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 Internet 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.
Guillermo Rauch
CEO & Founder of Vercel
Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He’s the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.
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About Vercel: Vercel is a platform that enables users to develop, preview, and ship Jamstack sites.
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Daniel Curran
Founder & CEO of CustEx
57%+ / yr. liquid returns >>> https://danielcurran.substack.com/ Forbes #7 rank: bit.ly/2Oh7XhF **Only interested in start ups OVER $40k MRR w/o competition! Eqvista #5 rank: https://eqvista.com/top-100-active-angel-investors-list-for-startups/ Media/PR: https://billionairechronicle.com/daniel-curran-super-angel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAUJzDCa3Q&t=2s https://angelconnect.libsyn.com/investor-connect-episode-122-daniel-curran-of-silicon-valley https://thesyndicate.vc/angel-investor-hit-4-unicorn-companies-using-simple-investment-framework-super-angel-daniel-curran/ https://borsen.dk/soeg/daniel%20curran Bad Ass x-Rocket Scientist Rock Star! Read my 110+ Founder recommendations below. We share deal flow with billionaire Family Offices, Midas List VC’s, and other Forbes superangels. Passions: stopping/reversing human aging/immortality/parabiosis, bci, brain emulation/download, quantum teleportation, & cryonics. CustEx launches website/app soon to help Biden Admin get voters’ demands right. Benefits corp innovation, BLM, prevents civil unrest, as THE place for ads and co-creation. 2020 EBRD-led B round: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/allset-series-b/ 2017 Greycroft deal: bit.ly/2ylWbLB 2016 A16Z deal: bit.ly/2d67xJc Fortune 500 $16B WDC pivot from $2.20 to $114/share! Relentless, visionary Tech entrepreneur builds $B companies that improve world. Founded 14 startups, invested cash in 178+, created 1k+ jobs, personally netted investors $170M in exits. Startups I endorse get oversubscribed by top vc’s fast! As Angel Investor: $1B+ cash exits < 1 year @decacorn Cruise @DollarShaveClub: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/daniel-curran https://angel.co/dcurran-custex-com https://fundersclub.com/danielcurran/ Claims to Fame: -Founder/CEO, USLab NASDAQ IPO in 1998: raised $130M -VP & acting COO@Western Digital Silicon Valley sub [$40M sale to Brocade/PMCS/Snap, 2001], -Founder/CEO of 1st company [AlaStor, 2003] to converge IP+FC SAN, adopted by Cisco Systems [Andiamo], -Founder/CEO of CustEx Internet Platform [2012] Experienced ramping up companies using innate ability to quickly size up a company’s position & execute pro-customer action + cash-flow results. Began career at large companies as a software engineer and morphed into a business entrepreneur/CXO at startups with responsibility for up to 250 teammates Made sales ramp from $2M to $100M in 8 months as VP & acting COO of Western Digital’s Silicon Valley Connex Unit. Earned multiple top eng. school master's degrees (Illinois-PhD dropout, USC-cert, Penn State)
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About CustEx: If Google’s a nice-to-have, CustEx is a must-have. Try living without a voice.
Richard Socher
CEO of you.com
Richard Socher is the CEO and Founder of you.com.
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About you.com: You.com is a search engine that helps users find what they’re looking for by prioritizing real results.
Sam Parr
Co-Founder & CEO of The Hustle
Sam is the founder & CEO of The Hustle – one of America’s fastest-growing media companies with a focus on millennials, tech, and culture. He also runs Hustle Con, an annual conference in San Francisco that showcases non-technical startup founders.
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About Hustle Con, The Hustle: The Hustle is helping young professionals make better decisions throughout their day starting with business news.
Ali Partovi
Founder & CEO of Neo
Ali Partovi heads Neo, a mentorship community and VC fund that brings together tech veterans to invest in the diverse leaders of tomorrow. Ali invests in people smarter than himself and has backed Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, & Uber. He co-founded Code.org (Hour of Code) to bring Computer Science to classrooms. Ali grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, attended Harvard, and sold his first startup, LinkExchange, in 1998. He’s passionate about sustainable food and loves climbing, guitar, puzzles, and family.
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About Code.org, Neo: Neo is a mentorship community and VC fund that brings together a diverse group of tech veterans to accelerate tomorrow’s leaders.
Sanjit Biswas
CEO of Samsara
Sanjit Biswas is the Founder and CEO at Samsara. He is a former CEO and a co-founder of Meraki, where he managed day-to-day operations from inception through the $1.2 billion acquisition by Cisco in 2012. He now serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Cisco Cloud Networking Group, headquartered in San Francisco. Sanjit has been recognized as a TR35 honoree by MIT Technology Review, Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and has received awards for academic research in computer networking.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Matthew Gould
Co-Founder & CEO of Unstoppable Domains
Matthew is a co-founder of an Ethereum startup working to put domain names on the blockchain. Matthew is a serial entrepreneur building among other things the first consumer rating system on Bitcoin (Forum) and Verified News, an ethereum app to validate the truthfulness of news stories on the blockchain. Matthew is also a alumni from YC startup Talkable, helping grow the company from 5 to 50 people. Recently his company was awarded a grant from the Ethereum Foundation to build a batteries included front end library for ethereum development (Browseth). Additionally Matthew is a mentor with the ENS foundation annual hackathon which is building the protocol layer for blockchain based domain names on Ethereum.
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About BuyETHdomain, Unstoppable Domains: Unstoppable Domains launches domains secured by blockchains and builds uncensorable websites.
Garrett Camp
Founder and CEO of Expa
Garrett Camp is the Founder of Aero.
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About Aero, Eco, Expa, Operator, Uber, Uber Eats, Uber India: Expa supports early-stage startups through expertise, access, and funding.
Tim Chen
Founder and CEO of NerdWallet
Tim Chen is the founder and CEO of NerdWallet. A former hedge fund equity analyst specializing in payment processing companies, credit card networks, and technology companies, Tim also worked as an equity research analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in economics. In addition to writing for NerdWallet, Tim regularly contributes to several major personal finance publications.
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About NerdWallet: NerdWallet develops a financial platform to help people find the right credit cards and mortgage rates.
Shawn Fanning
Chief Executive Officer of Rupture
Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine. The site in its initial free P2P incarnation was shut down in 2001 after the company’s unsuccessful appeal of court orders arising from its encouraging the illegal sharing of copyrighted material. A paid subscription version of the site followed, and was purchased by Rhapsody on December 1, 2011. Following his involvement with Napster, he joined, and invested in, a number of early-stage technology startup companies.
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About Airtime, Electronic Arts, Helium, Rupture: Rupture is an online social network that allows gamers to connect and share with one another.
MacLane Wilkison
Co-Founder & CEO of NuCypher
MacLane Wilkison is the cofounder and CEO of NuCypher, a Y Combinator and Polychain Capital-backed company that provides decentralized key management and cryptographic access controls for decentralized applications. He is a software engineer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he provided M&A and financing services to enterprises in technology, media, and telecommunications. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and certified Financial Risk Manager.
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About NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Prerna Gupta
Founder & CEO of HOOKED
Prerna Gupta is the Founder & CEO at HOOKED.
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About HOOKED: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
Aakash Kumar
Founder & CEO of Shiftsmart
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About Shiftsmart: Shiftsmart is a labor-management marketplace connecting part-time workers with open shifts across multiple platforms.
Tammy Camp
Founder & CEO of Stronghold
Tammy is the CEO of Stronghold, an API platform that creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks. Tammy served as the first Head of Growth at Stellar, helping the network grow to 4 million users in its first two months. A former partner at accelerator 500 Startups, she invested in portfolio companies and ran the growth and marketing curriculum for its flagship Silicon Valley location. She is a graduate of Singularity University’s GSP11 in Exponential Technologies at NASA Ames where she first learned about Bitcoin from legendary cryptographer Ralph Merkle.
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About Action Factory, Stronghold: Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that give developers access legacy and next-generation payment networks through a simple API.
Richard Bronson
CEO and Founder of 70 Million Jobs
Richard’s story begins on Wall Street, where he worked at several large investment banks. He became a partner at the infamous Wolf of Wall Street firm, Stratton Oakmont, then went on to found his own financial services firm, which he grew to 500 people, generating $100 million in annual revenue. Unfortunately, some of his business practices were outside the law, and despite having paid everyone back, he was convicted of securities fraud, and served two years in a federal prison. Upon release, he was destitute and homeless, but got back on his feet, and became Director of Defy Ventures, a prominent non-profit in the reentry space. In 2016, he left Defy to launch 70MillionJobs, where he serves as CEO.
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About 70 Million Jobs, Commissary Club, The Yard: 70MillionJobs is the first national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal records.
Jeffrey Byun
CEO, Co-Founder of BLADE
Jeffrey Byun is the CEO of BLADE – a new cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. Previously, he was the CEO of OrderAhead – a mobile ordering/payments startup that was acquired by Square. Prior to that, Jeffrey was a fixed income trader at Morgan Stanley and BofA Merrill Lynch. Jeffrey is a graduate of MIT and Penn.
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About BLADE: BLADE is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange
Jesse Pickard
CEO of Elevate Labs
Jesse Pickard is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Elevate.
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About Elevate Labs: Elevate is a cognitive training tool designed to build communication and analytical skills.
Jonathan Matus
Founder & CEO of Zendrive
Jonathan Matus Prior to Redpoint, Jonathan Matus spent 6 years at Facebook and Google, where he’s been focused on various mobile and speech-recognition projects. At Google, one of the early Android team members, Jonathan managed product marketing for the platform’s software releases and device launches globally. During his tenure, the OS grew from zero to global best-selling mobile platform. In his role as Head of Product Marketing in Asia Pacific Jonathan lived in Tokyo and jumpstarted regional device launches and relationships all over Asia. Jonathan received the Google Founders Award and Android Founders Award in recognition for his contributions.
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Ben Silbermann
Co-Founder & CEO of Pinterest
Ben (@8en) grew up in Iowa, where he spent a lot of time collecting bugs. Today, he helps millions of people collect and discover the things they love as co-founder and CEO of Pinterest. Before Pinterest, Ben worked at Google on AdSense and studied at Yale. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons. Previously, Silbermann worked at Google in the sales organization; however, after a short time with the company he left and started designing his own iPhone apps with a college friend, Paul Sciarra. After their initial application, Totte, failed to gain significant traction, the cofounders created a pinboard product and Pinterest was born. However, Pinterest saw a low user base and very little engagement in its early stages. Silbermann said the prospect of telling people he failed was too embarrassing so he and Sciarra continued to tinker and improve the site. Today, Pinterest claims over 20 million users.
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About Cold Brew Labs, Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Ruzwana Bashir
Founder & CEO of Peek
Ruzwana Bashir is Co-founder & CEO of Peek.com. She is a travel junkie, having navigated her way through 40 countries. She previously worked at Gilt Groupe, Art.sy, the Blackstone Group and Goldman Sachs. Ruzwana has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and a BA in Economics from Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union.
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About Peek: Peek is a booking software and marketplace for delightful things to do such as wine tours, watersports, skydiving, and art classes.
Jaxon Klein
CEO, Co-Founder of Keyo
Jaxon Klein is an American businessman, entrepreneur, investor and startup advisor. Klein is currently CEO of Keyo, Inc., where he is a co-founder and former CTO. Prior to his role at Keyo, Klein founded two companies in hosting technology and web services.
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About Keyo: We place people’s identities in the palm of their hands.
Anurag Goel
Founder and CEO of Render
Founder and CEO at Render.
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About Render: Render provides a cloud for developers and startups to host all their apps and sites.
Jay Larson
Chief Executive Officer of Optimizely
Jay Larson is Optimizely’s CEO. Previously, Jay worked as chief executive officer of Birst. Jay holds a BA degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Matt Marshall
Founder and CEO of VentureBeat
Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded \”Journalist of the Year\” by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
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About VentureBeat: VentureBeat is an online technology news platform that is engaged in technology publication and events business.
Kevin Leland
Founder & CEO of Halo
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About Halo, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Village Global: Halo is a market network that moves science forward by connecting companies directly with scientists for research collaborations
Alex Alpert
Founder & CEO of Shyft
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About NFX, Shyft: Shyft transforms the moving and relocation industry by introducing technology, customer service, and lead management solutions.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Konrad Feldman
Co-Founder & CEO of Quantcast
Konrad Feldman, CEO, co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Paul Sutter to transform the effectiveness of online advertising through the use of science and scalable computing. Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Feldman co-founded Searchspace (now Fortent) the leading provider of terrorist financing detection and anti-money laundering software for the world’s financial services industry. As CEO of Searchspace’s North American business, he established the business in the US and directed its rapid growth to become a market leader. Prior to Searchspace, Feldman was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University College London. Feldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University College, London.
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
Ronak Trivedi
Founder & CEO of Pietra
Ronak Trivedi is the founder and CEO of Pietra.
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About Pietra: Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
Vishnu Prasath Devarajan
Founder & CEO of Bright Bridge Info-tech Pvt Ltd
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About Bright Bridge Info-tech Pvt Ltd, Pulse Pharmacy: Bright Bridge Info-tech Pvt Ltd is a digital marketing company specializing in delivering Internet advertising solutions.
Matt Mahan
CEO & Co-Founder of Brigade
Matt is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Brigade. He served as CEO of Causes and has previous experience in political campaigning and community organizing. In 2004, Matt ran the first political campaign to leverage Facebook data when he was elected Student Body President at Harvard.
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About Brigade, City of San Jose, University of Southern California: Brigade wants to make civic engagement easy, effective, and enjoyable — and in so doing, restore political power back to the people.
Sue Khim
CEO and Co-founder of Brilliant.org
Sue Khim is the CEO and Co-founder of Brilliant (brilliant.org) since Oct, 2012.
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About Brilliant.org: Brilliant delivers digital interactive STEM learning experiences to students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world.
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Joshua Seims
CEO of TrustedCoin
After earning a Bachelors in Computer Science from Harvard, Joshua worked with Industrial Light and Magic and Seven. He then founded Hitplay, a platform for large-scale video distribution. He lives in San Francisco, with his wife and two daughters.
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About MetaStable Capital, TrustedCoin: TrustedCoin provides foundational APIs that make it easy to build higher-level services on top of the Bitcoin protocol.
Matthew Glotzbach
CEO of Quizlet
Matt is the CEO of Quizlet. He joined Quizlet from 12 years at Google, where he was VP Product Management at YouTube. Prior to YouTube, he was on the founding team of Google Apps. Matt studied mechanical engineering at Cornell and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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About Quizlet: Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
Austin Smith
CEO of Racket.com
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About Coughdrop Capital, LAUNCH, Racket.com: Let’s make a racket.
Isaac Silverman
CEO & Founder of Daydream
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About Daydream: Democratizing the financial model. Stealth.
Stuart Landesberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative
Stuart Landesberg is the Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative, the leading digital-first brand & ecommerce platform for natural home and personal care. Stu has long been passionate about sustainability. He founded Grove, which has been a Certified B Corp since its founding, after learning that offline distribution meant that just a small percentage of families were choosing healthy, sustainable home care products. Grove now serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month and has raised over $100 million in total capital. Stu was previously an investor at TPG Growth, where he was involved in over $400 million in consumer and technology investments. Stu and his wife Caitlin live in San Francisco with their daughter and dog, and spend as much time outside as possible.
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Filip Victor
Founder, CEO of MetaMap
Filip Victor is the Founder and CEO at Mati.
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About MetaMap: MetaMap is a digital trust management platform that empower service providers to reach more customers through customizable trust workflows.
Federico Pomi
CEO of Fabrica
Federico Pomi is the CEO of Fabrica. Federico is a former partner at iStarter, the founder of Phone.id, the innovation manager at Vodafone IT, and the founder and CEO of Tonight.eu.
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About Fabrica: We make real estate programmable
Charles Prober
CEO, Board of Directors of Tile
Charles “CJ” Prober is CEO of Tile. He is an entrepreneurial leader who has a broad mix of operational, strategic and transactional experience with a strong track record of success over the past 20 years. I have a passion for building and operating consumer experiences that are at the cutting edge of hardware, media and technology.
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About Tile: Tile creates devices connected to a mobile app, helping users locate their personal items.
Shola Akinlade
Co-Founder and CEO of Paystack
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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About Paystack: Paystack lets businesses accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps.
Nick Weaver
Co-Founder and CEO of eero
Nick Weaver is Co-founder of eero inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Nick Weaver is an Associate at Menlo Ventures. Nick Weaver joined Menlo in 2012 and focuses on investments in mobile, consumer internet, digital media, and enterprise software. Prior to this, Nick Weaver worked at McKinsey & Company and advised technology and private equity clients on ecommerce, go-to-market strategy, and acquisitions. While at Stanford, he was involved Stanford Student Enterprises and helped found StartX (formerly, SSE Labs).
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
Arvind Patel
CEO and Co-Founder of Rowzzy
Seasoned Silicon Valley executive and CEO with direct experience in managing multi-million dollar companies. Wide range of experience in tech management, raising capital, revenue growth and M&A. Tenure in technology has spread across many verticals to include Hardware, Contract Manufacturing and Software. His multilingual skills leverage his wide network. Current activity is to lead a next-gen AI platform to funding, product launch and rapid growth.
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About Rowzzy: Innovators of NVU™ a PaaS /A.I. Voice-to-Display solutions for eCommerce and beyond.
Adam Jackson
Founder & CEO of Braintrust
Adam is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor that has spent his career creating and deploying capital into software systems that make complex tasks simple and intuitive. He’s started 4 VC-backed companies and an asset management company over the last 16 years. Since August, 2017 he has served as Managing Partner & CTO of Cambrian Asset Management, a blockchain asset management company. He is also co-founder and CEO of Freelance Labs, Inc., the company building a new tokenized talent network called Braintrust which raised a $5m seed round in 2018. In 2012, he co-founded and served as CEO of Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians and psychologists. Doctor On Demand delivers services through employers, health systems, health plans, and directly to consumers and has raised $165M in VC. His previous business, DriverSide was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Advance Auto Parts in September of 2011. His first venture-backed business, MarketSquare, founded in 2004, was the first online local shopping destinations on the Internet. It was acquired by Intuit in September of 2006. He is an angel investor in 45+ companies/projects, including: LTSE, Seated, Bolt, Placer, Aktana, Skale Labs, Protocol Labs, JCTurbo, Apero Health, Rapportive, MyTime, Automatic, Womply, Superhuman and Zenefits.
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About Braintrust, Cleanshelf, Womply: Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects skilled tech experts with clients.
Gaurav Singh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Verloop.io
Gaurav Singh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Verloop.io. He attended Jabalpur Engineering College.
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About Verloop.io: Verloop.io is the world’s leading customer support automation platform.
Ravi Vadrevu
Founder & CEO of Kriya AI Labs
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About Kriya AI Labs: AI labs for future of work
Howard Love
Founder and CEO of LoveToKnow Corp.
Howard Love is aFounder and CEO of LoveToKnow, Angel Investor and Author.
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About DealBase Corporation, FlexJobs Corporation, LoveToKnow Corp.: LoveToKnow Corporation, an online media company, owns and operates a family of Websites.
Jonathan Gray
CEO and Co-Founder of Encore Music Technologies
Jonathan Gray, founder and CEO of Cask, is an entrepreneur and software engineer with a background in startups, open source, and all things data. Prior to founding Cask, Jonathan was a software engineer at Facebook where he drove HBase engineering efforts, including Facebook Messages and several other large-scale projects, from inception to production. An open source evangelist, Jonathan was responsible for helping build the Facebook engineering brand through developer outreach and refocusing the open source strategy of the company. Prior to Facebook, Jonathan founded Streamy.com, where he became an early adopter of Hadoop and HBase and is now a core contributor and active committer in the community. Jonathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Encore Music Technologies, Orcada, The Apache Software Foundation: Encore is an interactive live music mobile-based platform aiming to help artists monetize their connections with fans.
David Zamir
CEO of Nana Academy
David Zamir is CEO and Founder of Nana Academy. David immigrated to the US from Israel in 2013. He learned how to fix appliances on youtube, then bootstrapped the company to $4M in revenue while fixing himself 2,500 appliances. With Nana — named after his mother —David aims to up-skill the 30M people who will lose their jobs because of tech automation with trade skills. Nana is a free online vocational school for appliance repair that gives graduates their first job and then helps them build their career through an AI-powered marketplace platform. Skilled trades are in high demand, but the current workforce isn’t equipped to meet it. At the same time, the U.S. is dealing with massive unemployment and underemployment caused by the pandemic. Nana is creating a pipeline of skilled tradespeople to meet the demand while also providing opportunity for millions of unemployed individuals across the country. We are backed by the Uber engineering founding team and other impressive investors. We’re excited to launch in new markets, make more investments in our in-person and online training efforts, and launch new verticals and product offerings. It’s a fun team as well — we have monthly BBQs with our technicians and are lucky to have an incredible office on the 11th floor of the beautiful and historic Oakland Tribune Tower (right off 12-street BART).
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About Nana Academy: Vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, driven by an AI-marketplace.
Binu Girija
Founder & CEO of Way
Mr. Binu Girija is the Founder and CEO at Way.com, Inc. Mr. Binu is responsible for building products that meet the changing demands of Way.com’s users and partners. Prior to Way.com, he was an Enterprise Architect at BEA Systems, Oracle Corp and Computer Sciences Corp., and led the Enterprise Infrastructure, ERP, CRM and Database team. He has started multiple successful software companies that continue to grow and thrive today. He has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science.
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About Way: The No.1 Car Insuretech, Fintech Super App
Tejas Konduru
Co-Founder & CEO of Via
Tejas Konduru is the Co-Founder and CEO at Via. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance at Brigham Young University.
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About Via: Mobile commerce platform for D2C brands
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.
Steven Bartel
Co-founder / CEO of Gem
Steven Bartel is the Co-founder and CEO of Gem. Prior to that, he was the Engineering Manager at Dropbox. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Gem: Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
Lisa Gansky
CEO, Co-founder of Genome News Network
Lisa is the author of the bestseller, The Mesh. Why the Future of Business is Sharing. She is also the chief instigator of mesh labs. For more than 16 years, she’s been an impact junky and entrepreneur with a strong interest in building teams and breaking the edges of formerly happy business models. Most recently, she was CEO & co-founder of Ofoto (now the Kodak Gallery). Lisa is an advisor &/or investor in Squidoo, RelayRides, Taskrabbit, Honest Buildings, Loosecubes, Scoot Networks, Munchery, pi.pe & Vayable. In the nineties Lisa was co-founder & CEO of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site and portal. When GNN was acquired by America Online in 1995, she continued on as VP of Internet properties and services, overseeing Webcrawler, GNN, AOL online advertising and e-commerce.
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About Genome News Network, Tripping.com: The Genome News Network (GNN) produces a lively and trusted online magazine that covers important developments in genomics research around
Salman Khan
Founder & CEO of Khan Academy
Sal started Khan Academy in 2005 to help his cousins (and soon other people’s cousins). In addition to setting the vision and direction for Khan Academy, he still makes a lot of videos (although he’s not the only one anymore). Sal holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard.
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About Khan Academy, Khan Lab School: Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization that provides a free world class education for anyone, anywhere.
Bo Fishback
Co-Founder & CEO of Zaarly
Bo Fishback is the Founder and CEO of Zaarly. He was previously vice president of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the president of Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation.
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About Zaarly: Zaarly is an American private company focused on developing a proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered market platform.
Jarah Euston
Co-Founder and CEO of WorkWhile
Jarah Euston currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of WorkWhile. She previously worked at Nexla as Co-founder and VP, Business.
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About WorkWhile: WorkWhile is a labor technology platform that helps workers find jobs that fit their skills, schedule, and location.
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.
Aleksandar Cabrilo
CEO of HTEC Group
Aleksandar is an entrepreneur by passion. He is the founder and CEO of HTEC Group, a consulting and technology R&D services company, founded in Serbia and grown internationally, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Serbia, Scandinavia, and the UK, servicing its clients and partners globally in various verticals. Aleksandar has a special interest in business digitalization, corporate innovation, and venture acceleration and in HTEC he makes sure that technology excellence of its engineering teams meets relevant industry domain expertise to create the disrupting digital products that support innovative business models. Aleksandar is also a partner, advisor or investor with several technology startups.
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About HTEC Group: HTEC Group is a consulting, product development and digital platform engineering company.
Alan Chan
Co-Founder & CEO of Joy
Alan Chan is the Cofounder & CEO of Joy (https://joy.co)
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About Joy: Joy is the first Smart Photo Album – an all-in-one hardware, software and cloud solution for families to organize and relive their memories.
Jeremy Stoppelman
CEO of Yelp
Jeremy Stoppelman joined Yelp as CEO in 2004.
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
J.J. Kardwell
CEO of Constant
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About Constant, Vultr Holdings Corporation: Constant is the creator of the Vultr cloud computing and bare-metal platform.
John Gedmark
CEO & Cofounder of Astranis
Astranis is building small, low-cost telecommunications satellites with a mission to bring the world online. Prior to starting Astranis, John co-founded and served as Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the industry association for commercial space companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic. As Executive Director, John reported to a CEO-level board of directors and led the commercial space industry’s efforts to privatize flights of NASA’s astronauts to low Earth orbit — in February 2010 President Obama announced the historic decision to use commercial space transportation, a landmark change worth more than $10 billion to the commercial spaceflight industry. Prior to that, John served as the Director of Rocket Flight Operations for the X Prize Foundation, responsible for operations of a variety of rocket launches, including the first-ever public flight of a Vertical Take-off Vertical Landing (VTVL) rocket vehicle in front of a crowd of 20,000 people. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University and a Master of Science degree from Stanford University, both in Aerospace Engineering.
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About Astranis: Astranis is a space startup that builds small and low-cost telecommunications satellites to provide internet access in remote regions.
Vivek Ravisankar
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HackerRank
Vivek Ravisankar is the Co-Founder and CEO at HackerRank, a platform that helps programmers hone their skills and connect with companies. HackerRank is the leading player in the programming talent assessment space, and the company is growing. Prior to HackerRank, Ravisankar used to be a part of the Kindle team at Amazon, India. HackerRank is the first company to be accepted by Y-combinator from India.
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About HackerRank: HackerRank, the developer skills company, helps businesses attract, evaluate and hire the best technical talent from around the world.
Doug Camplejohn
Founder and CEO of Airspeed
Doug Camplejohn is CEO and Founder at Airspeed.
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About Airspeed: Airspeed is a team-building platform for modern companies.
Oskar Hjertonsson
Founder & CEO of Cornershop
Oskar Hjertonsson is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Cornershop.
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About Cornershop: Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.
Steven (Seven) Waterhouse
CEO, and Co-founder of Orchid Labs
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About Fabric Ventures, Orchid Labs: Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet.
Matt Murphy
President & Chief Executive Officer of Marvell
Matt Murphy is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvell Technology. He has led the company since joining in July 2016 and also serves as a member of company’s Board of Directors. In his role as CEO, Matt is responsible for leading new technology development, directing ongoing operations and driving Marvell’s growth strategy. Prior to joining Marvell, Matt worked for Maxim Integrated, where he advanced through a series of business leadership roles over two decades. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Business Units and Sales & Marketing, overseeing all product development and go-to-market activities. In prior roles, Matt led the company’s communications, data center, and automotive business groups, all of which experienced significant growth under his leadership. Matt earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
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.
Michael Horvath
Co-Founder & CEO of Strava
Michael Horvath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Strava. He earned his degree at Harvard University.
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About Strava: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
Matt Schlicht
CEO and Founder of Octane AI
Matt Schlicht is the founder and editor of Chatbots Magazine, the #1 place to learn about chatbots. He is a YC Alum, a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and was also previously a product manager at Ustream as well as an advisor to several other startups. Several months ago, Matt decided to launch a community dedicated to messaging and bots. Chatbots Magazine was born and now reaches over 200,000+ people per month. Matt joins us to share his story, how he got into startups and tech, how he created the opportunity to join the team at uStream, how he approaches building products, why he’s so passionate about bots and messaging, what’s next for Chatbots Magazine.
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About Chatbots Magazine, DominateFund, Hamster Pad, Octane AI, ZapChain: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Alex (June) Zhu
Co-Founder, Co-CEO of Musical.ly
Alex (June) Zhu is the Co-founder & Co-CEO of musical.ly, a video social network that celebrates daily life with videos recorded in 15 seconds or less. Founded in 2014 with longtime friend, Luyu Yang, musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing and discovering short videos. Every day, millions of people use musical.ly as an outlet to express themselves through singing, dancing, comedy, and lip-syncing. The app celebrates creativity with videos that are shared across the musical.ly community. With over 150 million users, musical.ly has hit #1 in the iOS app store for free apps in 20 countries – including the United States. In June of 2016, musical.ly released its breakout livestreaming platform live.ly, which provides the musical.ly community with a broader canvas on which they can express themselves. Immediately following its official launch, live.ly began trending and hit the number one spot in 8 countries in the iOS app store. Designed to connect people all over the world and encourage self-expression, musical.ly delivers instant video experiences to the hands of its users, dubbed “musers,” with special tools and features that bring each moment to life. As an outlet for singing, dancing, comedy, lip-syncing and more – musical.ly offers a fun place for users to create content, showcase interests, and share videos in ways that align with current conversations and trends across social networks. Previous to the international success of musical.ly, Zhu was a product designer and manager at SAP, the world’s largest enterprise software company, and also served as a creative director at Microsoft driving “mobile disruption” initiatives in the consumer space. Zhu currently resides in Shanghai.
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About Musical.ly: Musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing, and discovering short videos.
Mahi de Silva
Co-founder & CEO of Amplify.ai
Mahi is the Co-founder & CEO at Amplify.ai. Previously, Mahi was responsible for commercial activities for Opera’s consumer mobile products and services. Before joining Opera, Mahi was co-founder and CEO of AdMarvel, Inc., the global leader in mobile advertising platforms, acquired by Opera in 2010. Prior to AdMarvel, Mahi co-founded Frengo Corporation, a mobile social media platform. Mahi also spent 10 years at VeriSign, where he was part of the startup management team. From 2002 to 2006, he served as senior vice president and general manager of Wireless and Digital Content Services at VeriSign, where he built the world’s leading mobile messaging and mobile entertainment business with revenues exceeding $600M per year. Prior to VeriSign, he served in various technology leadership roles at Taligent, Apple and NCR Corporation.
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About Amplify.ai, Opera Mediaworks: Amplify.ai is the developer of the first enterprise-class Conversational AI platform
Aayush Phumbhra
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nectar
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About Nectar: Nectar develops an IoT solution for the hospitality and consumer packaged goods industries.
Takuro Yoshida
Founder & CEO of Logbar
Takuro Yoshida is the Founder & CEO at Logbar.
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About Logbar: Logbar Inc. invented the world’s first gesture control wearable cloud control device in ring shape.
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.
Roger Chen
Co-Founder and CEO of Computable
Roger Chen is working on a new venture and cochairs the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference. Previously, he was a principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where he invested in and worked with early stage startups primarily in the realm of data, machine learning and robotics. Roger has a deep and hands-on history with technology, having spent a past life as an engineer and scientist prior to working in venture capital. He developed novel nanotechnology as a PhD researcher at UC Berkeley and spent stints as an engineer with Oracle, EMC and Vicor. Roger holds a BS from Boston University and a PhD from UC Berkeley, both in electrical engineering.
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About Computable: Computable build a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications.
Lorna Borenstein
Founder & CEO of Grokker
Lorna Borenstein is the CEO & Founder ,Author at Grokker.
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About Grokker, Grokker: Netflix for wellbeing with community at its core
Ben Jorgensen
Co-Founder and CEO of Constellation Labs
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About A-Five Meats, Constellation Labs, Ittoryu GOZU, Lattice Exchange: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Rajeev Goel
Co-Founder & CEO of PubMatic
Rajeev co-founded PubMatic in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build an automation software company focused on publishers. Under his leadership, the company has grown and matured into a major enterprise provider with more than 400 employees and 13 locations around the globe. The high pace of revenue and profit growth, is fueled by Rajeev’s commitment to help publishers protect, monetize and manage their most valuable asset – the relationship between consumers, content and brands. Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur who has raised more than $250 million in funding throughout his career. Rajeev serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAB. He holds a master’s degree in Computer & Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University.
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About PubMatic: PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry.
Ahryun Moon
Co Founder, CEO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Michael Winn
CEO and Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Michael Winn is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DroneDeploy, a cloud-based drone platform that provides automated flight safety checks, workflows, real-time mapping, and data processing.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Andy Bane
Chief Executive Officer of Element Analytics
As CEO of Element Analytics, Andy oversees the vision and growth of Element Analytics. Previously, he held executive roles at enterprise software companies, from VC-backed startups to private equity-backed growth plays to business units of large-cap publicly traded companies. He served as EVP & Chief Strategy Officer for ABB Enterprise Software; was EVP of Product Mgmt. and CMO at Ventyx, a Vista Equity Partners company, acquired by ABB for over $1 billion; and was SVP of Product Management and Marketing at P2 Energy Solutions. Andy earned his BA at University of Colorado, Boulder. He’s passionate about helping industrial organizations reach new levels of asset performance by using big data to solve complex problems.
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About Element Analytics: SaaS provider transforming IT/OT data into contextualized, graph-based models to support diverse analytical workloads and data governance.
Steven Jiang
CEO and Co-founder of HireTeamMate
Co-founder and CEO at HireTeamMate.
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About Forbes Human Resources Council, HireEZ, HireTeamMate: HireTeamMate is an employment agency developing a recommended tool throughout the recruiting community.
Evan Marwell
Founder & CEO of EducationSuperHighway
Evan is a serial entrepreneur, having started companies over the last 25 years in the telecom, software, hedge fund, and consumer retailing industries including INFONXX (now KGB) and Criterion Capital Management. Collectively, these businesses created thousands of jobs and generated billions of dollars of revenues and investment returns. Evan founded the non-profit EducationSuperHighway in 2012. In its first three years, the organization helped shape President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and served as a catalyst for modernization of the Federal Communications Commission’s $3.9 billion E-rate program, earning Evan the 2015 Visionary of the Year award from the San Francisco Chronicle. Evan is an honors graduate of Harvard College ’87 and Harvard Business School ’92.
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About EducationSuperHighway: EducationSuperHighway is focused on providing internet infrastructure that students and teachers need for digital learning.
Kevin Lynch
CEO of Volerro
As chief technology officer, Kevin Lynch oversees Adobe’s experience design and core technology across business units.This role includes driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices, including Adobe® Flash® Player, Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Flex® and Adobe AIR™ the cross-operating system application runtime that bridges the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop with the real-time dynamic capabilities of the web. He also oversees Adobe’s developer relations program, including the integration of customers and partners in the development process through Adobe Labs and customer advisory councils.
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About Apple, Maschmeyer Group Ventures, Volerro: Simplifying Content Collaboration
Jonathon Barkl
Co-founder & CEO of AirGarage
Jonathon Barkl currently serves AirGarage as the co-founder and CEO.
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About AirGarage: AirGarage is the 21st century parking operator. We handle everything it takes to run your parking asset.
Joel Gascoigne
Co-founder & CEO of Buffer
Joel Gascoigne is a co-founder and the chief executive officer of [Buffer](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/buffer), a web-based platform that helps users share social media content. He is also the founder of OnePage. Prior to that, he was a web developer at Priority Research; and a web designer and developer at joelg.co.uk. Gascoigne completed his secondary education at Tapton Secondary School and obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer systems from the University of Warwick. He is fluent in English and Japanese. Born on March 24, 1987, Gascoigne currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About Buffer: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Hugo Fiennes
Founder & CEO of Electric Imp
Hugo Fiennes is CEO and Co-founder of Electric Imp, an innovative and powerful Internet of Things-based cloud service and hardware platform that makes it simple to connect devices to the Internet. Hugo began developing hardware and software for early ARM-based computers in the late 1980s and has been building useful and successful things ever since. After designing many MP3 players for Rio, Hugo led Apple’s hardware team through the first four generations of the groundbreaking iPhone, and was then an early advisor to Nest Labs, architecting the hardware for their first thermostat product before starting Electric Imp in 2011. He graduated first honors from University of Warwick in Coventry, England with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
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About Electric Imp: Electric Imp provides a secure IoT platform, connecting cloud services with the real world
Ali Sabeti
CEO of ZeroCater
As Chief Executive Officer, Ali is responsible for scaling and expanding ZeroCater nationally to achieve the company’s vision of becoming the #1 food company serving the workforce. He is focused on building and enabling a world class executive team to lead the company to the next stage of growth and profitability. ZeroCater has a unique opportunity to disrupt a $202B+ industry, and Ali is excited to lead the company’s operational and financial health in capitalizing on that opportunity. Over his career Ali has held a variety of roles and led functions across operations, sales, marketing, product, and finance. He has built and led global teams across companies of all stages from startups to the Fortune 500. Ali is a California native and graduated from the University of California Irvine with a degree in Economics and Accounting.
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About ZeroCater: ZeroCater is a provider of office meals and snacks, bringing employees together to build culture and foster community.
Christopher Lien
Founder & CEO of Marin Software
Mr. Lien is Marin’s founder and Chairman of the Board, and rejoined the Company as Chief Executive Officer in August 2016. From September 2015 to August 2016, Mr. Lien has served on boards of private companies as well as Marin Software. From May 2014 until September 2015, Mr. Lien served as executive chairman of Marin Software, and from the founding of the Company in 2006 to May 2014, he served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Lien has been a member of the Board since 2006. Previously, Mr. Lien served as Chief Operating Officer of Adteractive, Inc., an online performance marketing company, from 2004 to 2005. In 2001, Mr. Lien co-founded and served as Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Sugar Media, Inc., a broadband services platform, until its acquisition in 2003 by 2Wire, Inc., a leading supplier of DSL equipment and services, which was subsequently acquired by Pace plc in 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Lien served in various capacities at BlueLight.com, LLC, Kmart Corporation’s ecommerce and Internet service provider subsidiary from 2000 to 2001, including as Chief Financial Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer. Prior to BlueLight.com, Mr. Lien spent 10 years at various investment banks, including Morgan Stanley and Evercore Partners, with his last role as Managing Director. Mr. Lien holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, where he was elected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Lien’s presence as a member of the Board brings his thorough knowledge of the Company into the Board’s strategic and policy-making discussions. He brings his extensive experience in finance, digital marketing and executive roles in the information technology industry into deliberations regarding the Company’s strategy and operations.
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About Heron Partners, Marin Software, Marin Software: Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Anand Babu Periasamy
Co-Founder, CEO of MinIO
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About Gluster, H2O.ai, MinIO, Treasure Data: MinIO offers high-performance, S3 compatible object storage for multi-cloud architectures. Software-defined, cloud-native + 100% opensource.
Richard Lin
CEO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Aleks Gollu
Founder & CEO of 11Sight
Aleks Gollu is founder, CEO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Sanjay Sharma
CEO of Roambee
Sanjay Sharma is a strategic thought leader with an impressive 17+ years of entrepreneurial experience building technology startups from the ground up. As CEO of Roambee, he is responsible for leading the company’s vision, driving its worldwide business growth, and increasing the company’s value. Sanjay has successfully co-founded and led two successful Silicon Valley technology startups – KeyTone Technologies, which was acquired by Global Asset Tracking Ltd and Plexus Technologies, which became an ICICI Ventures portfolio company. He has also been a part of the engineering teams at EMC, Schlumberger, and NASA. Sanjay has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University.
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About Roambee, Roambee: Better Supply Chain Visibility & Intelligence
Antony Taylor
Founder and CEO of Lyte
Ant Taylor is the founder and CEO of Lyte. Lyte powers mobile ticketing solutions for event owners and fans, providing both a mobile-first alternative to resale websites. Since 2014, Lyte has partnered with over 300 top sports and entertainment brands, including BottleRock Music Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Arkansas Razorbacks Athletics, Mumford & Sons, Stagecoach Music Festival and more. Major ticketing platforms such as Eventbrite, Ticketfly, and Gingerbread Shed, owned by Goldenvoice, have integrated Lyte into their offering. Ant founded Lyte after observing the impact of the secondary ticket market on fans at the London Olympics. Hundreds of thousands of fans have since benefited from the Lyte solution. Before Lyte, Ant was an executive at ad technology pioneer Right Media, acquired by Yahoo in 2007 and ad cofounder of Moat, acquired by Oracle in 2017; two of the top five venture-backed exits in NYC history.
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About Lyte: Lyte is a technology platform that makes it easy for fans to buy, sell, and exchange tickets to live events.
Ken Chong
Co-founder & CEO of All Day Technologies Inc.
Ken Chong is a co-founder and CEO at Virtual Kitchen.
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About All Day Technologies Inc.: Virtual Kitchen operates as a food tech and logistics company that focuses on building delivery-optimized kitchens.
Nicole Shanahan
Chief Executive Officer of ClearAccessIP
Nicole Shanahan is an attorney in California and a research fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center of Legal Informatics, a joint center between Stanford Law School and Computer Science. She is the founder and CEO of ClearAccessIP an integrated patent management technology, and a legal technologist who specializes in the utilization of structured databases, APIs, UI/UX, automation and SaaS. Her research at Stanford is entitled “Smart Prosecution,” an ongoing, multi-disciplinary project applying data science to the prosecutorial process and involving partnerships with district attorneys and police departments. Apart from the practical applications of legal technology, she is formulating an economic theory, entitled “Coasean Mapping” to predict the pace and nature of society’s adoption of legal artificial intelligence.
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About ClearAccessIP: ClearAccessIP develops IP management solution that supports critical decision making around patenting and technology transfer.
Koichiro Yoshida
Founder & CEO of CrowdWorks
Founder and CEO at CrowdWorks.
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About CrowdWorks: CrowdWorks provides Internet services operations centered on Japanese crowdsourcing platform.
