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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 Virtual Reality space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Anand Agarawala
Co-Founder & CEO of Spatial
Anand Agarawala is the creator of BumpTop, an irresistible new desktop interface with a satisfyingly three-dimensional physicality and a fresh approach to interactivity. Anand completed his Master thesis in 2006 which pioneered a novel physically based desktop interface leveraging expressive power and casual nature of real desks. His Masters of Computer Science was completed at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate thesis in 2004 at the University of Calgary. In his free time, Anand enjoys competitive team sports such as hockey and basketball. He often travels to India and across Europe and North America.
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About BumpTop, Spatial: Spatial allows NFT creators to customize a virtual space and gather for events such as exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences.
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John Riccitiello
CEO of Unity Technologies
Since joining Unity as CEO in 2014, John Riccitiello has been a driving force in the successful launch of Unity 5 – the company’s next-generation multiplatform engine and development tools. Previously serving as CEO of Electronic Arts, John played a critical role in the company’s transformation into a mobile, online, and digital gaming leader, with subsequent revenue growth exceeding $1.6 billion during that time. John is also an active private investor, serving on Unity’s board since 2013 as well as Syntertainment, Telltale Games, and a few other higher-ed and non-profit boards. In addition, he was an investor and advisor to Oculus.
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Marcy Boyle
Co Founder, CEO of Hot Bit VR
Marcy Boyle is the CEO and co-founder of Hot Bit VR, a upcoming webVR marketplace of experiential social shopping. Hot Bit VR has been featured on ZDnet, Entrepreneur, Fox News, and listed as one of the “30 Best Virtual Reality Companies to Change Your World Soon.” She and her co-founder’s VR experiences have been featured in art galleries, universities, conferences, and festivals including FIVARS in Toronto and VRUK in London. Hot Bit VR was selected for the first class of the AR/VR/XR accelerator at the Green Screen Institute, and Silicon Valley’s Women’s Startup Lab. Prior to working in VR, she co-directed the feature film, NOBODY CAN COOL, which was released internationally. Marcy is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and is a member of Women in VR, Women in Film, and on the Board of the Alliance of Women Directors.
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About Hot Bit VR, Oculus: An experiential marketplace in virtual reality.
Roman Mikailov
Founder, CEO of Hyperverse
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About Hyperverse: Hyperverse is a software company that develops VR experience distribution platforms for its clients.
Brian Schimpf
Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries
Brian Schimpf is Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries. Previously, Brian was Director of Engineering at Palantir Technologies, where he led a large engineering organization developing and deploying data integration and analysis products. He served numerous domestic and international government organizations across the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement sectors. Previously, Brian was the Founder and Lead of Cornell University’s autonomous vehicle research program where his teams competed in DARPA’s Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge. Brian graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Halsey Minor
Founder and CEO of Live Planet VR System
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About Live Planet VR System, VideoCoin Network: Live Planet’s VR System is the first end-to-end solution for easily capturing, storing, streaming, and recording immersive VR video
Derek Belch
Co-Founder and CEO of STRIVR
Derek Belch is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of STRIVR.
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About STRIVR: STRIVR is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality, customer experience, and athlete performance.
Herman DeBoard
CEO & Founder of Huvr Inc.
Successful Entrepreneur, built major technology projects working with Sony, Universal, Warner, EMI and more. Products have been distributed in Target, Best Buy, Fry’s Electronics and many more.
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About Huvr Inc.: Huvr is a global virtual marketplace that helps to connect human walkers to virtual travelers to explore the world in real-time.
Anthony Borquez
Founder & CEO of Grab Games
Anthony is experienced in building and scaling creative tech businesses. His first company he co-founded, Spacient Technologies, was an early mobile GPS software platform that was acquired by Trimble Navigation. Anthony’s prior game company, Blue Label Games, built some of the first mobile gaming technology and content. In 2006, Blue Label Games was acquired by Japanese gaming leader Konami. The acquisition helped enable Konami’s mobile gaming division to become a top worldwide mobile game publisher. Anthony is also a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Gaming.
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About Faceroll Games, Flightly, Grab Games, University of Southern California, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business: Grab is focused on creating high-quality entertainment content across all major interactive platforms.
Morgan Mercer
Founder, CEO of Vantage Point
Morgan Mercer is the founder of the VR-based enterprise training company, Vantage Point. Vantage Point’s suite of immersive training tools is initially aiming at tackling Anti-Sexual Harassment and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training. Mercer was recently regarded as one of the Top 10 Female Tech Innovators [in history] by TechRadar and has been featured in 4+ dozen publications including WIRED, NPR, The Economist, Vogue and more. Mercer was regarded by the UN Women chapter as a “Champion of Change” in the ‘Era of Equity’.
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About Vantage Point: We create experiences that change the way you think. Vantage Point is the future of workforce learning.
Edo Segal
Founder and CEO of Touchcast
Edo Segal is the Founder & CEO at TouchCast.
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About bMuse, iWise, Kinsa, Touchcast, Touchcast: Touchcast is the world’s leading enterprise metaverse company. We connect people by breaking down barriers of space, time and language.
Joshua Gordon
President and CEO of Red Pocket Mobile
Joshua Gordon is the president and CEO of Red Pocket Mobile.
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About Democracy Council, Red Pocket Mobile: Red Pocket Mobile is a different kind of wireless company.
Neha Singh
Founder & CEO of Obsess
Neha Singh is the Founder & CEO of Obsess, a platform for Immersive Mobile Commerce.
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About Obsess: Obsess is a platform for immersive mobile commerce.
Saagar Govil
CEO & Chairman of Cemtrex
Presently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cemtrex Inc. (NASDAQ: CETX), a world leading diversified manufacturing and technology company, since December 2011. He has been working at Cemtrex since 2008, initially as a field engineer, subsequently moving into sales and management roles. Under his leadership he has spearheaded the company’s transition into new markets and product lines growing the business from $3M in revenues to over $100M. During his time as a leader at the company, the company earned a spot on the Deloitte Fast 500 Technology companies list in 2012, 2015, and 2016 while growing over 3000% in revenue. Cemtrex has over 550 employees in 8 offices worldwide. His most recent project is the SmartDesk, a breakthrough IoT product thats reinventing the personal workspace.
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About Cemtrex, Vicon Industries: Cemtrex drives innovation in many sectors, including smart tech, VR & AR, advanced electronic systems, and intelligent security systems.
Hao Li
CEO & Co-Founder of Pinscreen
Hao Li is Founder and CEO of Pinscreen, Inc., and Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Director of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, a visiting professor at Weta Digital and a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm. For his contributions in non-rigid shape registration, human digitization, and real-time facial performance capture, Hao received the TR35 Award in 2013, recognizing him as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35, from the MIT Technology Review. He was named Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair in 2015, and was awarded the Google Faculty Research Award and the Okawa Foundation Research Grant the same year. He won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2018. He is best known for his work on dynamic geometry processing, facial animation, and data-driven techniques for making 3D human digitization and facial animation accessible to the masses. During his PhD, Hao co-created the first real-time and markerless system for performance-driven facial animation based on depth sensors. The team later commercialized a variant of this technology as the facial animation software Faceshift (acquired by Apple Inc. in 2015 and incorporated into the iPhone X in 2017). He was brought on as visiting professor at Weta Digital to build the high-fidelity facial performance capture pipeline for reenacting the deceased actor Paul Walker in the movie Furious 7 (2015). His recent research focuses on combining techniques in Deep Learning and Computer Graphics to facilitate the creation of 3D avatars and to enable true immersive face-to-face communication and telepresence in Virtual Reality.
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About Pinscreen, University of California Berkeley: Revolutionizing digital communication and online human interactions with user-generated and personalized 3D virtual avatars.
David Sipes
Chief Executive Officer of 8×8
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Phillip Wang
CEO/Co-Founder of Gather
Phillip Wang is the CEO and Cofounder at Gather.
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About Gather: Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human.
Chris Milk
Co-Founder, CEO and COO of Supernatural
Chris Milk is the Co-Founder, CEO, and COO of Supernatural. He is an artist, director, and technologist.He is the founder and CEO of [Vrse](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vrse#/entity). Milk has gained recognition as a music video director, working with Arcade Fire, U2, Kanye West, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley, Chemical Brothers, John Mellencamp, Courtney Love, and Modest Mouse. He has been honored with the top industry awards for his music video and commercial work, including the Grand Prix Cannes Lion, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, and SXSW’s ’Best of Show’, as well as multiple Grammy nominations, MTV Moon Men, and the UK’s MVA Innovation Award. Milk’s short film, Last Day Dream, played at film festivals around the world, and he directed the second unit of A Mother’s Promise, the film that introduced Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards recognized his work in design and art in 2011. The Wilderness Downtown was named as one of TIME Magazine’s 30 Best Music Videos of all time, and was exhibited at MoMA in NY for 6 months in 2011. Milk builds multiple projects with Virtual Reality as the canvas. The collaboration with Beck called “Sound & Vision” has been exhibited in an Oculus Rift at the Future of Storytelling Summit, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festival. Chris Milk was born in New York.
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About Here Be Dragons, Supernatural, Within (VR/AR): Supernatural is an immersive, virtual reality fitness experience that combines music, coaches, destinations, and movements.
Alex Hern
Founder and CEO of Tsunami XR
Alex Hern has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years. During his career, he has focused on early stage companies and on the incubation of technology companies. Alex Hern co-founded and served as a Director of Inktomi Goldman Sachs-led IPO (INKT), which powered and was the search technology for MSN, Yahoo and AOL. He was also the co-founder and Director of Yesmail Alex Brown led IPO (YESM), an email marketing and web directory company, which went public and then sold to CMGI, now ModusLink Global Solutions, for $650 million ten months later. Alex Hern co-founded Military Commercial Technologies a technology commercialization incubator funded by Lockheed and L-3, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of Arcsight (ARST), a cyber security company, which also went public and was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.5 billion. Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of CloudShield a network security company which sold to SAIC, a large technology and engineering firm specializing in government and commercial projects. Alex Hern also founded and served on the Boards of NewHomes.com and of Triton Network Systems (TNSI). Alex Hern has also served on the board of Zero Knowledge Systems, a security and encryption company now named Radial Point.
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About Tsunami XR: Tsunami develops and delivers advanced digital collaboration services for teams.
Snehal Dhruve
CEO & Founder of Cameraah
CEO & Founder at Cameraah
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About Cameraah, Dakiyaa App, Superfan Studio, Superfan.ai: Cameraah is a no-code tool to create AR experiences for Social & Commerce in minutes
Matthew Stoudt
Co-Founder and CEO of AppliedVR
Matthew Stoudt has a strong track record of building innovative businesses. Matthew is currently the co-founder and CEO of appliedVR. appliedVR’s mission is to drive positive behavioral by leveraging the unique properties of VR. The company is initially focused on the health care market and has rapidly become the leading medical VR platform delivering validated therapeutic VR content to health care providers in the US and internationally. Prior to founding appliedVR, Matthew founded and built Outcast Media into the largest digital video platform at gas stations across the US. Matthew sold the business to Verifone in 2014. Matthew was also an EIR at McDonald’s Corporation where he successfully launched multiple businesses including an in-restaurant digital video network and a ready-to-heat meal solution in grocery stores across the US. Matthew began his professional career in finance, raising over $1 billion in capital for high growth companies while at DLJ and investing in high growth companies while at Triumph Capital Group.
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About AppliedVR: AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
Ramses Alcaide
Co-Founder , CEO & President of Neurable
Ramses Alcaide is an electrical Engineer, neuroscientist, previous CEO of Pharo LLC and current CEO of Neurable. At Pharo, he managed high impact health projects, such as a malaria prediction system, a rehabilitation technology for stroke patients and a health monitoring system. As a researcher, he has worked extensively to develop the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology for people with amputations, children with cerebral palsy and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was also the CTO and CSO at NeuroStride, developing their go to market strategy and technology. Lastly, he is also the inventor and primary developer of Neurable. His honors include the Neuroscience Innovator Award, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Fellowship.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Jan Goetgeluk
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Virtuix
Jan Goetgeluk is the founder and CEO of Virtuix and the developer of the Virtuix Omni, the first virtual reality interface to move freely and naturally in video games and virtual worlds. Jan is originally from Belgium and came to Houston in 2007 as a Project Engineer for Katoen Natie, a Belgian petrochemical logistics conglomerate. Jan decided to stay in the US and left Katoen Natie to obtain his MBA degree at Rice University in Houston, where he became President of the Rice Finance Club and Founder and Chair of the inaugural Rice Energy Finance Summit in 2009. While at Rice, Jan received the Jones Citizen award for his leadership contributions to the business school and the Jones Scholar award for his academic performance. Upon graduation in 2010, Jan joined JP Morgan as an Investment Banker in the Natural Resources coverage group in Houston and New York. While working as an investment banking associate, Jan started developing the Omni after hours in early 2011, In February 2013, after two years of researching, experimenting, and prototyping, Jan decided to leave his full-time job and founded Virtuix to bring the Omni to market. In June 2013, Jan launched the Omni Kickstarter campaign, raising $1.1 million through the sale of more than 2,500 Omnis.
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About Virtuix: Virtuix is a developer of a virtual reality platform that enables players to walk and run in 360 degrees in virtual reality.
Vitaliy Goncharuk
CEO and Founder of Augmented Pixels
I am CEO and founder of Augmented Pixels, based in Palo Alto, California, which provides software for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for augmented reality(AR/VR Glasses) and autonomous navigation(Robots / Drones). In 2016 I was honored to be a mentor and a judge at NASA(USA) Space Race project (link: http://bit.ly/2k1pTRX ) and was also asked to report in front of the board of directors of National Academy of Sciences (USA) about the long-term impact of Artificial Intelligence in several industries(link: http://bit.ly/2jPQ3Vy ). My hobbies: Skydiving, Good books, Mafia game(not Werewolf :=)), Jiu Jitsu(japanese style) and Control Line.
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About Augmented Pixels: Augmented Pixels – a leader in precise 3D geolocation and 3D maps crowdsourcing technologies
Nanea Reeves
CEO and Co-Founder of TRIPP
As CEO of TRIPP, Nanea Reeves brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Prior to co-founding TRIPP, Nanea was President & COO of textPlus, one of the top mobile communications applications on the iOS and Android platforms. Before joining textPlus, Nanea was the COO of Machinima, an online video influencer and content network focused on video games now owned by Warner Brothers. Nanea has also served as Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Gaikai, a cloud gaming company acquired by Sony Playstation. Previous to Gaikai, Nanea was SVP/COO of Global Online for Electronic Arts where she was responsible for building the foundation for EA’s digital revenue streams. Nanea came to EA through their acquisition of JAMDAT where she was SVP of Enabling Technologies. JAMDAT was one of the first breakout mobile games company with a successful IPO in 2005 before being acquired by EA in 2006. Nanea is very committed to supporting the evolution of the technology sector in Los Angeles and has worked as an Advisor and Angel Investor in many exciting So-Cal start-ups including Oculus, Haku and Saucey. Nanea is an active mentor and enjoys public speaking having given 3 Tedx talks on various subjects – including one focused on why girls should play video games. An avid meditator, Nanea also spends her free time playing video games, her ukulele and golf. She is also very active in her late husband’s non-profit Bodhicitta, Inc. as well as dedicated to helping women in recovery at the Peggy Albrecht Friendly House.
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About TRIPP: The award-winning digital psychedelic wellness platform that uses the power of virtual and augmented reality to change the way you feel.
Rex Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of AIVON
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About AIVON, Famecast Media, Intelligent Video Solutions: AIVON is a decentralized blockchain platform and protocol built on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) network.
Christopher Pickett
CEO & Board Member of DigiLens
Christopher Pickett is the President & CEO & Board Director of Pelican Imaging. Pickett is a seasoned Senior Executive and Business Strategist in both private and public company environments. During his more than 20 years of experience, Chris has helped to drive adoption and create financial success for companies with technologies spanning semiconductor packaging, camera modules, LCD displays, general lighting, cryptography, and memory systems. Most recently, Chris was the senior vice president of corporate licensing for Rambus – joining Rambus as part of the acquisition of Global Lighting Technologies where he was the President of the licensing division. At Rambus, he was responsible for global technology and patent licensing and helped grow Rambus’ aggregate revenue more than 50% during his two and a half year tenure. At Global Lighting Technologies, Chris developed the licensing, marketing and revenue plan resulting in acquisition by Rambus and market adoption of its technology by General Electric, Cooper Industries and others, as well as a broad array of contract manufacturers that act as a vibrant partner ecosystem. Before Global Lighting Technologies, Chris was the Executive Vice President of licensing at Tessera Technologies, bringing the company from start up phase to a successful mid-cap public company. During his 13 year tenure, Tessera achieved compound revenue and operating profit growth exceeding 50% annually which led to Tessera being cited in 2006 by Business Week as the Second Hottest Growth Company in America and by Electronic Business as the 4th Best Small Electronics Company in the US, also in 2006. He is the inventor on nine issued US patents. Chris has a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law. BSEE from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
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About DigiLens: DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR).
Jake Rubin
Founder & CEO of HaptX
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About HaptX: HaptX is a leading haptics company that brings realistic touch to virtual reality for the first time with HaptX Gloves.
Hayes Mackaman
CEO of 8i
Hayes Mackaman is the CEO of a volumetric video technology company, 8i, which he joined in 2016. At 8i he has brought volumetric video to partners in the United States, Japan, Korea, China, and the Middle East. Hayes is responsible for spearheading several initiatives at 8i, including the development of its “ZigPro” stage, its first deployable realtime and pre-recorded volumetric video stage. He has also overseen the development of 8i’s mobile AR suite of services. Hayes Mackaman is a talented and seasoned finance and strategy executive. Over the past 7 years he has been focused on emerging technology and media as a consultant, finance executive, and business leader. He brings a wealth of expertise with emerging technology and media business models, specifically in the areas of OTT digital medal and immersive computing. His experience at 8i has given him a strong understanding of markets for augmented and virtual reality throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to joining 8i, Hayes served as a finance executive at AwesomenessTV, where he was responsible for financial planning as the company transitioned from a start-up to a $100M annual revenue media company. Before joining AwesomenessTV, he consulted various emerging technology start-ups on the West Coast. When not focused on bringing volumetric video to the world over, Hayes spends his time with his wife and two young sons. He’s a dedicated youth rugby coach and he and his wife are active in their local public school education foundation.
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About 8i: 8i is a virtual reality software development company focused on volumetric video capture.
Alex Gellman
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Vertical Bridge Holdings
Alex Gellman is the CEO & Co-Founder at Vertical Bridge.
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About Vertical Bridge Holdings: Vertical Bridge is a private owner and manager of wireless communication infrastructure.
Darshan Shankar
CEO & Founder of Bigscreen
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About Bigscreen: Bigscreen is a popular VR/AR platform that enables people to work, play, hangout, and collaborate in immersive worlds
Adam Sachs
Co-Founder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical
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About Vicarious Surgical: Vicarious Surgical improves the lives of patients and surgeons by giving access to high quality care through the use of surgical robotics.
Anjney Midha
Co-founder & CEO of Ubiquity6
Anjney Midha is the CEO and co-founder of Ubiquity6, a massively multiplayer augmented reality platform focused on bringing people together in physical spaces. Previously, Anjney was an investing partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he founded the firm’s dedicated seed fund KPCB Edge and worked with AR, VR and computer vision companies including Magic Leap and TheWaveVR. Anjney pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Ubiquity6: Ubiquity6 uses computer vision to enable massively multiplayer, persistent AR experiences on top of the physical world.
John-Michael Scott
CEO of GreenData.IO
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About BloxNexus, Future Think Labs, GreenData.IO, MonstRpreneur, NoLoBlox, Sandalwood Ventures: Venture Builder bringing Corporations & Startups expertise in startup mindset & operational execution, creating the Data Driven Enterprise.
Taylor Freeman
Founder & CEO of Axon Park
Taylor Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Axon Park, a virtual campus where students from around the world can learn together in VR. He has been working at the intersection of VR and education over the last five years during which time he established two incubation spaces in LA and San Francisco housing over 150 AR and AI startups, hosted over 500 events focused around VR and AR, oversaw the training of nearly 1,000 students in-person on VR development, consulted with companies like NASA, Stanford Medical, Google, and IDEO and built a news media platform focused on VR that reaches millions of people per month. Taylor was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 for his work building the industry and he taught the first remote in-VR class with at MIT in 2018. He is deeply passionate about using VR to unlock new levels of human cognition and overcome the challenges many students face in the classroom around geographical limitations, student and teacher bias, and overall accessibility.
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About Axon Park: Welcome to your new virtual campus. Empowering organizations and individuals to harness the power of XR + AI for learning.
Nick Fajt
CEO & Co-Founder of Rec Room
Nick Fajt is the CEO & Co-Founder of Against Gravity.
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About Rec Room: Rec Room is an online universe that enables users to play and create games with friends.
Adam Arrigo
Co-Founder & CEO of Wave
Adam is passionate about building radically new experiences at the intersection of music, games, and technology, which ultimately bring people closer to each other. He has 13 years of experience working on music tech products as a game designer and product leader. While at Harmonix, he worked on AAA titles like Rock Band, Dance Central, Disney’s Fantasia, Harmonix Music VR, and more. He led the development of the 2015 Music App of the year Ditty, at LA-based music tech startup Zya (acq by Google). He is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and synth enthusiast.
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About Wave: Wave focuses on interactive virtual experiences with a mission to help artists make money at the intersection of gaming and entertainment.
Gabe Paez
Founder and CEO of The Wild
Gabe Paez is the founder of WILD, a software company building a platform for design collaboration leveraging the power of shared virtual reality. WILD makes it easy to share 3D design ideas with a group of people together in realtime. Gabe has been a Technical Director and coder for 15 years. He specializes in creating immersive digitally augmented spaces. He is proud to have worked with a diverse roster of agencies and clients including Adidas, Verizon, Google, Nike, and Samsung. Gabe is an avid problem solver and finds great joy in bringing big ideas to life.
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About The Wild: SaaS, collaboration platform
Scott Xiao
Co-Founder & CEO of Luminopia
Scott Xiao is the Co-Founder & CEO at Luminopia.
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About Luminopia: Luminopia is pioneering a new class of treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders.
Kosta Popov
Founder & CEO of Cappasity
Kosta Popov, CEO and Founder, has 20+ years of experience and a successful track record as a software company CEO. Under Kosta’s lead, Cappasity has so far successfully raised $6.4M. Kosta is an expert in 3D technologies, SaaS solutions and mobile applications and was named one of the top innovators by Intel Software.
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About Cappasity: Cappasity is a cloud-based platform that lets online stores easily create and deliver 3D, VR and AR shopping experiences
Greg Castle
Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of Anorak Ventures
Greg is the Managing Partner of Anorak Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging technology. Based in Silicon Valley, the firm focuses on VR/AR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Portfolio companies include Against Gravity, Catalog, Lightform and 6d.ai. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 26 investments counting Flexport and two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in, and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform (acq. 2011) and for Autodesk’s Game Technology Group.
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About Anorak Ventures: Investing at the earliest stages in transformational people and technology
Kirin Sinha
CEO & Founder of Illumix
Kirin Sinha, 25, is the founder and CEO of Illumix, a Lightspeed and Maveron backed AR gaming and technology company focused on developing adaptive and immersive experiences for the mobile phone. Previously, she founded SHINE for Girls, a national nonprofit targeted at encouraging middle school girls to pursue the study of mathematics. Not your typical gamer or CEO, Kirin is a Marshall Scholar and holds Masters degrees with honors in mathematics and statistics focused on machine learning, specifically computer vision, from the University of Cambridge and LSE respectively. She received a degree in electrical engineering / computer science and mathematics from MIT, and her MBA from Stanford University.
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About Illumix: Illumix develops augmented reality games.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Simon Kim
CEO of CLO Virtual Fashion
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About CLO Virtual Fashion: CLO Virtual Fashion develops true-to-life, 3D garment simulation technology for fashion and film/gaming industries.
Kevin Cornish
CEO and Founder of Moth + Flame
Kevin has established himself as a leader in directing high-end, cinematic VR. He has worked with talent ranging from Taylor Swift to Karlie Kloss and Coco Rocha, as well as brands ranging from Chanel, Donna Karan, MTV, AT&T and AMD. His piece, Believe VR, was a first-of- its-kind cinematic VR experience that used gaze-activated technology to put the viewer inside a live action scene. It received much acclaim in the VR community, described by HuffPost as “groundbreaking” and “visionary.” He is a regularly recognized innovation leader in the space having spoken and presented at SXSW, VRLA, GDC, and Stanford. His work will be featured at the Future of Storytelling Summit this fall. Kevin is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
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About Conversive, Moth + Flame: Moth + Flame VR is the leading provider of immersive learning experiences for enterprise scale customers across a range of verticals.
Nicholas Horbaczewski
Founder and CEO of Drone Racing League
Nicholas Horbaczewski is the founder and CEO at The Drone League Racing and also the founder of Leeden Media. He is the previous senior vice president revenue and business development at Tough Mudder Inc. Nicholas ha a MBA at Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in history and literature at Harvard University.
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About Drone Racing League: Drone Racing League is a drone racing circuit company for professional pilots.
Nikhil Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of ObEN
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About ObEN: ObEN is an AI company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars.
Faizaan Ghauri
Chief Executive Officer of WRLD
Faizaan Ghauri is the CEO of eeGeo, a 3D mapping platform for mobile, virtual and augmented reality. Faizaan is also Vice President of Strategy for NetSol Technologies. He leads a 100+ team of designers, developers and artists as co-founder of IFDS, a digital studio focused on Virtual and Augmented Reality as well as Mobile App Development. Prior to IFDS, Faizaan spent four years on the Product team of Vroozi, an eCommerce platform for Fortune 500 companies. Faizaan currently lives between Los Angeles, London and Lahore. He is a passionate evangelist and investor for the Pakistani tech community. He sits on the steering committee of Nspire, a Pakistani incubator focused on promoting disruptive startups abroad. He is an aesthete with a keen interest in fashion and music. The original plan was to be a poet. It still is.
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About Nspire, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Elise Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Praxis Labs
Elise Smith is a co-founder and CEO at Praxis Labs. Prior to co-founding Praxis Labs, Elise invested in and coached entrepreneurs developing diversity and inclusion solutions at NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy. Prior to that work, she developed ed-tech products and led ed-tech partnerships at IBM Watson. Elise holds a B.A. in Geography & Social Inequity from Dartmouth College and an MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University. Inspired by her parents’ fight for educational equity, Elise is dedicated to scaling access and opportunity with the goal of creating a more equitable society.
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About Praxis Labs: Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology.
Brian Streem
Founder, CEO of Vermeer
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About Vermeer: AR/VR & AI Enable Mission Planning Tool
Akash Takyar
CEO of LeewayHertz Technologies
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About LeewayHertz Technologies: LeewayHertz is a blockchain development company, providing scalable and robust blockchain solutions to enterprises and startups.
Shiraz Akmal
CEO & Co-Founder of Spaces
CEO & Co-Founder at SPACES Inc.
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About SABH’s Big Adventure, Spaces: SPACES designs VR, AR and MR experiences for theme parks, retail, and other public locations worldwide.
Maureen Fan
Co-Founder & CEO of Baobab Studios
CEO & Co-Founder of Baobab Studios.
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About Baobab Studios, Gold House, Producers Guild of America, The World Economic Forum: Baobab Studios is a VR animation company that creates story and character driven cinematic experiences.
Youssri Helmy
Founder, CEO of Eonite Perception
Youssri brings over 25 years of experience in engineering, product management, marketing, and business development in a wide range of technologies to Eonite. He is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully cofounded, operated and exited several startups globally.
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About Eonite Perception, Si-Ware Systems: Eonite Perception is a 3D mapping and tracking company on a mission to enable machines to understand the real world.
Bruce Vaughn
CEO of Dreamscape Immersive
Bruce Vaughn was Chief Creative Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering for The Walt Disney Company. In this role, he lead the integrated creative teams of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), Disney’s Creative Entertainment (DCE) and WDI Research and Development to drive excellence in product development and innovation.
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About Dreamscape Immersive, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television: Dreamscape Immersive is a company that uses VR technologies to create an entirely new form of mainstream location-based entertainment.
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.
Raouf Halim
President & CEO of Spectra7 Microsystems
Beginning in 2014, Raouf Halim served as CEO and co-founder of icClarity, developing a disruptive 3D video capture solution for applications in AR/VR, mobile, and automotive markets. Prior to icClarity he served for ten years as president, CEO, & board member of Mindspeed Technologies, where he rebuilt the executive team, repositioned their product portfolio, and executed a successful growth strategy for high-performance analog. Previously, Halim was a senior vice president and general manager at Conexant Systems, Inc., formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems. Mr. Halim joined Rockwell in 1991 and held a number of senior business and technical positions, including vice president, and design leader for VLSI engineering. He began his career at Hayes Microcomputer Products developing first-of-their-kind technologies and applications. Mr. Halim’s Master’s degree in electrical engineering was earned at Georgia Institute of Technology, and his bachelor’s degree in communications and electro physics was received from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. Mr. Halim holds 14 patents, and is active in a number of industry and community organizations as well as several advisory roles within the University of California, Irvine.
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About icClarity, Spectra7 Microsystems: Spectra7 Microsystems specializes in the fields of wireless infrastructure and data center active cables.
Tony Stelliga
CEO of Spectra7 Microsystems
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About Redmere Technology, Spectra7 Microsystems: Spectra7 Microsystems specializes in the fields of wireless infrastructure and data center active cables.
Paul Kellenberger
Chief Executive Officer of zSpace
Paul guides zSpace, Inc.’s vision of “Bringing zSpace to the mainstream.” Prior to zSpace, he was CEO for Chancery Software, the leading provider of Enterprise Student Administrative Systems. Paul built a successful team and profitably grew the business, resulting in the sale of the company to Pearson Inc. Paul has also held senior positions in general management, sales, marketing, and corporate development at Motorola Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, and Inacom Corporation.
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About Infinite Z, zSpace: zSpace offers a system that enables its users to integrate their normal lives with a desktop-based virtual reality system.
Sly Lee
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Sly is a first generation American Entrepreneur & Scientist who is passionate about creating positive global impact through design and exponential technologies. He is co-founder & CEO of Emerge, a teleportation company with a vision to connect people’s emotions and feelings, on the path to ultimately “teleporting” our presence. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2018 recipient, a Singularity University Global Solutions Program 2015 Alumnus, World Economic Forum Global Future Council Member for AR/VR, has presented at the Skoll World Forum, and can be found surfing Venice Breakwater most mornings.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Isaac Castro
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Emerge
Isaac Castro is an immigrant entrepreneur and co-founder & co-CEO of Emerge, a Los Angeles-based company bringing touch and emotion to the metaverse. Emerge’s mission is to empower those who are separated to feel more present when it is not possible to be physically together. Isaac believes in a future where technological progress brings us closer together and where nobody is left behind. He is an MIT Technology Review ‘Innovator Under 35’ recipient for the invention of a medical device for more effective cancer treatment. As a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper, he actively worked on inspiring youth and fostering peace and reconciliation with former FARC guerrilla members in Colombia, work for which he was invited to participate and speak at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Isaac holds a master’s degree in telecommunications engineering, and he is a graduate of Google X and NASA sponsored Global Solutions Program at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley.
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About Emerge: Emerge is a virtual connection company that develops a device where users can have virtual gatherings with tactile effects and interactions.
Lyron Bentovim
President & CEO of The Glimpse Group
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About CEOWORLD Magazine, Fordham Graduate School of Business, J-Ventures, The Glimpse Group: The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Alon Grinshpoon
Co-Founder & CEO of echo3D
Alon Grinshpoon is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at echoAR. Alon is a big-believer in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and is working on building the world’s best 3D-first content management system (CMS) and delivery network (CDN) to help companies scale their AR/VR solutions. Alon is a Java native-speaker with countless hours of programming in Java, Android, Unity, C#, C and Bash. Alon loves to create AR/VR apps, GUI and graphically design applications, open-source programs and API integration alongside his experience and passion for cloud and computer communication networks. Alon received his MSc in Computer Science from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science specializing in computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and human-computer interaction. Alon wrote his thesis on an Augmented Reality Guidance System for Endovascular Surgery advised by Prof. Steven K. Feiner. Alon received his BSc as a double major in Computer Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Tel Aviv University specializing in software engineering, computer networks, and cyber-security. During his studies, Alon served as a graduate researcher at the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory of Columbia University. Alon also served as a research assistant and teaching assistant in the fields of computer networks and distributed cloud.
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About echo3D, vasAR Technologies: echo3D is a cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that allows developers to quickly build and deploy 3D games, apps, and content.
Russell Ladson
CEO of Drop
Russell Ladson is the CEO of Drop Software Inc. (“Drop”). At Drop, he leads a team of designers, human-computer interaction researchers, and engineers who are obsessed with future of spatial and immersive computing. The team at Drop is currently looking to answer the question, “As our iPhones become ineffective and we move into a post-smartphone world, how will we navigate the immersive web?” Today, Drop provides an immersive internet searching and browsing experience designed for virtual reality and augmented reality users. It is one of the most popular and top downloaded VR titles on the HTC Vive – the leading virtual reality headset. It is commonly referred to as the “Google Chrome for VR.” Drop is venture backed by HTC, one of the world’s leading smartphone makers, Macro Ventures, Autochrome Ventures, Backstage Capital, and Matter Ventures. After a close call with mortality in a near-fatal accident, he finally understood the sanctity of life and doing what one loves so he co-founded Drop. He spent his postgraduate years as an investment banking analyst at two leading Wall Street firms – Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Rice Financial Products Company. Russell lives and works in San Francisco, California. Most of his free time is spent hiking, practicing vinyasa yoga, or playing chess. He graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. in Economics.
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About Drop: Drop lets people dive into an immersive internet searching and browsing experience designed for virtual reality.
David Cole
Co-founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board of NextVR
David Cole co-founded NextVR in 2009 and currently leads intellectual property development and advancement of NextVR’s immersive virtual reality platform. With nearly three decades at the forefront digital imaging, electronic educational technology and stereoscopic research and development, Cole has co-authored 26 patents related to virtual reality and stereoscopic technology and three patents in adaptive computer learning technology. Before NextVR, Cole was CEO at LearningSoft, an educational technology company. Early in his career he founded Studiotronics, a digital imaging company that produced Colorset scanning software. Studiotronics was acquired by Chinon America, a subsidiary of Kodak, where Cole served as board member and EVP of research and development. He has served on the board of Marineland Florida, the world’s first oceanarium.
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About NextVR: NextVR is a technology company that captures and delivers live and on-demand virtual reality experiences.
Sergii Mashevskyi
Founder, CEO of Cameo FX
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About Cameo FX, Prope: Visual effects and animation company
Mark Atkinson
Chief Executive Officer of Mursion
Mark Atkinson has been CEO of Teachscape since July 1999. Prior to founding Teachscape, he was a network news producer with experience in reporting, producing, and directing network news documentaries. Mr. Atkinson was Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, where he focused on multimedia production and the education market. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale University and serves as a trustee of the Oracle Education Foundation.
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About Mursion, The Achievement Network: Mursion, a virtual reality environment or platform where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills.
Stephen Willey
Founder, CEO, Director of Innovega Inc.
Steve previously co-founded Microvision and Pro.Net Communications and served as President and Corporate Director. He served as CEO of AirIQ Inc., Business Director at CREO Inc. and General Manager of MDI International. During his career, he has developed a clear understanding of how to commercialize game-changing and disruptive new technologies. Steve holds Masters degrees in engineering and business.
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About Innovega Inc.: Innovega provides technology and reference designs for contact lenes enabled AR/MR/VR Smart Glasses
Noam Levavi
Co-Founder and CEO of ByondXR
Noam Levavi is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of innovations in user experience technologies, including several patents in the areas of personalized media delivery and user-interfaces. In 2017, Noam founded ByondXR, a retail-tech startup that empowers brands and retailers to improve sales and customer engagement through a new groundbreaking 3D visualization technology. Using ByondXR’s 3D Commerce Platform, brands can transform into the new digital era, creating experiences to enhance Wholesale, Merchandising and eComm that boost sales and improve efficiency. Prior to founding ByondXR, Noam founded and was the CEO of YCD Multimedia, a world leading on-site digital media provider, helping brands deliver personalized content to their customers, reaching more than 100 million people every month within thousands of venues worldwide, including some of the world’s most recognized brands such as Mercedes, Ferrari, Nike, Chanel, Hugo Boss, AT&T, Microsoft and Coca Cola. In 2008 Noam was honored to be featured by Forbes Israel as one of the country’s most influential young professionals. Prior to establishing YCD, Noam founded Netune, which provided network communication services and Intranet web applications for small and medium sized businesses. Before that, he served as a system communication manager in the Israeli Defense Force’s elite Intelligence Unit. He is a graduate of the Israeli Military Computing and Information Systems Institute. Noam loves sharing his experiences and have been the keynote speaker about consumer behavior and the evolution of digital experiences for The Economist, DLD, DSE and Digital Signage Investor, a guest speaker at Washington University, Parsons School of Design and IDC research college, and contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Frost & Sullivan and Platt Retail Institute. Being a long-time SciFi fan, Noam has been fascinated with advances in virtual reality and human-machine interfaces. He visualizes an emerging reality of digital enhancements to the human body and seamless brain-machine interfaces that extend our mental abilities into a complete and immersive sensory experience, forming new perceptions of reality.
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About ByondXR: ByondXR transforms eCommerce through immersive experiences that increase engagement, conversion and ROI
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.
Thomas Suarez
Co-founder, CEO/CTO of Teleportal
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About Teleportal: Teleportal is a spatial computing company building developer and creator tools.
Anthony Duca
Founder and CEO of Cavrnus
Anthony Duca is CEO and Founder at Cavrnus.
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About Cavrnus: Cavrnus is a software company that specializes in spatial collaboration via extended reality.
Devkumar Gandhi
CEO & Co-Founder of Moback
Devkumar is the Founder of NEXAGE, and was the CEO from 2006 till early 2010. For last 20 years, Devkumar has been involved in wireless carrier operations and high-tech entrepreneurialism with experience in developing and marketing mobile & online advertising and media technology. Devkumar has experience in management team recruiting, company formation, entrepreneurial finance, capital acquisition, strategic business development, technology and marketing strategy. Devkumar raised over $10M in financing for companies he has founded, including venture capital and angel investments.
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About Dobango, Hmatix Inc, Moback: Moback is a specialist in Robotics Telepresence, Autonomous Vehicles’ User experience and Enterprise software development.
Suzanne Borders
CEO and Co-Founder of BadVR
Suzanne is the founder of BadVR, the world’s first immersive data analytics platform. She is best known for leading the design of 2D data analytics platforms at Remine, CREXi, and Osurv. In her spare time, she’s traveled to 75 countries, lived through the Egyptian revolution, and met her hero, Alejandro Jodorowksy.
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About BadVR: BadVR uses virtual reality to craft immersive data experiences that help you see the whole picture and gain actionable insights.
Morten Rongaard
CEO & Co-Founder of Reality Gaming Group Limited
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About Reality Gaming Group Limited: Reality Gaming Group develop games that connect to the blockchain utilizing digital collectables known as NFT’s (Non Fungible Tokens)
Michael Amori
CEO & Co-founder of Virtualitics
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About Virtualitics: Visualize and understand your data as never before thanks to our innovative use of VR/AR, Machine Learning and Natural Language.
Erik Maltais
CEO of Immertec
If you are reading this you are most likely interested in understanding me better in consideration to join our team, become a customer, invest in our company or collaborate in some way. Instead of a boring you with details of my past accomplishment written by yours truly to highlight my greatness, I will instead share my weaknesses and strengths from my predictive index behavioral pattern assessment summary below. (https://www.predictiveindex.com). Please note these words below are not my own. I hope this information provides some insight into how I behave, so you may better judge our suitability. “A very independent, confident, decisive, self-starter, intense and driving. This individual has a strong sense of urgency, can react and adjust quickly to changing conditions, generate novel ideas, and deal with them swiftly. Strongly venturesome in taking risks and focusing on the future; almost exclusively concerned with where they’re going rather than either how they’ll get there, or where they’ve been. Their drive is directed at getting the important things done. Competitive, ambitious and venturesome, they respond positively and actively to challenge and pressure, always sure of an ability to handle problems and people. This individual is outgoing and poised; a forceful, animated, communicator tending to be more authoritative than persuasive in style. They talk briskly, with assurance and conviction and are a stimulating influence on others, while being direct, determined and flexible. Sure of the value of personal judgments and opinions, and persistent in defending them if put under pressure to change them, Erik will question and challenge established company policies or systems and strive to prove in action the value of their ideas for change. More concerned with the achievement of goals than with the details of how things get done, this individual will freely delegate to others with loose follow-up, but with demand and pressure for timely results. Ingenious and venturesome, they will likely become restless and dissatisfied if required to work under close control or to do work which is routine or highly structured. Very much a generalist, Erik is more concerned with the strategies involved in reaching goals than with specifics or detailed tactics.”
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About Bunker Labs, Immertec: Immertec is a real-time virtual observation platform for remote, fully-immersive surgical and medical training.
Giovanno Yosen Utomo
Co-Founder and CEO of Fulldive
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About Fulldive: Fulldive Browser – browse, chat on any page and earn coins for your data, available on iOS and Android | Fulldive VR – #1 VR app on Android.
Neville Spiteri
Co-Founder and CEO of WEVR
Neville Spiteri is co-founder and CEO of Wevr, the leading virtual reality studio and distributor. As one of the top software engineers and creative executives in the industry, Neville has been at the forefront of interactive storytelling for two decades, from his time at Electronic Arts to his early days at Digital Domain. Under Neville’s leadership, Wevr produced the award winning virtual ocean experience theBlu: Encounter, which earned partnerships with the Smithsonian, OceanElders, Samsung and HTC. Neville read his first book on Virtual Reality in 1991.
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About WEVR: WEVR is a developer of a technology platform used to offer virtual reality content.
Brett Jones
CEO & Co-Founder of Lightform
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Doug Donovan
CEO & Co-Founder of Interplay Learning
Doug Donovan is the CEO & Co-Founder at Interplay Learning.
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About Interplay Learning: Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions.
Moty Avisar
Co-Founder & CEO of Surgical Theater
Moty Avisar is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Surgical Theater. The former Israeli Air Force officer and flight simulator expert is revolutionizing the operating room by introducing interactive surgical navigation combined with 3D virtual reality. The result – a dynamic, immersive 360-degree view based on a patient’s traditional imaging including CT and MRI scans, that enhances a surgeon’s situational awareness and has been utilized in more than 1,500 surgical cases to date. Prior to launching Surgical Theater, he was a member of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and worked closely with Lockheed Martin to manage the $50 million F-16 Flight Simulator program. He also was the head of System Engineering for the Israeli Air Force.
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About Surgical Theater: Surgical Theater is a startup that markets a Surgery Rehearsal Platform (SRP) for neurosurgical pre-operative planning and rehearsal.
Ernest Lee
Co-CEO of AmazeVR
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About AmazeVR: AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution using the proprietary technologies.
Steve Lee
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of AmazeVR
Steve Lee is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AmazeVR.
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About AmazeVR: AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution using the proprietary technologies.
Michael Levine
CEO of HappyGiant
Mike Levine is the President and Founder of Pileated Pictures and HappyGiant, and veteran of LucasArts, currently living in Western Massachusetts. He is currently making the AR game, “HoloGrid: MonsterBattle”, with Phil Tippett, Academy Award winning Visual Effects Artist, and creator of the famed “HoloChess” scene and many more from Star Wars and other classic films – for mobile first and next-gen platforms.
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About HappyGiant, Planet Mojo: HappyGiant is a leader in Augmented Reality gaming and entertainment industries
Todd Chernecki
Co-Founder and CEO of SUBPAC
Todd Chernecki is the CEO & Co-Founder at SUBPAC.
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About SUBPAC, SUBPAC: SUBPAC is a patented tactile audio technology that transfers low frequencies directly to a users body and more.
Renji Bijoy
Founder, CEO & CTO of Immersed
Renji Bijoy is the Founder & CEO/CTO at Immersed
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About Immersed: We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity.
Arthur Goikhman
Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealVR, Inc
Arthur Goikhman co-founded Surre.al in 2011. He previously co-founded Cellufun, an early leader in the mobile gaming space, which he took from a vision to a company with a run rate of $10 million annual revenue and the top tier of the Inc. 500 Startups list by growing it 2400 percent within three years. Prior to Cellufun, Goikhman co-founded Spiderphone Conferencing and S&G, a boutique Wall Street consultancy whose clients included Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank One, and Prudential. Goikhman has been a frequent speaker at mobile industry conferences and was honored to accept the Best Mobile Game 2008 Award for Cellufun’s Call of the Pharaoh at the World Mobile Congress.
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About SurrealVR, Inc: Surreal Games is an immersive game world where players engage in real-time interactive adventures of their choosing.
Dan Furman
CEO of Arctop
Dan Furman is the co-founder and CEO of Arctop.
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About Arctop: Arctop provides neural interface technology that analyzes brain signals and produces an accurate measure of the mind in real-time.
Bianca Gonzalez
CEO of AMPAworks
Bianca Gonzalez is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AMPAworks.
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About AMPAworks, TaskUnite: AMPAworks is a computer vision-enabled IoT system that tracks inventory in hospitals and clinics.
Sekhar Puli
Co-Founder, President & CEO of LifeVoxel
Sekhar Puli is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of LifeVoxel.
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About LifeVoxel, MAROSHI Partners: LifeVoxel is an Interactive Streaming and AI Platform for Diagnostic Imaging Centers.
Eugene Chung
Founder, CEO of Penrose Studios
Eugene Chung is Director, Film & Media at Oculus VR. Previously, he was an investor and filmmaker based in New York City. He was with TechStars and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on venture capital and seed investments in technology companies. Prior to NEA, Eugene worked in film production at Pixar Animation Studios. Earlier in his career, Eugene was a private equity investor at Warburg Pincus and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. He earned his BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.
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About Penrose Studios: Penrose is a group of artists, engineers and storytellers pushing the boundaries of virtual and augmented reality.
Kevin Farnham
Founder & CEO of Mirra
I am an Experience Designer and Design Executive. I recently founded and launched Mirra.co, a PaaS that allows anyone to create professional quality AR and VR experiences – without 3D expertise and without code. Over the course of the past few decades, I’ve worked directly with leaders from companies such as Apple, the BBC, Microsoſt, MoMA, Nike, Google and TED Conferences to help them conceive, create, and deliver new products and brands. One of my primary skills is in identifying and managing talent from many disciplines at every experience level. I have sourced, hired and managed several strategy, design, technology, and operations teams on an international basis. In 1998 I founded and was CEO of the design and innovation consultancy , which over the course of 15+ years I helped grow to a $30m+ARR, 100+ person firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. I also conceived and cofounded one of the first design-focused product accelerators, Matter Design Lab, headquartered in London. In 2013 I co-authored a book entitled “Experience Design: A Framework for Integrating Brand, Experience, and Value”. The book focuses on how businesses can most effectively harness design to create greater customer engagement.
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About Mirra: Mirra allows people to build, share, and explore immersive experiences
Jack Carr
President and CEO of Lightbound, LLC
Jack Carr is a President and CEO at Lightbound, LLC.
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About DataBank, Lightbound, LLC: LightBound is an Indianapolis-based provider of leading-edge communications services.
Steven McCloskey
Founder and CEO of Nanome
Steven McCloskey is Founder and CEO at Nanome Inc.
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About Nanome: Nanome is a virtual reality software company that offers a collaborative XR software platform for molecular design.
Xavier Palomer
Chief Executive Officer of Psious
“We want to achieve something significant: improve mental health globally. Using technology can help us do this, I think of the mind as an incredible machine, we want to better understand our complex feelings and emotions and have created tools to do this. 10 years from now I want to be proud of helping millions of people around the world to live happier lives, free from mental health problems.”
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About Psious: Psious develops a virtual reality platform designed to bring value to mental health treatment.
Simon (Seockhoon) Bae
Founder and CEO of Cupix
Serial entrepreneur. * Founded CUPIX in 2015. Currently working hard to provide entirely new and amazingly useful virtual tour experience while making the content creation process fast, easy, and affordable. * Lead the strategy development and its implementation for a 3D printing specialized cloud platform and client apps at 3D Systems. * Founded VisPower in Sunnyvale, CA in 2010 and lead the company to develop and market TeamPlatform.com, a unique and pioneering SaaS app disrupting the product design collaboration market. VisPower was acquired by 3D Systems in 2013. * Founded INUS Technology in Seoul, Korea in 1998 and served as CEO until 2010. Its flagship Rapidform software had been the world’s best-selling 3D redesign and shape inspection software using 3D scan data. INUS was acquired by 3D Systems in 2012 and has operated since successfully as the Geomagic brand.
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About Cupix: Cupix provides a cloud based software to automatically map 360 photos and create 3D models only with consumer grade 360 cameras.
Arnaud Dazin
Co-Founder and CEO of ADVR
Arnaud Dazin is Co-Founder and CEO at ADVR.
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About ADVR, MAP, ThousandEyes: ADVR is the premiere solution for native monetization technologies for VR and AR developers.
James Blaha
Founder, CEO of Vivid Vision
Founder, CEO of Vivid Vision.
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About Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
Jacqueline Bošnjak
CEO & Founder of Mach1
Mach1 is a sound technology company focused on spatial audio that Bošnjak co-founded with composer and inventor Dražen Bošnjak. Together the Bošnjak’s appeared on Advertising Age’s Creativity50 featuring the most influential creative figures for their contributions to the field of spatial audio. Bošnjak is known for producing high-profile VR titles, including 20TH Century Fox’s The MartianVR, AlienVR, Sony’s PassengersVR, and Lockheed’s MarsVR Bus. Bošnjak founded MadWomen, a breakfast club connecting leading women in entertainment and technology, and is a regular speaker at CES, AWE, NAB, SXSW, and Digital Hollywood. Early in her career, Bošnjak created & produced the critically acclaimed adicolor Podcasts, the first film series distributed on a mobile device that became a landmark case study in Kotler and Armstrong’s “Principles of Marketing.”
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About Mach1: Defenders of the Audio Realm. Unifying multichannel & spatial audio, preserving standards & best practices & future proofing future pipeline
Radu B. Rusu
CEO & Co-Founder of Fyusion
CEO and Co-Founder at Fyusion, Inc.
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About Fyusion, Open Perception Inc.: Fyusion develops products powered by 3D computer vision and machine learning.
