Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Business Intelligence 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.
Wayne Chang
Co-Founder of Digits
Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter’s IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seed investments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.
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About Digits: Digits is building financial technology so powerful.. you’ll think they stole it from the future
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Jeff Seibert
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Digits
As Senior Director of Product at Twitter, Jeff has led the company’s consumer, developer, and publisher facing products, including Twitter for iOS, Android, and the Web, Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, Twitter Kit, TweetDeck, Twitter’s Publisher Platform, and Gnip. Previously, Seibert was Twitter’s Director of Developer Platform where he led Fabric, the company’s suite of mobile developer tools, as well as its enterprise Data Platform and Content Syndication efforts. Seibert was the co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics, an award-winning crash analysis service for iOS and Android apps. Crashlytics was acquired by Twitter in 2013 and has become an essential piece of the mobile developer toolchain – today powering over a million apps across well over two billion devices worldwide. Seibert co-founded Increo in 2007 and served as its COO and lead architect until its acquisition by Box in 2009. He subsequently oversaw the integration of Increo’s document preview and annotation technologies into Box’s cloud content platform. Seibert gained experience at Apple in both marketing and engineering capacities and led Stanford University’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series as Co-Coordinator. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008. Seibert is a frequent presenter on both entrepreneurship and technical topics and has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, as well as keynoted Twitter Flight, AppsWorld, AnDevCon, EclipseCon, and others. Find him on Twitter at @JeffSeibert.
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About Digits: Digits is building financial technology so powerful.. you’ll think they stole it from the future
Michael Bloomberg
Founder and CEO of Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served three terms as Mayor of the City of New York. In 1966, Michael R. Bloomberg was hired by a Wall Street firm, Salomon Brothers, for an entry-level job. When Salomon was acquired in 1981, he was let go from the firm. Then with a vision of an Information Technology Company, that would bring quality to the buying and selling of financial securities, Michael R. Bloomberg launched a small startup in a one room office. Today, Bloomberg Company is a global company that has more than 15,000 employees and offices in 73 countries around the world. During his occupancy as Mayor, from 2002 through 2013, he turned around a broken public school system by raising standards and holding schools accountable for success. Michael R. Bloomberg’s economic policies helped New York City experience record-levels of private-sector job growth often in formerly depressed neighborhoods. His passion for public health led to new strategies that became national representations, including a ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces, as well as at parks and beaches. Michael R. Bloomberg launched pioneering anti-poverty efforts, including the Young Men’s Initiative and the Center for Economic Opportunity. He launched national bi-partisan coalitions to combat illegal guns, reform immigration, and invest in infrastructure. In addition to Bloomberg Philanthropies’ five areas of focus: public health, arts and culture, the environment, education, and government innovation, Michael R. Bloomberg has continued to support projects of other importance to him, including his university, Johns Hopkins University, where he served as the chairman of the board of trustees from 1996 to 2001. The university’s School of Hygiene and Public Health, the largest public health facility in the U.S., is the Bloomberg School of Public Health in recognition of his commitment and support. He has donated more than $2.4 billion to a wide variety of causes and organizations. As chair of the C40 Climate Leadership Group from 2010 to 2013, Michael R. Bloomberg drew international attention to cities’ leading role in the fight against climate change. In 2014, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Michael R. Bloomberg to be U.N. Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change where he will focus on helping cities and countries set and achieve more climate change goals. Michael R. Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins University till 1964, and later he attended Harvard Business School from where he obtained an MBA.
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About Bloomberg, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg TV, United Nations: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Thomas Secunda
Co-Founder, Vice Chairman & Global Head of Financial Products & Services of Bloomberg
Thomas Secunda, also known as Tom is Co-Founder of Bloomberg LP and serves as its Vice Chairman and Global Head of Financial Products & Services. Secunda served as the Chief Information Officer Bloomberg LP. He has overseen all research and development for Bloomberg, whose worldwide businesses include the Bloomberg Professional Service, television and radio networks and publishing operations. He served as the Chairman of The Board of Trustees at National Parks Conservation Association. Previously, he worked alongside Michael Bloomberg in systems research at Salomon Brothers. He serves as a Director of Bloomberg L.P. He serves on the Boards of The National Parks Conservation Association and the Intrepid Museum Foundation.
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About Bloomberg, Bloomberg TV: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Matthew Winkler
Editor in Chief Emeritus & Founder of Bloomberg News of Bloomberg
Matthew Winkler, also known as Matt, is the News Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and has been its Editor-In-Chief Emeritus since 2015. Winkler served as its Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg L.P. Between 1991 and 1994, Winkler wrote the Capital Markets column for Forbes magazine. Between July 1980 and February 1990, Winkler was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and news services of parent Dow Jones & Co. in New York and in London. He was a New York-based reporter and assistant editor at The Bond Buyer (1978-1980); and a reporter for the Ohio-based Mount Vernon News (1976-1977). Winkler serves as Member of Advisory Board at Tsinghua University. He is trustee of Kenyon and The Kenyon Review; trustee of the business journalism program of the City University of New York; director of the International Center for Journalists; member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists; the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York board and the International Women’s Media Foundation board; chairman, board of Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program at Columbia University; member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College. He is co-author of Bloomberg by Bloomberg (April 1997, John Wiley & Sons) and author of The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors, (Wiley). Winkler is a graduate of Kenyon College (A.B. in history, honorary doctorate of Laws).
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About Bloomberg: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
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.
Sam Lessin
Co-Founder of Fin.com
Sam is currently the co-CEO of Fin and a General Partner at Slow Ventures. He was formerly a vice president of product management at Facebook from 2010 to 2014, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Prior to joining Facebook Sam founded drop.io, a file-sharing platform that was acquired by Facebook in 2010. Before drop.io Sam was an associate at Bain and Company. In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He writes a column at The Information, where he interns.
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About Fin.com, Slow Ventures, SocialGreat, Thimble: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Andrew Gazdecki
Founder and CEO of MicroAcquire
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About Altcoin.io, Bizness Apps, MicroAcquire: MicroAcquire is a startup acquisition marketplace that helps startups find buyers and get acquired.
Ashutosh Garg
CEO & Co-Founder of Eightfold
Ashutosh Garg is the CEO and co-founder of eightfold.ai and a true guru of all things AI, with 10 years of information retrieval, machine learning and search experience. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BloomReach. Prior to that, he was at IBM research. He is also a prolific publisher/inventor, with a book on machine learning, 30+ papers, and 50+ patents. Ashutosh holds a BTech from IIT-Delhi and a PhD from U of Illinois UC. Ashutosh has numerous awards, including best thesis award at IIT Delhi, IBM Fellowship and outstanding researcher award at UIUC.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Varun Kacholia
CTO and Co-Founder of Eightfold
Varun Kacholia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eightfold.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Jon Brelig
Co-Founder, CTO of Cascade
Jon Brelig is the Co-Founder and CTO at Cascade.
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About Cascade: Cascade helps operations teams automate their data workflows.
Aykut Karaalioglu
Founder & CEO of Mobile Action
Aykut Karaalioglu is the founder of Mobile Action, a company specialized in mobile discovery and optimization. He also co-founded Marro.ws, a clipping tool for intellectual people, and Shoppe, a shopping application. Karaalioglu holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Bilkent University. He obtained his master’s degree from Santa Clara University. Karaalioglu currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About Mobile Action: Leading mobile intelligence company empowering app marketers to thrive in the market.
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.
Aaron Frazin
Founder and CEO of Detective
Aaron Frazin is the Founder and CEO of Detective.io.
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About Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
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.
Manoj Ramnani
Founder and CEO of SalesIntel
Manoj Ramnani is the founder and CEO of SalesIntel.io and CircleBack, Inc. He was formerly the CEO of Dub Labs. Manoj holds a master’s degree from The George Washington University – School of Business.
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About CircleBack, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder and CEO of AppsFlyer
Oren Kaniel is the CEO & co-founder of AppsFlyer, the market leader in Mobile Attribution Analytics. Oren holds a BA in Computer Science, Cum Laude, from the Technion, and an MBA from IDC, as part of an exchange with the Wharton Business School.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Reshef Mann
Co-Founder & CTO of AppsFlyer
Reshef Mann is Co-Founder & CTO at AppsFlyer.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Joseph Quan
CEOa and Founder of Knoetic
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About CPOHQ, Knoetic, Twine: Knoetic is the all-in-one platform built for Chief People Officers. Powerful people analytics & the world’s #1 CPO community (CPOHQ).
Paul Keary
Founder & COO of Teneo
Paul Keary is a co-founder of Teneo and COO of the company’s 12 operating divisions globally. Prior to Teneo, Mr. Keary ran a business and communications strategy consultancy where he advised some of the largest companies in the world on reputational, operational and strategic challenges and opportunities. Mr. Keary previously served as Senior Managing Director and Director of Business Integration at FTI Consulting (FTI), one of the world’s leading international consulting companies. He also served with the Company’s Executive Committee. FTI, then a 3,500-person-strong consulting firm, advises companies and intermediaries on investigations, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues, reputation management and restructuring. Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Keary ran the North American business of Financial Dynamics (FD), the world’s largest business communications consultancy. Mr. Keary was instrumental in growing the business through a strategy of acquisition and organic-based growth, and also advised Fortune 500 companies, governments and industry organizations on positioning strategy, reputation management, capital market communications and crisis management strategies. Prior to joining FD, Mr. Keary held a senior management position for a leading global communications agency and worked extensively in Europe, Middle East and the Americas, advising a wide number of blue chip technology companies on communications strategy surrounding IPOs and M&A activity. Mr. Keary was also previously Head of Communications for Xerox Europe Ltd. during a time of significant restructuring and realignment for the company.
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About Teneo: A New York-based corporate advisory firm
Ben Porterfield
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of Looker
Ben Porterfield is the co-founder and VP of engineering at Looker. He held positions for various companies including Readyforce, Rally Up Inc., BlackArrow, and Sticky Inc. Ben holds a BS in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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About Looker: Looker is a an enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
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.
Evan Kohlmann
Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer of Flashpoint
Evan Kohlmann is responsible for innovation and product development at Flashpoint. He has served as a private sector International Terrorism Consultant who has spent over a decade tracking Al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations. In addition to being an on-air terrorism anlayst for NBC, he has consulted on terrorism matters for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY) at the Hague, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Scotland Yard’s SO-15 Counter Terrorism Command, the Central Scotland Police, West Yorkshire Police, and the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET).
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
George Sivulka
Founder & CEO of Hebbia
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About Hebbia: Hebbia is a cutting-edge ML productivity tool that supercharges knowledge workers.
Matt Ford
Founder & CEO of CommerceJet
Matt Ford is co-founder and CEO at CommerceJet.
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About CommerceJet: Think of CommerceJet as command central for omnichannel e-commerce.
Satyen Sangani
CEO & Co-Founder of Alation
Satyen Sangani founded Alation in July 2012, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer. He spent nearly a decade at Oracle, ultimately running the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business where he helped customers get insights out of their systems. Prior to Oracle, he was an Associate with the Texas Pacific Group and an Analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co. Mr. Sangani holds a Masters from the University of Oxford and a Bachelors from Columbia College, both in Economics.
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About Alation: Alation offers a machine learning data catalog to help people find, understand, and trust data across their organizations.
Aaron Kalb
Co-Founder + Chief Data & Analytics Officer of Alation
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About Alation, Alchemist Accelerator: Alation offers a machine learning data catalog to help people find, understand, and trust data across their organizations.
Reggie Aggarwal (CEO and Founder)
Founder & CEO of Cvent
Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, the leader in meetings, events and hospitality software. A lawyer by trade, Reggie founded Cvent in 1999 as a two-person startup, with the goal of making meeting planning easier for his peers in the business community. Reggie was named the #1 SaaS CEO by The SaaS Report in their 2019 Top 50 SaaS CEO list and Entrepreneur of the Year for the Washington, DC area by Ernst & Young. He was also named the most admired CEO in the Washington, DC area by the Washington Business Journal, one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and a rising star by Forbes Magazine. He has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. He has also been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and several other popular news shows.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Chuck Ghoorah (Co-founder)
Co-Founder & President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing of Cvent
Chuck Ghoorah is the co-founder and President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Cvent. Chuck has been instrumental in Cvent’s growth from a two-person startup to an industry-leading global organization. Cvent has helped its more than 30,000 customers manage millions of events.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
David Quattrone
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Cvent
David Quattrone has been with Cvent since the company’s founding, bringing a wealth of expertise in designing and developing large-scale Internet applications. David designed and supervised the development of Cvent’s original beta product as well as all of Cvent’s subsequent product releases, upgrades and redesigns. Prior to co-founding Cvent, David worked at First Consulting Group, a leading provider of information-based consulting, integration, and management services. There, David specialized in large-scale custom Internet/Intranet application design and development. David’s clients included BlueCross/BlueShield Association, United States Postal Service, and MCI. He was also a Consultant with E.J. Bell Systems, a software integration and application development firm, where he helped found the company’s Internet/Intranet development practice. Prior to E.J. Bell Systems, David co-founded Network Resources Group, a New York based firm specializing in Internet software integration and application development. At Network Resources Group, David created the Online Gaming Review, an online publication subsequently acquired by Air Age publishing.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
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.
Deepak Anchala
Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel
Deepak Anchala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel.
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About Slintel: Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent to help companies identify potential buyers in their target market.
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
Tomas Puig
CEO / Founder of Alembic
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About Alembic, Test Kitchen Capital: SaaS, Marketing, Analytics
Jeremy Levy
Co-Founder & CEO of Indicative
Mr. Jeremy Levy co-founded Indicative, Inc. in 2013 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Levy co-founded meetMoi, LLC and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Levy oversaw meetMoi’s technical architecture and engineering. Prior to meetMoi, he worked for Morgan Stanley, where he helped design and build the content management, workflow and trade approval systems. He has over 10 years of experience in the full life-cycle of software development ranging from design to execution. Prior to meetMoi, Mr. Levy served as software architect working in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance. He worked for Pfizer, where he designed and implementED its Intranet portal for its 12,000 person sales force. He began his career as a developer at Joltage, an infrastructure services business. Mr. Levy holds a BS from Syracuse University.
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About Deciding by Data Podcast, Indicative: SaaS company that provides behavioral analytics solutions.
Gaurav Rewari
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Numerify
Gaurav is a co-founder and CEO of Numerify. Most recently, Gaurav was Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle of a $2.5 billion Business Analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle BI and Siebel Analytics product lines. During his tenure, his team furthered Oracle’s industry leading position in analytics, and measurably advanced its BI Platform market share through the acquisition of Endeca and the introduction of the Exalytics in-memory Analytics machine, a product with one of the fastest ramps in Oracle’s history. Gaurav started his career as the first product manager at MicroStrategy where he rose to become VP/GM with responsibility for MicroStrategy’s Product Management, Professional Services & Analytical Applications divisions. He was part of a management team that grew MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through its IPO and into a $200M+ BI products leader. Before Oracle, Gaurav was co-founder & CEO of FirstRain, a venture-backed leader in SaaS search-based market intelligence. Outside Numerify, Gaurav enjoys going on nature treks in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and children. Gaurav holds BS, MS & EE degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the Tau Beta Pi prize for Engineering Excellence, the Robert A. Boit prize in Humanities and was nominated to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Srikant Gokulnatha
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Numerify
Srikant is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer for Numerify. Before founding Numerify, he was a Vice President of Product Development at Oracle where he was responsible for the development of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications as well as the development of BI based content for the Oracle SaaS Applications. Prior to Oracle, he headed up product management for MicroStrategy’s business intelligence products and served as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. Outside Numerify, Srikant spends his time playing and coaching soccer, going on hikes with his family, and volunteering for various school district committees. He is a renowned home cook and his children think he makes the greatest humus in the greater Saratoga area. His collection of masks from around the world has been known to scare young children. Srikant received his MBA with the highest honors and as a Palmer Scholar from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Sadanand Sahasrabudhe
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of Numerify
Sadanand is a Co-founder and Chief Architect of Numerify. Prior to Numerify, he held leadership positions in engineering, product management and solutions consulting at multiple Business Intelligence and Analytics companies. Early in his career, Sadanand was a key architect on the team that built the industry-leading analytical engine at MicroStrategy. He has designed products and implemented analytics solutions for large commercial enterprises and government agencies. When not working, Sadanand enjoys playing racquetball and following (almost) all sports. He is also a wine lover and an eternally struggling cook. Sadanand holds B.E. and MS degrees in Computer Science from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and Virginia Tech respectively.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Bhavuk Kaul
Founder & CEO of Plate IQ
Co-Founder & CEO at Plate iQ.
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About Plate IQ: Plate IQ saves restaurants time and money by automating their invoice processing and accounts payable.
Josh Pigford
Founder of Baremetrics
Josh Pigford is the Founder of Baremetrics, Inc. Josh was the co-founder & CEO of Temper and PopSurvey. Josh is a designer/developer hybrid with a penchant for problem solving. He’s solved both design & development problems for companies like Adobe, AOL, Dell and even a U.S. Presidential candidate, along with countless startups & small businesses.
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About Baremetrics: Subscription Analytics and Insights
Robert LoCascio
Founder & CEO of LivePerson
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About LivePerson: LivePerson provides real-time intelligent customer engagement solutions that help companies enhance the relationship with their customers.
Alexander Rinke
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Celonis
Alexander Rinke Co-CEO and Co-founder Celonis Alexander Rinke is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Celonis, the leader in the leader in turning process insights into action for business transformation. Under his leadership Celonis has been named by Gartner as the “clear market leader” in the process mining category, as well as becoming one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies and one of only 242 “unicorns” in the world valued at $1B. Alexander was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list of top achievers under the age of 30 in 2015 and was recently appointed to the Forbes Technology Council. He is a frequent speaker on topics of how to accelerate and operational change that achieves productivity and an exceptional customer experience. Alexander studied Mathematics at Technical University of Munich and École Polytechnique in Paris.
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About Celonis: Celonis provides an Execution Management System that helps companies in running their business processes.
Zach Kelling
Founder and CEO of Hanzo
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About Hanzo: Hanzo enables businesses to launch and operate blockchain networks, develop decentralized applications and deliver compelling experiences.
Anukool Lakhina
Founder & President of Guavus
Anukool Lakhina founded Guavus, Inc. in February 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Anukool Lakhina has more than a decade of thought leadership in large-scale data analytics and has published more than a dozen papers on the subject. His Ph.D. dissertation put forth the theory and algorithms for streaming analytics on high-dimensional data, which forms the basis for the technology at Guavus. Prior to Guavus, he was at Intel Research and Sprint Labs. Anukool Lakhina serves as the Director at Guavus, Inc. He holds a B.S., M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University.
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About Guavus: Guavus is a big data analytics company developing apps that allow companies to embed data driven-decisions into agile businesses processes.
Efstathios Maroulis
Founder and CEO of Jarvis Analytics
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About Henry Schein One, Jarvis Analytics, Mesasix: Jarvis is a business intelligence (BI) platform that is a leader in end-to-end data analytics solutions for dental support organizations
Ray Wang
Principal Analyst, Founder & Chairman of Constellation Research
Ray Wang is the Principal Analyst, Founder & Chairman at Constellation Research.
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About ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE U S, City of Cupertino, Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Fredrik Thomassen
CEO & Founder of Superside
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About Superside: Superside is an always-on design company that delivers great design at scale to Enterprise teams.
Mathias Wengeler
Founder and CEO of Atheneum
Mathias has an extensive due diligence experience with L.E.K. Consulting in Munich and Boston, during which he worked on over 80 private investment transactions across Europe and the Americas. His prior work experience includes major investment banks in London, as well as Oliver Wyman in Munich and Dubai. Mathias holds a triple Master‘s degree in International Management from ESCP-EAP Grande École in Paris and a Basis doctoral in Economics from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
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About Atheneum: Atheneum is a knowledge sharing platform that offers corporations access to up-to-date market insights for better business decisions.
Saurabh Sharma
Founder & CEO of Indus Insights
Saurabh is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Indus Insights. He is part data scientist, part management consultant, and part business manager. He has more than a decade of experience in creating value through the use of data-driven approaches. Prior to starting Indus Insights, Saurabh worked as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, advising senior management across a variety of verticals, including CPG and hi-tech. Saurabh also has considerable experience in the consumer finance industry through his stints at Capital One and HSBC, where he drove multiple initiatives in the fields of direct marketing analytics, product development, credit policy & risk analytics, non-traditional underwriting, and account management. Saurabh is regularly quoted by national and international media as a subject matter in payments, analytics, and consulting. He holds an MBA (with honors) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Saurabh received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and is a CFA charterholder. He is also an aviation enthusiast, and is a certified pilot.
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About Indus Insights: Indus Insights is a specialized consulting firm that assists organizations in leveraging analytics to drive business performance.
Vish Bhatia
Co-Founder & President of Hotelsoft
Vish has over 18 years of experience in revenue management and hospitality investments sectors. Prior to founding Hotelsoft Inc., Vish was the Vice President of Revenue Optimization at Aston Hotels & Resorts overseeing revenue management and distribution function for 29 hotels, resorts and condominium collection properties, with over 4,500 rooms in Hawaii and mainland USA. Previously, he held leadership positions in revenue management and distribution at Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, a 30 hotel luxury chain in Asia, Morgan’s Hotel Group, Miami and The Plaza Hotel, New York, a Fairmont managed hotel. He was also instrumental in raising a $585 million fund at Everstone Capital, a $1.7 billion private equity and real estate fund. Vish served on the Revenue Management Advisory Board of HSMAI and was a member of the Chief Revenue Officer roundtable from 2011-2013. Vish holds a Masters degree from Cornell-ESSEC university and enjoys painting and golf in his spare time.
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About Alpha Revenue Strategies, Hotelsoft, The New Amsterdam Group: Software solutions and services to independent and chain scale hotels.
Daryoush Paknad
Co-Founder and CTO of Workboard
Daryoush Paknad is Co-Founder and CTO at Workboard.
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About Workboard: Workboard provides an enterprise results management platform designed to automate business reviews.
Deidre Paknad
Co-Founder & CEO of Workboard
Deidre Paknad is co-founder and chief executive officer at Workboard.
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About Workboard: Workboard provides an enterprise results management platform designed to automate business reviews.
Eric Manlunas
Managing Partner and Founder (US & SE Asia) of Wavemaker Partners
Eric is a co-Founder and Managing Partner with Wavemaker Partners, a cross border early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore. He is a two-time start-up entrepreneur turned venture capitalist with a strong passion for early-stage investing. Eric co-founded Wavemaker following its merger with Frontera Group, a prior early-stage boutique venture capital firm he founded in 2003. Eric has a proven track record as an early investor in over 230 early-stage ventures, of which half remain active and growing. Those companies have collectively received over $1B in growth capital. Eric also served in a concurrent capacity as a Partner of a Los Angeles-based value hedge fund from late-2002 until its sale to a San Francisco-based commercial bank in mid-2006. Prior to Frontera, Eric founded Sitestar in mid-1999. Sitestar is an Internet service provider in the rural markets of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Upon helping steer Sitestar in becoming one of the largest independent ISPs in the region, Eric successfully divested his remaining ownership stake in December 2002. Prior to that, Eric’s first startup was Interfoods, an online specialty foods venture he founded in early 1997. Within 3 years, Interfoods grew to become a mid-sized specialty foods provider in its market and was successfully acquired in late 1999. Eric began his career as a consulting associate with Arthur Andersen’s retail management consulting division from 1991-1995. He earned a B.S. in Communications from Florida International University and an M.B.A from Pepperdine University. Eric is currently a member of the board of a number of emerging companies. He is also a Trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation, an organization committed to social development initiatives in the Philippines, Eric’s country of origin.
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About Wavemaker 360, Wavemaker Partners: Wavemaker is a crossborder early-stage VC firm that focuses on early-stage tech startup opportunities.
Kerry Wang
Co-Founder & CEO of Searchlight
Kerry Wang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Searchlight. She was a Course Assistant for From Play to Innovation at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school ). Kerry received a Hastorf Award for Outstanding Service in Human Biology and The Leader Award. Ms. Wang holds a master’s degree in computer science and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in Human Biology – Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Human Behavior at Stanford University.
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About Searchlight: Searchlight is a people-centered Talent Intelligence Platform that helps companies build and retain winning teams.
Anna X. Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Searchlight
Anna X. Wang is the Co-Founder and CTO of Searchlight. She is a former course assistant at Stanford University. Anna holds a master’s degree in computer science.
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About Searchlight: Searchlight is a people-centered Talent Intelligence Platform that helps companies build and retain winning teams.
Alanna Gregory
Managing Partner & Founder of Constellation
Prior to founding Constellation, Alanna Gregory was the founder and CEO of Vive, a YC-backed technology company with the mission of giving all busy women a faster, easier and more convenient way to maintain great-looking hair. Alanna has led product and growth consulting engagements and coached product and growth teams for venture-backed startups and Fortune 500 companies across NY, SF, LA and Europe. Alanna holds a degree in Operations Research Engineering from Princeton University and, following graduation, worked in Thailand as a consultant where she founded Thailand’s first V-Day campaign.
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About Constellation: Constellation builds products that connect with audiences and implement processes for sustained growth.
Rem Darbinyan
CEO and Founder of SmartClick
A serial entrepreneur, angel investor, seasoned advisor, author, and keynote speaker with an investment portfolio of 40+ startups. Being an entrepreneurial executive myself, I founded SmartClick, which builds deep tech innovations based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. As a customer-driven product leader, I’ve been dedicated to building technologies that are innovative and bring new value to the market. My 20+ years of technology industry expertise and executive management experience in scaling products from conception to large-scale ROI have been proven at both startups and large enterprises alike. My mission is to help companies thrive in this fast-changing world using technologies powered by Artificial Intelligence. Through active involvement in the IT community in Armenia, I’m well known for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs, evaluating investment opportunities, and helping newly developing startups. As for my academic degrees, I hold a Master’s Degree in Business Risk Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Planning.
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About ProDiagnose, SmartClick, SmartPush: SmartClick is a full-service software provider delivering artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for Enterprises.
Peter Lai
Founder & Head of Card Products of Emburse
Peter Lai is a second-time entrepreneur who, prior to founding Emburse, co-founded Crocodoc, a document embedding service that was acquired by Box in 2013. Peter holds three degrees from MIT (B.S. in EECS, B.S. in Cognitive Science, M.Eng. in EECS) and is the author of two patents, one granted to PARC for methods of searching annotated collections of documents and one filed by Box for web rendering technology.
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About Emburse: Emburse is a provider of expense management and accounts payable automation solutions.
Toby Scammell
Founder & CEO of Womply
Toby Scammell is the founder and CEO of Womply, a technology company that helps small businesses attract, engage, and retain more customers. Mr. Scammell founded Womply in 2011 after seeing first-hand how underserved America’s small businesses were by technology. Today, he leads the strategic vision for many of the company’s core functions and works closely with all members of Womply’s executive team, with a particular focus on the intersection of product development and go-to-market activities. Under Mr. Scammell’s leadership, Womply has acquired more than 100,000 paying small business customers, become the leading software partner to America’s credit card processing industry, raised $50 million in growth funding, and expanded to hundreds of employees across offices in San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; and Lehi, Utah. Mr. Scammell is a serial entrepreneur with a strong business background. Prior to founding Womply, he co-founded Feastery, where he spent over a year solving customer acquisition and loyalty problems for restaurants in San Francisco. Before that, he was a successful associate consultant at Bain & Company, one of the world’s top management consulting firms. During high school and college, Toby started and ran a variety of small online businesses including a Costco-delivery service and company that sold advertising to local restaurants, bars, and lounges. Mr. Scammell graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, with an emphasis in global business.He is an active angel investor and advisor to a variety of startups.
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About Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Cory Capoccia
Co-Founder, Chief Business Development Officer, and President of Womply
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About Verifi, Inc., Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Christian Selchau-Hansen
CEO & Co-Founder of Formation
CEO / Co-Founder at Formation
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About Formation, The Bay Citizen: Formation distills customer data into uniquely tailored experiences; we orchestrate physical & digital exchanges into one seamless journey.
Brandon Metcalf
CEO & Founder of Place
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About Blueprint Advisory, Place: Place Technology is a developer of strategic finance software for SaaS companies.
Michael Lovett
Founder & CEO of Vagabond Vending
Michael is responsible for managing the commercial operations of the company. He brings a decade of entrepreneurial spirit and experience in IT services, software and international partnerships. Prior to CirrusWorks, Michael founded and currently serves as Chairman of Vagabond (www.vagabondvending.com), a mobile software and cellular electronics firm based in Washington, DC. Michael was an early employee at Core Communications, where he conceived and launched Critical Network Productions, a telecom systems integration business unit which became the impetus for Swisscom’s acquisition of Core in 2006. At Swisscom (www.swisscom.ch), Michael led the global enterprise solutions group and expanded Swisscom’s operations into Asia, India and the Middle East. Michael is co-author of our principle patents at CirrusWorks.
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About Vagabond Vending: Vagabond delivers real-time business intelligence to the palm of an operator’s hand to make a leaner, smarter and more profitable business.
Juan Jorquera
Founder & COO of Vagabond Vending
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About Vagabond Vending: Vagabond delivers real-time business intelligence to the palm of an operator’s hand to make a leaner, smarter and more profitable business.
Co-Founder of Hybrent
Navneet Gosal Former CTO, and founding team member of the original Carefusion, Navneet now enjoys creating and operating new businesses with technology focus – like working with entrepreneurs as they try to build something that can scale and be interesting. Solving problems in small gaps in existing systems that can yield big efficiencies.
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About Hybrent, India Venture Partners: Hybrent is committed to improving the current state of healthcare by providing groundbreaking technology
Harold Richards
President & Co-Founder of Hybrent
During his twenty years in the Healthcare Supply Chain world, Harold has become an influential voice from the trenches and has been interviewed by leading healthcare publications on building innovative Supply Chain departments, creating strong relationships with the C-Suite and clinical departments as well as getting the most out of your GPO relationship.
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About Hybrent: Hybrent is committed to improving the current state of healthcare by providing groundbreaking technology
Vincent Luciani
Co-Founder and Global COO of Artefact
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About Artefact: Artefact is a digital agency celebrating the long overdue marriage of marketers and engineers.
Jeff Nelson
Founder & CEO of Cinchapi
Jeff Nelson is the founder and CEO of Cinchapi, an intelligent data platform out of TechSquare Labs that provides real-time analytics and machine learning to help businesses gain insights faster to drive dynamic outcomes. He has flexed his tech muscles at MailChimp and Ionic Securityworked, and worked as a developer in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and the Bay Area before settling in Atlanta. Nelson is also the co-founder and CTO of media site, Blavity, where he curates perspectives on black experience. He holds a B.S., Computer Science, from Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Blavity, Cinchapi: Cinchapi is a technology startup that offers real time intelligence for business critical data generated by humans, machines and devices.
Corey Pierson
Co-Founder & CEO of Custora
Corey Pierson is the co-founder of Custora, a predictive marketing analytics platform for online retailers based in New York City. Prior to Custora, Corey earned an MBA from Wharton and worked as a business designer at IDEO. He’s also a huge Philly sports fan and an amateur Vitamix chef.
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Antoine Halff
Co-Founder & Chief Analyst of Kayrros
Antoine Halff served as Director of Global Energy of Eurasia Group, Ltd. since February 2005. Antoine Halff served as Principal Administrator of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, where his primary responsibilities included price and short-term demand analysis. He served as Staff Member at the French Embassy in Seoul, South Korea from 1985 to 1987. From 2000 to 2004, Antoine Halff served as a Co-Author of the IEA’s influential monthly Oil Market Report and frequently spoke at numerous industry conferences and to the media on the demand effect of the 2001-2002 global economic downturn and China’s role as a Driver of global demand. Antoine Halff served as New York Bureau Chief of Energy Intelligence Group covering global crude and products markets for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other industry publications. He taught World History and Third-World History at Touro College in New York City from 1991 to 1994 and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University from 1988 to 1989. A native of France, Antoine Halff was educated in Paris, earning an Advanced degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1986 and an MA from Université Paris 7 in 1983.
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About Kayrros: Kayrros is an advanced data analytics company that helps global energy market participants make better investment decisions.
Nitay Joffe
Founder & CTO of ActionIQ
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About ActionIQ: ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Quimby Melton
Co-Founder & CEO of Confection.io
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About Confection.io: Privacy-First Data Generator
Stephen Russell
CEO & Founder of Prism Skylabs
Steve Russell is a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience in building and managing disruptive content networking, video search, and video intelligence technology companies. Steve is CEO and Founder of Prism Skylabs, the global leader in visually understanding and optimizing offline commerce. Its unique cloud service transforms any video camera into a visual merchandising, auditing, and business intelligence tool that can be accessed from any device. Prior to Prism Skylabs, Steve served as the CEO and Chairman of 3VR, the world’s leading video intelligence company, which he founded in 2002. In less than 10 years, Steve took 3VR from a small group of engineers working in his basement to an industry leader serving global customers including Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, GAP, Hilton, and many more of the world’s leading brands. Before 3VR, Steve was VP and GM of the Content Networking group at Internet search giant Inktomi. In 2000, Inktomi Acquired eScene Networks, a consumer video management platform company he founded. In addition, he also served as managing partner at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and President of a pioneering Silicon Valley ISP. Steve is an early investor and advisor to a number of companies across the video intelligence, social media and analytics spaces, including StumbleUpon, LongTail Video, MesmoTV, Qumu, OpenDNS and UberCab, among others. He also sits on the Board of the Center for Secure Information Technologies and is an active speaker and writer, posting frequently on his blog, InHardFocus.com, which explores the many intersections of technology and society. Steve holds 11 patents and was named #8 in the American Venture’s Top 40 under 40™ list. He Studied Economics and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was the recipient of the university’s Anna Laura Meyers prize for outstanding research.
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About InHardFocus.com, Prism Insights Fund, Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
Josh James
CEO/Founder of Domo
Joshua G. James is the founder and CEO of Domo, a software-as-a-service company he launched to fix the fundamental problems he saw in the traditional business intelligence market. Before founding Domo, he was the CEO of web analytics firm Omniture, Inc., which he co-founded in 1996 and took public in 2006; and from 2006-2009, he was the youngest CEO running a publicly traded company. Omniture was the number one returning venture investment out of 1,008 venture capital investments in 2004, as well as the number two performing technology IPO of 2006.Omniture was also the fastest or second fastest-growing public company for three consecutive years. Josh later facilitated Adobe’s $1.8B acquisition of Omniture in October 2009. Josh was named 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Brigham Young University’s Technology Entrepreneur of the Decade, and was also recognized by FORTUNE magazine as one of its “40 Under 40″ top business executives in 2009 and named #1 in “40 Under 40: Ones to Watch” in 2011. He serves as a member of the Young Global Leader community with the World Economic Forum. Josh is on the boards of Demand Media, a NYSE-traded company; Rakuten, one of the leading e-commerce companies in Japan; and Save The Children. Josh attended Brigham Young University.
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About CEO.Com, Domo: Domo designs and delivers an executive management platform as a service to help executives manage their business.
Shion Deysarkar
CEO & Founder of Datafiniti
Shion Deysarkar is the CEO and founder of [Datafiniti](https://www.datafiniti.net). Prior to Datafiniti, Shion was CEO of [80legs](http://www.80legs.com), where he managed business and product development. Before joining 80legs, he founded a predictive software firm called EXC. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from CMU and a MBA from Rice.
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About Blue Squad, Datafiniti: Datafiniti is a data company that provides businesses with a wide variety of information on retail products, properties, and companies.
Thiago Costa
Co-Founder & CEO of Toric
Thiago da Costa is the Co-Founder & CEO at Toric
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About Stealth Startup, Toric: Toric is a data-platform that enables anyone to integrate, transform, model and visualize data, without writing code.
Christina Apatow
CEO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
Christina is obsessed with building the future and solving complex problems. She speaks on AI, digital transformation, customer experience, and human centered design. Christina is elected to the Airport Council International Steering Group for Marketing and Customer Experience. Prior to FetchyFox, Christina was VP Client Solutions for API.AI/DialogFlow (exit Google 2016) where she helped build the successful AI company. Christina led BD, sales and served as the main technical point of contact for the company from their launch in September 2014. Christina also worked at Lockheed Martin in Ballistic Missile Defense, Satellite Systems and VR. She has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and is deeply passionate about painting, and Jiu Jitsu.
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About Airports Council International – Aci World, FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Cha Li
CTO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
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About FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Fred Shilmover
President & Founder of InsightSquared
Prior to InsightSquared Fred headed global IT and was an associate at Bessemer Venture Partners. His background includes an SMB consultancy he founded as well as corporate development at Salesforce.com.Fred has a B.A. from Tufts and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In his off time Fred is an avid wakeboarder.
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About InsightSquared: InsightSquared is a revenue intelligence platform that provides sales intelligence solutions for forecasting, accuracy, and decision-making.
Michael Looney
Co-Founder of ALTSPACE
Mike Looney is a partner at Ontogeny Ventures, a New York City-based Technology Incubator that focuses on niche market Internet startups. He has a background in software & Internet technology startups. He is the Founder of the digital PR Agency Adelopod Group and has worked with a number of early-stage companies, including BA Insight, Stone Magazine, and MyCollab. Mike graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in history and English.
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About ALTSPACE, Humans & Robots, Ontogeny Ventures: AltSpace is a better co-working experience. We help businesses collaborate and grow. Come join us.
Gabriel Aronovich
Co-Founder,CEO of ALTSPACE
Gabriel Aronovich is Co-Founder and CEO at ALTSPACE.
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About 2G Realty, ALTSPACE: AltSpace is a better co-working experience. We help businesses collaborate and grow. Come join us.
Parsa Rohani
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Neudesic
As the leader of the executive team, Parsa is responsible for the vision, direction and investment decisions of the company. Parsa’s vast experience with Microsoft solutions and products, coupled with his design, deployment and implementation skills, gives Neudesic the agility and strength necessary to succeed. Prior to co-founding Neudesic, Parsa worked at Microsoft for ten years as an architect within the company’s services division. He provided extensive and in-depth technical direction to Microsoft’s most strategic partners and customers. He also served in managerial roles and served as the Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning for a network storage company. His technical expertise ranges from advanced hardware design and computer vision to the development of coarsely integrated, distributed computing architecture for a variety of applications and industries. Parsa earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He currently resides in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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About Neudesic, PriceSpider: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Tim Marshall
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of Neudesic
As the leader of the technology team, Tim is responsible for defining the technological trail Neudesic blazes to empower organizations in understanding and leveraging business solutions using the Microsoft Technology Platform. Tim’s wealth of experience in different technologies, along with his extensive expertise across a wide breadth of vertical markets, enables him to assist organizations in making proper technical decisions that help them achieve their visions. His involvement with the technical aspect of the business is deep, as evidenced through his expert presentations at major industry events and his work with development teams nationally. Prior to co-founding Neudesic, Tim was a well-respected software architect at Microsoft. His technical expertise has enabled many organizations in a wide variety of industries to execute their technical vision. Tim received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from California State University, Fullerton. He currently resides in Irvine, Calif.
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About Neudesic: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty
CTO and Co-Founder of Comfy
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty is a 5th-year Ph.D. student in the LoCal group working on data collection architecture and infrastructure for a future where time series data from transducers is ubiquitous. He has a background in embedded sensing and networking, conducting large-scale deployments of wireless sensors in (and on) forests, volcanos, and currently commercial buildings. He is the principle developer of blip, the low-power IPv6 networking stack for the TinyOS operating system.
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About Comfy: Comfy connects people, places, and systems through one intuitive workplace app.
Jalal Nasir
Founder, President and CEO of Pixalate
Jalal Nasir serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Pixalate.
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About Pixalate: Pixalate is an intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider to Advertisers and Fortune 500 companies.
Javier de la Torre
Founder & CSO of Carto
Javier is CEO and co-founder of Vizzuality. Over the past 10 years has been working on the field of biodiversity Informatics. First on the academia side, working at different research institutions, and later from the private side. During this time he gained strong experience in the social and technical aspects of data sharing while mobilizing bast amounts of Biodiversity on Internet.
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About Carto, Vizzuality: Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements.
Tim Harsch
CEO & Co-Founder of Owler
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About Owler: Owler is a business information and insights platform that provides company data and real-time news updates on various companies.
David Pensak
Chief Scientist & Founder of Revulytics
David Pensak founded V.i. Laboratories after a distinguished 30 year career at DuPont, where he held myriad senior research positions and served as a corporate technology growth champion, providing guidance for and managing advanced computer-technology explorations and development. He also now runs his own research institute, The Innovention Group, to extend some of his chemical inventions. David Pensak was the founder and inventor of technology for two successful information security companies. Raptor Systems provided the first commercial Internet firewalls for business and industry. The company’s rapid growth, commercial success and eventual acquisition by AXENT Technologies (now Symantec) led to technical and financial recognition for David Pensak. Subsequently, he founded Authentica (acquired by EMC in February 2006), a recognized leader in the enterprise digital rights management marketspace. David Pensak has acted as an adviser for the U.S. Department of Energy on Computer Security and Network Protection, the Clinton Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, and the National Center for Biotechnology Information. From 1991-95, he served as director of the National Computer Graphics Association. David Pensak is also adjunct faculty at Drexel University Medical School and University of Delaware Business School.
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About Revulytics, Revulytics: Insight into who’s using your software and how they’re using it.
Joseph Noonan
Founder, President & CEO of Revulytics
Joseph Noonan brings a wealth of expertise in guiding software companies to success. Prior to founding V.i. Labs, Joe was most recently senior vice president of worldwide sales, services and business development at Authentica Inc. Before Authentica, Joe served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and services at Eprise Corp., a publicly traded Web content management company, and was instrumental in the successful sale of the company to Divine, Inc. Joseph Noonan was also president and CEO of Upspring Software, a software development tools company, and successfully completed the sale of the company to MKS Systems. Joseph Noonan also spent five years at Wall Data Inc., a highly regarded publicly traded software company. During his tenure at Wall Data, Joseph Noonan managed a sales team that grew sales from 35 million to 150 million and played a major role in the successful acquisition of Wall Data by Net Manage. Joseph Noonan has also held key management positions at both Memorex Telex Corp. and Burroughs Corp.
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About Revulytics, Vee24: Insight into who’s using your software and how they’re using it.
Victor DeMarines
Co-Founder,VP of Products & Strategy of Revulytics
Victor DeMarines brings extensive product management and marketing experience in the security industry to his current position. Prior to founding V.i. Labs, Victor was a senior product manager at RSA Security where Victor DeMarines drove product strategy for the company’s strong authentication, Smart Card, and enterprise Single Sign-On client products. Prior to RSA, Victor was the director of product management at Authentica where he was instrumental in defining product strategy and direction for Authentica’s enterprise rights management and secure email solutions. Before Authentica, Victor DeMarines held senior product management positions at AXENT Technologies and Progress Software, a global supplier of software technology and services.
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About Revulytics: Insight into who’s using your software and how they’re using it.
Amichay Oren
Co-Founder & CTO of AppCard
Amichay is Chief Technology Officer at [JAJAH](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jajah); he is responsible for R&D, engineering and the global JAJAH network. Prior to joining JAJAH, Amichay was Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Vitronet Ltd., an Israeli bio-pharma start-up providing revolutionary technology for computer-based prediction of human Pharmacokinetics based on molecular structure. Amichay also co-founded Expression Inc., a one-stop-shop for collaborative software. As the company’s Chief Technology Officer he led multi-million dollar contracts with various industry leaders and the acquisition by SAP. Subsequently, Amichay worked for SAP in Product Development reporting directly to the SAP headquarters in Germany. He was responsible for SAP’s Real-Time Collaboration products and later assumed responsibilities for SAP’s highly sensitive joint projects with Microsoft. In his earlier days, Amichay co-founded CyBook Inc. a U.S. based start-up with offices in Sunnyvale, CA and Tel-Aviv, Israel. Cybook developed an electronic book and supportive web and desktop environments. He served as the company’s Chief Technology Officer and was responsible for its hardware development, embedded programming, advanced display algorithms development and web connectivity. Amichay holds a Bs.c. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About AppCard: AppCard is a platform enabling merchants to retain customer through loyalty programs, analytics engines, rewards and personalized offers.
Eduardo Toloza
CEO & Founder of SatisFactor
Entrepreneur, CEO / CIO /CTO – Project/IT Manager – Full Stack Web Developer.. Ambassador at MIT Professional Education
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About SatisFactor: SatisFactor is a tool in spanish to measure the loyalty of a customer to a company. We offer surveys via Web & Email.
Peter Bailis
Founder and CEO of Sisu
Peter Bailis is the founder and CEO of Sisu Data, a data analytics platform that helps users understand the key drivers behind critical business metrics in real time. Peter is also an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he coleads Stanford DAWN, a research project focused on making it dramatically easier to build machine learning-enabled applications. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, for which he was awarded the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, and an AB from Harvard College in 2011, both in computer science.
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About Sisu: Sisu is a decision intelligence engine that delivers insights and monitors metrics for businesses to make the right business decisions.
Nitzan Cohen Arazi
Co Founder and COO of Jolt
Nitzan is a life long learner, passionate about using technology to connect people, ideas and cultures. Investor turned entrepreneur, Nitzan is the co founder of Jolt, with the mission to disrupt adult education. Prior to Jolt, Nitzan was the investment manager at the early stage venture arm of Deutsche Telekom in Tel-Aviv, and Managing Director of “The Junction”, Israel’s first start-up accelerator. In 2016, Nitzan was named Forbes 30 under 30.
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About Jolt: Jolt is a network of learning spaces curated for people in the workforce seeking to gain a competitive business edge.
Pat Patel
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Intelliswift Software
Pat Patel founded Intelliswift Software in 2001, since which he has been serving as its president and chief executive officer.
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About Intelliswift Software: Intelliswift Software provides information technology services and solutions.
Andrew Ballester
Co – Founder of Paygr
Andrew Ballester is the Co Founder at GoFundMe.
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About GoFundMe, GoFundMe.org, Paygr: Paygr enables individuals to buy local services, sell their skills and make money doing what they prefer.
Roman Stanek
Founder & CEO of GoodData
Roman Stanek is the Founder and CEO of GoodData. Roman Stanek is a passionate entrepreneur and industry thought leader with over 20 years of high-tech experience. His latest venture, GoodData, was founded in 2007 with the mission to disrupt the business intelligence space and monetize big data. Prior to GoodData, Roman was Founder and CEO of NetBeans, the leading Java development environment (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999) and Systinet, a leading SOA governance platform (acquired by Mercury Interactive, later Hewlett Packard, in 2006).
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About GoodData: GoodData is an analytics company that provides access to business reporting, dashboards, and ad hoc analytics to customers.
Jonah Lopin
Co-Founder & CEO of Crayon
Jonah Lopin is the CEO and co-founder of Crayon. Prior to Crayon, Jonah was VP Customer Success at HubSpot, joining as an early employee and scaling the team over six years to thousands of customers and hundreds of employees. Jonah has also built and launched social and mobile apps and served as a consultant in the Strategy & Operations group at Deloitte Consulting. Jonah has lived and worked in China, where he focused on entrepreneurship and non-profits. He holds a BA from Cornell and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Crayon, FriendFlair, Tapbooty: Crayon is an intelligence platform that helps businesses track, analyze, and act based on market movements.
John Osborne
Co-Founder of Crayon
John co-founded M80 Labs in 2012, and spent 2012-2014 building and launching two products: a social commerce app, and a mobile advertising app that has gotten more than 450,000 signups and first-year revenue of over $1 million. Prior to M80 Labs, John held product leadership positions at high-growth tech companies in the mobile advertising space. John was one of the early employees at AdMob, which was acquired by Google for $750 million in 2009. At AdMob, John was one of three product managers shaping the evolution of the fast-growing platform. John also founded AppDog, a consumer product in the mobile advertising space, and scaled it to hundreds of thousands of users and annual revenue of over $1.4 million. John started his career at Plumtree Software, where he was an engineer and then an engineering manager. During John’s 5+ years at Plumtree, the company grew from 30 employees to over 500, and IPO-ed on the NASDAQ. John has a BA in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Crayon: Crayon is an intelligence platform that helps businesses track, analyze, and act based on market movements.
Rahil Sondhi
Founder/CEO of PopSQL
Rahil Sondhi is the founder and CEO of PopSQL. Prior to this, Rahil spent more than four years with Instacart as a tech lead and as a senior software engineer. Rahil Sondhi holds a degree in Marketing Management from the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
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About PopSQL: PopSQL is a modern, collaborative SQL editor for teams.
