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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 Seattle based Founder operating in the Software 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.
Ed Doran
Senior Director Product Management, Microsoft Research, 4x Founder of Microsoft
Ed Doran is a proven technology leader and founder (Cortana). He began his career in market research and insight, expanded to management consulting, and ultimately to product and business leadership. He has experience leading in large and small organizations, local and global teams, and complex partnerships. Ed sets the vision, builds the teams, and drives… 1. Developing a deep understanding of consumers, competitors, and the technology landscape. Identifying the high value business opportunity based on the market conditions 2. Delivering compelling experiences by bringing together business, engineering, and design across platforms. 3. Driving momentum for the experience, brand, and company through marketing (e.g., brand, positioning, messaging), business strategy, and strategic partnerships Ed’s teams integrate design, engineering, and business to create great products at a global scale. Ed has earned a doctorate degree as well as received specialized training at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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Bilal Aijazi
CTO and Co-Founder of Polly
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About Polly: Polly is a survey platform that makes it simple for anyone to engage with colleagues, capture feedback, and make more data-driven decisions.
Phil Gordon
Founder and CEO of Prompt.io
Phil Gordon is CEO and founder of Jawfish Games, the industry leader in real-time multi-player tournaments for mobile and web. Phil is best known as a professional poker player. He hosted 42 episodes of Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown, has appeared at 7 World Series of Poker final tables, and has won a World Poker Tour tournament. Phil has authored four books that have sold nearly 400,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 12 languages. Phil currently resides in Newport Washington with his wife and two boys, Xander and Zachary.
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About Prompt.io: Prompt.io is a simple, scalable solution for communicating with customers in their preferred medium messaging.
Sheila Gulati
Managing Director & Founder of Tola Capital
Sheila Gulati is the Managing Director at Tola Capital.
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About Pratham, Tola Capital: Tola Capital is a venture capital firm that invests globally in enterprise software companies across multiple stages.
Mike Galgon
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Mike Galgon is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He loves partnering with Founders to build world-class companies. Beyond working with pre-launch studio projects, Mike represents PSL on the boards of Ad Lightning, Taunt, Gradient, and Attunely. Mike has had a long career as an entrepreneur and investor in the Pacific Northwest. Mike co-founded aQuantive, which boasted both the largest independent digital agency in the world (Avenue A|Razorfish) and the largest marketer-side ad serving platform (Atlas), prior to selling to Microsoft in 2007. After leaving Microsoft in 2009, Mike served on the boards of Buuteeq (sold to Priceline), Energy Savvy, Market Leader (sold to Zillow), Real Networks, Flexe, Pixvana, and Pipeline Deals. Outside of work, you’ll find Mike in the outdoors: backpacking, camping, surfing, telemarking, snowshoeing, wakeboarding, biking, running, etc., etc.. More trails than macadam, but he’ll get it in regardless. And, when possible, you’ll find him with at least one of his four daughters. Mike has also served on the boards of a variety of non-profit organizations, including Global Partnerships (a leading impact investor focused on market-based solutions to global poverty), The Bush School, The Thacher School, and Summit Public Schools (a leading national charter school network). Mike studied Economics at Duke University, Getting It Done as a Diving / Mine Countermeasures Officer in the US Navy, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Pioneer Square Labs: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Ben Gilbert
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
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About Acquired.FM, Glow, Iteratively, Pioneer Square Labs, Taunt: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Greg Gottesman
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. Prior to PSL, Greg served as one of the three initial Managing Directors of Madrona Venture Group, where he worked for almost 20 years. He also co-founded and led Madrona Venture Labs. Greg represents PSL on the boards of Boundless, Cash, LumaTax, and NextStep. He is also the founder, current board member, and former CEO of Rover.com. “Venture is about finding truly great entrepreneurs and supporting their efforts in every way possible. The rest is noise.”
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About Boltive, Pioneer Square Labs, Rover: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Geoff Osler
CEO and Co-Founder of S!NG
Geoff Osler si the Co-Founder and CEO of S!NG. Prior to co-founding ClearSign, Geoff Osler was Director of Partner Marketing for Adobe Systems, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide programs with membership in excess of 10,000 developers, service providers, and certified training centers. Geoff has managed marketing teams in Europe, Asia and the Middle East in addition to the United States and Canada. Prior to Adobe, he was co-founder and marketing director of Crosstree Systems Inc., the developer of Target, one of the world’s first daily, industry-specific email news services. In 1994 at Science and Information Technology, Ltd., Geoff was part of the team that created MAPS, one of the first software systems to enable web-based image searching and content management. Geoff concluded agreements placing MAPS at some of the world’s leading publications including The Times of London, The Daily Mirror and The Economist. From 1992 to 1994, at the beginning of the shift to a free market, Geoff was a senior manager at Apple Computer in Warsaw, Poland with responsibility for product localization and securing exclusive distribution agreements with leading U.S. software and hardware manufacturers.
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About S!NG: S!NG is a hesitation-free idea-sharing platform providing new groundbreaking technology services targeted for the music industry.
Raja Mukerji
Co-Founder/Chief Customer Officer of ExtraHop
Raja Mukerji is the President and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where he is responsible for Customer Services, Systems Engineering, and Solutions Architecture. Raja ensures customer success, leveraging his background in the financial-services industry. Raja co-founded ExtraHop after a seven-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. He was one of the lead developers behind the BIG-IP v9 product and the major-accounts liaison for critical issues within Product Development. Prior to F5, Raja worked as a Technology Architect at Strong Capital Management. Raja is a renowned expert in application delivery and network protocols. He was involved in the FreeBSD project and contributed several enhancements to its TCP stack. Raja holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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About ExtraHop: ExtraHop helps organizations to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised.
Prasad Mahendra
Co-Founder of Possible Finance
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About Possible Finance: Possible Finance provides financial tools needed to manage day-to-day lives.
John Tippett
Co-Founder & Head of Product of SeekOut
John Tippett is the Co-Founder & Head of Product at SeekOut.
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About SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Matt Ford
Founder & CEO of CommerceJet
Matt Ford is co-founder and CEO at CommerceJet.
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About CommerceJet: Think of CommerceJet as command central for omnichannel e-commerce.
Joe Roets
CEO and Founder of Dragonchain
Joe Roets is a successful Software Architect with experience as CIO, CTO, and Senior Vice President in many industries. For over 25 years at such companies as Disney, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, FBI, DoD, and createTank, he has spearheaded new technology programs and led software teams large and small. He has contributed to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects since 2010 at Overstock, Coinbase, Symbiont, and the Walt Disney Company. Most recently, he founded the Dragonchain Blockchain Platform (open sourced from Disney).
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About Dragonchain, Dragonchain Foundation: Dragonchain offers users with the potential of blockchain through accessible, flexible, and secure platform.
Martin Mao
Co-Founder and CEO of Chronosphere
Martin Mao is the founder and CEO of Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Neal Fachan
Founder & Chief Scientist of Qumulo
Neal Fachan brings 15 years of systems software experience to Qumulo. At Amazon Web Services,Neal designed and led development of advanced database technologies. Prior to Amazon, Neal was Distinguished Engineer at Isilon, where he provided technical vision for Isilon’s award-winning OneFS clustered file system, resulting in more than thirty patented technologies. Prior to Isilon, Neal worked in the Third Market group at D. E. Shaw. Neal holds a degree in Math and Computer Science from UNM.
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About Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
David Leeds
Founder & CEO of Tango Card
Experience starting, scaling, and managing large enterprise businesses. FiberTower: Cofounder, SVP Strategy, Sales, and Marketing. Stanford GSB MBA (2000), University of Vermont/Univ. of Copenhagen BSBA (1991).
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About Tango Card: Tango Card bundles simple technology, great rewards and expert service to help companies get the most out of their reward programs.
Keith Armstrong
Co-Founder & COO of Abe AI
Keith is the COO of Abe.ai, a bot for your money. Previously he worked as a microfinance consultant in South Africa and helped grow startup ecosystems around the world with Startup Weekend. He’s passionate about helping everyday people be better with money.
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About Abe AI: Abe builds conversational banking solutions for progressive banks.
Brian Flynn
Co-Founder & Managing Director of DiamondStream Partners
Brian Flynn co-founded Volaris (NYSE: VLRS), Mexico’s largest airline, and Casino Marketing Alliance, a travel analytics firm. He was previously a Managing Director at Bachow & Associates, the then largest private equity fund in Philadelphia, where he was focused on thematic investing, focused on wireless cellular technology and services. Mr. Flynn was also CEO of Innova Corporation, a leading telecom equipment company where he led a turnaround. Prior to this, he was a consultant at Bain and Company and also worked for DLJ in investment banking and GE Capital in finance. Mr. Flynn is a Beta Gamma Sigma graduate of Columbia Business School and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College. He was also a General Course student at the London School of Economics. He has served on various public and private company boards of directors.
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About DiamondStream Partners: DiamondStream Partners is a manager that invests in the future of travel and aviation.
Joshua Crossman
Founder, CEO of Magnify
Joshua Crossman leads Chef’s Customer Succes, Services, and Operations teams, including Customer Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and Business Operations. Joshua has 20 years of experience at the intersection of technology and services. Prior to Chef, Joshua lead Client Services, Strategy, and Customer Sales for BrightEdge, a leading marketing SaaS platform, helping the company grow by nearly 10X to over $75M in less than 5 years. He was Vice President and General Manager of the Technology and B2B business unit at Quinstreet, where he oversaw several acquisitions and revenues double. Joshua also spent 8 years at McKinsey and Company, where he was a leader in their technology sales and marketing practice. He graduated from Duke University with honors, and serves on several non-profit boards. He lives in Seattle with his wife and four children.
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About Chef Software, Magnify: Magnify is a post-sales orchestration platform that uses AI and machine learning to optimize and automate the customer lifecycle.
Diego Oppenheimer
CEO & Co-Founder of Algorithmia
Diego Oppenheimer is co-founder and CEO of Algorithmia. Previously, he designed, managed, and shipped some of Microsoft’s most used data analysis products including Excel, Power Pivot, SQL Server, and Power BI. Diego holds a Bachelors degree in Information Systems and a Masters degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Kenny Daniel
Co-Founder & CTO of Algorithmia
Kenny Daniel is co-founder and CTO of Algorithmia. He previously worked at wine enthusiast app, Delectable, to build out a deep learning, image-based recognition system. Kenny holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and Mechanism Design.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Dave Hanley
Founder & CEO of Tomorrow Ideas
Dave Hanley is CEO of Tomorrow, which helps families make long-term financial and legal decisions together for the first time, in an easy-to-use app designed to protect their futures. He is an accomplished CEO, digital entrepreneur, and social advocate. Prior to founding Tomorrow, Dave founded Banyan Branch, a leading social media marketing agency, which was acquired by Deloitte Digital. Prior to Banyan Branch, Dave was VP of Marketing at Shelfari, the social network for book readers, which he helped grow to more than 2 million members in 18 months, before it was acquired by Amazon. He also served as Director of Product Management at RealNetworks, where he oversaw the launches of Rhapsody.com and Rhapsody’s Web services program. Earlier in his career, Dave worked in economic development with NGOs and banks in Asia and Latin America that were implementing and assessing microcredit programs, including time as a Fulbright scholar. Dave was selected to the prestigious World Economic Forum Young Global Leader program, where he is an active participant and advisor. Dave is an adoring husband, loving father of four children, adventure traveler, and spirituality seeker. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in public policy from Brigham Young University.
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About Tomorrow Ideas: Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future.
Tianqi Chen
Co-Founder and CTO of OctoML
Tianqi holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he was a member of ACM Class, now part of Zhiyuan College in SJTU. He did his master’s degree at Changhai Jiao Tong University in China on Apex Data and Knowledge Management before joining the University of Washington as a PhD. He has had several prestigious internships and has been a visiting scholar including: Google on the Brain Team, at Graphlab authoring the boosted tree and neural net toolkit, at Microsoft Research Asia in the Machine Learning Group, and the Digital Enterprise Institute in Galway Ireland. What really excites Tianqi is what processes and goals can be enabled when we bring advanced learning techniques and systems together. He pushes the envelope on deep learning, knowledge transfer and lifelong learning. His PhD is supported by a Google PhD Fellowship.
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About OctoML: OctoML offers an acceleration platform that helps engineering teams deploy machine learning models on any hardware.
Bassam Tabbara
Founder and CEO of Upbound
Bassam Tabbara serves as Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Upbound, Inc. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Quantum Corporation.
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About UPBOND, Upbound: Upbound is an infrastructure management platform that runs, scales, and optimizes services across multiple cloud environments.
Cameron Brown
CCO & Co-Founder of Rec Room
Cameron Brown is co-founder and CCO of Against Gravity, makers of the popular social VR app Rec Room. Cam has worked in video games for over twenty years (Pandemic Studios, Beam Software), and was also a creative director on the Microsoft HoloLens program. He believes the future of computing is social, physical, and very exciting!
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About Rec Room: Rec Room is an online universe that enables users to play and create games with friends.
Praveen Seshadri
CEO & Co-Founder of AppSheet
Over Praveen’s career, he has pursued the “dream” of declarative end-user programming in various incarnations. In a previous life, he was a CS professor at Cornell. And in another, he was a partner engineering manager at Microsoft in the SQLServer and Bing teams.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Brian Sabino
Co-Founder & CTO of AppSheet
Brian is passionate about shipping software. He led Program Management teams at Microsoft for products focused on cloud data and mobility, including SQL Server Mobile and SQL Azure. He also worked at Forty Seeds and Hulu, and co-founded LumenSpark and Alau.me.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Rand Fishkin
Founder & CEO of SparkToro
Rand Fishkin is CEO of SparkToro and author of Lost & Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. He previously co-founded Moz and Inbound.org. He enjoys pasta, cocktails, income equality, dismantling the patriarchy, and, most of all, his marriage to award-winning author Geraldine DeRuiter.
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About SparkToro: SparkToro is a software company offering a search engine to discover any target audience’s influential publications, channels, and people.
Jon Hagen
CTO & Founder of NextCapital
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About NextCapital: NextCapital provides a personal benchmarking tool to help clearly understand how investments are performing.
Jon Perl
Co-Founder of QA Wolf
Jon Perl currently works as the Co-Founder for QA Wolf. He previously worked at Zipdrug as a Consulting Engineer.
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About QA Wolf: QA Wolf is a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs.
Andy Dang
Lead Engineer & Co-Founder of WhyLabs
Lead Engineer and co-founder of WhyLabs.ai. Coder and software tinkerer.
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About WhyLabs: WhyLabs is the AI observability and monitoring company.
Shariq Siddiqui
CEO and Co-Founder of Veeve
Shariq Siddiqui is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Veeve. Prior to Veeve, he spent a decade at Amazon as Head of Product Management leading several high-profile initiatives including Amazon’s Alexa Identity Platform, Amazon Identity and Payments & Amazon Home Services. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded NYCWAY – a hyperlocal app which was acquired by BMW Interactive in 2009.
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About Veeve: Veeve is a computer vision startup that provides in-store cashier-less checkout solution.
Nikesh Parekh
Co-Founder & CEO of Suplari
Nikesh Parekh is a product leader in social media, performance media, lead generation and Saas solutions, particularly in the real estate industry. Nikesh Parekh is currently the VP of New Ventures at Trulia, which was recently purchased by Zillow for $2.5Bn. As VP of New Ventures, Nikesh manages Trulia’s rentals, mortgage and new construction businesses and is one of three revenue owners at the company. Previously, Nikesh was CEO of ActiveRain and the EVP of Product at Market Leader. Market Leader is the leading provder of Saas solutions to the real estate industry and was purchased by Trulia for $380m in 2013. At Market Leader, Nikesh managed products from CRM, social media and consumer web sites like RealEstate.com. ActiveRain is the largest blogging network and professional social network in real estate. ActiveRain was purchased by Market Leader in October of 2011. Prior to ActiveRain and Market Leader, Nikesh was CEO of a cleantech company called Bio Architecture Lab that had developed technology to convert seaweed into low cost sugars for biofuel and renewable chemical development. Bio Architecture Lab raised $35m in financing in a very challenging financial environment and built a 40 person company located in San Francisco and Chile. For five years, Nikesh was an executive at one of the leaders in online marketing for the real estate industry called HouseValues. Nikesh helped grow the company to 600 employees, 2 locations, and nearly $100m in revenue over a five year period. Nikesh joined in 2002 and ran product, business development, consumer marketing, and corporate development. In 2005 and 2006, I started and ran our mortgage division.
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About Suplari: Suplari focuses on leveraging machine learning to help enterprises change the way they manage their suppliers and costs.
Alan Solidum
Co-Founder and CTO of AreaMetrics
Former Co-Founder at AreaMetrics (acq by Point Inside – Seattle) | Developed products that generated an avg recurring revenue of $53K/mo | Maker
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About AreaMetrics: AreaMetrics personalizes the world around you by leveraging sensors and data.
Jeffrey Heer
Co-Founder & CXO of Trifacta
Jeff is Trifacta’s Chief Experience Officer & a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab. Jeff’s passion is the design of novel user interfaces for exploring, managing and communicating data. The data visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Protovis, Prefuse) are used by thousands of data enthusiasts around the world. In 2009, Jeff was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of “Top Innovators under 35″.
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About Trifacta, University of Washington: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Montana Reed
Co-Founder & CPO of Mira
Montana Reed is working to define the future of augmented reality product experiences.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Matt Ehrlichman
Founder, CEO of Porch Group
Matt Ehrlichman Currently launching a new tech start-up, Matt Ehrlichman is lining up the founding team, finalizing financing, completing accelerator acquisitions, and will be announcing shortly. Prior, Ehrlichman was the Chief Strategy Officer at Active Network responsible for 85% of the P&L. Ehrlichman led the company’s technology business units and managed the company’s technology growth and earnings goals, marketing operations, business development, international operations, and mergers and acquisitions. Ehrlichman joined Active Network in the start of 2007, and helped to grow the company’s revenues from $65 million in 2006 to $420 million and a 2011 IPO. Before joining the company, Ehrlichman was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thriva, which was acquired by the Active Network in March 2007 for $60 million. Ehrlichman attended Stanford University where he received both his Bachelor of Science degree in entrepreneurial engineering and Master of Science degree in management science and engineering.
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About Porch Group: Porch Group is a vertical software company reinventing the home services industry.
Doug Rybacki
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Filo.co
Doug Rybacki is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Filo. He was a former CTO and CPO at Conga. Doug has an MBA from the University of Washington and a BBA from The University of Texas.
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About Filo.co: Filo.co is a collaborative platform for virtual events, meetings, and workshops.
Jim Xiao
Founder & President of Mason
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About Mason: Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™
Heidi M. Hagen
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of Vineti
Heidi has been an Operations Executive in the Biotechnology industry for over 25 years and is a Co-founder of Vineti. She has an extensive and proven track record in leading operations and commercializing innovative technologies ranging from recombinant protein/device combinations to the first active immune cell therapy, Provenge. Previously, Heidi was the Global COO for SOTIO, in Prague, Czech Republic with a US office in Boston, MA. Before joining SOTIO she worked for Dendreon for ten years as Senior Vice President of Operations and ten years with Immunex Corporation in a range of roles in drug development and operations management. Heidi has a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, an MS in Bioengineering, and an MBA from the University of Washington.
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About Sonoma BioTherapeutics, Vineti: Vineti is a commercial cloud-based platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies.
Free Wortley
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of LunaSec
Free Wortley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LunaSec.
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About LunaSec, Refinery: Open Source data security platform to help you protect your most sensitive data.
Fahim ul Haq
Co-Founder and CEO of Educative
Fahim ul Haq is the Co-Founder & CEO at Educative
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About Educative: Educative provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers with pre-configured developer environments in the cloud.
David Vaskevitch
Co-Founder of Gaia Platform
David’s career as a visionary software architect, business innovator, and author spans more than 35 years. In 1986, David joined Microsoft, where he held various senior executive positions in his 23-year service including serving as Microsoft’s Chief Technical Officer, reporting directly to Bill Gates. Since then he has founded two more innovative companies.
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About Gaia Platform, MyLio: Gaia Platform is creating a platform for developing applications for Autonomous Machines.
David Ross
CTO & Co-Founder of Twistle
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About Twistle: Twistle is a health care platform that helps healthcare providers connect with patients, keeping them on track for faster recovery.
Demetri Themelis
Co-Founder and CEO of Knock
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About Knock: Knock is a software-as-a-service platform that provides sales and marketing services for residential property management companies.
Tom Petry
Co-Founder & CPO of Knock
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About Knock: Knock is a software-as-a-service platform that provides sales and marketing services for residential property management companies.
Joe Savarese
CTO & Founder of NetMotion Software
Joe, a founding executive of NetMotion Wireless, brings 21 years of experience in the wireless communications industry and is one of the original architects of NetMotion Mobility. Prior to joining WRQ in 1996, Joe served as Senior Network Architect at Intermec responsible for setting the networking strategy for Intermec products and served as a principal design engineer in the development of one of the early wireless LAN systems. Joe holds a BSEE from Rutgers University and an MBA from the University of Washington. He has two patents issued and five others pending.
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About NetMotion Software: NetMotion Software is a tech company that provides security solutions, device management, and monitoring of remote devices.
Mitchell Keidan
Co-Founder of Stackline
Mitchell Keidan is a Co-founder at Stackline.
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About Stackline: Stackline is a retail intelligence and software company that provides tools, data, and services for e-commerce.
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO of QuantConnect
Co-Founder of QuantConnect, Algorithm Fund, StockTrack.org.
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About Leverage, QuantConnect: We inspire, empower & educate a community of quants, providing world class infrastructure for them to design and market their trading ideas
Franck Rougier
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kirio Inc
Franck Rougier is a passionate entrepreneur and tech evangelist who founded Kirio to serve the construction industry. Kirio, Inc. is a Seattle based IoT hardware and software manufacturer designing, developing, and deploying the Kirio Smart Home and Energy Management System. Franck earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic University, and his Master Degree in Sensor Based Robotics and Controls from New York University. Previously, Franck was president at Blue Helios Inc., a software development consulting company serving the alternative investment industry. He also worked in the supply-chain management (PKOH) and financial (BAC) industries.
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About Kirio Inc: Kirio is an intelligent software platform that uses a deep learning algorithm to deliver true home automation, efficiency and comfort.
James Walter
Founder and CEO of Finagraph
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About Finagraph: Finagraph provides best-in-class financial intelligence on demand for lenders, accountants, consultants and business owners.
Robi Ganguly
CEO & Co-Founder of Apptentive
Early on, Robi learned about customer experience as a paperboy for The Seattle Times. From there he instructed Tae Kwon Do, learning that 7 to 14 year olds are some of the toughest customers on Earth. As a bag boy (nee’ Courtesy Clerk) for Olson’s Food Stores he learned the value of a simple conversation and taking the bags out for each and every customer. “How you leave them is how they leave,” his store manager repeated and it hit a chord. Years later, whether it was working for Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown advising companies like Ameritrade on their M&A strategy or helping WebEx pioneer and popularize the SaaS business model, Robi was lucky to always be close to customers in his roles. At Yahoo!, he spent his time with teams in product, design and sales, working closely with global CPG brands. Robi constantly found that global business leaders were yearning for deeper, more direct customer relationships and that they were convinced that advertising had to change. In 2011, Robi founded Apptentive with the goal to help brands around the world give each of their customers a voice. Outside of Apptentive Robi enjoys running, cooking for his wife and friends, reading, and is a long-time board member at the Developer Alliance.
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About Apptentive: Apptentive’s mobile customer experience software helps the World’s largest Consumer companies collect and act on 100x feedback at scale
Oliver Sharp
Co-Founder and Vice President of Customer Services of Highspot
Oliver Sharp is the co-founder and VP of Product at Highspot.
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About Highspot: Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.
Daniel Chen
Co-Founder & CTO of Shyft Technologies
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About Shyft Technologies: Shyft Technologie is a tech company developing mobile apps for coworkers and teams.
Brandon Schulz
Co-Founder & CEO of Violet
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About Violet: Violet is a Commerce API Platform enabling any app to integrate universal checkout in weeks instead of years.
Jack Couch
Co-Founder of Sophtron
Founder of DeepIntel in 2008 (a software security consulting firm for Microsoft, Amazon and Google) and Monchilla.com (accounting software acquired by Xero.com in 2015).
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About Sophtron: Sophtron is an online platform designed to fuel business growth by aggregating proprietary data.
Aaron Bird
Co-Founder of Inflection.io
Aaron Bird is the Founding Partner at Pienza. He is also a Co-Founder and Board Chair at Inflection.io.
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About Inflection.io, Pienza: Inflection.io is a venture-backed product company that builds marketing technology to power product-led growth.
Evan Richman
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of SkyKick
Before SkyKick, Richman was at Microsoft for seven years where he held a number of product management leadership roles on the SharePoint and Office 365 businesses. Prior to Microsoft, Richman was the VP of Business Development for Digital Pipe, a Silicon Valley based networking startup and began his career as a consultant for Towers Perrin. Richman holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and B.A from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About SkyKick: SkyKick provides a cloud management SaaS platform for IT providers.
Todd Schwartz
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of SkyKick
Prior to SkyKick, Schwartz was Director of Product Management at Microsoft, where he held a number of leadership roles, including the launch and double-digit growth of Bing, AdCenter and Windows Live businesses. Before Microsoft, Schwartz worked as a consultant with Deloitte Consulting and Accenture, and held roles in venture capital, startups, and as a Captain in the US Army. Schwartz holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and B.A. in Economics from Colorado College.
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About SkyKick: SkyKick provides a cloud management SaaS platform for IT providers.
Ezhilarasan Natarajan
Founder & CEO of CoreStack Inc
Ezhilarasan Natarajan is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CoreStack.
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About CoreStack Inc: CoreStack delivers continuous and autonomous cloud governance for enterprises.
Christopher Richins
CEO & Founder of RBC Signals
Christopher Richins is co-founder and CEO of RBC Signals, a provider of global satellite ground station “infrastructure as a service.” Richins began his career as an RF Communications Engineer at Boeing Sea Launch, where he supported multiple launch campaigns from the ship-based equatorial launch site. After business school, he completed an internship with SpaceX before joining Bain & Company as a management consultant. Post Bain, Richins held management roles at Arkyd Astronautics (Planetary Resources), Space Angels Network, Expedia, and Applause. Richins earned an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia as a Jefferson Fellow, a master’s degree in Astronautics from the University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
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About RBC Signals: RBC Signals provides global satellite communication “infrastructure as a service”
Kieran Snyder
Co-Founder and CEO of Textio
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About Textio: Textio offers a computer software that specializes in natural language processing, text analytics, and machine learning.
Jensen Harris
Co-Founder and CTO of Textio
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About Textio: Textio offers a computer software that specializes in natural language processing, text analytics, and machine learning.
Davide Vigano
Co-Founder & CEO of Sensoria
Davide Vigano’ is cofounder and CEO of Sensoria Inc. Sensoria design, develop and produce bio-sensing wearable devices that improve people’s lives. Davide is a former Microsoft Executive with over 25 years of sales, marketing and extensive product management experience. Joined the Mac Works, Mac Office teams in 1987 and more recently served as General Manager of the Health Solutions Group where he was in charge of marketing and product strategy for both HealthVault and the Amalga product line. He acted as Vice President of the Worldwide SMSP Medium Business division which he grew 18% YOY to over $14B. Davide brought the Italian Microsoft Business and Enterprise operations to number one in the world for contribution margin, $1B in revenues, 6th largest subsidiary overall.
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About Sensoria, Sensoria Health: Sensoria designs, develops, and produces body-sensing wearable devices.
Rishi Mathew
Co-Founder & CEO of Keepe
Founder at Keepe
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About Keepe: SaaS-enabled B2B Marketplace for Home Repairs
Vishal Srivastava
Co-Founder & CTO of Keepe
Founder at Keepe
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About Keepe: SaaS-enabled B2B Marketplace for Home Repairs
Dean Graziano
Founder & CEO of KeeperAI
Dean has more than 15 years of experience in entrepreneurial ventures, including as the founder of Visible Technologies Inc., an industry-leading online reputation management and social media software company located in Bellevue, Washington. Dean started Visible Technologies in 2005 in his apartment with two employees , and in four years expanded the company to 110 employees and $16MM in revenue. In 2009, Visible Technologies was voted the second-fastest-growing companies in Seattle/Puget Sound, listed #170 on Inc. Magazine’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, and was a Top Performer in the 2009 Forrester Wave Report. Dean led the company to more than $50MM in funding, which included investors such as Joe Grano – Centurion Holdings, WPP, Ignition Partners, and In-Q-Tel. In 2007, Dean was also part of the founding team at Reach Machines, a media-planning software company, which merged in 2008 with another local start-up called Fyreball. The combined company is now called Meteor Solutions (www.meteorsolutions.com). Meteor Solutions was acquired in October 2012 by Covario, a leading search marketing and digital agency. Dean lives in Seattle with his wife Marian and their three kids. He sits on several advisory boards and is highly active in the Seattle start-up community. He is an inventor and holds patents in the social media Industry, patent #7,720,835
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About KeeperAI, Launch Consulting Group, The Movement Company: SaaS, Corporate Team Development, Culture
Michel Feaster
Co-Founder & CEO of Usermind
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About Usermind: Usermind’s customer experience platform optimizes real-time customer interactions to improve business outcomes.
Chris Diorio
CEO, Founder of Impinj
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About Impinj, University of Washington: Impinj is a provider of RAIN RFID solutions that deliver Item Intelligence to retail, healthcare and other industries.
Rahul Sood
Founder, CEO of Irreverent Labs
Rahul Sood is the Founder and CEO at Irreverent Labs.
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About Irreverent Labs: Irreverent Labs creates artificially intelligent hundred-year entertainment experiences on a blockchain.
Ryan Geithman
Co-Founder and President of Ember Entertainment
Ryan Geithman serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director at Ember Entertainment.
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About Ember Entertainment: Ember Entertainment is an independent mobile game developer.
Tommy Stephenson
Co Founder & Chief Technology Officer of BLOCKStrain Technology Corp.
Stephenson is the co-founder of Spark. Since September 1998, he has been Chief Executive Officer of Heated Details Inc., a Seattle-based design and development agency he founded, which provides services to Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Google/YouTube, Starbucks and Mercedes Benz. Mr. Stephenson previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of Ghost Group, a technology company that owns and manages a portfolio of advertising, Web, point-of-sale and logistics solutions for the cannabis industry (including its well-known flagship platform, Weedmaps), from September, 2014, to January, 2016.
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About BLOCKStrain Technology Corp.: Developer of the first integrated blockchain platform that registers and tracks intellectual property for the cannabis industry.
Sarah Haggard
Founder and CEO of Tribute
Sarah is a proven business leader who spent the last decade climbing the Corporate ladder in product marketing, sales and strategy. Her tenacity, drive and results led to her being widely recognized as a turnaround expert, new business incubator and compete strategist. Sarah’s leadership style is engaging and authentic. Her superpower is her ability to spot patterns, diagnose operational issues and activate the right people and resources to deliver results. Building high performing teams that have a high degree of trust and customer obsession. Sarah holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Seattle University and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Business Administration from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. In her own words, “I’m founding Tribute because I’m passionate about the power of human connection, and using storytelling as a means to find that connection. When we feel connected, we feel empowered, supported, and most importantly, capable of achieving our most aspirational goals.” In her own words, “I’m founding Tribute because I’m passionate about the power of human connection, and using storytelling as a means to find that connection. When women feel connected, we feel empowered, supported, and most importantly, capable of achieving our most aspirational goals. Without sacrificing who we are, or what we believe in.”
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About Tribute: Tribute is a micro mentorship app, available in Slack and Teams, that enhances team collaboration, learning, and productivity.
Joe Davy
Founder & CEO of Banzai
Joe Davy is Co-Founder and CEO of Banzai, a SaaS-based Engagement Marketing company. Banzai, founded in 2016, has nearly 100 employees globally with offices in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, and in Raleigh, North Carolina. Joe is a North Carolina native and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to starting Banzai, Joe was a software engineer at IBM, launched a startup called EvoApp, and was General Manager at Avalara, which went public in 2018 and currently has a $15B market cap. In 2019, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Enterprise Technology. Joe is an active investor and also serves as a Director of LegalPad and as a board member of the Seattle Symphony.
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About Banzai: Banzai is a leading enterprise SaaS Engagement Marketing platform for virtual events. On a mission to make marketing more human, the company makes it easy for marketers to drive and track ROI on virtual events by targeting new audiences and deepening those relationships. To that end, Banzai covers a wide array of marketing event products. Banzai customers include Argyle, HubSpot, Nutshell, and ActiveCampaign, among thousands of others. Learn more at www.banzai.io.
Benjamin Fels
CEO and Founder of Macro-Eyes
Benjamin leads teams that innovate. He is the founder and CEO of macro-eyes: an AI company making the delivery of health care predictive, everywhere.
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About Macro-Eyes, The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, World Health Organization: Macro-Eyes is an AI company. Our technology makes crucial systems resilient.
Tony Audino
Founder & Co-CEO of PeoplePath
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About PeoplePath: PeoplePath provides cloud-based platforms designed to engage and manage relationships with candidates, current and former employees.
Nick Rubin
Founder & CEO of Winno
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About Winno: Winno is an application that gets all the important updates to a story in one place, live.
Aaron Goldfeder
CEO & Co-Founder of Panda AI
Aaron Goldfeder is the CEO and Co-Founder at PANDA AI.
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About Panda AI: Panda AI develops a B2B artificial intelligence platform designed to simplify work and combine various tasks.
Robert Gara
Co-Founder of WompMobile
Robert Gara is co-founder of WompMobile, a SAAS company that optimizes websites for greater page-load speed, higher conversions and an all-around better user experience. Robert spearheads the company’s business development initiatives and works closely with business owners to tailor strategies – bringing to life more inspiring shopping experiences – to gain a competitive edge with mobile. Prior to joining WompMobile, Robert spent 15 years in corporate communications working at the intersection of business, politics and society.
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About WompMobile, WompMobile: WompMobile is a SAAS platform that converts websites to AMP pages and Progressive Web Apps – helping clients earn more with mobile.
Omri Kohl
Co-Founder & CEO of Pyramid Analytics
As CEO and co-founder, Omri Kohl leads Pyramid Analytics strategy and operations, bringing his deep understanding of the BI market and valuable management experience to a company at the forefront of todays fast-growing BI industry. Since its founding in 2008, Kohl has achieved significant market success and accelerated customer growth for the company, epitomizing the term disruptor through his introduction of the BI Office and Pyramid products, and their ground-breaking analytics OS technology. Kohl is a highly experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record for developing and managing fast-growth companies. He studied economics, finance and business management at Bar-Ilan University, has an MBA from Manchester University, and an MBA in International Business Management from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
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About Microsoft, Pyramid Analytics: Say goodbye to business intelligence. Say hello to Decision Intelligence. Meet the Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform.
Neill Barham
Founder & CEO of FiLMiC
Entrepreneur Neill Barham is the guiding vision behind FiLMiC Inc. Under his leadership FiLMiC Pro has garnered 2 Video Camera App of the Year Awards and a place on Tap! Magazine’s 50 Best Apps of All Time. Neill has spoken or taught at conventions, workshops and masterclasses all over world. Neill’s driving ambition is to bring accessible, world class storytelling tools to creative individuals in every corner of the globe.
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About FiLMiC: FiLMiC Inc designs and develops advanced mobile video imaging software for iOS and Android.
Lon Lundgren
Founder of Ocelot
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About Ocelot: Ocelot is a cloud and blockchain software company building a new digital nervous system for interconnecting physical infrastructure.
Arvind Krishnan
Founder & CEO of Swym
Arvind Krishnan is the Founder & CEO at Swym Corporation.
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About Swym: Swym helps e-commerce brands better engage their mobile customers by facilitating seamless cross-device experiences.
Michael Scholl
Founder | CEO of Inclusive HR
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About Inclusive HR: Applications promoting diversity and inclusion outcomes for interviews and hybrid-remote work
Brian Powell
Founder | CTO of Inclusive HR
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About Inclusive HR: Applications promoting diversity and inclusion outcomes for interviews and hybrid-remote work
Terry McCorkle
CEO and Founder of PhishCloud
Terry is Founder and CEO of PhishCloud Inc, a phishing protection and application level visibility company. Terry has served in a broad range of roles in his career including technical roles in cyber security and security analytics, and director level positions in product management, sales and partnerships. He previously served as the CTO and co-founder of Spearpoint Security which led to a successful exit after being acquired by Cylance in 2013. Terry holds a bachelors in Information Technology from Capella University and several cyber security certifications.
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About PhishCloud: PhishCloud is a software company that provides real-time phishing protection for businesses and their employees.
Allen Lu
CTO & Co-Founder of AdaptiLab
Allen Lu is the CTO and co-founder of AdaptiLab, a B2B SaaS Startup that builds data-driven solutions to companies’ biggest challenges in the machine learning talent pipeline. Allen is an experienced software engineer and published ML researcher, with particular focus in natural language processing. He owns a degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he spent time researching spoken dialog systems and abstractive text summarization. Previously, Allen held positions at both Google and Microsoft. At Google, he worked on improving search results with contextualized intent prediction. At Microsoft, he worked in the research branch (MSR) to automate Microsoft’s customer service with turn-based spoken dialog systems. Allen currently lives in Bellevue, Washington and enjoys spending free time outdoors or on the water.
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About AdaptiLab: AdaptiLab is a B2B, SaaS, machine learning, and recruiting company.
James Wu
CEO & Co-Founder of AdaptiLab
James Wu is the CEO and co-founder of AdaptiLab, a B2B SaaS Startup that builds data-driven solutions to companies’ biggest challenges in the machine learning talent pipeline. James is an experienced dev lead and machine learning researcher, with a focus on anomaly detection and interpretable machine learning models. He studied computer science and statistics at Duke University. He has experience working as an engineer and dev lead at early stage tech startups and was a Freestyle Venture Capital Engineering Fellow. James currently lives in Bellevue, Washington and when he’s not working on AdaptiLab he enjoys playing tennis and walking his dog.
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About AdaptiLab: AdaptiLab is a B2B, SaaS, machine learning, and recruiting company.
John Wantz
CEO and Co-Founder of Chapterly
Commerce, Venture, Decentralization
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About Chapterly, Charles Schwab, SHOP: Chapterly is an authoring app built by best-selling authors.
Andrey V. Nokhrin
Founder & CEO of BuildersCloud
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About BuildersCloud, Flyhomes: BuildersCloud allows users to share, access and work with construction documents.
Walter Smith
Co-Founder and CTO of CareZone
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About CareZone: CareZone makes it easy to manage multiple medications, organize health information, and access health services from your smartphone.
Vaughn Koch
Co-Founder of Datamode
Vaughn Koch is the co-founder of Datamode. Prior to that, he has held positions at various companies including NewCo, Trulia, Movity.com, Microsoft/Bing, InstantVIP, and Expedia. Vaughn holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Toronto.
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About Datamode, Movity, NewCo: Datamode is a data pipeline visibility tool for data engineers.
Kwame Boler
CEO & Co-Founder of neu
Working tirelessly to bring cleaning into the 21st century and with the help of a phenomenal team, make high quality, on-demand cleaning a pain of the past.
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About neu: neu is a reliable platform that provides quality cleans, on-demand.
Brett Brinton
Co-Founder & CEO of Zonar Systems
Brett Brinton is a co-founder of Zonar Systems and has been CEO since its inception in late 2001. New to the technology sector, he brought his proven business skills from a previous successful Seattle start-up, Wasser, Inc. Working under the mentorship of his father, the family-owned business took a new resin technology into the conventional steel coatings industry. Over the next 11 years, the company became the largest supplier of bridge coatings in the world, including some of the major infrastructure projects of the ‘90s, such as the Panama Canal, Japan’s Bullet Train, and most airports and sports stadiums. Brett parlayed his business expertise to Zonar early on, quickly growing operations and innovation within the company. Under his leadership, the founders worked together motivating employees through team performance. The results are a highly profitable, debt-free, hyper-growth, Software as a Service (SaaS) company that leads the connected work vehicle marketplace. Recent accomplishments include partnering with the largest truck manufacturer in the world, Daimler Trucks, that will soon expand its telematics installed base to more than a million vehicles. All this without any institutional investment. Brett has co-authored more than 30 patents since Zonar’s founding, leading the way to prestigious technology awards, such as the internationally known Edison Award for Innovation, awarded in both 2011 and 2013. Mr. Brinton studied Health Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, is a registered member of the Potawatomi Indian Tribe, and is active within his local community.
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About : Zonar Systems fuels innovative technology solutions that are shaping the future of smart fleet management.
Mike McQuade
Co-Founder & CSO of Zonar Systems
Mike McQuade co-founded Zonar Systems in 2001 to fulfill the growing and expanding technological demands of the transportation industry. As Zonar’s Chief Sales Officer, Mike brings the customers’ needs to the Research and Development team, leading them to fulfill those needs with the most technologically advanced and cost-effective products on the market today. Throughout his career Mike has held safety to be of utmost importance, often working in fields where the failure to maintain a safe work environment could be life threatening. Mike began using technology to increase safety while working at Zetec, where he used robotics and networking systems to ensure the operational integrity of submarines and aircraft carriers, and to secure hazardous areas such as nuclear power plants. Prior to Zetec, Mike contributed to the testing of avionics systems for commercial and military aircraft at Sundstrand Data Control, working on projects such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon. During his work at Zonar Mike has continued to hone his skills, working in part to develop many now patented Zonar products and intellectual property. He draws upon his experience in both writing software and designing hardware to ensure that Zonar’s products and services are fully integrated for a seamless user experience. Protecting drivers is a personal goal of his, as his father drove trucks for a living. His mission at Zonar is to provide valuable solutions that make the roads safer for everyone. Mike resides in Issaquah, WA with his wife and two daughters. In his free time, Mike moonlights as the Chief Fishing Officer, specializing in bass fishing.
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About : Zonar Systems fuels innovative technology solutions that are shaping the future of smart fleet management.
Casey Sullivan
Founder of Bookafy
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About Bookafy: Bookafy Scheduling Software: Need Scheduling Software? Bookafy is the best online scheduling software.
Eric Eastman
Founder & CEO of Bobber Interactive Corporation
Eric wants to change the game in the money lives of Generation Y forever. Having held several senior operating, strategy and consulting roles in the financial services space, he has a strong passion around financial capability and empowerment. Eric spent his early career at J.P. Morgan, and after leaving as a Second Vice President in 1997, founded, grew and sold his first Internet startup (renamed JobJuice.com). Eric joined Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) in 1999 to assist startup and incumbent companies with their online strategies (E*Trade, GATX Financial, Tickets.com). Eric then joined the senior leadership team at Levi Strauss as lead strategist for a startup brand (distributed in Target, Wal-Mart and Kmart) that grew to $250 million, before leading the launch and operations of a pilot retail store concept he co-conceived. Eric has a long history of mentoring youth around money and led the Junior Achievement program at Wharton, where he earned his MBA.
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About Bobber Interactive Corporation: Bobber Interactive Corporation offers customer engagement solutions for financial institutions.
John Musser
Founder, CEO & CTO of API Science
APIs are everywhere today and can be a great building block of modern applications. But all too often APIs are not truly great. Rather than love your API, developers curse it. How can you avoid that fate? In this session we’ll look at the most common mistakes API providers make and you can avoid making them too. Do you offer a bad developer experience (DX)? Poor, inconsistent API design? Unreliable services? This talk is a deep dive on not just what to avoid but what to do instead. And you’ll leave knowing how to get developers to love your API, not hate it.
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About API Science, Ford Motor: API Science is designed specifically for monitoring APIs.
Jonathan Rosoff
Founder & CEO of Formative
Jonathan Rosoff is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Formative.
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About Formative, Seattle Opera: Specialize in designing and building digital businesses and experiences – websites, applications, software platforms
Kate Edwards
Founder & Executive Director of International Game Developers Association
Kate Edwards is the Chief Experience Officer of SetJetters.
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About Geogrify, International Game Developers Association, MultiLingual Media, SetJetters, The Global Game Jam: International Game Developers Association is a non-profit organization for game software developers.
Adnan Mahmud
Founder & CEO of LiveStories
Adnan Mahmud is the founder & CEO of LiveStories a startup building data tools for the non-technical users. Prior to LiveStories, Adnan co-founded Jolkona a Seattle-based nonprofit whose mission is to educate, engage and empower a new generation of philanthropists by directly connecting them to changemakers on the ground. He is also active as a philanthropy consultant, with focus on youth engagement. He is a regular speaker on youth leadership for the U.S. State Department. His motivation comes from growing up in Bangladesh, witnessing some of the worst conditions that humans are forced to live through, and wanting to do something about it through his skills with organized networks and technology. Adnan previously worked at Microsoft for over 8 years with contributions to all the major Microsoft products. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Angelo State University and a master’s degree from the University of Southern California.
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About Jolkona, LiveStories: LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions with civic data. Our online tools make it easy to analyze data and communicate insights.
