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 Founder operating in the Apps space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Itai Tsiddon
Co-Founder of Lightricks
Itai Tsiddon was one of the 5 co-founders at Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn. He leads two deals a year, broadly ranging from 6-60m in size (early A to Pre IPO). Itai serves as a board member at Lightricks, Frame.io, Homesome, and Standard Bots and led Forter’s Series E pre IPO fundraise with Bessemer and Felix capital joining his TS as a solo capitalist.
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About Lightricks: Lightricks develops creativity tools that enable its users to craft and share visual content on mobile devices.
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Christopher Cheung
Co-Founder of Boxed
Chris is a Co-Founder at Boxed; an mobile commerce startup focusing on delivering wholesale goods at wholesale prices for smartphones and tablets, as well as a co-founder and managing partner at Blackgate Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in leading-edge, early-stage technology and mobile companies. Prior to forming Boxed and Blackgate Ventures, Chris was Director of Game Design at social gaming giant Zynga and former Co-Founder at Astro Ape SGS (which was subsequently acquired by Zynga). Before pursing his entrepreneurial passions, he worked at a number of Fortune 500 companies in a variety of roles, but most recently at Goldman Sachs, before leaving to pursuing social gaming. Since he never sleeps, he has also pursued side businesses ranging from Korean fashion imports, eBay stores, print-on-demand apparel and web design services; all while maintaining his day job. Chris earned his Bachelor’s of Economics from The Johns Hopkins University. Currently in semi-retirement, his main interest is financing companies that may one day grant him immortality.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
William Fong
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Boxed
William Fong joined Boxed as CTO in 2013. Having developed an early love of programming, William has been coding since the age of 9. Prior to Blackgate Ventures, William was Co-Founder and CTO of Astro Ape Studios before being acquired by Zynga and becoming CTO of Zynga Mobile NY. William holds a Bachelors of Computer Science from Rutgers University.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Jared Yaman
Co-Founder, COO of Boxed
Prior to Blackgate Ventures, Jared was a corporate attorney at Proskauer before becoming a Co-Founder at Astro Ape Studios. Most recently, he was made upper level management at Zynga Mobile NY where he oversaw high profile mobile properties. Jared holds a J.D. from Fordham University and a Bachelor’s in Economics and Business from Michigan State University. Unbeknownst to most, Jared is actually Troy Aikman’s younger, stronger, better looking brother.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Oleg Tscheltzoff
Co-Founder & CEO of Fotolia
Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a global vision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).
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About 90 Seconds, Aircall, Birchbox, Bird, Calm, Carta, Customer.io, Dealroom.co, Doctrine, eFounders, Farfetch, Fotolia, Molotov TV, Opendoor, PandaDoc, PayFit, Robinhood, SimpliField, StarOfService, Stash Financial, talent.io, Tempow, WeWork: Fotolia is an image bank that offers a crowdsourced library, which includes royalty-free images, vectors, illustrations and video clips.
Ari Ojalvo
Co-Founder and CEO of REEF
Ari Ojalvo is the Co-Founder and CEO at REEF Technology.
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About REEF, Thesis Ventures: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
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.
Dmitri Cherniak
Founder and CTO of Chargehound
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About Chargehound: Chargehound is a comprehensive chargeback solution that makes handling disputes easy.
Genevieve Ryan Bellaire
Founder & CEO of Realworld
Genevieve Ryan Bellaire is the Founder and CEO of Realworld, a company that provides a simple way to navigate adulthood and its life moments, with help from your community. Genevieve has had a broad array of professional experience across business, law, and government. An attorney by profession, she received her JD/MBA from Georgetown University, and worked on strategic partnerships at Goldman Sachs until leaving to found Real World Playbook. Genevieve received her B.A. in Politics-International Relations from Princeton University, where she held numerous campus leadership roles and graduated with Honors in her department. Beyond her work in the entrepreneurial world, Genevieve is passionate about women’s empowerment, education, and national security. She currently serves as a member of the Pencils of Promise Leadership Council, the Acumen Fund Young Professional Committee, and the Washington Institute for Business, Government, and Society.
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About Realworld: The #1 platform to navigate adulthood
Maurice Harary
Founder and CEO of Fluz
Maurice is a Founder of the Fluz App. He is a serial entrepreneur with a 10-year background in e-commerce. He currently manages over 20 e-commerce sites in the B2B and B2C environment, ranging from interactive learning-based experiences to price-competitive marketplace trading sites. Experience in all areas of e-commerce sites, ranging from custom e-commerce software development to operational planning. He has extensive experience in fashion eCommerce and marketplace selling.
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About Fluz: Reinventing cashback to give you more. Get paid when you shop + when your friends shop. Earn Cashback Forever.
Gordon Chiu
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Grafoid
Described as an “execution-driven businessman,” Gordon Chiu has combined domestic and international experience in the biomedical, chemical, cosmetic, medical, and technology industries. As President, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Grafoid Inc., Gordon Chiu is engaged in the discovery and research of graphene on behalf of Grafoid, as well as the development of graphene applications with Grafoid’s joint venture application development partners. He is also Focus Graphite Inc.’s Chief Scientist. Gordon Chiu is a former research scientist at Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co., Inc. and has healthcare and marketing experience with strong links to Wall Street and Asia. Gordon Chiu holds a B.Sc. degree summa cum laude in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduated with a M.Sc. degree in chemistry from Seton Hall University with honors, and is globally distinguished by his acceptance as an MD/PhD candidate under the National Institutes of Health’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Gordon Chiu jointly combined his cumulative training with a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND) degree from the University of Bridgeport.
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About Grafoid, Hemptown Organics: Grafoid invests and develops markets for processes that produce pristine graphene for energy storage and other applications.
Kuty Shalev
Founder of Clevertech
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About Clevertech: Clevertech is a custom software and app development company that solves hard problems. Business & systems integration.
Bradley Miles
CEO and Co-Founder of Roll
Bradley previously led research for CoinDesk, the world leader in news and information on digital currencies, and architected their State of Blockchain report and spotlight study on ICOs. He is the CEO of Turing Advisory Group, a sell-side advisory firm for token sales with an emphasis on research and best practices. Bradley is the best selling author of #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital and Think Like an Investor and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Techstars in New York City.
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About Roll, Techstars: Roll is building blockchain infrastructure for social money on Ethereum.
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.
Andrew Boryk
Co-Founder and CTO of Lunchbox Technologies
Co-founder at Lunchbox Technologies.
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About Lunchbox Technologies, Tapt: Lunchbox Technologies offers digital marketing and ordering solutions for brick and mortar restaurants.
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.
Umang Dua
Co-Founder & COO of Handy
Umang is an entrepreneur and along with Oisin Hanrahan, Ignacio Leonhardt and Weina Scott, a co-founder of Handybook. Handybook.com enables users to book household services such as cleaners and handymen instantly for any convenient time. Prior to doing his MBA at the Harvard Business School, Umang also founded College Connect, an online platform in India that connected aspiring college students with enrolled students around the world.
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About Angi, Handy: Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.
David S. Shapira
Founder , Chairman & CEO of Giant Eagle
David Shapira is executive chairman of the board of directors of Giant Eagle, Inc. and is president of the David S. and Karen A. Shapira Foundation. In his role at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration, he is responsible for enhancing ethics and leadership at the school. He is also responsible for engaging with Katz and CBA students across a spectrum of business areas including entrepreneurship, supply chain management, and organizational behavior. During his thirty-plus years as chairman, chief executive officer and president, David Shapira positioned Giant Eagle, Inc. as an industry leader, and grew the company from a local chain of 50 grocery stores to an organization now employing more than 34,000 with more than 420 locations and $9.5 billion in revenue. A Pittsburgh native with an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and a Master’s Degree in Economics from Stanford University, Mr. Shapira joined Giant Eagle in 1970, a company founded by his grandfather with four others. Today, the same five families own Giant Eagle, and remain actively involved. Named president and CEO in 1980 and Chairman of the Giant Eagle Board of Directors in 1992, David led the company during its peak years of growth and transformation, which included his application of a world-class customer loyalty program with the development of the Giant Eagle Advantage Card and fuelperks!. Mr. Shapira has implemented numerous industry-leading technologies and marketing concepts, including: gift card development and sales, in-store pharmacy and banking, multi-format retailing, and a truck fleet that is being converted to run on compressed natural gas. Since stepping away from day-to-day operations of Giant Eagle in 2013, David has applied the entrepreneurial approach developed at Giant Eagle to the world of philanthropy. Through the Foundation he leads with his wife Cindy, David has led the development of a number of projects that demonstrate real and meaningful positive impact on civic challenges of our day. These entrepreneurial philanthropic ventures include Onward Israel, which transforms young adults through professional summer internships with Israeli businesses and organizations, and the Comprehensive Excellence initiative at Hillel International. David’s civic involvement reflects his and Giant Eagle’s commitment to advancing and investing in the many communities the company and Foundation serve. David has served on numerous corporate and civic boards, including EQT, Mellon Bank, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (Past Chairman). David is the Immediate Past Chairman of Carnegie Mellon University’s Board of Trustees, and the current Chairman of Carnegie Mellon’s Investment Committee, as well as a Trustee at Oberlin College, and a Founding Co-Chairman, along with Cindy, of The Pittsburgh Promise Campaign. David’s philanthropic board service has also included the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh (Past Chairman); Jewish Healthcare Foundation (Past Chairman); United Way of Allegheny County (Past Chairman of the Annual Campaign); Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Past Chairman); Extra Mile Foundation; and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. David is currently a member of the Hillel Foundation International Board of Governors.
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About Giant Eagle: Giant Eagle is a national supermarket chain with some of their own brands of products.
Chetan Narain
Co-Founder and Software Engineer of Pepper
Chetan Narain is a Co-Founder and Software Engineer at Pepper. He is also the Group Product Manager at Uber. Mr. Narain previously the Software Engineer / Analyst and Associate Product Manager at Google. Chetan graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering and Computer Science.
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About Pepper: Building the digital operating system for the food supply chain
Ivana Tesanovic
Co-Founder of Pepper
Ivana Tesanovic is the Co-Founder of Pepper. Previously, She was a Manager of Baker McKenzie and Massive Insights. Ms. Tesanovic received a bachelor of arts at York University.
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About Pepper: Building the digital operating system for the food supply chain
Jeff Dachis
Founder, Chairman & CEO of One Drop
After Jeff Dachis was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, he set out to create a data-driven digital platform that would disrupt the reactive healthcare model. In 2015, One Drop was born. The precision health company combines continuous diagnostics, predictive analytics and machine learning in an award-winning digital solution to deliver cost-saving outcomes for people worldwide living with diabetes and other chronic conditions.
Next, One Drop plans to enter the market with a daily disposable, minimally invasive continuous health sensor in development designed to provide greater flexibility and insights for people living with diabetes compared to fingersticks alone. The availability of this proprietary sensor is subject to receipt of clearance or approval from the U.S. FDA. Before One Drop, Dachis co-founded Razorfish (NASDAQ: RAZF) and led its $55MM IPO, then founded the Dachis Group (acquired by Sprinklr).
Dachis has appeared on Crain’s 40 Under 40 list and was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year. An internet pioneer, having helped create the first banner ad and web animation, Dachis now channels his passion for data, technology, and design at One Drop, building data-driven products that empower people to take charge of their health.
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About One Drop: One Drop is a diabetes management platform that helps people navigate diabetes together.
Chris Stang
Co-Founder & CEO of The Infatuation
Chris Stang is the Co-Founder & CEO of The Infatuation,and also serves as CEO of Zagat. Since its inception in 2009, Stang has been the architect of The Infatuation’s editorial voice, creative vision, and marketing strategy. Today his role still encompasses all those things, but also includes pushing the company forward into new arenas, including the development of The Infatuation’s EEEEEATSCON food festival, and leading the company’s recent acquisition of Zagat from Google. He was nominated in 2015 for a James Beard Award for Humor Writing, and in 2019 the Financial Times called him “arguably the most influential restaurant reviewer in America.” Prior to taking on The Infatuation full time, Chris was the Vice President of Marketing at Atlantic Records, working closely with many of the label’s biggest acts including Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Skrillex, Gnarls Barkley, and the Panic! At The Disco.
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About The Infatuation, Zagat: The Infatuation is a website, app, newsletter, and recommendation platform that helps users find restaurants for every situation.
Andrew Steinthal
Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer of The Infatuation
Steinthal is the quarterback of The Infatuation sales and partnerships team, using his skill set as a former music business publicist to build deep, meaningful relationships with like minded brands such as American Express, Samsung, PAIGE, Anheuser-Busch,Whole Foods, Jameson, Airbnb, Delta and more. Steinthal was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale, where he still returns quite often to visit the Candlelight Inn and get dirty on a big sloppy bowl of wings. He’s scared of cheese, hates mushrooms, and refuses to eat olives. His true food passions include cereal, ice cream, and chocolate chip cookies. Weird, we know. Prior to going full time Infatuation, Steinthal was the VP of PR at Warner Bros. Records. His dream would be to own the Knicks some day.
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About The Infatuation, Zagat: The Infatuation is a website, app, newsletter, and recommendation platform that helps users find restaurants for every situation.
Nick Ganju
Co-Founder of Zocdoc
Nick Ganju is a founder at ZocDoc and leads strategic initiatives that address some of the company’s most impactful opportunities. He helped build ZocDoc because he believes that the power of technology can bring about a more efficient healthcare system. He has extensive experience in product development, database management and site architecture, including having personally built the earliest iterations of ZocDoc and directly overseeing its development for many of its first years Prior to ZocDoc, Nick worked as the CTO of cfX, where he oversaw the design and implementation of financial software used by several Fortune 100 Wall Street firms. A Trilogy Development Alumnus, Nick previously lived in Silicon Valley. There, he played a pivotal role in the architecture and development of eBoodle (later acquired by BizRate), and in 2002 founded his first company, called Mixonic. He remained at Mixonic as the architect, manager, and lead programmer until moving to New York. Nick was awarded an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. He also has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He first met ZocDoc founder and CEO Cyrus Massoumi when the two shared a desk at Trilogy Software. Nick was born and raised in Chicago, and currently resides in New York. When he’s not working, the former Bay Area Amateur Billiards Champion can be found fronting his semi-professional cover band.
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About Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Oliver Kharraz
CEO & Co-Founder of Zocdoc
Oliver Kharraz, MD, is CEO and founder of Zocdoc. Oliver is the most recent doctor in a 300-year family tradition. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, Oliver has accrued comprehensive experience effecting change and building efficiency in large scale healthcare organizations using information technology. Prior to Zocdoc, Oliver was an Associate Principal at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. During his seven-year tenure at McKinsey & Co., Oliver developed and implemented new patient utilization models for the national health services of a number of governments and major hospital chains. In 1994, Oliver built and sold his first business – a forerunner of early internet software. He later became a resident doctor at the clinic of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he earned an MD and a Doctorate in Neuroscience. Oliver also has a Masters Degree in Philosophy from the Jesuit College of Philosophy in Munich. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Born in Germany, Oliver immigrated to the U.S. during his work for McKinsey & Co. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and their twin daughters.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Ned Kenney
Co-Founder & CEO of Laughable
Finance/biz dev background + tech nerdery + comedy fanaticism + millennial mandate to ‘do what I love’ –> starting Laughable. If you like comedy or podcasts, you should download our iOS app here: laughable.com/download _ _ _ The evidence is building that we’ve built something special: – 92% of our 275+ reviews are for 5 stars — a higher percentage than that of any other app focused on comedy or podcasts. – Our average user spends 3.5 hours per week listening to podcasts and 25 minutes per week directly engaging with our UI (i.e. tapping, typing, swiping, etc.). – Apple has featured us in the App Store multiple times, including in the ‘New Apps We Love’ section of the App Store homepage, an honor reserved for only a few hundred apps each year out of of more 2m+ iOS apps total. _ _ _ Other Links: – Android users can sign up to be notified when we have an app ready for them: laughable.com/android – We recently announced Laughable 2.0, which allows you to subscribe not only to podcast series, but also to individual artists. You can read more about 2.0 here: laughable.com/blog/april2017announcements – More on our long-term vision for Laughable: laughable.com/blog/helloworld – The ‘Unified Theory of Laughable’: laughable.com/blog/unifiedtheory – My thoughts about the future of comedy and podcasting: laughable.com/blog/nkthoughts16 – An FAQ for podcasters and comedians: laughable.com/artist-resources Instagram: @nedkenney Email: n@laughable.com
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About Laughable: A better way to discover comedians and podcasts
David Steinberger
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Comixology
David Steinberger is the co-founder and CEO of comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform that features content from Marvel, DC and 75 top comic book and graphic novel publishers. The comiXology platform includes a top ten grossing iPad app, as well as iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire and Windows 8 apps, and a web store and reader at www.comixology.com. He designed comiXology’s Guided View, the reading technology that transforms the comic book medium into an immersive and cinematic experience and defines the digital comic experience. A long time comic fan and passionate entrepreneur, David’s inspiration for comiXology was shaped at the NYU – Stern’s 2007 Business Plan competition while he pursued his MBA. David also holds a Masters degree from Manhattan School of Music, and an Advanced Certificate from The Juilliard School. David’s currently reading Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness from IDW Publishing.
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About Amazon, Comixology: Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
John Roberts
Co-Founder, Director of Comixology
John D. Roberts is the co-founder of comiXology and a pioneer in digital comics. Prior to launching comiXology, John led Marvel’s first digital comics initiative, “dotComics,” in the early 2000s where he also created the precursors to today’s motion comics. John has over 20 years of experience in the tech field, working with such diverse group of companies as Pepsi, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sunoco, DC Comics, Disney, Pokemon, National Geographic, Touchstone, Nickelodeon and Lionsgate. Currently John works closely with leading and emerging comics creators in unique and innovative ways to continue innovating the digital comic experience. John also spearheads comiXology Submit, a self-publishing portal that enables independent creators to reach comiXology’s global audience of comic book fans. John holds a BFA in drawing from Kutztown University. John’s currently reading Aquaman from DC Entertainment.
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About Comixology: Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
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.
Alina Vandenberghe
Co-Founder and CPO of KosmoTime
Alina Vandenberghe is the CPO and Co-Founder at KosmoTime. She’s also the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Chili Piper.
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About Chili Piper, KosmoTime: KosmoTime focuses on the fields of calendar management, to-do list, batching, sprint tasks, and distraction blocking.
Hossein Azari
Founder, CEO of cmorq
My mission is to contribute to leveling the financial playing field. This involves developing financial management tools and novel products for establishing and maintaining ownership for consumers. I have been contributing to this space since 2015. Currently, I am Founder and CEO of cmorq. I was a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research where I initiated and led multiple projects in collaboration with product teams such as Ad-Exchange. I was also a co-founder at Clarity Money (Acquired by Goldman Sachs), building a trusted financial advocate. I have a PhD in Computer Science (EconCS group) from Harvard University, advised by Professor David Parkes, and a Siebel Scholar, Class of 2014. I have an MBA from Columbia University (2016), MA in Statistics from Harvard University (2012) and BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
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About cmorq: cmorq organizes blockchain data into standard products that empower institutions and individuals.
David Hannes
CEO & Founder of Loved
Founder at Loved.
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About Loved: Loved is the platform that empowers kids to save, invest and learn guided by family & friends
Michael Jaconi
Co-Founder and CEO of Button
Michael Jaconi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Button, the mobile commerce platform that maximizes the value of every tap. Jaconi formerly served as the CEO of Rakuten Loyalty and Executive Officer of parent company Rakuten. Michael helped build Rakuten Loyalty from a fledgling state to a multi-million dollar business in less than two years and led Rakuten’s $100M investment in Pinterest, helping bolster Rakuten’s position as one of the most innovative and aggressive global internet companies. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies and has been a lifelong entrepreneur. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten Loyalty, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies in Washington, D.C. and served in a variety of capacities within various political campaigns.
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Siddhartha Dabral
Co-Founder and Vice President of Platform Engineering of Button
Co-Founder at Button
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Michael Cline
Co-Founder of Accolade
Michael Cline is the Founder and Chairman of Accolade.
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About Accolade, Accolade, Accretive, Accumen: Accolade features personalized health and benefits solutions that help to improve experience, outcomes, and healthcare cost for employers.
John Xie
Co-Founder & CEO of Taskade
John Xie is the Co-Founder & CEO at Taskade.
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About Forem, GitStart, Laserfocus, Outlier, Taskade: Taskade is a real-time organization and collaboration tool for distributed teams.
Ajay Yadav
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Roomi
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About Dada Room, Forbes, Forbes Real Estate Council, Roomi: Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions.
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.
Pierpaolo Barbieri
Founder of Ualá
Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied at Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.
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About Ualá: Ualá is a fintech company that offers a financial ecosystem through an app, linked to a free international Mastercard card.
Helen Egger
Co-Founder, Chief Medical, & Scientific Officer of Little Otter
Helen Egger currently works as the co-founder, chief medical and scientific officer for Little Otter. She previously worked at NYU Langone Health as the director.
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About Little Otter: Little Otter is a children’s mental health company that developed an app that focuses on the mental health of children and their families.
Tyler Faux
Co-Founder & CEO of Supergreat
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About Supergreat: Supergreat is a beauty community of real people reviewing the beauty products that work for them.
Dan Blackman
Co-Founder of Supergreat
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About Supergreat: Supergreat is a beauty community of real people reviewing the beauty products that work for them.
Patrick Moberg
Co-Founder and CEO of Dots
Patrick Moberg is Co-Founder of Playdots, Inc. and serves as its CCO.
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About Dots, Playdots, Spurd, Inc, Tapestry: Dots is a meditative puzzle game.
Jeff Krahel
CEO & Co-Founder of Playbook
Founder at Fitner Media.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Michael Wojcieszek
Co-Founder & CTO of Playbook
Michael Wojcieszek is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Jeff Krahel
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbook
Jeff Krahel is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Alex Adelman
CEO and Co-Founder of Lolli
Alex Adelman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Lolli. Alex was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cosmic (acquired by PopSugar, then Ebates). He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in New York, New York. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Shawn Melamed
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiral
Shawn Melamed is a serial fintech entrepreneur that founded Spiral. He is the former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. He also founded software company Correlix, which was acquired by TSA, and led StrikeNet to its M&A with TMX Group.
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About Spiral: Spiral is a provider of a banking solution for the charitable sector.
John S. Shriber
Co- Founder & CEO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Aaron Albert
Co-Founder/CEO of Mine’d
Co-Founder/CEO at Mine’d
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About Mine’d: The Emotional Network – Daily, live guided emotional health sessions
Jane Chung
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Klooff
Jane is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Klooff. She leads Klooff’s vision and strategy by creating experiences through intuitive design, curating, and storytelling. She oversees Klooff’s brand and product development. She has a black lab named Cooper who will sit for Korean corn puffs. Sometimes she wonders if it came down to it, Cooper will pick the corn puffs over her. Jane is a design director that focuses on approaching work through a strategic, data-driven, and emotional lens. She specializes in creating narratives around brands across all channels, forms, and experiences. Jane received her BFA in graphic design at RISD and has 9+ years of experience concepting and designing for the world’s largest brands including Coke, Nike, Skechers, Leo Burnett, Epson, Sony, Quicken, Interscope Records, LG, L’oreal, and Hershey’s. Jane currently resides in New York where she dabbles between art, advertising, and film.
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About Klooff: Klooff is bringing Happiness Through Pets.
Ryan Hungate
CEO & Founder of Simplifeye
CEO & Founder of Simplifeye.
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About Simplifeye: Simplifeye empowers doctors by automating the business of their practice
Matt Bailey
Founder and CEO of GameOn
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About GameOn: The future of engaging superfans. If it’s on, it’s on.
Asmau Ahmed
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Plum Perfect
Asmau Ahmed is the founder of Plum Perfect. Asmau holds an MBA degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School.
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About Plum Perfect: Plum Perfect is an app that scans your selfie to find the best makeup shades for skin tone.
Jonathan B. Handler
Founder and CEO of YINC
Jonathan B. Handler is the founder & CEO at YINC.
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About YINC: YINC leverages Blockchain technology to transform the service-to-hire industry for consumers & real estate mgmt companies.
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
Jesse Boyes
Co-Founder of Dasher
Jesse Boyes is a co-founder of [Dasher](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dasher#/entity), a next-generation messaging platform that enables the delivery of interactive and real-time data in group chats. Prior to his current position, he worked at [Gilt Groupe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gilt-groupe#/entity) as the director of mobile engineering. In 2013, Boyes filed a patent request for inventing the method and system for trying out a product in relation to a real world environment. He currently resides in New York, United States.
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About Dasher, Outalot: Dasher is building a next-generation messaging platform enabling delivery of rich, interactive, real-time data in 1:1 and group chats.
Rachel Tipograph
Founder & CEO of MikMak
Rachel Tipograph is the Founder & CEO at MikMak .
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About Brave Commerce, Cleo Capital, MikMak: MikMak is a platform that enables traditional brick-and-mortar brands to gain insights & view the activity of major online retailers.
Neal Shenoy
Co-Founder & CEO of BEGiN
Neal Shenoy is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BEGiN. Neal manages BEGiN’s purpose and vision, sets its strategy and execution plan, recruits talent and manages strategic relationships with investors and partners. Neal has built a team with deep industry expertise across organizations such as Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Scholastic, Barnes & Noble, Pearson and Mattel.He has helped guide BEGiN to be one of the largest, fastest growing and most promising platforms for early childhood literacy and language learning, earning recognition from the Aspen Institute, American Library Association, Education World and National Education Association. Neal is also a Co-Founder of SAAVN, the largest streaming service for South Asian music in the world, and a Founding Partner at [212]MEDIA, which builds consumer media ventures in fragmented markets alongside major media companies. Prior to [212]MEDIA, Neal was Co-Founder and President of Simile, a contextual advertising platform in media and publishing. With a B.S.F.S. in International Relations from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Neal began his career as an Investment Banker in an upstart unit of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette that advised media & telecom companies.
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About [212]Media, BEGiN, HOMER, Speakaboos: BEGiN is an award-winning company offering best-in-class solutions across digital, physical, and experiential learning to kids globally.
Zuben Mathews
CEO & Co-Founder of Brigit
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About Brigit: A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Raad Ahmed
Founder and CEO of LawTrades
Raad Ahmed Born in New York City and spent most of my adolescent years in Long Island. At a young age He discovered that he loved music and all things creative. I am naturally an imaginative person -– produce videos, learned guitar and started a website in law school. Currently, I am the Founder/CEO at LawTrades. Our mission to improve access to legal services through really disruptive technology.
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About LawTrades: LawTrades is an online message-based platform that allows anyone to seamlessly find, hire, and work with lawyers.
Ashish Walia
Co-Founder and COO of LawTrades
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About LawTrades: LawTrades is an online message-based platform that allows anyone to seamlessly find, hire, and work with lawyers.
Adarsh Alphons
Founder and CEO of Wardrobe
Adarsh Alphons is the founder and CEO of Wardrobe. Prior to Wardrobe, Adarsh founded ProjectArt—currently the nation’s largest art school, without owning a single building. Adarsh’s expertise in catalyzing underutilized resources into productivity, building asset-light organizations and ability to bring self-interested partners together for a common cause made ProjectArt a leader in its field and a nationally-scaled enterprise. He is a CNN Hero, Columbia University Community Scholar and a 40 Under 40 in Global Art Business.
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About Wardrobe: Wardrobe is a peer-to-peer luxury clothing rental app focused on sustainability.
Jeremy Friedman
Founder, CEO of Spiral Connect
Jeremy is the Founder and CEO at Spiral Connect. Prior to that, he was the SVP of Schoology at PowerSchool and the Founder and CEO of Schoology. He is a recognized education technology thought leader and frequently sought speaker at industry events. Jeremy was selected as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Education. He co-founded Schoology while an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis earning his BA in Economics.
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About Spiral Connect: Spiral Connect is an app that is useful for stores a person’s personal information.
Vatch Vartanian
Co-Founder of GiftsApp, Inc.
Serial Entrepreneur, PhD in Business, 20y+ experience in retail business, finance & HR management
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About GiftsApp, Inc.: GiftsApp is a social gifting app
Luke Schoenfelder
CEO & Co-Founder of Latch
Luke is passionate about great products and tough environments. He spent 2011–2013 developing emerging market technology products in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with support from the Clinton Global Initiative, Habitat for Humanity, and the Dell Social Innovation Fund.
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About Latch: Latch specializes in keyless entry security systems to open and manage every door in an apartment building from a smartphone.
Brian Jones
CTO & Co-Founder of Latch
Brian is a full stack hardware engineer with experience building remote data acquisition systems that have been deployed in some of the world’s most challenging environments. From smart grid monitoring in Haiti to remote soil sensing in rural Mexico, Brian has built products that capture, synthesize, and present data to enterprise customers of all sorts. Brian holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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About Latch: Latch specializes in keyless entry security systems to open and manage every door in an apartment building from a smartphone.
Ben Magolan
Co-Founder & CTO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
Philip Eytan
Co-Founder of Pager
Philip Eytan is a co-founder at Pager.
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About Pager, Voyager: Virtual care technology platform that provides communication, collaboration, navigation, and care coordination solutions.
Sean Engelking
Co-Founder and CEO of Starship
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About Starship: Starship is mobile health savings account (HSA) with automated investing built for humans.
Brendan Alper
Founder & CEO of Hater
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About Hater: Hater is a dating app that matches people based on the things they hate.
Theo Sedlmayr
President, CEO & Founder of Wallflowerme
Theo, a lawyer and active investor/ entrepreneur, founded a boutique law firm in 1995 rooted in music industry transactions where he serves as legal counsel and advisor to numerous award-winning, multi-platinum musical artists, producers, records labels, and various types of entertainment companies. He is a 1990 graduate of the University of Virginia and a 1993 graduate of Boston University School of Law.
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About Wallflowerme: Wallflower is an event-driven social networking app that enables users to chat and meet with others at similar social events.
David Mavashev
President and CEO, Founder of Nastel Technologies
David Mavashev is a leading expert on IT infrastructure, middleware and messaging technologies with over 25 years experience architecting systems and solutions. His areas of expertise encompass implementing middleware-centric architectures and the underlying infrastructure monitoring that is fundamental for its optimal performance, as well as tools and technologies for monitoring and managing integrated application processes and performance across the enterprise, and helping companies achieve business agility through effectively aligning IT with business processes in the real-time enterprise. A successful entrepreneur, David founded Nastel in 1994 and also served as the company’s CTO for many years. Prior to that, he was the technical manager of the messaging group at NYNEX, where he architected and managed the implementation of the first commercial transactional messaging product, which now forms the basis for IBM WebSphere MQ (formerly MQ-Series). A pioneer in the early evolution of messaging technologies, David logged many years as an IT consultant working with some of the world’s foremost banks and financial institutions.
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About Elefund, jKool, Nastel Technologies: Nastel Technologies provides middleware-centric application performance and business transaction management software solutions.
Pavel Danilov
CEO and Co-Founder of Fridge No More
Pavel Danilov is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fridge No More.
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About Fridge No More: Fridge No More is an instant food deliverer that offers a 15-minute grocery delivery service.
Anton Gladkoborodov
Co-Founder of Fridge No More
Anton Gladkoborodov is a Co-Founder of Fridge No More.
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About Fridge No More: Fridge No More is an instant food deliverer that offers a 15-minute grocery delivery service.
Ivan Braun
Founder of Icons8
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About Icons8: Icons8 provides free editing tools for design, icons, photos, interface illustrations, music, and videos.
Shachar Golan
Founder & CEO of Baby Doctor, Inc.
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About Baby Doctor, Inc.: Baby Doctor, Inc. was a healthcare startup that offered pediatric services on demand
Dr. Dania Rumbak
Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Baby Doctor, Inc.
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About Baby Doctor, Inc.: Baby Doctor, Inc. was a healthcare startup that offered pediatric services on demand
Eden Full Goh
Founder of Mobot
Eden Full Goh is the Founder and CEO of Mobot.
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About EES Ventures, Mobot, SunSaluter: Mobot is a mobile QA solution that uses supervised, mechanical robots to test native mobile web apps on actual iOS/Android devices.
Marah Lidey
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Shine
Marah Lidey is the cofounder of Shine Text, helping people live more intentionally through the power of daily messaging. Her expertise lies at the intersection of millennials and messaging. Lidey previously directed mobile and social for brands like DoSomething.org, American Express, and Viacom. She earned her BA in Journalism at the University of Georgia and currently resides in Brooklyn. A World Economic Forum Global Shaper and one of the “Top 35 People to Watch in NYC Tech” by Built in NYC, Lidey also actively advocates for increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in technology and entrepreneurship.
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About Shine: Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression.
Naomi Hirabayashi
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Shine
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About Shine: Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression.
Pierre Drescher
CTO & Co-Founder of BentoBox
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About BentoBox: BentoBox empowers restaurants to own their presence, profits, and relationships, directly through their website.
Krystle Mobayeni
Founder & CEO of BentoBox
Krystle Mobayeni, CEO and Founder of BentoBox, knows that today, the restaurant experience starts online. With BentoBox, she helps restaurants engage with their customers online, serving as a real partner and embodying the idea of hospitality every step of the way.
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About BentoBox: BentoBox empowers restaurants to own their presence, profits, and relationships, directly through their website.
Stefanie Lemcke
Co-Founder and CEO of GoKid
Stefanie Lemcke is a Co-Founder and CEO at GoKid.
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About GoKid: GoKid is a carpool and shared mobility solution for schools, leagues, teams, and active families.
Saswat Panda
Co-Founder, CTO, Head of Product of Livelike
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About Livelike: LiveLike is an entertainment company that provides on-demand sports VR media content.
Jérémie Lasnier
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Livelike
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About Livelike: LiveLike is an entertainment company that provides on-demand sports VR media content.
Mohammad Samrat
Founder & CEO of AutopartsZ
Mr. Samrat founded AutopartsZ, PartsCargo, PartzRoot, Vinndo, and ScopePrice. As a CEO he supervises every aspect of AutopartsZ and as a founder; oversees the operation of the other company’s. He leads a group of professionals who are truly unique, knowledgeable and dedicated. Mr. Samrat is passionate about exceptional leadership and innovation; especially in the automotive industry. He has become an experienced and successful young entrepreneur at an early age. He has a dream to develop an integrated solution for global technology market through innovation. In addition, he is contributing a great deal with a significant strategy in the automobile industry with his diligent capability. Being a motivational leader, he cares for his employees and constantly motivates and rewards them to bring the best out of their capabilities. He embodies the character of a successful entrepreneur.
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About AutopartsZ, VINNDO: AutopartsZ – The Best Auto Parts Finder App
Jan Alexander Jedlinski
CEO & Co-Founder of Gustav
Jan Jedlinski is the CEO & Co-Founder at Gustav
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About Gustav, Pioneer Fund, World Staffing Organization: Powering the next‑generation of staffing agencies and recruiters to run their business online.
Bryan Okeke
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Relief App
Bryan Okeke is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Relief App.
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About ic4rd, Relief App: Relief is a mobile app that delivers on debt-elimination commitment.
Daniel Ramot
Co-Founder and CEO of Via
Daniel Ramot is the co-founder and CEO of Via. Prior to Via, Daniel built supercomputers designed to discover new pharmaceutical drugs at D. E. Shaw Research, and developed avionic systems for F-15s and F-16s for the Israeli Air Force. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Talpiot program.
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About Via: Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters.
Nikhil Chandhok
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bento Labs
Nikhil Chandhok was an Entrepreneur in Residence at GV. Nikhil Chandhok joined GV from YouTube, where he served as Director of Product Management and spent more than six years in a variety of roles. Nikhil Chandhok led YouTube’s music efforts for more than four years and helped make YouTube one of the most prominent destinations for music on the Internet. Under his leadership, many key capabilities were added to the YouTube platform, including mobile and device streaming, paid subscriptions, and live streaming. He also led YouTube’s TV advertising efforts and helped grow the business to be the TV ad network in the U.S. Prior to Google, Nikhil Chandhok helped create the enterprise storage and virtualization businesses as a product manager at Microsoft. Before Microsoft, he co-founded a telecom startup while in graduate school. Nikhil Chandhok has an M.S. in computer science from Ohio State University.
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About Bento Labs, Meta: Bento is an Intelligent Homescreen for Android that knows what you need and when you need it.
Guillermo Morro
Founder & Inventor of SmartBE
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About GO BEYOND, SmartBE: Smartbe is the first intelligent baby stroller of the new generation.
Adero Miwo
Co-Founder of PoaPost
Adero Miwo is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who works in the United States of America and abroad promoting the health and well-being of disadvantaged people and the wider communities they live in, as well as providing people with fair ways to access transport.
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About Dreamers & Doers, FairFare, PoaPost: PoaPost is a sms base mobile application that connects courier to customer in rural communities in Kenya.
Michael Faye
CEO, Co Founder of Taptap Send
Michael is co-founder of GiveDirectly, Segovia, and Taptap Send. He has worked extensively in enterprise technology as an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, with international governments at the United Nations Millennium Project, and operating large-scale field projects while earning his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard. Michael also holds a BA from Harvard in Mathematics and Classics (although he didn’t know Segovia is an aqueduct) and was recognized as a top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.
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About GiveDirectly, Segovia, Taptap Send: Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home.
Seth Berkowitz
Founder of FlyCleaners
Seth Berkowitz is the Founder and CEO at Insomnia Cookies and Co-Founder & Chairman at FlyCleaners and also the Founder of Financialese.
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About Beacon, Financialese, FlyCleaners, Insomnia Cookies: FlyCleaners offers local on-demand pickup and delivery services for dry-cleaning and laundry via a mobile application.
Richard Fernandes
Founder & Chairman of HooplaHa
Richard J. Fernandes is the Co – President of Affinion Group. Richard J. Fernandes was appointed Co-President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Retail Solutions in September of 2012. Prior to that, Mr. Fernandes served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Affinion International, a post he was awarded with the acquisition of Webloyalty.com in January of 2011. From January 1999 until January 2011, Mr. Fernandes was the founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman on the Board of Directors of Webloyalty.com. Prior to 1999, Mr. Fernandes served as an Executive Vice President at CUC International.
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About HooplaHa: HooplaHa is helps in social and personal development of people by providing positive stories and comments delivery.
Franco Gasperoni
Co-Founder & CEO of AdaCore
Franco Gasperoni is a co-founder of AdaCore and has been involved with Ada both commercially and technically since 1991. Franco has an engineering degree from Mines ParisTech, France and a PhD in Computer Science from New York University, USA. While at Mines ParisTech, Franco worked on credit mechanisms and their potential instability with Maurice Allais, the French economics Nobel laureate. Franco has lectured and conducted research in computer science at New York University and Télécom ParisTech.
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About AdaCore: AdaCore is a provider of integrated web application development environment.
Nathaniel McNamara
President & Founder of Studio
Nathaniel focuses on investments in information technology and is involved in all stages of the investment process.
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About FounderDating, Studio: Studio makes audio based group running classes available live and on-demand to anyone with access to a treadmill.
Sam Howarth
Co-Founder and COO of BUMP
Sam Howarth is the co-founder and COO at BUMP.
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About BUMP: BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers.
