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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Delivery 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.
Ralf Wenzel
Founder and CEO of JOKR
Ralf Wenzel is the Berlin- and New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. Email Johrenk7@gmail.com Ralf has an almost 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams. Prior to founding JOKR, he built three companies, including foodpanda, one of the world’s most successful food delivery businesses across 40 countries, which he later merged with Delivery Hero and led through an initial public offering. He also built Skrill, the first e-wallet and leading online payments company in Europe, and Tocororo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Ralf previously operated his businesses with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has also served as Managing Partner at Softbank. Wenzel holds a degree in computer science from Berlin University.
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About JOKR, SoftBank: JOKR is a grocery and delivery platform that provides hyper-local product delivery services.
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Andrew Jassy
President and CEO of Amazon
Andy Jassy leads the Amazon Web Services business (AWS) and the Technology Infrastructure organization for Amazon.com. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides software developers and businesses with cloud-based infrastructure services that are inexpensive, reliable, scalable, comprehensive and flexible. AWS has grown tremendously since its inception in 2006 and now provides infrastructure services to hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world from start-ups to enterprises to government agencies. Andy earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his master’s of business administration from Harvard Business School.
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About Amazon, Amazon Web Services: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jeffrey Wilke
CEO of Worldwide Consumer of Amazon
Jeff Wilke has served as Amazon’s CEO Worldwide Consumer since April 2016. He leads Amazon Stores, Prime, operations, technology, and marketing. He joined Amazon in 1999 to lead global operations. Prior to Amazon, he was vice president and general manager of pharmaceutical fine chemicals at AlliedSignal (now Honeywell). He spent the preceding six years in a variety of operations and general management assignments in the chemical, polymer, and electronics industries. He began his working career writing code and managing software development projects at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He is a 1993 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Leaders for Global Operations program, where he earned an MBA and an S.M. in chemical engineering. He also holds a BSE degree in chemical engineering, summa cum laude, from Princeton University. He serves as the chairman of the governing board for MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program. Mr. Wilke was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He spent many evenings as a teenager writing code, and currently serves on the board of Code.org.
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About Amazon, Scale AI: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Dave Clark
CEO Worldwide Consumer of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Dhruvil Sanghvi
Chief Executive Officer of LogiNext
Dhruvil is one of the co-founders LogiNext. He has worked with elite organizations like Deloitte,Ernst & Young and Tata Group and studies at Carnegie Mellon and Nirma University.
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About LogiNext: Enterprise SaaS for Home Delivery and Transportation Businesses to Automate End to End Operational Process
Ari Ojalvo
Co-Founder and CEO of REEF
Ari Ojalvo is the Co-Founder and CEO at REEF Technology.
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About REEF, Thesis Ventures: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Yakir Gola
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Gopuff
As a freshman at Drexel University, Yakir Gola met co-founder Rafael Ilishayev on the first day of their Business 101 class, and the two went on to start Gopuff a year later. A first-generation American who grew up in an entrepreneurial family, Yakir – along with Rafael – have grown Gopuff into one of the fastest growing tech companies in the U.S. with operations in more than 650 cities, leveraging its network of over 250 micro-fulfillment centers and recently acquired BevMo! stores to fulfill orders of thousands of everyday essentials to customers in 30 minutes. Constantly analyzing the business and industry to identify potential for growth, Yakir’s data-driven approach to business and strategic insights motivate and drive the company forward. Yakir, along with Rafael, was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the Retail & Ecommerce category in 2017, in 2019 received the Drexel University Founders Award and in 2020, Gopuff was named to CNBC’s Disruptor 50. Yakir is closely involved with Chabad serving Drexel University and spearheads many of Gopuff’s philanthropic efforts, including recent $1 million matching donation for the Boys & Girls Clubs COVID-19 Relief Funds.
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Rafael Ilishayev
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Gopuff
Rafael Ilishayev is a first-generation American who grew up with an entrepreneurial family in the New York metro area. Rafael met Yakir Gola in their first Business 101 class at Drexel University and the two went on to start Gopuff the following year. Together, they’ve grown Gopuff into the instant needs category creator and one of the fastest growing tech companies with 7,000 employees across the country. Today, Gopuff has operations in more than 650 U.S. cities, leveraging its network of over 250 micro-fulfillment centers and recently acquired BevMo! stores to fulfill orders of thousands of everyday essentials to customers in 30 minutes. Under Rafael’s leadership, every Gopuff initiative – big or small – is developed with a customer-first mentality. Rafael, along with Yakir, was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the Retail & Ecommerce category in 2017, in 2019 received the Drexel University Founders Award and in 2020, Gopuff was named to CNBC’s Disruptor 50. Rafael is closely involved with his alma mater, Drexel University, through the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship and Chabad Serving Drexel University.
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Marco Sawires
President and CEO of The Primo
Marco Sawires, originally of Aurora, Illinois, is the Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the board of The Primo Enterprises LLC, and theprimoco.com.
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About The Primo: The Primo is an e-commerce website for consumers
Jyoti Bansal
Co-Founder & CEO of Harness
Jyoti Bansal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Harness.
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About BIG Labs, Harness, Traceable, Unusual Ventures: Harness is a Continuous Delivery as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
Rachel Drori
Founder and CEO of Daily Harvest
Rachel Drori is the founder and CEO of Daily Harvest, a platform is serving the needs of modern consumers by turning freezers into personalized pantries stocked with clean food, quickly prepared and replenished as it is consumed. Daily Harvest was launched as a solution to Rachel’s own daily challenge: squeezing in nourishing fruits and vegetables into her busy life. She has built Daily Harvest into one of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the U.S. Prior to starting Daily Harvest, Rachel harnessed her skills as a customer-centric marketing executive, leading teams at Gilt Groupe, American Express, and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She currently resides in New York City with her family
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About Daily Harvest: Daily Harvest is a customer-first platform that provides subscription-based food delivery services to offer healthy frozen foods.
Prerna Gupta
Founder & CEO of HOOKED
Prerna Gupta is the Founder & CEO at HOOKED.
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About HOOKED: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
Hannan Parvizian
Co-Founder & CEO of Volansi
Hannan Parvizian is Founder at Volans-i.
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About Volansi: Volansi is a developer of logistics solutions through autonomous drone deliveries that facilitate long range, time-critical shipments.
Fabian Estrada
Founder and CEO of Marley Spoon
Fabian Siegel is the Founder & CEO of Dinnerly & he attended The University of Bonn in 1995.
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About Dinnerly, Marley Spoon: Marley Spoon is a cooking platform that offers recipes, helps its customers order seasonal ingredients.
Bastian Lehmann
Founder and CEO of Postmates
Bastian Lehmann Is The Founder & CEO At Postmates.
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About Postmates: Postmates is an on-demand food delivery platform that gives customers access to restaurants and retailers.
Nicholas Chang
CEO & Founder of The Pill Club
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About The Pill Club: The Pill Club provides online birth control prescription and at-home delivery services.
Na’ama Moran
Co-Founder & CEO of Cheetah
Na’ama Moran is Co-Founder and CEO at Cheetah. Growing up in Israel with a family of farmers and small business owners, she’s seen first-hand the imminent need for a more efficient, accessible food supply. She came to the US to study economics, math, and political science at Cornell University, and started her career with Greylock Capital Management as an analyst. She soon left finance and moved to Silicon Valley to pursue her dream of building products that make people’s lives better with technology. She’s founded several companies including Zappedy and Sourcery, where she encountered many restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs, and discovered the hardships of running a restaurant, including the lack of transparency and ease-of-use in such an important industry. Remaining committed to building products that help food businesses thrive, she saw an opportunity to solve the very real problem that legacy distributors created for independent restaurants with Cheetah. Today, Na’ama is scaling Cheetah at an unprecedented pace. Since its inception in 2015, Cheetah has served over 2,000 independent restaurants with a mission to improve their supply chain. In early 2020, Cheetah turned their fleet of refrigerated trucks into mobile fulfillment centers, to provide the safest option for grocery pickup without contact and away from crowds. Consumers and restaurant owners simply place their order through the Cheetah mobile app and drive to one of multiple designated locations in the Bay Area, where products are placed in the trunk of customer’s cars without leaving the driver’s seat.
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About Cheetah: Cheetah is an e-commerce platform offering contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies.
Adam Olejniczak
CEO of Buffalo Market
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About Buffalo Market, Eaziie: Buffalo Market is a smart food distributor.
David Glickman
CEO of Ultra Mobile
David Glickman is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Mint Mobile.
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About Mint Mobile, Ultra Mobile: Branded mobile carrier offering cost-effective unlimited talk, text and data services in the US market.
Ron Johnson
Chief Executive Officer of Enjoy
Ron Johnson is the CEO of ENJOY, which he founded in 2014. Prior to ENJOY,Ron served as CEO of JC Penney. From 2000 to 2012, Ron was on the Executive Committee at Apple and led Apple Retail. Apple stores are widely recognized as the world’s most successful retail operation with nearly 400 locations in 13 countries. From 1984 to 2000 Ron worked for Target Corporation in a variety of merchandising leadership roles. As Senior Vice President of Merchandising, Ron worked to bring good design to Target, and is credited with establishing Target as the nation’s leading upscale discount store chain. Ron received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1984 and his Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1980. Ron is an active volunteer serving as a Trustee at Stanford University, as Vice Chair of Stanford Health Care and as Co-Chair of the Campaign for Stanford Medicine. Ron is also a Board Member of The Melt, Nasty Gal, Honor and is an advisor to many startups in the emerging technology and retail spaces. Ron lives in the Bay Area with his spouse Karen and has two children.
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About Enjoy: Enjoy Technology is a platform that offers same-day delivery services and operates mobile retail stores.
Harish Abbott
Co-founder and CEO of Deliverr
Harish Abbott is a Co-Founder & CEO of sneakpeeq.com, a leading social shopping company. At sneakpeeq, Harish manages Product and Marketing. Prior to founding sneakpeeq.com, Harish was the Chief Product Officer at Lulu.com—the premier global marketplace for new digital content on the Internet—where he managed Product and Revenues. He led Lulu toward the largest virtually distributed marketplace for digital content. Prior to joining Lulu, Harish was a Co-Founder and President of Ugenie, the company behind weRead.com—the first social recommendation engine for books. At Ugenie, Harish was responsible for setting the overall product direction and management of the engineering center and company operations. Ugenie was acquired by Lulu.com. Prior to Ugenie, Harish was a Senior Program Manager at Amazon.com, leading initiatives on strategic planning, supply chains and order fulfillment. He helped Amazon launch and build its distribution network through warehousing and drop-shipping in North America and Europe. Harish also wrote the promise ship date and promise delivery date concept at Amazon. Before Amazon, Harish was a Solution Architect at i2 Technologies where he played a key role in the consulting and sales teams of the retail division. Harish graduated with top honors from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He also holds a Masters in Operations Research from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and an MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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About Deliverr, Symphony Commerce: Deliverr is a startup company that provides shipping services for e-commerce businesses.
Pradeep Elankumaran
Co-Founder & CEO of Farmstead
Pradeep Elankumaran is the CEO and co-founder of Farmstead, the new AI-powered digital micro-grocer reinventing the supermarket model with technology that sources and delivers local food from farm-to-fridge in 60 minutes.Prior to founding Farmstead, he spent many years building and running design and operations-focused consumer technology products. Notably, Pradeep led mobile video monetization and Livetext at Yahoo, managed the driver growth product team at Lyft and also co-founded a YC-backed mobile photo-sharing product. Pradeep received his BS in Physics & Astronomy from the University of Maryland.
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About Farmstead: Farmstead is an artificial intelligence-powered farm to doorstep grocery delivery startup.
Barry Pennypacker
President and Chief Executive Officer, Manitowoc Cranes of The Manitowoc Company
Barry L. Pennypacker, President and Chief Executive Officer since 2015. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, Mr. Pennypacker served as Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Quantum Lean LLC, a privately held manufacturer and supplier of precision components headquartered in Baltimore, MD. Previously, he was President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Gardner Denver, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of engineered industrial machinery and related parts and services. Prior to joining Gardner Denver, Mr. Pennypacker served in positions of increasing responsibility at Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies, The Stanley Works, and Danaher Corporation.
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About The Manitowoc Company: Manitowoc Company Inc is an American global company specializing in products for the food service industry.
Vitaly Alexandrov
CEO & Founder of Food Rocket
Currently nominated for Forbes 30 under 30, two-time winner of the Oxford’s Fund scholarship. In 2019, together with partners, Vitaly launched the Foody startup to optimize the restaurant procurement process in the U.S. Three months later, Foody was showing a monthly growth of 20%. In 2021 due to the pandemic, the startup pivoted and launched San Francisco’s first 10-15-minute grocery delivery service called Food Rocket. Previously, Vitaly was the CEO and founder of the international CRM marketing agency Out of Cloud that provides consumer data analysis and helps companies build personalized marketing. The agency’s clients include Puma, Panasonic, Nikon, Alfa Bank and Pfizer. The agency won the Best Use of eCRM category at Tagline Awards in 2017 and Best Use of Analytics in Loyalty Programs at Loyalty Awards in 2018. At 27, Vitaliy wrote the Email Marketing Strategy book that was a bestseller at Ozon.
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About Food Rocket: Food Rocket is an application that provides customers with on-demand 10-15 minute free grocery delivery.
Nishan de Silva
Chief Executive Officer of AFYX Therapeutics
Nishan de Silva brings 20 years of experience in biotechnology operations, biopharmaceutical venture capital, and healthcare management consulting. He previously served as president, chief operating officer, and director of Poseida Therapeutics, where he oversaw clinical development, regulatory, manufacturing, finance, and business development activities. Prior to Poseida, he was chief financial officer and vice president of finance and strategy at Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. (LGND). Earlier in his career, Nishan de Silva served as a principal at private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, responsible for late-stage biopharmaceutical investment opportunities, and was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company. He holds a B.A. summa cum laude in biology from Harvard University, an M.D. from The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an M.B.A. with Distinction in healthcare management from The Wharton School.
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About AFYX Therapeutics: AFYX Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company
Nishan de Silva
Chief Executive Officer of AFYX Therapeutics
Nishan de Silva brings 20 years of experience in biotechnology operations, biopharmaceutical venture capital, and healthcare management consulting. He previously served as president, chief operating officer, and director of Poseida Therapeutics, where he oversaw clinical development, regulatory, manufacturing, finance, and business development activities. Prior to Poseida, he was chief financial officer and vice president of finance and strategy at Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. (LGND). Earlier in his career, Nishan de Silva served as a principal at private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, responsible for late-stage biopharmaceutical investment opportunities, and was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company. He holds a B.A. summa cum laude in biology from Harvard University, an M.D. from The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an M.B.A. with Distinction in healthcare management from The Wharton School.
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About AFYX Therapeutics: AFYX Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company
Bentley Hall
CEO of Good Eggs
Bentley is a passionate, driven entrepreneur, who helps small consumer businesses become big – often very quickly. Ever since he was a kid, he has been fascinated with understanding how high growth companies achieve scale, disrupt industries and change the world we live in. After spending time with Johnson & Johnson and Clif Bar, he joined the Plum Organics team as employee #3 and was fortunate to hold a variety of executive roles, in multiple countries, as the business launched from $0 to ~$100+ million in annual sales in under 7 years. In 2013, the business was successfully sold to the Campbell Soup Co. Others have called him a creative problem solver, a levelheaded leader, an optimist, a self starter, a builder and a collaborator. While he is technically a certified accountant (CMA), he does not mention this at parties. Devoted to a lifetime of learning, he is continually humbled by how little he actually knew the previous year. Originally from just north of Boston, he now lives in Marin, California and spends as much time as possible outdoors (skiing, trail running, cycling, camping, stand up paddle boarding), eating tasty food and laughing with his wife, close friends and two young sons.
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About Good Eggs, Smallholding Investments: Good Eggs is an online grocer and meal kit delivery service with a mission to reinvent the food system, for good.
Marg Patel
Co-Founder, CEO of Medly Pharmacy
Dr. Marg Patel is the Co-founder and CEO of Medly. Previously, he’s managed multiple independent pharmacies in New York City.
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About Medly Pharmacy: Medly Pharmacy is a digital pharmacy platform that offers free, same-day prescription delivery.
Chris Baggott
Co-Founder and CEO of ClusterTruck
Over the course of his career, Chris Baggott has redefined what it means to be a marketer. After co-founding ExactTarget, one of the world’s most successful, publicly-traded email service providers, he saw an opportunity to branch out into content marketing. In 2007, Chris launched Compendium, the leading content marketing platform helping organizations capture and create original content in a branded hub for distribution to any marketing channel. As a marketing futurist, Chris is frequently quoted in national business and marketing trade magazines, and speaks regularly on the topic of digital marketing at hundreds of venues. He is recognized as one of the most influential marketers by Invesp Consulting and BtoB Magazine. His blog was voted “Best Online Marketing Blog” by MarketingSherpa readers and “Best of the Web” by Forbes.
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About ClusterTruck, Tyner Pond Farm: ClusterTruck is a provider of online food delivery platform used to offer foods at the doorsteps of customers.
John Tabis
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Bouqs Company
John is passionate about disruptive businesses, cool brands, and showing love to the important people in his life. The Bouqs Company is a combination of those things, and he is thrilled to bring it to you and yours. Prior to Founding The Bouqs Company, John worked in strategy consulting at Bain & Company, followed by marketing & brand strategy for Disney, ESPN, ABC, Marvel, ShoeDazzle and Gerber Baby. John received his BS in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from UCLA Anderson.
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About The Bouqs Company: The Bouqs Company is a cut-to-order online flower delivery service.
Rich Scalise
Co-Founder & CEO of Hearthside Food Solutions
Rich Scalise co-founded Hearthside in 2009, transforming the contract manufacturing industry. Rich brought 37 years’ executive industry experience—including bakery, protein, dairy, and contract manufacturing to this role. His previous roles include President of Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products, which he grew from $275 million to over $700 million through consistent organic growth and four acquisitions, and ConAgra, where he served for 18 years, culminating in his role as President and Chief Operating Officer of ConAgra’s $3 billion Refrigerated Foods Division. Under his leadership Rich Scalise, Hearthside is now the industry’s largest contract manufacturer and one of the industry’s fastest growing companies. Rich is a previous Chairman of the American Bakers Association and is active in multiple industry boards and associations.
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About Hearthside Food Solutions: Hearthside Food Solutions is the industry’s largest food contract manufacturer, and also the largest private bakery in the US.
Michael Heinrich
CEO and Founder of Garten
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About Founders Pledge, Garten, Helena, Leaders In Tech by CareerTu, Pioneer Fund, Stanford University, YPO: Garten is a food processing company that delivers nutrient-rich catered meals and curated snacks for workplace.
Manish Rathi
Dreamer, Doer, Founder & CEO of JoyRun
Manish Rathi joined JoyRun as Dreamer, Doer, Founder, CEO in 2014.
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About JoyRun: JoyRun is a community based delivery company.
Gregg Morton
Founder & CEO of Fooji
Gregg A. Morton is the Founder & CEO at Fooji.
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About Fooji: Fooji enables big brands to execute experiential marketing at scale using on-demand delivery services.
Sean Doherty
CEO of Wurl
CEO at WURL, Inc.
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About Wurl: The Wurl Network connects the world’s largest digital brands with the world’s largest streaming services.
Atallah Atallah
CEO & Co-Founder of Club Feast
Atallah Atallah currently works as the CEO and Co-Founder for Club Feast. He previously worked at StartX as an Entrepreneur.
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About Club Feast, Seated: Club Feast is a restaurant delivery application that provides pre-scheduled food delivery.
Sean Spector
Co-Founder & CEO of Dropoff
Sean has spent his career driving growth and innovation for leading technology and media companies.Prior to Dropoff, Sean co-founded GameFly, Inc., which pioneered the video game rental subscription business and was backed by Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. There he led marketing, business development, mobile strategy, digital distribution, ad sales, content and M&A efforts. He was previously an Online Producer at The Walt Disney Company and a New Media Agent at Creative Artists Agency. Sean attended University of Southern California and holds a B.A. in Film Theory and Criticism from San Francisco State University. Sean is married to his college sweetheart, and loves watching his two daughters play competitive sports and ride horses.
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About Dropoff, Private Angel Investor, Techstars, The Walt Disney Company: Dropoff is re-inventing on-demand, same-day delivery for business, with our highly-rated service and proprietary logistics technology.
Neha Sampat
Founder and CEO of Contentstack
Neha Sampat (@nehasf) is Founder and CEO at Contentstack™ – a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Content Experience Platform (CXP), adopted by brands including Best Buy, Chase, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Morningstar, Express, Miami HEAT, Shell, and Walmart. Previously, Neha was Founder and CEO of Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Built.io®, which was acquired by German software powerhouse Software AG in September 2018. Neha is a recognized industry leader, a proponent of diversity, and an outspoken advocate for women in leadership. She can be found appearing on keynote stages or expert panels discussing her experiences as an entrepreneur, a female leader, or her company’s role in the future of technology. Neha raised a Series A funding round of $31.5M USD for Contentstack, one of the largest for enterprise SaaS software companies. She was one of “50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley” in 2015, was named in “San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business” in 2017, and is a “San Francisco Business Times 40 under 40” honoree. Neha was also honored as “CEO of the Year” by Aragon Research in December 2018 and Female Tech Trailblazer of the Year in 2020. Most recently, she was recognized as “Best CEO for Diversity” and “Best CEO for Women” in the 2020 Comparably Best Places to Work Awards.
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About Built.io, Contentstack, KurbKarma, raw engineering: Contentstack develops a cloud based content management system intended to power omnichannel content.
Ashwin Cheriyan
CEO of Thistle
Ashwin Cheriyan is a Co-Founder at Thistle.
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About Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Thistle: Thistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers.
Andrea Xu
Founder & CEO of Umamicart
Andrea Xu is the Founder and CEO of Umamicart.
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About Umamicart: Umamicart is an online grocery store that focuses on delivering Asian products and groceries.
Mike LaVitola
Co-Founder & CEO of Foxtrot
Co-Founder & CEO of Foxtrot.
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About Foxtrot: Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop a curated collection of drinks, food, and everyday essentials.
Pat Vihtelic
Founder and CEO of Home Chef
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About Home Chef: Home Chef is a provider of subscription-based meal kit delivery services to help people to save time while enjoying home cooking.
Ravi Pamnani
CEO and Co-Founder of Intact Therapeutics
Ravi Pamnani is the CEO and co-founder of Intact Therapeutics. Prior to that, he served as a director of marketing and medical affairs for Transcend Medical. Ravi studied at Stanford University.
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About Intact Therapeutics: Intact Therapeutics is a makers of smart gels for local drug delivery for gastrointestinal diseases.
Zaid Ayoub
CEO of SAJJ Street Eats
Zaid is a serial entrepreneur with long experience in Silicon Valley; he shuttles back and forth between the Bay Area and Amman, Jordan. Zaid manages an investment fund with interests in companies in Technology, Gaming, Food and Beverage, and Real Estate. Zaid is also the caretaker for JTronix, the entity entrusted to build an Electronics Design Industry in Jordan through the selection, training and placement of young Jordanian talent, and partnering with advanced technology companies. Zaid is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan, the largest applied research institution, consultancy, and technical support service provider in Jordan. He also served a 2 year term as a Board member of the Jordan Investment Boards (JIB). Before starting his own firm – Dimensions Consulting Inc. (DCI) he worked in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry for companies like for National Semiconductor and Best IC Labs. And in 2003, Zaid successfully set up an electrical engineering design outsource center in Jordan. Zaid presented on many panels focusing the bridging of the Silicon Valley with the MENA region, he is an avid Golfer and Squash player.Zaid received his MBA (1990) and BSEE with emphasis on Computer Architecture (1987) both from Santa Clara University.
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About SAJJ Street Eats: Food that’s personal, satisfying and transporting. With Sajj Kitchen, escape from the every day & make your next meal a culinary adventure.
Reid Moncada
Co-Founder & CEO of Fitted Laundry
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About Fitted Laundry: Fitted is bridging the gap between laundry and fashion.
Ali Sabeti
CEO of ZeroCater
As Chief Executive Officer, Ali is responsible for scaling and expanding ZeroCater nationally to achieve the company’s vision of becoming the #1 food company serving the workforce. He is focused on building and enabling a world class executive team to lead the company to the next stage of growth and profitability. ZeroCater has a unique opportunity to disrupt a $202B+ industry, and Ali is excited to lead the company’s operational and financial health in capitalizing on that opportunity. Over his career Ali has held a variety of roles and led functions across operations, sales, marketing, product, and finance. He has built and led global teams across companies of all stages from startups to the Fortune 500. Ali is a California native and graduated from the University of California Irvine with a degree in Economics and Accounting.
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About ZeroCater: ZeroCater is a provider of office meals and snacks, bringing employees together to build culture and foster community.
Bill Catania
Founder & CEO of OneRail
Bill Catania is a start-up entrepreneur focused on developing and commercializing “real time” technology networks. Catania is the founder of M-Dot Network (acquired by Inmar, Inc.), which has scaled to become the leading “Point of Sale to Cloud” transaction network for digital coupons in North America. As CEO of M-Dot Network, Catania led his team to win the Amazon Global Start-Up contest, beating over 1,500 companies from 23 countries. After departing Inmar upon its acquisition by Abry Partners, Catania founded On Demand Technologies, Inc., a final mile logistics orchestration platform known as “OneRail”. In April, 2018, Catania was named the CEO of CoinFlip Solutions, Inc., a cloud-based payment platform delivering real-time electronic payment solutions for health benefits, points, and promotional offers. While at Cornell University, Catania founded Motorsports/e-Commerce based business RaceFan, Inc. (racefan.com), which rapidly grew to become one of the nation’s premier online motorsports informational sites. While at RaceFan, Bill identified and negotiated the purchase of several major “.com” properties, scaling network traffic to over 20 million page views per month, while syndicating it’s racing news and results to media giants such as Fox Sports, PRIMEDIA, and NASCAR.com. Catania is a graduate of Cornell University where he studied Applied Economics and Political Science, and was a Cornell Tradition Fellow. In 2012, Catania was named among the “40 Under 40” by the Triad Business Journal. Catania has enjoyed owning and driving stock cars since he was 17 and has raced at Daytona International Speedway in the ARCA Racing Series, among numerous other regional and national racing venues.
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About Move 24/7 (operated by On Demand Technologies, Inc.), OneRail: OneRail is a fulfillment SaaS platform that offers final mile delivery services for enterprise shippers.
Ken Chong
Co-founder & CEO of All Day Technologies Inc.
Ken Chong is a co-founder and CEO at Virtual Kitchen.
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About All Day Technologies Inc.: Virtual Kitchen operates as a food tech and logistics company that focuses on building delivery-optimized kitchens.
Iryna Korolenko
Founder and CEO of iSALON Beauty App
The founder of iSALON, a businesswoman and entrepreneur, fashion model and world-traveler, Iryna Korolenko is a portrait of the modern Renaissance woman. Born in Ukraine, she balanced passion and professionalism, ambition and sophistication from an early age, modeling internationally by 16 while prioritizing higher education. After receiving postgraduate degrees both in international economy and psychology, Iryna began a career working for global corporations, negotiating multi-million dollar contracts. By seamlessly navigating between the worlds of business and beauty, from airline to fashion runways, she has gained a worldview unique among her peers. Seeking new opportunities, Iryna packed a single suitcase and moved to the United States in 2014. Despite having no support network, she paved her way in an unfamiliar environment, and continues to trailblaze her singular career workingwith prominent designers and global brands both as a model and businesswoman. In boardrooms and at photo shoots, presentation matters, but it doesn’t have to be inconvenient. It was during a commute in traffic that Iryna realized it was smarter, safer, and simpler to have beauty services delivered directly to her door. Any modern professional will recognize the importance of quickly connecting with services wherever they are, whenever they are – and with iSALON, you can. Iryna is based in California but continues to pursue her passion exploring new places and meeting new people, always looking forward to new challenges and discovering innovative ideas. A consummate Capricorn, culinary dilettante, and classic cinema enthusiast, she most appreciates the simple things in life, especially her French bulldog, Blu.
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About Coleman Research, Fohr, GLG, iSALON Beauty App, Kelly Moore Paints, Look Model Agency, RED HOT MONDE: Delivering Beauty to Your Doorstep
Linxin Wen
CEO & Co-founder of Chowbus
Linxin Wen is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Chowbus.
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About Chowbus: Chowbus is a delivery platform that provides authentic Asian food sourced from local independent restaurants and stores.
Roy LaManna
Co-Founder & CEO of Vydia
CEO of Vydia.
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About Vydia: Powering the business of music with technology, infrastructure, and services
Forrest Collier
CEO of eMeals.com
Forrest Collier is an Internet entrepreneur who serves as CEO of eMeals.com, the leading provider of digital meal plans that are integrated with the grocery delivery and pickup services of Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, Shipt and Instacart. eMeals publishes 15 weekly food style plans such as Clean Eating, Paleo, and Low Carb and has helped over a million families eat healthy home cooked meals. Prior to eMeals.com, Forrest was CEO of InternetSafety.com, maker of the Safe Eyes family safety software, which was acquired by McAfee, Inc. Before InternetSafety.com, Forrest was COO and a founding member of the management team of Highland Capital Holding Corporation.
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About eMeals.com: eMeals is the leading digital meal planning platform with integrated grocery pickup and delivery services.
Felipe Chávez Cortés
CEO & Co-Founder of Kiwibot
CEO Kiwibot.com.
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About Kiwibot: Kiwibot offers food delivery with robots for campus colleges.
Devaraj Southworth
Co-Founder and CEO of Thirstie
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About The Second Chance Foundation, Thirstie, Yureekah: E-commerce solutions for beverage alcohol brands.
Nader Alizadeh
CEO and Co-founder of Linqia
Nader is CEO and Co-founder for Linqia and is responsible for setting and executing on the strategic footprint of the company. Previously, Nader was Senior Vice President of Sales for Lithium Technologies and responsible for driving and managing the growth of the business. Nader joined Lithium Technologies as a co-founder when it was first incorporated, and carried broad responsibilities in both the sales and operations departments. Prior to Lithium, Nader was the Director of Operations at Ofoto (now Kodak Gallery). An early employee, he was responsible for all fulfillment operations for the company, where he built the largest digital photo finishing facility and online frame store in the world. He was also responsible for all of its organization, processes, and personnel and was primarily responsible for driving Ofoto to the best gross margins in the industry, a key element in Kodak’s subsequent acquisition. Nader has a proven track record identifying strategic partners and cultivating key business relationships. He has demonstrated this ability multiple times, in various management roles at Konica and later at Fuji, where he managed large-scale fulfillment organizations, including the largest film processing facility in the western United States. Nader studied Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Linqia: Linqia is the only influencer marketing company that delivers guaranteed influencer ROI for the enterprise.
Jarrett Streebin
Founder and CEO of EasyPost
Before founding EasyPost, Jarrett worked at a family office investing venture.Jarrett is an avid squash player, occasional,cyclist and motorcyclist.
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About EasyPost: EasyPost provides a simple postage API that allows developers to quickly and painlessly integrate shipping into any e-commerce application.
Dilip Rao
Co-Founder & CEO of Sharebite
Dilip Rao is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sharebite.
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About Sharebite: Sharebite is a mission-driven foodtech & expense management platform built exclusively for companies.
Nate Phillips
Co-Founder & CEO of Nom Nom
Nate is Nom Nom’s co-founder and CEO. A lawyer by training, Nate has held a variety of in-house counsel positions across several investment banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Nate received his BA, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Irvine, and his JD from University of California, Berkeley.
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About Nom Nom: We make real food to support healthier, longer lives for folks with paws. Because what’s good for people is good for pets too.
Stephen Forte
Chief Scientist, Founder and CEO of The BuildClub
Stephen Forte lived in China for 10 years, and is a software architect and entrepreneur, with a special focus artificial intelligence and computer vision. Mr. Forte is an expert in mobile apps and software with 28 patents filed with 14 awarded, and has deep insight into Asia tech. Mr. Forte has founded and exited multiple tech startups, been CEO of public and private companies, managed operations in 63 countries, and led P&Ls from startups to over $1 billion.
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About Ascendent Systems, Bixby Creek Capital, LLC, Chief Executives Organization, GLG, The BuildClub, Third Bridge Group, YPO: Mobile App – Building materials delivered in about an hour
Keller Rinaudo
Co-Founder and CEO of Zipline
Keller Rinaudo is CEO and co-founder of Zipline, the world’s first drone delivery service whose focus is delivering life saving medicine even to the most difficult to reach places on earth. Prior to Zipline, he was a software engineer and a professional rock climber. A graduate of Harvard University, he built computers out of RNA and DNA that can operate in human cells as molecular doctors. Mr. Rinaudo published this research in Nature Biotechnology, becoming one of the youngest first authors in the publication’s history.
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About Zipline: Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products to everyone, no matter where they live.
Ramon Berrios
CEO of Trend
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About Trend, Trend: Trend helps brands source high quality user generated content and targeted exposure with social media influencers at scale.
Randy Curran
CEO of Ozburn-Hessey Logistics
Randy Curran joined OHL in 2011 as CEO. Randy Curran was Chief Executive Officer of ITC Deltacom from 2005 to 2010, and before joining ITC Deltacom Randy Curran was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ICG Communications, Inc., a telecommunications company. Randy Curran spent 19 years at Thermadyne Holdings Corporation, a global manufacturer of welding and cutting products. Randy Curran joined as Chief Financial Officer and rose ultimately to become President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Randy Curran received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from DePauw University and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Loyola University in Chicago.
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About Ozburn-Hessey Logistics: Ozburn-Hessey Logistics
JP Rosato
CEO & Founder of Sitehands
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About CS Technology, Sitehands: Sitehands is a global IT marketplace serving the largest global Financial Institutions and Fortune 500 companies.
David Hua
Co-Founder & CEO of Meadow
David Hua is the CEO and Co-Founder of Meadow, a software company specializing in California cannabis, and Y-Combinator’s first start-up to operate in the cannabis space. Hua has dedicated the last 4 years to bridging the divide between cannabis and technology. He has partnered with dispensaries and delivery services of all sizes across California, utilizing technology to scale with demand from legalization, maintain compliance with local and state regulations, and create operational efficiencies to thrive in the regulated industry. He has also collaborated with California’s cannabis community and California regulators to draft, implement, and provide stakeholder feedback of medical and Adult-Use regulations. Prior to founding Meadow, Hua was Head of Platform at Sincerely, Head of Content and Contributors at Healthcentral, co-founded startups GotGame and HippoBird, and traded Foreign Exchange and Latin American Equities at Citigroup.
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About Meadow: Meadow builds connected cannabis retail, delivery, eCommerce, CRM, and marketing software for California’s legal cannabis industry.
Douglas Colbeth
Founder & CEO of MedCircle
Douglas Colbeth became president and chief executive officer of Kinaxis in March 2003. As one of the true visionaries of the Internet explosion in the mid 1990’s, he envisioned the opportunity to be a leader in delivering an on-demand supply chain management service. He then came across what he describes as a “gang of supply chain geniuses” in Canada, who had already developed very powerful modeling and collaboration technology. After going public in 2014 – Kinaxis has a market capitalization of approximately $2 Billion. Doug understood what the Internet’s influence on consumer behavior would be and how it would dramatically increase demand volatility. The problem of effectively responding to consumer demand would be further exacerbated by the dramatic market shift of outsourced manufacturing operations. Under Doug’s leadership, Kinaxis developed a world-class offering which enables companies to build better supply chain plans and quickly respond to constant changes in demand, supply and product — driving breakthroughs in customer service and operations performance. Today, the Kinaxis RapidResponse® cloud service empowers front-line decision makers at brand name companies and contract manufacturers with multi-enterprise visibility and collaborative analysis tools to effectively respond to change across an entire distributed supply chain. Prior to Kinaxis, Doug was chief executive officer of Spyglass Inc., a leading provider of Internet software technologies. Spyglass technologies are utilized inside millions of products including PCs, televisions, telephones, and other hand-held devices. Most notably, Spyglass technology is the foundation of the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. In June 1995, Spyglass became the first Internet software company to conduct a successful Initial Public Offering. In March 2000, Doug negotiated its merger with OpenTV Inc., at a value of $2.4 Billion. Outside of his work with Kinaxis, Doug and his wife Margaret are pioneer philanthropists in the area of juvenile brain diseases. Established in 2000, the Colbeth Clinic is operated by the University of Illinois Medical Center and serves inner city children in the Chicago area. This state of the art clinic employs a multidisciplinary approach to treating a wide range of brain diseases including: autism, depression, bipolar, OCD, ADHD, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Siena College in Loudonville, New York, and studied Quantitative Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.) in Troy, New York. While attending R.P.I., Doug was awarded a research grant from Texas Instruments Inc. to develop modeling software for various Texas Instruments products.
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About MedCircle: MedCircle is a San Diego based company redefining the mental health care market
Justin Mast
Founder and CEO of Bloomscape
Justin Mast is the founder and CEO of Bloomscape. Prior to joining Bloomscape,Justin spent more than three years with MACC Development as a board member.
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About Bloomscape: Bloomscape is an online plant shopping platform that offers home ready plants and tools for plant care.
David Rabie
Founder & CEO of Tovala
David is our co-founder and CEO. He’s a self-professed food nut with an MBA from Chicago Booth. Before starting Tovala, he worked for the co-founder and CEO of Veggie Grill and ran Groovy Spoon – a bi-coastal chain of frozen yogurt stores. He also spent time working at Google and Foundation Capital. His favorite ingredient is avocado.
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About Tovala: Tovala is a food-tech company that offers a meal service paired with a countertop smart oven.
Nancy Korayim
Founder & CEO of MetroSpeedy
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About MetroSpeedy: MetroSpeedy is a leading technology based local delivery company providing on-demand, same day or scheduled delivery services.
Shaunak Amin
Co-founder and CEO of SnackMagic
Founder of Served by Stadium.
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About SnackMagic, STADIUM: SnackMagic offers personalized snack boxes that are super easy to gift and ridiculously fun to get.
Michael Minkevich
Tech CEO of Unfurl
Michael is a seasoned technology executive with 20+ years of building and operating large scale geographically distributed multinational project-driven organizations under the belt
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About GTSaaS, Unfurl: Unfurl is the Netflix of the restaurant industry
Chris Tara-Browne
Human CEO & Co-Founder of Unfurl
Chris Tara-Browne currently works as the CEO, Co-Founder, and Board member for Unfurl. He previously worked at Bauman College as a Board Member.
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About Unfurl: Unfurl is the Netflix of the restaurant industry
Nick Wernimont
CEO/Founder & Chief Health & Wellness Strategist of Factor_
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About Factor_, Factor_: Factor is a subscription-based prepared meal delivery service that delivers dietitian-designed, chef-crafted meals.
Manal Habib
CEO & Cofounder of MightyFly
Manal Habib is co-founder and CEO at MightyFly. A graduate from both MIT and Stanford, Manal has developed a strong technical background in aerospace engineering. She previously led flight controls at Zipline and developed the first robust commercial flight controller. She is a private pilot and in the process of building her own airplane. Her passion for aerospace, vision for a better world, and determination make her a motivated and unstoppable entrepreneur and leader.
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About MightyFly: Remaking the future of logistics
Jeffrey Najarian
President & Chief Executive Officer of Starpoint Solutions
Jeff Najarian founded Starpoint Solutions in 1982 and built it into one of the nation’s fastest-growing, privately held companies. He continues to set the company’s strategy for growth and innovation. As a result of his guidance and Starpoint’s success, Starpoint was named to the elite ranks of Inc. 500’s Hall of Fame, to the CRN Solution Provider 500 list for 15 years, to Crain’s New York Business’s coveted list of Top 200 Privately Held Companies, and to Deloitte & Touche’s prestigious “Fast 50” Program for the New York region. For nearly 35 years, Jeff has distinguished himself and Starpoint. With Starpoint for most of his professional career, he transformed Starpoint from a technology staffing firm into one of the most respected sources of human capital for staff and project augmentation nationwide. Jeff’s leadership style is a big reason why Starpoint succeeds – and why it has such a high retention rate with its employees. Jeff earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Rutgers University.
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About Starpoint Solutions: Starpoint Solutions is a Leading Provider of Software Development & Engineering Services Worldwide
Stas Matviyenko
Founder & CEO of Allset
Founder of Allset.
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About Allset: Marketplace for restaurants and local diners. Online ordering and contactless solutions to serve customers commission-free.
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.
Michael Salguero
CEO & Founder of ButcherBox
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About ButcherBox, Massachusetts General Hospital: An online butcher changing the way consumers shop for and purchase meat and other proteins.
Pavel Danilov
CEO and Co-Founder of Fridge No More
Pavel Danilov is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fridge No More.
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About Fridge No More: Fridge No More is an instant food deliverer that offers a 15-minute grocery delivery service.
TJ Parker
CEO of PillPack
TJ Parker is the Co-Founder and CEO of PillPack. He is also a Board Member of RxArt. Mr. Parker is a former Pharmacist at NEPS and Founding Organizer at Hacking Medicine at MIT.
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About PillPack: PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery.
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.
Adebayo Alonge
Co-Founder & CEO of RxAll
Adebayo is a pharmacist and market development professional with a business degree from Yale. He has 8+years in market development and strategy consulting across Africa working with BCG, BASF, Roche and Sanofi.
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About RxAll: RxAll is a Deep Learning-Hyperspectral IoT Platform for the authentication and real-time global tracking of quality of drugs.
Veronica Santarelli
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Grassp Health
Executive | Entrepreneur | Investor | Health Consultant After graduating from St. Anselm College, Veronica began her career in the Health and Wellness industry at LA Weight Loss. In her role,she was responsible for opening and expanding new markets across the nation, the largest being in Los Angeles, where she set company sales records. She was also responsible for building and overseeing the sales operations and recruiting efforts. She then joined Equinox where she supported the successful growth of the brand across the Southern California market, helping to secure Equinox as the leader in upscale health clubs on the West Coast. As a sales leader for Equinox, she also supported recruiting and training of top sales talent to ensure sales goals were met. Veronica brings over 20 years of sales and management experience, along with a proven ability to expand into new regions. Veronica currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at Grassp Health, a leading medical cannabis health care organization improving access to medical-grade cannabis products, education and services. Grassp, a proprietary owned and operated MarTech platform provides compliant communications, inventory tracking and logistical support. Offering patients safe and transparent access to medical cannabis delivery through an omnichannel ordering platform in Arizona and California. Grassp Health assembled a team of experts and partnered with the UC Institute for Prediction Technology at UCLA to research and identify ways technology can improve public health and safety. Grassp Health supports assisted living, memory care and hospice communities, improving the lives and end of life care of patients battling cancer, disabilities, immobility, dementia/alzheimers, aphasia and PTSD with formulated and dosed cannabinoid therapy. As a self-reflective, servant leader, Veronica has an unwavering dedication to excellence. Drawing on her years of experience in sales, government relations, operations, brand building, organizational expansion and marketing. Building, mobilizing and managing teams that are cohesively focused on executing a unified vision while serving patients in our active Arizona and California markets is top priority. Partnering with Dr. Elaine Burns, Veronica also helped found and create Cannabis Community Talks (CCT) to ensure science-based education reaches patients in need of true medical advice who are considering cannabinoid therapeutics as an alternative to narcotics.
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About Cannabis Community Talks (CCT), Grassp Health: Cannabis Health Care Delivered. Discover Cannabis Therapuetics, Get Delivery.
Oguzhan Uyar
CEO of Metrobi
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About Metrobi: Empower your business with an on-demand fleet.
Don Barnett
CEO of SunBasket
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About SunBasket: SunBasket is a healthy cooking service that delivers organic ingredients and customized recipes weekly to customers’ doors.
Brenda Stoner
CEO & Founder of PICKUP
Brenda Stoner is President at Arrest SOS.
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About PICKUP: PICKUP is a technology-enabled same-day delivery service for big and bulky and small items.
Mike Wior
CEO & Co-Founder of Omnivore
Responsible for the overall vision of Omnivore. Expert in cloud solutions, technology and business initiatives, with career successes at Wells Fargo Bank and company-critical consulting projects for clients including Adobe, Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Google, and Intel.
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About Omnivore: Omnivore offers a point-of-sale integration API allowing uniform access to the POS systems.
William Jenkins
President & CEO of Barracuda Networks
BJ joined Palo Alto Networks in August 2021. As president, BJ oversees the company’s go-to-market functions, including sales, support, consulting, business development and operations, and partnerships. Previously, BJ served as president and CEO of Barracuda Networks, leading the company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the strategic acquisitions of SignNow, Intronis, Sonian and PhishLine. Prior to joining Barracuda, BJ held multiple business unit and sales and marketing leadership roles at EMC, including president of EMC’s Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) Division. BJ earned an engineering degree from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Barracuda Networks, Palo Alto Networks: Barracuda is a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions for security and storage.
Barry Zasloff
CEO of Encore Rehabilitation
Barry Zasloff is Founder @ Encore Rehabilitation.
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About Encore Rehabilitation: Encore Rehabilitation provides Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy services in the long-term care environment.
Khaled Naim
Co-Founder & CEO of Onfleet
Khaled is CEO and Co-Founder at Onfleet, the leading last-mile delivery management software platform. Khaled holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a BE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. Khaled is based in San Francisco, California.
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About Onfleet: Onfleet is a technology company that develops last-mile delivery management software.
Michael Howell
Co-Founder & CEO of Dolly
Michael joined Wetpaint in early 2005 as part of its founding management team. During his tenure with the company, he has led the audience development, analytics, publishing, customer service, and corporate strategy groups. In his current role as Vice President of Social and Audience Development, he is responsible for setting strategy and overseeing operations for Wetpaint audience development and content distribution. He is the chief designer and driving force behind Wetpaint’s social media strategy and patent-pending Social Distribution System. A data scientist at heart, Michael takes an analytical approach to driving breakthrough results. Prior to joining Wetpaint, Michael was a management consultant at Lake Partners where he specialized in analytics-driven strategic consulting. Michael holds a B.Sc. in Economics with honors from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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About Dolly: Dolly is a customer service company offering delivery and services through mobile apps at an affordable price.
Ooshma Garg
Founder & CEO of Gobble
Ooshma Garg already has started two successful businesses – one that she recently sold and another that has attracted over one million dollars in venture capital. In 2008, she created Anapata, an online site that matches students looking for jobs with potential employers, mostly in the legal field. After three years of sleepless nights, bootstrapping (keeping the business self-sustained without raising any outside money) and developing Anapata, Garg sold it to the legal company LawWerx. Garg says she feels she’s finally found her niche and true passion with Gobble, a dinner delivery service that creates 10-minute 1-pan fresh dinner kits for busy professionals looking for a healthy and quick alternative to takeout. The idea came from Garg’s own struggles to eat well while running Anapata. With a demanding schedule that often left her eating in her car, Garg says she was looking for a way to get home-cooked meals at a reasonable price. She started by delivering prepared meals from local chefs and eventually progressed to hiring cooks and chefs in her own Gobble commercial kitchen. With the hiring of Executive Chef Thomas Ricci, Garg invented Gobble’s now flagship product, the 10-minute 1-pan dinner kit, providing her customers with both the speed of takeout and the satisfaction of cooking at home. The strategy paid off with Garg scoring some top investors in Silicon Valley – including LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman – raising over $1.2 million in seed capital for her business.
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About Gobble, XFactor Ventures: Gobble is a weekly dinner kit delivery service that helps busy people cook dinner in just 15 minutes thanks to already prepped ingredients.
Luke Saunders
Founder and CEO of Farmer’s Fridge
Luke Saunders is the founder and CEO of Farmer’s Fridge.
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About Farmer’s Fridge, Food Foundry: Farmer’s Fridge provides an automated smart fridge that serves salads, bowls, snacks, and more.
Jed Kleckner
CEO of delivery.com
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About delivery.com: delivery.com offers an online platform that enables its users to connect and buy from restaurants, groceries, liquor stores, and more.
Christopher Webb
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ChowNow
Chris Webb, Co-Founder & CEO of ChowNow, an online ordering system and marketing platform for restaurants.
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About ChowNow, HuffPost: ChowNow helps branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants through the restaurants’ own websites.
David Lin
Co-Founder, CEO of Duffl
David Lin is a Co-Founder and the CEO at Duffl.
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About Duffl: We deliver groceries to college communities in 10 minutes.
Saïd Amin
CEO/Co-Founder of TopTopic
In 2001, Saïd Amin founded World Singles Networks. World Singles Networks owns and operates more two dozen niche-focused properties. Their portfolio includes leading niche-brands ArabLounge, EligibleGreeks, IranianPersonals and others. Most recently Saïd co-founded TopTopic. TopTopic is an uplifting community to create, discover, discuss and earn from compelling content.
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About TopTopic, World Singles Networks: TopTopic is an uplifting space to create, discover, discuss and earn from compelling content.
Steve Potash
Founder, President & CEO of Overdrive
Steve is President and CEO of OverDrive, a company he founded in 1986. Under his leadership, OverDrive has become the world’s leading multichannel digital distributor, supplying a secure eBook-lending platform for thousands of libraries, schools and retailers worldwide. OverDrive has been named to the EContent 100 as a company that matters most in the digital content industry and is a member of the 2012 Technology Fast 500.
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About Overdrive: OverDrive distributes digital content and delivers secure management, DRM protection and download fulfillment services for publishers.
Rahul Ranjan
Founder & CEO of Palacio Inc.
Former TP-LINK executive with career built around smart devices, Intelligent systems, Internet of things, smart buildings and industries, AI, computer vision and image processing industry. Prior to TP-LINK, Rahul worked in senior management roles at Qualcomm and Intel silicon valley offices.
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About Palacio Inc.: Arts, Content platform, Smart home
Doug Leeds
CEO of EAT Club
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About EAT Club: EAT Club is a food technology company allowing offices to order and get food delivered from local restaurants via the web or mobile devices.
Nathan Henderson
Chairman & CEO of BILT
Mr. Henderson is the chairman and CEO of BILT Incorporated, a SaaS company he co-founded in 2015. Under his leadership, BILT has grown from an idea to improve assembly instructions to a consumer experience revolution fundamentally changing the way consumers interact with the brands and products they buy. BILT’s 3D interactive Intelligent Instructions® connect users to manufacturers and provide a dramatic increase in positive customer sentiment (NPS) while reducing product return rates and customer support costs. Prior to BILT, he spent 17 years at SAP where he filled various roles to include: consulting project manager, applications consultant, SRM product manager, global lead for partner programs and senior director for business growth initiatives. As the senior director for enterprise mobility, he built mobile applications for some of the world’s greatest companies. He also drove sales and the positioning and packaging of all mobile applications across North America. Mr. Henderson graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in manufacturing engineering technology and the Thunderbird School of Global Management with an MBA in international business.
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About BILT: BILT is a mobile app that provides 3D interactive intelligent instructions for assembly and installation.
Bharat Pulgam
CEO, Co-Founder of Pikup
Bharat Pulgam joined Pikup as CEO, Co-Founder in 2018.
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About Pikup: Weekly neighborhood deliveries from your favorite local stores.
