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 Crowdfunding 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.
Brett Crosby
Co-Founder & COO of PeerStreet
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About PeerStreet: PeerStreet is a crowdfunding platform that gives investors easy access to high-yielding loans that are collateralized with real estate.
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Alex Perelman
Co-Founder & CTO of PeerStreet
Alex Perelman is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at PeerStreet.
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About PeerStreet, Playhouse: PeerStreet is a crowdfunding platform that gives investors easy access to high-yielding loans that are collateralized with real estate.
Brew Johnson
Co-Founder & CEO of PeerStreet
Brew Johnson is the visionary leader behind PeerStreet. His experience in technology platforms, real estate and law culminated in the unique concept that is PeerStreet. Prior to PeerStreet, he worked as general counsel at VirtualTourist where he oversaw the company’s $85 million sale to Expedia/TripAdvisor. Before that, he was a real estate attorney at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory and a technology attorney at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison. At Allen Matkins, Brew advised some of the largest real estate development and investment firms in the country on a wide variety of complex real estate transactions. He continues to advise startups and is an active real estate developer, investor and private lender. Brew graduated from USC with degrees in international relations and history and earned his JD from the UCLA School of Law.
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About PeerStreet: PeerStreet is a crowdfunding platform that gives investors easy access to high-yielding loans that are collateralized with real estate.
Danae Ringelmann
Founder & Board Member of Indiegogo
Danae Ringelmann co-founded Indiegogo in 2007 with a mission to democratize fundraising and has since helped to propel the company into the world’s largest crowdfunding platform. Today, Danae leads Indiegogo’s industry development efforts, while steering the company’s employee culture and values initiatives. Danae was listed as a Young Global Leader in 2016 by the World Economic Forum, one of Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40, as well as SF Business Times’ 40 under 40 in 2014. ELLE Magazine named Danae to its Woman in Tech Power List in 2014; while Fast Company included her in its Top 50 Women Innovators in Technology in 2011. Awards include Watermark’s “Woman Who’s Made Her Mark” in 2014, and AWNY’s No Apologies” Changemaker award in 2013. Danae frequently speaks at conferences around the world, including Web Summit, The Next Web, TEDx, SXSW and CeBIT. Danae also testified before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations on “Financing America’s Small Businesses: Innovative Ideas for Raising Capital” in June 2013. Prior to Indiegogo, Danae was a Securities Analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment companies including Pixar, Lions Gate, Disney, and Electronic Arts. Danae also focused on cable network, NFL, newspaper and hedge fund clientele while at JPMorgan’s Investment Bank and Private Bank. In the wake of 9/11, Danae co-produced a concert reading of Incident at Vichy, an Arthur Miller play addressing the politically charged topic of racial profiling. Danae is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Danae graduated with a B.A. in Humanities from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar and varsity rower.
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About Indiegogo: Indiegogo is a crowdfunding platform empowering people around the world to fund projects that matter to them.
Joshua Chodniewicz
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Fundify
Josh is the co-founder and CEO of Fundify. Most recently, he co-founded and served as CEO of Art.com, Inc., and currently serves on its Board of Directors. Josh has an in-depth knowledge of the Internet and e-commerce and is extremely passionate about building sustainable value by providing vision, direction, and meeting the needs of the customer. One of his greatest accomplishments has been building Art.com and Allposters.com into the world’s largest online consumer marketplace for prints, posters, photographs, and custom frames. He is a firm believer that great companies are built by great people, and he attributes much of Art.com’s success to the combined vision and effort of his co-workers.
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About Art.com, Fundify: Fundify connects startups and investors to each other.
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.
Philipp Pieper
CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm Fund
Philipp Pieper is co-founder at Swarm Capital.
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About Lighthouse Interactive, Loop Media, Singularity University, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Swarm Fund: Swarm Fund is the blockchain for private equity, opening up access to the new digital economy.
Aleesha John
Co-Founder & CTO of Buy Me a Coffee
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About Buy Me a Coffee: Buy Me a Coffee makes it easy for creators to accept donations and membership from their fans.
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.
Roshawnna Novellus
Founder & CEO of EnrichHER
Dr. Roshawnna Novellus is the Founder and CEO of EnrichHER, a financial technology platform that help women get funding to grow incredible ventures. Dr. Novellus is a gender equality advocate who believes in economic empowerment and inclusive economic growth. Dr. Novellus holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, with a Minor in Finance, a Masters of Science in Information Technology emphasizing Information System Engineering, a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management Economics, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering – achieving Summa Cum Laude in each. Dr. Novellus has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, and Huffington Post. She has also completed the Pipeline Angels Fellowship, a Kauffman program in angel investing. Roshawnna serves on the Commission on Women for the City of Atlanta, and was honored as one of the Women Who Means Business by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and one of the 40 Under 40 by Georgia Trend. Dr. Novellus was recently selected as a social entrepreneurship fellow in the prestigious Halcyon Incubator in Washington, D.C. You’ll often find Roshawnna at the latest barre, yoga, or bootcamp class.
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About EnrichHER: EnrichHER Funding is a lending platform that provides up to $250k to revenue-generating women-led businesses.
Gayle Jennings O’Byrne
Founder and CEO of iNTENT Manifesto
20+ years of finance, investment banking, philanthropy and lobbying experience. Previously, executive positions in Mergers and Acquisitions, Global Philanthropy, International Government Relations at JPMorgan Chase. Media Manager at Sun Microsystems. Developed and managed investment strategy and corporate relationships. Enjoys valuation, modeling, due diligence and championing founders and startups. Graduate of Wharton School of Business and the University of Michigan School of Business. Attended National University of Singapore and City of London Polytechnic. Conducted academic consulting project in Israel.
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About iNTENT Manifesto, The Prometheus Exchange, WOCstar Fund: iNTENT Manifesto IS an educational and investment platform.
Christos Moisides
Co- Founder and President of Invictus Equity Group
Christos Moisides is the Co-Founder and President of Invictus Equity Group, an Entrepreneurial Investment Fund located in Detroit, Michigan USA. As a Detroit based real estate developer, restaurateur and entrepreneur, Christos is an executive member in the Family owned Detroit development and management company, 400 Monroe Associates, since 2007. Christos oversees the Family Office and their real estate holdings and management of nearly 2 million square feet of commercial, hospitality and industrial property. Their current holdings include 2 hotels and 4 restaurants generating over $35 million in annual revenue as well as industrial facilities with Foreign Trade Zone Designations and Fortune 50 clients along with governmental contracts for property management.
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About Invictus Equity Group: INVICTUS EQUITY GROUP is an entrepreneurial investment fund and turnaround enterprise.
Matt Rodak
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fund That Flip
Matt is the Founder and CEO of Fund That Flip, a venture-backed real estate investment marketplace specializing in short-term loans for residential real estate rehabbers. As an active real estate investor, Matt became frustrated with the inefficiencies and lack of transparency offered by traditional rehab lenders. Fund That Flip’s technology provides ease-of-use, speed and transparency to professional real estate rehabbers. For accredited and institutional investors the platform automates sourcing, underwriting and loan origination, providing unprecedented access to this desirable asset class. Prior to founding Fund That Flip, Matt led sales and marketing for a $950M commercial property risk management firm. Matt earned a finance degree from John Carroll University and is a Chartered Property Underwriter.
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About Fund That Flip: Fund That Flip provides fast, convenient, and affordable capital for experienced real estate investors.
Sean Clercq
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kickfurther
Sean has years of experience in the supply chain industry. When seeking financing for his merchandising company, he came up with the original idea behind Kickfurther.
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About Kickfurther: Kickfurther enables its users to buy inventory directly from suppliers and partner with businesses to sell the inventory.
Keith B. Gelb
Co-Founder and Managing Member of Rockpoint Group
Keith B. Gelb is a Co-Founder and Managing Member at Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. He is Founding Member of the firm. Keith Gelb is responsible for the overall operations and management of the firm, with particular focus on the oversight, origination and structuring of the firm’s United States investment activities.
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About Rockpoint Group: Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. (“Rockpoint”) is a real estate private equity firm
William H. Walton
Managing Member and Co-Founder of Rockpoint Group
William H. Walton is a Managing Member and co-founder of Rockpoint and is responsible for the overall operations and management of Rockpoint, as well as overseeing the origination, structuring and asset management of all of Rockpoint’s investment activities. William Walton maintains offices in Jacksonville and Boston. Prior to co-founding Rockpoint, William Walton co-founded and was a managing member of Westbrook Real Estate Partners, L.L.C. (“WREP”). Prior to co-founding WREP in 1994, William Walton worked at Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in the Real Estate Group for 15 years. William Walton is involved with several real estate industry organizations and has served as a Director or Trustee on the Boards of several public companies, as well as non-profit organizations, with a particular interest in educational institutions. William Walton received an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Rockpoint Group: Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. (“Rockpoint”) is a real estate private equity firm
James Han
Co-Founder, President, COO of SeedInvest
James co-founded SeedInvest after founding his own startup but encountering a number of difficulties when raising capital on more conventional paths. Prior to pursuing entrepreneurship, James was an investor at Francisco Partners, where he focused on equity investment opportunities in the technology sector. James also spent time in Morgan Stanley’s technology investment banking group, Riot Games and Cisco in various roles. James brings to SeedInvest his love for technology and propensity to play basketball and video games whenever given the chance. James received an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton Undergraduate Program as well as a BAS in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About SeedInvest: SeedInvest is an equity crowdfunding platform that connects investors with startups.
Ryan Feit
Founder and CEO of SeedInvest
Ryan Feit is the CEO and Co-Founder of SeedInvest. Prior to founding SeedInvest, Ryan worked at Carlson Capital, Wellspring Capital Management, and Lehman Brothers in New York City where he invested in, financed, and managed dozens of private and public businesses. Ryan was instrumental in the passage of the 2012 JOBS Act, which changed 80-year-old U.S. securities laws to make it possible for entrepreneurs to raise capital over the Internet. Since then, Ryan has served as a focal point of the budding Equity Crowdfunding industry, co-founding the Crowdfunding Professional Association and serving as a board member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates. He also worked closely with members of the SEC, FINRA, the White House, and the Treasury Department on the implementation of the JOBS Act. In addition, he frequently serves as a subject matter expert on startup investing and the JOBS Act for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNBC, FoxBusiness, the Economist and the New York Times as well as a columnist for Fortune Magazine and Inc. Magazine. Ryan received an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About FINRA, SeedInvest: SeedInvest is an equity crowdfunding platform that connects investors with startups.
Ahmed Moor
Co Founder & CEO of liwwa
Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American who was born in the Gaza Strip. He is a PD Soros Fellow, co-editor of After Zionism and co-founder and CEO of liwwa.com.
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About liwwa: liwwa is an intermediary that connects investors and small businesses.
Denny Luan
Founder of Experiment
Denny Luan is one of the founders of Experiment, an online community for crowdfunding and sharing scientific research. Experiment has been featured in numerous publications since it first launched in 2012 and following its participation in the Y Combinator incubator program in Winter 2013. His work has appeared in Nature, The Economist, New York Times, and NPR’s Science Friday, and in 2015 he was recognized in Forbes’ 30 Under 30. Previously, Denny was a researcher at the University of Washington studying bacterial analog circuits, following degrees in biochemistry and economics.
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About Experiment: Experiment is an online community and a crowdfunding platform for scientific research.
Sohin Shah
COO and Co-Founder of iFunding
Sohin Shah is the co-founder of iFunding. He heads the daily operations at iFunding, and has led the development team in building the platform infrastructure for iFunding. Sohin is the point of contact for investors and operating partners at iFunding. Sohin holds a Series 82 license and is currently preparing to take the Series 63 license exam. He has previously worked at investment banks in NYC and is a graduate from New York University, with a Masters degree in Finance & Risk Engineering. Sohin is also the creator of Valuation App, an app that allows finance professionals to analyze businesses and start-ups, making use of valuation techniques that are on par with what is used in the real world. Sohin successfully raised capital to develop this app by crowdfunding it from 57 backers.
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About iFunding, Valuation App: iFunding is a commercial real estate investment platform giving accredited investors access to investment opportunities online.
Andre Temnorod
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Invesst
Andre Temnorod is the founder and CEO of Invesst. Andre has been a leader in Internet related technology and telecommunications for more nearly 20 years. Prior to Invesst, he founded CloudRoute, a cloud platform development and solution company. He also founded Broadvox, a nationwide telecommunications carrier and hosted communications provider. Prior to founding Broadvox, Andre served as the Chief Executive Officer of Nexbell Communications, a leader in VoIP (purchased by COUNSEL Communications in 2001). He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Unicent Technologies, where he spearheaded the research and deployment testing of early VoIP initiatives. Building on nearly 20 years of executive management experience, Andre continues to excel at business operations in the high tech industry. He is among the most respected VoIP technology leaders in the market today and has been featured in numerous professional forums in print, video, and as a guest speaker on a variety of panels.
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About Invesst: Invesst private label fundraising platform simplifies and improves the presentation of investment opportunities.
Darren Powderly
Co-Founder of CrowdStreet
Darren has transacted hundreds of millions of dollars worth of commercial real estate investments. Darren is a driven leader who loves people, property, technology and deal making. As a CCIM,Darren is recognized as an expert in the disciplines of commercial and investment real estate and is in the top 6% of commercial real estate practitioners nationwide. Darren has successfully negotiated $200,000,000 of commercial real estate transactions since 2003. In addition to taking care of clients, Darren served as President of Compass Commercial, a leading Oregon commercial real estate company. Darren has been an entrepreneur since the age of 19 in Boulder, CO. After earning his BS in Business from the University of Colorado, Darren worked with an international software company in downtown San Francisco where he was quickly promoted and eventually managed a team of 17 sales people. In this executive position, Darren negotiated multi-million dollar deals with companies ranging from VC-funded startups to Fortune 100 corporations. At home, he’s a loving dad, husband and weekend warrior.
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About Compass Commercial, CrowdStreet: CrowdStreet is a provider of online commercial real estate investment offerings and technology connecting investors with CRE firms.
Kathryn Cartini
Co-Founder & Partner of Chloe Capital
Kathryn Cartini is the Co-Founder & Partner at Chloe Capital.
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About Chloe Capital, Peacock Media, Republic, Upstate Venture Connect: Chloe Capital is a seed stage VC firm investing in women-led innovation companies across North America.
Billy Parish
Co-Founder & CEO of Mosaic
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
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About Mosaic, Solar Mosaic: Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Billy Parish
Co-Founder & CEO of Mosaic
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
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About Mosaic, Solar Mosaic: Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Larry Temlock
Co-Founder & CFO of The Sun Exchange
Larry Temlock The Sun Exchange is a company leading the development of new areas in project finance. Not merely another crowdfunding platform, it intelligently mixes blockchain technology, P2P financing, and IoT to provide solar energy projects with solutions benefitting from lower transaction expenses, speedy and transparent payments, real-time operating and financial disclosure, and cryptographic transactional verification without third party financial institutions. The company is facilitating the construction of environmentally sound, socially responsible projects that might otherwise go unfunded by traditional financial institutions and development agencies. I have MSc and BA degrees in Financial Engineering and Political Science from Columbia University, and most recently served as Managing Director of Debt Capital Markets origination at Daiwa Capital Markets in Hong Kong, where I worked on a variety of traditional and green financings in the Asia Pacific region. I also held similar debt capital markets and syndicate positions at UBS, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch and ANZ. I bring to The Sun Exchange corporate finance expertise in emerging and developed economies, and a passion to provide sustainable financial solutions to worthy causes.
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About The Sun Exchange: The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar panel leasing platform,Connecting the world to the sun.
Eric Skaggs
Founder of BuckGet
Co-founder of YouTube, founder, president and CEO of BuckGet.com and Author of IInventedYouTube.com : TheREALYouTubeStory.com
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About BuckGet, BuckGet, BuckGet, YouTube: BuckGet.com is the best free website and app dedicated to helping you start, fund and grow your dream business
Jeremy Neilson
Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director & Founder of Assure
Jeremy Neilson is the CEO and Founder of Assure Services (“Assure”). Assure Services is a fund administration consulting firm that provides the most complete back office services in the market for fund managers, equity crowdfunding platforms, angel groups and other private-transaction investors. Assure’s combination of multi-faceted expertise, efficiency and value is unique in the private equity marketplace. Because of the firm’s distinctive focus on the evolving needs of private transaction investors and projects, it services more financial transactions than any other firm of its kind. Jeremy has provided support and leadership for some of the most innovative and dynamic industry initiatives in the U.S.–including launching and managing the State of Utah’s $300 million Fund of Funds program, providing due diligence and advisory services for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s $1-billion early-stage venture capital initiative, and created the LLC syndicate (SPV) administration service used by AngelList, SeedInvest, EquityZen and more. Mr. Neilson holds a finance degree from Brigham Young University, an MBA from the University of Utah and a Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest University School of Law.
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About Assure: Assure specializes in special purpose vehicles (SPVs) and fund administration for the private investment marketplace.
Ty Jagerson
Founder & CEO of Village Power Finance
Ty has 20 years of experience in the energy industry, including over 10 years in solar. Ty was most recently President of HelioPower, a top 10 solar installer in CA. He was also the co-founder of SolFocus, a pioneering concentrated photovoltaics company. Ty was at Xerox PARC for five years, and is on the UC Merced Board of Trustees. He is also on the boards of Azzuro Inc. and Speck Design. Ty received his MBA from Wharton and M.A. from Wesleyan, holds four patents, and is a member of YPO
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About Village Power Finance: The Village Power funding platform provides community-driven institutions a better way to go solar.
Justin Bailey
Founder & CEO of Fig
Mr. Bailey has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Fig since he started the company in November of 2014. Mr. Bailey has been active in the video game industry from an early age, programming his first graphic adventure game in assembly at age 8. His first job was selling games at a software store called Babbage’s, which eventually became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the video game retailer now called GameStop Corporation. Mr. Bailey’s work in video games includes experience publishing a variety of free-to-play, premium and mobile games, such as Broken Age (FKA Double Find Adventures), Massive Chalice, Middle Manager of Justice, and Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter. Since 2008, Mr. Bailey has secured over $100 million in game financing from publishers, investors and crowdfunding, resulting in returns totaling over $250 million. Mr. Bailey previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Double Fine Productions, Inc.
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About Fig: Fig is a crowdfunding platform for video games.
Mark Winstein
Founder, CEO of Vegan Launch
Mark Winstein is the Founder and CEO at Vegan Launch.
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About Urban Ultralight, Vegan Launch: Vegan Launch is a vegan investment crowdfunding platform.
Hambleton Lord
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Seraf
Ham Lord is an active member of the Boston entrepreneurial community. In the early part of his career he was on the founding team of three software companies: MicroChem Technologies, Polygen and Advanced Visual Systems. In 2000, Ham joined a small angel group and became one of the region’s most active angel investors. Since 2002, Ham has been at the forefront of developing best practices for angel investing. Seraf is his latest company with the explicit goal of bringing a new level of professionalization to the angel investment asset class. In addition to his role as a Co-Founder of Seraf, Ham is the Co-Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group, an angel investment group focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology-oriented companies. Through his involvement with Launchpad, Ham has built a personal portfolio of 25+ early stage investments. In addition, he is a board member or board observer for Building Engines, EveryScape, Qstream and Repsly. Due to the combination of roles as an investor, advisor and angel group leader, Ham was named one of Xconomy’s “Top Angel Investors in New England.”
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About LaunchPad Venture Group, Seraf: Professional Portfolio Management for Active Angel Investors
Rohn Monroe
Founder of AutoBidMarket
Founder of AutoBidMarket.com.
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About AutoBidMarket: AutoBidMarket is a automotive project which aims to enhance the experience with the buying and selling of cars.
John Hussey
CEO & Founder of CUDDLY
John has a strong background in sales and marketing, as well as developing early stage companies. As CEO of Demjim Group Inc., a marketing rep firm primarily focused on developing retail logistics projects for some of the Top 100 retailers executing over $165 million in project sales. Additionally, John is currently employed by the National Football League as an on-field Referee, having worked in the league for the past 13 years. In 2011 he worked the highest level game in his profession, Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, TX-Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers.
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About CUDDLY, NFL: CUDDLY is the only dedicated crowdfunding platform for animal welfare organizations worldwide
Andrew Eisele
Co-Founder & CEO of Sonicly
Andrew Eisele is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sonicly, the direct-to-fan funding platform built for music creators. Prior to co-founding Sonicly, Andrew was the Chief Financial Officer of JW Player, a pioneer in the online video market. The Company’s flagship product, the JW Player, is active on > 1 million sites and streams > 10 billion videos each month across > 2 billion unique devices. Before JW Player, Andrew was the CFO of Medialets, the most widely deployed rich media advertising platform for mobile, tablets and connected devices. Prior to Medialets, Andrew was the COO and CFO of TargetSpot, where he helped to build the nation’s largest internet and mobile radio advertising network, with nearly 40 million unique visitors per month. Andrew is the founder of Dial-A-Box, one of the internet’s largest independent sellers of moving and packing supplies, and has also worked at Associated Content, About.com, TIME Inc. New Media, Loan Pricing Corporation (a Reuters company) and Citicorp. Andrew holds an M.B.A. in Finance/International Business from New York University and a B.S. in Management from Binghamton University.
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About Sonicly, Sonicly, SportsGrid: Sonicly is the direct-to-fan funding platform built for music creators
Thomas Alvord
Co-Founder & Chairman-of-the-Board of Funded Today
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About Coined, Funded Today, LawHQ, LLC: Funded Today helps startups to succeed, especially in rewards-based crowdfunding, through its consulting, creative, and marketing services.
Zach Smith
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Funded Today
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About Funded Today, Smith Investments Holding Group, Unplugged: Funded Today helps startups to succeed, especially in rewards-based crowdfunding, through its consulting, creative, and marketing services.
Anthony Manson
Founder of MedStartr
Founder of MedStartr.
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About MedStartr, WebMD: MedStartr is a crowdfunding platform designed for the healthcare industry.
Mike Pence
Co-Founder and CTO of MedStartr
Mike originally Joined Alex’s team at FairCareMD not long after he left Kickstarter’s initial development team. Mike is a Ruby on Rails Guru level programmer that speaks publicly on the topic and has contributed significantly to the open source community. After the JOBS act passed this past year Mike started building our new crowdfunding platform, reinvented for healthcare. He also created a white label version that is widely used for rewards-based crowdfunding sites.
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About MedStartr: MedStartr is a crowdfunding platform designed for the healthcare industry.
Kevin Azzouz
Founder of OpenTrade
Kevin Azzouz is a Founder at OpenTrade.
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About OpenTrade: OpenTrade is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowd funding platform for startups.
David Wieland
CEO and Founder of Realized
David is a serial entrepreneur who, over his twenty-five career, playing the critical role in more than $3 billion of institutional real estate and capital markets transactions, many as a principal. David is the founder of Realized, an end-to-end Fintech/WealthTech platform allowing accredited investors to buy ownership interests in commercial properties and create custom portfolios that minimize capital gains taxes and deliver tax-sheltered, passive income. The Realized marketplace is the missing link between investors seeking long-term, passive income and top-quality real estate operators that want efficient access to 1031 exchange capital. Before Realized, David founded Centrist Capital, a boutique venture capital firm that thematically invests in founders and their early-stage companies. Before Centrist, David co-founded a fully-integrated real estate operating company, which between 2004 and 2009 (when he sold his interest in the firm), acquired 12,500 apartments units across the Sunbelt, representing a total investment more than $925 million. David also co-founded Forward Capital, a structured finance company, as well as Convenience Retail Group, the parent company of a real estate investment trust and a wholesale gasoline distributor. Early in his career, David held positions with Security Capital Group, Prologis, Archstone Communities, Equitable Real Estate (now Morgan Stanley Real Estate) and Arthur Andersen. David currently serves as a board member and advisor to seven promising technology companies. David is a past chair of the Board of Governors of LifeWorks. He is involved in his church and various other community activities across Austin, where he lives with his college sweetheart and wife of 25 years, Laura, and their three children. David attended Texas A&M University where he received his MS in Land Economics and Real Estate, BBA in Finance and Real Estate, and served in various leadership positions, including Vice President of the Student Body.
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About Centrist Capital, Realized: The Realized FinTech platform enables aging HNW families to tax-efficiently convert legacy real estate into passive income investments.
Ro Valiao
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Flipcause
Business executive and entrepreneur passionate about social impact and the nonprofit community. Experience includes renewable energy, technology, and social enterprise. Recognized for identifying problems, contributing innovative solutions, and spearheading change.
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About Flipcause: Fundraising technology and services for nonprofits
Emerson Ravyn
Executive Chairman, Co-Founder of Flipcause
Emerson Ravyn is the CEO and Founder of Flipcause, Inc. Flipcause is an award winning software company that helps thousands of nonprofits across the US optimize their development programs through innovative technology. Mr. Ravyn, a San Francisco Bay Area native, has over a decade of experience building businesses, developing software, and helping nonprofits fundraise. Throughout his career, it became clear to Mr. Ravyn that many nonprofits lacked the technical staff to implement and maintain a modern technology infrastructure. With that in mind, Mr. Ravyn spent the last 5 years working to ensure that any sized organization, regardless of their budgets or technical chops, have access to the tools they deserve at a price they can afford. @emravyn @flipcause
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About Flipcause: Fundraising technology and services for nonprofits
Khushboo Jain
Founder & COO of Impact Guru
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About Impact Guru: We’re a Harvard incubated crowdfunding platform for nonprofits, social enterprises, startups and individuals.
David A. Mascio
Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Della Parola Capital Management
David is the Founder of Della Parola Capital Management. He serves as the firm’s Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer. His main responsibilities include the firm’s strategic positioning, asset generation, and oversight of the company’s investment policy. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Colorado State University’s College of Business. After beginning his career as a fundamental research analyst and portfolio manager, he founded Mascio Asset Management, a boutique tactical asset management firm. After an acquisition, he joined Poudre River Valley Trust Company, where he served as the Chief Investment Officer and head of investment policy for the billion dollar trust bank. In 2005, he founded Della Parola Capital Management, which specializes in advanced tactical portfolio management strategies for institutional clients. In 2012, David served as the Managing Director of the Inaugural Global Investment Summit at Colorado State University. In the same year, he also served as the Faculty Mentor for a team of Masters students, which he guided to the North American finals of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Global Investment Challenge. The focus of David’s financial and professional career has been advising, lecturing and managing financial assets in areas related to investment management, private equity, macroeconomic and microeconomic forecasting, financial modeling, portfolio analysis, portfolio hedging models, and financial derivatives strategies. He has served highly affluent families, private family offices, foundations, charitable organizations, pension plans, and institutions for over 20 years. David earned a B.A. in Economics and Business Management from the University of New Mexico, where his studies were financed by an athletic scholarship. In addition, he earned an MBA from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) and he is a PhD candidate at EDHEC Risk Institute (Nice, France). He is an Accredited Asset Management Specialist (AAMS) and an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF) and is a member of the CFA Institute and a member of the CFA Society of Colorado.
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About Della Parola Capital Management, Stetson University: Della Parola Capital Management, LLC. (DPCM) is a quantitative based tactical money management firm located in Fort Collins, Colorado
Brent Cochran
Co-Founder & Director of Community Sourced Capital
Brent Cochran is Co-Founder & Director at Community Sourced Capital.
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About Community Sourced Capital: Community Sourced Capital build innovative financial systems for communities.
Scot Chisholm
CEO & Co-Founder of Classy
Scot is the CEO & Co-Founder of Classy, a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising tools for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate global social impact. When one of the largest cancer organizations refused to accept the money he raised during a pub crawl held to honor his mom, a two-time breast cancer survivor, Scot was inspired to start Classy to make it easier for anyone to support a cause that’s meaningful to them—and just as easy for organizations to make purposeful and lasting connections with their supporters. Since 2011, fundraising on the Classy platform has doubled each year—resulting in thousands of nonprofits collectively raising over half a billion dollars. Classy partners with organizations of all sizes, from the fastest-growing nonprofits such as Team Rubicon and Malala Fund, to some of the world’s largest social organizations, such as Acumen Fund, Oxfam, and Shriners Hospitals for Children. Based in San Diego, CA, Classy has raised $53 million to-date in growth capital and is backed by prominent technology investors including JMI Equity, Mithril, Salesforce Ventures, and Bullpen Capital. Classy was selected by Fast Company as one of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies in Social Good,” and recognized on the “100 Brilliant Companies” list by Entrepreneur Magazine. Most recently, Scot was recognized by Glassdoor as a Highest Rated CEO in 2017. Outside of Classy, Scot is an active advisor and angel investor, investing out of a fund called Mixture that includes investments in Change.org, inDinero, Casetext and FanDuel. He’s also part of the founding investor group and on the Board of Directors at San Francisco City Football Club, the country’s first social enterprise semi-professional soccer club. Previously he served for four years on the founding Board of Directors at Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster relief nonprofit. Prior to Classy, Scot was a Senior Consultant and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Booz Allen Hamilton. Scot earned a B.S in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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About Classy, Mixture: Classy offers an online and mobile platform that enables socially good organizations to raise funds for various causes.
Marshall Peden
Co-Founder & Director of Customer Success of Classy
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About Classy: Classy offers an online and mobile platform that enables socially good organizations to raise funds for various causes.
Andrew Lee
Founder of EtA Club
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About EtA Club: Investment Club offering accredited investors opportunities to co-invest in the acquisitions of stable and scalable $500K-7M EBITDA firms
Brendon Sullivan
Co-Founder and Chairman of Main Street Exchange Corporation
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About Main Street Exchange Corporation: MSE is the world’s first automated deal closing and securities compliance platform making the old way of fundraising laughable.
Anthony Surace
Co-Founder and CTO of Main Street Exchange Corporation
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About Main Street Exchange Corporation: MSE is the world’s first automated deal closing and securities compliance platform making the old way of fundraising laughable.
Mark Suleman
Founder & Chairman of MacroCrowd
Mark Suleman is founder and Chairman of the Board of MacroCrowd, LLC. As Chairman, Mr. Suleman is responsible for oversight of all corporate activities of the company on a global basis. Mr. Suleman is directly involved in the execution of MacroCrowd’s business platform of identify unique institutional quality real estate investment opportunities and promoting them on a global basis to investors around the world. As Chairman, Mr. Suleman plays a vital part in the company’s success. He works side by side with the CEO and COO to insure his corporate mandate and business vision is executed, so as to guide the company’s growth and continued global expansion in marketing and identifying unique real estate investment products and sources of investors. Prior to MacroCrowd, Mr. Suleman was involved for over 15 years as a private investor, business man, and merchant banker, managing and coordinating the financing of tens of millions of dollars of transaction proceeds, in numerous domestic and overseas business opportunities, across diverse sectors of industries including; natural gas, oil, mining, pharmaceuticals and technology. Mr. Suleman plays a pivotal role in securing financing for large capital projects via family offices, hedge funds, and private equity. Mr. Suleman graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Economic/Finance and Business Administration. On his free time, he enjoys flying single engine planes.
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About MacroCrowd: Macro Crowd specializes in Crowd Funding for Real Estate Investment Opportunities.
Travis Hansen
Co-Founder of Lift Credit
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About Eddy, Lift Credit, Sunshine Foundation, Tech9, Tesani Companies: Lift Credit is a consumer finance company based in Provo, Utah.
Vera Duncan
Founder & CEO of Lift Credit
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About Lift Credit: Lift Credit is a consumer finance company based in Provo, Utah.
Zach Smith
Co-Founder & CTO of Lift Credit
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About Lift Credit: Lift Credit is a consumer finance company based in Provo, Utah.
Zach Smith
Co-Founder & CTO of Lift Credit
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About Lift Credit: Lift Credit is a consumer finance company based in Provo, Utah.
Adam Hooper
Founder/CEO of RealCrowd
Adam is the co-founder and CEO of RealCrowd, a venture-backed business that has built a better way to invest in real estate. By leveraging the collective experience of the founders in both real estate and technology, RealCrowd is an online real estate investing platform where accredited investors can co-invest in specific, institutional quality real estate with best in class professionals.
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About RealCrowd, ReAllocate: RealCrowd builds relationships with commercial real estate companies and invests directly in their investment opportunities.
Bobby Kamaris
CFO & Co-Founder of AmplifyX
Bobby Kamaris is the CFO and Co-Founder of Amplify Creative Group.
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About AmplifyX: Music ownership redefined.
Alex Thaler
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Stratifund
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About Stratifund: Stratifund is an educational platform for equity crowdfunding investors and ratings system of early stage companies
Marc Snover
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Stratifund
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About Stratifund: Stratifund is an educational platform for equity crowdfunding investors and ratings system of early stage companies
Coby Skonord
Founder & CEO of Ideawake
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About Ideawake: Ideawake provides an easy to use innovation platform combined with programs, services, and expertise that supports the innovation program.
Barbara Bickham
Co-Founder and Managing Director of WIF AX, LLC.
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About CinemaDraft, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, LA CTO Forum, Waggit, WIF AX, LLC.: Funding growth through equality and sustainability.
Ashraf Samhouri
Co-Founder and CEO of GivingLoop
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About flying.events, GivingLoop: GivingLoop aims to disrupt how nonprofits raise funds and become sustainable.
Mark Abbott
Founder & CEO of FarmRaiser
Social impact investor leading private foundation and federal government grantmaking programs. Interested in technology that disrupts entrenched systems that produce poor outcomes. Leader of high performing cross-functional teams with experience re-engineering agency-wide business processes and managing multi-million dollar federal agency IT solutions. Operations executive managing administrative budgets up to $18 million per year and coordinating grantmaking portfolios that invested between $29 million to $800 million annually.
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About FarmRaiser: FarmRaiser offers a turnkey product fundraising solution and marketplace for healthy fundraising options. Also available as a white label.
Matt Moss
Co-Founder/CEO of Vestor
Matthew began his urban planning and real estate career in 2012 upon entering a Master’s program at Cleveland State University. After working for the City of Cleveland for a year, he observed the difficulty developers faced in financing their projects. This work inspired him to explore ways local residents and accredited investors can develop their communities while providing a smoother financing process for developers.
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About Vestor: Online Syndicated Real Estate Investment & Financing
Michael Vulcano
Founder/Managing Partner of Berkman Financial
Michael Vulcano is Founder and CEO of Berkman Financial, a company which offers financing to businesses in need of working capital. With over 30 years of experience in the Financial field, Michael helps businesses expand by providing them with the working capital they need.
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About Berkman Financial: Financing to Businesses for Working Capital
Claudia Ecobici
Co-Founder & COO of truCrowd
Claudia Ecobici is the Co-Founder & COO at truCrowd.
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About Fundanna, Inc., truCrowd: truCrowd is a funding portal that enables non-accredited investors to invest in startups.
Jeffrey Wolfe
Founder & Managing Partner of StreetHippo Ventures
Jeffrey Wolfe is the Founder & Managing Partner at StreetHippo Ventures.
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About StreetHippo Ventures, The Folsom Project: Investment and Advisory
Jeffrey Wolfe
Founder & Managing Partner of StreetHippo Ventures
Jeffrey Wolfe is the Founder & Managing Partner at StreetHippo Ventures.
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About StreetHippo Ventures, The Folsom Project: Investment and Advisory
Rose Broome
Co-Founder & CEO of HandUp PBC
Rose is the co-founder and CEO of HandUp, a crowdfunding website for homeless people and neighbors in need. 100% of donations on HandUp.us go towards basics like food, medical care, and housing through partnering social service organizations. In 2014, HandUp was named the Most Innovative Startup of the day by Fast Company and won the 1776 Global Challenge Cup Competition; Rose and her co-founder Zac Witte were also named in the Top People in Tech by Business Insider. Previously, Rose served as COO at SuperBetter Labs and as a Data Manager for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. She studied Campaign Management at Santa Clara University and Psychological Research at San Francisco State University. Rose lives in San Francisco and is a core organizer of Science Hack Day and Tech for Good SF.
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About GiveCrypto.org, HandUp PBC: HandUp is an online platform where anyone can donate directly to homeless people and others in need.
Lanre Masha
Founder of Fundingoo
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About Fundingoo: A kickstarter crowdfunding platform for Africa.
Femi Masha
Founder of Fundingoo
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About Fundingoo: A kickstarter crowdfunding platform for Africa.
Euler Bropleh
Founder of VestedWorld
Founder at VestedWorld
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About VestedWorld: VestedWorld is an early-stage investor in businesses based in emerging markets.
Gesche Haas
Founder & CEO of Dreamers & Doers
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About Dreamers & Doers, Founders Pledge: Dreamers & Doers is a private collective for extraordinary entrepreneurial womxn.
Laura Gonzalez
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer of Make My Quince
Laura Gonzalez is Founder, Communications & Marketing Officer at Make My Quince.
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About Make My Quince: Make My Quince is an online platform that offers planning tools and crowdfunding facilities.
Ramona Maurer
Founder of Make My Quince
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About Make My Quince: Make My Quince is an online platform that offers planning tools and crowdfunding facilities.
Chris Cacciatore
Founder of Make My Quince
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About Make My Quince: Make My Quince is an online platform that offers planning tools and crowdfunding facilities.
Fatima Ruiz
CEO/Co-Founder of Make My Quince
CEO/Co-Founder at Make My Quince
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About Make My Quince: Make My Quince is an online platform that offers planning tools and crowdfunding facilities.
Kathy Zhu
Founder, CEO of Co.Fund
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About Co.Fund: Co.Fund is a China/U.S. cross-border crowdfunding platform.
Dave Trebilcock
Founder and CEO of GrapeSeed
Founder at GrapeSeed
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About GrapeSeed: Members Only Kickstarter for Wine
Isaac Herrera
Founder of GrapeSeed
Founder at GrapeSeed.
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About DAOU Vineyards & Winery, GrapeSeed: Members Only Kickstarter for Wine
Bill Clark
CEO and Founder of MicroVentures
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About MicroVentures: MicroVentures is an online equity crowdfunding platform enabling angel investors to connect with startups to raise capital.
Chet Jainn
Founder of Crowdera
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About Crowdera, Yellow Scooter Studio: A nonprofit fundraising and donor management saas platform that does not dip into donor dollars.
Chai Atreya
Co-Founder of Crowdera
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About Yellow Scooter Studio: A nonprofit fundraising and donor management saas platform that does not dip into donor dollars.
Rodrigo Niño
CEO and Founder of Prodigy Networks
Rodrigo Niño, CEO and founder of Prodigy Network, is helping to revolutionize the commercial real estate industry through crowd-investing. Niño, a Colombian native and a Manhattan resident, has proven Prodigy Network’s crowdfunding model as an efficient and secure mechanism that enables smaller investors to invest in specific projects that were solely accessible to the very wealthy before. With this model, Rodrigo has raised more than $300 million from 6,200 investors and is currently developing commercial real estate projects in Bogota and Manhattan with a projected value of more than $850 million. Major money center banks like Deutsche Bank, CIBC and Bank of America provided traditional financing for Prodigy’s Manhattan projects, giving further validation to Niño’s model. Well established operators and developers like Korman Communities, a four generation firm who has constructed more than 30,000 single-family homes, 12,000 apartments and townhouses, as well as two million square feet of industrial and commercial space have partnered up with Prodigy in the development of two Manhattan properties. Niño was the creator of My Ideal City, the first bottom up pilot-approach to a continuous urban design platform. Beyond commercial real estate, Nino believes the crowd can finance the solution of many of its own urban needs in cities for a profit. According to Niño, this shared value paradigm can level up the playing field for everyone. He sees “the World Economy evolving into a Crowd – Economy, where profit and positive impact are democratically lined up “, thanks to technology and new legislation. As a proponent of the Crowd-Economy as the main tool against inequality, Nino has spoken at worldwide conferences and was a noteworthy guest at NYU, MIT, Yale, Harvard University and the AEDES gallery in Berlin. Niño is often featured in leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Forbes, The Economist, The New York Times and Fast Company among others.
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About Prodigy Networks: Prodigy Network es una compañía dedicada al Crowdfunding en proyectos inmobiliarios en Nueva York y Bogotá.
Spencer Schmerling
Founder, CEO of Cascade Financial Technology Corp
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About Cascade Financial Technology Corp: CrowdFunded CashBack Prepaid MasterCard
Eric Thurber
Founder and Managing Director of Three Bridge Wealth Advisors
Eric Thurber is a founder and managing director at Three Bridge Wealth Advisors. Three Bridge Wealth Advisors is a registered investment advisory firm, multi-family office, which is focused on providing comprehensive wealth management solutions for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and tech executives in Silicon Valley. Thurber holds a JD from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He holds a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation from Wharton Business School. Eric Thurber is considered a thought leader in the industry, having been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Registered Rep Magazine, Investment and Wealth Monitor, and has been interviewed on The Wall Street Journal Radio Network.
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About Three Bridge Wealth Advisors, Three Bridge Wealth Advisors: Three Bridge Wealth Advisors
Andreas Senjaya
Co-Founder & CEO of iGrow
Andreas Senjaya is Co-Founder & CEO at iGrow.
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About iGrow: iGrow is a scalable organic farm that is funded by urban people from around the world.
Jim Oklahoma
Co-Founder & CBDO of iGrow
Jim Oklahoma is Co-Founder & CBDO at iGrow.
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About iGrow: iGrow is a scalable organic farm that is funded by urban people from around the world.
Hall T Martin
Founder CEO of TEN Capital Network
Hall T. Martin is the Founder and CEO of TEN Capital Network.
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About Angel Connect, Austin Entrepreneur Network, Baylor Angel Network, Investor Connect, TEN Capital Network, Texas Open Angel Network, The University of Texas at Austin: TEN Capital is a Funding as a Service platform that helps startups engage with investors for their capital raise.
Colin Clarke
Founder of AfRX – The Africa Receivables Exchange
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About AfRX – The Africa Receivables Exchange: The eBay of Working Capital and B2B debt Trading
Michael Paritee
Founder and CEO of Serrada Capital
Michael Paritee is the founder and CEO of Serrada Capital LLC. After years of leadership in the technology and transportation sectors, Mr. Paritee launched Serrada Capital in 2006. Serrada is an investment firm, which trades systematic strategies in equities, derivatives and currencies in its proprietary fund. In 2011, Mr. Paritee became actively involved in Bitcoin and began to accumulate knowledge about this new asset. In 2013, he participated in the release of the Ethereum blockchain and started actively trading in other digital assets like Litecoin and Ripple. He brings over 20 years of trading and investment experience to Serrada and its new Digital Asset Fund, which launched in 2017.
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About Serrada Capital: Serrada Capital is a digital asset focused hedge fund.
Prabhu Raman
Founder of PIPR Network
Founder at PIPR Network
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About PIPR Network: PIPR Network is an advantage to wealth management.
Fred Campbell
Founder of PIPR Network
Founder of PIPR Network.
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About PIPR Network: PIPR Network is an advantage to wealth management.
Heather Delaney
Founder & Managing Director of Gallium Ventures
Heather Delaney runs Gallium Ventures helping companies launch beautifully designed products globally and is an award winning leader in the startup and crowdfunding community. Ex Dynamo PR co-founder. Respected for her straight talking approach, Heather has spent the last 10 years residing between the US and UK, working with international businesses and startups, including Yelp, HTC M3D, and 3Doodler. Having become Dynamo’s Head of Consumer Technology, Heather then launched various specialist branches including SmartHome, Wearable and the world’s first Kickstarter division in a PR agency, which evolved into a specialist crowdfunding subsection. Her experience comprises of product development, strategically launching into various territories, providing messaging and training, training large and small global resellers and distributers, along with advising on production and manufacturing including Asia and reshoring. Silicon Valley born, Heather is passionate about giving back and supporting entrepreneurs on their journey, whether focused on product development for target audiences or changing the way a business markets themselves.
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About Gallium Ventures: Gallium is an award winning strategic communications consultancy which works across early stage startups to large listed companies globally.
Maxwell Salzberg
Co-Founder of BackerKit
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About BackerKit: BackerKit manages your post-crowdfunding mayhem so that you can deliver on time.
Georgie Benardete
CEO & Co-Founder of Align17
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About Align17: Align17 is a private marketplace connecting private wealth vetted institutional impact investment opportunities.
Peter Shih
Co-Founder and Hacker of Celery
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About Celery: Celery is a platform for pre-orders and beyond. Celery powers pre-orders, custom crowdfunding, & e-commerce. Acquired by Indiegogo May 2016
Shawn Wehan
Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Givsum
Shawn Wehan is the Co-Founder/CEO of Givsum.
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About Givsum: Givsum is a comprehensive management and engagement platform that manages their organization’s operations and fundraising efforts.
Robert Kollar
Co-Founder, Vice President, and General Counsel of Givsum
Robert Kollar is the co-founder, vice president, and general counsel of Givsum.
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About Givsum: Givsum is a comprehensive management and engagement platform that manages their organization’s operations and fundraising efforts.
