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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 Marketplace 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.
Steven Galanis
Co-Founder & CEO of Cameo
Steven Galanis is the CEO of Cameo, the world’s leading marketplace for personalized video shoutouts. He launched the company in 2016 with co-founders Martin Blencowe & Devon Townsend after seeing a personalized video message taped by a prominent NFL player congratulating a friend on the birth of his son. To date the company has sold over 75,000 Cameos and seen over 4,500 athletes, actors, and influencers join the platform. He was named to Chicago Inno’s 2018 “50 on Fire” list. He is LinkedIn alum who previously worked as a trader on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and founder of two film investment companies where he produced movies featuring stars such as Bruce Willis and Robert De Niro. Outside of work he is an avid Chicago sports fan and serves on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity Chicago. Steven is a 2010 graduate of Duke University where he majored in History.
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About Cameo: Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
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Jonathan Wasserstrum
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SquareFoot
Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.
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About MetaProp, MetaProp, SquareFoot: SquareFoot is a marketplace that helps companies find office spaces.
Andrew Gazdecki
Founder and CEO of MicroAcquire
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About Altcoin.io, Bizness Apps, MicroAcquire: MicroAcquire is a startup acquisition marketplace that helps startups find buyers and get acquired.
James Paris
CEO of Avant
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About Avant, Avant: Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
Andy Ruben
Founder & CEO of Trove
Andy Ruben is the CEO and Founder of Trove. The world’s most innovative brands trust Trove to run their resale platforms. Andy left his executive role at Walmart to pursue his dream of building the next generation of retail. Andy was hired by Walmart to work with the Board of Directors and build a strategy department for Walmart. He led a number of transformational efforts over his tenure, including launching Walmart’s heralded sustainability effort, re-imagining Walmart’s $20 Billion private brands business, and integrating online and stores.
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About Trove: Trove builds white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping for premium and luxury brands.
Aakash Kumar
Founder & CEO of Shiftsmart
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About Shiftsmart: Shiftsmart is a labor-management marketplace connecting part-time workers with open shifts across multiple platforms.
Max Rhodes
Co-Founder and CEO of Faire
Prior to starting Faire, Max was the first product manager for several key initiatives at Square, including Square Capital ($1Bn+ deployed) and Square Cash (Square’s only Top 50-ranked app in the iOS App Store). He first came up with the idea for Faire while introducing the Blunt Umbrella to the United States.
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Jilliene Helman
CEO of RealtyMogul
Jilliene Helman is the CEO and Founder of RealtyMogul.com. She is a Certified Wealth Strategist and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 investment licenses. Previously, Jilliene was a Vice President at Union Bank, a subsidiary of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ. After exposure to corporate finance, marketing, and strategy, the majority of Jilliene’s time with Union Bank was spent working in Wealth Markets as the Sales Development Manager for The Private Bank. Jilliene led a team of Sales Development Specialists and coordinated sales efforts between the broker-dealer, registered investment advisor, lenders, trust advisors, and wealth planners and worked on investment accounts up to $300 million. Jilliene has underwritten over $5 billion of real estate ranging from retail, multifamily, office, residential, mobile home parks, and self-storage. She holds a degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University. She has been featured in countless publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, NYT, and Bloomberg, and is a frequent speaker on the subjects of crowdfunding, real estate finance, and entrepreneurship.
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About RealtyMogul: RealtyMogul is a marketplace for real estate investing, connecting borrowers, and sponsors to individual and institutional investors.
Xuan Yong
CEO / Co-Founder of Workrise
Xuan Yong is a co-founder & CEO at RigUp, a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce.
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About Workrise: Workrise is a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry.
Greg Mercer
Founder and CEO of Jungle Scout
Greg Mercer is the Founder and CEO of Jungle Scout.
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About Downstream, Jungle Scout: Jungle Scout is a platform for finding, launching, and selling products on Amazon.
Sachin Kanodia
Founder and CEO of Rizort
Founder & CEO at Rizort.com.
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About Rizort: Rizort is a luxury vacation marketplace that brings immersive vacation planning and booking services for travelers.
Ruzwana Bashir
Founder & CEO of Peek
Ruzwana Bashir is Co-founder & CEO of Peek.com. She is a travel junkie, having navigated her way through 40 countries. She previously worked at Gilt Groupe, Art.sy, the Blackstone Group and Goldman Sachs. Ruzwana has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and a BA in Economics from Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union.
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About Peek: Peek is a booking software and marketplace for delightful things to do such as wine tours, watersports, skydiving, and art classes.
Blake Lawrence
CEO and Co-Founder of Opendorse
Blake Lawrence is the CEO and co-founder of Opendorse, the athlete endorsement company. More than 75,000 athletes use Opendorse to understand, build, and monetize their name, image, and likeness (NIL) value. Prior to Opendorse, Blake co-founded Hurrdat, a social media agency, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Over four years, Hurrdat grew from two to twenty-five employees, and was acquired in July 2014 by B2 Interactive. Prior to his journey as an entrepreneur, Blake was a member of the Nebraska football team. Lawrence was a highly recruited linebacker, who started at Linebacker in 2008 and 2009, before his career was cut short due to recurring concussions. Off the football field, Blake earned his marketing degree in just 2.5 years, and received his MBA from Nebraska in 2011.
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About Opendorse: Opendorse operates the leading SaaS-enabled Marketplace in the athlete endorsement industry.
Christine Haigh Callahan
Chief Executive Officer of Ella & Oak
Ella & Oak is an online bridal boutique where our brides choose what works for their body, not the other way around. We are focused on selling wedding gowns for today’s curvy bride, size 14 and up, with a fun and easy at-home try-on shopping experience. We value the dress because we value the bride. Offering dresses as special as her day, she will find a selection of gowns from designers that not only value all women’s body shapes and sizes, but strive to create the very best quality designs they can, at an affordable price. Our mission is to make every bride feel beautiful and confident on her special day.
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About Ella & Oak: Ella & Oak is a bridal marketplace where it offers gowns for plus-size brides with a fun and easy at-home try-on shopping experience.
Mike Kinder
CEO, Co-Founder of Veryable
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About Veryable: Veryable is an industrial technology company with marketplaces designed to improve speed, flexibility, and agility in manufacturing.
Sumir Meghani
Co-Founder & CEO of Instawork
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About Instawork: Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for gig workers and hospitality businesses.
Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
Eric Wu
Co-founder, CEO of Opendoor
Eric Wu is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Opendoor. Before Opendoor, Eric founded Movity.com, a location data analytics company that was acquired by Trulia.com in 2011. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor of science in Economics.
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About Opendoor, Resolute Ventures, Watsi: Opendoor is an operator of an online real estate marketplace used to streamline the sales process of home buying and selling.
Alasdair McLean-Foreman
CEO of Teikametrics
Alasdair McLean-Foreman is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Teikametrics. In 2001, Alasdair founded an e-commerce company in his dorm-room which grew into a multi-million dollar company selling high-end sporting goods. The company became one of Amazon’s first Third-Party Retailers in the sporting goods category in 2003. He also founded the weight loss and fitness company Trainer and has built and provided e-commerce solutions to large organizations including Newscorp, The Times of London, L’Oreal, and The New York Marathon. Alasdair earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Harvard University where he was captain of the Track and Field Team and a member of the Great Britain and England national track teams.
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About Teikametrics: Teikametrics is an e-commerce optimization platform designed for retailers on online marketplaces.
Justin Cooper
Co-founder, CEO of Society6
Justin Cooper is an art director, graphic artist and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. Justin Cooper co-founded Society6 and continues to serve as the executive creative director post acquisition of Society6 by Demand Media. Prior to Society6, Justin Cooper co-founded Passenger, a private online community platform utilized by Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola, Adidas and other brands to collaborate in the design and development of products and experiences. The recipient of numerous innovation awards and widely published, Justin Cooper is often recognized as a creative thought leader dedicated to creating opportunity for the world’s artists and designers.
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About Society6: Society6 is an online marketplace that empowers artists to make their artwork available for sale as a variety of products.
Anthony Citrano
Founder & CEO of Acquicent
Citrano is founder & CEO of [Acquicent](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/acquicent) and a mentor at [Amplify](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amplify-la), a startup accelerator and multi-faceted entrepreneurial campus in Los Angeles. He is also an angel investor and photographer. He was VP Communications & Chief Evangelist for Verizon’s digital unit, a position created when [Verizon acquired EdgeCast Networks](https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/07/verizon-edgecast/), where he was a key executive. He co-founded fama PR, a Boston-based communications agency. He served as chief technology advisor to Maine Governor Angus King (now US Senator) and was a member of Barack Obama’s 2008 finance committee.
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About Acquicent: Acquicent provides a marketplace for investing in digital and real-world collectibles via NFTs.
Keith Melnick
CEO of The Zebra
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About The Zebra: The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace.
Gregg Brockway
Co-Founder & CEO of Chairish
Co-founder and president of TripIt. Co-founder of Hotwire. This fearless leader is constantly leaning forward and pushing us to do what seems impossible, but somehow manages to miraculously occur. He’s a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, travel freak and former member of the 1980s US Ski Team (complete with Miami Vice-ish speed suit.) While his first love is turning good ideas into amazing products that become great companies, it turns out he also covets Palm Springs modern. Other current obsessions include Maker Faire, mountain biking and tangerine swivel chairs. Gregg earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Dartmouth College.
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About Chairish: Chairish is an online marketplace for high-end home furniture, art, and decor.
Ryan Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Cadre
Ryan Williams is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cadre.
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About Cadre: Cadre is an online marketplace that connects investors and operators of real estate.
Jack Pratten
Co-founder & CEO of Respondent Inc.
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About Respondent Inc.: Respondent is a marketplace that connects researchers with research participants for qualitative research studies
James Berdigans
CEO & Founder of Printify
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About Printify: Printify is a marketplace connecting online merchants to major print on demand and dropshipping manufacturers worldwide.
John Jacobs
CEO & Founder of ArtFire
John Jacobs is the Chief Executive Officer & President & Founder of ArtFire.com . John keeps everyone here at Art Fire on track and motivated. He’s the one who started the idea for a free online marketplace. John runs other companies and grew up in a crafty household watching his mom try to create a successful business with her own designs. He has an MBA in international business, and has always been a strong supporter of the arts.
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About ArtFire, Magnitude Media, MenoLabs: ArtFire is an online marketplace for handmade products, designed by artisans worldwide, with no listings or final value fees.
Stan Chia
CEO of Vivid Seats
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Vivid Seats: Vivid Seats operates as an online ticket marketplace that connects fans with event ticket sellers.
Adrien Nussenbaum
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Mirakl
Adrien brings to MIRAKL over 12 years of experience in business development and entrepreneurship with a strong emphasis on technology and retail. Prior to co-founding MIRAKL, Adrien co-headed FNAC.COM’s Marketplace business unit, focusing on developing the seller program and content syndication deals to increase the product offering. Prior to that, Adrien joinded Philippe in 2006 in the creation of SplitGames to grow it into a major group of websites dedicated to gamers until its acquisition by FNAC in 2008. Previously Adrien was a manager with DELOITTE’s restructuring team where he advised many retailers in their turnaround process. In his earlier years, Adrien co-founded ALL INSTANT, a NY based corporate instant messaging solution sold in 2003. Adrien started his career as an Investment Banker with PARIBAS in Hong-Kong. He holds an MBA from HEC School of Management in Paris and a joint degree from NYU Stern School of Business.
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About Mirakl: Mirakl is an enterprise marketplace solution helping brands and retailers to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.
Ashton Braun
Co-Founder & CEO of Silo
Ashton Braun is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Silo.
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About Silo: Silo is a wholesale food marketplace that enables customers to buy and sell produce, protein, dairy, and shelf-stable food quickly.
Ashvin Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO of Tophatter
Ashvin Kumar Co-founded Blippy Inc. in 2009 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Ashvin Kumar served as the Vice President of Engineering at Affinity Circles, where he managed an engineering team across Development & QA, Operations, and Technical Support. Ashvin Kumar graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a degree in computer science.
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About Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Adam Zbar
CEO of HamsaPay
Adam Zbar works as a Chief Executive Officer at HamsaPay from June 2020.
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About HamsaPay, SunBasket: HamsaPay is the world’s first Smart, X-Border Trade DeFi Network
Andy Aranda
Founder and CEO of Breazy
Andy Aranda is the Founder and CEO of Breazy, Inc.
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About Breazy: Ecommerce, Alternative Wellness
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.
Lily Shen
President & CEO of Transfix
Lily Shen is an entrepreneur and has worked for companies with the likes of Bloomspot, Wealthfront and eBay inc.
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About Transfix: Transfix is a freight marketplace connecting shippers to a national network of reliable carriers.
Adam Jackson
Founder & CEO of Braintrust
Adam is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor that has spent his career creating and deploying capital into software systems that make complex tasks simple and intuitive. He’s started 4 VC-backed companies and an asset management company over the last 16 years. Since August, 2017 he has served as Managing Partner & CTO of Cambrian Asset Management, a blockchain asset management company. He is also co-founder and CEO of Freelance Labs, Inc., the company building a new tokenized talent network called Braintrust which raised a $5m seed round in 2018. In 2012, he co-founded and served as CEO of Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians and psychologists. Doctor On Demand delivers services through employers, health systems, health plans, and directly to consumers and has raised $165M in VC. His previous business, DriverSide was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Advance Auto Parts in September of 2011. His first venture-backed business, MarketSquare, founded in 2004, was the first online local shopping destinations on the Internet. It was acquired by Intuit in September of 2006. He is an angel investor in 45+ companies/projects, including: LTSE, Seated, Bolt, Placer, Aktana, Skale Labs, Protocol Labs, JCTurbo, Apero Health, Rapportive, MyTime, Automatic, Womply, Superhuman and Zenefits.
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About Braintrust, Cleanshelf, Womply: Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects skilled tech experts with clients.
Scott Cutler
Chief Executive Officer of StockX
Scott Cutler is the CEO of StockX, an online marketplace that enables the buying and selling of high-demand consumer products, including sneakers, streetwear, watches, and handbags. Prior to joining StockX, Cutler served as senior vice president of the Americas at eBay, Inc., from 2017- 2019. From 2015-2017, Scott served as president of StubHub. There, he led the reinvention of the global StubHub brand, expanding the company’s international presence from four to more than 48 countries and launching strategic partnerships across sports and music. Before joining StubHub, Cutler spent nine years as the executive vice president at the New York Stock Exchange, overseeing listings, capital markets, trading, services, and corporate governance. During his tenure there, he helped transform the NYSE into the number one global exchange, leading in tech IPOs, and helping take some of the world’s most iconic brands public. He was responsible for more than $1 trillion in capital market financings. Cutler holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Brigham Young University and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He currently serves on the boards of Brookfield Property Partners and Brookfield Property REIT (NASDAQ: BPY and BPR), Vibrant Emotional Health, and is a trustee on the National Advisory Committee for his alma mater BYU. Cutler is also a longtime sneaker collector with a penchant for Jordan 1s.
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About StockX: StockX is an online marketplace to buy and sell limited edition and high demand sneakers.
David Zamir
CEO of Nana Academy
David Zamir is CEO and Founder of Nana Academy. David immigrated to the US from Israel in 2013. He learned how to fix appliances on youtube, then bootstrapped the company to $4M in revenue while fixing himself 2,500 appliances. With Nana — named after his mother —David aims to up-skill the 30M people who will lose their jobs because of tech automation with trade skills. Nana is a free online vocational school for appliance repair that gives graduates their first job and then helps them build their career through an AI-powered marketplace platform. Skilled trades are in high demand, but the current workforce isn’t equipped to meet it. At the same time, the U.S. is dealing with massive unemployment and underemployment caused by the pandemic. Nana is creating a pipeline of skilled tradespeople to meet the demand while also providing opportunity for millions of unemployed individuals across the country. We are backed by the Uber engineering founding team and other impressive investors. We’re excited to launch in new markets, make more investments in our in-person and online training efforts, and launch new verticals and product offerings. It’s a fun team as well — we have monthly BBQs with our technicians and are lucky to have an incredible office on the 11th floor of the beautiful and historic Oakland Tribune Tower (right off 12-street BART).
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About Nana Academy: Vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, driven by an AI-marketplace.
Binu Girija
Founder & CEO of Way
Mr. Binu Girija is the Founder and CEO at Way.com, Inc. Mr. Binu is responsible for building products that meet the changing demands of Way.com’s users and partners. Prior to Way.com, he was an Enterprise Architect at BEA Systems, Oracle Corp and Computer Sciences Corp., and led the Enterprise Infrastructure, ERP, CRM and Database team. He has started multiple successful software companies that continue to grow and thrive today. He has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science.
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About Way: The No.1 Car Insuretech, Fintech Super App
Vlad Panchenko
Founder & CEO of DMarket
Volodymyr Panchenko is private merchant of digital games in the world. He is founder of skins.cash — 2nd biggest virtual items marketplace. He is also founder and CEO of Suntechsoft.
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About DMarket, DreamTeam, Suntechsoft: DMarket is a marketplace for NFTs trading and technology for building metaverses.
Evan Singer
CEO of SmartBiz Loans
Evan Singer is President and CEO of SmartBiz Loans and leads the strategic, operational and tactical activities of the company. He has broad experience in both financial services and consumer industries. Evan has held leadership positions as Chief Revenue Officer at Milton’s Baking, President at Purity Organic, and General Manager at Align Technology. He started his career at Procter & Gamble and holds a B.A. in Public Policy, graduating with honors from Stanford University.
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About SmartBiz Loans: SmartBiz Loans is a unique combination of an online SBA loan marketplace and a bank enabling technology platform.
Mynul Khan
CEO of Field Nation
CEO at Field Nation.
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About Field Nation: Field Nation is an online marketplace that enables businesses to find and manage their contingent workforce.
Oliver Camilo
Chief Executive Officer / Founder of Moji Keyboard
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About Moji Keyboard: Moji is a digital marketplace for brands and artists to provide custom emoji keyboards for their fans.
Gillian Tee
Co-founder & CEO of Homage
Gillian Tee is a technopreneur who has leveraged on her professional and personal experiences to establish Homage, which seeks to use technology to overcome long-standing gaps in the delivery of holistic healthcare for seniors and families. Under her leadership, the company has built a proprietary engine which connects qualified Homage Care Professionals – including caregivers, nurses, doctors and therapists – to care recipients according to their specific needs, in addition to using real-time data to help their loved ones monitor their health and appointment status remotely. First established in Singapore and now in Malaysia, Homage has set sights on further expanding regionally to help seniors and families – especially people with chronic conditions – by replicating its proprietary technology across markets and working with ecosystem stakeholders to improve accessibility to healthcare for all.
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About CodeUpStart, Homage: Homage is a complete solution that combines technology and the best care professionals to enable seniors to age at home with dignity.
Johnny Hanna
CEO & Co-Founder of Homie
Associate Entrepreneur Founders Organization of BYU
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About Homie: Homie is the future of home buying and selling. Customers save thousands of dollars—we’re not focused on commissions. #wegotyourback
Arun Gupta
CEO and Co-Founder of Grailed
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About Grailed: Grailed is a peer-to-peer marketplace company that offers fashion and lifestyle accessories and apparel for men.
Brian Hoffman
Co-Founder & CEO of OB1
Brian Hoffman is the CEO and co-founder of OB1.He also the Founder and CEO of OpenBazaar.
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About OB1, OpenBazaar: OB1 is a developer of a peer-to-peer trading platform used to offer a cryptocurrency marketplace.
Tom Villante
Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder of YapStone
Tom co-founded YapStone, Inc. in 1999 and serves as its Chairman of the Board. Villante served as the Chief Executive Officer of YapStone, Inc. He served as a Partner of The Seidler Company (“TSC”), a leveraged buyout firm in Los Angeles.
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About YapStone: YapStone is a global provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets.
Donny Hall
Co-Founder & CEO of SureSale
Donny helped build successful SoCal tech companies including LowerMyBills.com, HomeLoanCenter.com and Leadpoint.com prior to building one of the largest DTC auto warranty sellers in the US which he sold to Innovative Aftermarket Systems.
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About SureSale: SureSale’s Certification as a Service platform and marketplace allow dealers and private sellers to certify and market used vehicles.
Allison Robinson
CEO & Co-founder of The Mom Project
After having her son Asher in 2015, Allison identified how universally challenging it can be for American mothers to juggle the demands of motherhood with a full-time career and decided to tackle the issue on a national scale. Prior to founding The Mom Project, Allison spent 8 years at Procter and Gamble working on go to market strategies for leading household brands with a special focus on moms during her tenure on the Pampers brand. As CEO, Allison is responsible for delivering on the company’s mission of building a better workplace for women while supporting our customers through innovative talent solutions that help them attract and retain the diversity of backgrounds and perspectives they need to propel their businesses forward.
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About The Mom Project: The Mom Project is a digital talent marketplace helping women remain active in the workforce.
Archil Cheishvili
Co-Founder and CEO of GenesisAI
Archie (Archil) Cheishvili is the Co-Founder and CEO of GenesisAI.
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About GenesisAI, Palatine Analytics: GenesisAI is an Artificial Intelligence marketplace that allows companies to buy or sell AI products and services
Mark Rosenberg
CEO & Founder of Hip eCommerce
Mark Rosenberg is the CEO & Founder of Hip eCommerce.
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About Hip eCommerce: Hip eCommerce manages and develops online marketplaces for collectibles, including stamps, postcards, and comic books.
Sharron Battle
Founder & CEO of Derbywire
Sharron Battle is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of selfiepay and Derbywire.
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About Derbywire, selfiepay: Derbywire is a mobile social marketplace allowing individuals to store, sell, and buy digital content.
Ishveen Anand
Founder & CEO of OpenSponsorship
Ishveen Anand is the founder and CEO OpenSponsorship. The startup was born out of her experience as a successful sports agent in India and the UK. OpenSponsorship now has over 2000 athletes, teams and events being managed to brands globally looking for sports marketing opportunities. Ishveen was included in the Forbes 30under30 sports list in 2015 and OpenSponsorship was named a finalist in the 2015 Sports Technology Awards, category of best technology facilitating commercial returns. She graduated from Oxford University. She is of Indian-British origin, now living in New York where OpenSponsorship is based.
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About Nimbus Communications, OpenSponsorship: OpenSponsorship is online platform solely focused on allowing brands to Search, Connect and Sponsor opportunities within professional sports
Raunak Nirmal
CEO of Acquco
Raunak Nirmal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Acquco. He is also the Founder of Refundlabs.
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About Acquco: Acquco is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.
Anthony Girand
CEO, Co-Founder of VoyagerMed
Anthony has over 15 years of experience as a Private Wealth advisor on Wall Street. He left Forbes Family Trust in 2014 to start VoyagerMed and has been spearheading the company’s digital operations ever since. Contact Anthony at anthony@voyagermed.com
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About VoyagerMed: A medical tourism marketplace faciliating access to life changing medical innovations from trusted doctors around the world.
TS Anil
Global CEO of Monzo
TS is a highly respected financial services and payments leader with over 25 years of retail banking experience, the last 10 being global. As Monzo’s new CEO, he brings his expertise from Visa, Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Capital One in roles that have spanned the world, including the US, Singapore, Canada, Japan and India. He has a wealth of experience launching new products, developing innovative payment technologies, transitioning existing business towards new growth opportunities and much more.
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About Monzo: Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
Chris Kantrowitz
CEO, Founder of Gobbler
Chris is a serial entrepreneur in gaming, technology, and music. At age 14, he founded his first company– a game testing business for clients like Sony Imagesoft. After university, he co-founded 3D Groove, online gaming technology company that powered the first online 3D games at sites like shockwave.com and nickelodeon.com. In 2003, he started ODVD games, whose premiere title, “Shout!â€, a pop culture interactive DVD trivia game,was distributed globally by Hasbro and is returning in 2011. In 2006, Chris combined his passion for creative and technology and co-founded Frank the Plumber, a leading concert design and production company creating digital and live experiences for such artists as Akon, The Strokes, Lady Antebellum, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Madonna and brands like Ford, Apple and AOL. Most recently, he founded his third technology company, Gobbler, along with his sister Jamie. Gobbler is a purpose built cloud for media creators and the software companies who provide tools to them.
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About Gobbler, Mootral: The largest marketplace for subscription pro-audio plugins.
Sebastian Rymarz
CEO and Co-Founder of Heyday
As the Chief Business Officer, Sebastian oversees sales, marketing, business and corporate development. An early U.S. hire, he brings rich experience in financial services and credit risk management. Prior to Fundbox, he was VP at TPG Special Situation Partners and an investment professional at Sageview Capital. Sebastian began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs after graduating with a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Heyday: Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.
Jon Gosier
Founder & CEO of FilmHedge
Jon Gosier is a serial entrepreneur and investor in FinTech and media, author, screenwriter, and philanthropist. He is leveraging decades of experience to reimagine how investment, technology, and media intertwine. His newest company, FIlmHedge, is revolutionizing the business model of investing in media, creating a technology-driven process that increases transparency and efficiency for investors and creating an access point to capital for creators to access quickly and that doesn’t rely upon their own relationships in the industry. FilmHedge provides fixed-interest loans of up to $1 million and lines of credit up to $5 million to help finance movie and TV productions.
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About FilmHedge, HarperCollins, Pavillon Afriques, Sound Media Ventures, Southbox, Strawberry Pictures Global Media, WOCstar Fund, WoundMetrics Inc.: 2-sided Fin-tech Marketplace providing financing to Film/TV
Roger Chen
Co-Founder and CEO of Computable
Roger Chen is working on a new venture and cochairs the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference. Previously, he was a principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where he invested in and worked with early stage startups primarily in the realm of data, machine learning and robotics. Roger has a deep and hands-on history with technology, having spent a past life as an engineer and scientist prior to working in venture capital. He developed novel nanotechnology as a PhD researcher at UC Berkeley and spent stints as an engineer with Oracle, EMC and Vicor. Roger holds a BS from Boston University and a PhD from UC Berkeley, both in electrical engineering.
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About Computable: Computable build a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications.
Will Pacio
Co-Founder and CEO of Pared
A veteran in the restaurant industry. Will started as a cook at Per Se in New York and went on to run IT for Thomas Keller’s restaurants. He was founder and CEO of Spice Kit, a popular fast-casual concept. Studied at Stanford. Trained at the French Culinary Institute.
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About Pared: Pared is a market network for hospitality professionals.
Reham Fagiri
Co-founder & CEO of AptDeco
Reham is the co-founder and CEO of AptDeco, a marketplace for buying and selling used furniture. AptDeco is a vertically integrated platform combining both the marketplace and logistics in one. Prior to AptDeco Reham worked at Goldman Sachs in various engineering and management positions where she built various internal technology applications. She also managed large scale engineering teams focusing on designing, building and launching new technology applications. Reham holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Maryland, College Park and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About AptDeco: AptDeco is a peer to peer marketplace for buying and selling furniture.
Will Patterson
Founder and CEO of CareRev
CEO & Founder CareRev.
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About CareRev: CareRev is an online technology platform where hospitals and outpatient facilities can directly access per diem medical staff.
Sam Zaid
Founder & CEO of Getaround
Sam is Founder & CEO at Getaround.
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About Arconex, Getaround: Getaround is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars.
Kjerstin Erickson
CEO and Co-Founder of Public Market
KJ has 14 years experience as an entrepreneur, having been backed by top VCs including Greylock, Foundation Capital, Norwest, and Maveron. Her Y Combinator-backed company, Simbi, is the world’s largest services marketplace run on a digital currency. A graduate of Stanford University and Oxford Business School, KJ has received numerous awards, including being named by Rolling Stone as one of “25 People Shaping the Future”, by CNN as a “Person You Should Know”, by the New Leaders Council as a “Top 40 Leaders Under 40”, and by Bill Clinton as a Clinton Foundation Honoree. To Public Market, KJ brings her entrepreneurial and managerial skills honed from 14 years of building companies up to 200 employees, her passion for building intuitive consumer-facing web products, her experience building marketplaces backed by alternative currencies, and her training in economics and game theory.
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About Public Market: Public Market is a decentralized eCommerce platform.
Ryan Smith
Co-founder & CEO of LeafLink
Prior to co-founding LeafLink, Ryan successfully founded and exited two companies, one of which he sold to an NYSE public firm. Ryan brings his experience creating and managing B2B firms and online marketplace investing in a highly-regulated space to LeafLink as Chief Executive Officer.
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About LeafLink: LeafLink is a wholesale management platform that connects cannabis brands and retailers.
Alyssa Ravasio
Founder and CEO of Hipcamp
Alyssa Ravasio is the founder and CEO of Hipcamp. Prior to joining Hipcamp, Alyssa spent more than nine years with the Outdoor Industry Association as a recreation advisory council. Alyssa also worked with Xola as the director of operations.
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About Hipcamp: Hipcamp unlocks access to private land for camping and outdoor recreation.
Joanne Calabrese
CEO of Soko
Joanne Calabrese is a seasoned retailer, wholesaler, and merchant who is wildly passionate about driving businesses alongside amazing people. She’s led teams at several Fortune 500 companies, including VP roles at Gap Inc. and DFS, and also served as President of The Body Shop, Americas Region, and Head of the Americas for Fossil Group. Joanne joined SOKO in 2018 to operationalize and expand the business. SOKO is a vertically integrated manufacturing platform and ethical lifestyle brand working at the intersection of technology, fashion and social impact to bring beautiful artisan handcrafted jewelry to a global market. SOKO believes the future of ethical business is about leveraging mobile technology and supply chain innovation to create a next-generation business model that is both kinder and more competitive. SOKO is generating measurable social benefits in the lives of artisans and the communities in which they live.
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About Soko: SOKO is a manufacturing platform built using mobile technology to connect independent, distributed artisans to the global marketplace.
John S. Shriber
Co- Founder & CEO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Vincent Ning
Founder & CEO of Nabis
Vincent Ning co-founded Nabis and is its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Nabis, Pioneer Fund: Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers.
Sam Nasserian
Founder & CEO of Cozymeal
Founder & CEO at Cozymeal.
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About Cozymeal: Cozymeal is the #1 marketplace for culinary experiences from cooking classes to team building events with top-rated local chefs.
Patrick O’Meara
Chairman,Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Inveniam Capital Partners
Patrick O’Meara is the Chairman and CEO of Inveniam Capital Partners. In addition to directing the firm’s overarching mission and strategy, Patrick O’Meara plays a central role in the development and delivery of the firm’s proprietary technology platform and business development functions. Throughout his 20+ year career, Patrick O’Meara has been directly responsible for over $2 billion in new debt financings and $1 billion in equity financings. He has also restructured over $1 billion of debt and advised on over $800 in M&A transactions. Patrick O’Meara began his finance career at Raymond James and Bear Stearns & Co before creating his own financial advisory firm at his dining room table and building it into a leader within its niche market over 14 years, eventually employing 80 finance professionals. As Founder and President of O’Meara Ferguson Whelan & Conway he oversaw the advisory services as well as structuring and execution of transactions for 42 Catholic dioceses in the U.S and countless smaller faith-based donation driven non-profits. He has also served as Chief Investment Officer for the University of Mary as well Patrick O’Meara gained recognition for his innovative approach to financing and capital planning for the Catholic institutional market. He advised on the largest, longest term, and lowest cost borrowings for a Catholic Diocese. This includes Diocese of Austin on its ground-breaking sale of $79.8 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds, which marked the first time that ratings agencies and banks regarded donations as a reliable recurring source of revenue and changed the nature of the non-profit lending space for faith based organizations, this deal was nominated for Deal of the Year in 2005 by Bond Buyer Magazine. He also advised on the $150 million financing for the Archdiocese of Chicago which achieved a higher rating than the State of IL and the City of Chicago and the financing of $110 million for the Diocese of Oakland, California, each unique and groundbreaking at their time. Known internationally as a thought leader on the functioning of the Capital Markets and their intersection with underserved niches, Patrick O’Meara is frequently called up to provide insights on the subjects of finance, strategic planning, and the intersection of the capital markets with underserved market segments. He has delivered talks for numerous civic and non-profit organizations in more than 45 states and Provinces in the US & Canada and numerous countries around the world including lecturing at the Vatican on the intersection of civil and canon law of Church financings to addressing a global gathering of over 600 economists on a more robust understanding of Risk and the allocation of capital. Patrick O’Meara has regularly appeared on EWTN, Fox, CBS, ABC affiliates and Catholic Answers Live. His quotes have been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal as well as in Bloomberg, TIME, The Chicago Tribune, The Bond Buyer, The National Catholic Register, and many others. Patrick O’Meara earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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About Inveniam Capital Partners: ICP is an innovative, digital marketplace that aims to transform the structure and operations of middle market corporate finance.
Zack Smith
CEO & Founder of Jobble
Zack Smith is the Founder and CEO at Jobble.
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About Jobble: Jobble is the on-demand marketplace connecting businesses with people looking for flexible work.
Aaron Sherman
Co-Founder & CEO of SevenFifty
Aaron Sherman is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of SevenFifty. With over a decade in the industry and extensive experience as a sommelier, beverage manager and industry consultant, Sherman brings a breadth of knowledge and passion to his position. As CEO of SevenFifty, Sherman plays the executive lead and oversees overall company vision and growth. Prior to co-founding SevenFifty, Sherman worked as a sommelier and beverage manager for New York restaurants WD-50 and L’Artusi. He was also the beverage director at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles, where he was responsible for running the beverage programs of their multi-outlet venue, including Jose Andres’ restaurant The Bazaar. Sherman holds a Diploma of Wine and Spirits from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust and is a Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers.
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About SevenFifty: SevenFifty helps importers, producers, distributors, and retail buyers connect with each other and do business in a modern world.
Yu Chen
Founder & CEO of PingPong
Robert Chen co-founded PingPong Global Solutions Inc. in 2015 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Robert is focused on transforming the payment industry to make selling easy everywhere in the world for e-commerce sellers. Prior to co-founding PingPong Global Solutions Inc., Robert’s career included 10 years as a Manager at Deloitte Consulting in New York. Robert holds an M.S. in Mathematics from University of Connecticut and a B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai.
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About PingPong: The first, and only, international Fintech company to focus exclusively on global eCommerce Marketplace sellers.
Lidia Yan
Co-founder & CEO of NEXT Trucking
Lidia Yan is the CEO and Co-Founder of NEXT Trucking, an online trucking marketplace that utilizes intelligent matching capabilities to connect shippers and truckers in order to maximize productivity while remaining trucker-centric. Lidia’s family has been in the logistics business for 15 years and runs one of the largest TV distribution centers in Southern California. After witnessing first-hand, the inefficiencies of the trucking industry, she decided to establish NEXT Trucking to streamline the process. Prior to founding NEXT Trucking, Lidia was the Management Officer and Marketing Manager at Newegg, managing a $22 million marketing budget while keeping the cost of overall sales under 1 percent. Before Newegg she founded the leading flash sale site 9luxe in China which handled over 35 major international brands. Lidia has an M.A. in Communication Management from University of Southern California When she isn’t busy managing her company and mentoring her employees, Lidia enjoys relaxing at home with her husband, parents and her three-year old Border Collie, Toby.
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About NEXT Trucking: NEXT’s proprietary platform and digital freight marketplace connect shippers with freight capacity across drayage, transload, and OTR.
Diego Saez-Gil
Co-Founder & CEO of Pachama
Diego Saez-Gil is Co-founder & CEO of Pachama, a company focused on restoring the forests to solve climate change. Prior to Pachama, Diego co-founded Bluesmart (acquired by TravelPro) and WeHostels (acquired by StudentUniverse). Diego was awarded MIT 35 Under 35 and was selected High Impact Entrepreneur by Endeavor.
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About Pachama: Pachama is an AI-powered marketplace for nature carbon removal credits.
Pablo Schwarzbeck
Founder & CEO of ProducePay
Pablo Schwarzbeck is the Co-Founder and CEO at ProducePay.
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About ProducePay: ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.
Mark Thiele
CEO and Co-Founder of Edgevana
Mark Thiele has a 30 plus year career as an IT executive, building global infrastructure for companies like HP, VMware, Brocade, Gilead & Ericsson. Over the last five years, he has become a globally recognized name in the Edge space, where he is an active practitioner, content contributor and speaker. As the CEO for Edgevana, Mark is working on simplifying access to global infrastructure resources, including data centers, edge compute, and network. Mark is also very involved in the industry, he is co-founder of Data Center Pulse, former Chair for the IDCA Technical Committee, Board member for the Cloud Native Compute Foundation, and is currently an advisor/board member to a number of startups
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About Apcera, Data Center Pulse, Edgevana: Edgevana is a global marketplace for automating data centre procurement process.
Zach Ehrlich
Founder and CEO of Stoop
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About Stoop: Stoop is a marketplace platform for furnished home rentals and urban residential space.
Yaakov James Zar
Co-Founder and CEO of Lev
Yaakov Zar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lev.
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About Dispatch, Lev: Lev is a commercial mortgage marketplace.
Alpay Koralturk
Founder & CEO of Kaiyo
Alpay Koralturk, founder and CEO of Kaiyo.
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About Kaiyo: Kaiyo is an online marketplace for pre-owned furniture dedicated to great design, exceptional customer care, and a more sustainable planet.
Manish Chandra
Founder & CEO of Poshmark
Manish Chandra is the founder and CEO of Poshmark, the largest social marketplace for fashion where millions of people come to buy, sell and share their personal style. Manish has always been passionate about building communities and founded the first social shopping company, Kaboodle, which was acquired by Hearst Corporation in 2007. With Poshmark, Manish has applied his understanding of technology to change the way women think about shopping, building a passionate community based around people’s love for fashion and each other. Manish received a BTech from IIT Kanpur, MS from UT Austin, and an MBA from Haas School of Business.
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About Poshmark: Poshmark is a social marketplace for fashion where anyone can buy, sell, and share their style with others.
Stefan Batory
Cofounder & CEO of Booksy
Stefan Batory is a Co-Founder & CEO at Booksy.
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About Booksy: Booksy is an online platform for finding and booking beauty and wellness appointments.
Sara Mauskopf
Co-Founder and CEO of Winnie
Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for daycare and preschool helping over 4M parents across the United States. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management. Prior to founding Winnie she was the Director of Product at Postmates, and prior to that held product leadership roles at Twitter, YouTube, and Google. She graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT. She’s also a mom of 2, soon to be 3, young children.
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About Winnie: Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers.
Michael Bramlage
Chief Executive Officer of Quidd
Michael Bramlage is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Quidd, a platform for buying, trading and using premium, rare digital goods. As CEO, he oversees corporate direction and strategy at the company, facilitating company activity in product development, user acquisition, marketing, and partnerships. Prior to Quidd, Bramlage founded the mobile apps division at Topps. As VP & General Manager of the newly formed Topps Digital, he was responsible for the launch of multiple top-grossing apps, growing annual revenue from zero to eight figures during his tenure. Prior to this, he was Head of Product at Nokia. In under three years, he oversaw the conception, design, development, and launch of 18 new versions of the company’s mobile app store, Ovi Store, for Series 40, Symbian and MeeGo devices. Bramlage began his career at Microsoft. While working on Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) he established the industry’s first instant messaging interoperability agreements, brokering and implementing technical and data partnerships with Yahoo!, Facebook and LinkedIn. Bramlage is a native of Detroit, Michigan and a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. In his spare time, he is an obsessive record collector and proud owner of several extremely rare vinyl pressings.
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About Quidd: Quidd is the marketplace for buying and selling digital collectibles. Over 2.1B assets issued. Backed by Sequoia.
Sean Clercq
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kickfurther
Sean has years of experience in the supply chain industry. When seeking financing for his merchandising company, he came up with the original idea behind Kickfurther.
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About Kickfurther: Kickfurther enables its users to buy inventory directly from suppliers and partner with businesses to sell the inventory.
Enrique Linares Plaza
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of Letgo
Enrique Linares co-founded Letgo in October 2014, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer.
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About Letgo: Letgo is a second-hand shopping app that helps users buy and sell locally.
Charlie Hernández
Founder & CEO of Crediverso
Charlie Hernández currently works as the Founder and CEO of Crediverso. He previously worked at Starwood Capital Group as the Summer Associate.
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About Crediverso: Crediverso is a financial marketplace where people can find credit cards, credit checks, and international money transfers.
Amanda Szabo
Founder & CEO of ResortPass
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About ResortPass: ResortPass is an online booking platform for access to resorts and hotels for the pool, spa, fitness, and amenities.
Michael DeGiorgio
Founder & CEO of Crexi
Michael DeGiorgio is the CEO & Co-Founder of CREXi.
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About Crexi: Crexi is a technology solution that consolidates commercial real estate tools into a single platform for brokers, investors, and tenants.
Amir Glogau
Co-Founder & CEO of Guidely
Entrepreneurial executive with more than 30 years of experience in business turnarounds and growth management with small and medium-size companies. Personally, led the turnaround and exits of 12 companies across four countries for an aggregated exit value of over $500M, including taking two companies public—one of which has a current market cap of over $5B. Additionally, developed SOULeadership© a unique integrated and intuitive leadership method to allow individuals and organizations to operate from their higher purpose.
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About Citrine Capital Partners, Guidely: Guidely is a marketplace that creates powerful matches between Guides and people looking for personal and spiritual growth.
Tim Saval
Founder & CEO of Plural.com
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About OnDeck, Plural.com: Plural is reinventing the way the world “works”.
Sherwin Sheik
Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of CareLinx
Sherwin Sheik is the Founder and CEO of CareLinx. CareLinx is a trusted nationwide home care platform with over 300,000 professional caregivers that help improve health outcomes while reducing cost of care. Our innovative approach amplifies the effectiveness of clinical teams by using tech-enabled caregivers who serve as their eyes, ears, and arms in the homes of patients and members. CareLinx was Acquired by Generali Global Assistance in Sep 2017. Generali is the 3rd largest insurance company in the world with global operations generating over $80b in annual revenue. CareLinx is continuing to operate under its own established brand with Sherwin Sheik continuing to lead the company as CEO. Prior to founding CareLinx, Sherwin worked and invested in the healthcare industry for over ten years. His business interests centered on large healthcare corporations while working as a healthcare trader and analyst for a $900 million Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund, and in Investment Banking & Global Capital Markets.
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About CareLinx: CareLinx is a nationwide tech-enabled caregiver marketplace.
Jared Hecht
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fundera
Jared Hecht is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Fundera, an online marketplace that matches small business owners to the best possible lender. He started Fundera after his cousin experienced the frustration and lack of transparency of applying for a small business loan. Previously, Jared co-founded GroupMe, a group messaging service that in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011. Prior to GroupMe, he led Business Development at Tumblr where he focused on international expansion and strategic partnerships. Jared currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Entrepreneurship Organization and is an investor and advisor to startups such as Codecademy, SmartThings, and TransferWise. Jared received his BA in Political Science from Columbia University where he served as the publisher and managing director of Inside New York.
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About Fundera: Fundera is a marketplace for small business financial solutions.
David Wright
Co-Founder & CEO of Pattern
Dave Wright is the CEO and founder of Pattern. In less than 5 years, Pattern has become one of the top 5 largest Amazon sellers (in terms of revenue), developed a world-class analytics platform, and has experienced 4 years of revenue growth exceeding 300%. Dave has built a strong culture that is obsessed with the success of Pattern partners, demonstrated by a near-perfect customer retention rate. Prior to Pattern, Dave spent his career as a data fanatic and technology executive. Dave graduated from Brigham Young University with dual degrees in Accounting and Information Systems. Dave graduated in the top 1% of the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University.
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About iServe, Pattern: Pattern is a provider of an accelerator platform for brands to scale faster on major online marketplaces.
Tobias Hartmann
Chief Executive Officer of Scout24
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About Scout24: Scout24 operates digital marketplaces in the real estate & automotive sectors.
António Trincão
Co-Founder, CEO, Investor of Youcanevent
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About Youcanevent: Is the first marketplace where you can visualize your next event in VR and book the vendors needed for your real-world event experience.
Michael Guirguis
Founder & CEO of SESO
Michael Guirguis is Co-founder and CEO at SESO.
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About SESO: SESO is a labor marketplace for agriculture.
