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 based Founder operating in the Mobile Apps space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Paul Davison
Co-Founder and CEO of Clubhouse
Paul Davison is the Co-Founder and CEO of Clubhouse. Davison is a San Diego native who graduated from Stanford and then earned his MBA from Stanford Business School. He had an internship at Google between degrees. Davison worked at consulting firm Bain and Co. before joining database startup Metaweb, which was acquired by Google in 2010. Previously he was an entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital.
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About Clubhouse, Clubhouse: Clubhouse is an audio-based social app that allows users to spontaneously join group chats.
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Rohan Seth
Co-Founder of Clubhouse
Rohan Seth is the Co-founder at Clubhouse and Lydian Accelerator.
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About Clubhouse, Clubhouse, Lydian Accelerator: Clubhouse is an audio-based social app that allows users to spontaneously join group chats.
Scott Banister
Founder of IRL
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal. Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired by Microsoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million. Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of [Zivity](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zivity), a social networking site co-founded with his wife, [Cyan Banister](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/cyan-banister). He was an early investor in [Powerset](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/powerset), a startup building a natural language search engine, and sits on the company’s Board of Directors. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Slide, a start-up founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin. Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com. Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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About IRL: Groups, Chats, Events
Henry Khachatryan
Co-Founder of IRL
Henry Khachatryan is the Co-Founder of IRL App. He is a former Co-Founder of Sponge. Mr. Khachatryan graduated from Boston College with a BS in Finance & Information Systems.
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About IRL: Groups, Chats, Events
Toby Sun
Co-Founder and CEO of Lime
Toby Sun is the CEO and Co-founder of Lime, the leading global micromobility company that has revolutionized the first and last-mile transportation challenge. Lime has raised $777 million and is backed by world-leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, GGV, IDG, DCM, Franklin Templeton, Section 32, AME Cloud Ventures, Stanford Start-X, Kevin Durant, etc. Prior to Lime (formerly LimeBike), Toby was an investment director at Fosun Kinzon Capital, a $400M US-China cross-border venture fund backed by Fosun Group, focusing on early and growth-stage investment in consumer internet and IoT space. Toby invested in Tapingo, Grubmarket, Usens, Ding’Ding Smart Lock, and was involved in the board duties. Prior to Fosun, Toby was a Product and Marketing Manager at PepsiCo and managed a large US-China cross-border team, where he launched Gatorade in China and managed 7UP ($300M annual sales). Toby also worked as a management consultant at Monitor Group and Deloitte Consulting’s San Francisco office. Toby holds an MBA from Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, and is a frequent guest speaker.
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About Lime, Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Moxie Marlinspike
Founder & CEO of Signal Messenger
Moxie Marlinspike is the founder of Signal and Open Whisper Systems. He is a renowned cyber security expert and cryptographer. Moxie is known for his in-depth research of online privacy and anonymity issues. Moxie is also a member of the Institute for Disruptive Studies, and was formerly the Director of Product Security at Twitter.
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About Signal Messenger: Signal is an encrypted communications application for Android and iOS that focuses on advancing secure communications.
Greg Kidd
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of GlobaliD
Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved and underbanked. Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School. Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.
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About Apto Payments, GlobaliD, Hard Yaka: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Mitja Simcic
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer of GlobaliD
Building and empowering people with portable, user controlled identities. Entrepreneur since college. Computer Science and MBA background.
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About GlobaliD, Kupi, Qloud.io: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Parag Chordia
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of HOOKED
Parag Chordia is the director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, and CTO of Khush. Parag is Chief Scientist at Smule. He is the former director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, a research institute funded by the National Science Foundation to build intelligent systems that are musically creative. Parag was recently the recipient of the competitive NSF CAREER Award for his research in music prediction. He received a PhD in artificial intelligence and music at Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics from Yale. He has extensive experience managing commercial software development, and is also the founder of BolRecords, an Indian classical music record label. Parag is an actively performing Indian classical musician and electronic music composer.
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About HOOKED, Telepathic: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
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.
Tracy Chou
Founder & CEO of Block Party
Tracy Chou is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and diversity advocate. She spent five years at Pinterest as an engineer and tech lead and was an early engineer at Quora prior to that. She is a co-founder of Project Include, a non-profit working with tech startups on diversity and inclusion, and #MovingForward, a movement working with VC firms to establish and publish anti-harassment policies; and an investment scout and advisor for several Bay Area VC firms. In her latest venture she is CEO of Block Party, with a mission to solve online harassment and abuse.
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About Block Party, Pinterest, Project Include: Block Party is a consumer app that tackles online harassment and puts you back in control.
Prince Boakye Boampong
Founder of Dash
Prince Boakye Boampong is the Founder and CEO of Dash.
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About Dash: Dash builds an alternative payment app where users can send, spend, and receive money, pay for goods and services, save, and invest.
Allen Chen
CEO & Co-Founder of Fitbod
Allen is the Co-founder & CEO of Fitbod.
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About Fitbod: Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength.
Jesse Venticinque
Co-Founder, Product Head of Fitbod
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About Fitbod: Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength.
Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
David Siegel
Co-Founder and CEO of Glide
David Siegel is the co-founder and CEO of Glide. He previously worked at Microsoft. He also held positions at Xamarin, Futureproof, and X1 Technologies. David holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and computer science engineering.
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About Glide: Build powerful apps from spreadsheets without code, in minutes.
Greg Burrell
Co-Founder, VP of Clinical Product & Strategy of Carbon Health
Greg is co-founder and Director of Medicine at Carbon Health. He brings to Carbon a long-standing passion for using smart technology to overhaul the health system and improve the quality of care to patients. He has been advising and leading Bay Area healthcare startups for a number of years and most recently served as Director of Content and Clinical Solutions at CareMessage, Inc. Greg received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco and maintains a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Vitaly Alexandrov
CEO & Founder of Food Rocket
Currently nominated for Forbes 30 under 30, two-time winner of the Oxford’s Fund scholarship. In 2019, together with partners, Vitaly launched the Foody startup to optimize the restaurant procurement process in the U.S. Three months later, Foody was showing a monthly growth of 20%. In 2021 due to the pandemic, the startup pivoted and launched San Francisco’s first 10-15-minute grocery delivery service called Food Rocket. Previously, Vitaly was the CEO and founder of the international CRM marketing agency Out of Cloud that provides consumer data analysis and helps companies build personalized marketing. The agency’s clients include Puma, Panasonic, Nikon, Alfa Bank and Pfizer. The agency won the Best Use of eCRM category at Tagline Awards in 2017 and Best Use of Analytics in Loyalty Programs at Loyalty Awards in 2018. At 27, Vitaliy wrote the Email Marketing Strategy book that was a bestseller at Ozon.
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About Food Rocket: Food Rocket is an application that provides customers with on-demand 10-15 minute free grocery delivery.
Maijid Moujaled
Co-Founder & President of Chipper Cash
Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.
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About Chipper Cash: Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.
Ham Serunjogi
Co-Founder & CEO of Chipper Cash
Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.
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About Chipper Cash: Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.
Michael Boswell
Co-Founder, CEO of Cue
Co-Founder and CEO of Cue. Previously an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures; Design Lead at Facebook, Google and Coatue. Founding member of several products with successful exits including Jobr, Pagemodo, and ContactMe.
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About Cue: The world’s first social calendar
Kartik Chandrayana
CEO / Co-Founder of Twin Prime
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About Twin Prime: Twin Prime, a company that came out of stealth this week
Lucas Moraes
Co-Founder of Olivia
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About Olivia: Olivia is an AI financial assistant that learns your spending patterns, predict your purchases and recommend ways to get more for your money
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.
Christine Lemke
Co-Founder & President of Evidation Health
As Chief Product Officer, Christine leads product management and development at Evidation Health. Previously, Christine co-founded and led The Activity Exchange, an insight and personalization platform that helps healthcare companies deliver the right digital interventions and incentives to consumers to help them achieve sustainable behavior change. Prior to her work in healthcare, Christine was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sense Networks, developers of the first machine learning platform for mobile phone activity data (exited to YP.com). She has also held roles at 3iGroup (Paris), Microsoft XBOX and co-founded Chicago-based Channel IQ, a product analytics platform. Christine has a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from HEC Paris.
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About Evidation Health, Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Mikki Nasch
Head of Business Development & Co-Founder of Evidation Health
Mikki Nasch is responsible for business development at Evidation Health. Most recently, Mikki cofounded and led business activities at The Activity Exchange. Previously, Mikki was on the founding team of Sense Networks (exited to YP.com) and served as EVP of Business Development. Mikki has been the Vice President of Market Management at Fair Isaac, Inc. (NYSE: FIC), held leadership positions in the incubation phase of numerous startups, and led development of products, sales strategies, business models and corporate vision, leading early-stage software venture capital funds. She was a founding member of BackWeb Technologies (NASD: BWEB), and began her career as a network engineer for the US and European governments.
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About Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Euwyn Poon
President & Co-Founder of Spin
Euwyn Poon is a Singapore-born entrepreneur, lawyer, and engineer. He founded Spin, the micro-mobility company based in San Francisco that was acquired by Ford in 2018, and is the founding partner of the venture capital firm Moso Capital. Euwyn graduated from Cornell University in 2004 at the age of 18 with a degree in Computer Science and Cornell Law School in 2007. After earning a J.D. from Cornell Law School, he practiced M&A and securities law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett from 2007 to 2009, then was funded by Y Combinator.
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About Moso Capital, Spin: Spin is a stationless electric scooter company that provides dockless mobility systems.
Gerard Cunningham
Founder & CEO of Winistry
Gerard is a Blue Chip & Startup CEO, Board Member, Adviser and Investor. He is a former CMO, with expertise in strategy, operations, Big Data, AI, Digital Transformation, Mobile.
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About Winistry: The Intelligent Mobile App Platform: “WordPress for Mobile Apps, plus AI”
Jordan Brown
Founder, CEO of Lugg
Jordan Brown is the Founder, CEO at Lugg
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About Lugg: Lugg provides anything moved with the push of a button. Download Lugg on the App store and instantly get connected to a truck and 2 movers.
Eric Kreutzer
Founder of Lugg
Eric Kreutzer is the Founder at Lugg
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About Lugg: Lugg provides anything moved with the push of a button. Download Lugg on the App store and instantly get connected to a truck and 2 movers.
Matt Ivester
Co-Founder & CEO of Hotshot
Matt Ivester is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is currently CEO of Kindr Inc., a company dedicated to making online kindness fun and easy. In 2011, through Serra Knight Publishing, he published lol…OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying. And in 2012, he published the high school edition of the same. Since its release, lol…OMG! has become Amazon’s top-selling book on the topics of digital citizenship and cyberbullying. He has spoken at various institutions around the country on these topics. Prior to writing lol…OMG! he started several companies, including a concert ticket auction site, a multi-million dollar investment fund, and a college gossip site. In 2005, Ivester graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. In 2012, he graduated from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with an MBA.
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About Hotshot: Screenshot technology
Renee Wang
Founder & CEO of Castbox
Renee Wang is the CEO and Founder of Castbox, an award-winning global podcast platform that enables anyone to easily find, access, create and enjoy spoken audio content. Prior to founding Castbox, Renee was a global app monetization expert at Google in user acquisition, optimization, and publisher engagement where she contributed to 42% of Google’s new app revenue. Renee holds a BS degree from Peking University, with a double major in Psychology and Mathematical Statistics.
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About Castbox: Castbox is a global podcast platform that enables anyone to easily find, access, create and enjoy spoken audio content.
Michael Golomb
Founder and CEO of FanVestor
A hands-on company builder, Michael’s background as an entrepreneurial CFO with three exits behind him, is the culmination of twenty years of senior management experience across a broad spectrum of industries. His expertise has been successfully applied across verticals ranging from startups to large public corporations including Blockchain, manufacturing, digital health & medical devices, consumer electronics & hardware, software/SaaS, and real estate. In addition to Michael’s global experience in raising equity though variety of public and private equity/debt instruments, as well as experience in handling complex M&A transactions, he also brings exceptional knowhow of Blockchain technology to DASAN Zhone Solutions. Earlier in 2017, (prior to joining DASAN) together with the other Blockchain industry veterans, Michael co-founded the ICO Governance Foundation, a non-profit decentralized global organization with a protocol-based global community mission that performs a self-regulatory function for ICOs in decentralized capital markets. In Oct 2016, Michael founded EdenCoin – a global cryptocurrency quantitative market-maker start-up with offices in San Francisco and New York: a proprietary liquidity aggregation platform to consolidate trading volume and data from major cryptocurrency market sources to run algorithmic market-making and liquidity provisioning, as well as other, quantitative strategies. From June 2015 to May 2017, while CFO at Breathometer, a hyper-growth digital health and medical device company, he helped take that company from pre-revenue to shipping in the FDA regulated space, forming OEM partnership with Philips, raising capital from venture capital firms and global strategic investors, as well as successfully achieving the ISO13485:2003 Certification milestone. Prior to Breathometer, Michael was the first employee (CFO, Board Member, and Head of SF Office) at BitFury, and helped build the market leading full-service Blockchain technology company, and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the Blockchain ecosystem, taking it from zero to over $500M valuation and from 3 to over 120 employees in 7 countries between December 2013 through April 2015. Other notable roles include: ” Co-Founder and Co-President at Mayak RE, where he led the formation of JV with Morgan Stanley and MCP Private Equity Fund in Europe. ” CFO of Sistema Hals, he directed a highly successful London/LSE IPO with market capitalization at $2.7B. ” Head of Compliance / Sr. Finance Manager at Trimble, he effectively implemented global Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, participated in private debt placement, as well as acquired/integrated several international technology companies. Michael received MSc in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2013, his MBA from Santa Clara University in 2000, and his B.A. with double major in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College in 1996. He is also a CPA (inactive) in California.
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About FanVestor: FanVestor is a FINRA-regulated crowdfunding platform that enables entertainment and sports celebrities to capitalize on their fanbases.
Eugene Park
CEO & Founder of Honeydue
Eugene Park is the CEO and co-founder of Honeydue. He used to be the VP engineering – applications at Flixster. Eugene earned his bachelor’s degree at University of California at Berkeley.
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About Honeydue: Honeydue is a mobile app for couples that offers tools to share information on respective account balances and spending.
Thien Tran
CTO & Co-Founder of Honeydue
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About Honeydue: Honeydue is a mobile app for couples that offers tools to share information on respective account balances and spending.
Christof Wittig
Founder and CEO of Hornet
Christof Wittig is a serial software entrepreneur and investor. He is Founder and CEO at Hornet Networks, the world’s queer social network, and Managing Partner at Strive Capital, based in San Francisco, CA. Prior to Hornet, Christof was founder and CEO at LiquidM, the first mobile DSP provided as a SaaS platform, which he formed in 2013 when restructuring Madvertise, Europe’s largest mobile ad network. Previously he was the founder and CEO of Servo Software, the world’s first Android middleware company, which merged with Synclore to form Kii in 2010, today a leading player in the IoT space based in Tokyo. He was also founder and CEO at db4objects, an open source, “no sql” database company, which he sold to Versant in December 2008. Before that he was the founder and CEO of Apsis Software to revolutionize real estate cost management with software and led the company through its sale to Nemetschek in 1999 and its merger with conject in 2002. Christof is an investor and/or board member in various companies, including Enish (TYO:3667), Metago, KeepSafe, VirtaHealth, Cerebral, and App Annie. He has been active in the US, Germany, and throughout Asia. Christof holds a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow in the Class of 2004 and author of the case studies on MySQL and Google’s Android. He also holds a Dipl.Ing. from Technical University Munich.
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About GAY GAMES 11 HONG KONG 2022, Hornet: Hornet is the world’s gay social network with 30 million members worldwide
Dmitry Birulia
Co-Founder of Veryfi
Dmitry Birulia is the Cofounder at Veryfi.
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About Veryfi: Market leader in real-time Data Extraction from Receipts, Invoices and other financial documents https://veryfi.com/api
Moustafa Mahmoud
Founder & CEO of Camlist
Building a better world.
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About Camlist, Cognitev, MENA Commerce: Camlist is a mobile app that allows user to buy and sell anything related to pets, pet services, and pet accessories.
Jeff Smith
CEO & Co – Founder of Smule
Jeff Smith is the CEO & Co-Founder of Smule. CEO Jeff Smith previously co-founded and ran Tumbleweed, an email security software company which he took public on the Nasdaq and grew to $50M in sales before stepping down as CEO. Jeff is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Music at Stanford University. He previously received a BS in Computer Science at Stanford University. In between Stanford and Stanford, Jeff co-founded and ran an email security software company which he took public on the Nasdaq and grew to $50M in sales before stepping down as CEO. Jeff is the Co – Author of sixteen patents in the field of email security.
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About MonsterPreps, Ryan Companies, Smule: Smule develops music-making apps that connect people online.
Fahad Jalal
Founder & CEO of SitterFriends
Fahad studied Computer Science at Stanford, and got an MBA from the Wharton school of business. Over the last decade, Fahad has been involved with several startups and established companies in the capacity of founder, executive leader and investor. Fahad is involved with 3 charities that focus on child education, and development. In one word he describes himself as “human”, and his life-long goal is to help make care, and education accessible to all children across the world.
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About SitterFriends: Book your community’s most trusted babysitters, in a second, for free
Sara Mauskopf
Co-Founder and CEO of Winnie
Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for daycare and preschool helping over 4M parents across the United States. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management. Prior to founding Winnie she was the Director of Product at Postmates, and prior to that held product leadership roles at Twitter, YouTube, and Google. She graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT. She’s also a mom of 2, soon to be 3, young children.
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About Winnie: Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers.
Jacob Eiting
CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat
Jacob Eiting is the CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Vlada Bortnik
CEO & Co-Founder of Marco Polo
Vlada Bortnik is the Founder at Joya Communications.He is Co-Founder & CPO at Happy Bits Company.
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About Happy Bits Company, Marco Polo, YPO: Marco Polo is a video communication application designed to help foster closeness between friends and family.
Brandon Ballinger
Co-Founder of Cardiogram
Brandon Ballinger is a cofounder at Cardiogram. Previously a cofounder at Sift Science and an engineer at Google on speech recognition and ads quality, Brandon was also called in by the White House to help fix Healthcare.gov. He graduated from the University of Washington with a BS in computer science.
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About Brex, Cardiogram: Cardiogram organizes your mobile health data by making it meaningful, useful, and actionable.
Johnson Hsieh
Co-Founder of Cardiogram
Johnson Hsieh is a cofounder at Cardiogram, where he is applying deep learning to medicine. Previously a software engineer at Google building user models (e.g. user interests) to improve cross-product personalization/recommendation using various ML techniques. He also worked on the Google Voice Assistant (a.k.a. “Ok Google”) and Search Quality. Johnson has a MS in computer science from Stanford with specialization in AI.
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About Cardiogram: Cardiogram organizes your mobile health data by making it meaningful, useful, and actionable.
Jasper Platz
Co-Founder & Board Member of Tally
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About Tally: Tally is a financial automation company that helps members payoff credit card debt.
Heini Zachariassen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Vivino
Heini is Vivino’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Credited with bringing a technology revolution to the wine industry, Heini founded Vivino because he was frustrated by not knowing which wine to buy. It’s been his passion project ever since. During his tenure, Vivino has grown into a community of 46 million users, raised $72 million in funding, and rolled out a worldwide wine marketplace. Before starting Vivino, Heini co-founded several startups, including global internet and mobile security company BullGuard. Heini leads the team from Vivino’s European headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Heini and Vivino’s story is featured in an independent documentary, “Disrupting Wine, The Life of an Entrepreneur.” Heini also hosts the YouTube series Raw Startup, which offers candid advice for entrepreneurs and startups.
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About Vivino: Vivino is a wine app and online wine marketplace that provides users tools to buy better wine based on their unique tastes.
Daniel Singer
Founder and CEO of Panda
Daniel Singer is the Founder & CEO of Panda.
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About Panda: Panda is a camera that augments users’ conversations with friends.
Drew Wingard
CTO, Board Member & Co-Founder of Sonics
Dr. Drew E Wingard co-founded Sonics in September 1996 and has served as Chief Technical Officer, Secretary and Director since 1997. Dr. Wingard has currently been awarded 30 US patent during his time at Sonics. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Wingard led the development of advanced circuit and CAD methodology for MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. Dr. Wingard co-founded and worked at Pomegranate Technology from 1992 to 1994, where he designed an advanced SIMD multimedia processor. Dr. Wingard has served as the secretary and a director of the OCP-IP, and currently serves on the board of directors for Accellera Systems Initiative. Dr. Wingard received a B.S. from the University of Texas, Austin and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering.
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About Sonics: Sonics supplies on-chip communications solutions for home entertainment, wireless, networking and mobile devices.
Joe Martin
Founder and CEO of Snatch
Forensic scientist turned entrepreneur and tech company founder. Joe has used his background in to behavioral psychology to take the unlikely step into brand and mobile marketing to huge effect. His first venture ‘Snatch’ – a mobile marketing platform packaged as augmented reality treasure hunt hit the #1 spot on the UK app stores in 2017 and fast became the #1 customer acquisition platform for the majority of over 200 brand partners thanks to the productization of his deeper level understanding of consumer behaviour that resulted in average offer redemptions of 34% (industry average 2%-5%) across a 9 month test period that accumulated over 1 million active users and resulted in Joe being invited to speak at some of the worlds most prestigious tech and marketing events from SXSW, CES, Founders Forum and Cannes Lion. He now returns with his second venture ‘Tickle’ to once again challenge the stat quo and to once again prove that advertising can and should entertain and reward.
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About Snatch, Tickle Global: Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.
Sam Osman
Founder & CEO of Playas Play
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About Playas Play, SocialVenu: Playas Play is a new mobile app that rewards sports fans for doing what they love — betting and talking trash.
Yi Shi
CEO & Founder of Dotc United Group
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About Avazu, Dotc United Group, Net Impact: DotC United Group creates and architects internet platforms to simplify globalization complexities
Yunha Kim
Founder & CEO of Simple Habit
Simple Habit was founded by Yunha Kim in Spring 2016.A former investment banker on Wall Street, Yunha quit her job to build her first startup, raising over $3M from prominent investors. Yunha was desperate to manage the extreme stress of her startup, so, she turned to meditation. She began to meditate a few minutes a day and saw dramatic improvements in the quality of her work, relationships and life. She decided to build Simple Habit to help busy people, like herself, experience the benefits mindfulness.
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About Simple Habit: Simple Habit is a meditation app designed to drive a healthy lifestyle.
Andreas Homer
Co-Founder, CEO of Aerial
Entrepreneur based in San Francisco. Passionate about running, climate, and building products that people love. Previously Director of Business Development at Microsoft via the Acompli acquisition (now Outlook on iOS, Android, and Mac). Formerly at Path, acquired by KakaoTalk. Studied / NCAA D1 Track at USC • Dual Citizen of U.S. & France (bilingual) • Runner-Cyclist-Squash at The Olympic Club
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About Aerial: Climate action for everyone.
Marco Filippi
CEO & Founder of Volvero
I’m a committed and energetic person, fascinated by new knowledges and stimulated by new challenges. My area of interests are: Startups, Blockchain & ICO, Sharing economy, Sport, Food & Wines. Text me if you want to talk about the last DLT development as well as the best restaurant you have been in!
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About Volvero: Volvero is an app based on the most innovative technologies for sharing vehicles.
Melih Sener
Co-Founder of Kunduz
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About Kunduz: Kunduz is an Ed-Tech application that makes test prep 10x faster and 10x cheaper by providing instant answers to students’ questions.
Baris Bilgic
Co-Founder of Kunduz
Baris Bilgic is a Co-Founder at Kunduz.
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About Kunduz: Kunduz is an Ed-Tech application that makes test prep 10x faster and 10x cheaper by providing instant answers to students’ questions.
Rudd Davis
Founder & CEO of BlackBird
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About BlackBird, Swarm Mobile: BlackBird is on a mission to make flying as convenient and affordable as driivng
Jamie Loberman
Co-Founder / Product & Engineering of BlackBird
Jamie Loberman product and engineering and co-founder at Blackbird. He is a product and engineering entrepreneur pursuing the mission to make flying as convenient and affordable as driving.
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About BlackBird: BlackBird is on a mission to make flying as convenient and affordable as driivng
Winston Tam
Founder of Bottleshake
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About Bottleshake: Coffee with nearby professionals
Nataliya Anon
CEO , Founder & President of Svitla Systems Inc.
Nataliya Anon – a Stanford Business School graduate with Ukrainian heritage, entrepreneur, leader, and strategic implementer – is the Founder and CEO of Svitla Systems. Nataliya brings to Svitla extensive international business experience, keen cross-cultural knowledge and strong interpersonal skills. Her client-centric approach and relentless dedication to the highest standards have propelled Svitla’s success in the last decade. Prior to founding Svitla in 2003, Nataliya founded and served as CEO of Lohika Systems (acquired by Altran Solutions Corp.) Before that, she held management positions at Ernst & Young as well as received private equity and venture capital experience in the US and UK, where she made investments in various emerging technologies and manufacturing companies. Nataliya was a member of the Fourth Class of Growing Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program administered by the Committee of 200. Nataliya was also the co-founder of Ukrainian Students Association at Stanford. She holds a Masters Degree in IT and Accounting from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Svitla Systems Inc.: Svitla Systems is a multinational software development company headquartered in Silicon Valley.
Marcos Mena-Brena
Founder & CEO of Geekbears
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About Geekbears: Democratizing the design and development of business apps
Shai Rozen
Co-Founder & CPO of Suggestic
Human being, currently living on planet earth. Serial entrepreneur, growth hacker and product builder. Passionate about life and the quest for immortality.
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About 0BS, Suggestic: Suggestic operates as a personalized nutrition platform that utilizes AI to deliver food recommendations.
Nick Halavins
Founder & CEO of AntiLand™
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About AntiLand™: AntiLand is a community of likeminded people. Saves people from depressions, boredom, and loneliness by anonymous talk therapy.
Neil Young
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of N3TWORK
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Alan Yu
Co-Founder of N3TWORK
Alan Yu is a founder of N3TWORK, a creator and publisher of mobile games. He previously founded ngmoco:) which was acquired by DeNA in 2010. Many years ago, Alan was the director of GDC.
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Devkumar Gandhi
CEO & Co-Founder of Moback
Devkumar is the Founder of NEXAGE, and was the CEO from 2006 till early 2010. For last 20 years, Devkumar has been involved in wireless carrier operations and high-tech entrepreneurialism with experience in developing and marketing mobile & online advertising and media technology. Devkumar has experience in management team recruiting, company formation, entrepreneurial finance, capital acquisition, strategic business development, technology and marketing strategy. Devkumar raised over $10M in financing for companies he has founded, including venture capital and angel investments.
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About Dobango, Hmatix Inc, Moback: Moback is a specialist in Robotics Telepresence, Autonomous Vehicles’ User experience and Enterprise software development.
Jack Ryder
Co-Founder and CEO of BUMP
Jack Ryder is the co-founder and CEO at BUMP.
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About BUMP: BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers.
Dave Kashen
Founder of MeetingHero
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About Fearless Ventures, MeetingHero, Quantum Leading, The Conscious Leadership Group: MeetingHero is a web & mobile app that makes it easy for teams to have productive, engaging meetings.
Anbu Gounder
Co-Founder & CEO of MinkasuPay
Anbu Gounder is a Co-Founder of Minkasu, a seed funded mobile payment startup in the Silicon valley. Most recently, Anbu was CFO of Dapper, an online display optimization company, which was acquired by Yahoo for $55 million. Prior to Dapper, Anbu was VP of Finance & Administration at Efficient Frontier. Efficient Frontier was a leading online marketing (search, display and social) optimization company with over $1 billion advertising spend under management and with operations in 7 countries. Efficient Frontier was acquired by Adobe in 2011 for $400 million. Anbu’s prior experience includes management roles at XPFLOW Software, Elance/Upwork and Junglee/Amazon.com. Anbu received a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Madras, India and an MBA from the University of Texas. He is also a Chartered Accountant, Cost & Management Accountant, and Company Secretary.
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About MinkasuPay: MinkasuPay is a mobile payment solution that uses the smartphone as an authentication device to make payments on any device and any channel.
Jason Shellen
Founder of Brizzly
Jason Shellen is the Founder at A Little Drive.
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About A Little Drive, Brizzly: Brizzly is an app for social media quitters designed to satisfy over-sharing urges with its all-natural social media substitute.
Pavel Pravdin
Founder & CEO of Welltory
Pavel Pravdin is Welltory founder and CEO, ex-Director of Founder Institute, entrepreneur.As an engineer and a business leader, He has over 16 years’ experience in helping businesses achieve sustainable growth, reduce costs, and maximize profit through state-of-the-art technologies and business strategies.
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About Adamantify, Welltory: The go-to health app that lets you read your body, track health, and sync gadgets.
Jane Smorodnikova
Founder, CPO of Welltory
Jane is a tech enterpreneur with an engineering background. Studied in MIT, has an information security degree and management degree. First product – neural network for attack detection in real-time traffic (2003). First startup at 25 as an intrapreneur. 4 years CBDO in IT, energy and logistics companies, several new business directions launched. 2 startups with exits. 2 accelerators founded – Founder Institute chapter and boutique company builder CoffeeLab. Passionated about human performance, quantified self geek, mission driven person. Currently – founder and CTO at Welltory – an app that helps people to use the most underestimated resource of productivity – our bodies.
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About Absly, Adamantify, Coffeelab, Freshle, Mailburn, Welltory: The go-to health app that lets you read your body, track health, and sync gadgets.
Princeton Kwong
Founder & CEO of Vert AI Inc.
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About Rolli Digital, Inc., Vert AI Inc.: A new generation of mobile automatic license plate recognition (ALPR).
Thibault Duchemin
Founder & CEO of Ava
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About Ava: Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Pieter Doevendans
Co-Founder, COO of Ava
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About Ava, Kairos Society: Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Skinner Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Ava
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About Ava: Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Terence Huang
Co-Founder of sndbx
Terence Huang is a co-founder at sndbx. Prior to that he was a business development manager at LiveRamp and throughout his career; an equity tech analyst at BTIG and Nuveen Investments. Terence obtained a degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About sndbx: New event based dating app that leads users to actual meetups. People want dates NOT penpals!
Brian Gannon
Founder & CEO of Loop
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About Loop: Private family network
Chelsea Rowe
Co-Founder and CEO of GritWell
Chelsea Rowe is the founder and CEO of GritWell.
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About GritWell: A virtual care platform where AI enables providers to deliver a new standard of chronic care
Joice Perumalil
Founder of TeamHandOut
Joice has well known experience in working as a Visual Effects Supervisor, Film Editor, Cinematographer and Computer Programmer.
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About SphereHunt, TeamHandOut: TeamHandOut is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, which focuses on the development of mobile apps and games.
Mohammad Mehdi Safari
Co-Founder of UpUdate
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor
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About OppNLyfe, UpUdate: UpUdate is a mobile Super App that consists of Shopping, Social Media, News, Services, Streaming, Podcasts & Much More! Join The Waitlist!
Mohammad Hadi Safari
Co-Founder of UpUdate
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About OppNLyfe, UpUdate: UpUdate is a mobile Super App that consists of Shopping, Social Media, News, Services, Streaming, Podcasts & Much More! Join The Waitlist!
David Foote
Co-Founder & CEO of zennya
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About zennya: zennya is a mobile application that connects customers with health and wellness therapists for hire.
David Foote
Co-Founder & CEO of zennya
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About zennya: zennya is a mobile application that connects customers with health and wellness therapists for hire.
Yongzhi Yang
Founder, CEO of MoboTap
Yongzhi Yang is the founder and CEO of MoboTap Inc, the company behind Dolphin Browser. Under Yang’s leadership, Dolphin Browser achieved over 12 million downloads in less than 20 months. In 2010, MoboTap became Sequoia’s very first and only mobile browser investment. Prior to his work with Dolphin Browser, Yang was a software architect at Microsoft and led their mobile incubator effort.
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About ABC Fintech, Dolphin Browser, MoboTap: MoboTap is a mobile technology developer engaged in the development of mobile applications and services.
Philip Lam
Co-Founder of HomeCourt
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About HomeCourt: HomeCourt is an interactive basketball app that acts as a personal skills trainer for basketball players.
Serafin Lion Engel
Founder & CEO of DataWallet
Serafin Lion Engel is Founder and CEO of Datawallet, a decentralized consumer-to-business data exchange provides internet users with a self-sovereign wallet that puts them in charge of their data, and allows them to monetize as well as utilize an asset that is rightfully theirs. He is a fellow at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (The RSA) in London and was a Petra Vorsteher Scholar at Draper University.
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About DataWallet, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): DataWallet operates a consumer-to-business marketplace which directly links businesses with internet users.
Kentaro Matsui
Representative Director / Founder of infinite loop
Born in 1977. Born in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido. In July 2004, he launched a technical information site ke-tai.org for mobile phone programmers. Infinite Loop Co., Ltd. was established in June 2007. We develop browser games, including browser Kingdoms, and develop games for smartphones. Established Virtual Casts Co., Ltd. in July 2018. Using a 3D live-action model, also active as “Matsui Sha Cho” in VR space
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About infinite loop, SoftBank Vision Fund, Virtual Cast: infinite loop is a game development, application development, and web development company.
Mark Daniel
Founder & CEO of Estate
Mark Daniel is the CEO at The Human Development Company.
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About BAD DANCERS ONLY, Estate, Strut: Estate is a mobile web application that takes on household budgeting and automates it.
Steve Adams
CEO, Founder of EmployeeChannel
Steve is the President and CEO of EmployeeChannel and is responsible for driving the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of the company. He leads EmployeeChannel’s team with an emphasis on operational excellence as well as customer and partner success. Steve is a seasoned executive with 25+ years of success building and leading high tech companies ranging from large firms to early- and mid-stage startups. Prior to joining EmployeeChannel, Steve was CEO of VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications), a provider of cloud-based virtual agents for online marketing, sales and support. He also formerly served as the CEO at Sabrix (acquired by Thomson Reuters) and at Uniscape (acquired by Trados) and has held SVP, Worldwide Marketing positions at Citrix Systems and Novell. Steve has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Florida State University.
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About EmployeeChannel: A leading provider of mobile apps for employee engagement and communication.
Emre Fadillioglu
Co Founder and CEO of AppSamurai
Emre combines a successful corporate career with serial entrepreneurship as a co-founder of multiple companies. Currently, he leads AppSamurai as the CEO and Co-founder to create a global mobile technology company. AppSamurai is a venture capital-backed startup with mobile growth as its passion.
Having been featured in Europe’s Top 100 Hottest Startups list recently, AppSamurai continues to be a product driven company with its namesake mobile acquisition platform AppSamurai and the first mobile user engagement tool that brings the well-known, mobile native story format into mobile apps and websites; Storyly.
Before AppSamurai, he co-founded Netvent (2013), a digital marketing agency that still operates today, and Growth Tower (2015), a mobile marketing agency. Previously, he worked in finance, sales, and business development roles at PwC, Inta Spaceturk, Enerjisa, and Oracle. His educational background includes a degree in Business Administration from METU (in Turkey) and an Executive Leadership degree from UC Berkeley. Right now, he is focused on scaling AppSamurai with an amazing team of talented people.
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About AppSamurai: AppSamurai is a mobile marketing technology company providing pinpoint solutions with in-house technologies.
Minda Aguhob
CEO & Co-Founder of Vytality Health (Peakfoqus)
A technologist, healthcare advocate and researcher, Minda spent the past 15 years illuminating how to reform healthcare and education for better performance using technology. She is passionate about the effective use of data and community relationships to develop innovative processes that improve information and performance. A New Yorker living bicoastally with San Francisco Bay Area, Minda founded and leads Peakfoqus, a company that designs focused, smart solutions for peak health, currently working with the senior market. She aims to improve and integrate technology in a way that makes a transformative difference for people. Minda holds a masters degree in human development & psychology from Harvard University. She also produced TEDxBushwick, having founded it in 2015. Her ultimate goal is to raise the level of love in action in the world, and develop technology in support of humanity.
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About Founder Institute, Vytality Health (Peakfoqus): Our co-caring community provides users with personalized social networks for physical and emotional support of their health goals & needs.
Ken Winer
Founder of Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Kevin Hammond
Founder of Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Kevin Hammond
Founder of Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Nadia Genevieve Masri
Founder & CEO of Perksy
Nadia Genevieve Masri is a young entrepreneur in the tech industry who has recently relocated to San Francisco to build a mobile market research platform for brands to better understand and research their demographic, in a way that is rewarding to the consumer. A gamechanger-in-training, she is passionate about startups, innovation, and leadership. Nadia launched her first company at seventeen out of her college dorm room, from where she was concurrently running a self-published fashion blog. She subsequently founded a small media company, which launched a niche publication that made a small splash in the Toronto fashion scene. Nadia spent five years in the fashion industry in both Toronto and New York, where her primary focus was marketing, social media, and creative. Through her work, she has had the experience of working with various types of businesses and is able to adapt quickly to new industries and new practices. In 2013, Nadia cofounded a digital marketing platform in Toronto, which allowed brands to create shoppable social feeds. At Foursixty, her work predominantly involved early growth and acquisition, strategic partnerships, and early marketing efforts. Upon exiting the company, she returned to New York and began consulting with a few startups on strategy, product, marketing, and business development. Nadia is dedicated to creating products that revolutionize the way consumers experience and interact with brands. Her background in marketing applied in the fields of fashion, e-commerce, and technology has allowed her to gain an intimate understanding of what tools marketers and growth hackers need in order to effectively build, scale, and grow their businesses. Her specialties include growth hacking, product development, startup marketing and development, brand strategy and positioning, and strategic partnerships.
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About Perksy: Perksy is a consumer insights platform that rewards users for giving opinions and feedback to brands.
Matthew DiPietro
Founder and CEO of Salut
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About Salut: Salut is an application that provides information, workout videos and connecting its users with trainers for fitness solutions.
Fred Stevens-Smith
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rainforest QA
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About Rainforest QA: Rainforest QA offers modern testing for web and mobile apps.
Preet Anand
Founder & CEO of Pastronus
Preet Anand is the founder and CEO of Patronus. The idea of developing the app Patronus, formerly BlueLight, first came to him during freshman orientation in college. He learnt that 1 out of 5 college women are victims of attempted sexual assault. Applying that ratio to the women in his life, he knew he had to do something about the problem. Preet previously worked at Zynga and as one of the youngest lead product managers in the company history. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from Santa Clara University.
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About Pastronus: Patronus, formerly known as BlueLight, offers a safety toolkit for the digital age.
