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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 Founder operating in the Big Data space. If you think a Founder 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.
Neha Singh
Co-Founder & CEO of Tracxn
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About Tracxn: The largest data platform of Startups
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Timothy Rice
Co-Founder and CEO of Coin Metrics
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About Coin Metrics: Coin Metrics is a provider of crypto financial intelligence providing network data, market data, index, and network risk solutions.
Bill Tai
Co-Founder of Treasure Data
Bill Tai started in VC in 1991 and has had 22 IPOs from his early stage investments. He has served a Board Director for 8 publicly listed companies as a result. He is founding investor and Chairman of Treasure Data (acquired by ARM / Softbank in the largest all cash acquisition in their history), Founding Chairman of IPinfusion, Founding Chairman and CEO of iAsiaWorks (listed on NASDAQ through Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs). He is among the original seed investors in Zoom Video, Canva, SafetyCulture, and Wish.com, and early angel in ColorGenomics, Tweetdeck/Twitter. He supports conservation and economic empowerment via ACTAI Global, a 501(c)3 he founded and Chairs. Originally trained as a computer chip designer (BSEE, Honors, Illinois), he joined LSI Logic, a seminal Silicon Valley startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor, then completed an MBA at Harvard. He was was issued badge #A001 at TSMC (NYSE:TSM), now a $250 Billion leader in semiconductors. He also holds a HonD PhD from, and is an Adjunct Professor of ‘Innovation and Economic Development’ at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
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About Bitfury Group, Canva, CRV, Scribd, Treasure Data, Zoom: Treasure Data is an enterprise customer data platform that offers end-to-end, fully-managed cloud service for big data.
Amol Deshpande
CEO & Co-Founder of Farmers Business Network
Amol is CEO and Co-Founder of the FBN network and has a passion for helping feed the world and helping farmers. Amol has spent the better part of his career in and around agriculture at start-up companies, large companies, such as Cargill, and most recently as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Cau feld & Byers. Amol has a chemical engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Cornell, where he was a Park Fellow.
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About Farmers Business Network: FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
Charles Baron
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Farmers Business Network
Charles is Co-Founder & VP of Product of Farmers Business Network (FBN), where he guides the development of the breakthrough farmer-to-farmer network. The FBN network is creating a digital farm economy for its over 21 m acres of member farms. By networking thousands of farms in the US & Canada, the FBN network helps farmers make better agronomic decisions, reduce input costs with e-commerce, and get premium prices for their crops through its global buyer network. Previously, Charles was a program manager at Google where he started and led product, investment and research initiatives in advanced energy technologies. Charles’ passion for farming developed after a working a corn harvest on his brother-in-law’s farm in Arapahoe, Nebraska, prior to joining Google. Charles earned an AB from Dartmouth and an MBA from Harvard with coursework at MIT.
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About Farmers Business Network: FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Anaconda
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About Anaconda, Anaconda: Anaconda is a data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.
Christopher Bergh
Founder, CEO & Head Chef of DataKitchen
Christopher Bergh is a Founder, CEO, and Head Chef of DataKitchen. As CEO, he oversees the Product, Engineering, Implementation, Services, Sales, and Marketing teams. DataKitchen’s mission is to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. Chris and his fellow co-founders started DataKitchen because they envisioned a world where every data professional and his or her data team no longer felt powerless or frustrated by failed and painfully slow projects, but instead were excited and energized by their ability to deliver high-quality, on-demand insight. In 2013, the trio of founders launched DataKitchen and built their own end-to-end DataOps software platform to do just that. Chris is an industry-recognized expert on DataOps. He is the co-author of The DataOps Cookbook and The DataOps Manifesto as well as a speaker on DataOps at many industry conferences and with media outlets. Chris has more than 30 years of research, software engineering, data analytics, and executive management experience. At various points in his career, he has been a COO, CTO, VP, and Director of Engineering at various tech startups, which were acquired by IBM Unica or Model N. Chris holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About DataKitchen, DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Products & Implementation of DataKitchen
Gil Benghiat is a Founder and VP of Product & Implementation of DataKitchen, a company on a mission to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. At DataKitchen, Gil leads an Implementation Team of talented software and data engineering professionals responsible for guiding customers’ adoption of DataOps and optimal use of DataKitchen’s DataOps Platform. Gil also leads a Product Development Team responsible for the definition, design, development, quality, and operation of DataKitchen’s SaaS DataOps Platform. Gil has over 35 years of experience in software engineering spanning multiple technical leadership roles at data-oriented technology companies, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories collecting and displaying network data, managing data at Sybase, collecting and cleaning clinical trial data at Phase Forward, integrating pharmaceutical sales data at LeapFrogRx, and liberating his clients’ data at Solid Oak Consulting. At previous companies, he achieved results such as growing a company from 4 to 320 employees and revenue from $0 to $60M resulting in IPO and improving the scalability of the product to increase the number of systems managed from 300 to 12,000. Gil holds an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Jay Meattle
CEO & Founder of Shareaholic
Jay started [Shareaholic, Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shareaholic), a company fanatical about making sharing on the web better, faster, easier, and more measurable. Over 2 million people have used the award winning tools created by Shareaholic. Jay was Vice President of Products at Lookery, an online user-targeting network that offered lightweight, economical targeting data for over 200 million users. Before Lookery, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating and launching [Compete.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/compete), now part of the WPP Group [Nasdaq: WPPGY]. In addition, as co-founder of PopSignal, one of Boston’s largest professional networking organizations, Jay is actively contributing to the growth of Boston’s technology startup community. Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay is also a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Leadership Fellow and in 2012 was named to the TR35 India — MIT Technology Review magazine’s annual list of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen. You can follow Jay on Twitter @meattle or his blog http://www.meattle.com/jay/
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About Shareaholic: Shareaholic is an Audience Engagement platform that helps over 300,000 businesses grow audience engagement, loyalty & conversions.
Matt Ocko
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Matt has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matt is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.
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About AngelList, Archimedes Capital, DCVC, Uber: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Zachary Bogue
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Zack has over a decade of experience in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, lawyer, angel investor and advisor for big data startups. Zack is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. Zack also is a cofounder and managing partner of Founders Den, a shared workspace for experienced technology entrepreneurs. He was previously an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a law partner at Virtual Law Partners, where he worked with numerous start-ups and their founders, and developed expertise in technology law and Silicon Valley business practices.
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About aWhere, Cask, Citus Data, Cotendo, DCVC, Founders Den, Montara Capital Partners, Square, The World Economic Forum, Uber: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Peter Dodge
Founder and Chief Performance Officer of Hanover Research
Peter is the Founder and Chief Performance Officer of Hanover Research. Hanover is a global information services firm providing knowledge support to more than 1,100 for-profit and non-profit organizations. Through our unique, fixed-cost model, we provide customized, timely, and authoritative research and advice that enables our clients to make informed decisions, identify and seize opportunities, and heighten their effectiveness.
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About Hanover Research: Innovative Market Research – Washington, D.C.’s Hanover Research
Georgii Kesaev
Founder of Firld
Georgii Kesaev is a Russian sports agent specializing in athlete consulting, performance analysis, football scouting and player valuation. He is the founder of Firld, a sports company based in New York.
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About Firld: Fusing powerful data-driven processes, Firld is a sports company that specializes in helping athletes and teams maximize their potential
Deborah Quazzo
Founder & Managing Partner of GSV Ventures
Deborah is the Managing Partner of GSV AcceleraTE, a venture capital fund investing in exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75B education and talent technology sector. In addition, she is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of the ASU+GSV Summit and Founder and Senior Advisor of GSV Advisors. Now in its 10th year, the ASU+GSV Summit celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and talent landscape and attracts over 4,000 attendees. Deborah currently serves on the boards of Ascend Learning (a portfolio company of Blackstone and CCCP), Degreed, The Educational Testing Service (ETS), Lightneer, Remind, and Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW). She is a board observer at CreativeLive and RaiseMe, and an advisory board member of Area9 Lyceum. She is a member of the boards of The Common Ground Foundation, Harvey Mudd College, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, The Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School, The Khan Academy Thought Leadership Council and The Board of Dean’s Advisory Council at Princeton University. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition. She previously served on the board of a number of education organizations including The Chicago Board of Education (CPS) and KIPP: Chicago. Deborah received the 2014 Arnold M. Berlin ’46 Distinguished Service to Princeton Award from the Princeton University Club of Chicago, the 2014 Visionary of the Year Award from CFY PowerMyLearning, the 2016 LEAP Innovator in Education “Champion” Award from LEAP Innovations, the 2016 Inaugural Impact Award from Golden Apple Foundation, and the 2017 Visionary Award from the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Deborah graduated cum laude with a BA in history from Princeton University in 1982 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1987.
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About GSV Ventures: GSV Ventures is a venture firm investing company.
Rafael Garcia
Co-Founder & CTO of Clever
Rafael leads the technical team and is in charge of all product engineering. Prior to co-founding Clever, Rafael worked at Jump Trading, where he specialized in machine learning and working with large volumes of data. Rafael holds a BA degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard. He is a native of Naperville, IL, and lives in San Francisco, CA.
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About Clever: Clever is a digital learning platform designed for K12 schools and used by 22 million students and teachers.
Dan Carroll
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Clever
Running technology for a charter school network, Dan saw first-hand how data obstacles were quickly becoming the biggest barriers to innovation in education. Prior to Clever, Dan led technology for West Denver Prep, where he had also taught middle school science as a Teach for America Corps Member. Now, Dan works with schools around the country to use data to aid innovation. Dan holds a BA in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard and currently resides in San Francisco.
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About Clever: Clever is a digital learning platform designed for K12 schools and used by 22 million students and teachers.
Jonathan Matus
Founder & CEO of Zendrive
Jonathan Matus Prior to Redpoint, Jonathan Matus spent 6 years at Facebook and Google, where he’s been focused on various mobile and speech-recognition projects. At Google, one of the early Android team members, Jonathan managed product marketing for the platform’s software releases and device launches globally. During his tenure, the OS grew from zero to global best-selling mobile platform. In his role as Head of Product Marketing in Asia Pacific Jonathan lived in Tokyo and jumpstarted regional device launches and relationships all over Asia. Jonathan received the Google Founders Award and Android Founders Award in recognition for his contributions.
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Vivek Kumar
Co-Founder and President of ProKarma
Vivek Kumar serves as the President of Prokarma, Inc. Mr. Kumar has more than 15 years of IT industry experience. He has provided leadership in the management, and delivery of e-Business technology, and services. He is involved with building e-procurement solutions since the last 7 years, and has tremendous knowledge of procurement functions. Mr. Kumar is responsible for leading the growth of the organization through revenue improvement with existing customers, increased market penetration, and development of new products and markets. He is ultimately responsible for corporate profitability and establishing policies, procedures and strategies consistent with the values and integrity of the organization.
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About PK Global, ProKarma: ProKarma is a provider of IT services, business consulting, and enterprise applications harnessing emerging technologies.
Jeff Miller
Co-Founder of ProKarma
Jeff has held senior positions in IT marketing and sales for over 25 years. He has vast experience in managing, mentoring and building sales and marketing teams. He has ably managed 50+ person sales teams generating over $110 million in revenue for a large private IT consulting firm. He has an extensive background in generating new business, securing customer loyalty and forging strong relationships with business partners. Jeff is responsible for developing the company’s sales plans including objectives, strategy, resources and budget. He ensures that plans match corporate guidelines for target markets, client relevance and ROI. His direct responsibilities include sales management; planning and execution of client specific sales strategies; building of the customer base; managing customer relations, business planning, demand creation and fulfillment.
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About ProKarma: ProKarma is a provider of IT services, business consulting, and enterprise applications harnessing emerging technologies.
Doreen Bloch
CEO & Founder of Poshly
Doreen Bloch is the CEO & Founder of Poshly Inc., a data analytics company focused on consumer intelligence. Inc. Magazine named her one of the 30 Under 30 CEOs of 2015, and she is the winner of L’Oreal’s NEXT Generation Women in Digital Award. Doreen is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (Class of 2010), where she was awarded the Jack Larson Fellowship for Entrepreneurship & Innovation for her work founding BARE magazine, one of the nation’s first collegiate fashion publications. She was a three-time Yahoo! Inc. intern during college, and after graduation she worked at SecondMarket, where she helped on auctions for shares of pre-IPO companies, including Facebook Inc. Doreen is also the Author of “The Coolest Startups in America” published February 2012, and a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Her work is regularly featured by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Inc., ForbesWoman, Feministing, Women 2.0, and more.
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About Makeup Museum, Poshly: Poshly is the consumer intelligence company that specializes in the fields of internet, data, consumer packaged goods, and technology.
Jonathan Hirsch
Founder of Syapse
Jonathan Hirsch is the Founder and President of Syapse, a software company transforming healthcare by bringing omics into routine medical use. At Syapse, Jonathan works closely with diagnostic and healthcare providers, helping translate customer problems into software solutions. Jonathan is an Advisory Board member of the SXSW Accelerator, a mentor for UCSF Lean Launchpad for Healthcare course, and a member of the Steering Committee of Free the Data!, an effort started by Genetic Alliance and UCSF to crowdsource the interpretation of cancer genes. Earlier in his career, Jonathan worked in Neuroscience Commercial Development at Abbott Laboratories, where he developed strategies to fund drug development through partnerships and private equity financing. His research at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago helped establish the effect of exercise on promoting hippocampal neurogenesis and combating Alzheimer’s disease. Jonathan received an M.Sci. in Neuroscience from Stanford University, and an A.B. in Biology and Political Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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About Syapse: Syapse is a real-world evidence company dedicated to extinguishing the fear and burden of serious disease by advancing real-world care
Bilal Aijazi
CTO and Co-Founder of Polly
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About Polly: Polly is a survey platform that makes it simple for anyone to engage with colleagues, capture feedback, and make more data-driven decisions.
Prashant Kumar
Founder of Unbxd
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Pavan Sondur
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Unbxd
The co-founder and CEO of Unbxd, Pavan Sondur is the architect of its global growth story. Pavan was previously a developer at NetApp and Gluster, where he built GlusterFS, its multi-petabyte open source file storage system. Pavan is passionate about technology, the internet and consumer behavior. Pavan’s views on the e-Commerce industry are frequently covered in the international media.
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Vibhore Kumar
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Unscrambl
18+ years of industry and research experience designing enterprise systems. 10 patents, 30+ publications.
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About Unscrambl: An augmented intelligence company that is creating AI-powered cognitive agents for the enterprises.
Parin Dalal
Co-Founder & CEO of Xockets
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About Xockets: Xockets builds hardware and software acceleration into appliances for Big Data processing.
Stephen Belair
Co-Founder & CTO of Xockets
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About Xockets: Xockets builds hardware and software acceleration into appliances for Big Data processing.
Higinio O. Maycotte
CEO and Co-Founder of Molecula
Higinio is CEO & co-founder at Molecula.
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About Molecula, Pilosa, YPO: Molecula closes the gap between data and decision, enabling organizations to unlock the power of real-time analytics and AI.
Bridget Osetinsky
Founder & CEO of Hyperfine
Bridget is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperfine. She earned her Juris Doctor from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law in 2011 and her Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Notre Dame in 2007.
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About Hyperfine: Advanced Analytics For Precision Medicine
Steven Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Finicity
Steven Smith is Finicity’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He has strong strategic and tactical business skills and combines them with a passion to develop products and services that make a positive difference in people’s lives. Prior to co-founding Finicity, Steve served as a senior member of the executive team at Megahertz Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of data communication products for mobile computers. At the close of his nine-year tenure, Megahertz had more than 1,200 employees and claimed more than 50 percent of the North American PC Card market. Most recently, Steve led the acquisition and management of a global industrial engineering and manufacturing firm. Under his direction, the company became a leading supplier of critical service control equipment for chemical and petrochemical plants. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Utah.
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About Finicity: Finicity provides open banking services, real-time financial data access and insights.
Nicholas Thomas
Co-Founder of Finicity
Nicholas Thomas is a Co-Founder & President at Finicity.
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About Finicity, Nordmark Group: Finicity provides open banking services, real-time financial data access and insights.
Riddhiman Das
Founder and CEO of TripleBlind
Riddhiman Das is the Founder and CEO of TripleBlind.
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About TripleBlind: TripleBlind is a private data sharing company developing a cryptographic platform to share, leverage, and monetize regulated data.
Steve Arnold
Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus of Polaris Partners
Prior to starting Polaris, Steve served as a special advisor to Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. following more than 10 years in executive positions in the software industry. He served as vice president of Broadband Media Applications at Microsoft Corporation and as president and CEO of Continuum Productions (now Corbis), a private company founded by Bill Gates to pioneer the creation of large digital libraries for online distribution. Before coming to Continuum, Steve served as vice president and general manager of LucasArts Games and Learning divisions, and vice president of the New Media Group at Lucasfilm Ltd. He continues to serve as vice chairman of the board of directors of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Steve holds a BS with honors from Macalester College and an MA and PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco.
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About Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Edward Norton
Co-Founder of Entertainment Data Oracle (EDO)
Edward Norton is a Co-Founder of Entertainment Data Oracle (EDO).
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About Entertainment Data Oracle (EDO): Entertainment Data Oracle(EDO) is a data, measurement, and analytics company.
Adam Dell
Founder & CEO of Clarity Money
Adam Dell joined Austin Ventures as Venture Partner in May 2010. Adam has been a successful entrepreneur, academician, and has more than 12 years of experience in the venture capital industry. He focuses purely on early-stage venture investments in the information technology and business services areas. Most recently, Adam was Founder and Managing General Partner of Impact Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on information technology investments. Prior to founding Impact, Adam was a partner with Crosspoint Venture Partners in Northern California, and a Senior Associate with Enterprise Partners in Southern California. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he worked as a corporate attorney in Austin, Texas, with the law firm of Winstead, Sechrest & Minick. His prior investments include OpenTable (OPEN), Buzzsaw (ADSK), Ingenio (T), and Hotjobs (YHOO). Dell founded and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of MessageOne, which was acquired by Dell, Inc. in 2008. Adam teaches a class on the role of law in innovation at the University of Texas School of Law.
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About Austin Ventures, Clarity Money, SharedEarth.com: Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
Matt Jacobs
Co Founder, CTO of Clarity Money
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About Clarity Money, Goldman Sachs: Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
Curtis Liu
Co-Founder, CTO of Amplitude
Curtis is an MIT grad with degrees in EECS and Mathematics. After happy days working at Google, he decided to start Sonalight, an effort to improve how people use voice to interact with their mobile devices. He likes to balance work with a dose of movies and television, and strongly believes in video games as art.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Spenser Skates
CEO and Founder of Amplitude
Spenser Skates is the CEO and Co-Founder of Amplitude.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Matthew Milner
Founder, CEO of Crowdability
Matt is a Media & Technology executive with a Wall Street background, and a history of entrepreneurial success. A descendant of Russian immigrants, Matt’s ancestors arrived penniless in the New World and survived by peddling clothes on pushcarts. His great grandfather eventually scraped together enough capital to start a business selling an innovative new product: socks with elastic. With that one small business, he was able to provide for his growing family. Initially, Matt didn’t follow in his family’s footsteps of entrepreneurship. He headed to Wall Street — to global investment banks such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — to learn how to invest and profit from the financial markets. By the time he was 30, however, he heard the call to start his own company. His first business struggled. Matt burned through his savings and eventually failed. He started a second company that also struggled initially, but this time, he figured out how to “pivot” and change course — and eventually, this company was acquired for a small sum. Relying on this small bankroll and the lessons from his failures and successes, he launched his third startup, a social media company. Finally, he struck gold. Hearst, the global media conglomerate, acquired the company for millions. After joining Hearst’s team to help launch and grow their online businesses, he further codified his rules for building successful early-stage companies. In addition to his work at Hearst, he became a mentor to young technology companies, helping them avoid the struggles that he himself encountered. He also started a venture capital fund and became an investor. In 2013, thrilled by the JOBS Act and the promise of equity crowdfunding to allow a broader range of people to invest in startups, Matt teamed up with Wayne Mulligan to found Crowdability. He wanted to share the knowledge he’d acquired over his career — from his years on Wall Street, to his experiences building, mentoring and investing in startups — to show ordinary citizens how to invest and profit from startups. Growing up, Matt heard inspiring stories about how his great grandfather provided for the family thanks to the power of small business and a little bit of innovation. With Crowdability, Matt aims to spread similar stories — and the power of startups — to everyone. Matt holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Crowdability: Crowdability is the source for data, research and education on the emerging equity crowdfunding industry.
Gal Krubiner
CEO/ Co Founder of Pagaya Investments
Former UBS investments & wealth management professional, UHNW biz dev having raised hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. Specializes in innovative & sophisticated credit structured products (ABS structures).
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About Pagaya Investments: Pagaya is a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its AI network.
Ben Marcus
Co-Founder of AirMap
Ben Marcus is an aviation expert and executive. Prior to AirMap, he co-founded and was CEO of jetAVIVA, the world’s largest light business jet sales company. He started his career as a flight instructor and later became a flight test engineer. Ben currently serves on the board of Angel Flight West. He is an FAA-certified Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor with over 4,500 hours of flight experience and ratings in airplanes, helicopters, seaplanes, gliders, and six types of jets.
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About AirMap, UP Partners: AirMap operates as an airspace services platform for unmanned aircraft.
Athena Karp
CEO & Founder of HiredScore
Athena Karp is the founder and CEO of HiredScore, an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to deliver deep hiring efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations adapt for the future of work. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition for delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry. Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Previously, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology and media companies. Athena is a member of the technology advisory board of Belmont Charter Network schools, and founder and board member of Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and healthy eating experiences. She formerly served on the board of the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, a network of charter schools with over 1,000 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. Athena holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also actively involved in rebuilding West Philadelphia and creating a sustainable model for poverty alleviation through various boards and initiatives.
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Sean Brehm
Co-Founder and President of Gradient Cyber
Sean Brehm is the Co-Founder and President at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Darren Morris
COO and Co-Founder of Gradient Cyber
Darren Morris is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Gradient Cyber.
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About Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Stan Blanton
Co-Founder and CTO of Gradient Cyber
Stan Blanton is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Carson Kahn
Co-Founder & Board Director of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for his innovations across AI and Natural Language Processing, Carson Kahn is currently the co-founder of Spindle (www.spindle.app), a no-code AI startup backed by Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT/Notion/Airtable), and diverse Fortune 100 executives. Previously, he served as President of Brainspace AI (acquired by Reveal with $200 million from K1 Capital), the world’s leading natural language analytics engine, originally backed by the CIA. Mr. Kahn is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Computer Science at the University of Colorado; Stanford University AII; UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research; and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC); and advises venture-backed startups in AI/ML, PaaS, FinTech & InfoSec as a Techstars Mentor and angel investor. Mr. Kahn also invests with the $100 million Pandemic Impact Fund (PIF), Thiel-backed VC firm SI Capital, and Transpire Ventures. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and elsewhere; and he has been tapped for expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and Future of Work by members of the Congressional Caucus on AI & National Economic Council. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as CEO (promoted from CTO) of JPMorgan In–Residence business Volley ML, saving Fortune 500 firms >$52 million in real labor annually with the first fully autonomous training & sales enablement platform for financial & health services. Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for Volley’s innovations, Mr. Kahn designed, built, and sold Volley’s machine learning platform alongside an NLP team from Google, the NSA/CIA, Carnagie Mellon, and Goldman Sachs, seeded by $10 million from JPMorgan, Silicon Valley Bank, Zuckerberg Ventures, and execs from Goldman, Apple, and Facebook; before being recruited to lead Brainspace AI prior to its acquisition. Formerly, as Head of Product and co-founder at Keystone Learning Systems (KLS), the first LMS to offer cloud-native analytics and ML features for U.S. secondaries supporting >355,000 accounts, Mr. Kahn helped pioneer its now widely-imitated “extended enterprise” deployment model, before co-leading the entity sale to SPPEF Stirup Partners. On the heels of an externship at Google (via the ATLAS Institute), he formerly spanned product & technical marketing on the founding team at Vetica.com, whose real-time collaboration product Draftboard garnered users like Adobe & AOL while generating revenue from day 1. When the product was acquired by UK investors, Vetica launched Chalk.com, today the one of the 10 most popular learning analytics platforms in North America. A Black Belt in Karate and avid sportsman, Mr. Kahn can frequently be found training in a racquetball court or behind the wheel of an ATV. In his spare time, Mr. Kahn also moonlights behind a jazz piano near his home in the East Cut, San Francisco. Media Contact: Stacey Murray (stacey.murray.consulting@gmail.com) Press Kit: carsonkahn.com/press-kit
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Stanford University, Techstars, University of Colorado: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Ryan Atallah
Co-Founder & CEO of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
As co-founder and CTO, entrepreneur and engineer Ryan Atallah sold his natural language analytics startup Cleargraph to Tableau for $30 million in 2017; after which Tableau was acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), where Ryan served as a senior Software Engineer Manager overseeing the NLP-powered Ask Data product now featured in Tableau’s offerings. He departed to co-found intelligent No-Code enterprise data applications platform Spindle (www.spindle.app) with his twice-cofounder Carson Kahn. Spindle is now backed by Accel Partners (Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT, Notion, Airtable, Vercel), and diverse Fortune 100 executives who share in its mission to give teams data superpowers.
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Tableau: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
David Black Jr
Founder and CEO of Patent Trade Corp
David Black is the Founder and CEO at Patent Trade Corp
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About Patent Trade Corp: IP Management and Exchange Software Services
Thomas Pasquet
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Ogury
Thomas Pasquet is an entrepreneur and business angel within the Digital Advertising market. After graduating from Grenoble Ecole de Management and a Master entrepreneur HEC, he co-founded the company BeeAd. BeeAd was the first outstream Adnetwork with innovative formats and was sold to e-buzzing group (Teads). After developing BeeAd in Europe (Uk, Italy, Spain, Germany), he left e-buzzing with his business partner Jean. BeeAd is now making around 50 million revenue worldwide. After this experience, they created Ogury Ltd, a British company focused on mobile advertising with a technology that allows the advertiser to chase new clients.
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About Ogury: Ogury is building a world of highly effective and sustainable advertising, anchored in consumer privacy protection.
Pat Hanrahan
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Tableau
Pat Hanrahan is Tableau Software’s Chief Scientist. He is also the CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he teaches computer graphics. His current research involves visualization, image synthesis, and graphics systems and architectures. Before joining Stanford he was a faculty member at Princeton. Pat has also worked at Pixar where he developed volume rendering software and was the chief architect of the RenderMan Interface – a protocol that allows modeling programs to describe scenes to high quality rendering programs. Pat has received two Academy Awards for Science and Technology, the Spirit of America Creativity Award, the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the SIGGRAPH Stephen A. Coons Award, and the IEEE Visualization Career Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Tyler Willis
Co-Founder of Unsupervised
Tyler is the President and Co-Founder of Unsupervised, which helps Fortune 500 companies become more data-driven by allowing them to analyze infinitely complex data and autonomously discover the biggest opportunities that their analysts and teams should be focused on. Tyler is also an angel investor, with investments in companies like Lambda School, Patreon, Lyft (IPO), Loungebuddy (acquired by Amex), and This is L. (acquired by P&G). Prior to Unsupervised, Tyler worked at AngelList, Hired.com, Unified, and Involver.
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About Ditto, Unsupervised: Unsupervised is an automated analytics platform provider that finds hidden insights in complex data.
Noah Horton
CEO & Co-Founder of Unsupervised
Noah Horton is the CEO and Co-Founder at Unsupervised. He is recognized by Inc.com as one of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30, Noah Horton was the CTO and Co-Founder of Involver. He is a seasoned software architect and executive with expertise in marketing, social networking, online video, advertising, and massively distributed systems. After completing a Double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science, he joined Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems. He has filed more than 25 patents and published articles on development techniques in widely read publications, including the Java Developer’s Journal. At Microsoft, Noah was a Developer Evangelist for the company’s Fortune 500 accounts. He was later the Program Manager for P2P protocols in Windows, and a member of the 9-person Networking Architecture Committee, which was charged with setting the technical direction of Microsoft’s entire Networking division. Before co-founding Involver, Noah was the software architect at NeoEdge Networks, an in-game advertising business. Among other things, he was responsible for designing many of the company’s ad products.
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About Unsupervised: Unsupervised is an automated analytics platform provider that finds hidden insights in complex data.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Larry Li
Managing Partner, Co-Founder of Amino Capital
Larry Li is a Founder and Managing Partner at AMINO Capital. He serves on the boards of String Lab (incubated Dfinity, and Phi), SkuChain, Candy House, Battlefy, etc. and leads investments in companies with successful exits or growth, such as Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Mobike (acquired by Meituan), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Human Longevity Inc, Skycatch, Skuchain, Webflow, and Grail. He has backed next-generation blockchain protocol since 2014 and led the seed and A round of String Labs, which incubated one the most anticipated ICOs in 2018, DFINITY, and also participated in pre-sales and ICO of DFINITY, NuCypher, Kyber, 0X, Grid+, OmiseGo, which later became known as the first ICO unicorn. Larry also co-founded TAF (invested in ZOOM) in 2010, and currently serves on the board of TEEC. Larry completed his B.E degree from Tsinghua University, attended Tsinghua Graduate School of Economics and Management in 1987, and completed his M.E degree at the University of Florida. As a successful investor, Larry also actively gives back to society by contributing to many nonprofit communities. He is a founding contributor of Tsinghua 100 Education Fund, Vice Chairman of TEEC North America, and Vice President of Tsinghua Business School Alumni Association at US West. He also serves on the board of UCAHP. Larry is a frequent speaker at international investment conferences, and a mentor for incubator programs, such as StartX at Stanford University. Larry was appointed as the Visiting Professor for Zhejiang University Business School in 2017.
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About Amino Capital: Amino Capital focusing on data driven startups, and blockchain powered next generation protocols.
Dan Wagner
Founder & CEO of Civis Analytics
Dan Wagner is ambassador for the firm’s external partnerships, representing the company’s vital, core interests as it engages client business opportunities. Dan served as the Chief Analytics Officer on the 2012 Obama campaign, overseeing a 54-person team of analysts, engineers and organizers that provided analytics and technologies for voter contact, digital, paid media, fundraising and communication. His department’s work was credited with “reinventing how national campaigns are done” and has been highlighted in Time Magazine, MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Los Angeles Times, and Harper’s. Dan began his work in politics as the Deputy Voter File Manager for Barack Obama during the 2008 Iowa caucuses, which defined the relevance of data, and client comprehension of data, in his career. That led to roles as the Great Lakes Targeting Desk and National Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Targeting Director, followed by the National Targeting Director at the Democratic National Committee for the 2010 election cycle. Dan previously worked with the FTI Consulting Economics Practice. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in economics and public policy. Dan is originally from Birmingham, Michigan, where he grew up imitating Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean” performance. He remains the first one on any dance floor. He is fluent in Spanish and, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident, cried during “Like Water for Chocolate.” He used to play congas – not to be confused with the bongos – in a DC funk band.
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About Civis Analytics: Civis Analytics is a software company that helps public and private sector organizations make data-driven decisions.
Steve Hilton
Co-Founder & CEO of Crowdpac
Steve Hilton is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley political crowdfunding and data start-up Crowdpac. He also teaches at Stanford University’s Institute of Design (d.school), and is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller More Human – Designing a World Where People Come First. Steve was previously Senior Advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, where he helped lead the implementation of the British government’s domestic reform program. Prior to the 2010 General Election, as David Cameron’s head of strategy, Steve is credited with helping to develop the ideas associated with the modernization of the British Conservative Party. Before working in politics, Steve was co-founder of Good Business, a corporate responsibility consulting firm, and The Good Cook, an award-winning London restaurant. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and young family. And 12 chickens.
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About Crowdpac: Crowdpac is a non-partisan political crowdfunding startup using technology and data to help citizens engage in politics.
Hicham Oudghiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Enigma Technologies
Hicham is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, an open data technology company. In addition to managing the company’s commercial efforts, Hicham contributes heavily to Enigma’s platform product development as well as to the company’s R&D in architecture for semantic linking of data. Prior to Enigma, Hicham was managing a private sustainable finance program in Africa at BMCE Bank in partnership with the World Bank Group. Hicham spearheaded project finance initiatives and created energy models for large-scale alternative energy projects in Africa . He also developed a rating system and software for environmental and social risk management across the bank’s entire commercial loan portfolio. Hicham started his career at an energy fund in Dallas, Texas where he was responsible for hedging physical energy assets against modeled counterparts in the electronic markets. Hicham holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Marc DaCosta
Co-Founder & Chairman of Enigma Technologies
Marc DaCosta is Co-Founder and Chairman of Enigma. Marc has deep expertise in both the technical and cultural aspects of how data can be harnessed to transform the way that organizations operate. In addition, Marc is a fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, collaborating with investigative journalists to develop new approaches to data-driven storytelling. Marc holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of California, where his research examined the social consequences of new forms of data analytics. Marc has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Intel Labs. Marc began his career as an intellectual property strategy consultant to Global 500 technology companies, where he helped develop offensive and defensive licensing strategies.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Guy Zyskind
Founder & CEO of Enigma
Guy is a long time tinkerer, most comfortable sitting at the intersection of entrepreneurship and research, and he is deeply passionate about decentralization. Prior to Enigma, Guy was a graduate student at MIT researching and teaching blockchain technology. Guy has authored several academic papers, most recently on privacy and the blockchain, including the Enigma whitepaper (downloaded over 100K times) and “Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data” which has received over 200 citations. Previously, Guy led the development of several start-up companies. Guy holds a M.S. from MIT and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.
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About Enigma: Enigma shares and analyzes encrypted data.
Can Kisagun
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder of Enigma
Can started his career at McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 3 years focusing primarily on finance and banking engagements. Can holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and BSc in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University. Prior to Enigma, Can started a Fintech company in the blockchain space.
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About Enigma: Enigma shares and analyzes encrypted data.
L.D. Salmanson
Co-Founder of Cherre
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About Cherre, The Salmanson Fund: The Leading Real Estate Data Management and Analytics Platform
Ben Hizak
Co- Founder of Cherre
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About Cherre: The Leading Real Estate Data Management and Analytics Platform
Isaac Silverman
CEO & Founder of Daydream
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About Daydream: Democratizing the financial model. Stealth.
Sampriti Bhattacharyya
Founder of Hydroswarm
Sampriti Bhattacharyya is a roboticist, and founder of an underwater drone startup, Hydroswarm. She is a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, with a MS in Aerospace Engineering, and a BS in Electrical Engineering. Hydroswarm has gained both national and international attention, being featured by leading outlets like Forbes, The Guardian, Smithsonian, TechCrunch and many others. Sampriti has been as named one of Forbes 30 under 30, Class of 2016; Robohub’s 25 Women in Robotics, 2014; and Connected World’s 2016 Women of M2M. She is an active advocate for women in STEM fields.
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About Hydroswarm, Navier, ONET Global: Hydroswarm is building data infrastructure for the world’s oceans.
Krishna Gade
Founder & CEO of Fiddler AI
Krishna is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler Labs, an enterprise startup building an Explainable AI Engine to address problems regarding bias, fairness and transparency in AI. At Facebook, he led the team that built Facebook’s explainability feature ‘Why am I seeing this?’. He’s an entrepreneur with a technical background with experience creating scalable platforms and expertise in converting data into intelligence. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Microsoft, he’s seen the effects that bias has on AI and machine learning decision making processes, and with Fiddler, his goal is to enable enterprises across the globe solve this problem.
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About Fiddler AI, Pinterest: Fiddler is a purpose-built ML performance monitoring platform powered by Explainable AI to validate, explain, monitor, and analyze AI.
Amit Paka
Founder and CPO of Fiddler AI
Building Parable, the Creative Photo Network for iPhone & iPad. Parable is Instagram for Thoughts.Amit led PayPal’s consumer in-store mobile payment experiences. Earlier, he released Flockish, a mobile social networking platform, on Android & iOS. It is now part of the eBay family. In the past, Amit ran product management for mobile apps at StubHub. He’s also developed successful startup products particularly in online advertising – paid search, contextual, ad exchange and display advertising.Specialties: Mobile, Product Strategy, Product Management, Payments, Technical Product Development, Social Networking, Display/Search/Contextual Advertising, Large Scale Web Services
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About Fiddler AI, Parable, PayPal: Fiddler is a purpose-built ML performance monitoring platform powered by Explainable AI to validate, explain, monitor, and analyze AI.
Manoj Cheenath
Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Fiddler AI
Manoj Cheenath is a Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Fiddler.
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About Fiddler AI: Fiddler is a purpose-built ML performance monitoring platform powered by Explainable AI to validate, explain, monitor, and analyze AI.
Lillian Chou
Co-Founder and COO of Bloomberg Second Measure
Lillian Chou is the Co-Founder and COO of Second Measure. She is a former Manager, Data Systems & Analytics at Rumble and Product Manager, Analytics at Electronic Arts (EA). Ms. Chou graduated from the University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School with a bachelor of science in Economics and concentration in Marketing.
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About Bloomberg Second Measure: Bloomberg Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior.
Michael Babineau
Co-Founder & CEO of Bloomberg Second Measure
Co-Founder of Second Measure.
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About Bloomberg Second Measure: Bloomberg Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior.
David P. Mariani
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of AtScale
Dave Mariani is one of the co-founders of AtScale and is the VP of Technology. Prior to AtScale,he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.
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About AtScale: AtScale is an intelligent data virtualization company that provides a single, secured, and governed workspace for distributed data.
William R. Adler
Co-Founder, CEO, and President of True Fit
William R. Adler, also known as Bill, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of True Fit Corporation and TrueFit Solutions, Inc. William Adler was a Timberland executive who has multiple generations of apparel leaders. He has 20+ years of leadership and general management experience. He successfully led True Fit’s pivot from direct retailer to a big data SaaS solution for major retailers and brands.
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About True Fit: True Fit provides an intelligent data platform created for fashion retailers to find online stores.
Jessica Murphy
Co-Founder & COO of True Fit
Co-Founder | VP Operations at True Fit
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About True Fit: True Fit provides an intelligent data platform created for fashion retailers to find online stores.
Tim Sweeney
Co-Founder & CEO of Inflammatix
Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD is the co-Founder & CEO of Inflammatix, Inc., which focuses on using robust informatics and machine learning to derive novel HostDx™ diagnostics based on ‘reading’ patterns in the immune system. Inflammatix’s first tests are focused on diagnosing acute bacterial and viral infections and sepsis. The company is funded by Khosla Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund and the U.S. government’s DARPA program. Tim Sweeney completed his MD and PhD at Duke University, after which he was a surgery resident at Stanford. While training as a surgeon, he became frustrated with the limitations of current diagnostic tools for infection. During his residency, he completed a postdoctorate MS in Biomedical Informatics, mentored by Dr. Purvesh Khatri. Together they designed the custom informatics algorithms for sifting through heterogeneous ‘big data,’ which formed the core technology on which Inflammatix is based.
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About Inflammatix: Inflammatix develops novel molecular diagnostics for acute infections and sepsis that work by reading the immune system.
Christine Lemke
Co-Founder & President of Evidation Health
As Chief Product Officer, Christine leads product management and development at Evidation Health. Previously, Christine co-founded and led The Activity Exchange, an insight and personalization platform that helps healthcare companies deliver the right digital interventions and incentives to consumers to help them achieve sustainable behavior change. Prior to her work in healthcare, Christine was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sense Networks, developers of the first machine learning platform for mobile phone activity data (exited to YP.com). She has also held roles at 3iGroup (Paris), Microsoft XBOX and co-founded Chicago-based Channel IQ, a product analytics platform. Christine has a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from HEC Paris.
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About Evidation Health, Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Mikki Nasch
Head of Business Development & Co-Founder of Evidation Health
Mikki Nasch is responsible for business development at Evidation Health. Most recently, Mikki cofounded and led business activities at The Activity Exchange. Previously, Mikki was on the founding team of Sense Networks (exited to YP.com) and served as EVP of Business Development. Mikki has been the Vice President of Market Management at Fair Isaac, Inc. (NYSE: FIC), held leadership positions in the incubation phase of numerous startups, and led development of products, sales strategies, business models and corporate vision, leading early-stage software venture capital funds. She was a founding member of BackWeb Technologies (NASD: BWEB), and began her career as a network engineer for the US and European governments.
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About Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Alex Johnson
CTO & Co-Founder of Plotly
Alex is Plotly’s CTO and the instigator of Plotly.js. He also consults for Microsoft Research and the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, focusing on data acquisition for quantum computing experiments. Alex holds a BS in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University. He has 20 peer reviewed publications, including 2006 paper of the year in Science, and other top journals including Nature, Physical Review Letters, and Journal of Power Sources. He has previously worked in the fields of semiconductor optics, quantum information, magnetic resonance imaging, hydrogen fuel cells, and photovoltaic power.
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About Plotly: Plotly is a data science and AI company that makes it easy to create and deploy interactive web apps in any programming language.
Matt Cox
Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon AI
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About Beacon AI: Beacon AI focuses on applying deep aviation and AI on public, commerical, and private fleets.
Andrew Musto
Co-Founder of Beacon AI
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About Beacon AI: Beacon AI focuses on applying deep aviation and AI on public, commerical, and private fleets.
Avinash Nair
Co-Founder of Beacon AI
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About Beacon AI: Beacon AI focuses on applying deep aviation and AI on public, commerical, and private fleets.
Tomer Shiran
Co-Founder & CPO of Dremio
Tomer Shiran heads the product management team at MapR and is responsible for product strategy, roadmap and requirements. Prior to MapR, Tomer held numerous product management and engineering roles at Microsoft, most recently as the product manager for Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server (now Microsoft Forefront). He is the founder of two websites that have served tens of millions of users, and received coverage in prestigious publications such as The New York Times, USA Today and The Times of London. Tomer is also the author of a 900-page programming book. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Computer Science from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
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About Dremio: Dremio is a data lake engine that offers tools to help streamline and curate data.
Fangjin Yang
Co-Founder and CEO of Imply
Fangjin Yang is a co-author of the open source Druid project and a co-founder of Imply, a data analytics startup based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he held senior engineering positions at Metamarkets (acquired by Snapchat) and Cisco Systems. Fangjin holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Gian Merlino
Co-Founder and CTO of Imply
Gian Merlino is CTO and cofounder of Imply and is one of the original committers of the Druid project.Previously, he worked at Metamarkets and Yahoo. Gian holds a BS in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Vadim Ogievetsky
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Imply
Vadim Ogievetsky is Co-founder & CPO at Imply.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Krishna Kumar
CEO & Founder of App Orchid Inc
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About App Orchid Inc: The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI fueled apps for the energy, utilities, Insurance and healthcare industries.
Josh Mackanic
Founder & CEO of CivilGrid
Energy industry leader, experienced in organizing and leading multidisciplinary teams to implement large capital infrastructure programs and change initiatives. At PG&E, developed solar power plants on the largest utility owned solar program in the nation, and successfully led the integration of safety automation technology new to natural gas utilities across the country.
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About CivilGrid: Local intelligence for global construction.
Shelton Mercer III
CoFounder of AuDIGENT
Shelton is an award-winning executive, tech entrepreneur and philanthropist, with a myriad of significant achievements in global business, technology and social impact. Shelton is CoFounder of big data/media technology company AuDigent. Before AuDigent, Shelton was CEO and CoFounder of, Mashable award winner, TwitChange which has partnered with hundreds of celebrities and brands to raise millions for charity, cause and crisis via social media. Shelton has created technology-fueled audience strategies and that have delivered chart toppers for Disney, Jonas Bros, Warner Bros, NBC, Sony, Walden, Participant and dozens of entertainment brands. During his tenure at Lucent Technologies Shelton managed a portfolio of Fortune 100 clients and was a perennial President’s Club member. He directed the implementation of the “world’s largest” digital voice messaging network (150K users 600 sites) for General Electric. He also led significant international projects, in EMEA, S. America, Asia and Oceania, for KPMG, Marsh Inc, Johnson & Johnson, Dow and Astra Zeneca. Shelton moved to the philanthropy sector in 2002. While COO/CIO at DVAEYC, he launched a revenue generating, social venture that provides technology services to childcare programs in PA. In 2007 he was tapped to direct Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia, a multi-million dollar, government funded youth violence reduction initiative. As interim COO and Advisory Board Chair at Stop Hunger Now, Shelton directed significant corporate social responsibility partnerships with Salesforce, Microsoft, Glaxo Smith Kline and Genworth which resulted in hundreds of thousands of volunteers package hundreds of millions of meals that have been delivered to dozens of nations. A celebrated philanthropist, ordained pastor and certified leadership coach, Shelton regularly travels to developing nations and crisis points and speaks to groups on topics ranging from ‘Strategic Visioneering’ and ‘Social Mobilization’ to ‘Living on Purpose’ and ‘Leading With Passion.’
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About AuDIGENT, Startup Grind, The Mercer Advisory Group, TwitChange: Audigent is a next-generation DMP and a first-of-a-kind “data agency” comprised of exclusive entertainment, sports, and lifestyle audiences.
Drew Stein
Co-Founder & CEO of AuDIGENT
Founding and launching the Music Production division of the company in 2004, Drew is the driving force behind the company’s expansion into new areas and the glue that connects all of the company’s pieces together. An accomplished composer and musician, Drew has creative directed and/or written over 2,500 individual tracks over the years and has been one of the company’s chief creative resources. Whether it is sitting down to write tracks from scratch, producing vocal sessions, co-writing with other composers, or overseeing award-winning projects, Drew is a hands-on leader spending the majority of his time immersed in the creative process and pushing composers to do their best work. An accomplished entrepreneur and chief executive, Drew began his music career promoting concerts in Chicago before immersing himself in the advertising industry at Elias Arts, a world renowned music company. With an infectious enthusiasm and drive, Drew brings a wealth of experience in the composition, production, branding, record production, publishing, strategy, and finance areas. No stranger to the birth of new companies, Drew successfully founded and launched a sound branding company whose pioneering applications of traditional branding and identity processes using music and sound landed blue-chip clients like IBM, Motorola, Palm, Apple, Verizon, and Nike. His latest endeavor, Audigent, is a unique data company, backed by Warner Music Group, that delivers insights into artist audiences for brands.
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About AuDIGENT, The Music Playground, The Station Media: Audigent is a next-generation DMP and a first-of-a-kind “data agency” comprised of exclusive entertainment, sports, and lifestyle audiences.
Brian Brater
Co-Founder / Executive Chairman of AuDIGENT
Brian has spent the last 20 years building and monetizing massive audiences around pop culture. Before co-founding AuDigent he co-founded the legendary Rawkus Records (sold to Universal Music Group in 2004), where he signed and developed classic artists like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Eminem, and Dr. Luke. In 2007 he co-founded digital media giant UPROXX (sold to Woven Digital in 2014), the #1 Entertainment News and Culture destination for millennial males. In 2011 he co-founded Big Frame (sold to Dreamworks Animation and merged with AwesomenessTV in 2014), one of the dominant multi-channel networks providing talent representation and influencer marketing for some of the world’s biggest Youtube stars. Brian is a lifetime New Yorker and a proud jazz musician and electronic music producer.
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About AuDIGENT, Big Frame, UPROXX: Audigent is a next-generation DMP and a first-of-a-kind “data agency” comprised of exclusive entertainment, sports, and lifestyle audiences.
Tarun Thakur
Co-Founder & CEO of Datos IO
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About Confidential (In stealth mode), Datos IO: Datos IO provides enterprise-class recovery solutions for scale-out databases and cloud databases.
Prasenjit Sarkar
Co-Founder & CTO of Datos IO
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About Datos IO, Rubrik: Datos IO provides enterprise-class recovery solutions for scale-out databases and cloud databases.
Raunak Bhinge
CEO, Managing Director & Founder of Infinite Uptime
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
David Wilkinson
CEO & Founder of HASH
Founder and CEO of HASH; interested in market failures (and solving them in practice). Previously founded a blog network and software development consultancy/product studio.
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About HASH: HASH enables real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems
Joe Fraiman
Co-Founder and President of Lyric
Joe is a Founder & President of Lyric. He is a professional nomad, adventure traveler, a certified BBQ judge, and interior design junkie. Over the last 15 years he’s lived in countless apartments across the country — and he obsessively designed each one. Along the way he hiked 1000 miles on the Appalachian Trail, crossed Asia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Joe has worked in construction in Alaska, developed top-secret defense software in San Diego, and raised money for the world’s largest hedge fund in Connecticut. He studied computer science and philosophy at Dartmouth College and NYU.
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About Lyric: Lyric is a tech and data-powered real estate and lifestyle hospitality company for the modern business traveler.
Andrew Kitchell
CEO & Co-Founder of Lyric
Andrew Kitchell is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Lyric and Wheelhouse. He is a former CEO & Founder at Beyond Pricing and Founder, Product Design at 30 Words. Mr. Kitchell studied at Duke University.
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About Lyric, Wheelhouse: Lyric is a tech and data-powered real estate and lifestyle hospitality company for the modern business traveler.
Felix Orwa
Founder/CEO of SOTE
Felix Orwa is the Founder & CEO of Sote. He is a former professional pilot.
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About SOTE: Sote is building the digital logistics infrastructure and largest B2B marketplace for Africa.
Scott Yacko
Founder/CTO of SOTE
Scott Yacko is the CTO & Co-founder at Sote.
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About SOTE: Sote is building the digital logistics infrastructure and largest B2B marketplace for Africa.
Damian Manning
Founder & CEO of HIFI
Damian Manning is a hacker, investor and serial entrepreneur with 20 years of commercial innovation and a dedication to creating groundbreaking online experiences for consumers. He is a founding venture partner at early-stage capital firm DEV, mentor at ERA and Golden Gate Ventures, and advisor to multiple high-profile startups, including Co-Star, Muserk and Stationhead. With his latest venture HIFI, Damian harnesses the remarkable power of AI to service the music industry. Previously, Damian was co-founder, CEO and principal architect of Echospin, whose pioneering solutions enabled rights holders to sell digital, physical and mobile goods directly to fans. Acquired in 2010, Echospin powered campaigns for the world’s chart-topping artists, generating millions in revenue for the major labels, Disney and Live Nation, among others. Earlier in his career, Damian served as Managing Director for Digital Strategy Partners and VP, Digital Media for MTV Networks, where he led global digital strategy when MTV was the top music destination in the world.
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About Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV), HIFI: HIFI is a financial rights organization for the music industry.
Adam Kamor
Head of Engineering and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Adam Kamor is a Head of Engineering and Co-Founder at Tonic. Since completing his Ph.D. in Physics at Georgia Tech, Adam has committed himself to further the work of others through the programs he develops. At Microsoft and Kabbage, he handled UI design and determined new features to anticipate customer needs. At Tableau, he developed the platform’s analytics/calculation engine. He also founded IOT Pipe, an open source project for connecting devices to the web. The obstacles he encountered in working with data as a developer motivate him to deliver a solution that will transform the work of fellow developers, analysts, and program users alike.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
