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 Video 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.
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Sebastien Borget
Co-Founder and COO of Pixowl
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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About Pixowl, The Sandbox: Pixowl is working to build a big entertainment family brand on mobile.
Arthur Madrid
CEO and co-Founder of Pixowl
Arthur Madrid is the 30 years-old founder and CEO of Wixi.com. Wixi is a web-based social media network where users interact by privately sharing media content — including photos, audio and video. His web career began in 2000 as founder of 1-Click Media 1-click.com (acquired by Ipercast in 2007) , a peer-to-peer video delivery software for television networks. Arthur expanded the product’s reach to serve many top European Video On-Demand Web sites. The 1-Click plug-in is used by more than one million people globally to speed downloads and significantly decrease bandwidth cost. Arthur can be found online at http://twitter.com/arthurmadrid and http://facebook.com/arthurmadrid. He currently lives in Buenos Aires where he runs the main Wixi office.
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About Pixowl, The Sandbox: Pixowl is working to build a big entertainment family brand on mobile.
Kevin Chou
Founder of Rally
Kevin Chou is co-founder and CEO of Kabam, a world leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Kevin is an entrepreneur who has guided Kabam’s explosive growth, which started with a handful of people working above a dim sum restaurant and catapulted to $400 million in revenue, sustained profitability, and a valuation of more than $1 billion in 2014. Since co-founding a company in 2006 that became Kabam in 2009, Kevin has led the disruption of the video game industry by revolutionizing the way players access and pay for games. He has secured partnerships with leading game platforms, as well as with Hollywood studio giants such as Disney, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Warner Brothers for games based on some of the world’s most beloved movie franchises. Under Kevin’s leadership, Kabam has raised more than $240 million from venture and strategic investors, including some of the world’s largest entertainment and internet companies such as Alibaba, Google, Intel and Warner Brothers. Before co-founding Kabam, Kevin worked at the global venture capital firm Canaan Partners, which is Kabam’s initial investor and where he invested in 14 consumer technology and online media companies. Earlier, Kevin advised public technology companies on M&A and corporate finance as part of Deutsche Bank’s technology investment banking practice. Kevin graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley with a BS in Business Administration. At UC Berkeley, Kevin was admitted to the inaugural class of Gates Millennium Scholars. In 2014 Kevin was named one Fortune magazine’s prestigious “40 Under 40” and, in 2012, was identified by Fortune as one of the “Smartest People in Tech.” The Los Angeles Times called Kevin “absurdly accomplished.”
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About Aftershock, Forte, Gen.G Esports, LUMA Capital Partners, Rally: Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
Mahesh Vellanki
Co-Founder & VP, Growth of Rally
Mahesh Vellanki is an Associate with Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on early-growth investment opportunities in the internet, digital media, mobile, e-commerce, gaming and online education sectors. Prior to joining Redpoint, Mahesh was an Analyst in the technology investment banking division of Citigroup where he focused on internet, digital media, software, hardware and semiconductor companies. He advised a variety of clients on equity and debt financings, as well as strategic business development, M&A and LBO transactions. At Citigroup, Mahesh worked with companies such as Zillow, Groupon, AutoTrader, Synacor and Equinix. Mahesh earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance with honors from the University of Maryland.
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About Rally: Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
Shahed Khan
Co-Founder of Loom
Shahed Khan is the Founder of Loom. He previously worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence with NFX Guild, an accelerator program in San Francisco. Prior to NFX Guild, Shahed was an Analyst at Los Angeles based venture capital firm, Upfront Ventures.
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About Loom: Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.
Sam Yam
Co-Founder , President & CTO of Patreon
Sam Yam is the President, CTO, and Co-Founder of Patreon.
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About Patreon: Patreon is an online platform connecting musicians and other artists with their fan base.
Jack Conte
Co-Founder & CEO of Patreon
Jack Conte is the Co-Founder and CEO of Patreon.
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About Patreon: Patreon is an online platform connecting musicians and other artists with their fan base.
Russell Belfer
Co-Founder and Engineering of Chatterbug
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About Chatterbug: Chatterbug building a new way to help you master language skills through adaptive courses.
Liz Clinkenbeard
Co-Founder and Chief Communications Officer of Chatterbug
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About Chatterbug: Chatterbug building a new way to help you master language skills through adaptive courses.
Ryan Hoover
Founder of Weekend Fund
Ryan Hoover is the founder of [Product Hunt](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt), a community of people sharing, upvoting, and geeking out about new technology products, games, and books. Ryan also invests in early stage startups through [Weekend Fund](https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/29/weekend-fund-is-ryan-hoovers-3m-angel-fund/). As a writer, Hoover has contributed to Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by [Nir Eyal](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/nir-eyal) and written many essays, including features for [TechCrunch](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/techcrunch), [Forbes](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/forbes), Pando, [Fast Company](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fast-company), and [The Next Web](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-next-web). He writes about startup trends, product designs, and production growth on his blog, ryanhoover.me. Hoover graduated from [the University of Oregon](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-oregon-2). After graduation, he spent time in Portland before permanently relocating to San Francisco, California.
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About Product Hunt, Weekend Fund: Weekend Fund is a venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making early-stage investments.
Mark Weinstein
CEO, Founder of MeWe
Mark Weinstein is the Founder and CEO of MeWe, the Next-Gen Social Network. Mark is a leading privacy advocate, one of the visionary inventors of social networking, and an award-winning author. He founded SuperFamily and SuperFriends, precursors to today’s social and chat networks, at the turn of the millennium. Both became PC Magazine “Top 100” sites for multiple years. Mark sold them and then authored the “Habitually Great” book series endorsed by the late Dr. Stephen Covey, (2x Indie Book awards), and became an influential technology consultant/advisor. A few years ago when Mark Zuckerberg declared, “privacy is a social norm of the past,” that comment angered Weinstein greatly. It sparked him to create the Sgrouples beta project, hiring an engineering team to design and build the world’s first social network with privacy-by- design for its members. The 3-year beta project served as the testing platform for the launch of MeWe. Making its official launch during SXSW 2016 (South by Southwest), MeWe was honored as the 2016 Start-Up of the Year Finalist for “Innovative World Technology.” World renowned thought leaders and executives proudly serve on MeWe’s Advisory Board, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web; Raj Sisodia, the founder of Conscious Capitalism; Professor Sherry Turkle, leading technology expert; Professor Phil Rogaway, award-winning cryptographer; Cullen Hoback, award-winning documentary film-maker on privacy; Colin Sebastion, leading internet analyst; Simon Mainwaring, founder of WeFirst; Marci Shimoff, NYT Best-Selling author; Jack Canfield, co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul; and several others. Mark is one of the world’s foremost privacy advocates, and he is listed as one of the “Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy.” He was a Steering Committee Member of National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) – where he strongly argued against any “national identity system,” calling the idea a complete violation of the human right to privacy. The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada has named Mark “Privacy by Design Ambassador.” Mark has written about privacy and the social media industry in well-known publications such as USA Today, InfoSecurity Magazine, Daily Mirror (UK), Dark Reading, HuffPo, and many others. He has been interviewed on many media outlets, including PBS, BBC, FOX, FORBES, CNN, and ABC. Mark is often a featured speaker and social media/privacy expert on the stage at many conferences, including EY’s Strategic Growth Forum, the 16th Annual Privacy and Security Conference, Global Security Conference, GMIC Silicon Valley, and he was a recent keynote speaker at GMIC New York, Security BSides Vancouver, and the Customer Experience Asia. Mark received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and his MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He resides in Los Angeles.
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About MeWe: MeWe is the rapidly growing high integrity alternative to Facebook. No Ads, No Targeting, No Newsfeed Manipulation, NO BS!
Ali Moiz
Founder of VULCUN
Founder at Stonks.
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About Stonks, VULCUN: The largest prize pools in Fantasy eSports
Justin Waldron
Co-Founder and President of Playco
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world’s largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO’d in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors young entrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation’s Thiel Fellowship program.
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About Playco, Zynga: Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.
Gil Hirsch
Co-Founder & CEO of StreamElements
Gil Hirsch is an angel investor. Gil has over ten years of experience in software architecture, product and general management in computer technology. Before co-founding face.com, Gil held multiple R&D, Product and Sales executive roles at Amdocs, Xacct Technologies and Telrad Networks. Gil is also the co-founder of the garage geeks community in Israel to drive non-commercial innovation activities.
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About StreamElements: StreamElements provides content creators the tools they need to engage, grow, and monetize their audiences.
Vlad Korolev
CEO & Co-Founder of Gunzilla Games
Vlad Korolev is the CEO and Co-Founder at Gunzilla Games.
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About Gunzilla Games, PLINK: Gunzilla Games is an independent, innovative, and player-focused developer of AAA games.
Jesse Zhang
CEO and Founder of Lowkey
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About Camelot.ai, Lowkey, Lowkey: The home for watching and creating short gaming videos
Vlad Kachur
Co-Founder, Director of Promolta
Vlad Kachur create strong marketing directions to help musicians be seen and establish new fans. Promolta’s co-founder believes every musician deserves to be recognized for his or her talent and hardwork.
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About Promolta: A self service advertising platform to promote videos in targeted blogs, websites, mobile apps, games and social networks.
Anjit Anand
Founder of Promolta
Anjit Anand is eager and passionate about helping musicians get discovered through social media and deep publisher network. Promolta’s co-founder takes her mission seriously in helping people reach their dream.
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About Promolta: A self service advertising platform to promote videos in targeted blogs, websites, mobile apps, games and social networks.
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.
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.
Nicholas Woodman
Owner, CEO & Founder of GoPro
While the eight-person staff of GoPro was enjoying the success of their first HD HERO camera in 2009, founder and CEO Nick Woodman realized one thing: to support his vision, he was going to need a bigger staff. But before Woodman could think bigger, he had to start out small. After receiving a degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, Woodman founded an online promotions company, Fun Bug. In 2001, Woodman sold Fun Bug and took off surfing and traveling the world. The decision inspired more than the personal – Woodman’s passion for surfing sparked the idea to create the now-popular wearable and gear mountable camera and in 2002, Woodman founded GoPro. After years of research and planning, the company released its first product, the GoPro HERO, a 35mm film-based camera that was worn on the wrist. Made up of some of Woodman’s friends and family members, the early GoPro team established the company as a true innovator by continually iterating on the product, moving from a film-based camera to a digital still and video camera. A lifetime extreme sports enthusiast, Woodman was learning how to race cars when he was compelled to move the camera from his wrist to the top of his car. This simple idea led to an array of camera mounting devices – for everything from helmets to surfboards, and even dog collars.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
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.
Jeffrey Tong
CEO & Co-Founder of Zelos Gaming
Jeffrey Tong serves as the CEO and founder of Zelos Gaming.
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About Zelos Gaming: Zelos is a cross-game rewards program that enables gamers to earn points by completing in-game tasks and redeem virtual prizes.
Derek Chiang
Co-Founder & CTO of Zelos Gaming
Derek Chiang serves as a co-founder and CTO at Zelos Gaming.
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About Zelos Gaming: Zelos is a cross-game rewards program that enables gamers to earn points by completing in-game tasks and redeem virtual prizes.
Stanley Adrianus
CEO & Founder of Gamenauts
Stanley is currently the founder & CEO of Gamenauts, a games developer/publisher in San Francisco Bay Area. The company has remained profitable and 100% self-funded since its founding in 2005. Gamenauts maintains a portfolio of several Top 10 titles in the App Store and over 16 million mobile downloads. Prior to Gamenauts, Stanley was Lead Designer at Yahoo! Games, where he was responsible for the UI/UX when the site grew to be #1 games portal on the web.
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About Gamenauts, Plato: Gaemnauts is a game developer and publisher of applications for mobile devices.
Shan Sinha
Founder, Exec Chairman, Board Member of Highfive
Shan Sinha is the CEO and Co-Founder of Highfive. He co-founded Highfive with the vision of making every conversation at work face-to-face. Prior to Highfive, Shan was the Group Product Manager for Google Apps for Enterprise. Shan joined Google via acquisition in 2010 after Google bought his collaboration company, DocVerse, which later became part of Google Drive. Shan founded DocVerse in 2007 after leaving his role as Product Manager for Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server. Shan graduated from MIT with a Masters and Bachelors in Computer Science, where he conducted research in network systems and performance. Highfive is Shan’s fourth startup company.
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About : Highfive simplifies business collaboration with a conferencing platform that builds connected cultures.
Jeremy Roy
Co-Founder of Highfive
Jeremy Roy has served as Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Highfive since 2012. He is responsible for the product engineering and customer support teams. Prior to Highfive, Jeremy worked on Enterprise Google+ and Google Drive, after his previous startup DocVerse was acquired by Google in 2010. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.
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About DocVerse, Highfive: Highfive simplifies business collaboration with a conferencing platform that builds connected cultures.
Co-Founder, CEO of Samba TV
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About Carrot Capital, i/o Ventures, Samba TV: Samba TV enables the next-generation TV experience powered by its first-party data and helps viewers engage with relevant media.
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.
Adrien Dewulf
Co-Founder of Heroes Jobs
Adrien Dewulf is the Co-Founder at Heroes Jobs.
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About Heroes Jobs: GenZ professional social network
Cyriac Lefort
Co-Founder of Heroes Jobs
Cyriac Lefort is the Co-Founder at Heroes Jobs.
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About Heroes Jobs: GenZ professional social network
Vijay Koduri
Co-Founder of Sizzle
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About HashCut, Sizzle: Sizzle.gg leverages AI to automatically create gaming highlights from Twitch and YouTube livestreams.
Murali Raju
Co-Founder of Sizzle
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About HashCut, Sizzle: Sizzle.gg leverages AI to automatically create gaming highlights from Twitch and YouTube livestreams.
Jason Sperske
Co-Founder & CTO of Zeality Inc.
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About Grammarly, Zeality Inc.: Zeality Inc. is the leading provider of innovative cloud solutions for delivering immersive media content across all connected devices.
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
Toby Zhang
Founder of Shop LIT Live
Toby leads the firms investments in consumer and emerging technologies. At CRCM, Toby co-founded CRCM Frontier Technology Fund, a joint early stage venture fund between CRCM and Youku focused on media, AR/VR, and A.I. Prior to CRCM, Toby was an venture investor at Edison Partners, a growth-stage VC focusing on interactive marketing, e-commerce, and financial technologies. Toby previously worked as a technical program manager in the Windows Division at Microsoft building Windows 8 and 8.1. He has also spent a number of years building and advising tech startups. He co-founded Tradeversity, an online textbook market platform backed by RPM Ventures. He also served as a consultant at the Wharton Small Business Development Center. Toby holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Engineering from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
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About Shop LIT Live, Youku Global Media Fund: Shop LIT Live is a live streaming platform that connects brands and merchants to consumers through immersive shopping experiences.
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Angela Antony
Founder and CEO of Scoutible
Angela Antony is the Founder and CEO of Scoutible, the world’s first game-based hiring platform, which uses machine learning to track soft skills through gameplay and uncover the best candidates for a job. Angela spent nine years at Harvard, focusing her psychology, business, and law degrees on labor market issues across society. After Harvard, she worked at the White House under Obama as part of the National Economic Council, during which time she was writing a book about her Harvard research titled Invisible Handcuffs, which ultimately became the primary research underlying Scoutible. Scoutible was recently named one of Inc Magazine’s 8 Most Innovative Startups of the Year and Angela was named to Inc’s Female Founders 100 list.
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
Tyler Law
CPO & Co-Founder of Scoutible
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
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
Farokh Eskafi
Founder and President and CTO of 11Sight
Farokh Eskafi is founder, president and CTO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight, Santa Clara University, TagArray: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Michael Deng
Founder & CEO of ArcSoft
An unusual entrepreneur – with a finely balanced scientist’s left brain and artist-photographer’s right brain – Michael initially sought out funding from friends and family to start ArcSoft in 1994. His original idea was to build an imaging software title with sophisticated photo editing functionality that was not only effortless to use but could be enjoyed at a nominal cost. Since those early days, Michael’s strategic, customer-focused vision for the future together with his deep industry knowledge has transformed ArcSoft into a global leader in imaging technology and multimedia software, licensing its products and IPs to mainstream digital camera, mobile phone and multimedia PC manufacturers.
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About ArcSoft: ArcSoft is a software developer of multimedia technologies and applications across desktop, mobile and embedded platforms.
Steve Heffernan
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Mux
Steve Heffernan is the creator of Video.js, an open source web video player in use on over 1 million websites and with over 1 billion videos played per month. He’s currently leading product at Mux, building video performance monitoring and APIs for video streaming. Steve has been helping run the SF Video Tech Meetup and the Demuxed video engineering conference for the last five years.
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About Mux: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Matt McClure
Co-Founder of Mux
Matt McClure is the Co-Founder of Mux.
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About Mux: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Atul Phadnis
Founder and CEO of Vitrina A.I.
As Chief Content Officer, Atul leads the company’s global content and editorial teams across Video, Music and Sports to develop global content strategies and expand on the company’s existing content and data offerings. Previously, Atul founded and was CEO of What’s-ON, the largest video data provider for India and the Middle East, which was acquired by Gracenote in 2014. In this role, he successfully raised funding from Sequoia Capital and Intel Capital and helped the company achieve market leader status in Electronic Program Guides (EPG) and TV search. Before launching What’s-ON, Atul served as Vice President for Television Audience Measurement (TAM) Media Research, a joint venture between Nielsen India and Kantar Media Research created to quantify TV viewership. Atul currently sits on the TV Ratings Technical Committee for the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) in India.
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About SRI International, Vitrina, Vitrina A.I.: Vitrina A.I. is a SaaS platform for the video content industry to facilitate and enable cross-border transactions.
Alagu Periyannan
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of BlueJeans Network
Alagu has over 20 years of research, product development, and strategy experience bringing innovative networking and video products to market. Prior to founding Blue Jeans Network, he held the position of Chief Technology Officer at Blue Coat Systems, a leader in network security and WAN optimization appliances. During his tenure at Blue Coat he held various senior R&D management positions and was part of the management team responsible for leading the company through its successful repositioning from CacheFlow, a maker of web and video caching appliances, to Blue Coat. He also led the team that was responsible for the company’s entry into the WAN optimization market. Prior to CacheFlow, Alagu was an early member of the management team at Entera, an Internet content delivery startup. He built an R&D team from the ground up to deliver streaming video caching products for the Content Delivery Network (CDN) market, culminating in a successful sale of the company to CacheFlow in 2000. Before joining Entera, Alagu spent eight years at Apple and held various research and product development roles in networking and video over networks in the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and then as a founding member of the QuickTime Streaming Group. Alagu holds a Masters in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, Raleigh and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India.
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About BlueJeans Network: BlueJeans offers interactive, multi-directional video communication services through a cloud-based platform.
Julia Enthoven
Co-Founder and CEO of Kapwing
Julia Enthoven is the Founder of Kapwing.
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About Kapwing: Online editor for modern videos, GIFs, and images
Eugene Baah
Co-Founder & CEO of Resoltz
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About Resoltz: Video streaming fitness content tailored to your goals, schedule and personal preferences
Kelsey Mellard
CEO & Co-Founder of Sitka
Kelsey Mellard is the CEO and Founder of Sitka, a first-of-its-kind medical vConsults platform and specialty provider network. She launched Sitka in 2018 to help improve access to and delivery of specialty care across the nation. Prior to founding Sitka, Kelsey led Health System Integration at Honor, a comprehensive technology-backed home care company. Before joining the Honor, Kelsey led the development of the Post-Acute Care Center for Research (PACCR), which she served as its Executive Director. Kelsey also served in VP roles at naviHealth, UnitedHealth Group, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and held positions at Advisory Board Company, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, and Kaiser Family Foundation. Kelsey holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Community Health from Winona State University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Kansas. She also currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Winona State University in the College of Nursing and Health Services.
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About Sitka, Winona State University: Sitka is a customizable video software platform that connects primary care providers to the virtual specialty provider network.
Arjita Sethi
Co Founder of Equally
Arjita is a teacher and a serial entrepreneur since 2004. She is currently the co-founder of Equally. Equally is building learning experiences using Augmented Reality adn Camera Vision that bring children closer to real world. She is currently serving on the Young Executive Advisory Board on the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. She is also the co-founder of Startupindia.in , a startup based out of India that is providing tools and resources for entrepreneurs in India to create impactful startups Arjita is a passionate Social entrepreneur who completed her masters in social entrepreneurship from Hult international Business School. She works on projects which give social entrepreneurs & women entrepreneurs around the world an ecosystem of impact metrics, resources and right stakeholders to create maximum impact. She hopes to create awareness of social entrepreneurship globally. Leveraging her theatre background, she gives talks around her experiments with entrepreneurship. She was a speaker at TEDx San Francisco in 2015.
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About Equally: AR game platform for kids to learn and grow.
Alexander Casassovici
Co-Founder & CEO of Azarus
Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with a strong experience in the mobile and consumer electronics industry. Based in Paris, France, he holds both a telecommunication engineer degree and an MBA. He created notably : * WaveStorm : wireless security solutions and wireless connected devices (including Meccano/Erector’s Spykee spy robot) * Kamayo : rich media mobile agency sold to Streamezzo group * VR-Wear : virtual reality headsets for the gaming industry Highly business oriented he also acts as a consultant for VCs during due-diligence phases and as a business angel.
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About actvt, Azarus, Diveboard, Mobitrends, Showdown.cc: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Alex Casassovici
Co-Founder and CEO of Azarus
Alex is the founding partner of Bitflare Technologies, a blockchain-focused consulting firm specializing in blockchain architecture & token design. His previous venture, Showdown.cc, revolutioned the way game telemetry is used to build in-game communities. He’s an international speaker to world class events such as GDC.
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About Azarus, Diveboard: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Greg Castle
Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of Anorak Ventures
Greg is the Managing Partner of Anorak Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging technology. Based in Silicon Valley, the firm focuses on VR/AR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Portfolio companies include Against Gravity, Catalog, Lightform and 6d.ai. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 26 investments counting Flexport and two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in, and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform (acq. 2011) and for Autodesk’s Game Technology Group.
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About Anorak Ventures: Investing at the earliest stages in transformational people and technology
Ari Roisman
Co-Founder & CEO of Wristcam
A Mechanical and Energy Engineer by training and passionate entrepreneur at heart, Ari has founded several profitable ventures in a variety of industries. Since founding in 2012, he served as CEO of Glide, the pioneering video messenger for smartphones and smartwatches that supports millions of users and billions of live video exchanges. In 2016, Ari teamed up with an early Apple Watch program manager to develop Wristcam, an ultra-compact Camera System made for Apple Watch. Ari holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 global innovators under 35.
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Matt Frischer
Co-Founder & CMO of Wristcam
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Artavazd Mehrabyan
Co-Founder & CTO of Picsart
Artavazd Mehrabyan is Co-Founder and CTO of PicsArt, the leading image editing app. Prior to founding PicsArt, Artavazd has worked as Chief Software Architect at Sourcio, the Virtual Solution Global Services, and Lycos Europe. Artavazd has over six years of experience conducting practical classes in Software Architecture and Object-Oriented Analysis at various universities. Artavazd has MS in Computer Information Science from American University of Armenia.
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About Picsart: Picsart is an all-in-one photo & video editing app, powered by a creative community of monthly active users and influencers.
Stefan Lederer
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitmovin
Stefan Lederer is co-founder and Head of Business of bitmovinin 2012, a company which focuses on products, cloud services and consulting in the area of adaptive HTTP streaming. He received his B.Sc. (Bakk.) in Information Management in Aug’10, his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in Computer Science in Mar’12 and his M.Sc. (Mag.) in Marketing and International Management in Jun’13, all with distinction from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. He gained practical and international expertise in various companies (IBM, McKinsey&Company, Dolby, Hillside, Ilogs, etc.) and has a strong business focus in marketing and international management. He founded his first company in 2008 and led several IT projects in central and eastern Europe. In his position of an Assistant Professor at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group he participated in several EC-funded projects (ALICANTE, SocialSensor). His research topics include transport of modern/rich media, multimedia adaptation, QoS/QoE as well as future internet architectures and he has published more than 20 papers in these areas. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization, contributed several open source tools (DASHEncoder, DASHoverCCN VLC plugin) and datasets.
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About Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin: Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company providing adaptive streaming video infrastructure for global digital media companies.
Christopher Mueller
Co-Founder & CTO of Bitmovin
Christopher Mueller is CEO and Co-founder of bitmovin and Head of Technology. He received his M.Sc (Dipl. Ing.) in Computer Science from the Aplen-Adria University Klagenfurt with distinction. He gained practical expertise in various companies, notably Infineon Semiconductors and Dolby Laboratories Inc. Los Angeles, USA. His main research interests are multimedia streaming, networking, and multimedia adaptation. In his position as an Assistant Professor (Univ. Ass.) at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group (MMC) he has published more than 20 papers in these areas and currently holds 2 U.S. patents. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization and is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash. He contributed several open source tools, notably MPEG-DASH VLC plugin and libdash, worked in various EC-funded projects, e.g., ALICANTE and SocialSensor, and he is the supervisor and main contributor of the MPEG-DASH ITEC blog (dash.itec.aau.at) with more than 100k views per year.
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About Bitmovin: Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company providing adaptive streaming video infrastructure for global digital media companies.
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.
David McIntosh
Co-Founder and CEO of Tenor Inc
David McIntosh is the co-founder and CEO of Tenor, which has built the largest mobile GIF sharing audience in the world, with more than 150 million people making billions of searches per month. Along with top-downloaded mobile apps, Tenor powers GIF sharing for leading mobile services like Facebook Messenger, Kik and Google’s Gboard. David was previously Founder and CEO of Redux, a video-discovery company which grew to 100M Connected TVs and consoles and was backed by Peter Thiel, Alsop-Louie, and DFJ. More on Redux (now part of CrunchyRoll): http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/12/crunchyroll-redux/ Forbes named David McIntosh one of the top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30 in 2016 and BusinessWeek named David McIntosh one of the top 25 US Entrepreneurs under 25 in 2007.
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About Tenor Inc: Tenor’s GIF search engine helps you find the perfect GIFs to express your thoughts and feelings in mobile messaging conversations.
Erick Hachenburg
Co-Founder of Tenor Inc
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About Tenor Inc: Tenor’s GIF search engine helps you find the perfect GIFs to express your thoughts and feelings in mobile messaging conversations.
Kendall Ananyi
Founder & CEO of wifi.com.ng
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About Tizeti, wifi.com.ng: wifi.com.ng is a unlimited wifi internet provider.
Niko Vuori
Founder & CEO of Drivetime
Founder & CEO Drivetime, co-founder & COO of Rocket Games, product at ToyTalk & BranchOut, GM Zynga Poker, founder & CEO Informifi.
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About Drivetime: Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive.
Balaji Krishnan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of DabKick
Balaji Krishnan is working as Founder & CEO at DabKick Inc. Balaji Krishnan is Founder of Snapstick Inc. Balaji developed Snapstick’s technology in order to solve the problems he personally experienced with current Internet TV offerings. He has been creating and developing the concepts and architecture behind Snapstick for the past two years. Balaji previously worked in the core technology groups at Sun, HP and Oracle for more than 10 years. At Oracle he worked on database server technologies, with a special focus on the database transaction engine. Before Oracle, he spent three years at Hewlett-Packard where he worked on the HP UX development team, with a focus on file systems, volume management and virtual memory. He also worked in the Virtual Partitions team at HP. Before HP, Balaji spent three years at Sun Microsystems with the Solaris development team. Balaji received a Computer Science engineering degree, with honors, in India.
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About DabKick: DabKick is a real-time social entertainment platform that combines live video experiences with patented media sharing technologies.
Eric Sanchez
Co-Founder, CEO of Revl
Eric Sanchez is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Bruce Pla
Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer of Revl
Bruce Pla is a Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Nelson Vazquez
Co-Founder & CTO of Revl
Nelson Vazquez is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Badri Rajasekar
CEO + Founder of Jamm
Badri Rajasekar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jamm. He was formerly the CTO and SVP of Engineering at TokBox, where he spearheaded development and scaling of the OpenTok Video API platform that has been used by thousands of companies and powered billions of video minutes. TokBox was acquired by Telefonica S.A. and subsequently spun out and acquired by Vonage. Prior to TokBox, he held engineering roles at Microsoft Corporation and BEA Systems.
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About Jamm: Jamm is a lightweight, spontaneous voice and video collaboration app for remote teams.
Stephen Russell
CEO & Founder of Prism Skylabs
Steve Russell is a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience in building and managing disruptive content networking, video search, and video intelligence technology companies. Steve is CEO and Founder of Prism Skylabs, the global leader in visually understanding and optimizing offline commerce. Its unique cloud service transforms any video camera into a visual merchandising, auditing, and business intelligence tool that can be accessed from any device. Prior to Prism Skylabs, Steve served as the CEO and Chairman of 3VR, the world’s leading video intelligence company, which he founded in 2002. In less than 10 years, Steve took 3VR from a small group of engineers working in his basement to an industry leader serving global customers including Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, GAP, Hilton, and many more of the world’s leading brands. Before 3VR, Steve was VP and GM of the Content Networking group at Internet search giant Inktomi. In 2000, Inktomi Acquired eScene Networks, a consumer video management platform company he founded. In addition, he also served as managing partner at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and President of a pioneering Silicon Valley ISP. Steve is an early investor and advisor to a number of companies across the video intelligence, social media and analytics spaces, including StumbleUpon, LongTail Video, MesmoTV, Qumu, OpenDNS and UberCab, among others. He also sits on the Board of the Center for Secure Information Technologies and is an active speaker and writer, posting frequently on his blog, InHardFocus.com, which explores the many intersections of technology and society. Steve holds 11 patents and was named #8 in the American Venture’s Top 40 under 40™ list. He Studied Economics and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was the recipient of the university’s Anna Laura Meyers prize for outstanding research.
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About InHardFocus.com, Prism Insights Fund, Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
John S. Kim
Co-Founder & CEO of Sendbird
John founded two startups. SendBird is the chat API for mobile apps and websites, a Y Combinator and Techstars company. His first startup, Paprika Lab – a social gaming company, was acquired by GREE. His focus is on problem solving, building teams, and business development. A car enthusiast and Korea’s all-time no.1 and world’s no.3 Unreal Tournament player in 2000.
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About Sendbird: Sendbird developed a messaging-as-a-service API that provides chat, voice, and video messaging for mobile apps and websites.
Martin Anazco
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Jampp
Martin co-founded Jampp in 2011 – a mobile app marketing platform that combines advanced technology (Big Data, Real Time Bidding and Machine Learning) with a team of mobile marketing experts to deliver millions of users to iOS and Android apps globally. Previously, in the year 2000, he co-founded and ran Livra.com (Livra Panels) which became the leading online market research company in Latin America. In 2008, after continuous growth the company was acquired by publicly listed IPSOS – one of the top market research organisations world-wide. Martin was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. He graduated in Economics from the University of San Andres in Buenos Aires (Honors Thesis: “Selling Information Good on the Internet: Give before you sell”).
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About Jampp, Livra Panels: Jampp is the growth platform of choice for on-demand apps worldwide. We unlock programmatic UA and RTGT to drive incremental performance
Diego Meller
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Jampp
Diego co-founded Jampp in 2013 – The company is a performance marketing platform for retargeting and acquiring app customers. The company combines behavioural data with predictive and programmatic technology to generate revenue for advertisers by showing personal, relevant ads that inspire consumers to purchase for the first time, or more often. Jampp’s 90 people team serve a global client base from offices in San Francisco, Singapore, London, Berlin, São Paulo, Cape Town and Buenos Aires. Previously, in the year 2000, Diego co-founded and ran Livra.com which became the leading online market research company in Latin America. In 2008, after continuous growth the company was acquired by publicly listed IPSOS – one of the top market research organisations world-wide.
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About Jampp, Livra: Jampp is the growth platform of choice for on-demand apps worldwide. We unlock programmatic UA and RTGT to drive incremental performance
Esben Friis Jensen
Co-Founder and CGO of Userflow
Esben Friis-Jensen is the co-founder of Userflow and Cobalt.
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About Cobalt, Userflow: Userflow is a platform for building onboarding guides, product tours and more. No coding needed.
Angelo Kaichen Huang
CEO, Founder of BlaBla
Founder at BlaBla EdTech
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About BlaBla: BlaBla is a language learning app that makes learning a language engaging, fun, and mobile.
Cheray Unman
Co Founder of CLOUDCAST
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About Blackhawk Partners, CHERAY, CLOUD HORSE, CLOUDCAST, Equestrian Luxury, Gütermann Family Office, Sotheby’s International Realty, Tanner Unman & Co, ULTIMATE Group, Venture Bank, Venture Luxury, WINE LUXE: Patented Edge or Fog computing p2p mesh network for live steaming media & commerce .
Joanna Zhu
Co-Founder of Circle
Previously lead Product for Grocery/Retail at DoorDash and Driver Pricing at Uber
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About Circle: Circle develops a short video platform for video makers.
Ari Evans
Founder & CEO of Maestro Interactive Inc
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About Maestro Interactive Inc: Maestro provides a white label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences.
Tim Lenardo
Co-Founder, CEO of Real Labs
Co-creator of Boomerang from Instagram. Formerly Engineering @ Instagram, Facebook, Amazon. Now working on something new 🙃
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About JetFuel, Real Labs: Building the next big thing in social.
Sylvio Drouin
Founder of 25c
Currently CEO at Bitlogica Previously CTO at Xtranormal, Tiny Pictures, eTV Co-founded XPLR, Maz Laboratories Advisor at Share Practice, Mixamo, Unity3D, Invested in Haricot.ca, Tripstr, Bitlogica Worked with YouTube, Samsung, NYTimes, Air France, Quest, SyFy, Unity3D, France Telecom, Eicon, Toyota, SingTel and many more.
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About 25c, Bitlogica inc., Unity Technologies, Xplr Software: The Best Way to Tip Online
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.
Milton Chen
Founder & CEO of VSee Lab, Inc
Milton Chen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at VSee. Milton founded VSee following his Ph.D. at Stanford University on the human factors of video collaboration. Milton has deployed VSee for Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Mandy Moore, the band Linkin Park, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Milton has also worked in refugee camps from Syria to South East Asia to Africa. Milton is the co-author of XMPP video standard and winner of the DEMO God Award. Milton loves reading biographies and experimenting with how people communicate.
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About VSee Lab, Inc: VSee is a telehealth platform combining HIPAA video chat, health data visualization, and medical work flow services.
Justin Bailey
Founder & CEO of Fig
Mr. Bailey has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Fig since he started the company in November of 2014. Mr. Bailey has been active in the video game industry from an early age, programming his first graphic adventure game in assembly at age 8. His first job was selling games at a software store called Babbage’s, which eventually became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the video game retailer now called GameStop Corporation. Mr. Bailey’s work in video games includes experience publishing a variety of free-to-play, premium and mobile games, such as Broken Age (FKA Double Find Adventures), Massive Chalice, Middle Manager of Justice, and Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter. Since 2008, Mr. Bailey has secured over $100 million in game financing from publishers, investors and crowdfunding, resulting in returns totaling over $250 million. Mr. Bailey previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Double Fine Productions, Inc.
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About Fig: Fig is a crowdfunding platform for video games.
Bill Banta
Co-Founder & CEO of CENTR Camera
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About CENTR Camera: Panoramic video camera that fits in the palm of your hand.
Zach Blume
Co-Founder, President of Portal A
Zach Blume is the Managing Partner of Portal A, an award-winning content studio that develops, produces, and distributes video built for the digital age. Portal A is independent, with a team of 35 based in its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Portal A works closely with top global brands like YouTube, Google, Lenovo, Procter & Gamble, Amazon, NBC Universal, Macy’s Universal Pictures, and develops original entertainment built for digital platforms. Portal A’s work has been seen nearly a billion times, and the company is best known for the annual YouTube Rewind video (which it has produced since 2011) and for its original show, White Collar Brawler, which began as a digital series and ran for multiple seasons on TV with Esquire. Zach is responsible for overall business strategy, growth, company vision, and client and partner relations. Before Portal A, Zach spent five years directing political, nonprofit and corporate communications campaigns in California and nationally. Zach grew up in Berkeley, CA, and is a Phi Beta Kappa and Honors alumnus of the University of Oregon and is a Fellow of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership.
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About Portal A: Portal A develop, produce, and distribute video built for conversation
Peter Sisson
CEO & co-Founder of Yaza
Peter is a product-focused entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the mobile and Internet industries. He studied computer science at Cornell and earned a master’s degree from Stanford’s pioneering CSAI (Computer Science Artificial Intelligence) graduate program. After school he wrote PBX software for AT&T Bell Labs, then did volunteer work in Micronesia, after which he traveled across Asia, Africa, and South America. Upon return, Peter attended the Tuck School at Dartmouth, where he graduated with an MBA. This led to jobs in management consulting and investment banking covering the mobile and telecom equipment industries. He started his first company, WineShopper.com, in 1998, for which he raised $46M from Kleiner Perkins and Amazon.com. Wine.com acquired WineShopper in 2000. Since then, he has launched three companies. Mixonic, a profitable branded merchandise retailer; Teleo, a desktop VoIP company acquired by Microsoft for 10X the amount invested; and Line2 (aka Toktumi), which he grew from $0.5M to $7M in 18 months. The Line2 app peaked at No.3 overall in the App Store and held its ranking as a top 10 grossing productivity app for more than 4 years. He started working on AreaLive, a social augmented reality company, in 2016. Outside of work, Peter is a passionate world traveler whose adventures have taken him from 150 feet below sea level in Palau to 18,000 feet above in the Nepal Himalaya. He splits his time between San Francisco, New York, and Bahrain.
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About Yaza: See anywhere. This Fall
David Guaraglia
Co-Founder of Virgo Surgical Video Solutions
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About Virgo Surgical Video Solutions: Virgo accelerates clinical trials with AI for endoscopy
Andrew Paradise
CEO & Founder of Skillz
Andrew Paradise founded Skillz Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Skillz, Mr. Paradise was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AisleBuyer LLC, the first mobile self-checkout company that was acquired by Intuit and is now Intuit GoPayment. Prior to AisleBuyer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Double Picture LLC, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. Before his career as a technology entrepreneur, Andrew worked in private equity and venture capital investing for Fort Washington Capital Partners and The Watermill Group.
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About Skillz: Skillz is a marketplace platform for competition-based mobile games.
Brian Gannon
Founder & CEO of Loop
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About Loop: Private family network
David Sanderson
Founder & CEO of Reelgood
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About Guidebox, Reelgood: Reelgood provides a complete guide to online streaming content.
Ayyappan Sankaran
Co-Founder & CTO of YuMe
Ayyappan Sankaran is the Co-Founder and CTO of YuMe, Inc.
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About YuMe: YuMe is a provider of digital video brand advertising solutions that drives inventory monetization and more.
Paul Guillotel
Co-Founder & Creator of Unydom
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About Nexty, Unydom: Unydom helps creators to reach their vision, build large audiences, and entertain the new generation through music, video, and live events.
Eugene Chung
Founder, CEO of Penrose Studios
Eugene Chung is Director, Film & Media at Oculus VR. Previously, he was an investor and filmmaker based in New York City. He was with TechStars and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on venture capital and seed investments in technology companies. Prior to NEA, Eugene worked in film production at Pixar Animation Studios. Earlier in his career, Eugene was a private equity investor at Warburg Pincus and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. He earned his BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.
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About Penrose Studios: Penrose is a group of artists, engineers and storytellers pushing the boundaries of virtual and augmented reality.
Jimmy Maidens
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist of Penrose Studios
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About Penrose Studios: Penrose is a group of artists, engineers and storytellers pushing the boundaries of virtual and augmented reality.
Eric Danziger
Co-Founder & CEO of Invisible AI
Before founding Invisible AI, Eric was the Director of Engineering at Luminar, where he led a team of over 30 engineers to develop state-of-the-art self-driving technology. Eric also served in the US Army Special Operations Forces and studied Robotics at Carnegie Mellon, and now uses his unique background to build the future of AI.
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About Invisible AI: Invisible AI is a next-generation computer vision company.
Prateek Sachdeva
Co-Founder & COO of Invisible AI
Before launching Invisible AI, Prateek led the Data Infrastructure team at Luminar Technologies. Prateek deployed the infrastructure necessary to support a fleet of self-driving cars and filed five patents in the process. He previously graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Learn More | https://invisible.ai
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About Invisible AI: Invisible AI is a next-generation computer vision company.
Manish Gupta
Co-Founder, CTO of Vivid Vision
Manish left IBM to co-found the company in 2014. Experienced in both engineering and design, Manish leads development at Vivid Vision.
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About SeQuent Scientific, Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
James Blaha
Founder, CEO of Vivid Vision
Founder, CEO of Vivid Vision.
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About Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
Ajay Bam
Founder & CEO of Vyrill
Ajay is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, educator and innovator with 13+ years of experience with building startups with successful exits like Modiv Media and launching products with world class brands like Nokia, Lehman Brothers in areas of e-commerce, digital payments and mobile marketing. He has built and led products teams, has strong cross-functional and international product development experience in Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Solid track record of launching new products in new/emerging markets, product innovation (issued patents), strategy and revenue growth. He was also a lecturer of entrepreneurship at the Haas school of business at U.C.Berkeley. Ajay frequently mentors startup founders and sits on the advisory board of startups. Ajay speaks German, French, and Hindi. Ajay is currently the co-founder and CEO of Vyrill.com, a U.C.Berkeley founded and funded startup, that helps digital marketers make sense of their video content on social media/web and leverage video intelligence for product marketing. Vyrill uses natural language processing, computer vision and machine learning technologies to tag, analyze and provide insights on product videos. The product is an artificial intelligence powered video analytics, video licensing and content marketing platform for user generated video content. Valuable insights can be gained from using Vyrill dashboard and underlying platform to help better understand the video content being published by not only brands, but also their customers, fans, critics, experts, influencers, etc. Vyrill helps convert video insights into product marketing actions with its content marketing tools. Ajay led product management teams at Nokia, where he developed and launched a scalable global card and operator billing solution with 124 mobile operators in 43 countries for Nokia mobile app store, increasing registered users to 70 million with 6 million downloads per day and bringing in $20 million of additional new revenue. Previously, Ajay co-founded, led as CTO and directed “Modiv Media”, an award winning venture capital funded company providing time-tested and customer-embraced mobile shopper marketing mobile app for in-store shopping, integrating personalized promotions, mobile self-scan, and instant checkout on shoppers smartphones. Modiv Media was acquired by Catalina Marketing, a global leader in in-store retail Point of Sale marketing solutions. Ajay pioneered adoption of mobile devices for personalized loyalty, rewards, offers and payments management. He is a recipient of many issued patents in the mobile commerce space. Ajay is alum of University of Mumbai, East Tennessee State University and Babson College with degrees in Computer Science and a MBA.
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About Vyrill: Vyrill’s AI platform offers user generated video – discovery, intelligence, licensing, and content marketing tools for social commerce.
Aditya Dayal
Founder and CEO of ThrowMotion
Aditya Dayal is the Founder and CEO of ThrowMotion. Aditya is an entrepreneur who is inspired by products that display elegant system architectures and enhance the consumer experience. His vision is to scale down and bring the realism of sport indoors. Aditya holds bachelors degrees in Physics and Mathematics, and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona. He has spent the last 12 years working with complex electro-optical systems in areas of systems engineering, applications and product development/marketing in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, he worked with the instrument design team for the Hubble Space telescope at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and as post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
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About ThrowMotion: At ThrowMotion, we’re bringing the experience of a sports stadium indoors!
Omar Khateeb
Co-Founder & CEO of JobPixel
Omar Khateeb currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for JobPixel. He previously worked at Steps Mobile as the Co-Founder and head of Sales.
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About JobPixel: JobPixel is a web-based video hiring experience that is revolutionizing how businesses find, evaluate, and hire the best candidates.