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 Machine Learning 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.
Zia Yusuf
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Velocity Black
Zia Yusuf Co-founded Velocity Mobile Limited, the company behind Velocity Black, in 2014 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Velocity is one of the world’s fastest growing technology companies. Zia’s career is characterised by driving exceptional results for some of the world’s leading organisations. Prior to Velocity, Zia Yusuf was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in London. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics.
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About Velocity Black: Pioneering the future of luxury lifestyle.
April Koh
Co-Founder & CEO of Spring Health
April Koh is Co-Founder & CEO at Spring Care. She is a former Product Management at Shazam and Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Spylight. Ms. Koh received a bachelor of arts in Sociology and Computer Science at Yale University.
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About Spring Health: Spring Health provides employers with a comprehensive and effective solution for employee mental well-being.
Richard Smullen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pypestream
Richard is the CEO and founder of Pypestream, a secure mobile messaging platform that uses real-time chat to transform the way brands and businesses connect with customers. Through ‘Pypes’ listed in a searchable catalogue, businesses are provided with a direct connection to their customers for increased engagement, automated customer service, and in-message payment processing. The ultimate customer engagement tool, further loyalty is derived by using proprietary AI and chatbot technology to allow conversations at scale. A serial entrepreneur, Richard previously co-founded Genesis Media LLC, a real-time video advertising platform, and is a board member of SouthWinston LLC, a New York-based, global private equity and VC fund.
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About dhomain llc, Pypestream, SouthWinston: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
Howard Katzenberg
Founder & CEO of Glean analytics
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About Glean analytics: Glean unlocks the powerful data detailed in vendor invoices/receipts to surface relevant spend insights and drive spend accountability
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
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.
Joey Levy
Co-Founder of Simplebet
Joey was a Co-Founder and CEO of Draftpot, a daily fantasy sports platform that was acquired in 2017. Joey was a Thiel Fellow and previously studied at Columbia University.
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About Simplebet: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Prashant Kumar
Founder of Unbxd
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Peter Brodsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Hyperscience
As Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Peter drives the strategy and direction of Hyperscience.
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About Hyperscience, Instinctiv: Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes.
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.
Matt Doherty
Founder & CTO of ResoluteAI
Matt Doherty is the Founder & CTO at ResoluteAI.
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About ResoluteAI: ResoluteAI makes information retrieval seamless, helping you to innovate smarter.
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.
Nimrod Lahav
Co-Founder and CTO of Comet.ml
Nimrod Lahav is co-founder and CTO of CometML. Nimrod is an experienced technology leader and open source contributor. He previously led teams at Wix.com, vmware and co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Gal Krubiner
CEO/ Co Founder of Pagaya Investments
Former UBS investments & wealth management professional, UHNW biz dev having raised hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. Specializes in innovative & sophisticated credit structured products (ABS structures).
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About Pagaya Investments: Pagaya is a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its AI network.
Athena Karp
CEO & Founder of HiredScore
Athena Karp is the founder and CEO of HiredScore, an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to deliver deep hiring efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations adapt for the future of work. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition for delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry. Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Previously, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology and media companies. Athena is a member of the technology advisory board of Belmont Charter Network schools, and founder and board member of Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and healthy eating experiences. She formerly served on the board of the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, a network of charter schools with over 1,000 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. Athena holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also actively involved in rebuilding West Philadelphia and creating a sustainable model for poverty alleviation through various boards and initiatives.
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Daeil Kim
Founder and CEO of AI.Reverie
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Paul Walborsky
Founder & COO of AI.Reverie
Paul Walborsky is the Founder at AI.Reverie .
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Jack Kokko
CEO and Founder of AlphaSense
Jack Kokko is a visionary entrepreneur with a background in global financial services and a track record of delivering enabling technologies to demanding markets. Previously, he was the founding CEO of Silecs and a senior analyst with Morgan Stanley. He holds a Wharton MBA and a MSc. degree in engineering.
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
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.
Marc DaCosta
Co-Founder & Chairman of Enigma Technologies
Marc DaCosta is Co-Founder and Chairman of Enigma. Marc has deep expertise in both the technical and cultural aspects of how data can be harnessed to transform the way that organizations operate. In addition, Marc is a fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, collaborating with investigative journalists to develop new approaches to data-driven storytelling. Marc holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of California, where his research examined the social consequences of new forms of data analytics. Marc has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Intel Labs. Marc began his career as an intellectual property strategy consultant to Global 500 technology companies, where he helped develop offensive and defensive licensing strategies.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Reghu Hariharan
Co-Founder of Quantiphi
Reghu Hariharan is the Co-Founder at Quantiphi where he is responsible for customer care and maintaining relevant market focus and business expansion. Prior to founding Quantiphi, he was a Senior Vice President and integral part of the executive leadership of its insurance business at Capgemini where he is directly responsible for its global operations. Reghu holds a Bachelors’s degree in Computer Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University in India.
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About Quantiphi: Quantiphi is a category defining data science and machine learning software and services company.
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.
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.
David Ehrich
Co-Founder of Petal
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About Alliance for Innovative Regulation, Petal: Petal is a financial technology company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible.
Andrew Endicott
Co-Founder, President & CFO of Petal
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About Petal: Petal is a financial technology company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible.
Jason Gross
Co-Founder and CEO of Petal
Jason is the CEO and co-founder of Petal, a tech-enabled credit card company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. Prior to founding Petal, Jason worked with a number of high-growth technology companies in fintech, advertising and ecommerce. Jason has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Florida.
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About Petal: Petal is a financial technology company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible.
Adam Smith
Co-Founder, Head of Strategy of Descartes Labs
Adam has 20 years of executive experience in technology, finance, and entrepreneurship. He built and launched his first company (software QA) while in college. He’s worked in management consulting, investment banking, the hedge fund industry, and most recently with two startups in the Education Technology sector. He has a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Descartes Labs: Optimizing sustainable sourcing, commodity price forecasting, & mineral exploration through the automated analysis of geospatial data
Joseph Miller
Co-Founder, Chief Data Scientist of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Allon Bloch
Co-Founder and CEO of K Health
Allon Bloch is the CEO and Co-founder of K Health. Previously he served as the CEO of Vroom, the largest online car retailer in the U.S, Co-CEO of Wix, the world’s leading website publishing platform, and CEO of mySupermarket, a digital platform that empowers consumers to find the best prices for their groceries. Allon is also a former venture capitalist, serving as a Venture Partner with Greylock’s Europe/Israel fund and a General Partner at JVP. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and is based in New York.
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About K Health: K Health is a data-driven digital primary care system that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.
Michael Kohen
Founder & CEO of SparkAI
Michael Kohen is the Founder and CEO at SparkAI.
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About SparkAI, Stealth Mode: SparkAI is a real-time edge case resolution for AI in production.
Daniel Morozoff-Abezgauz
Co-Founder, President, Cloud Infrastructure Dev of Vidrovr
Dan is a PhD candidate at Columbia University working on machine learning applied to neuroscience. He has published research in computational physics, computer multimedia. He has worked at NASA, and HHMI Janelia.
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About Vidrovr: Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video.
Tania Ahuja
Founder and CEO of Nobias
Tania Ahuja is Founder and CEO of Nobias and is Head of US Operations for Arkera Inc. She is a former director of Citigroup and serves on the Board of Overseers at Stern School of Business, NYU. Additionally, she sits on the board of other learning and art organizations including the Center of Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, Salome Chamber Orchestra, The Paper Bag Players, and is Chairman of the Board for the Summit Music Festival. Tania holds a PhD in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University. She has a BS in Statistics and an MS in Operations Research.
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About Nobias: Software tools that help protect consumers from deceptive or misleading content on the internet.
Vangelis Vergetis
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Intelligencia
Vangelis is working on the intersection of data science, technology, and healthcare. In 2017 he co-founded Intelligencia, a company that uses AI to assess and minimize the risk of drug development. Prior to that he was a management consultant for more than 12 years – at both McKinsey and Hakluyt – advising healthcare clients and investors on a variety of topics, including digital technologies, clinical development and early commercialization. Outside of Intelligencia, Vangelis is a board member and member of the Executive Committee of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Cornell’s faculty of Computing & Information Science (CIS), and is an advisor and investor in technology companies in both the US and Europe. He holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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About Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Dimitrios Skaltsas
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Intelligencia
Dimitrios has led McKinsey’s team for big data & AI applications in R&D for life sciences, and has built SaaS products focusing on clinical development. He serves as an advisor, and has also invested, in several technology companies with a focus on big data. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, where he is also currently an Executive in Residence for AI/ Digital.
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About INSEAD, Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Evan Smith
CEO and Co-Founder of Altana AI
Evan Smith is the CEO and co-founder at Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Peter Swartz
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Altana AI
Peter Swartz is the CTO and co-founder of Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Raphael Tehranian
Co-Founder and COO of Altana AI
Raphael Tehranian is the co-founder and COO of Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI, Cleantech Group, Suncor Energy: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Alex Elias
Founder and CEO of Qloo
Alex Elias is the founder and CEO of Qloo, a venture-backed company that pioneered the space of Cultural AI, with strategic backing from firms such as AXA and AI Ventures, and individuals including Barry Sternlicht, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Elton John. Prior to founding Qloo, Alex earned his J.D. at the NYU School of Law where he focused on internet privacy regulation. Elias is a thought leader on AI and anonymization, and has expressed his views in public speeches, television appearances (including Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox, El Pais), and opinion pieces for various publications including Investors Business Daily. Elias resides in manhattan with his wife and son, and is an avid jazz pianist.
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About Qloo: Qloo is a cultural artificial intelligence platform that operates via an application programming interface.
James Shinn
Co-Founder of Predata
James Shinn is the Advisor at Red Six Solutions.
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About Predata: Predata uncovers predictive behavior by applying machine learning techniques to online activity.
Kumesh Aroomoogan
Co-Founder & CEO of Accern
Kumesh Aroomoogan is the co-founder and CEO of Accern, an NYC-based venture-backed AI startup whose mission is to accelerate AI for enterprise with a no-code development platform. Accern was named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology.
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About Accern, Forbes: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Anshul Vikram Pandey
Co-Founder & CTO of Accern
Anshul Vikram Pandey is the Co-Founder and CTO of Accern.
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About Accern, Forbes Technology Council: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Mathias Wengeler
Founder and CEO of Atheneum
Mathias has an extensive due diligence experience with L.E.K. Consulting in Munich and Boston, during which he worked on over 80 private investment transactions across Europe and the Americas. His prior work experience includes major investment banks in London, as well as Oliver Wyman in Munich and Dubai. Mathias holds a triple Master‘s degree in International Management from ESCP-EAP Grande École in Paris and a Basis doctoral in Economics from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
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About Atheneum: Atheneum is a knowledge sharing platform that offers corporations access to up-to-date market insights for better business decisions.
Sek Chai
Co-Founder and CTO of Latent AI
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About Latent AI: Latent AI accelerates AI implementation and workflows for the enterprise cost-effectively anywhere on the edge continuum with Adaptive AI.
Dennis Mortensen
CEO & Founder of x.ai
Mortensen is the CEO and Founder of x.ai, whose artificial intelligence driven personal assistant lets people schedule meetings using plain English and nothing more than a CC to amy@x.ai. He’s a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has been since its inception – he is also a fully-fledged entrepreneur and successfully delivered a number of company exits. He’s an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of Data Driven Insights from Wiley and a frequent speaker on the subject of Analytics and Data. A native of Denmark, Mortensen currently calls New York City his home.
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About x.ai: x.ai is a tool that helps you and your team share ideal availability and schedule meetings.
Marcos Jimenez Belenguer
Chief Data Scientist & Co-Founder of x.ai
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About x.ai: x.ai is a tool that helps you and your team share ideal availability and schedule meetings.
John Canosa
CTO and Co-Founder of Augmentir
John Canosa is an experienced and driven entrepreneur with over 30 years in the hardware/software and embedded systems industry including 25 years, multiple startups, and several patents in the imaging and Internet of Things (IoT) arenas. He is currently the CTO and a Co-Founder of Augmentir.
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About Augmentir: Augmentir enables rapid and sustainable digital transformation for industrial 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
Clement Delangue
CEO & Co-Founder of Hugging Face
Clement Delangue is the Chief Executive Officer at Hugging Face.
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About Hugging Face, Milaap: Hugging Face is the leading ML platform
Oren Netzer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of cClearly, Inc.
Prior to founding CClearly, Oren was Co-Founder and CEO of DoubleVerify, which created the ad verification category in 2008. Oren grew DoubleVerify to become a global leader with over 100 employees, $46m of venture capital and hundreds of customers, including 6 of the top 10 online marketers. Oren led adoption of ad verification in the industry to become a must have for every major marketer and led acceptance and promotion by major advertiser, ad agency and publisher trade organizations. Oren received the distinguished 2012 Technology Pioneers Award by World Economic Forum in Davos and is an inventor of multiple patents in the digital marketing space.
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About cClearly, Inc.: cClearly is a marketing analytics and optimization provider that helps marketers increase revenues and decrease cost per acquisition
Elad Walach
CEO and Co-Founder of Aidoc
Elad Walach is a co-founder and CEO of Aidoc. He is an expert in AI with visionary business insights in the healthcare space. Since establishing Aidoc in early 2016, Elad has led the company through 2 rounds of investment (total of $13Mil), driven the commercial availability of 2 product lines (detecting brain hemorrhages and C-Spine fractures), and created an install base of 16 global health systems while growing the company to over 50 employees. Elad began his career in the elite Israeli Defense Force technology program “Talpiot”. He led AI research in the Israeli Air Force where he initiated and managed several teams focused on machine learning and computer vision projects. Elad holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has published multiple academic papers on deep learning.
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About Aidoc: Aidoc specializes in developing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists and multidisciplinary response teams.
Joshua Abram
Co-Founder of Dstillery
Joshua Abram is the Co-Founder of Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, and NeueHouse. He is also the Founder & Co-CEO at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. and Co-Founder, Partner at Coriolis Ventures.
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About Coriolis Ventures, Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, NeueHouse, TMRW Life Sciences: Dstillery is the leading custom audience solutions company, empowering brands and their agencies to maximize the value of customer data.
Konstantin Mehl
CEO, Founder & President of Kaia Health
Konstantin is a serial entrepreneur. His last company foodora, a global food delivery company was sold to delivery hero in 2015 after reaching 500 employees and 5,000 drivers. His current company Kaia has the mission to build the biggest platform for chronic disease management, powered by computer vision. His angel investments include more than 20 companies in the US and Europe. He holds a dual Masters from Columbia University and a Bachelors degree from Technical University Munich.
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About Kaia Health, Kaia Health: Kaia Health is a digital therapeutics company that creates evidence-based treatments for a range of medical disorders.
Erkin Adylov
Founder and CEO of Behavox
Erkin Adylov is the founder and CEO of Behavox, which provides compliance and risk management solutions to better monitor employees and support regulatory compliance at large financial institutions. The technology aggregates disparate sources of data and applies innovative machine learning algorithms in real time to reveal patterns of suspicious behaviour. Prior to founding Behavox in 2014, Erkin was portfolio manager at GLG Partners. Erkin co-managed GLG Financials Fund with $2bn in assets under management. Prior to joining GLG Partners, Erkin was a research analyst at Goldman Sachs. Over the last three years Erkin has also been involved in three start ups as a co-founder and an investor.
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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
Kiryl Trembovolski
Co-Founder and COO of Behavox
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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
Benoit Brookens III
Founder & CEO of Accrue
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About Accrue, nuOctave: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Laurence Zuriff
Founder/CSO of Xometry
Laurence Zuriff is the Founder and CSO at Xometry. He is also a Board Member of the Audit Committee of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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About Xometry: Xometry offers an online marketplace that allows customers to access a network of machine shops and custom manufacturers.
Stephany Kirkpatrick
Founder, CEO of Orum.io
Stephany Kirkpatrick is the Founder and CEO at Orum.
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About Dbilia, Orum.io: Orum builds infrastructure for a frictionless financial system that enables real-time money movement with proprietary intelligence.
Sameer Maskey
Founder & CEO of Fusemachines
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About Columbia University, Fusemachines: Fusemachines is an enterprise AI services and solutions provider that brings AI education, products, and jobs to underserved communities.
Adam Hanina
Co-Founder, Board Director of AiCure
Adam Hanina is CEO and co-founder of AiCure. He has been a strategist in healthcare software delivery for over fifteen years and holds over a dozen patents in his name. Prior to AiCure, he helped further develop Cerner Corporation’s European strategy and was a Visiting Fellow of eHealth at Imperial College in London, UK. Mr. Hanina has spoken extensively on the topic of healthcare innovation and has acted as a subject-matter expert on medication adherence technologies for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is currently a principal investigator for multiple NIH innovation grants. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
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About AIC Innovations Group, AiCure: AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.
Andrew Bocskocsky
CEO, Co-Founder of Grata
Andrew Bocskocsky is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Grata.
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About Grata: Grata is a business-to-business search engine for finding and targeting private companies.
Siqi Mou
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloAva, Inc
Siqi Mou is the co-founder and CEO of HelloAva. She is a former Bloomberg anchor with an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She also held several positions at Morgan Stanley, PIMCO prior to starting HelloAva.
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About HelloAva, Inc: Ava is a personal skincare consultant, powered by AI, deep learning and expert real dermatologists.
Cristina De la Pena
CEO & Co-Founder of Synapbox
Cristina De la Pena joined Synapbox as Founder & CEO in 2018.Cristina De la Pena has been a technology innovator since the beginning of her professional career. From building algorithms to optimize digital models to rethinking the way we build and interact with the real world. During her latest years, she has been leading the growth of Synapbox and reinventing the way we understand human behavior. By using AI and visual computing to understand facial expressions and attentional engagement, we are able to quantify the experience of consumers while interacting with content on their screens at scale. Everything, without the use of any external hardware or implementation to brands.
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About NeuroCrowd, Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Sangarsh Nigam
Founder / Chief Executive Officer of bluCognition
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About bluCognition: bluCognition provides machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence and big data services.
Dedi Gilad
CEO & CO-Founder of TytoCare
With over 18 years of leadership positions both in startups as well as global companies, Dedi brings extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in R&D, Marketing and Operations of multi-disciplinary products in the fields of Healthcare IT, Enterprise Systems, Internet and SaaS. Before founding Tyto Care, Dedi was the General Manager at MDG Medical, VP R&D at WorkplaceIQ (acquired by Siterra / Accruent) and VP R&D at Aman Group. Dedi earned an MBA and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About TytoCare: TytoCare is a telehealth platform for AI-powered and on-demand remote medical examinations.
Tomas Vykruta
Co-Founder & CEO of EvolutionIQ
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About EvolutionIQ: Leading the artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers.
Michael Saltzman
Co-Founder & COO of EvolutionIQ
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About EvolutionIQ: Leading the artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers.
Boris Abaev
Co-Founder of Bidease
Co-Founder @bidease Investment advisor @betastagecapital Board member @rocket10 Father of 3 and an Entrepreneur, Angel investor – Love Startups and building them!
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About Bidease, Cashsquare, Rocket10: Bidease is a mobile DSP that provides advertisers with access to the entire mobile ecosystem through mobile publishers and exchanges.
Antoine Halff
Co-Founder & Chief Analyst of Kayrros
Antoine Halff served as Director of Global Energy of Eurasia Group, Ltd. since February 2005. Antoine Halff served as Principal Administrator of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, where his primary responsibilities included price and short-term demand analysis. He served as Staff Member at the French Embassy in Seoul, South Korea from 1985 to 1987. From 2000 to 2004, Antoine Halff served as a Co-Author of the IEA’s influential monthly Oil Market Report and frequently spoke at numerous industry conferences and to the media on the demand effect of the 2001-2002 global economic downturn and China’s role as a Driver of global demand. Antoine Halff served as New York Bureau Chief of Energy Intelligence Group covering global crude and products markets for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other industry publications. He taught World History and Third-World History at Touro College in New York City from 1991 to 1994 and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University from 1988 to 1989. A native of France, Antoine Halff was educated in Paris, earning an Advanced degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1986 and an MA from Université Paris 7 in 1983.
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About Kayrros: Kayrros is an advanced data analytics company that helps global energy market participants make better investment decisions.
Adam Wenchel
CEO & Co-Founder of Arthur AI
Adam Wenchel is the CEO at Arthur AI.
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About Arthur AI: Arthur AI is a platform that monitors the productivity of machine learning models.
Frank Pica
CEO & Co-Founder of Native
Frank is the president and co-founder of Native AgTech. Previously, Frank was the vice president at ADYOULIKE for over one year.
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About Native: A platform using A.I. to understand consumer preferences and helping companies create products that people love!
Sarah Sanders
Co-Founder, COO & Board Member of Native
Sarah Sanders is a co-founder at Native AgTech, a B2B platform designed to democratize agricultural data. Previously, Sarah was a territory account executive at Toast. Sarah Sanders holds a bachelor of business administration degree in management from the University of Kentucky.
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About Native: A platform using A.I. to understand consumer preferences and helping companies create products that people love!
Josh Walsh
Co-Founder of AdTheorent
Josh Walsh is co-founded AdTheorent, Inc. in 2010 and serves as its President of Media and served as its Chief Strategy Officer. Mr. Walsh started his career at a Search Marketing start-up named Catalyst Online, where he spend much of his time on the Procter and Gamble account. He subsequently worked at Media Contacts, where he focused on the technology that powers DSP, SSP and RTB systems and also studied these platform’s ideation from search models. He graduated from UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Information Technologies studies.
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About AdTheorent: AdTheorent’s is a machine learning technology powers predictive targeting, predictive creative, and self-learning insights.
Rohan Agrawal
Founder and CEO of Cogito Tech LLC
Rohan Agrawal is an entrepreneur, innovator, and investor. He is currently the Founder and CEO at Cogito Technologies, a data-driven technology start-up focused on generating high-quality labeled data sets required for building Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications.
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About Cogito Tech LLC: Machine Learning Training Data for AI | Object Detection Datasets – Cogito
Gil Friedrich
CEO and Co-Founder of Avanan
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About Avanan: Avanan uses AI to protect cloud email and collaboration suites from cyber attacks.
Michael Landewe
Founder of Avanan
Michael Landewe has 15 years’ startup experience as an early employee of three high-growth technology companies. He has taken leadership roles in engineering, sales, marketing and business development, most recently as VP of Asia Pacific Sales, opening distribution channels in over a dozen countries. He holds an MBA from New York University.
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About Avanan: Avanan uses AI to protect cloud email and collaboration suites from cyber attacks.
Asaf Meir
Founder & CEO of Solidus Labs
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About Solidus Labs: Solidus Labs is a crypto-tracking company that provides tailored compliance and risk monitoring solutions for digital assets.
Stuart Jones, Jr.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Ratings
Stuart is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Ratings, Inc. Before founding Sigma Ratings, Stuart served as a senior U.S. Treasury official, including extended leadership tours in Afghanistan and the Middle East. For his service at home and abroad, he received the Secretary’s Honor Award and the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award. After his government service, Stuart worked as an executive with Ernst & Young, one of the world’s largest audit and advisory firms, where he led business and strategic growth in select emerging markets for the forensic business. Stuart is a graduate of MIT, St. Andrews and the The American University. He is a frequent speaker and sought after commentator on financial and national security matters.
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About Sigma Ratings: Sigma Ratings is an AI-powered non-credit rating agency focused on quantifying company-level non-credit risks.
Gabrielle Haddad
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Ratings
Gabrielle Haddad is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Ratings, Inc., the world’s first non-credit rating agency. Gabrielle began her career as an M&A attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in NYC. She subsequently spent several years as an executive at The Global Fund, a Geneva, Switzerland based international financing institution, where she worked on risk and governance issues in over 30 country portfolios across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Her passion for international development, technology and innovation led her to return to the US and to spend a year studying at MIT, where she met her co-founder and launched Sigma. Gabrielle has an undergraduate degree in Finance from Villanova University, a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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About Sigma Ratings: Sigma Ratings is an AI-powered non-credit rating agency focused on quantifying company-level non-credit risks.
Sean Petterson
CEO & Founder of StrongArm Tech
As CEO & Founder of StrongArm Technologies, Sean Petterson is responsible for the vision and direction for the company – dedicated to bettering the future for Industrial Athletes™. Keeping all Industrial Athletes proud, productive and protected. Recognized on Forbe’s 30 Under 30 list (’17) for Manufacturing and Industry, Petterson leads StrongArm with experience in hardware Startup financing, manufacturing, and go-to-market strategies. In addition to StrongArm, Petterson helped multiple hardware companies ranging from wearables to watercraft.
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About StrongArm Tech: StrongArm Tech is a safety science company that develops data collection, assessment, and safety solutions for the industrial worker.
Liat Zakay
CEO and Founder of Donde Search
Liat Zakay is the CEO and founder of Donde Search. Prior to founding Donde Search, Liat was the head of Computer Networks Course at Magshimim. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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About Donde Search: Transforming the online shopping experience using AI, Computer Vision and NLP to develop Intuitive Visual Discovery for Retailers
Jeremy Fain
CEO & Co-Founder of Cognitiv
Jeremy Fain is the co-founder and CEO of Cognitiv. With over 20 years of interactive experience, Jeremy has worked across the agency and publisher landscape in roles ranging from marketing, to industry standards, to revenue leadership. While at CBS Interactive, he launched and oversaw one of the first premium programmatic exchanges, which eventually led to his role managing all North American accounts at Rubicon Project. Jeremy founded Cognitiv in 2015 with two childhood friends who shared an interest in making Deep Learning accessible to business. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Cognitiv: Cognitiv uses proprietary Deep Learning technology to help companies with Big Data problems get beyond analysis to decisions.
Nicole Van Der Tuin
Co-Founder and CEO of First Access
Nicole Van Der Tuin is the co-founder and CEO at First Access.
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About First Access: First Access is a FinTech company that offers a smart data platform for financial institutions in emerging markets.
Rahul Siddharth
COO Co-Founder, Board of Verifcient Technologies
Rahul Siddharth is the Chief Marketing Officer of Verificient Technologies. As CMO, Rahul is responsible for the overall branding and marketing strategy, while also supporting our business development efforts. His background experiences in creative consulting, print design, emarketing, web 2.0 strategies, multimedia design, motion graphics, rich-media design, photography, digital video production, advertising, copywriting, marketing, art directing, and project management. Rahul has won seventeen Creative Excellence Awards while working at SCG Creative, Grey Advertising, Bernard Hodes Group (Omnicom), Jack Morton Worldwide (IPG), Zoecom, RSVPdesign, Bayard Advertising and One Source. He has an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and a BS in Marketing from Fairfield University.
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About Alignkraft, Proctortrack Pro, RemoteDesk- Employee Monitoring Software, Siddharth Creative Group, Verifcient Technologies: Trusted Identity-as-a-Service (TIaaS), platform for identity verification and authentication.
Brandon Reiss
Co-Founder, Engineering of Frame AI
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About Frame AI: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Robbie Mitchell
Co-Founder / Head of Operations of Frame AI
Head of Operations at frame.ai. Previously head of marketing at Cover, head of marketing at Knewton, co-founder at Rhythm, Rhyme, Results, and staff at Harvard Kennedy School.
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About Frame AI, Superstrong Labs: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
John Lemp
Chairman, Founder & CEO of Powr
Revcontent Founder, John Lemp is an entrepreneur who has built two internet companies from the ground up into multi-million dollar businesses, and all with $0 in funding. John graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology. In 2013, John founded Revcontent, a content recommendation network. In 2018, John founded Powr OTT, the new standard in video advertising. He also is the Managing Partner at NextFund Capital Group.
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About NextFund, Powr: Powr is a video marketplace and syndication platform that connects video creators with premium publishers across the web.
Alexander Hudek
CTO & Co-Founder of Kira Systems
Alex holds Ph.D and M.Math degrees in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in Physics and Computer Science. His past research in the field of bioinformatics focused on finding similarities between DNA sequences. He has also worked in the areas of proof systems and database query compilation.
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About Kira Systems: Kira Systems is a machine learning software that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in contracts and other documents.
Noah Waisberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Kira Systems
Prior to founding Kira, Noah was an associate at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, where he focused on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and securities. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. in Political Science from Brown University (where he completed the coursework and comprehensive examinations for a Ph.D), and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.
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About Kira Systems, Zuva: Kira Systems is a machine learning software that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in contracts and other documents.
Fraser Kelton
Co-Founder & CEO of Koko
Fraser Kelton is the Product at OpenAI.
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About AdaptiveBlue, Koko, OpenAI: AI Powered Community Moderation
Michelle Bacharach
Founder & CEO of FINDMINE
Michelle Bacharach is CEO and Co-Founder of FINDMINE. As a product and strategy expert, Michelle is experienced in growing startups and large media companies by launching apps and websites to millions of people, putting together joint ventures, and conceiving of new products. Michelle has shared her expertise with thousands of leaders in retail and technology as a speaker at SXSW and NRF Retail’s Big Show. She has an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA from UC Berkeley, where she wrote her honors thesis on managing innovation in multinational organizations.
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About FINDMINE: FINDMINE specializes in using machine learning to automate manual and tedious tasks in the retail industry.
Donald Leka
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Jumptuit
Creator of Jumptuit and the Glide OS Donald Leka, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Jumptuit Group, is a technology executive with over 15 years of experience creating industry-changing and award-winning cloud and data service technologies including Jumptuit and Glide OS. The ethos underlying Mr. Leka’s career from exploration to innovation to market, from Glide through Jumptuit, has been one of creating value, empowering individuals and protecting the sanctity of data. Mr. Leka’s Jumptuit Data Science and Engineering Teams developed Jumptuit’s Nexus Framework that maintains dynamic awareness of activities and relevant events, understanding the associations between activities and events and the conditions in which they occur, autonomously providing highly nuanced and individualized relevant information, insights and predictions. Mr. Leka also created the Data Rights Matrix that autonomously enforces data privacy and market sector and jurisdictional regulations in data exchange. Mr. Leka led the Glide OS product team, commercializing cloud-based services in 2005 before any of the big tech companies offered such a platform or services with the Glide Operating System and its Productivity App Suite that competed effectively with Google Docs, Gmail and MS Office. Glide received numerous awards including PC World’s Top 100 Products and Laptop Magazine’s Top 50 Web Apps. Mr. Leka and his work have been featured in WSJ, NYT, WaPo, Forbes, CNET, PCWorld, etc., and on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and more. Mr. Leka is the co-author of the Amazon top selling book, “Cloud Computing: The Glide OS Story, Solving the Cross-Platform Puzzle.” Mr. Leka has been a featured speaker at Harvard Business School, MIT, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, TEDx, AllThingsD with Walt Mossberg, NYU, American U, U Miami, and most recently interviewed at Davos 2020 World Economic Forum. Mr. Leka ranked Number 51 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Professionals. (Onalytica, July 2015) Jumptuit ranked Number 29 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Brands. (Onalytica, July 2015)
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About Jumptuit: Tomorrow’s Intelligence Today
Nadav Shoval
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenWeb
Nadav Shoval is the CEO & Co-Founder of Spot.IM, an on-site community that brings the power back to the publisher. Prior to Spot.IM, Nadav has developed and founded 4 technology startups. Spot.IM is his fifth venture. Nadav is a technology erudite and a sports addict.
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About OpenWeb: OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online.
Jose Ferreira
Founder of Knewton
Jose Ferreira is the founder of Knewton and serves on the board. Jose earned his MBA from Harvard. He was formerly an executive at Kaplan, a strategist for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, and most recently, a partner at New Atlantic Ventures (formerly Draper Atlantic), investing in new media and SaaS companies. He currently serves on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Education & Skills, as well as the advisory boards for Laureate International Universities, Cambridge University Press, and the ASU/GSV Education Innovation Summit.
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About Bakpax, Knewton: Knewton is an adaptive learning technology provider with a mission to bring personalized education to the world.
Anastasis Germanidis
Co-Founder & CTO of Runway
Anastasis Germanidis is the Co-Founder and CTO of Runway.
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About Runway: Runway is a next generation video editing solution powered by machine learning.
James Slezak
CEO and Co-Founder of Swayable
James Slezak is Co-Founder and CEO of [Swayable](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swayable). He was previously Vice President and Chief of Operations of NYT Global at [The New York Times](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/newyorktimes), a company that creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website. Prior to those positions, he co-founded New Economy Lab and Peers.org. Slezak was also a project lead at McKinsey & Company as well as a partner of Purpose.com. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Experimental Physics from Cornell University.
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About Swayable, Tunism: Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion and intentions
Hugo Shi
Founder of Saturn Cloud
Hugo Shi is the founder of Saturn Cloud.
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About Saturn Cloud: A cloud workspace for the whole data science team, supporting Python & R. Collaborate with powerful resources, jobs, deployments, and more
M. Sebastian Metti
Founder & CEO of Saturn Cloud
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About Saturn Cloud: A cloud workspace for the whole data science team, supporting Python & R. Collaborate with powerful resources, jobs, deployments, and more
Mina Lux
CEO/Founder of Meelo Logic
Ms. Lux is a digital industry veteran with a track record of proven success. As co-founder and VP of Sales and Marketing at FloNetwork (the first email technology in the world, founded in 1995 and acquired by DoubleClick in 2001 for $80 million), she white papered the server/client platform and coupled the technology with account management services assisting brands in direct email as a lead generation, customer retention and revenue growth tool. After FloNetwork, Ms. Lux continued with her interests in marketing, technology and building businesses. In 1998, She took USATODAY.com to the #1 news site ranking, beating out CNN in less than 4 months with little to no budget. For Double Day Select professional book clubs, she managed 22 B2B book clubs and broke records by reducing new account acquisition costs to under $6 per new customer compared to $135 via traditional channels. After Double Day Select, Ms. Lux joined Working Woman Network (a Larry Ellison investment), as the SVP of Marketing to build an ambitious B2B exchange connecting women owned businesses to diversity opportunities in government organizations and Fortune 500 businesses. In 2001, she joined MacMillan to lead Scientific American Digital. In 7 years, Ms. Lux succeeded in aggressively growing the business from zero revenue to 3x the industry average. Through optimized technology and ecommerce, the digital channel became the #1 single source of paid subscribers and renewals for the magazine. She was a digital business/technology advisor to MacMillan companies including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, St. Martin’s Press, Tor/Forge, MacMillan Audio and Nature. In 2008, Ms. Lux founded a boutique consulting practice solving digital business challenges for a large array of companies with continued success in achieving aggressive growth. At Turner Broadcasting Systems (best known for its marquee property CNN), Mina was brought in to take TheFrisky.com from 560K unique visitors to 4.2 million within 18 months on little budget. The Frisky became one of Turner’s largest digital properties after only 9 months under Ms. Lux’s leadership. In addition, she achieved extraordinary revenue growth by working with and training the Turner Broadcasting Systems ad sales group. For Blip, she was tasked with creating a success story for investment/M&S opportunities. Within 6 months, Ms. Lux shifted the business model and build a solid consumer brand by building its audience from 200,000 per month to over 6 million viewers. Blip has since been acquired by Maker Studios which has just recently been acquired by Disney. Her consulting clients include CNN/HLN, Moguldom, truTV, Adult Swim, Bob Vila, RLJ Entertainment (a Bob Johnson company), Discovery Communications and more.
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About Meelo Logic: A causal reasoning enterprise AI that transforms underutilized data into intelligence for optimization, automation, compliance, and growth.
Yahya Syed
Co-Founder, CEO of Potion
Yahya Syed is the Co-Founder and CEO at Blue Marble.
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About Potion: Potion offers AI‑powered formulation tools to enable R&D teams to formulate better products, faster.
Drew Silverstein
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Amper Music
Drew Silverstein is the co-founder and CEO of Amper Music, Inc., a new music technology venture slated to change the way music is composed and created for video content. He is also currently earning his MBA at Columbia Business School in New York, NY with a focus on finance and entrepreneurship. As a musician, Drew is a composer, arranger, producer, conductor, and songwriter for film, television, recording artists, video games, and performance. From Atlanta, Georgia, Drew studied with Emmy award-winning composer Eddie Horst. Drew continued his studies in Nashville, Tennessee at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music with Michael Rose, Michael Slayton, Michael Kurek, and Stan Link. He has worked with artists including Christopher Lennertz, Timothy Michael Wynn, Philip White, Jim Gray, and Kristin Wilkinson.
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About Amper Music, Shutterstock: Amper is an artificial intelligence composer, performer, and producer that creates unique music, tailored to any content, instantly.