.
Keith Hoerling
Founder & CTO of Dimension Software
Keith Hoerling is the CTO // Founder of big brands such as Dimension Software and WeedMaps
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About Amaze, Dimension Software: Dimension Software is software architecture, engineering & creative design firm that grows businesses
Mitch Jacobs
Founder & CEO of Plink
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About Fanbank, OnDeck, OnDeck Australia, Plink: Plink is a developer of a commerce automation platform designed to provide assistance in transactions and build customer relationships.
Anthony Leonardo
Founder & CEO of Hostie
A bootstrapping entrepreneur, Anthony started his first company 9 years ago after being fired and rehired twice by his former employer as a General Manager. Learning from his successes and failures Anthony has continued to develop his companies using his personal funds. In late 2014 Anthony saw an opportunity in home sharing and he started an Airbnb business with only 4 properties. After testing the market, he later founded airpads.com a vacation rental management company that takes the work out of vacation rentals for Airbnb hosts and homeowners. In late 2017 Anthony has been working on developing hostie.com, Hostie focuses on supporting other vacation rental management companies. Anthony has been acknowledged by his peers for his ability to create groundbreaking efforts in driving large-scale cultural change that builds organizational effectiveness and propels revenue and growth. Anthony’s colleagues consider him to be a true visionary in expansions, critical thinker and problem solver, scalability and fast growth due to his out-of-the-box forward thinking. During his free time, Anthony has worked with Protohack helping younger entrepreneurs reach and achieve their goals by hackathon events and offering problem-solving and scalability options. Anthony also enjoys working with high school students. Anthony is open to offers his time speaking and motivating others in Los Angeles and other Southern California areas.
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About Hostie: Hostie takes the work out of hosting your airbnb by providing a professional network of cohosts and software tools to manage your property.
J. Morgan Keim
Founder, CEO of Sprouted Ventures
Morgan Keim is Business Development Manager at Motif FoodWorks. He is also Founder and CEO of Sprouted Ventures, a consulting collective focused on helping emerging food-tech brands find funding, scale revenues and enter markets. Morgan has driven strategy and marketing initiatives for food-tech start-ups like Impossible Foods and Natierra Superfoods. He has been Marketing Director and Project Manager for a variety of global natural food brands and large consumer brands including HBO/Game of Thrones, Honda and Acura Motors. He holds an MBA in Marketing the UCLA Anderson and dual Business degrees from College of Charleston (SC), where he was named “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.”
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About Motif, Sprouted Ventures: Commercialization Partners for Emerging Food-tech
Jeffrey Noles
Founder & CEO of LabStar
Before LabStar software, Jeff founded and operated a dental laboratory in Los Angeles where he used web-based supply chain technology to connect with overseas manufacturers.
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About LabStar: Cloud-based lab management software that makes your lab better.
Graham Orr
Founder of Xplicit Computing
Graham studied General Engineering at Harvey Mudd College where he received a BSc with departmental honors. There, he was lead student developer of the Experimental Engineering program and team leader for the Honeywell Aerospace clinic. His coursework focused on the theory of systems & continuum engineering, and after a 3-year part time employment at NASA’s JPL and HMC’s engineering dept, accepted his first formal appointment at Blue Origin developing cryogenic rocket engine infrastructure. In 2010, Graham founded Space Energetics LLC to address longer term aerospace research objectives while also offering engineering services to technical executive clients at Virgin Galactic and Firefly Space Systems, fulfilling critical functions in systems design, liquid facility execution, and technology development.
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About Crean, Xplicit Computing: Simulation can be elegant, fast, and should be accessible to more people.
Daniel Kim
Co-Founder of AuditBoard
Daniel Kim founded AuditBoard alongside Jay Lee. He serves as its chief executive officer and head of product since 2014.
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About AuditBoard: AuditBoard is the leading cloud-based platform transforming how enterprises manage risk.
Uzi Eliahou
CRO & Co-Founder of CarLabs
Uzi Eliahou is the President of CarLabs, and works with Martin Schmitt, the CEO. Both have partaken in successful companies and were executives at Car.com, Shopzilla, NEC, and Packard Bell.
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About CarLabs: CarLabs is a new startup developing conversational “bots” to guide users through car shopping.
Taylor Monahan
Founder and CEO of MyCrypto
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About MyCrypto: MyCrypto is an open-source, client-side tool for interacting with the blockchain.
Anthony Grivet
Co Founder and CTO of The Office Exchange
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About BeanMachine, The Office Exchange: The Office Exchange is a trusted marketplace that connects users with commercial real estate marketers.
Fredric Newberg
Co-Founder, CTO of Embrace
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About Embrace: Embrace is the only observability and data platform built for mobile that empowers companies to deliver optimal mobile experiences.
Eric Futoran
Co-Founder & CEO of Embrace
Eric Futoran is the Co-Founder and CEO of Embrace. He also founded Scopely and built the underlying publishing platform on which they have achieved success.
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About Embrace, Scopely: Embrace is the only observability and data platform built for mobile that empowers companies to deliver optimal mobile experiences.
Michael Korkin
Founder, CTO of ENTROPIX
Michael Korkin is the Founder, CTO at ENTROPIX
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About ENTROPIX: Advanced Computational Imaging Systems
Alec Zopf
Co-Founder & CTO of Wellth
Alec is a software and hardware engineer and a startup enthusiast. He has a background in music and biomedical engineering, which he has since applied to the problems of algorithmic trading, music consumption analytics, hardware, and mobile health applications.
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About Wellth: Wellth motivates medication adherence using Behavioral Economics
Christian Deciga
Founder and Executive Editor of Distributed Machines
Christian Deciga is the Founder and Executive Editor of Distributed Machines.
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About Distributed Machines, Everipedia, GhostDrive, Metagate Games: Distributed Machines, Inc. serves as a parent company for ventures in the blockchain, distributed ledger and education industry.
Theodor Forselius
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Distributed Machines
Theodor Forselius is the CEO & Co-Founder at Everipedia.
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About AVO, Distributed Machines, Everipedia: Distributed Machines, Inc. serves as a parent company for ventures in the blockchain, distributed ledger and education industry.
Taylor Bloom
Co-Founder & CEO of SportTechie
Taylor resides in Los Angeles where he graduated from UCLA and started his career working at startups and major corporations in the sports industry. He joined SportTechie in March 2012 and soon after took over the daily operations of the company after he discovered his passion for building a media company that is devoted to the sports technology space. He eats, sleeps and breathes SportTechie. Contact him with content and growth ideas.
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About SPORTS TECH TOKYO, SportTechie, Techstars: SportTechie is the leading information destination for sports technology news and content.
Sean Leonard
Founder & CEO of Penango
Sean Leonard, Founder and CEO, is responsible for managing the business, technology direction, and strategy of the company. Sean holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees (’04, ’05) in EECS from MIT, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to founding Penango, Sean worked on technology transactions, patent prosecution, and intellectual property litigation at Morrison & Foerster in San Diego and Tokyo, and the Software Freedom Law Center in New York. Sean also served as a software developer using Java, cell phone and web technologies at the IBM Tokyo Research lab and at IBM Extreme Blue in North Carolina.
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About Penango: Penango improves the security and experience of online communication for businesses, organizations, and users all over the world.
Babak Hassibi
Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of Neural Propulsion Systems
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About Caltech, Caltech, Neural Propulsion Systems: Neural Propulsion Systems is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company.
Jonah Bolden
Founder/Managing Director of Bolden Ventures
Jonah Bolden is an Australian/American professional basketball player who currently plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With an avid passion for open-source technology, he believes in the adoption of Blockchain technology for the revolutionary potential it has to empower society. Jonah is also a Blockchain and Web 3.0 investor.
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About Athletes Block Capital, Bolden Ventures: Bolden Ventures is a private equity firm that specializes in open-source technology, health and wellness brands, and computer science.
Doron Kim
President & Founder of Mobile Motion
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About BJJ Marketing, Christian Dating For Free, eDating For Free, Mobile Motion, TheColor.com: Mobile Motion is providing helping ordinary people to connect with the internet.
Nico Benitez
Founder & Co-Head of Engineering of Gridspace
Nico previously worked at OnLive, a cloud gaming company that remotely rendered and streamed complex video games over the Internet. At OnLive, Nico created algorithms for reducing latency in the graphics pipeline and developed a multi-platform, lightweight UI engine for in-game community features. He has a engineering bachelor’s from Stanford in Computer Science. He is also the inventor of the peanut butter and cinnamon toast crunch sandwich.
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About Gridspace: Gridspace scans and automates voice calls for contact centers and developers.
Anthony Scodary
Founder & Co-Head of Engineering of Gridspace
Anthony previously worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was the instrument engineer for the REMS and APXS instruments on the Curiosity Mars rover from development and testing through surface operations. He also worked on the Juno mission to Jupiter, unmanned Global Hawk atmospheric missions, and the Phoenix lander sent to the Martian arctic. Anthony has a bachelor’s from Stanford in Physics and a master’s in Aeronautics & Astronautics.
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About Gridspace: Gridspace scans and automates voice calls for contact centers and developers.
Ramin Bastani
Founder and CEO of Healthvana
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About Healthvana: Improving health and healthcare.
Kenaniah Cerny
Co-Founder & Chief Deployment Officer of SPIDR Tech
Kenaniah is a self-taught engineer who, at the age of 16, started his professional career in web development and now has over a decade of experience in senior / lead roles (against the better judgement of his superiors). He recently served as an IT manager and lead engineer for Wireless Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based finance company, and is now working on launching a mobile app to connect restaurants and consumers due to his love for all things edible. He specializes in PostgreSQL, Node.js, Python, HTML 5, and jQuery and enjoys being involved in every step of the development process. When he’s not huddled behind a computer, teaching, or searching for undiscovered eats around town, Kenaniah can usually be found at your friendly neighborhood jam session — he plays piano, guitar, bass, and is currently picking up violin and viola.
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About SPIDR Tech: SPIDR Tech is a law enforcement technology company.
Jon Bradford
Co-Founder & CEO of Colab
Jon Robert Bradford is the CEO at Colab.
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About Baron Davis Enterprises, Box Boulevard, Business Inside the Game (BIG), CBDEE, Colab, NoCap, Scriptera: Colab is an innovative venture studio based in Los Angeles that partners with and grows a select portfolio of strategic companies.
Russ Ruffino
Founder & Owner of Clients on Demand
Russ Ruffino is the founder & CEO of Clients on Demand. COD helps coaches, consultants, thought-leaders and service pros attract the right clients, at the right price, anytime they want. Visit our site to learn more: www.clientsvalley.com/workshop
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About Clients on Demand: Clients on Demand is the most reliable client attraction system in the world, with experts to help you maximize your business’ potential.
Liam Brown
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Elevate Services
Liam helps general counsel and law firm leaders improve effectiveness and efficiency. In 2011 he launched Elevate as the law company to provide consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms. Liam was previously the Founder, President, and CEO of Integreon, a global LPO, which he led from a startup in 2001 to annual sales of $150 million by 2011, before he sold to private equity investors. Prior to Integreon, he was the Founder, President, and COO of a pioneering VC-backed Web 1.0 virtual data room legal tech company, which he sold to a public company in 2001. Liam is a frequent speaker at legal conferences and regularly publishes articles about trends in the legal sector. He is also an active investor in emerging legal technologies and an executive coach for founders of startups.
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About Elevate Services: Elevate Services is a law company that offers consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms.
Suraj Pai
Co-Founder & CEO of Fluxa
Suraj Pai is a founding board member & CEO at Fluxa.
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About Fluxa: Fluxa is a digital collaboration platform that transforms bio-pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing.
John Miller
Co-Founder of Fluxa
John Miller is the co-founder at Fluxa.
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About Fluxa: Fluxa is a digital collaboration platform that transforms bio-pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing.
Paul Savchuk
Founder of Equilibrium
Holds three degrees in Economics, Business Intelligence and Business Administration. Proficient in DevOps (AWS, Docker, Terraform). Managed assets > $1mm.
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About Equilibrium: A web platform where users can create their avatars and become their personal investment advisors.
Chris Bell
Co-Founder, President, and Lead Game Designer of Gardens Interactive
Chris Bell is a Co-Founder, President, and Lead Game Designer at Gardens Interactive.
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About Gardens Interactive: Gardens Interactive is a game studio growing the future of online multiplayer play.
Chris Miglino
Co-Founder & CEO of SRAX
Mr. Chris Miglino, Chris co-founded Social Reality Inc. in April 2010 and also has been its Chief Executive Officer since April 2010. Mr. Miglino is responsible for leading the product development and capital structure of the company. He has helped the company raise all of its capital and go public on the NASDAQ capital market. Mr. Miglino has a long history of starting companies and working in public company environments.
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About SRAX: SRAX is a financial technology company that unlocks data and insights for publicly traded companies.
Jon Lewis
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Emerging Impact
Jon Lewis is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Emerging Impact and Circa Victor.
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About Emerging Impact: Emerging Impact modernizes financial services in emerging markets through blockchain technology.
Kevin Dean Pettit
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Proof of Impact
Kevin Pettit currently works as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Proof of Impact. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
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About Proof of Impact: Proof of Impact is a data intelligence company that bridges the gap in ESG and impact data.
P. Ariel Rostami
Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer of PDRVC
As the Chief Executive Officer, Pedram Ariel leads an exceptional operation to consist of a diverse technical team of talented software and A.I. at P.D.R. VC
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About AWAYN, PDRVC: The P.D.R VC is an AI Company Creating Dynamic, Realistic, and Adaptive Voice-enabled AI Architectures.
Dela Ariela Rostami
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of PDRVC
Dela Rostami is the CCO and head of UX at AI Concierge
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About AI Concierge, AWAYN, C9 Companion, PDRVC: The P.D.R VC is an AI Company Creating Dynamic, Realistic, and Adaptive Voice-enabled AI Architectures.
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
Kevin Yu
CEO and Founder of Findally
Kevin Yu is founder of BioBX.
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About BioBX, BoostX, Chinaccelerator, Dreampod, Findally, HelpMeSue: Findally is an image-based product engine.
Enoch Liang
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of LegalMation
Enoch Liang is the co-founder and chief strategy officer at LegalMation.
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About LegalMation: LegalMation is an AI technology company that provides tools to help attorneys and legal professionals automate routine litigation tasks.
Isaac Nichelson
CEO & Co-Founder of Circular Systems SPC
Isaac Nichelson is the Co-Founder and CEO at Circular Systems.
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About Circular Systems SPC, Edmund Hillary Fellowship(EHF): Circular Systems transform waste into a valuable fiber, yarn, and textile fabrics for the fashion industry.
Brandon Welsh
CEO and Founder of RecovHub
Brandon Welsh was born in 1987 in Redwood City, CA, the halfway point between Silicon Valley and the City of San Francisco, and spent several years between the Bay Area and Rocklin, CA. but spent several years in Rocklin, CA. Having previously worked with Trulia from startup to IPO, Brandon offers a vast skill-set applicable in the information technology industry. Outside of the professional world, Brandon offers much more than just his professional capability. Some colleagues and friends would recognize Brandon Welsh for being a humble, driven, funny, successful, and admirable individual that’s willing to go the extra mile to help others. After personally being affected by addiction and losing several friends throughout the years, Brandon decided to start Recovhub. As a startup changing the way patients and providers connect for substance abuse treatment, Recovhub offers a nationwide drug rehab database where individuals can search listings by city and state or zip code and connect directly to the treatment center of their choice.
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About RecovHub: SaaS, B2B, B2C, Cloud, CRM, Lead Generation, Healthcare, Information Systems, Search Engine
Troy McCann
Founder and Managing Director of Ubiquitus Solutions
Troy has been passionate about space and the future of humanity since seeing the moon in detail through a telescope as a small child. But growing up in Australia with no space industry, he had resigned to the idea that this career was never going to be an option. This changed later in life while completing a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Melbourne when he learned of ‘cubesats’ which led him to found the Melbourne Space Program, a volunteer body concerned with the development of the Australian space industry. Troy mixed his passions for technology and entrepreneurship together through multiple businesses started during and after graduating university, before starting MoonshotX: an organisation dedicated to the cultivation of space innovation ecosystems around the world, searching for solutions to difficult problems that will lead to a more resource abundant future for humanity. Today, MoonshotX runs their Gemini Incubator across more than 20 cities across the globe and will launch their first space tech accelerator in late 2018.
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About Ubiquitus Solutions: They cultivate early stage startups seeking to build or use next-generation space-based infrastructure to solve real problems.
Patrick Renner
Chief Operating Officer & Founder of Citruslabs
Founder & COO/CFO @MindMate (Techstars NYC’16) | Former @Mercedes-Benz & @Ignite | Studied @Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration & @University of Glasgow
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About Citruslabs: Clinical trials run on Citrus
Susanne Mitschke
CEO & Co-Founder of Citruslabs
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About Citruslabs: Clinical trials run on Citrus
Sameer Maggon
Founder and CEO of SearchStax
Product and technology executive for high-tech companies. Proven track record of building teams, driving KPIs and creating shareholder value. Technology expertise in search, cloud, analytics and high scale architectures.
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About Productsy, SearchStax: SearchStax is powerful search made easy.
Armyn Carabet
Founder & CEO of CNK Digital
Armyn Carabet is the CEO and Co-founder of ClickN KIDS, an educational publishing company that assists children with learning. As a husband and father, Armyn realizes the need to bring education into the home and he’s proud that his product makes it more readily available. Since Armyn and his business partner started the business back in 2003, they have been focused on filling in the gaps in our education, specifically early ed. Now, they team up with major retailers like Warner Brothers and Wal-Mart to build strategic relationships that make their products more readily available. Click N KIDS started as an idea based on a missing need, now it has grown into CNKDigital and EPIK Learning with the variety of successful products they are able to offer today. When Armyn isn’t growing his company, he enjoys soaking up the California sunshine, skateboarding with his son, watching his daughter’s dance performances and embracing an active lifestyle with his family. Armyn Carbet loves being a dad and raising his son and daughter. Being a father motivates him do better in business and in his personal life.
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About CNK Digital, EPIK Learning: CNK Digital is a worldwide publisher, developer, and distributor of innovative, engaging, and award-winning digital education experiences.
Gianna Wolfe
Co-Founder of Radiant Images, Inc.
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About Radiant Images, Inc.: Radiant an award-winning technology provider in Immersive, 5G and AI.
Yolanda Lau
Chief Talent Officer & Co-Founder of FlexTeam
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About 79 Studios, FlexTeam, Lau Labs, Liquid: future of work
Alexander Adegan
Founder & CEO of uParts
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About uParts: uParts is an online platform helping repair professionals, insurance carriers, and part suppliers conduct transactions over the internet.
Vitali Dervoed
CEO & Co-Founder of Fitness Lab Inc
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About Appshop, Fitness Lab Inc, Raiffeisen Bank International: Fitness Lab provides highly personalised training and diet programs using AI, data and custom technology.
Shanon Marks
President & Founder of MU/DAI
Shanon Marks is president and founder of MU/DAI, a design firm that simplifies technology by blending the imagination of digital with the power of practical. MU/DAI’s work transforms ideas into experiences and makes technology more effective and useful. For 15 years, Marks has focused on the application of emerging technology and harvested data to augment and improve the human experience, accelerating the market through innovation and emerging technology.
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About Agency 39A, MU/DAI: MU/DAI is a digital design company which offers mobile application development, product design, content strategy, and ecommerce services.