Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Augmented Reality space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Anand Agarawala
Co-Founder & CEO of Spatial
Anand Agarawala is the creator of BumpTop, an irresistible new desktop interface with a satisfyingly three-dimensional physicality and a fresh approach to interactivity. Anand completed his Master thesis in 2006 which pioneered a novel physically based desktop interface leveraging expressive power and casual nature of real desks. His Masters of Computer Science was completed at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate thesis in 2004 at the University of Calgary. In his free time, Anand enjoys competitive team sports such as hockey and basketball. He often travels to India and across Europe and North America.
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About BumpTop, Spatial: Spatial allows NFT creators to customize a virtual space and gather for events such as exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences.
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Kevin Hart
Founder / CEO of Aireal
As the Founder and CEO of Aireal, Kevin has created Aireal’s Patent Pending Intellectual Property & lead business operations (including fundraising, business development and planning, marketing and project management). In this role, Kevin has also provided the necessary insight on user experience design and human sciences to help Aireal become the standard for the future of UX/UI design.
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About Aireal: Augmented Reality platform that allows digital content to coexist with reality, creating infinite ways to experience the world around you.
John Riccitiello
CEO of Unity Technologies
Since joining Unity as CEO in 2014, John Riccitiello has been a driving force in the successful launch of Unity 5 – the company’s next-generation multiplatform engine and development tools. Previously serving as CEO of Electronic Arts, John played a critical role in the company’s transformation into a mobile, online, and digital gaming leader, with subsequent revenue growth exceeding $1.6 billion during that time. John is also an active private investor, serving on Unity’s board since 2013 as well as Syntertainment, Telltale Games, and a few other higher-ed and non-profit boards. In addition, he was an investor and advisor to Oculus.
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Marcy Boyle
Co Founder, CEO of Hot Bit VR
Marcy Boyle is the CEO and co-founder of Hot Bit VR, a upcoming webVR marketplace of experiential social shopping. Hot Bit VR has been featured on ZDnet, Entrepreneur, Fox News, and listed as one of the “30 Best Virtual Reality Companies to Change Your World Soon.” She and her co-founder’s VR experiences have been featured in art galleries, universities, conferences, and festivals including FIVARS in Toronto and VRUK in London. Hot Bit VR was selected for the first class of the AR/VR/XR accelerator at the Green Screen Institute, and Silicon Valley’s Women’s Startup Lab. Prior to working in VR, she co-directed the feature film, NOBODY CAN COOL, which was released internationally. Marcy is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and is a member of Women in VR, Women in Film, and on the Board of the Alliance of Women Directors.
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About Hot Bit VR, Oculus: An experiential marketplace in virtual reality.
Brian Schimpf
Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries
Brian Schimpf is Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries. Previously, Brian was Director of Engineering at Palantir Technologies, where he led a large engineering organization developing and deploying data integration and analysis products. He served numerous domestic and international government organizations across the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement sectors. Previously, Brian was the Founder and Lead of Cornell University’s autonomous vehicle research program where his teams competed in DARPA’s Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge. Brian graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Anthony Borquez
Founder & CEO of Grab Games
Anthony is experienced in building and scaling creative tech businesses. His first company he co-founded, Spacient Technologies, was an early mobile GPS software platform that was acquired by Trimble Navigation. Anthony’s prior game company, Blue Label Games, built some of the first mobile gaming technology and content. In 2006, Blue Label Games was acquired by Japanese gaming leader Konami. The acquisition helped enable Konami’s mobile gaming division to become a top worldwide mobile game publisher. Anthony is also a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Gaming.
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About Faceroll Games, Flightly, Grab Games, University of Southern California, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business: Grab is focused on creating high-quality entertainment content across all major interactive platforms.
Neha Singh
Founder & CEO of Obsess
Neha Singh is the Founder & CEO of Obsess, a platform for Immersive Mobile Commerce.
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About Obsess: Obsess is a platform for immersive mobile commerce.
Saagar Govil
CEO & Chairman of Cemtrex
Presently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cemtrex Inc. (NASDAQ: CETX), a world leading diversified manufacturing and technology company, since December 2011. He has been working at Cemtrex since 2008, initially as a field engineer, subsequently moving into sales and management roles. Under his leadership he has spearheaded the company’s transition into new markets and product lines growing the business from $3M in revenues to over $100M. During his time as a leader at the company, the company earned a spot on the Deloitte Fast 500 Technology companies list in 2012, 2015, and 2016 while growing over 3000% in revenue. Cemtrex has over 550 employees in 8 offices worldwide. His most recent project is the SmartDesk, a breakthrough IoT product thats reinventing the personal workspace.
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About Cemtrex, Vicon Industries: Cemtrex drives innovation in many sectors, including smart tech, VR & AR, advanced electronic systems, and intelligent security systems.
Josh Williams
Co-Creator + CEO of Gowalla
A visual designer by trade, Josh Williams is co-founder and CEO of [Gowalla](/organization/gowalla-exploration), an augmented reality gaming company. Gowalla gets it’s name from it’s nostalgic and innovative Austin-based influence [Gowalla Inc.](/organization/gowalla), where Williams lead the pioneering and adoption of location-based technologies for everyday social sharing experiences.
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About Gowalla: Gowalla is an augmented reality social game.
Phillip Wang
CEO/Co-Founder of Gather
Phillip Wang is the CEO and Cofounder at Gather.
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About Gather: Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human.
Alex Hern
Founder and CEO of Tsunami XR
Alex Hern has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years. During his career, he has focused on early stage companies and on the incubation of technology companies. Alex Hern co-founded and served as a Director of Inktomi Goldman Sachs-led IPO (INKT), which powered and was the search technology for MSN, Yahoo and AOL. He was also the co-founder and Director of Yesmail Alex Brown led IPO (YESM), an email marketing and web directory company, which went public and then sold to CMGI, now ModusLink Global Solutions, for $650 million ten months later. Alex Hern co-founded Military Commercial Technologies a technology commercialization incubator funded by Lockheed and L-3, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of Arcsight (ARST), a cyber security company, which also went public and was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.5 billion. Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of CloudShield a network security company which sold to SAIC, a large technology and engineering firm specializing in government and commercial projects. Alex Hern also founded and served on the Boards of NewHomes.com and of Triton Network Systems (TNSI). Alex Hern has also served on the board of Zero Knowledge Systems, a security and encryption company now named Radial Point.
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About Tsunami XR: Tsunami develops and delivers advanced digital collaboration services for teams.
Snehal Dhruve
CEO & Founder of Cameraah
CEO & Founder at Cameraah
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About Cameraah, Dakiyaa App, Superfan Studio, Superfan.ai: Cameraah is a no-code tool to create AR experiences for Social & Commerce in minutes
Kelly Peng
Founder, CEO & CTO (Electrical / Optical / Software Engineer) of Kura Technologies
Kelly Peng is the CEO, CTO, and Founder of Kura Technologies.
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About Greylock, Kura Technologies, Particle House (AKA Inventor Lab), Radio Astronomy Lab, Stanford University, The AAT Project (American’s Amazing Teen): Kura Tech is a tech firm and platform that produces compact AR glasses, with customized displays, optics, ASICs, system.
Amjad Hussain
Chair & CEO of Algo
Amjad is an entrepreneur at heart. He founded Algo where he is the CEO during the day and AI building blocks designer at night. He has built a passionate team of domain experts, AI architects, scientists and software engineers with deep industry knowledge of manufacturing, distribution and retail. Algo is an always on full stack enterprise class AI platform with deep learning, augmented reality and workflow automation at its core. Algo has a conversational business analyst bot as its main user interface. Algo is rapidly growing and creating tremendous net new value for its customers world-wide. Amjad is an Honors Electrical Engineering & Computer Science graduate and a senior member of IEEE. He earned his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from UMIST, in the United Kingdom with a focus on artificial intelligence and an MBA from MIT. Amjad is an applied researcher and practitioner in the field of natural language understanding and deep reinforcement learning. He has completed flagship management programs at Harvard and Stanford. Amjad was recognized in the Crain’s ‘s ’40 under 40’ program for his pioneering work in advanced analytics.
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About Algo: Enterprise AI powered Supply Chain Planning platform delivered by a Virtual Business Analyst named Algo.
Ramses Alcaide
Co-Founder , CEO & President of Neurable
Ramses Alcaide is an electrical Engineer, neuroscientist, previous CEO of Pharo LLC and current CEO of Neurable. At Pharo, he managed high impact health projects, such as a malaria prediction system, a rehabilitation technology for stroke patients and a health monitoring system. As a researcher, he has worked extensively to develop the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology for people with amputations, children with cerebral palsy and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was also the CTO and CSO at NeuroStride, developing their go to market strategy and technology. Lastly, he is also the inventor and primary developer of Neurable. His honors include the Neuroscience Innovator Award, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Fellowship.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Shawn Frayne
Co-Founder & CEO of Looking Glass Factory
Shawn Frayne is the CEO and co-founder of Looking Glass Factory, a Brooklyn-based startup that makes the Looking Glass, a desktop holographic display for 3D creators that groups of people can see and touch without VR or AR headgear. His favorite hologram is the shark that tries to swallow Marty outside the Holomax theatre in Back to the Future II. Shawn has his B.S. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Looking Glass Factory: Looking Glass Factory is building the holographic future, starting with the Looking Glass, the world’s best selling holographic display.
George Palikaras
Founder, President/CEO of Metamaterial Inc.
Founder at Metamaterial Technologies
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About Metamaterial Inc.: Mastering Light using Smart Materials & Photonics. Changing the way we use, interact and benefit from Light.
Vitaliy Goncharuk
CEO and Founder of Augmented Pixels
I am CEO and founder of Augmented Pixels, based in Palo Alto, California, which provides software for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for augmented reality(AR/VR Glasses) and autonomous navigation(Robots / Drones). In 2016 I was honored to be a mentor and a judge at NASA(USA) Space Race project (link: http://bit.ly/2k1pTRX ) and was also asked to report in front of the board of directors of National Academy of Sciences (USA) about the long-term impact of Artificial Intelligence in several industries(link: http://bit.ly/2jPQ3Vy ). My hobbies: Skydiving, Good books, Mafia game(not Werewolf :=)), Jiu Jitsu(japanese style) and Control Line.
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About Augmented Pixels: Augmented Pixels – a leader in precise 3D geolocation and 3D maps crowdsourcing technologies
Gabrielle Chou
CEO & Co-Founder of Allure Systems
Gabrielle Chou is founder & CEO at Allure Systems.
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About Allure Systems, New York University Shanghai: Allure Systems uses AI to produce apparel images for eCommerce.
Christopher Pickett
CEO & Board Member of DigiLens
Christopher Pickett is the President & CEO & Board Director of Pelican Imaging. Pickett is a seasoned Senior Executive and Business Strategist in both private and public company environments. During his more than 20 years of experience, Chris has helped to drive adoption and create financial success for companies with technologies spanning semiconductor packaging, camera modules, LCD displays, general lighting, cryptography, and memory systems. Most recently, Chris was the senior vice president of corporate licensing for Rambus – joining Rambus as part of the acquisition of Global Lighting Technologies where he was the President of the licensing division. At Rambus, he was responsible for global technology and patent licensing and helped grow Rambus’ aggregate revenue more than 50% during his two and a half year tenure. At Global Lighting Technologies, Chris developed the licensing, marketing and revenue plan resulting in acquisition by Rambus and market adoption of its technology by General Electric, Cooper Industries and others, as well as a broad array of contract manufacturers that act as a vibrant partner ecosystem. Before Global Lighting Technologies, Chris was the Executive Vice President of licensing at Tessera Technologies, bringing the company from start up phase to a successful mid-cap public company. During his 13 year tenure, Tessera achieved compound revenue and operating profit growth exceeding 50% annually which led to Tessera being cited in 2006 by Business Week as the Second Hottest Growth Company in America and by Electronic Business as the 4th Best Small Electronics Company in the US, also in 2006. He is the inventor on nine issued US patents. Chris has a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law. BSEE from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
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About DigiLens: DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR).
Denis Mars
Co-founder and CEO of Proxy
Denis Mars, CEO & Co-Founder Before Proxy, Mars was the Director of Admissions at Y Combinator, responsible for initiating programs to help discover and evaluate the most promising founders and ideas that could change the world for the better. Prior to Y Combinator, Mars founded Meetings.io, which was acquired by Jive, founded an automotive startup, and was a chief engineer for the champion winning Formula 3 race team. Mars has a B.S. in Physics and a B.E. Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sydney. Startup founder, YC alum. Physics, Mech Engineering, Code, Design, UI/UX, Products. Likes to engineer the impossible and disrupt the status quo. Tech Startups: •Y Combinator Alum – Embedster Inc W2010 •Y Combinator Alum – Bitplay Inc (Meetings.io) W2011 •Meetings.io acquired by Jive (NASDAQ:JIVE) in 2012 Other accomplishments: •Modena Inc – Acquired by Auto Group in 2005 •3Jive Inc – Music Platform Technology •Roxentric – Indie Record Label •Formula 3 Racing – Chief Engineer 2x championship wins •Formula SAE – Team Lead 2001 winning team
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About Proxy: Access More, Share Less. Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies. With Proxy ID, your world is now open.
Shantanu Bala
Co-founder & CEO of Somatic Labs
Co-Founder & CEO at Somatic Labs
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About Somatic Labs: Somatic Labs builds wearable haptic devices that augment human perception.
Anjney Midha
Co-founder & CEO of Ubiquity6
Anjney Midha is the CEO and co-founder of Ubiquity6, a massively multiplayer augmented reality platform focused on bringing people together in physical spaces. Previously, Anjney was an investing partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he founded the firm’s dedicated seed fund KPCB Edge and worked with AR, VR and computer vision companies including Magic Leap and TheWaveVR. Anjney pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Ubiquity6: Ubiquity6 uses computer vision to enable massively multiplayer, persistent AR experiences on top of the physical world.
John-Michael Scott
CEO of GreenData.IO
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About BloxNexus, Future Think Labs, GreenData.IO, MonstRpreneur, NoLoBlox, Sandalwood Ventures: Venture Builder bringing Corporations & Startups expertise in startup mindset & operational execution, creating the Data Driven Enterprise.
Taylor Freeman
Founder & CEO of Axon Park
Taylor Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Axon Park, a virtual campus where students from around the world can learn together in VR. He has been working at the intersection of VR and education over the last five years during which time he established two incubation spaces in LA and San Francisco housing over 150 AR and AI startups, hosted over 500 events focused around VR and AR, oversaw the training of nearly 1,000 students in-person on VR development, consulted with companies like NASA, Stanford Medical, Google, and IDEO and built a news media platform focused on VR that reaches millions of people per month. Taylor was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 for his work building the industry and he taught the first remote in-VR class with at MIT in 2018. He is deeply passionate about using VR to unlock new levels of human cognition and overcome the challenges many students face in the classroom around geographical limitations, student and teacher bias, and overall accessibility.
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About Axon Park: Welcome to your new virtual campus. Empowering organizations and individuals to harness the power of XR + AI for learning.
Nick Fajt
CEO & Co-Founder of Rec Room
Nick Fajt is the CEO & Co-Founder of Against Gravity.
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About Rec Room: Rec Room is an online universe that enables users to play and create games with friends.
Ashley Crowder
CEO & Co-Founder of VNTANA
Ashley Crowder is the co-founder and CEO of VNTANA, an industry leading augmented reality platform for creating and distributing premium mixed reality experiences. Prior to co-founding VNTANA she graduated from USC with a bachelors and masters in engineering and gained valuable manufacturing experience at Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman and BP. She leverages her engineering background to guide VNTANA’s overall direction and technology development. Ashley was featured as one of USC’s leading engineering CEOs of 2016. Ashley is a part of the Microsoft Early Developer Program along with the Microsoft Bizspark Plus program. Ashley has been a speaker at SXSW, Digital Summit, Internet Summit, Augmented World Expo, TEDx Venice, the World Economic Forum’s Global Growth Companies & Technology Pioneers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, The Montgomery Summit, Siemer Summit, Digital LA, and others.
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Gabe Paez
Founder and CEO of The Wild
Gabe Paez is the founder of WILD, a software company building a platform for design collaboration leveraging the power of shared virtual reality. WILD makes it easy to share 3D design ideas with a group of people together in realtime. Gabe has been a Technical Director and coder for 15 years. He specializes in creating immersive digitally augmented spaces. He is proud to have worked with a diverse roster of agencies and clients including Adidas, Verizon, Google, Nike, and Samsung. Gabe is an avid problem solver and finds great joy in bringing big ideas to life.
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About The Wild: SaaS, collaboration platform
Remy De Vlieghere
Founder and CEO SmarTECHS, LLC of SmarTECHS
Remy is a serial entrepreneur with a track record in building businesses and high-performance teams, and delivering break through innovation. Remy brings 20 years of broad international operations and commercial experience.
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About SmarTECHS: SaaS – Delivering context relevant work and safety instruction for technicians in the field
Kosta Popov
Founder & CEO of Cappasity
Kosta Popov, CEO and Founder, has 20+ years of experience and a successful track record as a software company CEO. Under Kosta’s lead, Cappasity has so far successfully raised $6.4M. Kosta is an expert in 3D technologies, SaaS solutions and mobile applications and was named one of the top innovators by Intel Software.
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About Cappasity: Cappasity is a cloud-based platform that lets online stores easily create and deliver 3D, VR and AR shopping experiences
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
Kirin Sinha
CEO & Founder of Illumix
Kirin Sinha, 25, is the founder and CEO of Illumix, a Lightspeed and Maveron backed AR gaming and technology company focused on developing adaptive and immersive experiences for the mobile phone. Previously, she founded SHINE for Girls, a national nonprofit targeted at encouraging middle school girls to pursue the study of mathematics. Not your typical gamer or CEO, Kirin is a Marshall Scholar and holds Masters degrees with honors in mathematics and statistics focused on machine learning, specifically computer vision, from the University of Cambridge and LSE respectively. She received a degree in electrical engineering / computer science and mathematics from MIT, and her MBA from Stanford University.
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About Illumix: Illumix develops augmented reality games.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
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.
Simon Kim
CEO of CLO Virtual Fashion
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About CLO Virtual Fashion: CLO Virtual Fashion develops true-to-life, 3D garment simulation technology for fashion and film/gaming industries.
Anthony Fenu
Founder & CEO of Soar
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About Soar: Soar is a real-time streaming platform for volumetric video
Nikhil Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of ObEN
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About ObEN: ObEN is an AI company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars.
Andrew Wyatt
CEO, Co-Founder of CALA
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About CALA: CALA is a marketplace that provides retail infrastructure for influencers and fashion brands to design and launch their own fashion brands.
Faizaan Ghauri
Chief Executive Officer of WRLD
Faizaan Ghauri is the CEO of eeGeo, a 3D mapping platform for mobile, virtual and augmented reality. Faizaan is also Vice President of Strategy for NetSol Technologies. He leads a 100+ team of designers, developers and artists as co-founder of IFDS, a digital studio focused on Virtual and Augmented Reality as well as Mobile App Development. Prior to IFDS, Faizaan spent four years on the Product team of Vroozi, an eCommerce platform for Fortune 500 companies. Faizaan currently lives between Los Angeles, London and Lahore. He is a passionate evangelist and investor for the Pakistani tech community. He sits on the steering committee of Nspire, a Pakistani incubator focused on promoting disruptive startups abroad. He is an aesthete with a keen interest in fashion and music. The original plan was to be a poet. It still is.
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About Nspire, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Brian Streem
Founder, CEO of Vermeer
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About Vermeer: AR/VR & AI Enable Mission Planning Tool
Akash Takyar
CEO of LeewayHertz Technologies
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About LeewayHertz Technologies: LeewayHertz is a blockchain development company, providing scalable and robust blockchain solutions to enterprises and startups.
Benjamin Taft
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
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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.
Shiraz Akmal
CEO & Co-Founder of Spaces
CEO & Co-Founder at SPACES Inc.
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About SABH’s Big Adventure, Spaces: SPACES designs VR, AR and MR experiences for theme parks, retail, and other public locations worldwide.
Youssri Helmy
Founder, CEO of Eonite Perception
Youssri brings over 25 years of experience in engineering, product management, marketing, and business development in a wide range of technologies to Eonite. He is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully cofounded, operated and exited several startups globally.
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About Eonite Perception, Si-Ware Systems: Eonite Perception is a 3D mapping and tracking company on a mission to enable machines to understand the real world.
Tony Mugavero
Co-Founder & CEO of Rad
Tony Mugavero is an experienced tech entrepreneur and executive with a media, business, blockchain, and computer engineering background. He is the Founder and CEO of Littlstar, a premium immersive network putting viewers at the center of experiences, and creator of the blockchain platform Ara. Ara is a distributed and decentralized system for all digital content and assets to be made available for sale on the blockchain.. Littlstar leverages this technology, and has the best content in the world from companies like NBCU, Warner Brothers, Universal Music, Showtime, Nat Geo, Discovery, PBS, Red Bull, Virgin, Disney, and more. He was a Co-founder and CTO at Galvanize, Inc., having co-founded and launched the 6-month gSchool engineering program, the co-working space, and Galvanize Venture Fund I focusing on early stage venture capital. In addition, he evaluated tech and media investments, raised money for Galvanize, and mentored startups on a daily basis. His work there won awards and countless features in the press. While at Galvanize his efforts took the company from $0 to $200k per month recurring revenue, sold out classes at Galvanize University with all graduates getting $60k per year jobs or better, and multiple investments in companies like Keen.io, Dabble, Pangea Organics, and more. Prior to building Galvanize, he was the Founder/CEO of MoovAtom, a simple API for providing cloud-based media encoding and delivery, which was successfully acquired in 2012. MoovAtom had clients like American Airlines, Pepsi, MEC Global, and TriNet. He was a Co-Founder of the music discovery app GigBeat, which was a Google MWC/IO Partner and AppCircus winner with over 1 Million users.
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About ARA Blocks, Rad: Rad is the Netflix of Blockchain, with NFTs, Crypto Rewards, and tokenized subscriptions.
Farris Wu
Co-Founder & CEO of DecorMatters
Mingfeng (Farris) Wu is an interdisciplinary entrepreneur who has successfully co-founded and expanded three businesses in three industries: consumer technology, venture capital and commercial real estate. Farris conceived of, co-founded, and served as CEO of a VC-backed fast growing company: DecorMatters. DecorMatters is building a user-centric platform to re-define the experience of home design and furniture shopping, by leveraging patented pending technologies of Augmented Reality (AR), Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI). DecorMatters is making home design easy and fun. Prior to DecorMatters, Farris co-founded and served as managing director of ZenStone Venture Capital (ZenStoneVC.com), to bridge China capital and innovations in Silicon Valley. He invested in 40+ technology companies at early stage. The entire portfolio has been valued more than $2 billion and raised more than $500 million capital. Farris was named to Top 20 Best Cross-Border Venture Capitalists by China Venture and Hurun Midas List in 2016. Prior to ZenStone, Farris co-founded and served as managing director of Alpha Realty Capital (ARC, ARealtyCapital.com), a vertically integrated firm offering commercial real estate investment, property value add, and property management services to HNW families and financial institutions in China. This firm currently has more than $100M asset under management, and generates more than 8% annual cash distribution and 25% IRR to limited partners. Prior to ARC, Farris developed the most sophisticated fast computing algorithms for solving cutting-edge physics problems. After Ph.D. graduation, he joined Applied Materials to conduct strategic project development and help executives bring strategic technology from concept to product. Farris obtained Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin, and B.S. and M.S. from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He published 30+ papers in top academic journals and 8+ technology patents.
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About DecorMatters, ZenStone Venture Capital: Building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem for the trillion dollar home renovation industry
Scott Montgomerie
Co-Founder, CEO and CTO of ScopeAR
Serial entrepreneur, Scott Montgomerie, has over 15 years of consumer software and AR experience that he brings to his roles of co-founder, CEO and CTO at Scope AR. In addition to managing day-to-day company operations, Scott is one of the true pioneers in the industrial AR space and passionate about how AR can help organizations achieve their goals quickly. Scott is also a full-stack developer, in everything from iPhone games to Ruby-on-Rails corporate tools, and has experience founding and creating products and teams from the grassroots startup stage through to acquisition. Throughout his career, Scott has aimed to make the world a better place by solving complex problems with transformative tech. He sees AR as having tremendous potential to simplify complex issues across industries. Scott graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science and is a published researcher in the field of Bioinformatics.
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About ScopeAR, Xfire: Scope AR develops augmented reality solutions and products for industrial clients focused around field maintenance.
Sly Lee
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Sly is a first generation American Entrepreneur & Scientist who is passionate about creating positive global impact through design and exponential technologies. He is co-founder & CEO of Emerge, a teleportation company with a vision to connect people’s emotions and feelings, on the path to ultimately “teleporting” our presence. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2018 recipient, a Singularity University Global Solutions Program 2015 Alumnus, World Economic Forum Global Future Council Member for AR/VR, has presented at the Skoll World Forum, and can be found surfing Venice Breakwater most mornings.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Isaac Castro
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Isaac Castro is an immigrant entrepreneur and co-founder & co-CEO of Emerge, a Los Angeles-based company bringing touch and emotion to the metaverse. Emerge’s mission is to empower those who are separated to feel more present when it is not possible to be physically together. Isaac believes in a future where technological progress brings us closer together and where nobody is left behind. He is an MIT Technology Review ‘Innovator Under 35’ recipient for the invention of a medical device for more effective cancer treatment. As a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper, he actively worked on inspiring youth and fostering peace and reconciliation with former FARC guerrilla members in Colombia, work for which he was invited to participate and speak at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Isaac holds a master’s degree in telecommunications engineering, and he is a graduate of Google X and NASA sponsored Global Solutions Program at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Lyron Bentovim
President & CEO of The Glimpse Group
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About CEOWORLD Magazine, Fordham Graduate School of Business, J-Ventures, The Glimpse Group: The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Alon Grinshpoon
Co-Founder & CEO of echo3D
Alon Grinshpoon is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at echoAR. Alon is a big-believer in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and is working on building the world’s best 3D-first content management system (CMS) and delivery network (CDN) to help companies scale their AR/VR solutions. Alon is a Java native-speaker with countless hours of programming in Java, Android, Unity, C#, C and Bash. Alon loves to create AR/VR apps, GUI and graphically design applications, open-source programs and API integration alongside his experience and passion for cloud and computer communication networks. Alon received his MSc in Computer Science from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science specializing in computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and human-computer interaction. Alon wrote his thesis on an Augmented Reality Guidance System for Endovascular Surgery advised by Prof. Steven K. Feiner. Alon received his BSc as a double major in Computer Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Tel Aviv University specializing in software engineering, computer networks, and cyber-security. During his studies, Alon served as a graduate researcher at the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory of Columbia University. Alon also served as a research assistant and teaching assistant in the fields of computer networks and distributed cloud.
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About echo3D, vasAR Technologies: echo3D is a cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that allows developers to quickly build and deploy 3D games, apps, and content.
Russell Ladson
CEO of Drop
Russell Ladson is the CEO of Drop Software Inc. (“Drop”). At Drop, he leads a team of designers, human-computer interaction researchers, and engineers who are obsessed with future of spatial and immersive computing. The team at Drop is currently looking to answer the question, “As our iPhones become ineffective and we move into a post-smartphone world, how will we navigate the immersive web?” Today, Drop provides an immersive internet searching and browsing experience designed for virtual reality and augmented reality users. It is one of the most popular and top downloaded VR titles on the HTC Vive – the leading virtual reality headset. It is commonly referred to as the “Google Chrome for VR.” Drop is venture backed by HTC, one of the world’s leading smartphone makers, Macro Ventures, Autochrome Ventures, Backstage Capital, and Matter Ventures. After a close call with mortality in a near-fatal accident, he finally understood the sanctity of life and doing what one loves so he co-founded Drop. He spent his postgraduate years as an investment banking analyst at two leading Wall Street firms – Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Rice Financial Products Company. Russell lives and works in San Francisco, California. Most of his free time is spent hiking, practicing vinyasa yoga, or playing chess. He graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. in Economics.
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About Drop: Drop lets people dive into an immersive internet searching and browsing experience designed for virtual reality.
Paul Berberian
CEO of Sphero
Paul Berberianis the Founder & Board Director of Market Force Inc. Paul Berberian is an experienced chief executive and entrepreneur who has founded and run high-tech companies over the last 12 years. Berberian is the former CEO & Co – Founder of Raindance Communications, a web and phone conferencing services company acquired by West Corporation in 2006. Before founding Raindance, Berberian was Co – Founder & CEO of LINK-VTC, a video teleconferencing company, which was sold in 1995 to Frontier Communications. Prior to LINK-VTC, Berberian was Co – Owner of a plastic badge manufacturer in Long Beach CA. Berberian is a distinguished Graduate of the US Air Force Academy.
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About Sphero: Sphero bridges the gap between the real world and the virtual world with its smartphone-controlled robots.
Rajiv Maheswaran
CEO of Second Spectrum
Rajiv Maheswaran is CEO of Second Spectrum, an innovative sports analytics and data visualization startup located in Los Angeles, California. His work spans the fields of data analytics, data visualization, real-time interaction, spatiotemporal pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, decision theory, and game theory.
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About Second Spectrum: Second Spectrum develops a gaming machine learning software to revolutionize sports through AI.
Sarah Hill
CEO & Chief Storyteller of Healium dba StoryUp Studios
Sarah Hill is the CEO of Healium and an interactive media tech professional with 25 years building successful platforms. Healium is the world’s first biometrically powered VR/AR channel controlled by the user’s brain and heart rate via their wearables. Hill is a former interactive TV news journalist for the NBC, ABC, & CBS affiliates in Missouri. A national Edward R. Murrow, NAB Service to America, National Sigma Delta Chi, and 12 time mid-America Emmy award-winning storyteller, she spent decades reporting about the world’s negativity and trauma in 5 continents.
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About Healium dba StoryUp Studios: Healium is an augmented and virtual reality channel powered by consumer wearables for the self-management of anxiety and sleep
Mark Atkinson
Chief Executive Officer of Mursion
Mark Atkinson has been CEO of Teachscape since July 1999. Prior to founding Teachscape, he was a network news producer with experience in reporting, producing, and directing network news documentaries. Mr. Atkinson was Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, where he focused on multimedia production and the education market. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale University and serves as a trustee of the Oracle Education Foundation.
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About Mursion, The Achievement Network: Mursion, a virtual reality environment or platform where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills.
Thomas Suarez
Co-founder, CEO/CTO of Teleportal
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About Teleportal: Teleportal is a spatial computing company building developer and creator tools.
Jay Wright
CEO of Meta View
Jay Wright is president and general manager, Vuforia in the PTC Technology Platforms Group. In this role, Jay Wright has global responsibility for driving the Vuforia business and maintaining Vuforia as the leading software platform for development of augmented reality applications.
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About Campfire, Meta View: Meta View is an electronic company that provides augmented and virtual reality solutions for various businesses.
Victor Chapela
Co-founder & CEO of Suggestic
Victor Chapela has over 25 years of IT experience and entrepreneurship. During this time, he has founded and led 6 technology companies in the United States and Mexico. As the founder and CEO of these companies he has mainly been involved in the design and development of software products and specialized services for the financial industry and large corporations. His latest companies: Sm4rt Security Services and Sm4rt Predictive Systems were both acquired in 2014. Mr. Chapela is an active angel investor and mentor in the Silicon Valley area. His main expertise lies within the area of information security, risk modeling, predictive analytics and machine learning. He is co-author and contributor of courseware, study material and papers for SANS, OWASP, ISACA, Springer and several other organizations and media companies. He is a frequent speaker at international events and is frequently featured in business and trade magazines, television and radio.
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About Suggestic: Suggestic operates as a personalized nutrition platform that utilizes AI to deliver food recommendations.
Devin Daly
Co-Founder & CEO of SpinCar
Devin co-founded SwipeToSpin in 2011 with the goal of making online shopping more intuitive and engaging than ever before. With a background in venture capital consulting, Devin was afforded a unique perspective on cutting-edge software solutions. After watching one tech company, which enabled eCommerce websites to easily add zoom functionality to their websites, rise to its now ubiquitous position he saw a similar opportunity for 360 content. Devin knew from his own shopping experience and numerous industry studies that consumers feel much more confident in their online purchase if they can view a product from 360 degrees. As an early advocate of growth hacking, Devin teaches traditional businesses how to apply lean business methodologies to increase profitability. In long-established industries like automotive, SwipeToSpin flips conventional growth theory on its head. By promoting total optimization of the online sales funnel prior to advertising spend, SwipeToSpin helps retailers get significantly more leverage out of their marketing dollars and dominate competition. Devin earned his Bachelors degree in Finance and Economics from Saint Joseph’s University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude while playing Division I Men’s Varsity Lacrosse.
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About SpinCar: SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising.
Anthony Duca
Founder and CEO of Cavrnus
Anthony Duca is CEO and Founder at Cavrnus.
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About Cavrnus: Cavrnus is a software company that specializes in spatial collaboration via extended reality.
Devkumar Gandhi
CEO & Co-Founder of Moback
Devkumar is the Founder of NEXAGE, and was the CEO from 2006 till early 2010. For last 20 years, Devkumar has been involved in wireless carrier operations and high-tech entrepreneurialism with experience in developing and marketing mobile & online advertising and media technology. Devkumar has experience in management team recruiting, company formation, entrepreneurial finance, capital acquisition, strategic business development, technology and marketing strategy. Devkumar raised over $10M in financing for companies he has founded, including venture capital and angel investments.
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About Dobango, Hmatix Inc, Moback: Moback is a specialist in Robotics Telepresence, Autonomous Vehicles’ User experience and Enterprise software development.
Andreas Forsland
Founder & CEO of Cognixion
Andreas Forsland is the Founder & CEO at Cognixion.
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About Cognixion: Cognixion is a neural interface startup creates AI-powered products for individuals with disabilities.
Suzanne Borders
CEO and Co-Founder of BadVR
Suzanne is the founder of BadVR, the world’s first immersive data analytics platform. She is best known for leading the design of 2D data analytics platforms at Remine, CREXi, and Osurv. In her spare time, she’s traveled to 75 countries, lived through the Egyptian revolution, and met her hero, Alejandro Jodorowksy.
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About BadVR: BadVR uses virtual reality to craft immersive data experiences that help you see the whole picture and gain actionable insights.
Michael Agustin
Co-founder and CEO of CurieVision
Michael invented GameSalad, a drag-and-drop game creation tool he grew from zero to over one million developers worldwide. He is a serial entrepreneur who can execute technically and creatively. He is now looking at new applications in the fields of computer vision and augmented reality. Before GameSalad, Michael worked as a software engineer in platform experience for Mac OS X at Apple.
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About CurieVision, GameSalad: Building 3D affordably and at scale to fuel the Metaverse
Michael Amori
CEO & Co-founder of Virtualitics
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About Virtualitics: Visualize and understand your data as never before thanks to our innovative use of VR/AR, Machine Learning and Natural Language.
Erik Maltais
CEO of Immertec
If you are reading this you are most likely interested in understanding me better in consideration to join our team, become a customer, invest in our company or collaborate in some way. Instead of a boring you with details of my past accomplishment written by yours truly to highlight my greatness, I will instead share my weaknesses and strengths from my predictive index behavioral pattern assessment summary below. (https://www.predictiveindex.com). Please note these words below are not my own. I hope this information provides some insight into how I behave, so you may better judge our suitability. “A very independent, confident, decisive, self-starter, intense and driving. This individual has a strong sense of urgency, can react and adjust quickly to changing conditions, generate novel ideas, and deal with them swiftly. Strongly venturesome in taking risks and focusing on the future; almost exclusively concerned with where they’re going rather than either how they’ll get there, or where they’ve been. Their drive is directed at getting the important things done. Competitive, ambitious and venturesome, they respond positively and actively to challenge and pressure, always sure of an ability to handle problems and people. This individual is outgoing and poised; a forceful, animated, communicator tending to be more authoritative than persuasive in style. They talk briskly, with assurance and conviction and are a stimulating influence on others, while being direct, determined and flexible. Sure of the value of personal judgments and opinions, and persistent in defending them if put under pressure to change them, Erik will question and challenge established company policies or systems and strive to prove in action the value of their ideas for change. More concerned with the achievement of goals than with the details of how things get done, this individual will freely delegate to others with loose follow-up, but with demand and pressure for timely results. Ingenious and venturesome, they will likely become restless and dissatisfied if required to work under close control or to do work which is routine or highly structured. Very much a generalist, Erik is more concerned with the strategies involved in reaching goals than with specifics or detailed tactics.”
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About Bunker Labs, Immertec: Immertec is a real-time virtual observation platform for remote, fully-immersive surgical and medical training.
Brett Jones
CEO & Co-Founder of Lightform
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Danny Gordon
Founder & CEO of AugiArt
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About AugiArt, CultureSphere: Web3’s Yelp + NFTs For The Hospitality Industry
Michael Levine
CEO of HappyGiant
Mike Levine is the President and Founder of Pileated Pictures and HappyGiant, and veteran of LucasArts, currently living in Western Massachusetts. He is currently making the AR game, “HoloGrid: MonsterBattle”, with Phil Tippett, Academy Award winning Visual Effects Artist, and creator of the famed “HoloChess” scene and many more from Star Wars and other classic films – for mobile first and next-gen platforms.
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About HappyGiant, Planet Mojo: HappyGiant is a leader in Augmented Reality gaming and entertainment industries
Salvador Nissi Vilcovsky
Founder & CEO of Memomi
Salvador Nissi Vilcovsky is a serial entrepreneur and interaction design expert. Prior to founding MemoMi, Salvador founded and exited three successful network systems integration companies. An recognized leader in experience-based design, Salvador has 15 years of international, executive-level management experience, specializing in rapid product development. He completed the ACSE Program at MIT Sloan School of Management, a MA in Design from Domus Academy, and BA in Business from the University of Manchester.
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About Memomi: Memomi is a smart mirror software that transforms the luxury shopping market.
Sampo Parkkinen
CEO of Revieve
Co-founder @Revieve. General Partner @LandInChicago. Co-founder & COO @ RapidBlue Solutions (acquired in 2013). Member of Board @PromoRepublic. Mentor, advisor and early stage angel investor in startups.
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About Forbes Technology Council, Gorilla Capital, Impact Engine, LandInChicago, Revieve, Techstars: Market-leading beauty customer-experience personalization solution for beauty brands and retailers
Ryan Fink
CEO, Co-Founder of Streem
Ryan is the CEO, Co-founder of Streem, Inc. Past: CEO, Founder of ONtheGO Platforms (Acquired by Atheer), VP Business Development @ Atheer. Built GhostRunner, an augmented reality application in 2010.
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About Streem: Making the worlds expertise more accessible.
Arthur Goikhman
Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealVR, Inc
Arthur Goikhman co-founded Surre.al in 2011. He previously co-founded Cellufun, an early leader in the mobile gaming space, which he took from a vision to a company with a run rate of $10 million annual revenue and the top tier of the Inc. 500 Startups list by growing it 2400 percent within three years. Prior to Cellufun, Goikhman co-founded Spiderphone Conferencing and S&G, a boutique Wall Street consultancy whose clients included Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank One, and Prudential. Goikhman has been a frequent speaker at mobile industry conferences and was honored to accept the Best Mobile Game 2008 Award for Cellufun’s Call of the Pharaoh at the World Mobile Congress.
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About SurrealVR, Inc: Surreal Games is an immersive game world where players engage in real-time interactive adventures of their choosing.
Johnny Monsarrat
Founder, CEO of Monsarrat
In 1994, Johnny Monsarrat invented the MMO at founder and CEO of Turbine, which won two videogame “Oscars”, created a market now earning $20 billion a year, and was bought by Warner Brothers for $160 million. Now as CEO of Monsarrat, Inc., Johnny Monsarrat and a team of former Turbine staff are inventing the next big thing after Pokemon Go. Johnny Monsarrat is an Ivy League award-winning public speaker educated at Harvard, Brown University, MIT, and MIT Sloan.
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About Monsarrat: The next big thing in mobile AR walking games
Sekhar Puli
Co-Founder, President & CEO of LifeVoxel
Sekhar Puli is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of LifeVoxel.
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About LifeVoxel, MAROSHI Partners: LifeVoxel is an Interactive Streaming and AI Platform for Diagnostic Imaging Centers.
Ryan Measel
Chief Executive Officer of Fantasmo.io
Ryan Measel received his B.S. in Computer Engineering (2011), M.S. in Electrical Engineering (2011), and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2015) from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His research spanned a variety of areas including wireless communication, mobile applications, network protocols, software defined radios, reconfigurable antennas, cellular infrastructure, and chipless RFID. Ryan co-founded Fantasmo in 2014 and currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer. He also serves as the Chair of the IEEE Coastal Los Angeles Young Professionals group.
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About Fantasmo.io: Fantasmo builds a decentralized, open source stack for indoor and outdoor 3D maps and camera-based positioning.
Will Dean
Co-Founder & CEO of Electric Gamebox
Will Dean is a Co-Founder of Immersive Games Lab and the Founder of Tough Mudder Inc. Dean came up with the idea for a series of a military obstacle course challenges while completing his MBA at the Harvard Business School. Since launching in 2010, Tough Mudder has attracted more than three million participants worldwide and generates annual global revenues in excess of $100m. In 2017, Dean was made MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for his charitable contributions to sport. He chairs the advisory group for the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Bristol University (his undergraduate alma mater). He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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About Electric Gamebox, Tough Mudder: Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team adventures in the world’s smartest room
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.
Kevin Farnham
Founder & CEO of Mirra
I am an Experience Designer and Design Executive. I recently founded and launched Mirra.co, a PaaS that allows anyone to create professional quality AR and VR experiences – without 3D expertise and without code. Over the course of the past few decades, I’ve worked directly with leaders from companies such as Apple, the BBC, Microsoſt, MoMA, Nike, Google and TED Conferences to help them conceive, create, and deliver new products and brands. One of my primary skills is in identifying and managing talent from many disciplines at every experience level. I have sourced, hired and managed several strategy, design, technology, and operations teams on an international basis. In 1998 I founded and was CEO of the design and innovation consultancy , which over the course of 15+ years I helped grow to a $30m+ARR, 100+ person firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. I also conceived and cofounded one of the first design-focused product accelerators, Matter Design Lab, headquartered in London. In 2013 I co-authored a book entitled “Experience Design: A Framework for Integrating Brand, Experience, and Value”. The book focuses on how businesses can most effectively harness design to create greater customer engagement.
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About Mirra: Mirra allows people to build, share, and explore immersive experiences
Elena Silenok
Founder & CEO of Clothia
Founder of Clothia, a fashion destination and an iPad app. Clothia users can browse their friends’ closets, mix-n-match items to create outfits, get inspired by style icons, share their finds, and virtually try on clothes using augmented reality via their webcam. Guest lecturer at Columbia University, NYU and General Assembly. Contributing writer to Business Insider. Root member of NY Hacker Union. Featured by BetaBeat as one of the “25 Women Driving New York’s Tech Scene.” Profiled by The New York Times, Fast Company, AdAge. MS in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego (2006), Systems and Networking concentration, Network Security focus. Thesis topic was “Characterization of Background Port Scanning” under professor Stefan Savage. Created a network traffic analyzer to assist in network data measurement. Analyzed properties of port scans, intent of attackers and prevalence of background port scanning. Researcher at CAIDA (Collaborative Association for Internet Data Analysis) at SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center) with k claffy researching internet topology utilizing skitter (traceroute measurement tool) data and BGP tables. Evaluated the value of IXs (Internet eXchange points) for Autonomous Systems (AS), the difference in peering relationships through IX (Internet eXchange Points) vs direct peering and IPv4/IPv6 protocols.
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About Clothia: Clothia is an online interactive fashion platform that allows users to discover and share the latest trends, and create a virtual wardrobe.
Boaz Ashkenazy
CEO of Simply Augmented
Boaz Ashkenazy is the Founder and CEO of Simply Augmented, a mobile augmented reality platform that helps enterprise businesses engage with their customers in unique ways and drive new sales opportunity. Prior to Simply Augmented, Boaz co-founded Studio 216, one of the first digital agencies to embrace and develop virtual reality and augmented reality solutions for architects and real estate professionals. Boaz is a dynamic speaker and writer who for the last ten years has been dedicated to examining and envisioning the future of immersive technologies. He has been featured in Newsweek, BBC News, Digital Trends, NBC News, and Geekwire. He has also been a lecturer at the University of Washington College of Built Environments and has sat on the board of directors for Arcade Magazine.
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About Bogotash, Linkroom, Simply Augmented: Simply Augmented is a cloud software business that develops augmented reality CMS software to help businesses visualize their products.
Thomas Alt
Founder & CEO of Metaio
Thomas is an experienced entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working globally in the software and consumer electronics industry. Atlantic Bridge invested in Metaio in 2012, an AR software company which Thomas founded and which was acquired by Apple in 2015. From 2015 – 2018 Thomas was based at Apple HQ Cupertino USA where he was Director of Engineering as well as Director of Procurement in the Strategic Deals Team. Thomas is highly skilled in Augmented Reality, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Partnerships and leads dealflow in key sectors like AR/VR, Automotive, Software.
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About Atlantic Bridge, Metaio: Metaio is technology company that develops augmented reality software technology and solutions.
Arnaud Dazin
Co-Founder and CEO of ADVR
Arnaud Dazin is Co-Founder and CEO at ADVR.
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About ADVR, MAP, ThousandEyes: ADVR is the premiere solution for native monetization technologies for VR and AR developers.
Nagesh Pobbathi
Founder & CEO of GameCommerce
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About GameCommerce, quest.ai: GameCommerce provides gamified mobile ads that are fun, interactive and rewarding.
Robert Martin
CEO of Sanctuary
Leading a team of incredible humans at Sanctuary as CEO and Experience Curator
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About Sanctuary, Summit Capital: Developing Activated Experiential Environments, via a first of its kind wellness application for physical space.
Jacqueline Bošnjak
CEO & Founder of Mach1
Mach1 is a sound technology company focused on spatial audio that Bošnjak co-founded with composer and inventor Dražen Bošnjak. Together the Bošnjak’s appeared on Advertising Age’s Creativity50 featuring the most influential creative figures for their contributions to the field of spatial audio. Bošnjak is known for producing high-profile VR titles, including 20TH Century Fox’s The MartianVR, AlienVR, Sony’s PassengersVR, and Lockheed’s MarsVR Bus. Bošnjak founded MadWomen, a breakfast club connecting leading women in entertainment and technology, and is a regular speaker at CES, AWE, NAB, SXSW, and Digital Hollywood. Early in her career, Bošnjak created & produced the critically acclaimed adicolor Podcasts, the first film series distributed on a mobile device that became a landmark case study in Kotler and Armstrong’s “Principles of Marketing.”
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About Mach1: Defenders of the Audio Realm. Unifying multichannel & spatial audio, preserving standards & best practices & future proofing future pipeline
Radu B. Rusu
CEO & Co-Founder of Fyusion
CEO and Co-Founder at Fyusion, Inc.
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About Fyusion, Open Perception Inc.: Fyusion develops products powered by 3D computer vision and machine learning.
Beck Besecker
Founder and CEO of Marxent
Beck Bescker is CEO & Co-Founder of Marxent, the leader in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for furniture and home decor retailers and manufacturers. Marxent’s 3D Cloud™ is the full-service omnichannel platform for enterprise retailers pursuing a 3D content strategy that benefits from asset reuse across applications. Prior to founding Marxent, Beck spent 12 years building interactive marketing solutions for Fortune 500 retailers and brands. In 1999, he founded Copient Technologies which enabled large retailers to easily manage personalized promotions in-store and online. Copient was acquired by NCR in 2003. Beck then served as EVP of New Business at Catalina Marketing, the nation’s largest in-store promotional network.
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About Magnetic Mobile, Marxent: 3D Cloud™ by Marxent is the 3D platform for enterprise furniture & DIY retailers. AR, 3D Room Planners, 3D Product Configurators, Metaverse
CEO of Genius Ventures Inc
Navjeet Chhina is the CEO of Genius Ventures Inc, an augmented, virtual and mixed reality firm based in North America. He is responsible for monitoring all facets of the organization including Operations Oversight, Strategic Planning, International expansion and building the senior executive team. He has 12 years of executive and project management experience across various industries; using his predictive approach to bring innovation into the customer consciousness. He uses comprehensive analysis of competitive trends to drive growth with quantifiable metrics to illustrate the benefits of taking on new avenues for brands. From digital marketing to research & analytics to leveraging strategic relationships, Navjeet perpetually pursues avenues for coupling products with consumers, propogating loyal customers and cultivating long-term brand relationships. Navjeet is currently focusing on expanding operations internationally, showcasing how augmented reality and forward thinking innovative technologies can provide solutions for organizations of all sizes.
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About Genius Ventures Inc: Augmented Reality & Immersive Technology
Thomas Cottereau
CEO – Founder of SightCall
Thomas Cottereau co-founded SightCall (renamed from Weemo) with a desire to make Real Time Interactions more natural and business transformative. In his 15 years of professional experience in the Telecommunications, IT and software industries, Thomas has held leadership positions in Engineering, Marketing & Business Development. He has directly managed large turnkey telecom projects from concept to implementation at UUNET, MCI Worldcom and Bouygues Telecom. Prior to 2008, Thomas spent 5 years growing Niji, a software and consulting firm in France specializing in digital convergence, from €2m to €40m in annual revenues. Thomas holds a Masters of Science in Engineering from TELECOM Lille1 Ecole D’Ingenieurs.
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About SightCall: SightCall is the leading Visual Assistance platform for enterprises enriched by Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence
Skip Howard
CEO and Founder of Spacee
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About Spacee: Changing the way customers shop and enabling business transformation through AI and Computer Vision.
Morris May
Founder & CEO of Specular Theory, Inc.
Morris May is the CEO and founder of Specular Theory. May has curated and led teams of artists, technologists and producers, fusing talents to optimize workflow for award-winning studio films as well as top gaming projects for major players. His expertise for creating unique pipelines that integrates technical solutions with creative storytelling led him to the exploration of virtual reality. He has been a Hollywood visual effects expert for more than 25 years, working on 30+ films including two Academy Award winners: Spiderman II and Happy Feet. In addition, May has worked for industry leaders Industrial Light & Magic, Sony Imageworks, and Animal Logic. He has been the CG supervisor on major blockbuster films such as: Spider-Man 2 & 3, Star Wars: Episode II, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Underworld, The Mummy Returns, Godzilla, Fast & Furious. Additionally, he was lead Visual Effects consultant at the Microsoft Gaming Division. At Microsoft Games studio Black Tusk, he built innovative solutions using particle systems and real time fluid dynamics to bring the game to a level that was not traditionally associated with existing game engines.
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About Specular Theory, Inc.: Award-Winning VR/AR/AI training applications for Defense and Commercial Enterprise. A SBIR Phase III company. Based in Los Angeles, CA
Brian Ballard
CEO and Co-Founder of Upskill
Brian Ballard passion is pioneering new technology developments and catalyzing the evolution of mobile paradigms. As the CEO and Co-Founder of APX Labs, Brian uses his background in national intelligence systems and computer engineering to position APX Labs as a competitive business in mobile application and wearable computing development for military and industrial markets. He previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of Mav6, where he was involved in the development of emerging networking technologies and embedded systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications in government and the military intelligence. Brian spent more than a decade working as a field operations officer and engineer and for the National Security Agency where he developed cutting edge solutions for the intelligence community. In support of technology policy and decision making, Brian served on the Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate, Review (TIGER) committee of the National Academy of Sciences, focusing on modeling and simulation and the impacts of technology decisions on national policy. Brian holds an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA and Masters of Technology Management from the University of Maryland.
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About Upskill: Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite.
Jason Monberg
Chief Executive Officer of Presence
Jason Monberg is CEO of Presence. He is a product executive, entrepreneur, investor, and startup advisor with 18 years of experience leading product strategy, development, and consulting for consumer and enterprise software products. Prior to Presence Jason was the vice president of product management for MarkLogic where he was responsible for product strategy and vision. He helped grow the company to an $80 million annual run rate. Prior to MarkLogic, Jason was vice president of application products at Composite Software, a leading provider of data virtualization software, where he was part of the founding team that grew annual revenue from zero to over $20 million, acquired by Cisco. Before Composite Software, Jason was president and founder of Carbon Five, a consulting firm specializing in agile software development for fortune 500 clients and start-ups. Jason has founded three other start-ups, raising over $20 million in funding, and has acted as a start-up advisor for companies such as Balsamiq and BluGloss. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wesleyan University. When not deep in work, Jason believes in unplugging and spending time with his wife and three kids.
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About Balsamiq, Presence: Presence is a software company that specializes in digital product strategy and development consulting, Web, Mobile, VR, and Salesforce.
Will Eastcott
Chief Executive Officer of PlayCanvas
Will is the vision behind PlayCanvas. He is a veteran video game developer with over 17 years of games industry experience. He is the former Technical Director for Europe at Activision and has credits on most of the major game franchises of the last 10 years, such as Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Max Payne and DJ Hero.
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About PlayCanvas: PlayCanvas is a cloud-hosted, collaborative platform for building video games.
Ed LaHood
CEO of Thyng, LLC
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About MainCloud, Thyng, LLC: Thyng is an easy to use Augmented Reality authoring app that allows you to create your own Augmented Reality experiences on any surface!
Jikhan Jung
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Subdream Studios
Jikhan Jung is an entrepreneur and gaming visionary with over 10 years of experience across PC & Mobile platforms. Jikhan began his gaming career at Excite Japan in 2004 and then moved on to found Gala-Net, Inc a year later. Gala-Net was the first free-2-play PC gaming portal (named gPotato.com in North America in May 2005). Capitalizing on the positive reception in the NA market, Jikhan moved on to expand the business across Europe and South America by establishing Gala-Networks Europe and Gala-Net Brazil respectively. Over 22MM gamers have used Gala-Net/gPotato. In February 2013, gPotato was successfully sold to Webzen at a $20MM valuation.
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About Subdream Studios: Esports Game Developer and Publisher.
Phoebe Hayman
Founder and CEO of Seedling
Phoebe Hayman is the co-founder and CEO of Seedling USA, Inc. Born in New Zealand, Phoebe spent her childhood in the US before returning to earn her BFA in art and photography. Forming her first business at the age of nine, Phoebe seemed destined to become an entrepreneur. Phoebe founded Seedling in 2007 after noticing a lack of toys that inspired open-ended play. Drawing on her experiences as an artist, a curator and an active member of the early childhood education community, Phoebe is the driving force behind the company’s strategic direction. She remains actively involved with design, brand development, and sales for Seedling, whose products are now sold in over 20 countries. Phoebe is a seasoned speaker and has shared her insights at industry events including ShopTalk 2016 and the Greycroft Summit.
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About Seedling: Seedling engages in creating products that encourage families to build, imagine, and play together.
Khizer Khaderi
Founder & CEO of Vizzario
Founder & CEO, Vizzario. Medical Advisor, Magic Leap. Member of Stanford AI community.
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About CITRIS, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University School of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Vizzario: Using AI to Improve Human Computer Interactions
Allison Wood
Chief Executive Officer of Camera IQ
Allison Wood is the CEO and co-founder of Camera IQ, the world’s first augmented reality platform for camera marketing.
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About Camera IQ: Camera IQ is a camera experience manager platform that helps marketers create new worlds that customers love to explore.
