Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Los Angeles based Founder operating in the Social 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.
Steve Gatena
Founder & CEO of Pray.com
Steve is the founder of pray.com, the digital destination for faith. Steve is an American Entrepreneur, Media Producer, and NCAA Champion. In 2019, Steve was honored as a CSQ 40 Under 40 Visionary. Steve has also received an Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the United Nations in a program sponsored by Dell & Intel, and been named #8 on the Forbes list of Famous Multi-Generational Entrepreneurs.
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About Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
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Michael Lynn
Founder & CFO of Pray.com
Michael is the founder of pray.com, a social impact company for Non-Profits and Faith Organizations. Pray.com’s vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others. Pray.com’s private social network gives Faith Organizations and Non-Profits the ability to organize their membership, run small groups & events, and raise funds for causes they care about most.
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About Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
Jake Paul
CEO & Founder of TeamDom
Jake Paul is the Founder and CEO at TeamDom. He dropped out of high school and relocated to Los Angeles at 17, without a single meeting lined up. Jake became a Viner before becoming a Vloger. Also Jake has racked up over 15 million social media followers, and 3.5 billion video views, categorizing him as one of the top 20 social media influencers and a leading brand ambassador. Jake also lends his efforts to the acting world — starring as “Dirk” on Disney Channel’s Bizaardvark, “Lance” in the YouTube Red Original Movie Dance Camp and “Dugan” on Fox Digital’s new movie Mono.#Bloodynosegang
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About TeamDom: TeamDom is a media conglomerate that builds brands, stories, celebrities, and businesses around teen entertainment and media.
Kong Pham
CEO & Founder of Jumpcut
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About Jumpcut: Jumpcut creates captivating online courses.
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.
Marcy Boyle
Co Founder, CEO of Hot Bit VR
Marcy Boyle is the CEO and co-founder of Hot Bit VR, a upcoming webVR marketplace of experiential social shopping. Hot Bit VR has been featured on ZDnet, Entrepreneur, Fox News, and listed as one of the “30 Best Virtual Reality Companies to Change Your World Soon.” She and her co-founder’s VR experiences have been featured in art galleries, universities, conferences, and festivals including FIVARS in Toronto and VRUK in London. Hot Bit VR was selected for the first class of the AR/VR/XR accelerator at the Green Screen Institute, and Silicon Valley’s Women’s Startup Lab. Prior to working in VR, she co-directed the feature film, NOBODY CAN COOL, which was released internationally. Marcy is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and is a member of Women in VR, Women in Film, and on the Board of the Alliance of Women Directors.
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About Hot Bit VR, Oculus: An experiential marketplace in virtual reality.
Rustin Kretz
Founder, Chief Product Officer, Chairman of the Board of Scorpion
Rustin Kretz is the Founder, Chief Product Officer, and Chairman of the Board at Scorpion. Scorpion is the product of Rustin’s vision. His dedication and leadership have been the driving force behind Scorpion and the foundation for its unprecedented growth and innovative approach to digital marketing for local businesses since 2001.
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About Scorpion: Scorpion exists to better local small businesses and the communities they serve.
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.
Tal Pink
Founder of Looksy
Tal Pink is an established entrepreneur with over 10 years experience in the internet and startups. One of the early employees of Israeli company ICQ (acquired by AOL), Tal went on to launch Tar Networks (a startup incubator), as well as [Fonogenic](http://www.fonogenic.com) (DRM free music store for independent artists). His latest project, [Dopetracks.com](http://www.dopetracks.com), brings his love of musical collaboration to the web in a fresh new way by connecting producers and emcees in an interactive environment. Tal is an accomplished musician and a world-traveler who has lived in Israel, London, and California.
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About Adly, Dopetracks, Looksy, Sparitual: Fashion and Beauty Social Media
Alex Dahan
Founder of Open Influence
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About 0x Ventures, Open Influence, The Automation Fund: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.
Joseph N. Sanberg
Co-Founder of Aspiration
Joe Sanberg is a public and private-sector entrepreneur and investor harnessing the power of innovation to improve the quality of life for all. He is Co-Founder of Aspiration, an online financial company built for everyone. Aspiration serves people at the heart of their financial lives – their banking account – in a trust-based model that empowers people to choose whatever fee they think is fair (even zero) and enables them to bank, invest, and spend in accordance with their values. Joe is regarded as one of the nation’s leaders in the fight to end poverty. Joe has been the leading advocate for California’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-income families. Joe not only lobbied California to pass the credit, but in 2015 when the state didn’t allocate enough money for outreach, Joe created CalEITC4Me. This community organizing program has connected working California families with $4 billion of state and federal Earned Income Tax Credits. A native of Southern California, Sanberg attended Servite High School in Anaheim where he has created an International Leadership Program that supports students learning Mandarin and visiting China. Sanberg graduated from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude.
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About Aspiration: Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Errol Ginsberg
Founder, Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer of IXIA
Errol leads Ixia Labs and is Ixia’s chief innovation officer, where he focuses on engineering advances aimed at encouraging organic growth in new product areas. He also works closely with the Ixia management team in evaluating new market opportunities and potential acquisitions and performing early due diligence on potential acquisitions. Errol brings more than 20 years’ experience in the communications industry, with broad expertise in the design, development, and successful commercial marketing of technologies for the Internet and distributed networking community. Errol Ginsberg founded Ixia in 1997, and took it from a startup to a multi-million dollar company that is a recognized leader in network testing. He served as its president from 1997 to 2000, and its president and CEO from 2000 to 2007. From the early days of Ixia’s founding, Errol Ginsberg has helped shape the IP communications testing industry. A visionary leader, Errol has overseen many of Ixia’s innovations, including multiuser high-density platforms, CPU per-port interface modules, and high-productivity, test-specific applications. His drive and vision helped forge Ixia into its current position as a market leader. Errol became chairman of the Ixia board of directors in January 2008. Before Ixia, he served as vice president of Engineering at NetVantage, a network equipment manufacturer. From November 1994 to February 1996, he served as an engineering consultant to Netcom Systems, a test equipment manufacturer. Errol holds a BSEE from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
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About IXIA: Ixia provides IP network validation and network visibility solutions for equipment manufacturers, service providers and government agencies.
Brian Freeman
Founder and CEO of Heartbeat
Brian Freeman is a Entrepreneur, Consultant & Investor At Present he is Founder of Heartbeat Technologies, Inc of Heartbeat (getheartbeat.co). He also founded Wyldfire, where Ladies are the Gatekeepers. He has been featured for his work in entrepreneurism in Forbes, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Techcrunch, etc. He was Director Channel Partners at MOGL Loyalty, Inc & Investor & Consultant for MobilePay USA an early mobile payments provider.
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About Heartbeat: Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to join, provide feedback to, and promote brands via their personal networks.
Joel Simkhai
Founder and CEO of Blendr
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About Blendr: Blendr is a geo-social networking application and social discovery platform for Android, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Facebook.
Aber Whitcomb
CTO and Co-Founder of Jam City
Aber Whitcomb is co-founder and CTO of Jam City, where he oversees the software architecture underlying the company’s global gaming and analytics platform. Director and Co-founder at Core Scientific.
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About Core Scientific, i/o Ventures, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Chris DeWolfe
CEO & Co-Founder of Jam City
Chris DeWolfe is co-founder and CEO of Jam City, a global leader in mobile entertainment that provides social gaming experiences for millions of players around the world. Prior to Jam City, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of MySpace, where he popularized social networking and revolutionized the music industry. The site, formed in 2004, became the most visited in the U.S. by 2006 with 90 million members. When Chris left the company in 2009, MySpace had more than 130 million monthly active users around the world. Chris received Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2015 and the Producers Guild of America’s Vanguard award in 2009. TIME included him among its 2006 list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and Barbara Walters named him one of her 10 Most Fascinating People in 2007. He studied finance at the University of Washington and attended the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, which honored him in 2006 with its Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year award. Chris is an advisor at USC’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and a board member of Uproxx Media Group. He lives in Los Angeles with his family and actively participates in animal rescue operations.
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Josh Yguado
President, COO & Co-Founder of Jam City
Josh Yguado is co-founder, COO and President of Jam City, where he oversees the company’s operations, growth strategies and game portfolio – which has repeatedly dominated the top grossing charts of the Apple and Google Play stores. Before launching Jam City, Josh was Vice President at Fox Entertainment, where he helped Fox in its acquisition of MySpace, its creation of Hulu and its launch of new television networks. His career also includes working at MTV Networks and Univision. Among other honors, SoCalTech named Josh one of its top “50 Most Influential People” in Southern California’s technology industry. A board member of The Young Turks, he received his bachelor’s degree and MBA from Harvard University. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
David Calvert-Jones
Co-Founder of Whilo
David Calvert-Jones is an Australian entertainment entrepreneur and private equity executive who has been based in Los Angeles for over a decade. He owns a number of companies including Los Angeles based film and television production company Everywhere Studios, Vancouver based 50° North Productions, global aerial filming company Helifilms USA, and is the former Managing Director of Australian Private Equity Firm Seafirst Australia.
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About Whilo: Whilo’s transformative technology is reshaping the way we shop, wish-list and gift designer products with brands and magazines.
Karina Calvert-Jones
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Whilo
Karina Calvert – Jones is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Whilo.
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About Whilo: Whilo’s transformative technology is reshaping the way we shop, wish-list and gift designer products with brands and magazines.
Armando Kirwin
Co-Founder of Artie
Armando is co-founder of Artie, a platform for next-gen games powered by AI. He is one of the most experienced technologists in the field of interactive entertainment and has worked at the highest levels in both Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He has worked with and for some of biggest media and tech companies in the world.
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About Artie: A Web3 mobile gaming company. Play on social media. No app download needed.
Josh Rosenheck
Founder, Chief Product Officer of Community
Josh Rosenheck is the Founder and Chief Product Officer of Community. Over his career he has founded and led a number of startups. Prior to founding Community, Josh ran product at Shimmur, a Sony Ventures, Greycroft and Techstars-backed company that built tools to help artists, influencers, and celebrities engage with their audience at scale. Shimmur pivoted into Community. Before Shimmur, Josh co-founded Tag, a social passport app backed by investors including Mark Cuban, Eduardo Saverin, and Tim Draper. Tag was acquired by Cyber Dust. Josh’s first venture was an app to encourage responsible alcohol consumption. The app, Shots iGot, was widely adopted by substance abuse orientation programs and reached Top 10 Paid Entertainment Apps in the iOS app store.
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About Community: Community is an app that solves communication and engagement problems.
Matthew Peltier
Founder, CEO of Community
Matthew Peltier is the Founder, CEO at community.com
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About Community: Community is an app that solves communication and engagement problems.
Ali Sammour
Founder of FLATLAY
ali sammour joined FLATLAY as founder in 2016.
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About FLATLAY: The end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, customers & creatives.
Phineas Walton
CSO, Co-Founder & Engineer of Giggl
Phineas Walton is a co-founder of Giggl, redefining the way we collaborate and connect online through multiplayer browsing. Phineas started programming when he was 10 years old, and by the age of 15, he started working for The Nations, until pivoting and building his own companies.
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About Giggl, Hiven, The Nations: Watch and browse together with your friends and teams. Your new portal into the internet.
Thomas Kramer
COO, Co-Founder of Paladin
As Co-Founder and Head of Product at Paladin, Thomas focuses on building enterprise software for next-generation media companies. Prior to Paladin, Thomas served as VP of Product at Bent Pixels and as the Senior Director of Content Strategy and Optimization at Maker Studios (The Walt Disney Company), a top multi-channel network (MCN). At Maker, Thomas led a team focused on audience development strategy consulting for many Disney brands (Marvel, ESPN, Disney Animation, and Disney Parks) and online video creators (PewDiePie, GameGrumps, and the Shaytards). Thomas has rich experience working with brands, agencies, and content creators on multi-platform video strategy. He is a co-founder of Ready Influence, an advisory initiative for content creators, and has spoken at several conferences, including Media Summit New York. Thomas is a graduate of the University of Oregon.
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About Measure Studio, Paladin: Paladin is the essential influencer marketing platform for brands and agencies.
Spectacular Smith
Founder & CEO of Adwizar
Upon turning after school candy sales into a $2,000 a week business at age 11, Spectacular Smith discovered he was an entrepreneur. That realization would take him first to the heights of popular music, and then to success as a business owner, label owner, author, and beyond. A dancer since the third grade, Smith took his childhood love of performing into the rap group he formed with his brothers, Pretty Ricky. His father was the manager of the group, and owner of indie label. Spectacular contributed musically and also choreographed the group’s explosive stage shows—performances that won them a deal with Atlantic Records. The group went on to huge worldwide success: filling arenas on the Scream IV tour, selling millions of singles and ringtones, and earning huge hits with “Grind With Me,” & “Your Body,” Music stardom was just the first stage of Spectacular Smith’s career. Intrigued by the business possibilities of social media, he turned Pretty Ricky’s Facebook page into his personal laboratory, testing out his theories behind social networks for a full year until he had a new, unbreakable system of gaining and monetizing followers. He then turned those ideas into Adwizar, the dominant social media brand in the urban music space. The company runs the Facebook pages of artists such as Bow Wow, Kevin Gates, Soulja Boy, Master P, Birdman, Bone Thugs N Harmony, and countless others. Adwizar has now grown beyond urban music into dealing with major brands and corporations, athletes, merchandising deals, and more. The company was also featured on Forbes.com for its innovative methods, and has no ceiling on its growth. Smith has not left music behind. He has a record label called Mula Music Group, The label has recently signed West Coast artist Compton Menace, who is ringing up millions of YouTube views for his new single with Chris Brown, “Put On.” After conquering the worlds of music, social media, and publishing, the world is waiting to see what he does next.
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About Adwizar, Amazon, Inc. Magazine, Meta, Spectacular Academy, Viacom: Music Industry’s #1 Company for Growth and Monetization on Social Media – Making Artist, and Brands residual income from their social media.
Kirill Avery
Founder & CEO of fjklw
Entrepreneur, Software Engineer Forbes 30 under 30 Nominee at 17 y.o.
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Tuan Ma
Founder & CEO of PlayersOnly
A entrepreneur, computer scientist and Founder of PlayersOnly. He holds a M.S. in Computer Science from DePaul University, and a M.B.A. from Durham University (UK).
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About PlayersOnly: PlayersOnly is a sports social network focused on athletes.
Daniel Gendelman
Founder of Raya
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About Raya: Raya is an online membership-based community for dating, networking, and making new friends.
Jason Goldberg
Co-Founder & President of CARRO
President & Co-founder of VYRL.
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About CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Christian Levy
Co-Founder and Head of Engineering of MagicLinks
Co-founder and head of development for Magiclinks.org. Helping YouTubers and other social media content creators monetize shopping trips they inspire through their content.
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About Chippmunk, MagicLinks: The leader in social commerce for video influencers and the world’s top brands
Nanxi Liu
CEO & Co-Founder of Enplug
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About Enplug, Nanoly: Enplug is a software company that built the first open platform for digital displays everywhere.
Stephen Ready
Founder & CEO of Inspired
Stephen Ready is the CEO and Founder of Inspired. He is a former Co-Founder of Synergy and CEO & Founder of VCT – Member Experience Advisors. Stephen received a bachelor’s degree in Finance at Lehigh University.
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About Inspired: Anti-status quo social impact.
Jeremy Gocke
Founder & CEO of Ampsy
Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we’re aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. It’s extremely noisy out there, and right now consumers are essentially being forced to drink from the social media fire hose. Brands are expected to maintain a comprehensive social media presence, but a comprehensive social media presence, but the act of doing that is very onerous. From a promotions standpoint, it’s very difficult for them to know what is working and what is not.
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About Ampsy, anthym, Crowd411: Social Aggregation as a Service. “Hootsuite for social aggregation & visualization.”
Kai Buehler
Founder & CEO of KarmaKarma
Kai Buehler is Quake Europe’s co-founder and managing partner. He is also the CEO and founder of KARMAKARMA, a marketing platform to reward and engage consumers through social impacts. Kai has successfully started, managed and sold a number of businesses in the mobile application, loyalty and interactive TV space. In 2011, Kai sold Watchpoints, the first app that rewarded viewers for watching television, to Viggle (VGGL). Before joining Viggle, Kai was the CEO of Mobile Messaging Solutions (mms), a leading iTV and mobile engagement provider that divested out of VeriSign in 2009 (VRSN). He was also the CEO of Mindmatics USA, which he merged with mms Inc. In 2000, he co-founded plan_b media and successfully grew the company to a leader in the production and distribution of mobile entertainment content with offices in Cologne (Germany), New York, London and Vienna. The company was acquired by Mindmatics, a T-Mobile Venture, in 2005.
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About KarmaKarma, Quake Capital Europe: KarmaKarma is a social impact community where users can see and track their impact on the world.
Casin Ward
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer, and COO of Hoo.be
Casin Ward is the COO, CMO, and co-founder of hoo.be.
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About Hoo.be: Hoo.be is a social media platform allowing users to filter their favorite content in one place.
David Derval
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Hyperr
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About Hyperr: Hyperr’s plug-in Poll-Builder leverages social sharing to create highly qualified online customers.
Richard Botto
Founder and CEO of Stage 32
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About Stage 32: Stage 32 is the world’s largest online platform connecting and educating the global entertainment industry.
Sly Lee
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Sly is a first generation American Entrepreneur & Scientist who is passionate about creating positive global impact through design and exponential technologies. He is co-founder & CEO of Emerge, a teleportation company with a vision to connect people’s emotions and feelings, on the path to ultimately “teleporting” our presence. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2018 recipient, a Singularity University Global Solutions Program 2015 Alumnus, World Economic Forum Global Future Council Member for AR/VR, has presented at the Skoll World Forum, and can be found surfing Venice Breakwater most mornings.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Mauricio Teran
Co-Founder & Head of Insights of Emerge
Mauricio Teran is the Co-Founder and the Head of Insights at Emerge.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Isaac Castro
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Isaac Castro is an immigrant entrepreneur and co-founder & co-CEO of Emerge, a Los Angeles-based company bringing touch and emotion to the metaverse. Emerge’s mission is to empower those who are separated to feel more present when it is not possible to be physically together. Isaac believes in a future where technological progress brings us closer together and where nobody is left behind. He is an MIT Technology Review ‘Innovator Under 35’ recipient for the invention of a medical device for more effective cancer treatment. As a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper, he actively worked on inspiring youth and fostering peace and reconciliation with former FARC guerrilla members in Colombia, work for which he was invited to participate and speak at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Isaac holds a master’s degree in telecommunications engineering, and he is a graduate of Google X and NASA sponsored Global Solutions Program at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Blair Harrison
CEO & Founder of Frequency Networks
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About Frequency Networks: Frequency is a cloud-based internet video service that aggregates and distributes videos from the content producers.
Jason Alvarez Cohen
CEO & Co-Founder of Popl
Jason Alvarez-Cohen is a tech entrepreneur and Forbes 30 under 30 honoree. He is the CEO, Co-Founder and chief engineer at Popl, a technology company based in Los Angeles that is building the next generation business card.
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About Popl: Popl allows users to share their social media and contact info with a tap.
Nick Eischens
COO and Co-Founder of Popl
Nick Eischens is the COO and Co-founder at Popl.
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About Popl: Popl allows users to share their social media and contact info with a tap.
Edmond Wong
Co-Founder & COO of BuzzMob
Edmond Wong is an Operations and Strategy executive focused on delivering great customer experiences while scaling VC and PE backed growth stage companies. He currently advises growth stage companies in consumer products, eCommerce, SaaS and subscription based services and is an angel investor and co-founder of the Asian American Investors Group. Most recently, Edmond was co-founder/COO of Chatter, Inc (Appletree), a SaaS based communication platform that encourages engagement between parents and teachers within K-8 schools. He also co-founded and was COO of BuzzMob, a crowd engagement and fan technology app for live events. BuzzMob connects on-site attendees and delivers exclusive curated content to revolutionize the live event experience. Prior to BuzzMob, Mr. Wong created, built and scaled many iconic fashion and consumer product brands both in the US and worldwide.
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About BuzzMob, UCI Applied Innovation, UCI Paul Merage School of Business, VHA Corp: Connecting classrooms and schools to engage and empower parents and students.
Devendra Mishra
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Media & Entertainment Services Alliance – MESA
Devendra has been the president and COO of such companies as, LIVE Entertainment, VCL-Carolco, Lieberman Enterprises, Technicolor Worldwide Media and Distribution, Strawberries Records and Tapes, International Multifoods, Stan lee Media, etc. At RCA Records, as the Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing and Distribution, he implemented the revolutionary Hits and Catalog distribution, which became the hallmark of the industry. As president of worldwide new media and distribution services at Technicolor, Mishra strategically developed and launched Technicolor Entertainment Services and also engineered and put into production its first optical media manufacturing facility. A professor of Decision Sciences at Pepperdine University, he is recognized as an eminent thinker and practitioner of supply chain management.
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About Media & Entertainment Services Alliance – MESA: Building efficiencies in the creation, production and distribution of physical and digital media and entertainment.
Allen Loh
Head of Monkey and Founder of Monkey
Allen Loh is the Co-Founder and Head of Monkey at Monkey and Co-Founder of HOLLA Group.
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About HOLLA Group, Monkey: Monkey is a social networking app where like-minded people meet.
Grant Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of Interpret
Grant is the President and Co-Founder of Interpret, a market research and consulting firm focused on the convergence of new media, entertainment, technology and advertising. Grant has 15+ years of academic and consumer-based research experience across global video game, consumer electronics, mobile, home entertainment, theatrical, and music while at Nielsen Entertainment, Lieberman Research Worldwide, and Coleman Research. Prior to co-founding Interpret, Grant was instrumental in launching Nielsen Interactive Entertainment, a unit that achieved profitability in its first year through Grant’s integration of innovative methodologies and advanced analytics. Grant also served as VP of Nielsen NRG International Theatrical and Home Entertainment operations, returning the International division to profitability in less than one year. Grant is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Oregon, majoring in philosophy, holds a Master’s in Psychology from Brandeis University, and conducted doctoral research in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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About Interpret: Interpret provides custom market research services such as measurement and planning tools.
Alex Simon
Co-Founder & CEO of Elude
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About Elude: Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to.
Frank Scerbo
Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Elude
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About Elude, EON Gaming: Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to.
Phil Stover
Co-Founder and CEO of PvP.com
Phil Stover is the Co-Founder and CEO of PvP.com.
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About PvP.com: The first true gamer social community.
Igor Vaks
Founder & CEO of CreatorIQ
Igor Vaks is CEO and Founder of CreatorIQ, a premier SaaS platform that helps agencies, brands and publishers manage private brand advocacy networks, work with creators and execute influencer campaigns. Igor’s career includes twenty years as CTO, CIO and COO building $1B products for companies like Experian and Cendent. Before founding CreatorIQ, Igor was CIO & CTO at Experian Consumer Group and an active angel investor in LA startups.
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About CreatorIQ: The most trusted software to unify and power advanced influencer marketing for the world’s most innovative enterprises
Adam Kanner
Entrepreneur, Founder, and CEO of Zingly
Adam Kanner is an Entrepreneur, Founder, and CEO of Zingly.
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About Zingly: Zingly is a platform that allows brands and retailers to leverage the visual content generated by their customers shared on social media.
Annaliese Nielsen
Founder of crushee.com
Founder at Crushee.
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About crushee.com: A social network with no friends where e
Mike Downey
Founder of Five Hype
A long-time veteran of IT, project management and sales, Mike has international business experience from Latin America and Europe to Asia Pacific and Australia. In the mid-90’s, he started Tilson as a technology training company and then spent the next eight years directing technology operations for Cianbro Construction, one of the largest construction companies in the Northeast. Now, Mike brings his expertise to bear on identifying leading technologies, qualifying vendors and buyers and negotiating win-win technology deals for customers. He’s taken on the role of interim CIO and IT Director for a number of companies, ranging from banking and construction to distribution. Some of Mike’s other core competencies include budget analysis, team performance evaluations, strategic planning and return on investment analysis.
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About 4G Vision, Five Hype, Tilson: Five Hype is a lifestyle, marketing, PR, and talent management agency offering solutions focused on the matching of consumers to brands.
Lauris Liberts
CEO & Founder of Draugiem
Lauris Liberts is Founder and Co-Owner at Draugiem Group.
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About Behappy, DeskTime.com, Draugiem, Draugiem Group, Printful, Vendon: Draugiem offers a social network that enables businesses to connect with their customers in Latvia.
Mark Goldman
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Happs
Mark Goldman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Happs.
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About Happs, ZypMedia: Happs is a live streaming news platform that covers top stories from around the world.
Drew Shepard
Head of Product and Co-Founder of Happs
Drew Shepard is the Head of Product and Co-Founder at Happs.
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About Happs: Happs is a live streaming news platform that covers top stories from around the world.
Josh Bocanegra
CEO / Co Founder of Persona Technologies
Josh Bocanegra is a serial entrepreneur, digital marketer and software developer. His work has been featured in Forbes, TIME, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Popular Science and many more. In 2010, he launched Beats4Real, an online music site that offered music production to independent music artists worldwide for a monthly subscription. The company was deemed the “Netflix of music production”. He eventually sold the company for an undisclosed amount and went on to pursue a new venture. In 2013, he launched LoveRoom, a social networking site as a social experiment. The company quickly gained mass media attention and eventually lead to the development of a reality TV show based on the sites concept. The show is currently being developed and set to premier on the BET network. In 2015, he launched Humai, a biotech company with a mission to extend the human lifespan with the use of artificial intelligence, bionics and cryonics technology. The company gained worldwide media attention for it’s 30 year goal and is currently being run by it’s head of engineering. in 2016, he launched Persona, a chatbot / artificial intelligence company focused on building chatbots for public figures. Shortly after, Christina Milian joined the company as co-founder to help fulfill the company mission. Persona is the first chatbot company in Los Angeles and Christina Milian has the first celebrity chatbots on the Facebook Messenger platform.
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About Persona Technologies: We bring fans closer to their heroes.
Aiyanna Greene
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Greene Street Innovation
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About Ader, Alkimee, Greene Street Innovation: Venture Studio | Impact Fund | Consultancy
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.
Mihai Crasneanu
Founder & CEO of Beem
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About Beem, Grey Juice Lab: Discover and watch premium movies together with your friends and your favorite influencers
Terry Dry
CEO & Founder of Future Proof Advisors
I am a future-facing marketer, entrepreneur, Strategic Advisor, CEO, and coach who has founded, grown and reinvented companies for over 25-years. As the founder of Future Proof Advisors, I specialize in advising mid-market businesses and their executive teams on how to transcend growth-inhibiting barriers and achieve better outcomes. I started this business with a vision to create an ecosystem in which I could leverage the wisdom of the top subject matter experts I have worked with over the years to help solve the biggest problems facing businesses today (and tomorrow!). I’ve often been referred to as a “pragmatic visionary” – someone who pairs innovative thinking with practical solutions. It is this approach, paired with firsthand experience, that puts me in the unique position to help entrepreneurs achieve success building, transforming, scaling, and selling their companies. I pride myself on practicing what I preach. Not only do I advise existing companies, but I also create my own. Most recently, I co-founded RSVD, a SaaS business that provides digital capacity management solutions and smart queuing tech for the retail, food, and hospitality industries. After two years, I, along with my partners, flipped the business into a profitable exit. Additionally, I co-founded Fanscape, one of the first-ever social media marketing agencies, which grew from an initial $10K investment to an eight-figure acquisition by Omnicom. After the sale, I joined the Marketing Arm (a division of Omnicom) as CEO of Digital, directing a 150+ person team responsible for social, mobile, and digital consumer engagement for the agency’s extensive Fortune 500 client roster (AT&T, Mars, Samsung, Gamestop, Novartis, Philips). My career began in the music industry, culminating with my role as VP, Artist Development at Interscope / A&M Records (Universal Music Group). The experience I gained during this stage of my career paved the way for the launch of my own music management company AMP, where I worked to accelerate the growth of emerging artists including Taking Back Sunday. As an Entrepreneur-In-Residence and member of the Board of Advisors at Loyola Marymount University, as well as a mentor to MBA Students at my alma mater, USC’s Marshall School of Business, I am dedicated to fostering the development of tomorrow’s leaders. I am a Chicago native currently residing in Los Angeles with my wife and two children, where I focus on giving back to my local community through charitable work with several homeless and environmental organizations.
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About Future Proof Advisors: Strategic Advisory firm that helps mid-market and emerging companies rapidly transform their business operations.
Stephen Hansen
Founder, Chief Executive Officer of RatherBe
Stephen Hansen is the founder and chief executive officer of [RatherBe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ratherbe#/entity). Previously, he held the same position at [SpinMedia](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spin#/entity). Hansen served as the president and chief operating officer of [TrueCar](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/truecar) before he joined SpinMedia. He has also held executive-level positions at many companies, including [Avamar Technologies](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/avamar-technologies#/entity), [GeoCities](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/geocities#/entity), and [Universal Studios](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/universal-studios#/entity). Hansen holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management from the [University of Southern California](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-southern-california#/entity).
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About RatherBe: RatherBe is a new media company – bringing you high-quality, personalized content about the things you care about.
Colette Shelton
Founder of Chirpyest
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About Chirpyest: Chirpyest gives consumers the power to earn money for shopping and sharing.
Jennifer Schwab
CEO and Founder of ENTITY
Jennifer Schwab is a highly regarded entrepreneur with one goal in mind: to inspire, support and empower all women through action. In 2016, she founded ENTITY, a media company dedicated to equipping young women with the skills, knowledge and resilience they need to lead a successful life. ENTITY currently achieves this through its robust publishing platform as well as through its Academy, where young women are put through a rigorous curriculum focused on leadership training through mentorship, access to a diverse group of highly-credentialed guest speakers and hands-on experience, both inside and outside the office. Prior to founding ENTITY, Jennifer was instrumental in creating Sierra Club Green Home, the first-ever social entrepreneurship model attempted by the Sierra Club in its 124-year history. After running SCGH.com for five years, she sold the site to digital marketing aggregator Fractl. Jennifer graduated with a B.S. in Accounting and started her career at Ernst & Young’s Chicago office. She went on to study environmental design and sustainability at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She also earned an MS in Urban Planning and Environmental Design from UC-Irvine and is a LEED certified practitioner. In 2013, Jennifer performed her Fulbright Fellowship at Arava Institute in Israel, with emphasis on water management and sustainability. Away from work, Jennifer follows design avidly and is a long-time hobbyist pilot licensed in a high-performance, multi-engine aircraft.
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About ENTITY: ENTITY is an Edtech company that uses training and coaching to help men and women bridge the gender gap.
Khaled Zaatarah
Co-Founder of 360VUZ
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About 360VUZ: 360VUZ is the Leading Immersive Social Mobile App. Building the Metaverse.
Al Ovadia
Co-Founder & Chairman of Wonder Transmedia
Al Ovadia, Chairman (former 20th Century Fox Division President, former Sony Pictures Ent. Division Head)
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About Wonder Transmedia: Wonder Transmedia develops intellectual property to be shared across multiple digital media platforms.
Omar Kaczmarczyk
Co-Founder, CDO of Wonder Transmedia
Omar Kaczmarczyk, CDO (former Noble Ent. Group Founder)
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About Wonder Transmedia: Wonder Transmedia develops intellectual property to be shared across multiple digital media platforms.
Chris Fure
Co-Founder, COO of Wonder Transmedia
Chris Fure, COO and acting CEO (former TransGlobal Ventures Partner)
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About Wonder Transmedia: Wonder Transmedia develops intellectual property to be shared across multiple digital media platforms.
Gianni Coleman
Co-Founder of SoulSwipe
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About SoulSwipe: SoulSwipe lets you meet and chat with other Black locals in your area.
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.
Dan Thorman
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Thoughtful Media
Dan Thorman serves as the Chief Financial Officer for Thoughtful Media Group (TMG). Dan focuses on strategic business development, corporate structure, and finance. Dan has broad experience managing corporate business and legal affairs across a diverse cross-section of functional areas. Specifically, he has focused efforts in the creation of online and television advertising solutions as well as early-stage company finance, operations and evolution, and technical project specification and management. In recent years, he has assisted in raising millions of dollars in corporate financing. Dan co-founded TMG to capitalize on the global changes occurring in the Online Media and Advertising sectors. Prior to TMG, Dan served as a Managing Partner at MR Holdings, a Los Angeles based branded entertainment company focused on the television market. Since its founding in 2003, he successfully deployed over $25 Million is brand dollars into television media from major global advertisers. Dan also served as the Chief Financial Officer of INNX, Inc., a venture capital financed convergent media company which provided television news, internet content, and targeted advertising opportunities to hundreds of network television affiliates and advertisers across North America. Before his work in online and television advertising solutions, Dan was a founding partner of San Francisco-based Ignition, Inc., a leading design and engineering company of interactive products and data integration solutions for large corporations. Ignition clients included Hewlett Packard, the United Nations, and McKinsey & Company. At Ignition, Dan managed operations of the company, including technical, financial and administrative functions. Dan also managed large software and technical development projects for clients with a specialty in technical problem solving and specification of hardware systems. Dan has a BS in accounting from George Mason University and has passed the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) examination.
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About Collidescope.io, Thoughtful Media: Thoughtful is a global media and technology company focused on providing solutions powered by influence.
Ivan Fatovic
Founder & CEO of Modamily
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About Modamily: Modamily connects and educates people who are ready to start a family
Dillon Morgan
CEO, Founder of UNUM
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About UNUM: UNUM is a developer of a customizable platform aimed at powering the connection between content and creators.
Sam Krichevsky
Co-Founder/COO of geojam
Sam Krichevsky is the globally recognized, award-winning Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Geojam, a technology and crypto-based economy platform that has innovated the creator landscape that a-list celebrities like Mariah Carey are invested into. Through Geojam Sam launched his own crypto token, $JAM, which is currently traded on some of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world, including KuCoin and Gemini.
Beyond Geojam, Sam’s career spans some of the most dynamic tech, investment and music concepts, including founding TanZ, a full-service live event production company and LaunchHouse, a seed capital investment fund where he served as COO and developed LHX, a nationally recognized accelerator program cultivating top entrepreneurial talent through senior-level mentorship, strategic business development resources, and seed funding. Sam was instrumental in leading the way to establish one of the first public/private partnerships on record in the US through LHX.
A seasoned strategist and startup expert, Sam is an active member of the Recording Academy, the Forbes Business Council and currently serves as a board member and advisor to high profile celebrities alongside music, tech, and entertainment startups around the world. His strategies and investments have landed him and his companies millions in deals/profit, and innovated various industries that turn to his technological advances to run today.
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About geojam, LaunchHouse: Geojam is the ultimate social media platform for music.
Alireza Mirmontazeri
Founder of Lurkin
Alireza Mirmontazeri has founded companies, made films, led expeditions, created diets, & been an investor. He is the founder of Lurkin & creator of the Pyramiding diet. “The Cats”, his directorial film debut, was selected to premier at the San Diego Film Festival. Additionally, he’s completed several solo wilderness trips, including a nine month trek in the jungles and villages of Central America.
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About CampX, iVlog, Lurkin, Mobiveo, Oceaf, VIVEV: Lurkin is a global venture company, with ventures ranging from technology startups, to motion pictures, & everything in between.
David Park
Founder & CEO of Kippo
David Park is a the Founder and CEO of Kippo. Park is a software engineer and products designer. Park was formerly an Algorithmic Trader at a Wall Street Hedge fund and an early team member of Raya. Park is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy.
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About Kippo: Kippo is an avatar based world designed for meeting new people
Cheeyoon Lee
Co-Founder, Head of Design of Kippo
Cheeyoon Lee is the Co-Founder and Head of Design at Covalent, Inc. (Kippo). He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc.
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About Kippo: Kippo is an avatar based world designed for meeting new people
Eric Tao
Founder and CEO of HOLLA Group
Eric Tao is the CEO and founder at HOLLA. He earned his degree at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
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About HOLLA Group, Monkey: HOLLA allows users to meet fun people around the world instantly through video chat technology.
Ikrima Elhassan
Co-Founder of Kite & Lightning
Ikrima Elhassan is the Co-Founder of Kite & Lightning a Virtual Reality Creative Studio established in 2012.
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About Kite & Lightning: Virtual Reality Creative Development Studio.
Dave Fanger
Founder and CEO of Swell
Dave Fanger is the US Business Leader & Responsible Investment at Mercer.
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About Mercer, Swell: Swell is an impact investing platform that aims to deliver profit as well as purpose.
Jonathan Segal
Co-Founder of Crunchet
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About Crunchet: The first app for the global gaming community in the growing crossover between esports, sports, lifestyle, entertainment & social impact.
Nick La Maina
Founder of Tikr
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About Tikr: Tikr is a mobile app that allows you to connect with other around the latest tech releases, movies, video game and other upcoming events.
Kurt Braget
Founder of Tikr
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About Tikr: Tikr is a mobile app that allows you to connect with other around the latest tech releases, movies, video game and other upcoming events.
Dan Benyamin
Founder and CEO of CitizenNet
Dan previously founded PhatNoise, one of the first mp3 hardware/software companies, which he later sold to Harman International (NYSE: HAR). At PhatNoise, Dan helped raise over $8M in venture capital and spearheaded many innovations in digital music. At Harman, Dan became the VP of Engineering, and later became an independent strategic investment consultant to Best Buy. Dan has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles.
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About CitizenNet, Condé Nast: CitizenNet is a Facebook preferred marketing platform that interprets real-time social signals from Yahoo, YouTube, Twitter, and more.
Laura Roeder
Founder of MeetEdgar
Laura Roeder is founder at Paperbell.
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About MeetEdgar, Paperbell, TinySeed: MeetEdgar is a software designed for sorting, storing, and automating social media status updates.
Mimoza Bytyqi
Co-Founder & CMO of Solaborate
Mimoza Bytyqi is the Co-Founder & CMO at Solaborate.
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About Solaborate: Solaborate, is all in one communication and collaboration platform company
Patrick Davis
Co Founder of Sayer App
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About Sayer App: Sayer App is a web and mobile application that enables its users to ask a range of questions and have it answered by others.
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.
Sheila Merchant
Co-Founder & COO of MARBL Travel
Sheila Merchant is co-founder and COO at Marbl.
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About MARBL Travel: MARBL is hub for ‘all things travel’ including the best content and brands in millennial travel.
Mascha Moore
Founder / CEO of HATCH | Private network. Your social utility, not media.
Creative director turns technology founder.
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About HATCH | Private network. Your social utility, not media., RUSH TV, The Little Agency: Networking platform with white-label-community and event features.
Charles Saatchi
Founder of Saatchi Art
Charles Saatchi is the founder of Saatchi Art.
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About Saatchi Art: Saatchi Art is an online art gallery and social market platform connecting users with art and artists they love.
Josh C. Kline
CEO + Founder of HaveNeed (Have Need, Inc.)
media + tech + social impact | Emmy Award-winning technologist | 3X startup founder | enterprise/corporate roles every other step | multiple patent author From April 2014 to March 2017 Josh served as Head of Media & Entertainment at Box.com, the Silicon Valley-based cloud content management firm, and is now overseeing have|need (haveneed.org) in hopes of making a meaningful impact on the lives of people around the globe. Josh has worked at the intersection of media and technology for the past 20 years and spent the last 15+ years building new businesses in digital media, with a focus on content production and distribution. He co-founded and led Sample Digital, Inc. as CEO, where he oversaw the development of, patented and brought to market Digital Dailies, revolutionizing the review and approval process in the film and television production industry, and for which he was awarded a 2013 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award. Josh left Sample Digital to run Secure Path Technology, a cloud-based content identification and metadata services company, followed by a role in Strategic Business Development at Deluxe Digital Distribution. From 2012 – 2013, Josh was the Chief Strategy Officer of Final Draft, Inc., responsible for developing the company’s go-forward strategy, and leading development of Final Draft Connect, the company’s cloud services platform. Josh has also provided strategic consulting services to clients including Microsoft, Avid and Fujitsu. Josh is an alumnus of USC’s School of Planning & Development. And Josh recorded the first 3D video in space (stratosphere to be exact) via high-altitude weather balloon.
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About HaveNeed (Have Need, Inc.), Sample Digital: HaveNeed is the first consumer multiparty barter platform for goods and services with patented technology enabling people to barter at scale
Lisa Gopala
Co-Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Vixlet
Lisa Gopala is CEO at Vixlet.
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About Vixlet: Vixlet develops and operates a social platform linked to sports leagues, teams, and entertainment companies.
Krishna Gopala
Co-Founder of Vixlet
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About Vixlet: Vixlet develops and operates a social platform linked to sports leagues, teams, and entertainment companies.
Derek Siegel
CEO & Co-Founder of Mav Farm
Derek Siegel (Co-Founder & CEO, Mav Farm) was a streaming video professional having developed content licensing and business development strategies for startup and established OTT streaming video companies prior to co-founding Mav Farm.
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About Mav Farm: Decentralized P2P Art & Trade
Mateo Moreno
Co-Founder, CMO & SVP of Mav Farm
Mateo (Co-Founder & CMO) is a streaming video professional having developed and grown audiences for YouTube multi-channel networks prior to co-founding Mav Farm.
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About Mav Farm: Decentralized P2P Art & Trade
Darrell Whitelaw
Founder of Lynr
Darrell Whitelaw is the Co-Founder of Lynr.
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About Lynr, Walmart: Lynr is a cloud based inventory control system and social sales tool for the modern pre-owned vehicle sales professional.
Ashley King
Founder & CEO of DyshApp
Ashley King is Founder & CEO at Toast Labs (Dysh).
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About DyshApp: DyshApp is a Redefining food culture at the dish level.
