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 New York based CEO’ operating in the Software 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.
Nitesh Banta
Co-Founder & CEO of B12
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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About B12, Getaround, Rough Draft Ventures, Stellar Capital: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
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Adam Karp
Co-Founder & CEO of Lively
Prior to Lively, Adam was the Chief Marketing Officer of 1stdibs – the world’s premier destination for unique, luxury design. At 1stdibs, Adam was instrumental in increasing the company’s revenue almost 10x; recruited and led a team of 100 and had full P&L responsibility for 1stdibs’ B2B business. Before 1stdibs Adam worked in senior roles at leading brands such as FreshDirect, Barnes & Noble and Century 21 real estate. At Century 21 he was responsible for developing and launching Century 21’s first website which at the time became the most recognized real estate website in the country and currently generates almost 50 million visits a year. After Century 21, Adam spent almost a decade at Barnes & Noble in increasingly senior roles ultimately becoming VP of Direct Marketing for both the retail stores and online. At Barnes & Noble, Adam managed some of the largest digital marketing programs in the industry, overseeing a budget of $100M. Adam graduated from the The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
Dane Atkinson
Founder and CEO of Odeko
Dane Atkinson started his first company, SenseNet Inc., at the age of 18. The company grew explosively through servicing Fortune 500 companies (WPP, Pfizer, Lucent) to hundreds of employees on three continents. Since then, he’s had an extremely successful career as a technology executive and has founded, bought, and sold over a dozen companies including yourday.com, yourstuff.com, estandardsforum.com, iensure.com. His extensive technology and marketing expertise helps us deliver increasingly rich service to our customers. In addition to his position as CEO, Dane also acts as advisor and board member to several leading technology companies.
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About Odeko, SumAll: The operating platform for small businesses.
Anand Agarawala
Co-Founder & CEO of Spatial
Anand Agarawala is the creator of BumpTop, an irresistible new desktop interface with a satisfyingly three-dimensional physicality and a fresh approach to interactivity. Anand completed his Master thesis in 2006 which pioneered a novel physically based desktop interface leveraging expressive power and casual nature of real desks. His Masters of Computer Science was completed at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate thesis in 2004 at the University of Calgary. In his free time, Anand enjoys competitive team sports such as hockey and basketball. He often travels to India and across Europe and North America.
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About BumpTop, Spatial: Spatial allows NFT creators to customize a virtual space and gather for events such as exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences.
Brad Birnbaum
CEO & Founder of Kustomer
Brad is an innovator and a trailblazer in creating disruptive enterprise technologies. He has spent more than 20 years as a C level executive and a serial entrepreneur, building companies and solutions for customer service and support. Mission driven and passionate, he believes in leading with purpose and building solutions that solve real world problems. As co-founder and CEO of Kustomer, Brad set out together with Jeremy Suriel and the Kustomer team to build something the world desperately needs: a modern, customer-centric platform for building applications while modernizing the customer support tool landscape. Before founding Kustomer, Brad co-founded Assistly which was acquired by Salesforce and rebranded as Desk.com; making it the Salesforce SaaS SMB support solution. Brad began his career by founding eShare Communications while in college. As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development at eShare Technologies, he took part in revolutionizing community chat and launching the first chat tool used for customer support. eShare was later sold to Melita International where he continued his role as CTO for the larger entity which rebranded as eShare Communications. Brad held executive roles at Divine Interventures, eAssist and Talisma all the while focusing on improving customer support for enterprise companies. Additionally, Brad lead the community chat team at AOL and was CTO for Airtime. Brad contributes regularly to Forbes where he writes about trends that affect the customer service industry today. As a born and raised New Yorker, Brad insists on building the next great NYC based tech startup. Brad serves as Kustomer’s Chairman of the Board. Birnbaum served as a Justice Louis Brandeis Scholar at Brandeis University and a Simon’s fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he conducted advanced organo-metallic research in chemistry. Birnbaum has been published in a variety of publications and has also served as a technical editor for some of Macmillan’s best-selling Java and Internet books. Birnbaum holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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About CRMXchange, Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Spencer Kimball
Co-Founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs
Spencer Kimball is the co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he maintains a delicate balance between a love for programming distributed systems and the excitement of helping the company grow smoothly. While in university, he was one of the original authors of the GIMP. He cut his teeth on databases during the dot com heyday, and had a front row seat at Google for a decade’s worth of their evolution.
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About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
Barak Kaufman
CEO/Co-Founder of Intello
Barak Kaufman was CEO & Co-Founder of Intello (acquired by SailPoint) and was an investor at Insight Venture Partners.
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About Intello: Intello’s SaaS operations platform enables companies to discover, manage, secure & optimize their SaaS applications
Michael Gronager
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis
Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Clark Valberg
Co-Founder & CEO of InVision
Clark Valberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies, including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan
CEO of Hexaware Technologies
R Srikrishna, a Director at Xurmo Technologies, is also the CEO of Hexaware Technologies. He was previously President at HCL Technologies. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai) and Indian Institute of Management (Kolkata), Srikrishna is an accomplished business leader who has conceptualized and pioneered many hi-tech offerings in network infrastructure management. He is credited at HCL with having broken new ground for the company many times over, in introducing new technology products and services and in opening new billion-dollar markets. R Srikrishna was honoured as a Young Global Leader for 2011 at World Economic Forum at Davos.
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About Hexaware Technologies: Hexaware Technologies Limited is an information technology and business process outsourcing service provider company based in India.
P R Chandrasekar
CEO and Vice Chairman of Hexaware Technologies
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About Hexaware Technologies: Hexaware Technologies Limited is an information technology and business process outsourcing service provider company based in India.
Roman Mikailov
Founder, CEO of Hyperverse
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About Hyperverse: Hyperverse is a software company that develops VR experience distribution platforms for its clients.
Michał Borkowski
Co-founder & CEO of Brainly
Michał is the CEO and co-founder of Brainly and is responsible for product strategy, company strategy and culture. He and his co-founders established Brainly in 2009 in Kraków, driven by the conviction that collaborative online communities can empower students from around the world with knowledge and information. In a little more than a decade, Brainly has become the world’s largest online learning community for students, parents and teachers. After moving to New York City and living there for 4 years to open and build Brainly’s US office, Michał was only 16 when he started his first company, and he’s been shaking up the internet ever since. He grew up in a small town in Poland before heading to Warsaw to study corporate finance at the acclaimed Warsaw School of Economics. Michał now lives in Kraków with his wife, Kasia.
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About Brainly: Brainly is an online learning platform where students and parents get homework and study help from peers and experts.
Emmanuel Straschnov
Co-CEO & Founder of Bubble
Emmanuel Straschnov is the co-founder and co-CEO at Bubble. Prior to that, Emmanuel served as a special assistant to the CEO at Prada.
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About Bubble: Bubble provides a point-and-click programming tool for web and mobile applications in which no prior coding experience is needed.
Josh Haas
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Bubble
Josh started Bubble in 2012 after seeing the importance of empowering people through technology while working as the co-founder and CTO of his prior startup, KeywordSmart. At Bubble, Josh oversees technology and infrastructure. Before that, he was a manager at Bridgewater and a philosophy major at Harvard.
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About Bubble: Bubble provides a point-and-click programming tool for web and mobile applications in which no prior coding experience is needed.
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.
Chris Bevilacqua
Co-Founder & CEO of Simplebet
Chris is the Co-Founder of Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures and is a sports, media, and tech investor with investments in companies such as StubHub, ActionX, Viagogo, Lyft, Airbnb, SpaceX, Unscriptd, and ThePostGame. He was previously the Chairman & CEO of CAA Sports Media Ventures, a joint venture between CAA and Evolution Media Capital. Prior to that, he was the Founder of CSTV, which was acquired by CBS in 2006 and is now CBS Sports Network.
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About Simplebet: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Yuval Rooz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset
Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk for more than three years and has held positions at DRW Trading Group and Citadel. He has experience investing in successful startups and has significant experience managing large teams of developers in financial products and operations.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Mark Zagorski
Chief Executive Officer of DoubleVerify
Mark joined DoubleVerify in 2020 as Chief Executive Officer, responsible for oversight of global company operations, expansion into new markets and strategic product innovation – including DV’s CTV/OTT video capabilities. Mark brings over two decades of digital marketing and advertising technology leadership experience to the role, with expertise in CTV/OTT, data analytics and digital advertising optimization. Prior to joining DV, Mark served as the CEO of Telaria (NYSE:TLRA), where he was instrumental in establishing the business as the leading video and CTV monetization platform for premium video publishers. At Telaria, he led consistent growth in revenue and enterprise value, and spearheaded the company’s successful merger with Rubicon Project (NASDAQ:RUBI) – resulting in the industry’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Previously, Mark served as CEO of eXelate (Deloitte’s 2014 fastest growing tech company in NYC), where he led the sale of the company to Nielsen and subsequently assumed the role of Executive Vice President, launching the Nielsen Marketing Cloud. Prior to eXelate Mark held C-Level leadership roles at local digital media pioneers WorldNow (acquired by Frankly) and MediaSpan (acquired by Naviga). Mark earned his B.S. in Finance from Gannon University, where he also holds an Honorary Doctorate and his M.B.A. from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business. He has been named one of AdWeek’s Martech Superstars, Cannes Lions Judge and an E&Y Entrepreneur of the year Semi Finalist. Mark has been at the forefront of digital disruption since 1997, when he joined Modem Media Poppe Tyson, a pioneering digital ad agency and birthplace of the first banner ad. Following his agency tenure working for clients like IBM, Priceline and Standard & Poor’s, Mark was appointed president of WorldNow, which ushered over 300 TV stations into the digital age. He later helped newspapers evolve online as chief marketing officer and corporate EVP of MediaSpan, where he built its 1400+-affiliate local network. Mark received his MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and his B.S. in finance from Gannon University, where he was awarded the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)
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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
Alex Britton
Co-Founder and CEO of Rentroom
Alex Britton is the co-founder and CEO of Rentroom. Prior to founding Rentroom as CEO, Alex worked as a growth product manager at Toast Inc. and Blue Apron. These positions assisted Alex in gaining a strong understanding of B2B and consumer software businesses. He has led software development, go-to-market strategy, and operations teams. Alex holds a B.A. in Entrepreneurship and Computer Science from NYU.
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About Rentroom: Next generation software for property owners and tenants
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.
Martin Mucci
President and CEO of Paychex
Martin Mucci assumed the role of president and chief executive officer on September 30, 2010. He joined Paychex as senior vice president of operations in October 2002. In this position, he was responsible for all operations and customer service for the company’s payroll and human resource services clients, as well as the company’s product management and information technology functions. Prior to joining the company, he served as president of telephone operations for Frontier Communications, and CEO of Frontier Telephone of Rochester, N.Y. – both telecommunications services providers. Mucci holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y. and received a master’s degree in business administration through the Executive Development Program at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester.
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About Paychex: Paychex together with its subsidiaries, provides payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for all businesses.
Stephen Murphy
CEO of Genesis Global
Stephen graduated with a 1st in BSc Computer Science and has held senior business & “C-level” technology positions for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, HSBC & BTG Pactual. During his career he has lived in São Paulo, New York, Hong Kong & London. Stephen has managed teams of over 250 people, technology budgets over $100 million and supported business lines with over $500 million of revenue. Stephen also led from a client perspective key multi-million dollar contracts negotiations with major software vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, SunGard, Murex, Calypso, Charles River and Fidessa.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Bridget Osetinsky
Founder & CEO of Hyperfine
Bridget is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperfine. She earned her Juris Doctor from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law in 2011 and her Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Notre Dame in 2007.
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About Hyperfine: Advanced Analytics For Precision Medicine
Ofer Israeli
Founder & CEO of Illusive
Ofer Israeli is the founder and CEO of Illusive Networks. His understanding of the advanced attack process played a pivotal role in shaping Illusive’s automated, agentless deception management architecture. Before Illusive, Ofer managed development teams based around the globe for Check Point Software Technologies and worked in the Atom Chip Lab at Ben Gurion University, where he focused on theoretical quantum mechanics. Ofer holds B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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About Illusive: Illusive is a defense to eliminate attacker pathways that uses deception for detection of lateral movement of APTs, ransomware & threats.
Tarek Sherif
CEO Medidata Solution and Chairman Life Sciences Sector Board, Dassault Systemes of Dassault Systemes
A founder of Medidata Solutions, Tarek has served as chief executive officer since 2001 and chairman since 2009. Under his leadership, the New York City-based company has grown to become the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions to the life science industry—supporting clinical trials in over 115 countries—while defining the vertical cloud company business model. From inception, Tarek has focused on building the company, including setting Medidata’s growth strategy, driving its innovative business model and helping to attract and inspire the talent that has been the basis of the company’s success. He led Medidata’s successful IPO in June 2009, which has positioned Medidata as one of the best performing companies to go public since 2009 and New York City’s most successful public technology company. Prior to Medidata, Tarek was the managing member of a partnership focused on public and private investments in technology and life science companies. He co-managed a private equity fund specializing in publicly-traded technology companies, including those in the healthcare and information technology fields. Tarek also served as assistant vice president of corporate finance at General Electric Capital Corporation and was a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company. Tarek received his BA in economics from Yale University in 1984. He graduated from Columbia Business School in 1991, where he earned a degree in business administration and finance. Tarek has received a number of industry accolades, including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award for the metro New York area in 2010 and the PharmaVOICE 100 most inspirational people in the life science industry award in 2007. He is a board member of the Partnership Fund for New York City and is chairman of Blue Legacy International, a not-for-profit organization focused on preserving our water resources.
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About Dassault Systemes, Medidata Solutions, Partnership Fund for New York City: Dassault Systemes provides project lifecycle management solutions that enable businesses to create and share experiences in 3D.
Andreas Rudyk
Co-CEO of Smartfrog & Canary
Andreas is a serial entrepreneur. He founded his first company, the online gaming enabler lionix, at the age of fifteen. He then founded IM Trading, a stock market newsletter publishing business, later acquired by a Swiss private equity firm. Subsequently, Andreas bootstrapped and co-founded ewido networks, a consumer cyber security company. With over 7 million users worldwide, the business scaled rapidly to a category leader and was awarded, “Best newcomer of the year” by Digital River’s ICE. In 2006, ewido merged with AVG Technologies, a leading antivirus and cybersecurity provider where Andreas led business development and later corporate development of the group worldwide. Andreas helped to grow AVG from 40 to over 110 million customers, scaling the team from 100 to 800 employees (including 450 software engineers) and taking the company public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012. Andreas co-founded Smartfrog as a consumer IoT SaaS pioneer in 2014. The company’s mission is making modern technologies useful, easy, affordable and safe—providing IoT for everyone. In 2018, the company acquired the US-based Canary Connect Inc. The two businesses were later merged into Smartfrog & Canary, headquartered in NYC. Andreas leads the group as Co-CEO. To date, the business has raised over $100M in venture funding and has achieved a 2015–2020 CAGR of 322%, becoming one of the fastest-growing category leaders.
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About Canary, Smartfrog & Canary: Smartfrog is a camera that lets users see what’s happening in any place, at any time.
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.
Banu Guler
Founder & CEO of Co–Star
Founder and CEO of Co-Star, the hyper-personalized, social astrology app bringing astrology into the 21st century. Fashion industry veteran, working with brands such as Diane von Furstenberg, Alex & Ani, Ann Taylor, VFILES, and Michael Kors. Began career as a graphic designer. After realizing the power of digital in the fashion space, shifted focus to creating immersive, digital experiences to integrate community and content into commerce. Studied psychology at NYU. Scorpio.
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About Co–Star: Co–Star is a real-time horoscopes bringing astrology into the 21st century.
James Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Reuters
James Smith is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Reuters. Jim began his career as a journalist and rose through the ranks at Thomson Newspapers to become responsible for operations in North America. Following the divesture of Thomson’s newspaper business in 2000, Jim moved to the professional publishing side of the company where he was responsible for a number of businesses serving the legal, regulatory and academic markets. He also served as global head of Human Resources before becoming Chief Operating Officer of The Thomson Corporation. Following the acquisition of Reuters in 2008, Jim ran the Professional Division of the combined company. He was named chief executive in January 2012. Jim is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum and the Board of Directors of the Brazil-US Business Council. He also serves on the International Advisory Boards of British American Business and the Atlantic Council. Jim graduated from Marshall University.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Eliot Horowitz
CEO and Founder of Viam
Eliot Horowitz is the CEO and Founder at Viam.
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About Viam: Viam is a robotics company that aims to build products that helps people’s daily life.
Matias Recchia
Co-Founder & CEO of IguanaFix
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About IguanaFix, Keyway, Unlock: IguanaFix provides software to manage field operations across multiple industries including utilities, maintenance, and manufacturing.
David Politis
Founder and CEO of BetterCloud
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About BetterCloud: The SaaS Operations leader: Transform employee experience, centralize data protection, and maximize operational efficiency.
Nabeel Alamgir
CEO & Co-founder of Lunchbox Technologies
CEO & Co-founder of Lunchbox, Former CMO of Bareburger.
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About Bareburger, Lunchbox Technologies, Tapt: Lunchbox Technologies offers digital marketing and ordering solutions for brick and mortar restaurants.
Elias Guerra
Founder & CEO of Popwallet
Elias is the Founder and CEO of Popwallet, a mobile wallet marketing automation platform.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
Oisin Hanrahan
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Handy
Oisin Hanrahan is the CEO and co-founder of Handy, the leading on-demand home services platform. Oisin founded Handy along with Umang Dua, Ignacio Leonhardt and Weina Scott. Oisin’s idea is changing the way people receive and provide home services. Prior to founding Handy, Oisin founded MiCandidate, a service that provided real time political content to media companies in 25 European countries. He also founded Clearwater Group, a real estate development business in Budapest, Hungary. In 2009, Oisin co-founded The Undergraduate Awards, a foundation that supports and celebrates outstanding undergraduate students globally. From day one, Oisin aimed for Handy to revolutionize the way people receive, provide and think about home services, an $400 billion market. Since it launched, nearly 3 million bookings have been made, and the Handy platform has served over 600,000 customers and activated over 80,000 independent professionals. This exceptional growth was made possible by a laser focus on the most innovative technology and service, resulting in Handy successfully expanding to 28 cities across 15 states and three countries. Oisin has deep knowledge of so many of the issues facing startups today, including navigating the regulatory environment. It is his personal mission to move the future of work of forward and find a solution that allows today’s work force to build their own business, work flexibility, but still have access to new types of “portable benefits” that would allow workers to move between workplaces while still maintaining access to benefits like training, health insurance, and disability insurance. Finding a solution to these challenges is a personal priority of Oisin’s – the demographics of the Handy platform make the company uniquely close to these issues in a way other platforms are not. In fact, 90% are women, over 60% are caring for dependents, and nearly 70% serve as the primary income earner for their household. Oisin has been unwilling to sit on the sidelines and become a leading voice in this area: He serves on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors and has written on these issues for Fox Business News and Wired.
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About Angi, ANGI Homeservices, Handy: Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.
Gaurav Suri
CEO of Arcesium
Gaurav Suri is the CEO of Arcesium. Gaurav was formerly a Managing Director and Head of Information Technology and Software Development for the D. E. Shaw group. From 1996 until Arcesium’s launch in 2015, he focused on developing proprietary software associated with the D. E. Shaw group’s investment management activities and building out the firm’s software development operations in Hyderabad, India. He also oversaw the D. E. Shaw group’s office in Hyderabad.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
Kurt Lin
Co-Founder, CEO of Pinwheel
Kurt Lin is a Co-Founder and CEO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Robert Douglas
CEO and Co-Founder of Skopenow
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About Skopenow: Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
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.
Darrell Silver
CEO & Co-Founder of Thinkful
Founder of Thinkful (acq by Chegg), Perpetually (acq by Dell).
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About Thinkful: Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning with industry experts to bring high growth tech careers to their students.
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
Vinicius Vacanti
Co-Founder and CEO of YipitData
Vinicius Vacanti is a co-founder and the CEO of YipitData.
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About 140it, UnHub, YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
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.
Josselyn Boudett
CEO of Telepathy Labs
Josselyn Boudett is founder and chief executive officer of Telepathy Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology company delivering untapped levels of new operational capacities, across all business verticals, for global enterprises by transforming outdated infrastructures into adaptive, intelligent and predictive AI-powered systems. Josselyn founded the company in 2016 with a goal of building “an intelligent agent on top of a company” – an artificially intelligent framework built just for enterprises, in which it would bring instant and actionable knowledge to sales, workflow, and complex operations. Today, Telepathy Labs remains in stealth mode and is partnered with several of the world’s largest companies to deliver these frameworks – and with great success. With roots in technology, Josselyn brings decades of experience working in business development and intellectual property, helping software and technology companies drive innovation by building and transacting emerging tech – with a focus in data and artificial intelligence. Beginning her career at Lucent Technologies in 1997, Josselyn assisted with the company’s M&A strategies and founded a $40 million global business unit selling Lucent’s products and services in the emerging Data Networking Services (DNS) market, at the time. In 2003, Josselyn went on to start her own company, Bija Capital Advisors, a consulting firm helping private equity funds and mid-cap growth companies, especially software firms, to leverage patented and intellectual property to sell and transact with major corporations. Clients included emerging software firms, large cap private equity funds, and leading technology companies in Samsung, Asus, Acer, Hewlett Packard and Intel.
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About Telepathy Labs: Telepathy Labs develops and delivers chatbots and interactive voice technology to industrial and enterprise markets.
Tiffany Pham
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mogul
Tiffany Pham is the Founder & CEO of Mogul, an award-winning worldwide platform enabling women to connect, share information, and access knowledge from each other. A coder, she developed the first version of Mogul, which now reaches 18 million women per week from over 196 countries and 30,470 cities worldwide. Mogul was named one of the Most Exciting Startups of 2016 by Business Insider, one of the Top NYC Startups to Watch by Entrepreneur Magazine, named one of the Best Websites for Finding Top Talent by Inc. Magazine, one of the Top Websites for Marketing Your Company Online by Forbes, and has been honored and recognized by Bustle, City of Fort Worth, City of New York, City of Paris, and Harvard Business School. Tiffany was named one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in Media, Business Insider “30 Most Important Women Under 30” in Technology, ELLE Magazine “30 Women Under 30 Who Are Changing the World,” Good Housekeeping “Awesome Women Award” Winner, Alice Paul “Equality Award” Honoree, Cadillac “IVY Innovator” Award Winner, SmartCEO Magazine “Smart CEO Award” Winner, “Innovation & Inclusion Award” Winner for Social Entrepreneurship, NY Business Journal “Woman of Influence” Winner, Tribeca Film Festival “Innovation Award” Fellow, and SE “Top 100 Social Entrepreneur.”
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Discovery, Macmillan, Mogul, Mogul Global Fund, Simon & Schuster: At Mogul, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential.
Jordy Leiser
Co-Founder & CEO of Stella Connect
Jordy Leiser is the Co-Founder and CEO of StellaService, the customer service measurement and ratings company. Prior to founding StellaService, Jordy worked in investment banking at JPMorgan, where he worked on leveraged buyouts and other transactions for private equity-backed consumer retail brands. After seeing firsthand the value of great customer service for retailers – both from the business and consumer perspectives – Jordy teamed up with longtime friend and college roommate John Ernsberger to create a robust system for measuring and rating the customer service performance of online retailers. Jordy and John officially launched StellaService in March 2010. Jordy has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, New York Times, Fox Business, Forbes, Reuters, TIME, Ad Age, WWD, Internet Retailer as well as other TV and print media nationwide. A Colorado native, Jordy graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell University with a degree in Economics and Political Science and completed the year-long General Course at the London School of Economics
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About Stella Connect, StellaService: Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams.
Bowie Cheung
Co-founder & CEO of Pepper
Bowie is the co-founder and CEO of Pepper, where he’s partnering with restaurant wholesalers across the country to build a more transparent, technology powered food supply chain. Before co-founding Pepper in 2019, Bowie was the first General Manager for Uber Eats and Director of US & Canada Operations at Uber Technologies, and prior to that a management consultant at Bain & Company. He holds degrees in engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business.
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About Pepper: Building the digital operating system for the food supply chain
Mark F. O’Neil
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dealertrack
Mark F. O’Neil is Chief Operating Officer of Cox Automotive, a position he has held since March 2016. Previously he served as Chief Executive Officer of Dealertrack, a position he had held since May 2005. From August 2001 to May 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer and President of Dealertrack. O’Neil began his career at Intel Corporation, where he first developed his knowledge of the technology industry. He subsequently worked for McKinsey & Co. before moving to the automotive industry in the late 1980s, where he was President of Ertley MotorWorld, a dealer group based in Pennsylvania. O’Neil went on to co-found and lead the development and rollout of CarMax, Inc. He was President and Chief Operating Officer of Greenlight.com, an online automotive sales website, from June 2000 through January 2001. He currently serves as a Director of DealerTire LLC, a privately held company. O’Neil holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Dealertrack: DealerTrack is a provider of on-demand software for the automotive industry in the United States.
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.
Neel Master
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Cohort
Neel combines experience as a published AI/ML researcher, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur. He worked previously with Rick Toren to develop population health analytics based on Clinical AI/NLP which were deployed at a number of the largest healthcare systems in the country. Prior to that he was recruited by investors into Petra Systems (AI for smart grid/renewables) to write the Series B business plan, lead fundraising for $40MM round, help build out the team and scale from $0 to $80MM annually. Neel was an investor at TL Ventures, Smart Technology Ventures and ITU Ventures. He started his career as a researcher at MIT’s CSAIL for five years, leading software development for large-scale, automated machine learning and computer vision systems publishing in CVPR, IJCV. Neel spent an internship at Microsoft Research building computer vision algorithms and tools.
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About Cohort: Cohort is a software to transform chronic care management and clinical trials.
Rami Musallam
Chief Executive Officer of CafeX Communications
Rami Musallam is the CEO at CafèX Communications.
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About CafeX Communications, Thrupoint: CafeX is a WebRTC company enabling business applications with real-time communication capabilities across mobile and desktop endpoints.
Anda Gansca
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Knotch
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About Knotch: Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time.
Hicham Oudghiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Enigma Technologies
Hicham is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, an open data technology company. In addition to managing the company’s commercial efforts, Hicham contributes heavily to Enigma’s platform product development as well as to the company’s R&D in architecture for semantic linking of data. Prior to Enigma, Hicham was managing a private sustainable finance program in Africa at BMCE Bank in partnership with the World Bank Group. Hicham spearheaded project finance initiatives and created energy models for large-scale alternative energy projects in Africa . He also developed a rating system and software for environmental and social risk management across the bank’s entire commercial loan portfolio. Hicham started his career at an energy fund in Dallas, Texas where he was responsible for hedging physical energy assets against modeled counterparts in the electronic markets. Hicham holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Theodore Bailey
Founder & CEO, Chairman of Dataminr
Ted is the Chairman and CEO of Dataminr. Since founding the company in 2009, Ted has scaled the company to 250 employees, raised $180M in financing, and established Dataminr as the world’s real-time information discovery company, serving thousands of customers in over 40 countries. Ted has appeared as a guest on CNBC’s SquawkBox, CNBC’s Fast Money, BBC News, and Fox Business News. He is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations and has been at speaker at Davos & the Aspen Ideas Festival. Ted was one of Crain’s 40 under 40 business leaders in 2017, Business Insider’s 40 under 40 Tech Entrepreneurs in 2015, and has been included numerous times in the Silicon Alley 100. Dataminr, considered one of the 50 most Disruptive private Technology Companies by CNBC in 2016, transforms public social media feeds into the earliest alerts on high impact events and critical breaking information for clients in Security, Government, News, Finance, and PR/Crisis Management. Ted earned a BA from Yale in 2004, where he focused on the impact of disruptive technologies on American Industry and Government.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Jeremy Canade
CEO of di8it Charts
Jeremy Canade has over eight years of financial services, management consulting, and entrepreneurial experience. He has led high-impact strategy and operations initiatives for numerous Fortune 500 firms and private equity clients. Mr. Canade graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in international studies.
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About di8it Charts, fable: chart digitizer and data visualization software
Neal Desai
CEO of Kafene
Neal Desai is the founder and CEO of Kafene, a fintech that is a one-stop-shop point-of-sale payment partner and underwriting technology platform that helps merchants offer flexible lease-to-own (LTO) purchase options for prime and nonprime consumers, helping retailers satisfy demand for furniture, appliances, electronics, tires and other goods.
Kafene utilizes more than 20,000 data inputs in tandem with best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to underwrite, approve, and enable payment in a near-instantaneous manner, while creating a best-in-class customer experience.
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About Kafene: Kafene is a mission driven startup with the goal of empowering flexible ownership.
Joe Proto
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Transactis
Joe Proto is Chairman and CEO of Transactis, part of his three decades in the billing and payments industry as a senior executive and successful entrepreneur. Prior to Transactis, he launched REMITCO, a payments company acquired in 2000 by First Data, as well as Financial Telesis (CashFlex) which was acquired in 1992 by CoreStates, now part of Wells Fargo. Joe co-founded Windham Ventures (an innovation leader in healthcare and med tech), and is a limited partner at Metamorphic Ventures (digital media and e-commerce) and ff Venture Capital (technology). Joe is Chairman of SpendSmart Payments Company (SSPC: OTC) a fast growing mobile loyalty platform with 3.5 million digital subscribers. Joe is a member of various financial services organizations including the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), he is Co-Chair of the Consumer Payments Advisory Committee of the Payments Innovation Council as well as serving on the Board of Advisors at the National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA), and is a frequent speaker at conferences in the financial technology industry.
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About Transactis, Windham Venture Partners: Transactis provides banks and merchants with SaaS-based billing, payment, and loyalty products.
Shmulik Fishman
Founder, CEO of Argyle
Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned records in real-time. With a solution that enables coverage of the majority of the US labor market, companies across industries leverage Argyle for frictionless, automated verification of income and employment (VOIE) and direct deposit change. Shmulik started Argyle in 2018, with the backing of Bain Capital and Checkr, after experiencing the complexity of work verification in his previous venture STRATIM, which he founded in 2014. At STRATIM, Shmulik acted as the Chief Operating Officer, raising $42M in venture funding and sold in 2018 to NYSE listed KAR Global (NYSE: KAR). Prior to STRATIM, Shmulik worked on the S1 team at Adap.tv during its IPO that was subsequently acquired by AOL. Shmulik has an undergraduate degree from Hampshire College where he became a philosopher by training and a storyteller by practice. While earning a business degree at Columbia University, a chance meeting catapulted Shmulik into the world of machine learning, setting him on a path of disrupting today’s employment and income verification space. When not writing, sitting on panels, keynote speaking, and conjoining fragmented networks, you can find Shmulik falling down the rabbit-hole of Wikipedia, in awe of our collective wisdom and communal capacity.
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About Argyle: Argyle provides a consumer-controlled, software gateway to employment records.
Michael Oved
CEO, Co-Founder of Fluidity
Michael Oved is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fluidity and a Co-Founder at AirSwap.
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About AirSwap, Fluidity: Fluidity bridges traditional finance to decentralized infrastructure.
Peter Pezaris
Founder & CEO of CodeStream
Founder & CEO at CodeStream.
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About CodeStream: CodeStream puts team chat directly into most popular IDEs, making it easier for developers to talk about code & write software together.
Josh Lefkowitz
CEO of Flashpoint
Josh Lefkowitz executes the company’s strategic vision to illuminate the Deep and Dark Web and deliver unparalleled insights to customers, empowering them with the industry standard in intelligence from these areas of the Internet. He has worked extensively with federal, state,and local authorities to track and analyze terrorist groups. Mr. Lefkowitz also served as a consultant to the FBI’s senior management team and worked for a top tier, global investment bank, where he gained experience with Fortune 500 companies and ultra high net worth individuals.
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
Aytekin Tank
Founder & CEO of Jotform
Aytekin Tank is founder of Jotform. He currently leads the Jotform development team. He loves to hear from Jotform users. Feel free to shoot him an email to him at aytekin at Jotform.com.
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About Jotform: Jotform is an online form building tool that helps users create and publish forms, and get an email for each response.
Greg Schvey
CEO of Axoni
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About Axoni: Axoni offers blockchain infrastructure, distributed application development, and workflow automation tools.
Shiv Kapoor
Founder & CEO of Nifty
Shiv Kapoor is technology serial-entrepreneur currently residing in New York. Shiv has founded several start-ups, and is currently the CEO at Nifty, a NYC based workflow collaboration SaaS.
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About Creative360, Nifty: Delivering the future of project management.
Amber Atherton
CEO & Founder of Zyper
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About Zyper: Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other.
Lisa Skeete Tatum
CEO & Co-Founder of Landit
Lisa Skeete Tatum is the founder and CEO of Landit, a technology platform created to increase the success and engagement of women in the workplace, and to enable enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent. Landit provides each woman with a personalized playbook that empowers them with the tools, resources, and human connections they need to successfully navigate their career path.
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About Landit: Landit is a personalized career pathing platform that enables women and diverse groups to succeed in the workplace.
Ulrik Bo Larsen
Founder & CEO of Falcon.io
Ulrik Bo Larsen founded Falcon Social in 2010 after working in the groove between marketing and technology for an A-list of global clients such as PANDORA Jewelry, Carlsberg, Georg Jensen, JWT, IUM, Mindshare and MediaEdge CIA. Prior to Falcon, Ulrik founded and ran the digital agency Mingler, producing data-driven, social campaigns and assets for a global audience. He also created the first Scandinavian social network and led it to a successful exit to Danish media company – JP/Politikens Hus.
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About Falcon.io: Falcon.io provides an SaaS platform that allows marketing departments to create, launch and measure social media campaigns in real time.
Anil Dash
Chief Executive Officer of Glitch
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About Glitch, Monegraph, Stack Overflow: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
Daniela Perdomo
Co-founder & CEO of goTenna
Daniela Perdomo is founder and CEO of goTenna, which is advancing universal access to connectivity by decentralizing it. goTenna’s mesh networks are used by consumers as well as the U.N., Google, FEMA, Raytheon, the French Army, US Special Operations Forces & the City of New York. Daniela Perdomo is founder & CEO of goTenna, which is advancing universal access to connectivity by decentralizing it. goTenna’s specialized hardware pairs with regular smartphones to create long-range, mobile mesh networks independent of traditional communications networks. goTenna’s technology is used by consumers as well as the United Nations, Google, FEMA, Raytheon, the French Army, US Special Operations Forces, and the City of New York.
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About goTenna: GoTenna is advancing universal access to connectivity by building intelligent and scalable mobile mesh networks.
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.
Bradley Rothenberg
Co-Founder and CEO of nTopology
Bradley Rothenberg is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of nTopology.
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About nTopology: nTopology is a company that develops software used in the design and manufacturing of 3D-printed parts and products.
Deepak Chhugani
Founder and CEO of Nuvocargo
Founder/CEO at Nuvocargo.com. Y Combinator alum. Former M&A Banker at BofA Merrill Lynch. Ecuador native, living in NYC.
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About Nuvocargo, The Lobby: Nuvocargo is the all-in-one digital platform for cross-border trade between USA and Mexico.
Joseph Davi
Co-founder/President & CEO of Med-Metrix
Joe has over 20 years of demonstrated success in healthcare executive leadership. Together with other senior management, Joe directs and executes Med-Metrix’s primary corporate initiatives and actively implements our strategic plans. Prior to becoming Med-Metrix’s CEO, Joe most recently served as the President of Cobblestone Capital Associates, a private equity firm he founded. He has been an investor and board member in several acquisitions and portfolio companies. Previously, Joe was the President and co-founder of MD-X Solutions (acquired by MedAssets), a revenue cycle company named by Deloitte among the 100 fastest growing technology companies in North America. He later served as the President of MedAssets’ revenue cycle services division. Joe’s career also includes positions at Lehman Brothers, Bankers’ Trust, and NPPN, a national Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). Joe holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Princeton University and an M.B.A in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Joe is a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA) and was named a Finalist by Ernst & Young for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005.
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About Med-Metrix: Med-Metrix provides Performance Management and Revenue Cycle solutions to the healthcare industry.
Alice Default
CEO and Co-Founder of Double
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About Double: Double connects busy executives with experienced part-time assistants and delegation tools — so you can save time and stay focused.
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.
Matthew Putman
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nanotronics Imaging
Matthew Putman Co-Founded Nanotronics Imaging, LLC in 2008 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Matthew Putman is a Professor and Researcher at Columbia University. He was an owner and Vice President of Development for Tech Pro, Inc., which was acquired by Roper Industries in March 2008. During his time at Tech Pro, he lead two acquisitions, and the transformation of the instrument manufacturer into new global markets, having formed partnerships or subsidiaries in 15 nations. He serves as a Director of Nanotronics Imaging, LLC. He has lectured at The University of Paris, USC, University of Michigan, and The Technical University of Sao Paulo. He has also produced several plays and films, and is an accomplished composer. He is a founding member of the World Science Festival. He is on the Executive Board of the Montauk Observatory, and is an Artist in Residence for Imagine Science Films. He holds 5 patents, and has published over 20 technical papers, and in 2002 he won the ACS Best Paper Award. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics.
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About Nanotronics Imaging, The Thiel Foundation: Nanotronics Imaging is a microscopy and software company delivering rapid testing and analysis solutions.
Moshe Bar
Chairman, CEO of CodeNotary
Moshe Bar is a general partner of Texas Atlantic Capital. Previously, he was a co-founder of Qumranet, sold to Red Hat. He previously co-founded software company XenSource which was sold to Citrix. Moshe has frequently acted as a private angel investor in leading high- tech companies. He is the author of several text books in computer science and also taught computer science at Tel Aviv University. Before entering the high‐tech business, he was a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously a board member/advisor of Hyper9 (sold to Solarwinds), of Qlayer (sold to Sun Microsystems), Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK), Zooppa, and of Zimory. Moshe is at this time a board member/advisory board member of tape.tv, Correlsense, GreenSQL, H-Farm, Amplidata, Racktivity, Neebula, and Squido GmbH.
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About CodeNotary, vChain: CodeNotary is a software company based on Taxes.
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.
Aaron Schumm
Founder & CEO of Vestwell
Aaron is the founder & CEO of Vestwell, a digital platform that has re-imaged and redesigned the retirement solutions available to financial advisors, companies, and employees. The firm has created a completely new, independent 401(k) & 403(b) offering, that removes the barriers to saving as an employee in America, while always looking out for the best interests of employees, their employers and financial advisors serving them. Prior to founding Vestwell, Aaron co-founded FolioDynamix, a wealth management and advisory services company powering $800 billion in assets for over 100,000 advisors. At FolioDynamix, Aaron oversaw the strategy, revenue, marketing, customers, and product. FolioDynamix was sold to Actua, (NASDAQ: ACTA) in 2014. Before FolioDynamix, Aaron was a vice president at Citigroup where helped advance the Asset Manager Solutions global strategy efforts. Other past positions include the head of WealthSolutions products at BISYS (now part of Citigroup) and product manager at CheckFree Investment Services (now part of Fiserv) overseeing and the Unified Managed Account (UMA) platform. Outside of Vestwell, Schumm on the board of directors at Chalice Wealth Partners, as well as an advisory board member at Quovo, a financial services data science & performance analytics provider to advisors, Vestorly, an AI financial content marketing platform, and WorthFM, a women-focused financial advice and investment management platform. Aaron was named to the 40 under 40 Class of 2017 by Crain’s InvestmentNews. He holds a B.S. degree in finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. degree from Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business.
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About Vestwell: Vestwell provides underlying infrastructure to power workplace retirement plans.
David Wilkinson
CEO & Founder of HASH
Founder and CEO of HASH; interested in market failures (and solving them in practice). Previously founded a blog network and software development consultancy/product studio.
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About HASH: HASH enables real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems
Zach Lloyd
Founder / CEO of Warp
Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder and CTO of SelfMade.
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About Warp: Warp is a developer of a Rust-based coding terminal designed to make teams productive at coding and application development.
Aaron Rudenstine
CEO of ButterflyMX
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About 3L Capital, Bling Capital, ButterflyMX, Button, Clear Ballot Group, Inc., FilmRise, HENRY The Dentist, Omaze, Parallel Wireless, PINATA, Reddit: ButterflyMX develops property access solutions including video intercom systems and keypads that users can manage from a smartphone.
Pete Ginsberg
Founder & CEO of Onaroll
Peter Ginsberg is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Onaroll.
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About Onaroll: Onaroll is an employee rewards app that incentivizes productivity and longevity.
Hemen Vimadalal
CEO of 1Kosmos – BlockID
Hemen Vimadalal directs and drives the overall vision and strategy for Simeio with a passion for building high performance teams, driving innovation and focusing on delivering value to customers. Prior to founding Simeio, Hemen worked with Vaau from its inception, where he established the company as the leader in the identity and access management industry. Hemen has led many assessments and end-to-end implementations of role-based access control, user provisioning, identity auditing, identity certification, web services, and directory & password management products. Hemen holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Southern California.
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About 1Kosmos – BlockID: Secure online services from password-based attacks with a next generation approach to MFA that delivers a frictionless user experience
Strauss Zelnick
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Take-Two Interactive Software
Strauss Zelnick, a partner in ZelnickMedia since 2001, became Chairman of Take-Two in March 2007 and Chief Executive Officer in January 2011. Mr. Zelnick is currently Chairman of ITN Networks and serves on the boards of directors of Naylor LLC, Alloy, Inc. and Starwood Property Trust, Inc. In August 2013, Mr. Zelnick was elected Vice Chairman of the Entertainment Software Association, the interactive entertainment industry’s trade association. In 2014, Mr. Zelnick was elected Chairman of the Entertainment Software Association, the interactive entertainment industry’s trade association. Prior to forming ZelnickMedia, Mr. Zelnick was President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment, a $4.7 billion music and entertainment company. Mr. Zelnick’s appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment followed his tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company’s North American business unit from 1994 through 1998. Before joining BMG Entertainment, Mr. Zelnick was President and Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Dynamics, a leading producer and distributor of interactive game software. Prior to that, he spent four years as President and Chief Operating Officer of 20th Century Fox, where he managed all aspects of the worldwide motion picture and distribution business. Previously, he spent three years at Vestron Inc. as a senior executive, and rose to become President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Zelnick also served as Vice President, International Television for Columbia Pictures. Mr. Zelnick holds an MBA and a JD from Harvard University and a BA from Wesleyan University. He is an associate member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, has served on the Board of Directors of the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America and is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University.
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About Take-Two Interactive Software, ZMC: Take-Two Interactive Software is an American publisher, developer, and distributor of video games.
Andrew Deitchman
Co-Founder/CEO of New Stand
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About New Stand: New Stand is a convenience and engagement platform that blends physical touchpoints with digital perks and location-based media
Julien Genestoux
Founder & CEO of Unlock
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About Unlock: Unlock is an access control protocol built on blockchain that let creators monetize their content without relying on a middleman.
Jess Levin Conroy
Founder & CEO of Carats & Cake
Jess Conroy is the Founder and CEO of Carats & Cake, the leading provider of digital solutions for sales and marketing in the events industry. Prior to founding Carats & Cake Jess worked as an Associate at Burch Creative Capital where she helped manage investments and brand development for the firm’s portfolio. Jess is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Economics and Spanish and earned her MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.
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About Carats & Cake: Carats & Cake is the first integrated marketing and sales solution for venues and property groups
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.
Jeremy Levy
Co-Founder & CEO of Indicative
Mr. Jeremy Levy co-founded Indicative, Inc. in 2013 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Levy co-founded meetMoi, LLC and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Levy oversaw meetMoi’s technical architecture and engineering. Prior to meetMoi, he worked for Morgan Stanley, where he helped design and build the content management, workflow and trade approval systems. He has over 10 years of experience in the full life-cycle of software development ranging from design to execution. Prior to meetMoi, Mr. Levy served as software architect working in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance. He worked for Pfizer, where he designed and implementED its Intranet portal for its 12,000 person sales force. He began his career as a developer at Joltage, an infrastructure services business. Mr. Levy holds a BS from Syracuse University.
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About Deciding by Data Podcast, Indicative: SaaS company that provides behavioral analytics solutions.
Siva Namasivayam
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Executive Officer of Cohere Health
Prior to co-founding Cohere Health, Siva was a founding partner of SCIO Health Analytics which served over fifty Fortune 500 clients. Siva’s experience also includes serving as SVP, Chief Revenue Officer at MphasiS, SVP, Payer Services at Dell, and Senior Software Engineer at Intel. Siva received his bachelor’s degree from the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirappalli. He holds a master’s in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
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About Cohere Health: Cohere Health is a SaaS company that focuses on aligning patients, physicians, and health plans to create optimal care journeys.
Mike Simmons
CEO & Founder of andros
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About andros: andros is a provider of network management solutions for healthcare organizations.
Dave Waiser
CEO & Founder of Gett
► Serial Entrepreneur. Silicon Valley and Israel ► Successfully exited the first two companies, building his third one (Gett) ► 20+ years of CEO experience in hyper-growth startups and public companies ► Passion for building GREAT teams and products ► I thrive on positive energy and feed it right back ► I believe that there is an opportunity everywhere you look At Gett, I am part of a team of entrepreneurs who love to challenge the status quo. Gett is a technology platform solely focused on corporate Ground Transportation Management (GTM), a market worth $101B globally. Gett is the GTM category leader, serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 companies, including: Google, Disney, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Tesla, Coca Cola, Apple and many others. Gett’s cloud-based software aggregates thousands of transportation providers (corporate fleet, ride-hailing, taxi, and limo) into one single platform, helping businesses manage all of their ground transportation spend, saving businesses up to 49% of the cost. We are building the first global grid of ground transportation, embracing the entire World, connecting the dots, similar to telephony and internet grids. At Gett, we are inspired to become the standard in corporate ground transportation, similar to how Zoom has become the standard for corporate communication. Founded in 2010, Gett has raised more than $750M in funding,
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About Gett: Gett is a technology platform focused on corporate Ground Transportation Management (GTM), for spend estimated to exceed $100b globally
