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 Computer 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.
Nathaniel Fick
CEO of Endgame
Nate Fick is CEO of Endgame. He has more than a decade of experience in the security community, and is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he focuses on defense and intelligence technologies. Before joining Endgame, Nate was CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security research organization. He served as a Marine Corps infantry officer, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. His book about that experience, One Bullet Away, was a New York Times bestseller, a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year,” and one of the Military Times’ “Best Military Books of the Decade.” He graduated with high honors in Classics from Dartmouth College and holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and MBA from the Harvard Business School. Nate serves as a Trustee of Dartmouth and a Director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners, Endgame, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation: Endgame’s endpoint protection platform protects the world’s data from advanced attacks.
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Igor Jablokov
Founder & CEO of Pryon
Igor is the founder and CEO of Pryon, an artificial intelligence (AI) company delivering an enterprise knowledge management platform. Pryon’s natural language processing (NLP) engine ingests and transforms data into experiences that solve critical business challenges. Previously at IBM, Igor grew impatient with the gap between the invention and commercialization of AI, and departed to establish cloud computing pioneer Yap. Five years later, Amazon acquired the company for its AI expertise and machine learning (ML) technology, now embedded in billions of Alexa-powered devices. Igor was subsequently awarded Eisenhower and Truman National Security fellowships to leverage entrepreneurial ecosystems in addressing geopolitical concerns. Igor passionately supports STEM career and educational opportunities. As such, he is a TechStars’ Alexa Accelerator mentor, was a Blackstone NC Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR), and founded a chapter of Global Shapers, a program of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Igor holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was named an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus, and an MBA from The University of North Carolina.
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About Pryon: Pryon is an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge management.
Mitch Liu
CEO of Theta Labs
Mitch Liu is most recently the co-founder and CEO of Theta Labs and Theta.tv. In 2007 Mitch co-founded Tapjoy, Inc. and was one of the pioneers of social and mobile video advertising. In 2010 Mitch co-founded Gameview Studios, the creator of Tap Fish, one of the first free-to-play mobile games on iOS and Android to top the charts for highest grossing and highest downloads within 90 days of launch. Gameview was acquired six months later by DeNA Global, one of the leading Japanese mobile gaming companies. Since 2015 Mitch has been building cutting edge technology, most recently launching Theta Network, the leading decentralized video delivery network powered by blockchain technology. Mitch is the co-inventor and holds four patents in the video streaming, virtual reality and blockchain space. He has a BS in Computer Science Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Theta Labs, THETA.tv: The leading decentralized video delivery network powered by users and a native blockchain
Leemon Baird
Founder & CEO of Swirlds
Leemon is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the Co-Founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired. Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.
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About Hedera Hashgraph, Swirlds: Swirlds enables developers to build applications that rapidly achieve consensus, resulting in fair.
Maneesh Sethi
Founder & CEO of Pavlok
Maneesh Sethi Founder & CEO of Pavlok and Editor-in-Chief of Hack The System I studied at Stanford University, authored 4 books (including an international bestseller, written when I was 14 yrs old), work in Marketing, Psychology, and Information Technology. For the last three years, I’ve run the blog Hack the System — A guide to hacking fame, productivity, travel, languages, exercise, and business. Along the way, I’ve run multiple projects to showcase what I’ve learned and what anyone can do — most spinoffs of HtS.
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About Pavlok: Pavlok is an electronic wristband that helps users create and maintain good habits.
Sahil Gupta
CEO & Co-Founder of Onera
Sahil joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2010. In the summer of 2011, he moved to Silicon Valley to help start Bain Capital Ventures’ Palo Alto office. Sahil is a strong advocate of social content discovery and data-intensive platform services; therefore, he spends most of his energy with early-stage companies in consumer, mobile and social. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Sahil started Zodah, an Internet startup focused on improving consumer bill management. Zodah was a DogPatch Labs and First Growth Venture Network portfolio company and exited to Hearst Corporation in 2010. Prior to Zodah, Sahil worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
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About Onera: Onera is building the Onera Decision Engine—the cognitive operating system that harnesses AI to power the modern commerce supply chain.
Vadim Rogovskiy
CEO, Co-founder of 3DLOOK
3X founder (AdCenter – sold to VertaMedia, Clickky – partially exited, 3DLOOK – raised $11M+), 12X angel investor (1 exit). Forbes contributor, mentor at 500 Startups, LVMH Innovation Award winner. Investing into early-stage B2B startups with AI-based products, targeting global vertical or horizontal markets.
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About 3DLOOK, 500 Startups, Forbes Technology Council, Geek Ventures: 3DLOOK is a mobile body scanning solution that aims to change the way people shop.
Michael Dell
CEO of Dell
Michael Dell is chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, an innovator and technology leader providing the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important information. With revenues of $94B and 130,000 team members, Dell Technologies is one of the world’s largest IT companies serving the needs of global corporations and governments to small businesses and consumers. The company’s unique structure allows innovative, fast-moving startups to co-exist with, and leverage, the global reach and trusted reputation of the large enterprise. Michael’s story started when he founded Dell Technologies with $1000 in 1984 at the age of 19. Notably quoted as saying that “technology is about enabling human potential,” Michael’s vision of how technology should be designed, manufactured and sold forever changed the IT industry. In 1992, Michael became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500. Known and admired for his astute business vision and bold moves, Michael took Dell Technologies private in 2013, setting the stage to architect the largest technology deal in history with the combination of Dell, EMC and VMware in 2016 and the subsequent relisting of Dell Technologies on the public markets in 2018. Michael continues to serve as chairman of the VMware board of directors following the spin-off of VMware from Dell Technologies in 2021. In 1998, Michael formed MSD Capital, a private investment firm that exclusively manages the capital for the Dell family. And in 1999, he and his wife, Susan Dell, established the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to accelerate opportunity for children growing up in urban poverty in the U.S., India and South Africa. Michael is an honorary member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and is an executive committee member of the International Business Council. He is also a member of the Technology CEO Council and the Business Roundtable. He serves on the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China and on the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. He is a board member of Catalyst and also served as the United Nations Foundation’s first Global Advocate for Entrepreneurship. Michael is also the author of two books, Direct from Dell and Play Nice But Win.
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About Dell, Dell Technologies, Dell Technologies Capital, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, SecureWorks, VMware: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
William Jeffrey
President and CEO of SRI International
William Jeffrey, Ph.D., is president and chief executive officer of SRI International, a leading research and development organization serving government and industry. Jeffrey joined SRI in 2014. From 2008 to 2014, Jeffrey was president and CEO of HRL Laboratories, a corporate R&D organization owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. Prior to joining HRL, Jeffrey served in the George W. Bush Administration as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Jeffrey also served in the Executive Office of the President as senior director for homeland and national security and as assistant director for space and aeronautics within the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Earlier in his career, Jeffrey was deputy director for the Advanced Technology Office and chief scientist for the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and assistant deputy for technology at the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. Jeffrey started his professional career at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). Jeffrey is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected Honorary Member of the International Society of Automation, a recipient of the 2008 Navigator Award from the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Jeffrey is a member of the Board of Directors of TE Connectivity Ltd. Jeffrey received his M.A. and Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University, and his B.Sc. in physics is from MIT.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Aaron Frazin
Founder and CEO of Detective
Aaron Frazin is the Founder and CEO of Detective.io.
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About Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Robert Jamieson
Chief Executive Officer of CSM International
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About CSM International: CSM International focuses on providing consulting and professional services to help companies actively manage their growing digital risks.
Ofer Israeli
Founder & CEO of Illusive
Ofer Israeli is the founder and CEO of Illusive Networks. His understanding of the advanced attack process played a pivotal role in shaping Illusive’s automated, agentless deception management architecture. Before Illusive, Ofer managed development teams based around the globe for Check Point Software Technologies and worked in the Atom Chip Lab at Ben Gurion University, where he focused on theoretical quantum mechanics. Ofer holds B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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About Illusive: Illusive is a defense to eliminate attacker pathways that uses deception for detection of lateral movement of APTs, ransomware & threats.
Andrew Wilson
Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts
As CEO of Electronic Arts, Andrew Wilson has aligned the company around three core strategic pillars: putting players first, driving a digital transformation and operating as one team. During Andrew’s tenure as CEO, EA has launched groundbreaking new games and services, reached record player engagement levels across its global franchises, and transformed into one of the world’s leading digital entertainment companies. Andrew has held several positions during his over 15 years at EA, providing leadership on product and brand development for both packaged goods and digital services. Prior to being appointed CEO in 2013, Andrew served as executive vice president of EA SPORTS and Origin where he oversaw all aspects of the EA SPORTS business and development, as well as EA’s digital PC service. Andrew has also led EA’s Online Organization overseeing the direct-to-consumer business, Asia Online Publishing as well as the EA studio in Seoul, Korea. In addition, he previously served as vice president and executive producer of all EA SPORTS FIFA games, growing the property into one of the largest videogame franchises of all time.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Randy Chou
Founder and CEO of Nubeva
Randy Chou is the Founder and CEO of Nubeva. Randy’s experience spans 15 years of technical and management leadership in the security, networking, and application acceleration fields. Prior to co-founding Panzura, Randy was a member of the founding software team at Aruba Networks, where he managed the architecture and development of the company’s security software. The combination of his technical expertise and business acumen helped Aruba become the leader in the enterprise Wi-Fi security market. Prior to Aruba Networks, Randy led the development of SSL security and load balancing software at Alteon WebSystems. Randy holds a degree in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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About Nubeva: Nubeva is a cloud security software company that provides decryption solution for real-time, historical or on-demand decryption.
Stefan Roever
CEO & Co-Founder of Aikon
Stefan has a broad entrepreneurial, technology, and finance background. He is Founder and CEO of Genia Technologies, a next generation DNA sequencing company based in Mountain View, CA. Genia Technologies was sold to Roche in 2014. He’s also Founder of OnCircle, an online content syndication and distribution platform. He is an active private equity investor and currently serves as Chairman of WRS Materials, a roll-up of wafer reclaim companies. He was Founder and CEO of Brokat Technologies, an encryption and banking software company. Brokat went public in 1998 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on NASDAQ in 2000, where it reached a several billion dollar market cap. He is active worldwide in fostering m-commerce and is a popular speaker at business and technology conferences. Stefan was honored with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Germany. He is also a two time award holder of Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
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About Aikon, Gbox by OnCircle, Inc.: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Francois Chaubard
CEO of Focal Systems
CEO at Focal Systems.
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About Focal Systems: Automate and optimize retail through the use of deep learning computer vision. With focalOS, Focal provides the operating system of retail.
Alec Miloslavsky
founder and CEO of EIS Group
Alec Miloslavsky is the founder and CEO of EIS Group.
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About EIS Group: EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets.
Darshan Desai
Founder & CEO of Plan
Darshan Desai is the Founder & CEO at Plan, Inc.
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About Plan: Plan is a better way to manage everything you have to do and everywhere you have to be.
Shikhar Shrestha
Co-Founder & CEO of Ambient.ai
Shikhar Shrestha is the co-founder and CEO of Ambient.ai.
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
David S. Shapira
Founder , Chairman & CEO of Giant Eagle
David Shapira is executive chairman of the board of directors of Giant Eagle, Inc. and is president of the David S. and Karen A. Shapira Foundation. In his role at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration, he is responsible for enhancing ethics and leadership at the school. He is also responsible for engaging with Katz and CBA students across a spectrum of business areas including entrepreneurship, supply chain management, and organizational behavior. During his thirty-plus years as chairman, chief executive officer and president, David Shapira positioned Giant Eagle, Inc. as an industry leader, and grew the company from a local chain of 50 grocery stores to an organization now employing more than 34,000 with more than 420 locations and $9.5 billion in revenue. A Pittsburgh native with an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and a Master’s Degree in Economics from Stanford University, Mr. Shapira joined Giant Eagle in 1970, a company founded by his grandfather with four others. Today, the same five families own Giant Eagle, and remain actively involved. Named president and CEO in 1980 and Chairman of the Giant Eagle Board of Directors in 1992, David led the company during its peak years of growth and transformation, which included his application of a world-class customer loyalty program with the development of the Giant Eagle Advantage Card and fuelperks!. Mr. Shapira has implemented numerous industry-leading technologies and marketing concepts, including: gift card development and sales, in-store pharmacy and banking, multi-format retailing, and a truck fleet that is being converted to run on compressed natural gas. Since stepping away from day-to-day operations of Giant Eagle in 2013, David has applied the entrepreneurial approach developed at Giant Eagle to the world of philanthropy. Through the Foundation he leads with his wife Cindy, David has led the development of a number of projects that demonstrate real and meaningful positive impact on civic challenges of our day. These entrepreneurial philanthropic ventures include Onward Israel, which transforms young adults through professional summer internships with Israeli businesses and organizations, and the Comprehensive Excellence initiative at Hillel International. David’s civic involvement reflects his and Giant Eagle’s commitment to advancing and investing in the many communities the company and Foundation serve. David has served on numerous corporate and civic boards, including EQT, Mellon Bank, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (Past Chairman). David is the Immediate Past Chairman of Carnegie Mellon University’s Board of Trustees, and the current Chairman of Carnegie Mellon’s Investment Committee, as well as a Trustee at Oberlin College, and a Founding Co-Chairman, along with Cindy, of The Pittsburgh Promise Campaign. David’s philanthropic board service has also included the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh (Past Chairman); Jewish Healthcare Foundation (Past Chairman); United Way of Allegheny County (Past Chairman of the Annual Campaign); Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Past Chairman); Extra Mile Foundation; and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. David is currently a member of the Hillel Foundation International Board of Governors.
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About Giant Eagle: Giant Eagle is a national supermarket chain with some of their own brands of products.
Fouad ElNaggar
Co-Founder & CEO of Array
Fouad ElNaggar is the Co-Founder and CEO at Array.
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About Array: Array is an information technology company that specializes in developing computer software.
Manu Sharma
Co-founder & CEO of Labelbox
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Charlie Piper
CEO of Connexeo
Charlie is responsible for driving the company’s strategy and leading our world-class team. Prior to joining YottaMark, Piper was CEO of Prommis Solutions (acquired by 4 law firms), was previously CEO of ePay and DVDPlay, Inc. (acquired by NCR), SVP Operations of Blackhawk Network, Inc., and VP of Corporate Retail Operations of Safeway, Inc. He spent the first 20 years of his career holding a wide variety of roles in grocery retail management, and earned an MBA from Regis University. Charlie is an avid cyclist, outdoor sportsman, and diver.
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About Connexeo, YottaMark: A global software-as-a-service platform serving education & community organization.
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Paul Bettner
Founder & CEO of Playful Studios
Paul Bettner has been creating beloved entertainment for 20 years, including the smash hit Words With Friends. He started Playful Corp in 2012 and recently launched Lucky’s Tale, a delightful platforming adventure bundled with every Oculus Rift.
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About Playful Studios: Playful is a new game development studio in McKinney, TX. Our team has shipped beloved titles such as Words with Friends.
Soroush Salehian
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aeva
Soroush Salehian is a Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aeva.
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About Aeva: Aeva develops a sensing and perception paradigm for autonomous machines.
Harsha Pamulaparthi
Founder and CEO of Standav Corp.
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About Standav Corp.: Standav offers CRM, CPQ , API Integration delivery and Contract Analytics
Filip Victor
Founder, CEO of MetaMap
Filip Victor is the Founder and CEO at Mati.
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About MetaMap: MetaMap is a digital trust management platform that empower service providers to reach more customers through customizable trust workflows.
Nick Bowden
CEO and Co-founder of Replica
CEO, Co-Founder at MindMixer.
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About Replica: Replica is an enterprise data platform that delivers critical insights about the built environment.
Emrah Gultekin
Co-Founder and CEO of Chooch AI
Emrah is the CEO and Co-Founder of Chooch, an AI recognition and autonomous training platform. He is an entrepreneur and visionary.
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Peter Pezaris
Founder & CEO of CodeStream
Founder & CEO at CodeStream.
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About CodeStream: CodeStream puts team chat directly into most popular IDEs, making it easier for developers to talk about code & write software together.
Daniel Chu
CEO and Co-Founder of MakersPlace
Daniel Chu is the CEO and co-founder at MakersPlace. He is a product and engineering leader with a passion for applying technologies to drive real-world change.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Alex Senemar
CEO of Voxel
Experienced CEO and advisor working at the cutting edge of technology. Expertise in enterprise applications, healthcare, manufacturing, and AI.
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About Huma Therapeutics, Sherbit, Voxel: Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time,.
Romain Lapeyre
Co-Founder & CEO of Gorgias
Romain Lapeyre is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Gorgias.
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About Gorgias: Gorgias is a multi-channel helpdesk integrated for online and e-commerce merchants.
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.
Matt Gillis
CEO of clean.io
Matt Gillis is the Chief Executive Officer of Clean Creative.
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About clean.io: Clean.io is a digital engagement security platform that helps businesses control the third party code that executes on their websites.
Arup Banerjee
CEO & Co-founder of Windfall
Arup is the CEO and Co-founder of Windfall Data. Arup is a product enthusiast. Prior to Windfall he defined and implemented product strategy at companies like Radius, GoodData and Box. Arup holds degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
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About Windfall: Windfall Data is on a mission to help organizations make better informed data-driven decisions.
Jianxiong Xiao
Founder and CEO of AutoX
Jianxiong Xiao (a.k.a., Professor X) is the Founder and CEO of AutoX Inc., a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles. AutoX’s mission is to democratize autonomy and enable autonomous driving to improve everyone’s life. Dr. Xiao has over ten years of research and engineering experience in Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, and Robotics. In particular, he is a pioneer in the fields of 3D Deep Learning, RGB-D Recognition and Mapping, Big Data, Large-scale Crowdsourcing, and Deep Learning for Robotics. Jianxiong received a BEng. and MPhil. in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. And he was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and the founding director of the Princeton Computer Vision and Robotics Labs from 2013 to 2016. His work has received the Best Student Paper Award at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in 2012 and the Google Research Best Papers Award for 2012, and has appeared in the popular press. He was awarded the Google U.S./Canada Fellowship in Computer Vision in 2012, the MIT CSW Best Research Award in 2011, NSF/Intel VEC Research Award in 2016, and two Google Faculty Awards in 2014 and in 2015 respectively. He co-lead the MIT+Princeton joint team to participate in the Amazon Picking Challenge in 2016, and won the 3rd and 4th place worldwide. He was named to be one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2017, and one of the 12 of the most promising entrepreneurs to keep an eye on in 2018 by Next Visionaries.
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About AutoX: AutoX is a self-driving car startup that offers AI drivers to enable universal access to transportation for the people.
James Crawford
Chief Executive Officer of Orbital Insight
James Crawford has two decades of experience leading innovative software projects: empowering farmers with climate data at the Climate Corporation, working to get a commercial robot on the moon at Moon Express, making the world’s books searchable at Google, and managing robotics at NASA Ames Research Center. At Orbital, he’s using software expertise to create a whole new source of market data for all kinds of industries.
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Kevin E. O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer of Orbital Insight
Kevin leads all commercialization strategy and activities for Orbital Insight, as well as leading financial oversight, reporting and strategy. Prior to his role at Orbital Insight, Kevin was the Regional Director for the Americas, Global Banking & Brokerage, for FactSet Research Systems. Kevin joined FactSet in conjunction with the acquisition of Revere Data, LLC, where he was President and CEO. Originally trained as a software engineer, Kevin earned a BBA in Management Information Systems from James Madison University. He earned an MBA in Innovation, Strategy & Information Technology from the EDHEC Business School in Nice, France.
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
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.
Hariharan Kolam
CEO and Co-founder of Findem
Hariharan Kolam is the CEO and Co-founder of Findem (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/findem). Previously, he was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of [Instart Logic]. Before that, he was employed at Aster Data, where he worked on all features across the entire development stack, ranging from the kernel to BI application layer. Kolam holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India, and Stony Brook University respectively.
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About Findem, Instart: Findem is a People Intelligence company that helps you search for talent like never before and make amazing hires.
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.
Alex Capecelatro
CEO of Josh.ai
Alex Capecelatro is the founder and CEO of Josh.ai, a voice controlled home automation system focused on artificial intelligence for high-end homes. Josh.ai utilizes a proprietary natural language understanding (NLU) engine with state of the art home control integrations for a powerful smart home experience. Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and later Sandia National Laboratory. He then ventured into consumer technology first with electric car manufacturer Fisker Automotive, then through founding two social software products “At The Pool” and “Yeti” with members in more than 120 countries. Alex focuses on the intersection of cutting edge software and hardware to offer transformational experiences.
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About Hyphos, Josh.ai: Josh.ai is an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services.
Andres Angelani
Chief Executive Officer of Softvision
As the CEO of Softvision, Andres is responsible for both the day-to-day operations and the strategic vision of the firm. He most recently served as the Chief Solutions Officer at Globant, responsible for the design and development of digital solutions while leading strategic customer engagements globally. His areas of expertise include product development, agile transformation, and gaming. Before becoming Chief Solutions Officer, Andres founded and served as the EVP and GM of Globant’s gaming studio, leading business on the West Coast, as well as VP of Engineering and Director of Global Presales Consulting from the U.K. Andres has spoken at many leadership, strategy, and tech conferences and co-authored the book The Never-Ending Digital Journey: Creating New Consumer Experiences Through Technology. Originally from Argentina, he speaks English, Spanish and Italian. Andres holds a Bachelors of Science in Business from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and enjoys cross-fit training, skiing with his wife, Laura, and their four kids, running and playing classical piano.
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About Alliance of Chief Executives, Cognizant Microsoft Business Group, Forbes Technology Council, Softvision: Cognizant Softvision provides digital product engineering services, helping global enterprise brands digitally transform.
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
Kosala Hemachandra
Founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet | MEW
With 8 years of experience as a computer engineer under his belt, Kosala dabbled in crypto during his senior year at college. He later applied his technical programming skills to develop a storage solution for Ether which became MEW: one of the most popular and widely used cryptocurrency wallets in the space.
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About MyEtherWallet | MEW, Nanopuppet: MyEtherWallet is a free, open-source, client-side tool for easily and securely interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.
Jake Stein
Co-Founder & CEO of Common Paper
Jake Stein is the Co-Founder & CEO at Common Paper .
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Reed Henry
CEO of Aquera
Reed Henry is the chief marketing officer at Genesys. He is responsible for the company’s worldwide marketing, including product and solution marketing, go-to-market programs and lead generation. Reed joined Genesys in 2012. Prior to Genesys, Reed led marketing for ArcSight Corporation where he transformed marketing to fuel the company’s growth from a private company to a successful fast-growing public company. Previously, Reed led marketing and business development for SeeBeyond, a public company focused on business process and composite applications, and prior to that strategy, mergers and acquisitions and new business categories for eBay. Reed also co-founded Vertical Networks, a company delivering contact center and unified communications solutions for small to midsize companies and branch offices. Reed holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Aquera: Aquera offers integration connectivity for the identity access and governance marketplaces.
Sarthak Jain
CEO of NanoNets
Sarthak Jain is the CEO of NanoNets
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About NanoNets: NanoNets provides machine learning APIs to help developers create machine learning models.
Joseph Reisinger
Co-Founder and CEO of Facet
Joe is an engineer and data hacker exploring the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UT Austin and spent his academic career building natural language understanding systems at Google Research and IBM T.J. Watson. Prior to co-founding Premise, he was Chief Scientist at Metamarkets.
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About Facet: Facet is a computer software company that provides artists and engineers, aiming to redefine and humanize the creative process.
Matt Ivester
Co-Founder & CEO of Hotshot
Matt Ivester is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is currently CEO of Kindr Inc., a company dedicated to making online kindness fun and easy. In 2011, through Serra Knight Publishing, he published lol…OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying. And in 2012, he published the high school edition of the same. Since its release, lol…OMG! has become Amazon’s top-selling book on the topics of digital citizenship and cyberbullying. He has spoken at various institutions around the country on these topics. Prior to writing lol…OMG! he started several companies, including a concert ticket auction site, a multi-million dollar investment fund, and a college gossip site. In 2005, Ivester graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. In 2012, he graduated from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with an MBA.
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About Hotshot: Screenshot technology
Suman Kanuganti
CEO, Founder of Personal AI
I am a creator, entrepreneur, father and husband. I love robots, technology, and humans. I create things that solve meaningful problems, see aira.io and luther.ai (current). I have a desire to learn, college in engineering, a master’s in robotics and a master’s in business.
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Matanya Horowitz
Founder & CEO of AMP Robotics
Matanya Horowitz is the founder of AMP Robotics, a robotics company with the mission of making recycling efficient and profitable. Matanya started the company shortly after finishing his PhD at the California Institute of Technology where he studied robotic path planning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision. Matanya is distinguished by having earned four undergraduate degrees and a masters in his four years of study at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is passionate about the questions of automation, in both the mathematics underlying the problems central to robotics as well as their wider implications for society.
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About AMP Robotics: AMP Robotics is a pioneer in AI, robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry.
Sanjay Mehrotra
President and CEO of Micron Technology
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Alamin Uddin
Co-founder & CEO of NexHealth
Alamin Uddin is a Co-founder & CEO of NexHealth.
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About NexHealth: NexHealth is a real-time patient booking platform for people, their doctors, and healthcare developers.
Vineet Jain
Co-founder & CEO of Egnyte
Vineet is the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte. Prior to Egnyte, Vineet founded and successfully built Valdero, a supply chain software solution provider, funded by KPCB, MDV and Trinity Ventures. He has held a rich variety of senior operational positions at KPMG and Bechtel. He has 20 years of experience in building capital-efficient and nimble organizations. Vineet earned a BS in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and received an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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About Egnyte, Valdero Corp.: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Zachary Hamed
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Clay
Zachary Hamed is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Clay.
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About Clay: The most beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your life.
Matthew Achariam
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Clay
Matthew Achariam is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Clay.
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About Clay, Custora: The most beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your life.
Jake Rubin
Founder & CEO of HaptX
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About HaptX: HaptX is a leading haptics company that brings realistic touch to virtual reality for the first time with HaptX Gloves.
Sumit Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO of Boom.tv
Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics. Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom Fantasy Previously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M
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About afkVR, Boom.tv: BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs.
Vishal Sikka
CEO & Founder of Vianai
Vishal Sikka is the Founder and CEO of Vianai, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides advanced technological software and services in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to large companies around the world. He currently also serves on the board of the BMW Group and as an advisor to the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered AI. Prior, Sikka served as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys and former Indian American CEO and MD of Infosys. On August 18, 2017, he stepped down as managing director of Infosys. He quit as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys on August 24, 2017, when Nandan Nilekani was appointed as the new Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining Infosys, Sikka was a member of the Executive Board and the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, leading all SAP products and innovation globally. In his 12 years at SAP, Sikka led SAP’s product portfolio including the breakthrough in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and all their applications, cloud and technology solutions. He is credited with accelerating SAP’s development processes, transforming its innovation culture and leading several successful product co-creation initiatives with clients. He is also the creator of the concept of ‘timeless software,’ which represents the renewal of products without disruption to customer environments. Sikka left the SAP board in May 2014 for “personal reasons,” and was announced as CEO and MD of Infosys on June 12, 2014. After three years at Infosys, Sikka left on August 18, 2017. India Today magazine ranked him #32nd in India’s 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list.
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About Vianai: Vianai provides enterprise artificial intelligence solutions.
Andrew Ng
Founder & CEO of Landing AI
Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera in 2012, served as the company’s Co-CEO until 2014, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Coursera Board. He is the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, a Chinese language search engine, where he was responsible for driving the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. Dr. Ng is also an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. In 2011, he led the development of Stanford’s Massive Open Online Course platform and taught an online machine learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students – the initiative that led to the co-founding of Coursera. Previously, Dr. Ng was the founding lead of the Google Brain deep learning project. Dr. Ng has authored or co-authored over 100 research papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. In 2013 he was named to the Time 100 list of the most influential persons in the world. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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About AI Fund, Coursera, Deeplearning.ai, Landing AI, Stanford University, Zunavision: Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
Spencer Hewett
Founder & CEO of RADAR
Founder & CEO at RADAR (formerly Skip)
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About RADAR: RADAR is an RFID and computer vision platform that automates inventory management, analytics and checkout in physical stores.
Devaki Raj
CEO and Founder of CrowdAI
Devaki Raj is the CEO and Cofounder of CrowdAI. Prior to this, she completed her undergraduate and Masters in Statistics at the University of Oxford, and subsequently used her expertise at Google (Maps, Energy and [X] teams) to optimize renewable energy allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. She noticed that even with the power of Google Maps, there was a significant deficit in high-resolution on-the-ground information, such as locations of homes, villages, and farms in rural areas. This gap in knowledge prompted her to start CrowdAI in 2016, which was picked up by Y-Combinator and selected by TechCrunch as one of their top 8 companies to watch, Forbes’ Top 25 Machine Learning Companies, Nvidia Deep Learning Inception Awards Finalist, and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and Inc Magazine’s 30 companies under 30.
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Kendall Tucker
Founder and CEO of Knoq
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About 186k Ventures, Knoq: Knoq is a technology company that encourages people to talk to their neighbors.
Hayes Mackaman
CEO of 8i
Hayes Mackaman is the CEO of a volumetric video technology company, 8i, which he joined in 2016. At 8i he has brought volumetric video to partners in the United States, Japan, Korea, China, and the Middle East. Hayes is responsible for spearheading several initiatives at 8i, including the development of its “ZigPro” stage, its first deployable realtime and pre-recorded volumetric video stage. He has also overseen the development of 8i’s mobile AR suite of services. Hayes Mackaman is a talented and seasoned finance and strategy executive. Over the past 7 years he has been focused on emerging technology and media as a consultant, finance executive, and business leader. He brings a wealth of expertise with emerging technology and media business models, specifically in the areas of OTT digital medal and immersive computing. His experience at 8i has given him a strong understanding of markets for augmented and virtual reality throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to joining 8i, Hayes served as a finance executive at AwesomenessTV, where he was responsible for financial planning as the company transitioned from a start-up to a $100M annual revenue media company. Before joining AwesomenessTV, he consulted various emerging technology start-ups on the West Coast. When not focused on bringing volumetric video to the world over, Hayes spends his time with his wife and two young sons. He’s a dedicated youth rugby coach and he and his wife are active in their local public school education foundation.
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About 8i: 8i is a virtual reality software development company focused on volumetric video capture.
Dan DeCloss
Founder, President and CEO of PlexTrac
Dan is the Founder and CEO of PlexTrac and has over 14 years of experience in Cybersecurity. Dan started his career in the Department of Defense and then moved on to consulting where he worked for various companies including serving as Principal Consultant for Veracode. Aside from founding and running a security startup, Dan’s background and expertise is in application security and penetration testing, involving hacking networks, websites, and mobile applications for clients. He has also served as a Principal Security Engineer for the Mayo Clinic and a Sr. Security Advisor for Anthem – a Fortune 40 health insurance firm. Prior to PlexTrac, Dan was the Director of Cybersecurity for Scentsy where he and his team built the security program out of its infancy into a best-in-class program. Dan has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School with an emphasis in Information Security. Additionally Dan holds the OSCP and CISSP certifications. Dan has a passion for helping everyone understand cybersecurity at a practical level, ensuring that there is a good understanding of how to reduce their overall risk.
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About PlexTrac: PlexTrac is a cybersecurity platform for security teams of any size.
Bill Huang
Founder & CEO of CloudMinds
Bill Huang is the Founder and CEO of CloudMinds, the world’s first intelligent cloud robot operator. Mr. Huang has been a new technology advocate for the telecom industry with near 30 years of work experience in the development of key technologies. He has in-depth experience and insightful thoughts in the areas of next generation mobile switching systems (3G/4G/5G), IP media streaming (IPTV/OTT), EPON/GPON, Multi-service mobile Softswitch, Operation Support System (OSS/BSS), Mobile Internet and mobile communication industry.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
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.
Matt Gorniak
Chief Executive Officer of ThreeKit
Matt Gorniak is the Chief Executive Officer at Threekit.
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About ThreeKit: ThreeKit is a 3D product configuration and visualization platform that enables brands to create and manage beautiful visuals at scale.
Patrick Kann
CEO and Co-Founder of Papaya
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About Papaya: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Luis Ceze
Co-founder and CEO of OctoML
Luis Ceze serves as Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group. He is a leader in computer systems architecture, machine learning, and DNA data storage. He’s also a co-founder of Corensic, a UW spin off backed by Madrona, and has worked informally with Madrona’s team for several years.
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About Madrona Venture Group, OctoML: OctoML offers an acceleration platform that helps engineering teams deploy machine learning models on any hardware.
Andy Dinh
Co-Founder and CEO of Blitz App
Andy Dinh is the founder and CEO at Blitz App.
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About Blitz App, Team SoloMid: Your personal gaming coach for League of Legends, Valorant, CSGO, Fortnite and more— powered by AI and built with professional players.
Lisa Falzone
CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Security
Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder & CEO of Athena Security, an award-winning Gun Detection solution enterprises. Since starting the company from the ground up in 2017, Falzone has been a trailblazer in technology. She is spearheading her last company Revel Systems which rasied over 100m in funding and a evalution over 500m. Revel’s mission was to help entrepreneurs around the world build their dream business.
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About Athena Security: Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
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.
Jon Rudolph
President and CEO of Action Fabricators
Jon represents the second generation of leadership at Action. His involvement with the company and the industry extends to the very beginning of the company’s manufacturing and converting operations. He has over 20 years of industry experience and extensive knowledge of materials, processes and industry standards. Jon holds an MBA from Western Michigan University and a BA in Business from Taylor University.
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About Action Fabricators: Action Fab provides custom-made tapes, adhesive and non-adhesive-backed foams, rubbers, plastics and other specialty materials.
Steve Olechowski
Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics
Steve Olechowski is Founder and CEO of Blinkfire Analytics.
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About Blinkfire Analytics, Northwestern University: Blinkfire Analytics uses AI and computer vision to optimize the sponsorship marketplace between creators, and their sponsors.
Noam Schwartz
CEO & Co-Founder of ActiveFence
Noam Schwartz is the CEO & Co-Founder of ActiveFence.
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About ActiveFence: ActiveFence is a computer software provider that specializes in detecting malicious content online at scale.
Andrew Feldman
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Andrew is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Daniel Putterman
Co-CEO of Kogniz
Founder and Co-CEO at Kogniz.
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About Kogniz, PogoPlug: Kogniz offers leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to create safer, smarter workspaces using predictive safety.
Richard Li
Founder/CEO of Ambassador Labs
Richard Li is cofounder and CEO of Datawire.
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About Ambassador Labs: Ambassador Labs is making it easy for developers to build resilient microservices.
Cliff Szu
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiverse Labs
Cliff Szu is the Founder and CEO of Multiverse Labs and a serial entrepreneur of enterprise and tech startups. Prior to founding Multiverse Labs, he worked at Merrill Lynch, IBM, was a mobile engineering lead at Google and founded Fanpop. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Computer Science.
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About Multiverse Labs: Multiverse is the first true metaverse with a token system and novel multi-chain ledger that empowers decentralization, commerce, and recreation. It’s an ecosystem for building enterprise, establishing economic value, and creating novel ways to experience the internet.
Our metaverse adapts, learns, and delivers state-of-the-art services, providing users with tools that nurture their potential and assist them in navigating the new and exciting frontiers of web3. Operating on decentralized governance, we’ve designed a metaverse that fosters fair and open practice for all.
A metaverse designed to foster fair and open practice for all, our all-encompassing virtual spaces operationalize decentralized governance that retains the trust of an engaged and inquisitive community. Multiverse believes in providing equal access to game-changing technologies that can quickly manifest into life-changing experiences.
Ram Varadarajan
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
Douglas Logan
CEO and Principal Consultant of Cyber Ninjas
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About Cyber Ninjas: Cyber Ninjas is a provider of a a software security consulting services.
Vincent Yang
Co-founder and CEO of Firework
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About Firework: Firework is a short video startup that enables short, vertical video technology for everyone.
Ayal Yogev
CEO and co-founder of Anjuna
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About Anjuna: Anjuna enables organizations to securely embrace the cloud by leveraging confidential computing technologies without changing applications.
Jags Kandasamy
Co-Founder and CEO of Latent AI
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About Latent AI, OtoSense: Latent AI accelerates AI implementation and workflows for the enterprise cost-effectively anywhere on the edge continuum with Adaptive AI.
Petro Estakhri
Founder, CEO, President & Board of Directors of Avalanche Technology
Petro Estakhri co-founded and has served as Chief Executive Officer for Avalanche Technology since August 2006. Prior Petro Estakhri served as the Chief Technology Officer of Lexar Media, Inc. which he founded in 1996. Lexar Media is a pioneer in flash memory technology for the digital photography, consumer electronics, and communications markets and grew from a private start-up to the 55th largest company in Silicon Valley prior to its acquisition by Micron Technology, Inc. in June 2006. From 1993 to 1996, Petro Estakhri served as the Senior Director of Mass Storage Controller Engineering at Cirrus Logic, Inc., a supplier of semiconductors for Internet entertainment electronics, where he developed one of Cirrus Logic’s primary micro-controllers and co-founded the mass storage memory group. Petro Estakhri also worked at IBM and National Semiconductor. Petro Estakhri has served as a member of a number of boards, including Lexar Media’s as well as Silicon Stor, a company that Petro Estakhri co-founded in 2002. Petro Estakhri is a co-author of over 95 patents related to magnetic media, flash storage controller and systems architecture. Petro Estakhri holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Davis.
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About Avalanche Technology: Avalanche is developing innovative, ultra high performance enterprise solid-state storage arrays.
Charles Ifedi
Co-Founder | CEO of eBanqo
Charles is the co-founder and CEO of eBanqo, Inc. Prior to that, Charles was the pioneer CEO of Verve International, a leading card scheme in Africa, and was a co-founder of Interswitch (valued at $1b in November 2019, following a Visa investment). He also worked in Accenture, PwC, and American Express out of the London office. Charles graduated with First Class Honors in Computer Science from the University of Ilorin, holds an MBA from Cranfield University, and a DBA from Georgia State University.
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About eBanqo: Chatbot and livechat solution for Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, webchat, in-app, and other social media channels
Poojan Kumar
Co-founder & CEO of Clumio
Poojan Kumar is the CEO and co-founder at Clumio. Poojan brings 18 years of experience in cloud computing and storage and is known for seeing an opportunity for change, innovating and capitalizing on it. Poojan founded and built PernixData that was acquired by Nutanix in 2016, he then served as Vice President of Engineering and Products. Earlier in his career, he was Head of Data Products at VMware and founder at Oracle Exadata.
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About Clumio: Clumio is a data backup and recovery software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider.
Yaniv Sarig
Co-Founder and CEO of Aterian
Yaniv Sarig is a Co-Founder and CEO at Mohawk Group.
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About Aterian: Aterian is the leading consumer product platform. Formerly Mohawk Group.
Ali Arsan
CEO of Edlio
Ali Arsan, Chief Executive Officer Ali has been working in ed-tech for 17 years, and founded one other company prior to Edlio. He’s visited hundreds of schools to be able to build products that help improve educational outcomes. He loves learning from educators and having the opportunity to visit a school and learn about what makes it special. On the weekends and outside the office, he spends most of his time with his three daughters and wife. He also enjoys ping-pong, long-distance running, and learning about sharks.
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About Edlio: Edlio creates custom designed websites with an intuitive content management software.
John Sercu
CEO of TA Group Holdings
John Sercu is the CEO at TA Group Holdings.
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About Bookwalter Winery, TA Group Holdings: TA Group is a veteran-owned company provides mentorship, shared operations and scalable processes.
Ray Grady
President and Chief Executive Officer of Conexiom
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About Conexiom: Conexiom helps manufacturers and distributors lower their cost-to-serve and generate revenue through sales orders and AP Invoice automation.
Tony Han
Founder & CEO of WeRide
Former Chief Scientist of Baidu’s Autonomous Driving Unit. Tenured Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri (MU). Original contributor of DeepSpeech2, selected as one of ten breakthrough technologies in 2016 by MIT Technology Review. Winner of multiple worldwide challenges in computer vision and machine learning.
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About WeRide: WeRide is a leading Level 4 autonomous driving company to provide safer and more efficient mobility service and solution.
Bracebridge Young
CEO of Eclat Impact
Bracebridge Young is the Chief Executive Officer of Eclat Impact. Prior to joining Eclat Impact in 2016, Young was Chief Executive Officer and a Partner at Mariner Investment group from 2000-2015. He joined Mariner directly from Goldman Sachs, where he retired as a Partner, after a 20 year career in Fixed Income in New York, Tokyo, and London. He serves as Board Chair of GWAVE, a wave based renewable energy company. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a coeducational day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Social Finance, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing investment capital to drive social change.
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About Eclat Impact: Electronic regulatory-compliant marketplace
Jedidiah Yueh
Founder ,Executive Chairman & CEO of Delphix
In 1999, Jedidiah Yueh founded Avamar, a software company that pioneered data de-duplication and shipped a billion-dollar product in the backup and recovery industry, with over 20,000 current customers. Today, de-duplication is a high priority for enterprise data centers, and the technology has become a must-have feature or product for major storage and software vendors. Data de-duplication strips away redundant data to make disks more cost effective than tape media for storing a wide variety of data types, such as daily, repeated backup sets. EMC acquired Avamar in November 2006 for $165 million. EMC executives have stated that Avamar is the best performing investment for EMC since VMware.Yueh has demonstrated a successful track record for identifying new market opportunities and staying ahead of industry trends. As VP of Product Management at EMC, Yueh helped launch the Avamar Data Store and the Avamar Virtual Edition in 2007, two innovative and successful products that have helped EMC maintain a leadership position in the industry. Prior to Avamar, Yueh served as Chief Operating Officer for NTD, an optical storage startup. He brings over a decade of experience in the software and data storage industries and has more than 6 patents or patents pending. Yueh graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with an AB from Harvard University. Under former President George H. Bush, he was designated a US Presidential Scholar, one of the highest academic achievements awarded nationally.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Karri Saarinen
CEO & Co-founder of Linear
Karri Saarinen is the Co-Founder & CEO at Linear.
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About Linear: Linear allows users to manage software development and track bugs.
