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 San Francisco, California based CEO’ operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Dhruvil Sanghvi
Chief Executive Officer of LogiNext
Dhruvil is one of the co-founders LogiNext. He has worked with elite organizations like Deloitte,Ernst & Young and Tata Group and studies at Carnegie Mellon and Nirma University.
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About LogiNext: Enterprise SaaS for Home Delivery and Transportation Businesses to Automate End to End Operational Process
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Dustin Moskovitz
CEO & Co-Founder of Asana
Dustin Moskovitz is a Co-Founder and CEO at Asana. He is also the Co-Founder of Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures. Mr. Moskovitz is a former Co-Founder of Facebook.
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About Asana, Good Ventures, Open Philanthropy Project: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Bret Taylor
Co-CEO & Vice-chair of Salesforce
Bret Taylor is Co-CEO of Salesforce. Bret previously served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer of Salesforce. A respected software engineer and executive with an impressive history of building widely used and loved products, Bret was the co-founder and CEO of Quip, the innovative collaboration platform Salesforce acquired in 2016. Prior to founding Quip, Bret served as the Chief Technology Officer of Facebook and saw the company through its successful IPO in 2012. Credited with the invention of the “Like” button, Bret joined Facebook in 2009 after it acquired his social networking company, FriendFeed. Prior to FriendFeed, Bret started his career at Google, where he co-created Google Maps. Bret is the Chair of Twitter’s board of directors. He graduated from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science and now lives in the Bay Area.
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About BOLDforce, CloudCraze, Salesforce, Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Christopher Kirchner
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Slync.io
Christopher S. Kirchner is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO at Slync.io. Prior to this, Christopher has worked as a senior vice president of sales and marketing and a director of marketing and sales at Turner Labels. Christopher holds a degree in communications, minor marketing from the University of Kentucky.
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About Slync.io: Slync.io is a provider of process automation for enterprise supply chains and the global logistics industry.
Evan Cummack
CEO of Fin.com
CEO @ Fin.com.
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About Fin.com: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Drew Houston
Co-founder & CEO of Dropbox
Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turned his frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world’s leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.
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About Dropbox, FWD.us: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Osman Koc
Co-Founder & CEO of UserGuiding
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About UserGuiding, YNOT Partners: UserGuiding improves product adoption rates through ‘no coding needed’ interactive user onboarding flows.
Waleed Mohsen
Founder & CEO of mynurse.ai
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About mynurse.ai: a digital health program to help seniors with chronic conditions live their best lives.
Hani Goldstein
Founder & CEO of Snappy
Founder at Snappy App.
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About Snappy: Snappy is an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that allows companies to send gifts to their customers and team members.
Maury Blackman
President & CEO of Premise Data
Maury Blackman is CEO of Premise Data. Blackman is a tech executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high growth enterprise software companies. His industry experiences include government, construction, public safety, geospatial information, GPO’s, sharing economy services, and drone software. Blackman joined Premise in 2017; under his leadership the company has seen 661% revenue growth. In November 2020, Premise was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a list of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Premise is the 35th fastest-growing company in the Silicon Valley region and is 182nd on the overall list. Before joining Premise, Blackman was CEO at Accela, a civic tech company aimed at moving citizen transactions from city hall to online and mobile services. He joined the company in 2000 as the VP of Sales and Marketing and then assumed the role of CEO in 2007. To support strategic initiatives and growth, he raised more than $300M in financing from family offices, private equity, and senior debt. The capital from these raises was deployed to build out an enterprise offering, expand internationally, and execute an M&A strategy that closed 10+ acquisitions in 24 months. Prior to joining Accela, Maury worked for Investools (NASDAQ:IEDU) where he served in several executive positions from 1993 to 2000. At Investools, he first joined as an Account Executive and was later appointed Vice President, Business Development charged with selling data and content to brokerage firms and internet service providers in the nascent dot-com era. In this capacity, he built a dynamic portfolio of accounts that included Charles Schwab, Fidelity, AOL, and Netcom Online Communications. For his accomplishments at Accela, Blackman was recognized by Government Technology as one of its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in 2015. In 2016, Ernst and Young awarded him the prestigious Northern California’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Maury holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston and was a commissioned field artillery officer in the United States Army, serving on both active and reserve duty for 10 years. Maury maintains an active lifestyle and is an eleven-time Ironman finisher, including the 2008 and 2013 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona.
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About Premise Data: Premise is a data and analytics platform powered by a global network of on-the-ground contributors, data science, and machine learning.
Geoff Schmidt
CEO and Co-founder of Apollo
Geoff Schmidt is the CEO and Co-founder at Meteor.
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About Apollo, Meteor Development: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Alec Miloslavsky
founder and CEO of EIS Group
Alec Miloslavsky is the founder and CEO of EIS Group.
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About EIS Group: EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets.
Gaurav Dhillon
Chairman & CEO of SnapLogic
Gaurav Dhillon is currently the Chairman and CEO of cloud connection company, SnapLogic. An early investor in SnapLogic, Gaurav Dhillon joined as CEO in 2009 to help realize the potential of its cloud and on-premise integration products, strategy, and unique business model. He is spearheading the company’s rapid growth and manages its financing, products, strategic relationships, and operations. As former CEO of Informatica Corporation, (Nasdaq; INFA) a data integration company that he co-founded in 1992, Gaurav led it from a startup idea to a leading worldwide software enterprise – ultimately forging a broad acceptance of the vision he pioneered. Prior to Informatica, Gaurav held management and engineering positions at Sterling Software and Unisys Corp.
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About SnapLogic: SnapLogic is a software company that provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration.
Puneet Mehta
Founder / CEO of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Vijay Chattha
Founder and CEO of VSC
Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.
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About BlackMahal, The100kPledge, VSC, Wareness.io: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Manu Sharma
Co-founder & CEO of Labelbox
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Elias Manousos
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RiskIQ
Elias is a recognized expert in Internet security and fraud prevention. He has been developing and delivering enterprise protection technologies for more than 15 years. As CEO of RiskIQ, he has spearheaded a new approach that helps Internet, financial services, healthcare, media and consumer packaged goods companies protect their brands from online fraud. Elias is also co-chair of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Anti-Malvertising Working Group and is responsible for Malvertisements.com, the first and only public database documenting malvertising incidents on a continuous basis. Prior to RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), which pioneered identity and access management for web applications. At Securant, he was instrumental in creating now-commonplace technologies for single sign-on (SSO) security.
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Sebastian Tonkin
CEO of Glide
Sebastian Tonkin is the co-founder and CEO of Glide, a software-enabled transaction coordination service for real estate agents. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Cloud Nine Media, a WiFi advertising and sponsorship network that reaches millions of users in thousands of premium travel, retail and transit locations nationwide. The company was acquired by Boingo in 2012. Prior to founding Cloud Nine, Sebastian served as a product marketing manager at Google, where he led acquisition strategy, community management and media for iGoogle (Google’s personalized homepage) and Google Analytics. Sebastian is the author of Performance Marketing with Google Analytics (Wiley, 2010) and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in history.
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About Glide: Glide is a transaction management solution designed to enhance client service at every step of the home sale journey.
Michia Rohrssen
Co-Founder, CEO of Prodigy
Michia Rohrssen is CEO at Prodigy, a growing Auto Startup.
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About Prodigy, Upstart: Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
Gidi Cohen
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies, Gidi Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Gidi Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Gidi Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
Dan Burkhart
CEO & Co-Founder of Recurly
Dan co-founded Recurly with a deep appreciation for the combination of commerce, marketing, business analytics and good user experience design. Dan brings extensive experience from his background of 14 years in roles spanning internet marketing, product marketing, strategic partnerships, business development and corporate development for eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), and NBC Internet. While at eBay, Dan led the Global Buyer Engagement team, the eBay Global Affiliate Program and the eBay Portal and Partner organization. Prior to eBay, Dan was a Sr. Director of Business Development for NBC Internet, where he played a key role in building the company from $20MM in revenue to $120MM. Dan attended the University of Pennsylvania’s, Wharton School for his undergraduate degree in economics and received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. Outside of the office, Dan enjoys being a dad, and taking full advantage of the many benefits of living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Recurly: Subscription billing management SaaS platform powering 2,000+ brands including Sling TV, BarkBox, Asana, FabFitFun, Cinemark & Twitch
Fangjin Yang
Co-Founder and CEO of Imply
Fangjin Yang is a co-author of the open source Druid project and a co-founder of Imply, a data analytics startup based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he held senior engineering positions at Metamarkets (acquired by Snapchat) and Cisco Systems. Fangjin holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Josh Mackanic
Founder & CEO of CivilGrid
Energy industry leader, experienced in organizing and leading multidisciplinary teams to implement large capital infrastructure programs and change initiatives. At PG&E, developed solar power plants on the largest utility owned solar program in the nation, and successfully led the integration of safety automation technology new to natural gas utilities across the country.
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About CivilGrid: Local intelligence for global construction.
Mario Tarabbia
CEO of Outwork
Mario Tarabbia is the founder of PartnerPage.
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About Outwork, PartnerPage: Outwork facilitates partnership between companies within our highly networked economy.
Wendell Brown
CEO & Chairman of Averon
Wendell Brown is the CEO, Chairman and co-founder of Averon. He is a prolific innovator whose creative triumphs include building a global VoIP solution (acquired by Microsoft), founding America’s largest online voicemail platform solution (acquired by AOL), and co-founding Liveops, America’s largest virtual work-at-home call center (honored by the White House in 2010), all of which contribute to the advancement of technology and betterment of society. Wendell is proud of his unique blend of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and West Virginia roots, where his family tree dates back to the Mayflower era. After enjoying his upbringing in the northernmost Appalachian town of Oneonta, he attended Cornell University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Wendell then followed his dreams to Silicon Valley, initially gaining success as a popular video game designer (including blockbuster hits such as Star Wars, Beauty & The Beast, and Nova Blast) and soon thereafter he created the first C-compiler for Mac. Later, as the creator of one of the world’s first mass-market cybersecurity products, WalkSoftly (acquired by Intel), then as a pioneer of work-at-home call centers (Liveops), which greatly increase employment opportunities for veterans and workers with disabilities, and today as the leader of Averon, Wendell’s innovations continue to empower and improve the lives of countless people around the world. He enjoys participating as a speaker, tech judge and advisor in a wide range of communities including the World Economic Forum, DLD Munich & Tel Aviv, XPRIZE, Burning Man, TED, the MITA Tech Talks and more. Wendell is a licensed private pilot, and has been active in the development of new airplane and electric vehicle designs. A strong believer in giving back, he’s created scholarships for underprivileged students, and is a proud founding member of the Human Rights Campaign. In his (rare) spare time, Wendell enjoys international explorations, having visited more than 30 countries as of 2019, and spending quality time at home with his treasured family including beloved Italian greyhound, Magic.
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About Averon: Averon is the developer of the Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA), the first fully automatic, secure mobile identity standard
Michael Gold
Chief Executive Officer of Intermedia
Michael Gold is Intermedia’s president, leading the organization with a focus on profitably growing the company through an increasingly broader set of cloud services – and a superior experience for customers and partners. Gold joined Intermedia in May 2011 as part of the company’s acquisition by leading private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. Gold brings over 15 years of senior management experience in cloud services and channel development. Before joining Intermedia, he was CEO of Zlago, a cloud services company he founded and grew via a nationwide network of managed service providers, VARs, and other channel partners. Previously, Gold was a senior vice president at cloud automation provider Parallels. Gold came to Parallels through its acquisition of Sphera, a cloud services company where he served as CEO. Gold has held a variety of other executive roles in the industry, including CEO of software company Vicorp and senior vice president of Qwest Communications, where he had P&L responsibility for the Internet Products business and launched Qwest’s CyberCenter datacenter and hosting business. Long dedicated to the channel community that supports small and mid-size businesses, he was named one of the 25 most innovative executives by CRN and Everything Channel in 2009 and 2010. Gold earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Stanford.
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About Intermedia, Intermedia: Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Trevor Templar
Chief Executive Officer & President of Aviso
Trevor has a 22 year track record of executing rapid revenue growth for leaders in the SaaS and Enterprise software space. He has built high-performance teams that deliver customer value to the enterprise space. Prior to joining CipherCloud, Templar served as Area Vice President, Enterprise Sales at Salesforce.com where he led one of the company’s largest revenue-generating business groups with multiple years of 100% plus revenue growth. During this time, Salesforce.com’s revenue grew from $1B to over $4B. Trevor has also held sales and sales leadership roles at Oracle, Baan and PTC where he led some of their largest enterprise relationships. Trevor has a dual masters in MIS and Accounting from Arizona State University. He also has a bachelors in mathematics and economics from St Xavier’s
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Daniel Barber
CEO & Co-founder of DataGrail
Daniel Barber is the CEO & Co-founder of DataGrail. Prior to DataGrail, Daniel built and led go-to-market teams at Responsys (acquired by Oracle), ToutApp (acquired by Marketo), Node.io, Datanyze (ZoomInfo), and DocuSign.
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About DataGrail, Forbes Technology Council, GTM Orchestration: DataGrail is a data privacy startup that helps businesses navigate the growing array of privacy regulations.
Jerome Ternynck
Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Justin Davis
Co-Founder & CEO of Spectrum Labs
Currently Spectrum’s Co-Founder & CEO, Justin previously managed and scaled Salesforce’s Data Studio platform as a Product Director. He’s worked for numerous industry stalwarts – including Krux, Adobe, SAS, and Microsoft. Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Shlomi Ben Haim
Co-Founder & CEO of JFrog
Shlomi is Co-Founder and CEO of JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform. He brings over 20 years of experience in building profitable, high-growth information technology companies. Prior to JFrog, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP (acquired in 2005 by MalamTeam) and a Major in the Israeli Air Force. Shlomi holds an MS from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA) and a BA from Ben-Gurion University (Israel).
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About JFrog: JFrog provides software developers with a binary repository management solution.
Sanjoe Jose
CEO & Co-founder of Talview
Sanjoe Tom Jose is a prominent thought leader in the HR Tech space and the founder & CEO of Talview. He is passionate about building technologies that make talent management at organizations more effective and efficient. Some of his innovations include AI-Powered Behavioral Insights and the world’s first Cognitive Proctoring platform. Currently, he is creating a new HR Tech category called the Instahiring Experience platform, which aimed at beating Hiring Lag with the use of AI, Cloud, and Automation technologies. A serial entrepreneur, Sanjoe founded Talview in 2017 and has been driving its vision and strategy since its inception. He is an author and well-known keynote speaker in the areas of AI, Entrepreneurship, and HR Technology. He has spoken at various international forums like Microsoft Industry Days, IBM Business Connect, StartupBridge, SEAAGE, PeopleMatters, etc., and featured in leading podcasts and magazines.
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About Interview Master, Talview: Talview offers a recruiting automation and education tech platform that enables schools to remotely screen, interview, and test students.
Sahil Jain
Co-Founder and CEO of AdStage
Sahil Jain is the CEO and Co-founder of AdStage. Prior to founding AdStage in May 2012, Sahil co-founded his first company, Y-Combinator backed Trigger.io at 20. He dropped out of UC Berkeley, where he studied Philosophy and Econ, to join AOL Corp Devt. at 19, dropped out of High School to join Yahoo! Mobile as an automation engineer at 17 and worked in the professional video game industry before that.
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About AdStage, inresto: AdStage is an advertising technology startup powering paid marketers to understand the business impact of their campaigns.
Nate Smith
Founder & CEO of Lever
Nate is on a mission to build the next generation of enterprise software. He’s our tech visionary and the author of DerbyJS, our JavaScript framework for realtime, collaborative applications. DerbyJS is the first and only open source MVC framework that syncs all data via Operational Transformation, the same algorithm that powers Google Docs. Nate attended Olin College where he majored in electrical and computer engineering. Prior to Lever, Nate was a product manager on the Google Search team. He led the first major redesign of Google’s image search UI, which launched in July 2010.
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About Lever: Lever is a talent acquisition suite that provides talent leaders with the solutions they need to build strong relationships with candidates.
Gaurav Rewari
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Numerify
Gaurav is a co-founder and CEO of Numerify. Most recently, Gaurav was Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle of a $2.5 billion Business Analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle BI and Siebel Analytics product lines. During his tenure, his team furthered Oracle’s industry leading position in analytics, and measurably advanced its BI Platform market share through the acquisition of Endeca and the introduction of the Exalytics in-memory Analytics machine, a product with one of the fastest ramps in Oracle’s history. Gaurav started his career as the first product manager at MicroStrategy where he rose to become VP/GM with responsibility for MicroStrategy’s Product Management, Professional Services & Analytical Applications divisions. He was part of a management team that grew MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through its IPO and into a $200M+ BI products leader. Before Oracle, Gaurav was co-founder & CEO of FirstRain, a venture-backed leader in SaaS search-based market intelligence. Outside Numerify, Gaurav enjoys going on nature treks in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and children. Gaurav holds BS, MS & EE degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the Tau Beta Pi prize for Engineering Excellence, the Robert A. Boit prize in Humanities and was nominated to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Matt Miller
Founder & CEO of Embroker
Matt Miller is the founder and CEO of Embroker, the first modern solution for business insurance. Prior to founding Embroker, he was a Principal at the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, where he led investments in the insurance and software space. While at H&F, he served on the board of directors of HUB International, Applied Systems, and Renaissance Learning. Prior to joining Hellman & Friedman, Matt was a Vice President for Bain Capital in Boston and Hong Kong and a consultant for Bain & Company in New York. Matt graduated summa cum laude from Duke University, and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and co-president of the Private Equity club.
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About Embroker: Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage.
Paul McCabe
CEO of JetBrains
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About Chronon Systems, JetBrains: JetBrains is a software vendor specializing in the creation of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams.
Kirill Makharinsky
Co-Founder, CEO, President & Board Member of Enki
Kirill is the CEO and Founder of Enki, a tech-enabled skills training company. Previously, Kirill cofounded Emerging Travel, a leading online travel agency; and Quid, an intelligence tool for strategy teams. Both companies have over $40M annual net revenue each. Kirill is an Oxford University alum where he graduated with a double first in Mathematics and as the #1 UK Graduate of the Year.
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About Emerging Travel Group, Enki: Enki is maximizing employee potential through modern, tech-enabled skills training.
Peter Gassner
Founder and CEO of Veeva
Peter is responsible for the overall direction and management of Veeva Systems. In 2010, Peter was named to the PharmaVOICE 100, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in the life sciences industry. Peter is a twenty year veteran of the software industry. Prior to founding Veeva, Peter was Senior Vice President of Technology at salesforce.com where he had responsibility for building the salesforce.com platform including product, marketing and developer relations. During Peter’s tenure, salesforce.com completed its public offering and grew the technology into the most successful SaaS platform in the industry. Before salesforce.com, Peter was with PeopleSoft for 9 years as both Chief Architect and General Manager of PeopleTools. Peter led a team of over 450 professionals who provided the development, strategy, marketing and customer support for PeopleSoft’s technology platform. PeopleTools was widely regarded in the industry as the best application platform of its day. Peter began his career with IBM in relational database development and research at IBM Silicon Valley Lab and then at IBM Almaden Research Center where he had the privilege of working closely with some of the inventors of relational database technology. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University.
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Vineet Jain
Co-founder & CEO of Egnyte
Vineet is the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte. Prior to Egnyte, Vineet founded and successfully built Valdero, a supply chain software solution provider, funded by KPCB, MDV and Trinity Ventures. He has held a rich variety of senior operational positions at KPMG and Bechtel. He has 20 years of experience in building capital-efficient and nimble organizations. Vineet earned a BS in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and received an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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About Egnyte, Valdero Corp.: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Jayanth Gummaraju
CEO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Jayanth Gummaraju has over a decade of experience in inventing, designing and building complex computer systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Jayanth worked at VMware where, along with a couple of colleagues, he started VMFork (Instant Clone) and Serengeti (Big Data) projects, and invented some of the key technologies powering vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE). He holds many patents and has published several papers in top tier conferences in the areas of distributed systems, virtualization, and security. He is also a recipient of several awards related to innovation throughout his academic and professional career. Jayanth received his PhD from the Computer Systems Lab. at Stanford University, MS from Univ. of Maryland, College Park, and BE from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Banyan Security: Banyan Security provides a zero trust network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Torben Friehe
CEO of Wingback
Torben Friehe is Co-founder & CEO of Wingback.
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About Wingback: Wingback provides tools and APIs for SaaS pricing and packaging.
Arvind Jain
Founding Member & CEO of Glean
Arvind helped found Glean to make it easy for people to find the information they need to be more productive and happier at work. Prior to Glean, Arvind co-founded Rubrik, one the fastest growing companies in cloud data management, and worked at Google, where he spent over a decade leading various teams in Search, Maps, and YouTube.
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About Glean, Rubrik: Glean is the work assistant with intuition. Search across all your company’s apps to find exactly what you need—instantly.
Jason Boehmig
CEO of Ironclad
Jason Boehmig is the co-founder and CEO at Ironclad, Inc. (YC S15). He previously worked as a startup attorney at Fenwick & West LLP and an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Inc.
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About Fenwick & West, Ironclad: Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management platform used by companies to handle every type of contract workflow.
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Barr Moses
CEO and Co-Founder of Monte Carlo
Barr Moses is the Co-Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo.
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About Monte Carlo: Monte Carlo is a digital data reliability platform designed to monitor and offer alerts for missing or inaccurate data.
Jason Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Slab
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About Slab: Modern Knowledge Base & Wiki for Teams
Jim Yu
Founder & CEO of BrightEdge
Jim Yu is the Founder & CEO of BrightEdge, the leading enterprise SEO Platform. He combines in-depth expertise in developing and marketing large on-demand software platforms with hands-on experience in advanced SEO practices. Prior to founding BrightEdge, Jim was at Salesforce.com where he led a core part of the platform products team that delivered the industry’s first cloud computing platform. At Aether Systems, Jim ran the Product Management Team responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the innovative Scoutware line of wireless products. At Mercator Software (now IBM), Jim directed the development of Mercator Integration Broker, an industry leading enterprise software product, generating over $100 million in revenue. Jim holds an MBA from Stanford University. Master’s of Engineering from the University of Virginia. Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of South Dakota.
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About BrightEdge: BrightEdge, an SEO platform delivering an uplifted ROI, enables marketers to increase revenue from organic search.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Eric Gundersen
CEO of Mapbox
As CEO of Mapbox, Eric coordinates product and business development. Eric is passionate about open data and building open source data visualization tools focused on speed and design. Prior to Mapbox, Eric co-founded Development Seed. Eric is a recognized expert on open data and open source software and has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Nightline, NPR, and others. He holds a master’s degree in international development from American University in Washington, DC, and has dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and international relations.
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About Mapbox: Mapbox is a location data platform for mobile and web applications.
Elena Masolova
Founder & CEO of Eduson
Founder & CEO at Eduson. Investor at TokenStars, the first celebrity management platform on the blockchain.
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About Eduson: Eduson is a corporate eLearning platform.
Phil Tee
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO and Herd Leader of Moogsoft
Phil Tee is Chairman and CEO of Moogsoft. He made an indelible mark in information technology by co-founding Omnibus Transport Technologies Limited (OTT) in 1993 to build and market Netcool/Omnibus. OTT was folded into Micromuse (Nasdaq: MUSE) in 1994 and Netcool/Omnibus became the company’s flagship product. This technology continues to be the in the core of the management support systems in the world’s largest networks in the form of IBM Tivoli Netcool. In 1997, Phil founded Riversoft (LSE: RSFT) to solve the problem of root cause analysis; the technology acquired by Micromuse and the software subsequently became part of the IBM Tivoli Netcool suite. Phil then went on to lead Njini, producing a revolutionary and early data and storage software layer with data de-duplication and information lifecycle management (ILM) capabilities. The company’s technology was acquired by Riverbed (Nasdaq:RVBD). In 2008, Phil founded Promethyan to gestate multiple startups concurrently. Two Promethyan children of note include Prelert and RiverMuse.
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Tobi Knaup
Co-CEO of D2iq
Tobi Knaup was one of the first engineers and engineering leaders at Airbnb. At Airbnb, he wrote large parts of the infrastructure including the search and fraud prediction services. He helped scale the site to millions of users and build a world class engineering team. Tobi is the main author of Marathon, an Apache Mesos framework for managing long-running services.
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About D2iq: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Joseph Walla
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloSign
Joseph is the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco based startup HelloSign. The idea behind HelloSign was sparked by Joseph’s first successful product alongside co-founder Neal O’Mara, HelloFax. HelloFax launched in 2011 after attending the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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About HelloFax, HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Matthew Greeley
Founder & CEO of Brightidea
Matthew Greeley is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Brightidea, the global leader in On-Demand Innovation Pipeline Management (IPM) software. Prior to founding Brightidea, Matthew consulted for Wrenchead.com, helping them to raise capital at a $100 million valuation from investors including: Polaris Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and CBS Corporation. Before joining Wrenchead.com, Matthew co-founded Silicon Valley enterprise software provider Alyanza Software, which was acquired by Niku eight months after founding, yielding triple digit returns to early investors. Matthew began his career at FMK Advisors, an east coast hedge fund, where he focused on marketing and fund raising. He holds a Degree in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and studied Creativity and Marketing at Stanford University.
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About Brightidea: Brightidea provides on-demand innovation management software and a SaaS platform that supports collaboration and crowdsourced feedback.
Cedric Bru
CEO & President of Taulia
Cedric Bru is President and CEO of Taulia, the Fintech company revolutionizing cash flows and supplier financing. He has more than 20 years of experience and a proven executive management track in financial services and technology companies like Visa and Hewlett-Packard. Cedric holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. In addition to his dedication to his career, Cedric is passionate about his family, art, and a good game of rugby, tennis, or golf.
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About Taulia: Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies.
Guy Marion
CEO & Founder of Brightback
Guy Marion is Chief Marketing Officer at Autopilot, where he spearheads Autopilot’s go-to-market strategy and operations. Guy has spent the past decade at the forefront of the shift towards all things Cloud & SaaS, having helped grow several enterprise companies into successful businesses. Prior to joining Autopilot, Guy served as Senior Director at Zendesk where he helped rapidly grow Zendesk’s core SaaS business. Prior to Zendesk, Guy grew and eventually sold his own company, Codesion, to CollabNet Inc., where he served as VP/GM of Cloud Services. Guy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Stanford and Ph.D in Paleoceanography from The University of Queensland.
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About Brightback: Brightback offers entreprenurial advice to subscription-based businesses on customer lifetime value.
Rowan Trollope
CEO of Five9
Rowan Trollope joined Five9 as CEO in 2018. Rowan Trollope, is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group, which develops collaboration solutions. He leads a global team responsible for identifying key market transitions in collaboration and managing future growth, expansion, and continued innovation. The group’s portfolio includes collaboration software, devices, infrastructure, and services that enable video collaboration, unified communications, customer contact centers, conferencing, mobility, and desktop virtualization. This includes such solutions as Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, and Cisco WebEx. Prior to joining Cisco, Trollope was the Group President of the SMB and the Symantec.cloud Business Unit where he lead Symantec’s sales, marketing and product development teams in the small and midsized business (SMB) segment as well as Symantec.cloud, the company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. He was responsible for driving Symantec’s SaaS strategy and expanding cloud-based delivery and customer support models across the Symantec technology portfolio with a focus on enabling the company to better serve the SMB customer segment. In his time at Symantec he was responsible for the Norton line of consumer products, including Norton Internet Security, Norton AntiVirus and Norton 360; and for key enterprise security solutions, including Symantec Security Information Manager and Symantec Enterprise Security Manager. He holds a variety of patents in computer security and operating systems maintenance.
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About Five9, Forum Ventures, NortonLifeLock: Five9 is a cloud-based call center software company that specializes in sales, marketing, and customer service.
Orion Hindawi
CEO & Co-Founder of Tanium
Orion Hindawi co-founded Tanium in 2007 and serves as its chief executive officer. Orion leads product strategy and development of the Tanium Platform, in addition to all customer-facing technical operations and management functions. A technology visionary and accomplished inventor, Orion has led the development of enterprise-scale endpoint security and management platforms for the past 18 years at BigFix, Inc. (acquired by IBM in 2010) and Tanium, in addition to holding multiple software patents in the areas of network communications and systems management. Orion works closely with Tanium customers on a daily basis in the pursuit of inventing new approaches for solving the significant challenges IT departments face securing and managing large, global enterprise environments. Orion also serves on the Tanium Board of Directors.
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About Tanium: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
Al Eisaian
Co-Founder & CEO of IntelinAir
Al Eisaian is the Co-Founder & CEO at IntelinAir.
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About IntelinAir: IntelinAir is an agriculture focused aerial imagery analytics company that delivers actionable intelligence to help farmers make decisions.
Mohit Lad
Co-Founder & CEO of ThousandEyes
Mohit Lad received a Ph.D. from UCLA where he worked on building systems for Internet routing fault diagnosis and security. Mohit built Link-Rank, tool for visualizing routing dynamics. His work on route hijacking led to PHAS, one of the first systems to detect and alert on routing security problems. Mohit spent a year at Nokia building tools for analyzing the quality of Nokia’s mobile services. Since January 2010, Mohit has been involved in Thousand Eyes, a company he co-founded with Ricardo Oliveira.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sai Prashanth Soundararaj
Co-founder & CEO of FloydHub
Sai Prashanth Soundararaj is Co-founder at FloydHub.
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About FloydHub: FloydHub is a deep learning platform for training and deploying your machine learning and AI models in the cloud.
Matt Wilkinson
Founder & CEO of SameSide
Entrepreneur, Growth Exec, Crossover B2B/B2C. Now CEO @ SameSide
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About Esellas, SameSide: B2B Commerce Enablement Platform for Buyers
Aneel Bhusri
CEO & Co-Founder of Workday
Aneel Bhusri is co-founder and chief executive officer at Workday. He is also a member of the company’s board of directors, and served as chairman of the board from 2012 until May 2014. Aneel has been a leader, product visionary, and innovator in the enterprise software industry for more than 20 years.In addition to his role at Workday, Aneel serves on the boards of Intel, Cloudera, Okta, and Pure Storage. He is also an advisory partner at Greylock, a leading venture capital firm that he has been associated with since 1999.
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
Igor Zhadanov
CEO & Co-founder of Readdle
• Igor Zhadanov is co-founder and CEO of Readdle, one of the most successful publishers of productivity software on iOS platform • Split between Odessa, Ukraine and California, Readdle is a team of 120 people that create top class mobile software. More than 75 million users across the globe has chosen Readdle’s products, including business customers like Siemens, BMW, Deustche Bank, Henry Schein and Roche • Igor holds Master degrees in Computer Science and International Business and has spent time in software development, online marketing and C-level executive roles before starting Readdle back in 2007. Igor’s current focus is creating highly scalable products to impact personal lives and business environments
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About Readdle: Readdle is a developer of iOS productivity apps such as Spark, Documents, Scanner Pro, PDF Expert and Calendars 5.
Peter Louis Johnston
Founder & CEO of Kalo
Peter Johnston is the founder and CEO of Kalo, the world’s leading freelancer management platform used by clients including AirBnB, Google, Popsugar and The Economist to manage over 70,000 freelancers globally. As a Design Lead at Google, Johnston relied heavily on freelancers and found that much of his time was spent coordinating with little time left for design. Frustrated by these processes, he set out to improve them and so created Kalo.
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About Kalo: Kalo provides an online platform that enables businesses to manage their external workforces.
Charles Giancarlo
CEO & Chairman of Pure Storage
Charles Giancarlo has served on the Vectra Networks board of directors since April 2014 and was previously an advisor to the company. Giancarlo is a Senior Advisor to Silver Lake Partners and was previously Managing Director and Head of Value Creation. He previously served as a senior executive at Cisco Systems, most recently as executive vice president and chief development officer. At Cisco, he led the company’s overall product development and management activities and was responsible for over 80 percent of the company’s revenue. Giancarlo serves on the boards of Accenture, Arista, Blue Jeans Network, Imperva, ItsOn, ServiceNow and Soraa, and is the chairman of the board of Avaya. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Brown University where he serves on the board of trustees, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley where he serves on the board of advisors, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Nicolai Wadstrom
CEO, Founder & General Partner of BootstrapLabs
Nicolai is the Founder and CEO of BootstrapLabs, a leading venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. And today one of the most active firm in the Applied Artificial Intelligence space. Nicolai launched his first business at 15, first tech startup in his early 20’s, and launched BootstrapLabs in San Francisco Bay Area in 2008. He brings 25+ years of operational experience as founding CEO & CTO scaling software technology platforms in VR (90’s), Internet, Financial Trading Systems (publicly listed on NASDAQ:OMX), Enterprise Software, etc. Through BootstrapLabs he has invested in, advised, and mentored 40+ companies and founding teams, helping them successfully build and scale proprietary technology, products, teams and operations Applying lifetime of operational, entrepreneurial and technology product development experience to support the BootstrapLabs portfolio companies to build and scale He is also a frequent speaker and mentor at top Universities and Conferences in the US and Europe on topics such as Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Disruption, Startups and Venture Capital.
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About BootstrapLabs: BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
David Barrett
Founder, CEO & Director of Expensify
David Barrett is the founder of Expensify, the lead engineer of Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai, from which he was dramatically fired), and all around alpha geek. David started programming when he was 6 and it has been his primary activity ever since, with a brief hiatus for world travel, technical writing, project management, and now running Expensify. David is married to an opera singer, and has without question the cutest beagle known to man. http://twitter.com/expensify http://twitter.com/quinthar **UDPATE** – I’m desperate to hire good folk: check out http://we.are.expensify.com/ for more info.
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About Expensify: Expensify is a financial services company that provides an online expense management service for businesses.
Zachary Rosen
Co-Founder & CEO of Pantheon
Zack Rosen is the CEO & Co-Founder at Pantheon.
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About California YIMBY, Chapter Three., Covid Act Now, Mission Bicycle Company, Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Matt Martin
Co-Founder & CEO of Clockwise
Previously a civil litigator at an Am Law 100 firm in Minneapolis, founder of inbode, and founder MN Publius. Holds a B.A. from Dartmouth and a J.D. from UPenn in Philadelphia.
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About alesforce.com, Clockwise, LegalReach, RelateIQ: Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
Scott Burgess
Founder & CEO of Continu
Scott Burgess is the Founder & CEO of Continu.
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About Continu: Continu is the World’s First Learning Amplification Platform™ helping companies train teams better!
Jim Kaskade
Chief Executive Officer of Conversica
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About Conversica: Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Eric Mathewson
Founder & CEO of WideOrbit
Eric Mathewson is the Founder and CEO of WideOrbit, the leading provider of advertising management solutions for media companies. Since its founding in 1999, WideOrbit has grown to be the media management platform of choice for over 70% of US television stations.
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About Prescient Capital, WideOrbit: WideOrbit provides advertising management software for major media companies.
David Hsu
Founder, CEO of Retool
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About Retool: Build internal software fast.
Rajiv Ramaswami
President & CEO of Nutanix
Dr. Rajiv Ramaswami has served as a director of NeoPhotonics since March 2014. Dr. Ramaswami serves as executive vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s Infrastructure & Networking Group. Previously he was Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Services and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he also served as Vice President and General Manager for a variety of business units in Optical, Switching and Storage Networking. Prior to joining Cisco, he served in various technical and leadership positions at Xros, Tellabs and IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Ramaswami holds both a master of science degree and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. He holds 34 U.S. patents primarily in optical networking, and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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About Nutanix: Nutanix is a virtualized datacenter platform that provides disruptive datacenter infrastructure solutions for business applications.
Michael Tung
Founder and CEO of Diffbot
Mike Tung is CEO at Diffbot.He is also an adviser at the Stanford StartX accelerator and the leader of Stanford’s entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Prior to Diffbot,Mike was a patent lawyer, a grad student in the Stanford AI lab, and a software engineer at eBay, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Mike studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Artificial Intelligence at Stanford.
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About Diffbot: Diffbot is an AI startup that provides knowledge as a service to power intelligent applications.
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO of Horizon3.ai
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About Horizon3.ai: Horizon3.ai leverages autonomous Pentesting to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
Founder & CEO of Trellis
Pranav Sood is the founder of Trellis and also works as the founder of Sood Partners. He is previously affiliated with Hudson’s Bay Company as the manager for profit improvement and procurement (IT). He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Richard Ivey School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in management and organizational studies at University of Western.
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About Sood Partners, Trellis: Trellis is a seed-to-sale cannabis management software that support cultivators, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
Benjamin Duranske
Co-Founder and CEO of Beam
Ben is a fintech compliance and product leader with deep experience across the financial services, regulatory, and technology industries. Before co-founding Beam, Ben served as Chief Compliance Officer of Facebook Payments from the subsidiary’s 2010 formation through mid-2015. While at Facebook, Ben built a global compliance team, managed worldwide licenses and regulator relationships, and directed internal compliance software builds and external compliance software requisition. Prior to Facebook, Ben worked at PayPal, and before that, he represented payments and platform companies in private practice as an attorney. Ben has also consulted with and served on the Boards of Directors of several FinTechs, including startups and established companies, and taught classes at Santa Clara Law. He earned his J.D. at the University of California Berkeley, Boalt Hall.
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About Beam: Innovative Compliance for the Future of Finance.
Jeff Yasuda
CEO & Founder of Feed Media Group
Jeff is the CEO and Founder of Feed.fm (Feed Media Inc.). Feed.fm helps game developers, content publishers, and e-commerce retailers increase customer engagement, retention, and conversions by incorporating popular music into their environments– at the lowest possible cost. These engagement metric improvements in turn improve financial metrics– including increased ARPU (average revenue per user), reduced average CAC (customer acquisition cost), and lower churn. API documentation and links to the iOS, Javascript, and Unity SDKs can be found at http://feed.fm/documentation. Music has always been an important part of Jeff’s life and he considers himself a bona fide hack on guitar. Prior to Blip.fm, Jeff has worked with numerous technology companies in software, hardware, computer services, semiconductor services and telecommunications equipment companies. Most recently, Jeff was Managing Director and CFO of Redwood Ventures where he managed investments in their technology portfolio. Prior to that he worked in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers, and did strategic consulting, M&A and financial valuation at Arthur Andersen. Jeff is a CPA, has an MBA from New York University, and a BA from Dartmouth College. He is also a co-founding director for Little Kids Rock, a non-profit helping to teach music to children in our public schools.
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About Feed Media Group, Fuzz: Feed Media Group is for businesses that need licensed popular music to create engaging customer experiences.
Salvatore Sferlazza
CEO of Ninja RMM
Sferlazza is a Co-Founder & CEO at Ninja RMM.
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About LaunchCapital.co, Ninja RMM: Ninja RMM is a remote monitoring and management software for managed IT service providers and Corporate IT.
Ashfaq Munshi
CEO of Pepperdata
Before joining Pepperdata, Ash was executive chairman for Marianas Labs, a deep learning startup sold in December 2015. Prior to that, he was CEO for Graphite Systems, a big data storage startup that was sold to EMC DSSD in August 2015. Ash also served as CTO of Yahoo, as a CEO of both public and private companies, and is on the board of several technology startups. Ash attended Harvard University, Brown University, and Stanford University.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Pepperdata, Terabitz: Pepperdata products provide observability and continuous tuning for the big data analytics stack.
Chris Babel
CEO of TrustArc
Chris Babel is the CEO of TRUSTe and a recognized authority on Internet trust and privacy. Chris possesses over a 15 years of experience building online trust, and since joining TRUSTe five years ago has overseen its transformation into the leading global data privacy management company. Chris is a privacy thought leader, as he frequently speaks at industry events such as the IAPP Data Protection Congress, the Privacy Identity Innovation Conference and the IoT Privacy Summit. He is also widely quoted as a privacy expert in well-known publications such as PCWorld, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Before joining TRUSTe, Chris spent over a decade building online trust, most recently in the security industry as Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign’s worldwide Authentication Services business, where he was responsible for strategy, sales, marketing, product and support. Chris also previously managed VeriSign’s SSL and Managed Security Services business. In these roles he helped grow the businesses though the launch of new products to enterprise and small/medium businesses, international expansion in EMEA and Asia and through acquisition and integration of a number of companies. Chris holds a BA in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Economics with Highest Distinction from Northwestern University and lives with his wife and three sons in San Francisco.
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About TrustArc: TrustArc provides solutions to manage privacy compliance for the GDPR, CCPA, and other global privacy regulations.
Adrian Ionel
CEO, Co-founder & Chairman of Mirantis
Adrian Ionel is the CEO of Mirantis, and its co-founder as an OpenStack company. He joined in 2009 and initiated the company’s investment in OpenStack in 2010. Since then the company grew from five to over one hundred customers, becoming the OpenStack market leader and one of the most respected brands in cloud infrastructure. Adrian leads Mirantis’ vision and strategy, and the company’s overall development rooted in a culture of customer intimacy, engineering excellence and risk taking as its foundation for long-term prosperity.Prior to Mirantis Adrian was CEO, Chairman and co-founder of eOnline, (now part of Xerox), VP and General Manager EMEA at Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) and Venture Partner at Trident Capital. He earned a MSEE degree from the University of Erlagen-Nuernberg and spent his early years in R&D and product management. A Romanian by birth Adrian lived in the UK, Germany and Japan and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995. Outside work he loves trail runs, power yoga, spending time with family and the occasional mountain biking ride.
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
Ioan Iacob
Founder and CEO of FLOWX.AI
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About FLOWX.AI: FLOWX.AI wraps and orchestrates legacy systems, making it super fast for enterprises to create digital apps for mission-critical flows.
Matthew Roche
CEO of Extole
Matthew is currently the CEO and Founder of Extole, the Enterprise leader in referral marketing. He has started and run internet marketing software companies since 1997, and has led successful companies in ecommerce, dynamic display advertising, curation, and optimization. Matthew was a founder and the CEO of Offermatica, a landing page optimization and testing infrastructure company. Acquired by Omniture in 2007, it is now known as Adobe Test and Target and serves billions of optimized experiences every week. In 1996 he co-founded Fort Point Partners, an e-commerce systems integrator responsible for building Egghead.com, the first web site to sell $1,000,000 in one day, as well as Bestbuy.com, Nike.com, and others. Matthew is a graduate of Yale University and has served on the boards of Envision Schools, a Charter School and Habitat for Humanity.
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About Extole: Extole helps enterprise companies acquire new customers at scale from their existing customers.
Aman Mann
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Procurify
Crazy Passion for Innovation or just Crazy! Aman is our Chief Executive Officer. He creates, communicates, and implements the organization’s vision, mission, and overall direction. His experience in the business world and understanding of needs is a tremendous asset to the company. When he is not working, he is usually working out or trying to expand his mind with new adventures. Recently, he participated in the Tough Mudder 2012 competition in Whistler, BC.
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About Procurify: Procurify streamlines purchases, gives optimized spending, and increases visibility throughout the entire procure-to-pay process.
Marcin Kleczynski
CEO of Malwarebytes
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About Malwarebytes: Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Daniel Kwak
Co-Founder & CEO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
Elay Cohen
CEO & Co-Founder of Saleshood
Elay Cohen is the Co-founder & CEO of SalesHood, a Sales Enablement Platform Company. Elay is an author and recognized as top Innovative “Mover and Shaker” in sales leadership by Entrepreneur magazine and recognized by LinkedIn as one of the world’s top sales experts. He’s the former Senior Vice President, Sales Productivity at Salesforce from $500M to $3B in revenue and recognized by Marc Benioff as Salesforce’s “2011 Executive of the Year.” He created Partner Relationship Management category and product line at Salesforce. Born in Toronto, Elay lives in San Francisco.
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About Saleshood: SalesHood is the all-in-one sales enablement platform helping companies reduce ramp time, lift attainment, accelerate sales and revenue.
Erik Larson
Founder & CEO of Cloverpop
Cloverpop is a product of Erik’s desire for people to be happy at work, his passion for building great things and his curiosity about how our brains create our minds, our minds perceive our world, and our world becomes what we decide it to be. An Illinois farm boy turned MIT rocket scientist and Harvard MBA, Erik spent the past decade launching a dozen v1.0 SaaS products at Adobe and Macromedia. He’s also happily married to a wonderful wife with two cute kids and two dazzling dogs. On the weekends you’ll find them hiking, biking and skiing around Northern California.
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About Cloverpop: Cloverpop’s enterprise platform is the way to keep track of decisions in Slack. Make better decisions 2x faster with 100 percent visibility.
Mike Gonzalez
CEO of Trace
I’m CEO and co-founder of Trace, an intelligent spend management platform for modern businesses. We help finance teams get real-time spend visibility, close their books faster and more accurately, and empower employees while reducing risk. Trace provides flexible purchase workflows built for how businesses spend today. We own the full lifecycle of the transaction from purchase request to payment and reconciliation. We’re hiring! See openings at: angel.co/tracehq
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About Trace: Trace provides collaborative workflows and analytics for companies to better manage financial services like budgeting, spending, and hiring.
Adam Compain
CEO of ClearMetal
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About ClearMetal: Leading Supply Chain & Logistics Solution Utilizing Continuous Delivery Experience (CDX)
Tim Keeler
Founder & CEO of Remediant
Timothy Keeler is the co-founder and CEO of Remediant.
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About Remediant: Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse.
Sijie Guo
Founder and CEO of StreamNative
Sijie Guo is the founder of StreamNative. StreamNative is an infrastructure startup focusing on building cloud native event streaming systems on Apache Pulsar. Previously, he was the tech lead for the Messaging Group at Twitter, where he co-created Apache DistributedLog, and worked on push notification infrastructure at Yahoo. He is also the VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC Member of Apache Pulsar.
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About StreamNative: StreamNative offers an streaming platform based on Apache Pulsar that enables companies to access enterprise data as real-time streams.
Lucian Tarnowski
CEO & Founder of BraveNew
Lucian is Founder and CEO of BraveNew.com, the enterprise platform for knowledge sharing communities. BraveNew ‘Communities of Purpose’ enable organisations such as Lockheed Martin, Mercer, Manpower and the Collaborative Health Network to use curated content to connect, engage and develop stakeholders inside and outside of the company around any initiative such as Veterans, STEM, Women, Diversity, Health, Sustainability and Leadership development. BraveNew is creating the ‘Knowledge Graph’ by mapping members informal learning. Through peer-to-peer learning communities BraveNew is helping its client break down the knowledge silos that exist everywhere and over time identify collective intelligence of communities. The company has been awarded the Best Advance in Social Learning Technology by Brandon Hall Group. Lucian lives with his wife in San Francisco. He has been honoured as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum and is winner of the Global Enterprising Young Brit. He has served on the Steering Board for a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Talent Mobility and has been Topic Champion for Employment and Skills. He obsesses over the social science behind communities and believes communities give humans both meaning and context in increasingly complex world. Lucian is passionate about using technology and communities to disrupt the way people learn and has worked in vocational education from the age of 9. In his spare time he runs Take Heart India, a 50 year old no overheads charity started by his father that provides blind and handicapped people in rural India with the vocational employment skills to required to get lifelong employment or start a small business. He sits on the Board of Innovate Educate, a US Foundation that aims to bridge the skills gap with a demand driven approach to jobs. He has spoken at gatherings such as Davos, TEDx, The China Digital Summit and for companies such as Coca-Cola, Oracle, Pearson, IBM and PWC. He speaks to audiences around the world about the convergence of talent and technology and its impact on the future of the global workforce and learning.
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About BraveNew, Civana, The World Economic Forum: BraveNew enables collaborative learning by creating engaging online spaces for professional communities to share knowledge.
Kristy Gannon
CEO of Fluxx
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About Fluxx: Fluxx is a cloud platform that provides innovative grants management software solutions for funders and doers.
Joris Poort
Co-Founder & CEO of Rescale
Joris is responsible for leading the management team at Rescale. Prior to founding Rescale, Joris worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company on product development engagements in the high-tech sector. Joris began his career at Boeing, where he worked for four years as a structural and software engineer on the 787 program, optimizing the design of the tail and wings.
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About Rescale: Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.
Arijit Sengupta
CEO and Co-Founder of Aible
Arijit Sengupta is the CEO of Aible, former CEO of BeyondCore, the Chair of the Big Data and Advanced Analytics SIG at the Service Research and Innovation Institute (SRII), and a member of the Cyber Security Advisory Group set up by NASSCOM and the Government of India. BeyondCore is a market-leading Advanced Analytics firm that received awards such as Gartner Cool Vendor in Business Process Services 2012, GigaOm Structure Launchpad 2011 and the UP2010 Overall Most Innovative Cloud Provider. Arijit has guest lectured at Stanford and other universities on globalization and outsourcing; spoken at conferences in a dozen countries; and was written about in The World Is Flat release 3.0, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, and other leading publications. Arijit held leadership positions at several eBusiness initiatives and previously worked at Oracle, Microsoft, and Yankee Group. He has been granted eight patents in the domains of advanced analytics, Business Process as a Service, business process improvement, operational risk, privacy and information security. Arijit holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and Bachelor degrees with Distinction in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford University.
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About Aible, Service Research & Innovation Institute: Aible enables business people to create Real World AI that delivers measurable business impact in a way that’s simple, fast, and secure.
