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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CEO’ operating in the Art space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
John Henry
Cofounder & Co-CEO of Loop
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About cofound/harlem, Loop: Loop Insurance uses AI-technology, big data, and telematics to create more fairly priced insurance products.
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Richard Smullen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pypestream
Richard is the CEO and founder of Pypestream, a secure mobile messaging platform that uses real-time chat to transform the way brands and businesses connect with customers. Through ‘Pypes’ listed in a searchable catalogue, businesses are provided with a direct connection to their customers for increased engagement, automated customer service, and in-message payment processing. The ultimate customer engagement tool, further loyalty is derived by using proprietary AI and chatbot technology to allow conversations at scale. A serial entrepreneur, Richard previously co-founded Genesis Media LLC, a real-time video advertising platform, and is a board member of SouthWinston LLC, a New York-based, global private equity and VC fund.
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About dhomain llc, Pypestream, SouthWinston: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
Howard Katzenberg
Founder & CEO of Glean analytics
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About Glean analytics: Glean unlocks the powerful data detailed in vendor invoices/receipts to surface relevant spend insights and drive spend accountability
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Vadim Rogovskiy
CEO, Co-founder of 3DLOOK
3X founder (AdCenter – sold to VertaMedia, Clickky – partially exited, 3DLOOK – raised $11M+), 12X angel investor (1 exit). Forbes contributor, mentor at 500 Startups, LVMH Innovation Award winner. Investing into early-stage B2B startups with AI-based products, targeting global vertical or horizontal markets.
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About 3DLOOK, 500 Startups, Forbes Technology Council, Geek Ventures: 3DLOOK is a mobile body scanning solution that aims to change the way people shop.
Andres Blank
Co-founder & CEO of Fetcher
Andres started three companies in his native Venezuela, the first one, a site for college students at the age of 18 and the last one, a lumber trader and exporter with over 30 employees. He graduated from Industrial Engineering and then moved to Boston to complete his MBA at MIT. Andres started Pixable during his last year of the MBA. He is currently located in NY where he’s working full time as COO and co-founder at Pixable.
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About Fetcher, Piictu: Fetcher provides an AI-powered sourcing platform designed to automate the recruitment process.
Howard Lerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.
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About Confide, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Wendi Sturgis
CEO Europe of Yext
Wendi Sturgis serves as an independent board member at Kustomer.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Fayez Mohamood
Co-founder & CEO of Bluecore
He is the co-founder and CEO of TriggerMail, a marketing automation company that allows eCommerce companies to personalize emails in real-time. Previously, he was Head of Product at BigDoor where He was responsible for concieving, executing and iterating on gamified loyalty and rewards programs to increase user retention across the websites of major global brands like NFL, Dell, Adobe and Starbucks to name a few.He also co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a simple fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook, as well as Sponty which was a service that allowed people to discover music events in town. In a previous life, He was into microprocessor design and simulation. He developed and integrated the first combined Graphics and Processor Memory Controller simulator at AMD to predict and analyze the performance impact of AMD’s Fusion CPUs. his first rookie Master’s publication when He was a student at Georgia Tech was awarded the Best Paper by the prestigious IBM’s TJ Watson Research, and a subsequent publication was adopted by AMD in one of their CPUs even before He finished graduate school. In addition, He also worked on developing graphical frameworks for Simulink and MATLAB at The Mathworks in Boston. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, where He published several papers on high-performance microprocessor design.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Peter Brodsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Hyperscience
As Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Peter drives the strategy and direction of Hyperscience.
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About Hyperscience, Instinctiv: Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes.
Dan Reich
Co-founder, CEO of Troops
Dan has started and been involved with companies that have collectively raised over $100M in venture capital and have exited for close to $1B in M&A, including companies like Buddy Media, Spinback and Lotame.As a result, he has extensive experience in startups, technology, business operations, financing, management, and scaling large teams. He’s a contributing writer for Forbes and Harvard Business Review. In March 2015, Dan co-founded Troops, a venture-backed technology company that gives professionals a mobile sales assistant powered by artificial intelligence. In early 2015 he was also selected to receive an Early Career Award by a vote of the College of Engineering Leadership Council at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. In 2014, Dan co-founded TULA, a health and beauty brand exclusively sold through QVC. He has led the company as active CEO from inception to over $1mm in sales in less than one year. In 2012 Business Insider named him on the top 100 of “one of the coolest people in New York tech.” In 2011 he co-founded Spinback, which was acquired by Buddy Media, which was then acquired by Salesforce.com in 2012, marking New York’s second largest technology acquisition ever. Dan led Spinback as the COO and upon acquisition, led part of Buddy Media’s accounts team, representing $40mm in business. Before Spinback, Dan was an early employee at Lotame leading new business development efforts and helping to grow the business from less than 10 employees and $0 in revenue to 80+ employees and 8 digits of revenue. In college, he co-founded two companies, studied and researched photonics, and was awarded the “Inaugural Accenture Leadership Award” for launching Accenture’s first ever Leadership Center in UW-Madison. In high school, Dan worked for an IT firm specializing in custom networks and systems, built award winning autonomous fire fighting robots, wrestled, played soccer, and joined the Mount Snow Ski Patrol as the youngest patroller nationwide.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Forbes, Spinback, Troops, TULA: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Edo Segal
Founder and CEO of Touchcast
Edo Segal is the Founder & CEO at TouchCast.
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About bMuse, iWise, Kinsa, Touchcast, Touchcast: Touchcast is the world’s leading enterprise metaverse company. We connect people by breaking down barriers of space, time and language.
Numaan Akram
Founder & CEO of Rally
Numaan is the founder and CEO of Rally Bus, a New Haven startup which combines crowdsourcing and event travel.
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About Rally: Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Gideon Mendels
Co-Founder and CEO of Comet.ml
Gideon Mendels is co-founder and the CEO of CometML & Comet AI. Gideon is an experienced data scientist and entrepreneur. He worked on Deep Learning research at Google and Columbia University and previously co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet AI, Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Gal Krubiner
CEO/ Co Founder of Pagaya Investments
Former UBS investments & wealth management professional, UHNW biz dev having raised hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. Specializes in innovative & sophisticated credit structured products (ABS structures).
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About Pagaya Investments: Pagaya is a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its AI network.
Athena Karp
CEO & Founder of HiredScore
Athena Karp is the founder and CEO of HiredScore, an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to deliver deep hiring efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations adapt for the future of work. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition for delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry. Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Previously, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology and media companies. Athena is a member of the technology advisory board of Belmont Charter Network schools, and founder and board member of Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and healthy eating experiences. She formerly served on the board of the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, a network of charter schools with over 1,000 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. Athena holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also actively involved in rebuilding West Philadelphia and creating a sustainable model for poverty alleviation through various boards and initiatives.
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Daeil Kim
Founder and CEO of AI.Reverie
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Amir Orad
CEO of Sisense
Amir Orad is the CEO of Sisense. He has held various executive roles for different companies including NICE Actimize, RSA Security, Cyota, and IDF. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science/management from Tel Aviv University and an MBA degree from Columbia University – Columbia Business School.
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About LimitScreen Inc, Sisense: Sisense is the leading AI-driven platform for infusing analytics everywhere.
Liad Agmon
CEO of Dynamic Yield
Liad Agmon joined Dynamic Yield Liad as CEO in 2012.Agmon is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and as a Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings). Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of New Services at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. Liad served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and taught at the Entrepreneurship MBA program in Tel-Aviv University and at the Zell Program of IDC Herzliya. He holds a BA Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University in Computer Sciences and Film Studies.
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Felix Van De Maele
Co-founder / CEO of Collibra
Felix Van De Maele is the CEO and Co-Founder of Collibra. Felix has led Collibra from idea to funding to more than eight years of record growth and industry leadership. He’s responsible for the company’s global business strategy. Prior to co-founding Collibra, Felix served as a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, where he focused on ontology-focused crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a master in General Management from the Vlerick Business School. In 2017, Felix was named by DataNews as the ICT personality of the year.
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Jack Kokko
CEO and Founder of AlphaSense
Jack Kokko is a visionary entrepreneur with a background in global financial services and a track record of delivering enabling technologies to demanding markets. Previously, he was the founding CEO of Silecs and a senior analyst with Morgan Stanley. He holds a Wharton MBA and a MSc. degree in engineering.
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Jonathan Badal
CEO of OpenTrons
Jon leads Opentrons’ business operations and growth. Jon is also a Board Member at Genspace and has been an advisor to OpenTrons since the company’s beginning. Jon joins us from Amazon, where he was the VP of Strategy at comiXology (exited to Amazon in 2014). As an early employee at comiXology, he helped the company become the leading platform for discovering, buying, and reading digital comic books and #1 Top Grossing non-game iPad app. Prior to comiXology, Jon was an analyst at early-stage VC, Rose Tech Ventures, and graduated from Columbia Unversity as a History major.
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About OpenTrons: OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments.
Bulent Tekmen
Co-Founder & Global CEO of Colendi
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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About Colendi, Ininal, Next Ventures: A multifunctional banking as a service platform that democratizes banking services for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions
Joy Tang
CEO & Founder of mai (Markable AI)
Joy Tang is the CEO and founder of Markable.ai, the leading AI computer vision company for the retail sector. It has raised over $5.2M and closing another $6M round from tier one global VCs with billion dollar clients on most continents. Before building Markable’s world class team, Joy won a Gold Medal in Math Olympics in China at age 16 and was the TV anchor of a Chinese television program for ten years. Joy then attended MIT on a full scholarship, with majors in math and economics. Joy sold her first start up, a social media platform for international students built together with Berkeley students to a Chinese company in her last year of college. After college, she worked as a lead machine learning quantitative scientist for seven years that built financial high frequency AI trading programs generating a daily six-figure profit while causing traditional wall street to crash in 2008. Joy left high frequency trading to create Markable.ai, upon noticing a huge gap in the market between e-commerce and digital content. This gap inspired her to develop the AI technology to make all forms of visual digital content such as photos, videos and livestream content immediately shoppable. Markable.ai has a goal to deliver the ultimate shopping therapy for consumers; the future of AI driven fast e-commerce; and the future of AI driven green, user-engaged advertising.
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About mai (Markable AI): Mai is the leading AI visual discovery shopping engine that makes any photo or video content shoppable
Joe Chin
Co-Founder & CEO of Sparrow Vision
Joe is a serial entrepreneur and CEO, having successfully founded Internet companies over the past 15 years. Joe is the founding CEO of SourcePad. Prior to SourcePad, Joe was the founding CEO of Searchandise (originally Guidester), which was acquired by RichRelevance in 2011. Prior, Joe was the Managing Director of REOL, founder/President of Diadem (a multi-player game company), founder/principal of JEV (an import/export company). Joe started his career as an engineer, designing multi-million dollar satellites for Hughes Aircraft. Joe earned a MS from UC Berkeley and a BS from Columbia University.
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About SourcePad, Sparrow Vision: Sparrow provides personalized feedback on golf swing using its advanced AI technology.
Lesley Eccles
Founder and CEO of HelloRelish
Lesley Eccles is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of HelloRelish. She is a serial entrepreneur and start-up advisor, now working on her third start-up, in the health and wellness space. She is co-founder of FanDuel, the fantasy sports company, and served as its Head of Marketing for 9 years.
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About HelloRelish: HelloRelish is a relationship wellness app that delivers personalized plan to rebuild your relationships.
Thomas Clozel
Co-Founder & CEO of Owkin
Thomas is a former assistant professor in clinical hematology/oncology from Hopital Mondor in Paris, with a special focus on lymphoma epigenetics and a former member of Ari Melnick’s lab in Weill Cornell, New York. He co-founded OWKIN in June 2016 with Gilles Wainrib, a former Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence. OWKIN uniquely integrates Systems Biology with Artificial Intelligence to make accurate medical predictions and compare populations. From molecule to market, OWKIN accelerates drug discovery and discover hidden patterns to help individual patients.
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About Owkin: Founded in 2016, Owkin uses artificial intelligence to find the right treatment for every patient.
Jake Mor
Founder & CEO of FitnessAI
Jake Mor is the founder and CEO of Fitness AI, an app that uses AI to generate personalized weight lifting plans.
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About FitnessAI: Fitness AI is an app that uses AI to generate personalized weight lifting plans.
Jonathan Bayme
Founder & CEO of theory11
A prodigy, a whiz kid, and one of the hardest working men in magic. Jonathan Bayme’s passion for magic was ignited at age six after watching a performance by David Copperfield in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. By 13, he began headlining theatrical performances in the southeast USA to sold out audiences. Bayme finished high school two years early and began producing projects for some of the most respected names in magic. In August of 2007, he founded theory11.com alongside eleven of magic’s most influential artists. The site accelerated to the forefront of the magic community, creating an educational environment that reaches up to 250,000 members around the world each month. theory11 has energized and inspired a new generation of magic enthusiasts, from Marines in uniform to students who use magic as a means to build confidence, self-esteem, and a reputation among peers. At its core, theory11 allows anyone to learn magic as a social skill that has proven transformative for people young and old, with active members in 164 countries. Now 27, Bayme serves as CEO of theory11, strategist for The United States Playing Card Company, and a writer and consultant to legendary illusionist David Copperfield.
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About theory11: theory11 offers an online platform that enables its users to learn and teach magic and card tricks, and street magic.
Omri Yoffe
Co-Founder & CEO of Vi
Omri Yoffe is Founder & CEO at Vi
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About Vi: Vi is the world’s leading Enterprise-AI for digital health.
Tracy Day
Founder & CEO of World Science Festival
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About World Science Festival: World Science Festival brings together students of science and the arts to produce live and digital content to a broad general audience.
Allon Bloch
Co-Founder and CEO of K Health
Allon Bloch is the CEO and Co-founder of K Health. Previously he served as the CEO of Vroom, the largest online car retailer in the U.S, Co-CEO of Wix, the world’s leading website publishing platform, and CEO of mySupermarket, a digital platform that empowers consumers to find the best prices for their groceries. Allon is also a former venture capitalist, serving as a Venture Partner with Greylock’s Europe/Israel fund and a General Partner at JVP. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and is based in New York.
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About K Health: K Health is a data-driven digital primary care system that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.
Michael Kohen
Founder & CEO of SparkAI
Michael Kohen is the Founder and CEO at SparkAI.
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About SparkAI, Stealth Mode: SparkAI is a real-time edge case resolution for AI in production.
Arnab Gupta
CEO of Opera Solutions
A strategy consultant by training and an entrepreneur by nature, Arnab Gupta has developed several successful software and consulting companies. He founded business consulting firm Mitchell Madison Group and Zeborg, a business intelligence company. Arnab founded Opera Solutions in 2004 and has guided the company in becoming a premier center of Big Data science and practice. Arnab believes the information explosion has created unprecedented opportunity for value creation, and companies combining superior talent with machine learning science can deliver dramatic productivity and profit improvement to customers. Since 2004, he has worked with the Gates Foundation on its India HIV-AIDS initiative, employing private sector approaches to help oversee the disbursement of $400MM in grants toward HIV-AIDS prevention. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, including SXSW Interactive, Strata, and Structure:Data. Arnab earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Dimitri Sirota
CEO & Cofounder of BigID
Dimitri is currently an SVP for Strategy at CA Technologies, leading a team defining the organic product and inorganic acquisition strategy for the security business unit. He previously founded two enterprises software companies focused on security (eTunnels) and API management (Layer 7 Technologies). The most recent venture, Layer 7 was sold to CA Technologies in mid 2013. It had previously been named to the Deloitte Fast 500 for three years running and was named 2013 Technology of the Year for British Columbia and 2013 Canadian Venture Association deal of the year.
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About BigID, New York Angels, TalentClick, Zume: BigID is a data intelligence company developing software that helps companies secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations.
R. Adam Smith
Founder & CEO of Family Office Private Advisors
Founder at Family Office Private Advisors. R. Adam Smith, combines his twenty years of experience in venture capital and private equity with a lifelong passion for unique brands. Adam held principal roles at leading private equity firms based in New York City, Caxton-Iseman Capital LLC and Castle Harlan, Inc., each with over $2 billion in managed equity capital, as well as tenures at Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers Inc. In 2002, he founded Circle Peak Capital (CPC), a private investment partnership. In 2010, he formed investment company Design Holdings Co LLC (DHC) to invest in a leading online global source for unique vintage furniture, antiques, art, jewelry, fashion and design. Adam graduated from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University with an MBA with honors and from Boston University cum laude with a BA in International Relations and Economics. He is an active alumnus of Columbia Business School, a founding board member of Columbia’s Private Equity Advisory Board, and a founder of the Investment Management Conference. He is a member of hedge fund advisory company, Stride Capital. Involved in @ 20 principal investments since 1998 with over $300 million of private capital and over $2B in sales. Board member of, or Board advisor to, ten private companies. Philanthropic and non-profit ventures involving cancer, education, music, and world peace. He is one of the founders of the Friends of Leukemia Fighters, an oncology non-profit associated with the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital of New York City; chairman, Inaugural Piece for Peace Concert of the Tanenbaum Center in New York City; mentor to the Founders Institute.
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About Big Sky Partners LLC, Circle Peak Capital, Family Office Private Advisors, Leukemia Fighters: Family Office Private Advisors is an advisory and merchant-banking resource that focuses on private equity portfolios.
Tania Ahuja
Founder and CEO of Nobias
Tania Ahuja is Founder and CEO of Nobias and is Head of US Operations for Arkera Inc. She is a former director of Citigroup and serves on the Board of Overseers at Stern School of Business, NYU. Additionally, she sits on the board of other learning and art organizations including the Center of Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, Salome Chamber Orchestra, The Paper Bag Players, and is Chairman of the Board for the Summit Music Festival. Tania holds a PhD in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University. She has a BS in Statistics and an MS in Operations Research.
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About Nobias: Software tools that help protect consumers from deceptive or misleading content on the internet.
Alex Lyashok
CEO of WorkFusion
Alex Lyashok is a CEO & President of WorkFusion. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Alex was Head of Global Operations at EPAM, NYSE-listed software product development services firm. He was responsible for Strategy, Marketing, and EPAM’s operations globally. Alex joined EPAM in 2009 when EPAM acquired Rodmon Systems, a media industry services company Alex co-founded. Prior to his Operations role, he was EPAM’s CTO and was responsible for EPAM’s business in the Media industry. Alex has been in technology industry since 1997. His experience ranges from helping build network operation support systems for national telecommunications carriers in the United States to advising the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on its global initiative in Africa and Latin America. Alex received his MS and BS degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and has an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.
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About EPAM Systems, WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Evan Smith
CEO and Co-Founder of Altana AI
Evan Smith is the CEO and co-founder at Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Alex Elias
Founder and CEO of Qloo
Alex Elias is the founder and CEO of Qloo, a venture-backed company that pioneered the space of Cultural AI, with strategic backing from firms such as AXA and AI Ventures, and individuals including Barry Sternlicht, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Elton John. Prior to founding Qloo, Alex earned his J.D. at the NYU School of Law where he focused on internet privacy regulation. Elias is a thought leader on AI and anonymization, and has expressed his views in public speeches, television appearances (including Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox, El Pais), and opinion pieces for various publications including Investors Business Daily. Elias resides in manhattan with his wife and son, and is an avid jazz pianist.
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About Qloo: Qloo is a cultural artificial intelligence platform that operates via an application programming interface.
Brian M. Fenty
CEO & Co-Founder of TodayTix
Brian has led and managed varied private investments across a broad range of industries, focusing on product and talent. He is an active adviser to start-ups, growth stage companies and management teams. Previously an MD at Hamilton Investment Partners. Currently, Brian serves on the Board of The Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he received his Bachelors degree in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
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About TodayTix: TodayTix is the premier digital gateway to shows, arts, and cultural experiences.
Kumesh Aroomoogan
Co-Founder & CEO of Accern
Kumesh Aroomoogan is the co-founder and CEO of Accern, an NYC-based venture-backed AI startup whose mission is to accelerate AI for enterprise with a no-code development platform. Accern was named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology.
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About Accern, Forbes: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Beri Meric
Founder & CEO of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Dennis Mortensen
CEO & Founder of x.ai
Mortensen is the CEO and Founder of x.ai, whose artificial intelligence driven personal assistant lets people schedule meetings using plain English and nothing more than a CC to amy@x.ai. He’s a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has been since its inception – he is also a fully-fledged entrepreneur and successfully delivered a number of company exits. He’s an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of Data Driven Insights from Wiley and a frequent speaker on the subject of Analytics and Data. A native of Denmark, Mortensen currently calls New York City his home.
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About x.ai: x.ai is a tool that helps you and your team share ideal availability and schedule meetings.
Giuliano Senese
Founder & CEO of DX Medical Solutions
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About DX Medical Solutions: Medical Technology Startup
Samir Arora
Founder and CEO of Sage Digital
Samir Arora is an American entrepreneur, inventor and investor. He is best known as a veteran of Apple Computer and a serial founder, investor and CEO in Silicon Valley with a passion to lead team of incredible people to perform the impossible. He is listed as one of the 100 Internet Pioneers along with Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen and others, and as the 21 people that shaped the World Wide Web at the 1st Web Innovators Awards by CNET. Samir started his career at Apple, and currently is the founder & Group CEO of Sage Digital Corp and serves as a Managing Partner of the venture firm Information Capital. At Sage, Samir is building a platform for experts, publishers and businesses: Sage Plus for Experts currently is an invite-only platform or experts, talent and celebrities and their teams. He was the CEO of Mode Media /Glam Media and founder and CEO of one of the first web site building platform company NetObjects.
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About Foodie Top 100, Information Capital LLC, Mode Media Japan, Project Bento, Sage Digital, Woodside Incubator: Sage Digital is a AI-driven platform for verified experts to manage their online presence
Allison Kopf
Chief Executive Officer of Artemis
Allison Kopf is the founder and CEO of Agrilyst, the virtual agronomist powering the horticulture industry. Agrilyst won the highly coveted Disrupt Cup at TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in San Francisco. Kopf was named the 2016 Changemaker of the Year by the Association for Vertical Farming and Entrepreneur of the Year by Technical.ly Brooklyn. Prior to founding Agrilyst, she helped BrightFarms become one of the leading indoor agriculture companies in the U.S. Kopf serves on the boards of the Santa Clara University School of Engineering and Cornell University’s Controlled Environment Agriculture program and is a mentor with #BUILTBYGIRLS and Square Roots Grow.
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About Artemis, XFactor Ventures: Artemis operates an intelligence platform for indoor farms.
Daniel Schreiber
Co-Founder & CEO of Lemonade
Daniel is a tech leader whose passion for innovation took him from startups to the Fortune 500 (and back again). As President of Powermat Daniel oversaw its transformation into an industry standard and a default feature in the world’s foremost smartphones (Samsung Galaxy), venues (Starbucks) and cars (GM). Prior to Powermat, Daniel served as SVP Corporate Marketing at Sandisk, with global responsibility for the company’s social media, press relations, 50 web and ecommerce sites and major rebranding. During the iPod’s heyday, Daniel served as SVP andGM of Sandisk’s Audio-Video business unit, attaining #1 market share worldwide after Apple, and outselling all other brands combined. Daniel joined SanDisk via the $1.6B acquisition of msystems, where he served as VP Marketing and BD. He was co-founder and CEO of Alchemedia Inc., a content security software company, and began his career as a corporate-commercial attorney. Today Daniel is CEO & cofounder of Lemonade, the insurance carrier built on AI and Behavioral Economics.
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About Lemonade: Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good.
Clement Delangue
CEO & Co-Founder of Hugging Face
Clement Delangue is the Chief Executive Officer at Hugging Face.
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About Hugging Face, Milaap: Hugging Face is the leading ML platform
Adam Helfgott
CEO of MadHive
Adam is a CTO and serial tech entrepreneur. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of MadHive, MadHive is a programmatic video advertising suite that allows brands and publishing partners to build audiences in innovative ways and target those audiences across multiple screens and platforms. MadHive’s back-end product uses blockchain technology to safely allow brands and publishers to work together in new ways by leveraging the inherent trust and verifiability of a blockchain network. Adam is also an active participant in the bitcoin and blockchain community. He built his own trading algorithm on the bitcoin platform and has been an active miner of bitcoins since its inception. Adam has worked directly on multiple blockchain projects and has held strategic advisory positions within several leading blockchain companies in the space including Gem Healthcare. Adam previously built Lookbooks.com and sold it to Trunk Archive at a 20x exit. He also previously built and sold eCamp.net.
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About MadHive: MadHive provides a unified video ad platform with a real-time AI powered by blockchain technology.
Alex Dresner
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Imagen Technologies
Alex is a Co-Founder and the Co-CEO of Imagen. Prior to co-founding Imagen, Alex worked as the Head of the Hospital for Special Surgery’s Value Analytics and Management Office. Alex began his career at Bridgewater Associates where he was a member of the Core Management Team. Alex received his bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics.
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About Imagen Technologies: Powering the future of primary care
Elad Walach
CEO and Co-Founder of Aidoc
Elad Walach is a co-founder and CEO of Aidoc. He is an expert in AI with visionary business insights in the healthcare space. Since establishing Aidoc in early 2016, Elad has led the company through 2 rounds of investment (total of $13Mil), driven the commercial availability of 2 product lines (detecting brain hemorrhages and C-Spine fractures), and created an install base of 16 global health systems while growing the company to over 50 employees. Elad began his career in the elite Israeli Defense Force technology program “Talpiot”. He led AI research in the Israeli Air Force where he initiated and managed several teams focused on machine learning and computer vision projects. Elad holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has published multiple academic papers on deep learning.
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About Aidoc: Aidoc specializes in developing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists and multidisciplinary response teams.
Adam Perold
Co-founder, President & CEO of Element
Adam Perold is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO at Element.
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About Element: Element develops and distributes mobile-based platforms for digital identity.
David Rosenblatt
CEO of 1stdibs
David Rosenblatt is the CEO of 1stdibs.com. From 2004 through 2008, Rosenblatt served as the CEO of DoubleClick, the leading provider of digital marketing technology and services. Prior to becoming CEO, Rosenblatt held several executive positions at DoubleClick, including President from 2000 – 2005. Following Rosenblatt’s sale of the company to Google in 2007 for $3.2 billion,he served as Google’s President of Global Display Advertising until 2009. He is currently Chairman and co-founder of Group Commerce, Inc.David is also a board member of Twitter and Narrative Science, Inc..Rosenblatt graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About 1stdibs, Group Commerce, Narrative Science: 1stdibs is an internet company that offers a marketplace for rare and desirable objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry.
Eugenia Kuyda
Co-Founder & CEO of Luka (dba Replika)
Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder of the AI startup Luka, memorial bots are ‘the future.’
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About Luka (dba Replika): Luka is a software development company based in San Francisco, California
Maja Vujinovic
CEO of OGroup
Maja Vujinovic is a investor and a CEO of OGroup focusing on convergence of legacy systems and decentralized open protocols. In her previous role as a Chief Innovation Officer of Emerging Tech group, GE Digital, she drove innovation and piloting of blockchain to maximize core offerings and uncover disruption. Maja helped design the Future of Work group, which stands at the heart of every organization’s digital transformation. She is a thought leader on digital business transformation and the rise of sovereign digital identity.
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About OGroup: OGroup builds artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, satellite data and cyber.
Prashant Bhuyan
Founder, CEO and Chairman of Accrete
Founder, CEO and Chairman at Accrete.
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About Accrete, Shinrai: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Duy Huynh
Founder and CEO of Robotbase
Duy Huynh is the founder of Incognito.
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About Constant, Incognito Chain, Robotbase, Shortcut: The world’s first personal robots
Renen Hallak
Founder & CEO of VAST Data
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About VAST Data: VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise.
Paul Monasterio
CEO and Co-Founder of Kalepa
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About Forum Ventures: Efficient Frontier Commercial Insurance
Erkin Adylov
Founder and CEO of Behavox
Erkin Adylov is the founder and CEO of Behavox, which provides compliance and risk management solutions to better monitor employees and support regulatory compliance at large financial institutions. The technology aggregates disparate sources of data and applies innovative machine learning algorithms in real time to reveal patterns of suspicious behaviour. Prior to founding Behavox in 2014, Erkin was portfolio manager at GLG Partners. Erkin co-managed GLG Financials Fund with $2bn in assets under management. Prior to joining GLG Partners, Erkin was a research analyst at Goldman Sachs. Over the last three years Erkin has also been involved in three start ups as a co-founder and an investor.
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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
Andrew Stroup
Founder and CEO of Leverage
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About CommonKey, Leverage: Leverage delivers end-to-end supply chain management powered by artificial intelligence.
Benoit Brookens III
Founder & CEO of Accrue
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About Accrue, nuOctave: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
JT Kostman, PhD
Chief Executive Officer of ProtectedBy.AI
Data Scientist | Mathematician | Psychologist Dr. Kostman has been recognized by his peers, the press, and professional associations as one of the world’s leading experts in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing. A highly sought-after speaker, writer, and advisor, JT has earned a reputation for his ability to demystify frontier technologies, and for developing practical, actionable, cost-efficient data solutions. In the public sector, JT has hunted terrorists for U.S. Intelligence Agencies, tracked criminal networks for the FBI, advised on analytic strategies for the Department of Defense, and led social media analysis for the 2012 Obama Campaign. In his earlier life, he served as a Paramedic, Police Officer, Deep-Sea Rescue Diver, and as a team leader with the U.S. Army Special Forces. In the corporate sector, JT led the development of industry-changing solutions while serving as Chief Data Officer for Time Inc., Chief Data Scientist for Samsung, and as an advisor to organizations ranging from tech startups to the Fortune 500. In the financial sector, JT has guided substantial investments in frontier technologies while serving as a Board Member of a PE/VC fund and as an advisor to numerous hedge funds, family offices, and institutional investors. In the marketplace of ideas, JT has become one of the most prolific, prescient and valued voices on the near-term impact of AI and frontier technologies. The keynotes, presentations, press interviews, posts and articles he has shared with audiences around the world have contributed to making him a go-to expert for organizations including The National Association of Corporate Directors, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, U.S. Government Agencies, and dozens of others.
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About ProtectedBy.AI: Artificial Intelligence Software
Sameer Maskey
Founder & CEO of Fusemachines
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About Columbia University, Fusemachines: Fusemachines is an enterprise AI services and solutions provider that brings AI education, products, and jobs to underserved communities.
Andrew Bocskocsky
CEO, Co-Founder of Grata
Andrew Bocskocsky is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Grata.
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About Grata: Grata is a business-to-business search engine for finding and targeting private companies.
John Meyer
Founder & CEO of Mosaic
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About Mosaic: AI Workforce Management – Resource Planning & Workforce Intelligence
Siqi Mou
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloAva, Inc
Siqi Mou is the co-founder and CEO of HelloAva. She is a former Bloomberg anchor with an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She also held several positions at Morgan Stanley, PIMCO prior to starting HelloAva.
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About HelloAva, Inc: Ava is a personal skincare consultant, powered by AI, deep learning and expert real dermatologists.
Cristina De la Pena
CEO & Co-Founder of Synapbox
Cristina De la Pena joined Synapbox as Founder & CEO in 2018.Cristina De la Pena has been a technology innovator since the beginning of her professional career. From building algorithms to optimize digital models to rethinking the way we build and interact with the real world. During her latest years, she has been leading the growth of Synapbox and reinventing the way we understand human behavior. By using AI and visual computing to understand facial expressions and attentional engagement, we are able to quantify the experience of consumers while interacting with content on their screens at scale. Everything, without the use of any external hardware or implementation to brands.
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About NeuroCrowd, Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Sangarsh Nigam
Founder / Chief Executive Officer of bluCognition
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About bluCognition: bluCognition provides machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence and big data services.
Dedi Gilad
CEO & CO-Founder of TytoCare
With over 18 years of leadership positions both in startups as well as global companies, Dedi brings extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in R&D, Marketing and Operations of multi-disciplinary products in the fields of Healthcare IT, Enterprise Systems, Internet and SaaS. Before founding Tyto Care, Dedi was the General Manager at MDG Medical, VP R&D at WorkplaceIQ (acquired by Siterra / Accruent) and VP R&D at Aman Group. Dedi earned an MBA and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About TytoCare: TytoCare is a telehealth platform for AI-powered and on-demand remote medical examinations.
Tomas Vykruta
Co-Founder & CEO of EvolutionIQ
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About EvolutionIQ: Leading the artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers.
Brian Streem
Founder, CEO of Vermeer
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About Vermeer: AR/VR & AI Enable Mission Planning Tool
Mark Benjamin
Chief Executive Officer of Nuance Communications
Mark Benjamin is the Chief Executive Officer at Nuance Communications.
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About ADP, Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
CJ Follini
Founder & CEO of Welcome to COMPANY
CJ is an entrepreneur and award-winning media producer with a passion for technology that transforms our productivity and workplace culture. CJ’s latest venture – IMMINENT – has created the only holistic employee engagement operating system in existence. Known as Employee360, the big idea for workforce productivity begins with purpose. IMMINENT believes your employees are your first customers and the most authentic brand ambassadors. So it is our mission to create technology and content that harnesses employees’ passion for doing good and help them share their stories. Because happy employees = happy customers. Giving + Habitat + Wellbeing + Social = Inspired™ CJ recently launched the first VR & AR studio dedicated to employee engagement.
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About Golden Seeds, IMMINENT Digital, Noyack Medical Partners, Ten Paces Media, Welcome to COMPANY: Welcome to COMPANY is an online and offline social network connecting collectors of contemporary art.
Adam Wenchel
CEO & Co-Founder of Arthur AI
Adam Wenchel is the CEO at Arthur AI.
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About Arthur AI: Arthur AI is a platform that monitors the productivity of machine learning models.
Rob Delaney
Chief Executive Officer of Infinia ML
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About Infinia ML: Infinia ML helps businesses redefine the possibilities of human potential with advanced machine learning.
Robert Testagrossa
Chief Executive Officer of Flipkick of New York Limited Liability Company
Robert Testagrossa is a serial entrepreneur and software developer based out of New York City. He has founded and owned companies in the cryptocurrency, fintech, retail, and luxury hospitality industries.
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About Bridgehold Capital Management, Flipkick of New York Limited Liability Company: NFT technology partner for established artists, celebrities and IP holders. We enable cryptographic authentication of physical art.
Alexander Hagerup
Co-Founder & CEO of Vic.ai
Entrepreneur. Co-Founder of Vic.ai in New York. Founding partner @ Norwegian.ai.Angel investor in 20+ companies within A.I., Robotics and Autonomous driving.
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About Qatch, Vic.ai: Vic.ai is an AI platform for accounting firms and enterprise finance departments.
Frank Pica
CEO & Co-Founder of Native
Frank is the president and co-founder of Native AgTech. Previously, Frank was the vice president at ADYOULIKE for over one year.
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About Native: A platform using A.I. to understand consumer preferences and helping companies create products that people love!
Rohan Agrawal
Founder and CEO of Cogito Tech LLC
Rohan Agrawal is an entrepreneur, innovator, and investor. He is currently the Founder and CEO at Cogito Technologies, a data-driven technology start-up focused on generating high-quality labeled data sets required for building Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications.
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About Cogito Tech LLC: Machine Learning Training Data for AI | Object Detection Datasets – Cogito
Peter W Davidson
Co-Founder, CEO of Aligned Intermediary
Peter W. Davidson is Co-founder and CEO of the Aligned Intermediary (AI), an investment advisory group created to help large scale, long-term investors (LTIs) channel significant amounts of institutional capital into resource innovation investments – clean energy, water, waste – across the planet. To date, four LTIs have signed letters of intent to deploy a billion dollars of capital through AI-identified transactions. Prior to AI, Davidson was the Executive Director of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) at the U.S. Department of Energy. Appointed to that position by President Obama in May 2013, he oversaw the program’s more than $30 billion portfolio of loans and loan guarantees, making it the largest project finance organization in the U.S. government. Among the many clean energy projects supported by his office were the first new nuclear power facility to be built in the U.S. in 30 years and the nation’s first-ever commercial-scale offshore wind facility. Before LPO, Davidson was the Executive Director of New York State’s economic development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation. Before entering government service, Davidson founded and/or managed six media companies serving the rapidly-growing Hispanic market, including ownership of el Diario/La Prensa, New York City’s largest Spanish-language newspaper, as well as three Univision-affiliated TV stations. Since 2001, Davidson has also been chairman of the JM Kaplan Fund, a family foundation with over $150 million in assets. Under his leadership, he has redirected the foundation’s grantmaking focus towards environmental conservation, urban green space and sustainable transportation. Earlier in his career, Davidson was an executive in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley & Co. He holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. For the past 25 years, Davidson has lived in Brooklyn, NY, where he also serves on a number of boards of local Brooklyn institutions.
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About Aligned Climate Capital, Aligned Intermediary: The Aligned Intermediary (AI) is an investment advisory group created to help large scale, long-term investors (LTIs) channel.
Gil Friedrich
CEO and Co-Founder of Avanan
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About Avanan: Avanan uses AI to protect cloud email and collaboration suites from cyber attacks.
Jeremy Fain
CEO & Co-Founder of Cognitiv
Jeremy Fain is the co-founder and CEO of Cognitiv. With over 20 years of interactive experience, Jeremy has worked across the agency and publisher landscape in roles ranging from marketing, to industry standards, to revenue leadership. While at CBS Interactive, he launched and oversaw one of the first premium programmatic exchanges, which eventually led to his role managing all North American accounts at Rubicon Project. Jeremy founded Cognitiv in 2015 with two childhood friends who shared an interest in making Deep Learning accessible to business. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Cognitiv: Cognitiv uses proprietary Deep Learning technology to help companies with Big Data problems get beyond analysis to decisions.
Roope Marttila
Co-founder & CEO of Herculex.ai
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About Herculex.ai: Herculex.ai is a provider of legal artificial intelligence services.
Apoorv Agarwal
Co-founder & CEO of Text IQ
An expert in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, Apoorv is dedicated to understanding and improving how humans and machines benefit from working together. In 2014, he was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program, which allowed him to lay the foundation for Text IQ.Prior to Text IQ, Apoorv received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship award in recognition of his work as first author on two separate patents for IBM’s Watson. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and received the Andrew P. Kosoresow Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance in teaching. Apoorv has published more than 30 academic papers in ML and NLP. His work, which focuses on sentiment analysis, relation extraction, text summarization, and automated Q&A, has received more than 1000 citations across the international research community. Beyond academia, Apoorv has been cited by American Banker, WIRED, Popular Science, New Scientist, and Science Magazine, among others. With Text IQ, he aspires to harness and channel the complementary strengths of humans and machines towards solving high-stakes enterprise data problems.
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About Text IQ: Text IQ is a B2B SaaS company deploying AI to uncover and contextualize sensitive data across privacy, security, legal, and compliance.
Sercan Esen
Co-Founder and CEO of Intenseye
Sercan Esen is the co-founder and CEO of intenseye.
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About Intenseye: Intenseye is an AI-powered workplace safety platform that helps large enterprises to scale employee health and safety across their facility.
Yochay Ettun
Co-founder and CEO of cnvrg.io
Yochay is a an experience tech leader with a background in building and designing products. Since the age of 7 Yochay has been writing code. He served in the Israeli Defence Force Intelligence unit for 4 years, and received a BSc in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) where he founded the HUJI Innovation Lab. Yochay lead as the former CTO of Webbing labs, and has been consulting companies in AI and machine learning. After 3 years of consulting, Yochay, along with Co-founder Leah Kolben decided to create a tool to help data scientists and companies scale their AI and Machine Learning with cnvrg.io.
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About cnvrg.io: cnvrg.io is a full stack data science platform that helps teams manage models, and build auto-adaptive machine learning pipelines
Shameel Abdulla
CEO of Clootrack
Serial entrepreneur with 11 years of experience in technology, products, management and startups. Excited about new technologies and adept in building products that customers love. He holds two patents and has extensive experience in productising ideas in enterprise, cloud, mobile, and consumer internet. He was the co founder, CEO of Jiffstore till December 2015, when it was acquired by Peppertap. Jiffstore was a tech focussed on demand grocery delivery platform. Prior to that Shameel was the co founder, CEO of Kode Blink – a mobile app development firm. Kode Blink made several apps that were toppers in App Store charts, and was preferred mobile app development partner for several MNCs. He started the career with Wipro Technologies in 2005 and later on worked with EMC Corporation from 2009. He ventured into entrepreneurship after dropping out from Indian School of Business in 2012. A people person, he has setup several execution focussed, vibrant teams through out his career.
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About Cloohawk, Clootrack: Clootrack is an adaptive market intelligence platform.
Rosco Hill
CEO of Perpetua
Rosco Hill is the Chief Executive Officer at Perpetua Labs and Chairman at Draper AI. Before that, he was the Co-Founder at Blend Labs.
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About Perpetua: Perpetua Labs helps brands improve the performance of their ecommerce ads using AI-powered automation.
Zor Gorelov
Co-Founder & CEO of Kasisto
Zor Gorelov has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He was the co-founder and CEO of SpeechCycle, a market leader in cloud-based contact center optimization solutions for the telco market. SpeechCycle was acquired by Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR). Before that, Zor founded and ran BuzzCompany.com, a provider of enterprise collaboration and messaging software, which was acquired by Multex.com (MLTX). He has held multiple engineering and product management positions at Microsoft and Computron Software. His interest in speech and natural language technologies dates back to the early 90’s when he worked at Bell Labs.
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About Kasisto: Kasisto’s enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers.
Matthew Zeiler
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Clarifai
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About Clarifai: Clarifai is a deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and data labeling.
Noah Waisberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Kira Systems
Prior to founding Kira, Noah was an associate at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, where he focused on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and securities. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. in Political Science from Brown University (where he completed the coursework and comprehensive examinations for a Ph.D), and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.
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About Kira Systems, Zuva: Kira Systems is a machine learning software that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in contracts and other documents.
Fraser Kelton
Co-Founder & CEO of Koko
Fraser Kelton is the Product at OpenAI.
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About AdaptiveBlue, Koko, OpenAI: AI Powered Community Moderation
Michelle Bacharach
Founder & CEO of FINDMINE
Michelle Bacharach is CEO and Co-Founder of FINDMINE. As a product and strategy expert, Michelle is experienced in growing startups and large media companies by launching apps and websites to millions of people, putting together joint ventures, and conceiving of new products. Michelle has shared her expertise with thousands of leaders in retail and technology as a speaker at SXSW and NRF Retail’s Big Show. She has an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA from UC Berkeley, where she wrote her honors thesis on managing innovation in multinational organizations.
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About FINDMINE: FINDMINE specializes in using machine learning to automate manual and tedious tasks in the retail industry.
Vladislav Chernyshov
Co-founder and CEO of Dasha.AI
Co-founder and CEO of Dasha.AI. Master of Science in Computer Science, participant of International Collegiate Programming Contest.
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About Dasha.AI: Dasha.AI is the first and only AI platform that allows you to design, test and launch rich, human-level voice conversations.
Donald Leka
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Jumptuit
Creator of Jumptuit and the Glide OS Donald Leka, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Jumptuit Group, is a technology executive with over 15 years of experience creating industry-changing and award-winning cloud and data service technologies including Jumptuit and Glide OS. The ethos underlying Mr. Leka’s career from exploration to innovation to market, from Glide through Jumptuit, has been one of creating value, empowering individuals and protecting the sanctity of data. Mr. Leka’s Jumptuit Data Science and Engineering Teams developed Jumptuit’s Nexus Framework that maintains dynamic awareness of activities and relevant events, understanding the associations between activities and events and the conditions in which they occur, autonomously providing highly nuanced and individualized relevant information, insights and predictions. Mr. Leka also created the Data Rights Matrix that autonomously enforces data privacy and market sector and jurisdictional regulations in data exchange. Mr. Leka led the Glide OS product team, commercializing cloud-based services in 2005 before any of the big tech companies offered such a platform or services with the Glide Operating System and its Productivity App Suite that competed effectively with Google Docs, Gmail and MS Office. Glide received numerous awards including PC World’s Top 100 Products and Laptop Magazine’s Top 50 Web Apps. Mr. Leka and his work have been featured in WSJ, NYT, WaPo, Forbes, CNET, PCWorld, etc., and on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and more. Mr. Leka is the co-author of the Amazon top selling book, “Cloud Computing: The Glide OS Story, Solving the Cross-Platform Puzzle.” Mr. Leka has been a featured speaker at Harvard Business School, MIT, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, TEDx, AllThingsD with Walt Mossberg, NYU, American U, U Miami, and most recently interviewed at Davos 2020 World Economic Forum. Mr. Leka ranked Number 51 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Professionals. (Onalytica, July 2015) Jumptuit ranked Number 29 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Brands. (Onalytica, July 2015)
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About Jumptuit: Tomorrow’s Intelligence Today
Bhargav Patel
Co-Founder/CEO of IQM Corporation
Bhargav Patel is a strategic and technical visionary who leads the product roadmap and marketplace vision for IQM. His primary focus is on mobile infrastructure, advertising trends, and consumer needs. Patel has been building advertising and publishing platforms since 2010, and he’s been involved with multiple startups, one of which earned him first place in the “1176 Challenge Cup” among 64,000 start-up companies sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Toledo University in Ohio.
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About Genuin Inc, IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Peter Lee
President & CEO of RapidMiner
Before joining RapidMiner, Peter advised growth companies disrupting established markets such as Attivio, BlogTalkRadio, Ektron, Infomatix, Novus, NOPSEC, Reonomy, SecurityScoreCard and others as co-founder of Mister Wolf & Associates. Previously, Peter served as Executive Vice President of TIBCO where he was responsible for the Analytics/Big Data, B2B, Cloud, CXM and SIEM product groups. Peter joined TIBCO when it acquired DataSynapse, where he served as CEO and co-founder. Peter began his career as a strategy consultant for Deloitte International and as an investment banker for J.P. Morgan & Co. Peter earned an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School, an MA in International Affairs from The University of Pennsylvania and graduated AB cum laude from Harvard University. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Attivio and as an Independent Member of the Investment Committee of the Advanced Finance & Investment Group. He has previously served on the Boards of Ektron (acquired by Accel-KKR, merged with EpiServer) and Upwardly Global.
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About RapidMiner: RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment.
