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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Developer Tools 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.
Ed Doran
Senior Director Product Management, Microsoft Research, 4x Founder of Microsoft
Ed Doran is a proven technology leader and founder (Cortana). He began his career in market research and insight, expanded to management consulting, and ultimately to product and business leadership. He has experience leading in large and small organizations, local and global teams, and complex partnerships. Ed sets the vision, builds the teams, and drives… 1. Developing a deep understanding of consumers, competitors, and the technology landscape. Identifying the high value business opportunity based on the market conditions 2. Delivering compelling experiences by bringing together business, engineering, and design across platforms. 3. Driving momentum for the experience, brand, and company through marketing (e.g., brand, positioning, messaging), business strategy, and strategic partnerships Ed’s teams integrate design, engineering, and business to create great products at a global scale. Ed has earned a doctorate degree as well as received specialized training at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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Jyoti Bansal
Co-Founder & CEO of Harness
Jyoti Bansal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Harness.
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About BIG Labs, Harness, Traceable, Unusual Ventures: Harness is a Continuous Delivery as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Doron Nir
President & Co-Founder of StreamElements
Doron Nir is a serial entrepreneur, gamer and visionary,driven by a passion for product development and the goal of generating revenue.
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About Happy Sale, StreamElements: StreamElements provides content creators the tools they need to engage, grow, and monetize their audiences.
Gil Hirsch
Co-Founder & CEO of StreamElements
Gil Hirsch is an angel investor. Gil has over ten years of experience in software architecture, product and general management in computer technology. Before co-founding face.com, Gil held multiple R&D, Product and Sales executive roles at Amdocs, Xacct Technologies and Telrad Networks. Gil is also the co-founder of the garage geeks community in Israel to drive non-commercial innovation activities.
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About StreamElements: StreamElements provides content creators the tools they need to engage, grow, and monetize their audiences.
Han Wang
Co-Founder of Mintlify
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About Mintlify: Building the 10x developer environment
Grant Miller
Founder & CEO of Replicated
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About Replicated: Replicated provides a platform for delivering and managing Kubernetes applications in any environment.
Yuval Rooz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset
Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk for more than three years and has held positions at DRW Trading Group and Citadel. He has experience investing in successful startups and has significant experience managing large teams of developers in financial products and operations.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Eric Saraniecki
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Digital Asset
Eric was part of the founding team for Digital Asset. Eric joined DRW Trading Group in 2006 and has more than six years of experience managing a commodities trading desk. Eric began trading bitcoin in 2011 and is one of the Cumberland Mining founders, one of the largest crypto-asset liquidity providers in the world for bitcoin.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Shaul Kfir
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Digital Asset
Shaul is a software engineer with a background in research cryptography, implementing Zero Knowledge Proof protocols for Secure Computational Integrity and Privacy (SCIP). He served as CTO for two previous startups in Tel Aviv. Prior to his involvement in cryptography, Shaul served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Israeli Navy, leading diverse professional teams across challenging environments. Shaul was also a team member of the SCIPR cryptography lab and a visiting scientist at MIT CSAIL.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Jai Pradeesh
Founder of DeepSource
Founder of DeepSource. Interested in building tools to improve developer productivity.
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About DeepSource: Deepsource is an enterprise tech startup that provides an automated tool to review codes.
Sanket Saurav
Founder of DeepSource
Co-founder of DeepSource: Helping developers ship fewer bugs.
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About DeepSource: Deepsource is an enterprise tech startup that provides an automated tool to review codes.
Dan Siroker
Co-Founder & Chairman of Optimizely
Dan Siroker is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Optimizely. The inspiration for Optimizely came from Dan’s work as the Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential Campaign and Deputy New Media Director for the Presidential Transition. Before Optimizely, Dan co-founded an online math game for kids called CarrotSticks. Formerly, he was also a Product Manager for Google Chrome and AdWords. Dan graduated with Honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in Computer Science.
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Vinshu Gupta
Founder of Blockcluster
Being one of the early players of blockchain revolution in India, Vinshu have been on the DLT bandwagon since late 2012. Over the course of last 6 years, he has worked for 30+ big and small clients in Blockchain space across US, Europe, Middle east, SEA and India. Vinshu sits on board of one of the few profitable service companies for blockchain in India – Nonceblox. In summer of 2017, Vinshu along with the young blockchian prodigy and long term partner Mr.Narayan Prusty conceptualised the idea of Blockcluster – a turnkey automated Blockchain Management System which helps customers set up their Blockchain stack in under “15 mins”. If you have a business requiring blockchain expertise feel free to drop him a message at : vinshu.gupta@blockcluster.io
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About Blockcluster: Legos for Enterprise blockchains – Making DLTs Easier to Implement!
Gideon Mendels
Co-Founder and CEO of Comet.ml
Gideon Mendels is co-founder and the CEO of CometML & Comet AI. Gideon is an experienced data scientist and entrepreneur. He worked on Deep Learning research at Google and Columbia University and previously co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet AI, Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Nimrod Lahav
Co-Founder and CTO of Comet.ml
Nimrod Lahav is co-founder and CTO of CometML. Nimrod is an experienced technology leader and open source contributor. He previously led teams at Wix.com, vmware and co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Matt DeBergalis
Co-Founder and CTO of Apollo
Matt founded and ran ActBlue, the largest political fundraising platform in the world. ActBlue has raised over 700 million dollars for candidates and political groups nationwide. Before that, Matt was a kernel hacker. Some of his technical credits include the NeXT port of NetBSD and work on the NFSv4 and DAFS specifications while at Network Appliance. As an undergraduate at MIT, Matt built a phone system for his fraternity, fabricating the circuit boards and writing the operating system from scratch.
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About ActBlue, Apollo: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
Chris Van Pelt
Co-Founder of Weights & Biases
Chris Van Pelt joined Weights & Biases as Co-Founder in 2017.Chris co-founded CrowdFlower. He was previously a technical product manager at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. Chris has worked as a studio artist, computer scientist, and web engineer, and pours his diverse background into his role as Chief Technology Officer. He combines deep design insight with crisp, minimalist coding abilities that enables him to produce anything — soup-to-nuts applications — sometimes within minutes. Chris studied both art and computer science at Hope College.
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About Figure Eight, Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Shawn Lewis
Founder, CTO of Weights & Biases
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About Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Yuri Frayman
Co- Founder & CEO of CAST AI
Yuri Frayman has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across four very successful ventures. As a serial entrepreneur, Yuri has helped lead four venture-backed companies to successful exits for his investors. Specialties:Global Entrepreneurship, Global Go-to-Market, Strategic Marketing, Raising Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Sales, Open Innovation, B2B Social Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Senior Advisory and Board of Director roles.
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About CAST AI, Zenedge: AI-driven cloud optimization platform that slashes cloud cost, optimizes DevOps, and automates disaster prevention.
Wally Ibrahim
Technical Co-Founder and CTO of Aloi
Wally Ibrahim is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Aloi. He has 20+ years of tech experience as consultant, sales engineer, and founder. Strong background in platform architecture and APIs.
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Tommy Skinner
Co-Founder of Aloi
Co-founder at Aloi // connecting e-commerce software
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Dmitry Shapiro
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Koji
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About Koji: Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading creators on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize. Koji launched in March 2021 and has raised $36 million in venture capital.
Ram Shanmugam
Founder & CEO of AutonomIQ
Ram Shanmugam is the Founder & CEO at AutonomIQ.
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About AutonomIQ: AutonomIQ is a cloud platform uses AI and ML to autonomously test, release and deploy software on any cloud.
Tom Drummond
Founder & Managing Director of Heavybit
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
James Lindenbaum
Founder of Heavybit
James is a hacker and serial entrepreneur with a background in product development, user experience design, platform marketing, and cloud technology. He is one of the founders of Heroku, an advanced platform for application development and deployment. James is known as an “OCD perfectionist”, and is chiefly responsible for the look and feel of Heroku’s brand and products. Following Heroku’s acquisition by salesforce.com, James founded Heavybit, a San Francisco-based community and program for developer-focused businesses. He speaks regularly about cloud technology, entrepreneurship, and design, and is an advisor to and investor in many technology companies.
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Ryan Broshar
Founder & Partner of Matchstick Ventures
Ryan is Founder and Managing Director for Matchstick Ventures. Founding Matchstick 2013, Ryan created a vehicle to support and interact with fellow entrepreneurs. Broshar is also the Founder and former Managing Director of the Techstars Retail Accelerator w/ Target in Minneapolis, Co-Founder of Beta.MN and Twin Cities Startup Week. Prior to Matchstick, Ryan founded University Guide, LLC – a university-based publication business – that was eventually sold in 2008. Ryan received his BSB from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and his MBA from University of Colorado-Boulder.
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About Beta.MN, Matchstick Ventures, Techstars, Twin Cities Startup Week: Matchstick Ventures helps startups by investing at the seed and early stage.
Brendan Falk
CEO and Co-Founder of Fig
Brendan Falk is the co-founder and CEO of Fig.
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About Fig: Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Matt Schrage
CTO and Co-Founder of Fig
Matt Schrage is the Co-Founder and CTO of Fig.
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About Fig: Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Anurag Gupta
Founder and CEO of Shoreline.io
Anurag Gupta is the founder and CEO of Shoreline Software. Prior to this, Anurag has served as a vice president of Amazon Aurora at Amazon Web Services.
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About Shoreline.io: Shoreline provides fleet-wide debugging and incident remediation tools that increase availability and streamline production operations.
Shlomi Ben Haim
Co-Founder & CEO of JFrog
Shlomi is Co-Founder and CEO of JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform. He brings over 20 years of experience in building profitable, high-growth information technology companies. Prior to JFrog, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP (acquired in 2005 by MalamTeam) and a Major in the Israeli Air Force. Shlomi holds an MS from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA) and a BA from Ben-Gurion University (Israel).
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About JFrog: JFrog provides software developers with a binary repository management solution.
Adam Kamor
Head of Engineering and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Adam Kamor is a Head of Engineering and Co-Founder at Tonic. Since completing his Ph.D. in Physics at Georgia Tech, Adam has committed himself to further the work of others through the programs he develops. At Microsoft and Kabbage, he handled UI design and determined new features to anticipate customer needs. At Tableau, he developed the platform’s analytics/calculation engine. He also founded IOT Pipe, an open source project for connecting devices to the web. The obstacles he encountered in working with data as a developer motivate him to deliver a solution that will transform the work of fellow developers, analysts, and program users alike.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Ian Coe
CEO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Ian Coe is the CEO and Co-Founder at Tonic. For over a decade, Ian has worked to advance the use of data by removing barriers impeding teams from answering their most important questions. As an early member of the commercial division at Palantir Technologies, he led teams solving data problems in industries ranging from financial services to the media. At Tableau, he continued to focus on analytics, driving the vision around statistics and the calculation language. As a founder of Tonic, Ian is directing his energies toward synthetic data generation to break down traditional data silos, protect customer privacy, and drive analytic efficiency.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Andrew Colombi
CTO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Andrew Colombi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Tonic. Upon completing his PhD in Computer Science and Astrodynamics at UIUC in 2008, Andrew joined Palantir, leading the team of engineers that launched the company into the commercial sector. Later he began Palantir’s Foundry product, growing it into a keystone of the company’s offering. His extensive work in analytics across a full spectrum of industries gives him an in-depth understanding of the complex realities captured in data. He is building Tonic’s platform to reverse engineer data that parallels those realities and supply development teams with the resource-saving tools they most need.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Karl Hanson
COO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Karl Hanson is a Co-Founder and COO at Tonic. Throughout his career in data analytics, Karl has been inspired by the impact of hard work and powerful tooling. At Palantir, he was integral to the commercial leadership team, heading several of their early commercial enterprise engagements. As Head of Deployments at Segovia, he helped NGOs reach people in need in some of the most remote parts of the world. His vision in founding Tonic is to promote that win-win philosophy across all industries by advocating for the privacy of individuals while enabling companies to do their best work.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Miguel Burger-Calderon
Co-Founder and President of Ethyca
Miguel Burger-Calderon is the Co-Founder and President of Ethyca and BrandCommerce. He is a former Head of Global Business Development at Group Nine Media and President of Elite Daily. Mr. Burger-Calderon graduated from Bentley University with a bachelor of science in Economics-Finance.
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About Ethyca: Ethyca is a developer-first company that provides tools to make trust, respect and privacy a native feature of any data-driven system.
Cillian Kieran
Founder & CEO of Ethyca
Cillian Kieran is the Founder and CEO at Ethyca. Prior to joining Ethyca, he was a Founder & CEO of CKSK. Cillian is originally a Physics & Computer Science student who dropped out to work in the early 2000’s web application industry in data analysis and visualization tools.
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About Ethyca: Ethyca is a developer-first company that provides tools to make trust, respect and privacy a native feature of any data-driven system.
Shensi Ding
Co-Founder of Merge
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About Merge: Merge integrates HR, payroll, recruiting, and accounting platforms into a unified API.
Gil Feig
Co-Founder of Merge
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About Merge: Merge integrates HR, payroll, recruiting, and accounting platforms into a unified API.
Kevin Wang
Founder and CEO of FOSSA
Kevin Wang is the CEO and Founder of FOSSA. He is among the third set of young entrepreneurs to be awarded a “20 Under 20″ Thiel Fellowship to begin to build the innovative companies of tomorrow. Kevin has been entrepreneurial and engineering-focused since the age of nine, beginning ventures in game development and then shifting towards software and the web. He worked at TechStars and was involved in the Chicago technical scene before moving to Silicon Valley in 2012 and joining XSeed Capital. In August 2012 he began the Thiel Fellowship and worked in engineering for companies such as Cloudera. Kevin was pursuing a Computer Science degree at UC Berkeley as a freshman before taking a leave of absence for the Thiel Fellowship. He is currently focused on big data, distributed computing and legal software technology. Kevin has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Chicago Tribune and other publications.
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About FOSSA: FOSSA provides a platform that helps enterprises manage and maximize open source use at scale.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Tony Zhao
Founder & CEO of Agora.io
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About Agora.io: Agora.io enables developers to add HD interactive broadcast, voice, and video calls into mobile and web apps through SDK.
Diego Oppenheimer
CEO & Co-Founder of Algorithmia
Diego Oppenheimer is co-founder and CEO of Algorithmia. Previously, he designed, managed, and shipped some of Microsoft’s most used data analysis products including Excel, Power Pivot, SQL Server, and Power BI. Diego holds a Bachelors degree in Information Systems and a Masters degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Kenny Daniel
Co-Founder & CTO of Algorithmia
Kenny Daniel is co-founder and CTO of Algorithmia. He previously worked at wine enthusiast app, Delectable, to build out a deep learning, image-based recognition system. Kenny holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and Mechanism Design.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Bryan Helmkamp
Co-Founder & CEO of Code Climate
Bryan is the co-founder and CEO of Code Climate, a SaaS automated code review service that helps engineering teams identify defects earlier in the software development process.
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About Code Climate, Efficiency 2.0, Weplay: Code Climate is an open extensible platform for static analysis that helps enforce code quality standards on every commit.
Akhil Bhiwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Phyllo
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About Phyllo: APIs to access creator economy platform data
Jonathan Hayes
Founder & CEO of RewardStock
Jonathan Hayes Founder & CEO of RewardStock.
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About RewardStock: RewardStock is a free web application that shows you how to to travel on points and miles.
Ismail Ceylan
Co-Founder and Software Developer of Zeplin
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About Zeplin: Zeplin is the ultimate collaboration tool between designers and developers.
Jim Salem
Founder of Quickbase
Jim Salem is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Claude von Roesgen
Founder of Quickbase
Claude von Roesgen is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Joe Rice
Founder of Quickbase
Joe Rice is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Brian Mann
Founder & Creator, Board Member of Cypress.io
Brian Mann is a Founder & Creator at Cypress.io.
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About Cypress.io: Cypress.io develops a front-end automated testing application for running unit and integration tests in a browser.
Randall Kent
Co-Founder of Cypress.io
Randall Kent is a Co-Founder of Cypress.io.
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About Cypress.io: Cypress.io develops a front-end automated testing application for running unit and integration tests in a browser.
Nathan Kundtz
Founder and CEO of Rendered.ai
Nathan Kundtz is the Founder and CEO at Rendered.AI.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Duke University, Rendered.ai: Rendered.ai develops data engineering tools built to help medical, automotive, robotics, security, and other industries.
Steve Heffernan
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Mux
Steve Heffernan is the creator of Video.js, an open source web video player in use on over 1 million websites and with over 1 billion videos played per month. He’s currently leading product at Mux, building video performance monitoring and APIs for video streaming. Steve has been helping run the SF Video Tech Meetup and the Demuxed video engineering conference for the last five years.
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About Mux: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Matt McClure
Co-Founder of Mux
Matt McClure is the Co-Founder of Mux.
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About Mux: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Gabriel Savit
Co-Founder of Runway
Gabriel Savit is the Co-Founder at Runway.
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About Runway: Air traffic control for mobile app releases.
Jacob Eiting
CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat
Jacob Eiting is the CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Tuomas Artman
Co-Founder of Linear
Tuomas Artman is a Co-Founder at Linear.
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About Linear: Linear allows users to manage software development and track bugs.
Brian Luerssen
Co-Founder of Draftbit
Brian Luerssen is the Co-Founder at Draftbit.
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About Draftbit, LongJump, Preposterous Inc., Relentless: Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps.
Peter Piekarczyk
Co-Founder and CTO of Draftbit
Peter Piekarczyk is the Co-Founder & CTO at Draftbit.
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About Draftbit: Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps.
Donald Hruska
Co-Founder and VP Engineering of Draftbit
Donald Hruska is the Co-Founder & VP Engineering at Draftbit.
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About Draftbit: Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps.
Marc Wilson
Co-Founder & Senior Vice President Global Partners & Industry Practices of Appian
Marc Wilson is a Co-Founder of Appian and is responsible for the company’s sales into Financial Services, Insurance, and Pharmaceuticals. Marc’s prior roles at Appian include building Appian’s Global Partnership Team and running Appian Professional Services. Marc received his B.A. in Government (International Relations) from Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, Marc was recognized as one of the top ranked inter-collegiate debaters in the United States.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Michael Beckley
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Appian
Michael Beckley leads Appian’s technology vision and oversees customer initiatives worldwide in his role as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Customer Officer. Michael serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of Virginia’s Computer Science Department and is a member of the University of Maryland Advisory Board in Computing. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a co-founder of Appian.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Mark Levitt
Co-Founder and CEO of Trixta
Four-time SA Open chess champion, with many years history in Chess commerce, including: publishing, software and retail business. Levitt was also an early investor & CIO of search engine marketing company www.incubeta.com, and a founding member of TEIM Ventures.
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About ChessCube.com, Trixta, Trixta: Trixta’s low-code tools revolutionize how teams build software – faster, better, with fewer developers
Praveen Seshadri
CEO & Co-Founder of AppSheet
Over Praveen’s career, he has pursued the “dream” of declarative end-user programming in various incarnations. In a previous life, he was a CS professor at Cornell. And in another, he was a partner engineering manager at Microsoft in the SQLServer and Bing teams.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Brian Sabino
Co-Founder & CTO of AppSheet
Brian is passionate about shipping software. He led Program Management teams at Microsoft for products focused on cloud data and mobility, including SQL Server Mobile and SQL Azure. He also worked at Forty Seeds and Hulu, and co-founded LumenSpark and Alau.me.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Michael W. Wellman
CEO & Founder of Virgil Security
Michael W. Wellman is CEO &Founder at Virgil Security.
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About Bloomberg Beta, MACH37, NextGen Venture Partners, SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
Dmitry Dain
Co-Founder of Virgil Security
Dmitry Dain is the Co-Founder at Virgil Security, Inc.
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
Rosa Shores
CEO and Co-Founder of BlockSpaces
Rosa Shores is the CEO and Co-Founder of BlockSpaces.
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About BlockSpaces: BlockSpaces offers managed blockchain infrastructure and prebuilt connectors between various blockchain networks and business applications.
Gabe Higgins
CBO and Co-Founder of BlockSpaces
Gabe Higgins is the Co-Founder and CBO of BlockSpaces. He is an entrepreneur and investor in blockchain tech startups and the ecosystem.
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About BlockSpaces: BlockSpaces offers managed blockchain infrastructure and prebuilt connectors between various blockchain networks and business applications.
Alex Fishman
Founder & CEO of Bugsee
Alex is currently Founder and CEO of Dishero, Inc. and previously served as Sr. Director of Business Development and Director of Engineering at Lytro Inc, Alex brings 17 years of experience in product development and ODM relations with background in engineering, manufacturing and business development with focus on camera technologies.
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About Bugsee: Bugsee is a mobile software kit that adds information to computer crash reports.
Dmitry Fink
Founder/CTO of Bugsee
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About Bugsee: Bugsee is a mobile software kit that adds information to computer crash reports.
Maggie Louie
Founder and CEO of otto by DEVCON
Maggie Louie is the founder and CEO at Devcon Detect. She has a proven experience in developing startups within corporations. Maggie has spent more than a decade as a digital leader in the publishing industry, developing products for The E.W. Scripps Company, The Los Angeles Times, American Public Media Group and Morris Communications, where she also served as the Vice President of Audience and corporate intrapreneur. She enjoys composing music with DEVCON co-founder Josh Summitt.
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About otto by DEVCON, SpoonWest: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Josh Summitt
Co-Founder and CTO of otto by DEVCON
Josh has spent over 12 years in Information Security specializing in finding, exploiting, and patching software vulnerabilities for fortune 500 companies. He has developed several open source tools for the hacker community and has presented these tools in the 2016 and 2017 Black Hat Conferences. Josh is a proven technologist, polyglot software engineer, and creative problem solver. “I had the pleasure of working with Josh Summitt for over 5 years in the security space. This work included web application penetration testing, external network and wireless penetration testing, and development of tools for authorized Phishing campaigns. Josh also developed hacking demos (showing how bad-actors practice their tradecraft) which has been used to raise security awareness for audiences globally. Josh is a very skilled security analyst and would be an asset to any organization that needs to mature its security program.” (Kevin Mitnick, Mitnick Security)
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About otto by DEVCON: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Casey Hester
Co-Founder and COO of otto by DEVCON
Casey comes to DEVCON with a publishing career spanning nearly two decades, managing operations and creating new digital products. Her current obsessions are kombucha, tom ka soup and turning her house into a botanist’s greenhouse.
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About otto by DEVCON: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Lyal Avery
Founder & CEO of PullRequest
Lyal Avery is the founder & CEO of PullRequest, a Google-backed platform that combines automation with a network of on-demand reviewers to improve and simplify the code review process. Lyal Avery’s career as a leader in the technology industry spans over 18 years, with multiple exits across Vancouver BC, San Francisco CA, and Austin TX. Previous to PullRequest, Lyal cofounded Playerize, a payment and distribution platform for mobile and social games (exited to TSE:PER in 2015).
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About PullRequest: PullRequest’s code review as a service helps development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.
Patrick Barsallo
Co-Founder of PullRequest
Patrick is a co-founder of PullRequest and serves as head of engineering. Previously, Patrick worked at Corona Labs and Perk.com, after graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in Computer Science.
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About PullRequest: PullRequest’s code review as a service helps development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.
Tyler Mann
Co-Founder & CTO of PullRequest
Tyler is co-founder and CTO of PullRequest. He has been a software engineer and technical leader at a variety of software companies including Dropbox, Cisco, and ThinAir.
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About PullRequest: PullRequest’s code review as a service helps development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.
Andrew Ofstad
Co-Founder of Airtable
Andrew Ofstad is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Airtable. Previously, he lead the redesign of Google’s flagship Maps product, and before that was a product manager for Android. Andrew studied Electrical Engineering and Economics at Duke after a childhood in rural Montana.
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About Airtable: Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Andrew Stevens
Founder/Developer of GoFormz
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About GoFormz: GoFormz helps its customers to transform into data-driven businesses with its mobile-first business productivity platform.
Abel Mathew
CEO and Co-Founder of Backtrace
Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.
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About Backtrace: Backtrace is an error debugging platform that helps teams quickly find out what is behind application errors.
Samy Bahra
CTO and Co-Founder of Backtrace
Samy Bahra is the CTO and Co-Founder at Backtrace.
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About Backtrace: Backtrace is an error debugging platform that helps teams quickly find out what is behind application errors.
Adil Aijaz
Co-Founder of Split Software
He specialize in data analytics & engineering for distributed systems that scale to support traffic on a top 50 most visited site level. He value leverage and avoid the ‘not built here’ syndrome that often leads to wasted efforts in engineering teams.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Trevor Stuart
Co-Founder & President of Split Software
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Patricio Echague
Co-Founder & CTO of Split Software
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Jonathan Zweig
CEO / Co-Founder of AppOnboard
Jonathan Zweig is Founding CEO of AppOnboard Inc – the Premium Private Platform for Full-Fidelity App Demos & Next-Gen Heat-Map Analytics. Zweig, creator of 14 of the first 100 native iOS games in 2008 — was previously CEO and President at AdColony, which he also founded and sold to Opera in 2014 for $350M Jonathan Zweig was the Founding CEO/President of AdColony which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June 2014. AdColony is the largest independent mobile advertising platform in the world. AppOnboard is his new company focused on monetization through download-less app technology and playable ads with patent-pending fraud protection. Jonathan has also was Founding CEO of Jirbo, Inc which developed 14 of the first 100 games ever on the iPhone AppStore: https://www.macworld.com/article/1134395/jirbo.amp.html Under his guidance as CEO, Jirbo would eventually put out over 200 games and apps for ESPN, Sony Music, Universal, Kaplan Test Prep, and many more global brands. Jirbo would eventually pivot to become AdColony, the largest independent mobile ad network in the world.
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About AdColony, AppOnboard, Literati Labs, Inc.: AppOnboard is a software company that empowers creators to build businesses without any programming experience.
Adam Piechowicz
Co Founder of AppOnboard
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About AppOnboard: AppOnboard is a software company that empowers creators to build businesses without any programming experience.
Sheffie Robinson
CEO & Founder of Shamrck Business
Sheffie Robinson is a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and sociologist that specializes in solving racial and gender equity with technology. She is currently the CEO of Shamrck Software and the creator of Shamrck Education, an artificial intelligence platform designed to bring data mining and predictive analytics to career and technical education programs. She has over 20 years of experience in technology development and over 15 years of experience in retail sales and marketing. She has spent significant time in her career working to impact gender and racial equity to enhance diversity and inclusion. She is a second time founder, her first company being a fintech product that brought banking services to virtual currencies. Sheffie is a graduate of Thomas Edison State University with a degree in Sociology and is currently pursuing her MBA at Georgia Southern University. Sheffie has been named the Top 10 under 40 and a Top CEO by the Mississippi Business Journal In addition to her business, she regularly mentors startups on product development, branding, and project management to help them stay lean as they build a business. Her work with underrepresented founders has helped her to become a steward for diversity, equity, and inclusion. In her personal life, Sheffie is a military spouse and mother of 3 hailing from their current duty station in Vicksburg, MS, but she’s a Georgia native. She also enjoys virtual live-action roleplay and is a huge Anime fan.
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About Bantunium Labs LLC, Bantunium Ventures LLC, Shamrck Business: Shamrck Business is a complete website and business management suite for small businesses powered by human-assisted artificial intelligence.
Alon Grinshpoon
Co-Founder & CEO of echo3D
Alon Grinshpoon is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at echoAR. Alon is a big-believer in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and is working on building the world’s best 3D-first content management system (CMS) and delivery network (CDN) to help companies scale their AR/VR solutions. Alon is a Java native-speaker with countless hours of programming in Java, Android, Unity, C#, C and Bash. Alon loves to create AR/VR apps, GUI and graphically design applications, open-source programs and API integration alongside his experience and passion for cloud and computer communication networks. Alon received his MSc in Computer Science from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science specializing in computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and human-computer interaction. Alon wrote his thesis on an Augmented Reality Guidance System for Endovascular Surgery advised by Prof. Steven K. Feiner. Alon received his BSc as a double major in Computer Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Tel Aviv University specializing in software engineering, computer networks, and cyber-security. During his studies, Alon served as a graduate researcher at the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory of Columbia University. Alon also served as a research assistant and teaching assistant in the fields of computer networks and distributed cloud.
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About echo3D, vasAR Technologies: echo3D is a cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that allows developers to quickly build and deploy 3D games, apps, and content.
Eden Full Goh
Founder of Mobot
Eden Full Goh is the Founder and CEO of Mobot.
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About EES Ventures, Mobot, SunSaluter: Mobot is a mobile QA solution that uses supervised, mechanical robots to test native mobile web apps on actual iOS/Android devices.
J.J. Allaire
Founder & CEO of RStudio
In 1995 J.J. Allaire created the web development tool Cold Fusion and co-founded Allaire Corporation. Macromedia acquired Allaire in March 2001. In 2002 J.J. Allaire founded Onfolio to create web research, syndication, and publishing tools. Microsoft acquired Onfolio in March 2006. At Microsoft, J.J. led the integration of Onfolio products into Windows Live, including the release of the weblog publishing tool Windows Live Writer. In 2007 J.J. Allaire co-founded Stax Networks to create a Platform-as-a-Service for Java applications. CloudBees acquired Stax Networks in December 2010. In 2008 J.J. Allaire created the iPhone application Lose It! and founded FitNow, Inc. Lose It! was the top free iPhone Health and Fitness application in both 2009 and 2010. In 2008, J.J. Allaire founded RStudio to build projects around the open-source R Statistical Computing environment. RStudio was recognized as one of the top 25 technology products of 2014 by InfoWorld.
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About RStudio: RStudio develops open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R statistical computing environment.
Bozhao Yu
Founder of BentoML.ai
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About BentoML.ai: The machine learning model serving platform, from the creators of open-source BentoML.
Mike Wior
CEO & Co-Founder of Omnivore
Responsible for the overall vision of Omnivore. Expert in cloud solutions, technology and business initiatives, with career successes at Wells Fargo Bank and company-critical consulting projects for clients including Adobe, Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Google, and Intel.
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About Omnivore: Omnivore offers a point-of-sale integration API allowing uniform access to the POS systems.
Itai Sadan
Co-Founder & CEO of Duda
Itai Sadan is the co-founder and CEO of DudaMobile. Prior to founding DudaMobile, Sadan was a director at SAP, where he managed the SAP Discovery System program and led relationships with IBM, HP and Fujitsu. He also worked for Amdocs and Finjan and founded InterSight, a start-up for data storage. He has more than a decade of experience in business development, partner management, program management and development and has a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics from the Ben Gurion University in Israel.
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About Duda, Duda: Duda is a responsive website builder for digital marketing agencies, hosting companies, and online directories.
Ana Robakidze
CEO & Founder of Theneo
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About Theneo: Generate API Documentation That Competes With Tech Giants
Yuval Goren
Founder & CEO of Success Wizard
Yuval Goren is the Founder/CEO of Success Wizard, a company he founded with the goal of helping million people worldwide live happier, more authentic and fulfilling lives. Success Wizard develops customized software platforms and interactive online programs for the personal development, life coaching and education markets. Prior to founding Success Wizard, Yuval enjoyed a very successful and rewarding two-decade-long career as an entrepreneurial executive in the hi-tech industry. He made a career transition when he felt it was time to re-define his life purpose, follow his passion and pursue his dream. He then spent a few years going through an intensive process of self-discovery, exploration and education in the areas of personal development, human psychology, and life coaching. As a result of his own midlife transition and personal transformation, he decided to utilize his skills, experience and passion to help others gain insight, develop themselves, and improve their overall well-being.
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About Success Wizard: Online and Mobile Life and Success Coaching Programs
Adam Smith
Founder, CEO of Kite
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About Kite: Kite augments coding environment with the use of internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning.
Tina Huang
Founder and CTO of Transposit
Tina is the Founder and CTO of Transposit. She believes in taking a human-centric approach to solving complex engineering problems and encourages engineers to practice end-to-end ownership while breaking down the silos in engineering organizations.
Prior to Transposit, Tina held engineering positions at Apple, Google, and Twitter.
Tina received her electrical engineering and computer sciences degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied humanities at the University of Chicago, framing her viewpoint on human-technology interaction.
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About Transposit: Transposit delivers connected workflow, giving TechOps and SREs visibility, context, and actionability across people, processes, and APIs.
