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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 Hardware 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.
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder & CEO of Square
Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures
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About Cash App, Square, Twitter Ventures: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
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Herman Schreiber
Owner & Co-Founder of B&H Photo
Herman Schreiber is the owner of B&H Photo Video in Manhattan. BH is widely considered to be the largest non-chain photo and video equipment single store in the entire country.
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About B&H Photo: B&H Photo offers its users with an online platform to get information and buy photo, video, pro audio, and digital imaging equipment.
Valery Vavilov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury Group
Seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in information technology and business management. Original founding member of BitFury. Assumed the role of BitFury CEO in 2011. Prior to that, held numerous technology and business leadership positions. MS in Computer Science, Riga Transport & Telecommunication University.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Valery Nebesny
Founder and CTO of Bitfury Group
Founder and CTO of BitFury Group.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Stina Ehrensvard
CEO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Internationally awarded entrepreneur, innovator and speaker with an unfaltering energy and passion for making the internet safer for all. Education in industrial product design at the University of the Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Jakob Ehrensvard
CTO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Built his first computer at the age of 15, self-employed software and hardware engineer since 19, designed the security system for Sweden’s largest nuclear plant at 25. Leading inventor of the YubiKey and FIDO/WebAuthn standards.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
George Baker Sr.
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of ParkHub
Entrepreneurial, practical, and a visionary. These words seem somewhat contradictory, but these words truly describe George’s leadership style. His experience and education have led him to the point where he is today – building his own brand in the parking industry and beyond. Even though he has big ideas, he possesses the pragmatism to see the limitations, challenges and obstacles at hand. He believes in others and enjoys building teams and driving innovation through collaborative effort. This team-first ethos forms the foundation upon which George built ParkHub into the successful and driven organization that it is today. George has nearly 17 years of hands-on experience in the parking realm, focusing on managing the parking operations of class-A office garage facilities and comparable top-tier parking operations across the continental United States. He prides himself on deep domain knowledge of the event parking space and providing a comprehensive suite of services both software and hardware to support his ever-growing clientele therein. In order to consistently exceed customer expectations in the event-parking space, ParkHub provides logistics and occupancy management services, as well as cutting-edge insights into parking management. Truly, George is reshaping the parking universe, one satisfied customer at a time. When he’s not modernizing the parking world, he’s at his home in Dallas, Texas, spending time with his wife Chelsey and their two children, George II and Kuper. George graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s of Science in Regional Development | City Planning. George is a proud Eagle Scout, Past Worshipful Master of his Texas Masonic Lodge, winner of the 2016 Greater Dallas Business Ethics Award, multiple recipient of the National Parking Association 40 under 40 award, 2016 finalist of EY Entrepreneur of the Year, and devoted member his local Highland Park United Methodist Church congregation.
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About ParkHub: ParkHub is a technology company that provides software and hardware for the destination industry.
Jose Vieitez
Co-Founder, Director and Portfolio Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators, The Farm Atlanta: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Stephen Groth
Co-Founder of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Lars Brubaker
Co-Founder & CEO of MatterHackers
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About MatterHackers: 3D Printing Software, Hardware, & Supplies
Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Gordon Daily
President & Co-Founder of BoxCast
Gordon has always been a big dreamer and big thinker. Although he failed to achieve his childhood goal of starting in center field for the Cleveland Indians, Gordon has never lost his capacity for dreaming big and working tirelessly to achieve whatever he sets his mind to. His really big dream: To create a technology company that changes the way people communicate – through live HD video streaming. After receiving his BS and MS in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in three-and-half years, a 12-year-career at Rockwell Automation followed. It literally took him around the world, including a stint in Singapore. It also gave him the opportunity to manage mission-critical projects early in his career. In Gordon’s Rockwell years, he tackled tough technical problems, crafted international business deals and came up with creative marketing solutions. He also managed to be awarded a half-dozen patents. Gordon lives with his wife Cara and their young children Quentin and Serena in a renovated convent on Cleveland’s West Side. When he isn’t with his family or working, he’s most often demonstrating his competitive side whether it’s skiing, kayaking or playing ping pong.
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About BoxCast: BoxCast is an end-to-end video-streaming solutions for organizations.
Alexis Houssou
Founder & Managing Partner of HCVC
Alexis is the managing partner of Hardware Club which he co-founded in 2015. Through its unique $50M early-stage fund, Hardware Club invests in early-stage full-stack startups globally. Alexis took part in launching several initiatives including the Hello Tomorrow and The Family. He sits on the boards of companies including Cowboy, Remedee Labs, Norbert Health and several stealth companies.
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About Elephants & Ventures, HCVC, The Hardware Club, The Hardware Club: HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm investing in companies automating and digitizing the physical world.
Stephen Balaban
Co-Founder & CEO of Lambda
Stephen Balaban is the Co-Founder & CEO at Lambda.
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About Lambda, Lambda: Lambda provides Deep Learning servers, workstations, and GPU cloud services to Microsoft, Tencent, MIT, Princeton, Airbus, and more.
Michael Balaban
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering of Lambda
Michael Balaban is the Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Lambda.
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About Lambda: Lambda provides Deep Learning servers, workstations, and GPU cloud services to Microsoft, Tencent, MIT, Princeton, Airbus, and more.
Steven K. Sprague
CEO & Co-Founder of Rivetz
Steven Sprague is the CEO of Rivetz Corp. and one of the principle industry evangelists for the application of trusted computing technology. Steven has a strong technical foundation in the principles, capabilities and business models of incorporating trusted hardware into everyday computing, and is skilled at translating these concepts into layman’s terms. Steven is the co-founder of Rivetz Corp. a new company focused on the use of trusted computing and TEE for the consumer market. Rivetz is also playing an important role in providing the key technologies for the protection of private keys and secure instructions for Bitcoin and other crypto currencies. Steven graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He enjoys farming in Western Massachusetts with his wife, two daughters, and a few too many horses.
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About NKrypt, Rivetz: Rivetz is a developer of a hardware-based cyber-security system used to offer a simplified approach to cybersecurity.
Michael Sprague
CTO & Co-Founder of Rivetz
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About Rivetz: Rivetz is a developer of a hardware-based cyber-security system used to offer a simplified approach to cybersecurity.
Yonatan Raz-Fridman
Co-Founder of Kano
As Cofounder & CEO of Kano, Yonatan and Team Kano are building a personal computing experience for a new creative generation – anyone, anywhere, from London to Mumbai, from Boston to Shanghai. Kano launched on Kickstarter in 2013, raising $1.5 million, and recently has shipped over 20,000 Computer Kits to kids, parents and teachers from 86 countries. Prior to starting Kano, Yonatan worked with the CEO of Keter Group, one of the world’s leading designers, manufacturers and marketers of plastic consumer products. He’s a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program during which he co-founded Funkkit, and served as operations team lead at the IDF
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About Kano, Supersocial: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
Ken Kalopsis
Co-Founder + Vice-Chair of Startech.Com
Ken Kalopsis is co-founder of StarTech.com and as the company’s most senior ambassador, he maintains strong partnerships with key customers. Ken also spearheads StarTech.com’s global customer expansion so you will frequently find him at airports and hotels around the world. As a key member and contributor to the Executive team, Ken provides critical input and direction to StarTech.com. Having been actively involved with all aspects of the company throughout the years, he knows the business inside and out – with a particular focus in sales and operations. As a member of TEC Canada, Ken provides insights into company best practices and continuous improvement. Ken has a longstanding record of community involvement. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Grand Theatre Foundation and the Greater London International Airport. He also served as Executive Director of the Canadian Economic Development Assistance for South Sudan (CEDASS) after serving as a director for the previous five years. Ken earned a degree in History & Political Science from The University of Western Ontario.
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About Startech.Com: StarTech.com operates as a manufacturer of hard-to-find connectivity parts.
Vijay Chattha
Founder and CEO of VSC
Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.
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About BlackMahal, The100kPledge, VSC, Wareness.io: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Chiu Chau
Co-Founder, CTO of OpenTrons
Chiu worked in biotech for 20+ years before building the first OpenTrons robot. In his previous company (bought by Immucor in 2008) he led the engineering team to build the core multiplex qPCR automation technology now used in most blood banks for advanced blood typing. Chiu grew up in Hong Kong and is a diehard raquetball player.
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About OpenTrons: OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments.
Will Canine
Co-Founder and CPO of OpenTrons
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About OpenTrons: OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments.
Marc Raibert
Founder of Boston Dynamics
Marc Raibert is founder and CEO of Boston Dynamics, a company that creates some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots, such as BigDog, Atlas, Spot and Handle. These robots are inspired by the remarkable ability of animals to move with agility, dexterity, perception and intelligence. A key ingredient of these robots is their dynamic behavior, which contributes to their effectiveness and versatility in the real world. Before starting Boston Dynamics, Raibert was Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at MIT and Carnegie Mellon. While at CMU and MIT Raibert founded the Leg Laboratory, a lab that helped establish the scientific basis for highly dynamic robots and that set the stage for the work done at Boston Dynamics. Raibert is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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About Boston Dynamics, Boston Dynamics: Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Jennifer Gill Roberts
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of Grit Ventures
Startup investor, entrepreneur and technologist with a passion for launching startups, both for-profit and non-profit in Silicon Valley. Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Grit Ventures. Grit believes artificial intelligence is changing the world. We fund pre-seed and seed-stage Robotics + AI startups that are disrupting major verticals like construction, transportation, manufacturing, agtech, and logistics.
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About Grit Ventures: Grit Ventures invests the Clean Machine Revolution with investment hubs in the Bay Area, Denver, Austin, and Pittsburgh.
Kelly Coyne
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of Grit Ventures
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About Grit Ventures: Grit Ventures invests the Clean Machine Revolution with investment hubs in the Bay Area, Denver, Austin, and Pittsburgh.
Jorge Heraud
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blue River Technology
Jorge is the co-founder and CEO of Blue River Technology Inc. (www.bluerivert.com), a start-up company that intends to revolutionize weeding and dramatically reduce chemical use.
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Kelly Peng
Founder, CEO & CTO (Electrical / Optical / Software Engineer) of Kura Technologies
Kelly Peng is the CEO, CTO, and Founder of Kura Technologies.
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About Greylock, Kura Technologies, Particle House (AKA Inventor Lab), Radio Astronomy Lab, Stanford University, The AAT Project (American’s Amazing Teen): Kura Tech is a tech firm and platform that produces compact AR glasses, with customized displays, optics, ASICs, system.
Nicholas Woodman
Owner, CEO & Founder of GoPro
While the eight-person staff of GoPro was enjoying the success of their first HD HERO camera in 2009, founder and CEO Nick Woodman realized one thing: to support his vision, he was going to need a bigger staff. But before Woodman could think bigger, he had to start out small. After receiving a degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, Woodman founded an online promotions company, Fun Bug. In 2001, Woodman sold Fun Bug and took off surfing and traveling the world. The decision inspired more than the personal – Woodman’s passion for surfing sparked the idea to create the now-popular wearable and gear mountable camera and in 2002, Woodman founded GoPro. After years of research and planning, the company released its first product, the GoPro HERO, a 35mm film-based camera that was worn on the wrist. Made up of some of Woodman’s friends and family members, the early GoPro team established the company as a true innovator by continually iterating on the product, moving from a film-based camera to a digital still and video camera. A lifetime extreme sports enthusiast, Woodman was learning how to race cars when he was compelled to move the camera from his wrist to the top of his car. This simple idea led to an array of camera mounting devices – for everything from helmets to surfboards, and even dog collars.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Patrick Chandler
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of FightCamp
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer. Currently running the FightCamp marketing team, deep knowledge in Paid Social (Facebook, Instagram), Content Marketing (Youtube, SEO), Website Optimization (CRO), Email marketing, TV advertising and Influencer marketing. Also created the attribution modeling framework and the data analysis system we use. On the technical side, was previously Chief Data Scientist and have experience in Machine Learning, IMU sensors, kinematics / 3D motion tracking, startups and data science.
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
Alexandre Marcotte
Co-Founder and CTO of FightCamp
Mr. Marcotte graduated from Sherbrooke University with an Electrical Engineering degree with a major in microelectronics. While launching Hykso with Mr. Zahar, Mr. Marcotte lead his team to the international electric car competition Eco Shell Marathon in Texas, USA. Mr. Marcotte’s team broke the world record for the most economic electric prototype ever built and their car, E-Volve received much attention by the press.
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
Vikas Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wonder Workshop
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About Wonder Workshop: Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
David Holz
Co-Founder & CTO of Leap Motion
David Holz is the CTO & co-founder of Leap Motion. Prior to founding the company, David contracted for NASA’s Langley Research Center and conducted neuroscience research while at The Max Planck Institute. He studied Applied Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ultimately leaving his PhD program to co-found Leap Motion in 2010.
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About Leap Motion: Leap Motion is a software and hardware company that develops 3D motion-control technology for virtual reality and additional platforms.
Jonathan Hefter
Founder, President of Neverware
Jonathan Hefter is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Neverware, based in New York City. He is paving the way for innovative technologies that help solve the current business and educational computer procurement model by way of perpetually extending the life and performance of existing PCs, eliminating the need to purchase new hardware. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania – Wharton with a degree in finance in 2009, Hefter spent a year teaching himself the basics of virtual computing while developing the Neverware’s prototype in his parents’ basement.
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About Neverware: Neverware develops desktop operating systems designed to optimize security and manageability.
Jorge Perdomo
Inventor, Co-Founder of goTenna
Jorge leads the expansion of goTenna’s business into professional markets. Earlier on, Jorge headed up the product team. He previously worked as a data analyst and solutions architect.
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About goTenna, Lima Consulting Group, Lima Consulting Group: GoTenna is advancing universal access to connectivity by building intelligent and scalable mobile mesh networks.
Renee James
Founder , Chairman & CEO of Ampere Computing
Renée James is President of Intel Corporation and is part of the company’s Executive Office. Renée has broad knowledge of the computing industry, spanning hardware, manufacturing, security, software and services, which she developed through product R&D leadership positions at Intel and as chairman of Intel’s software subsidiaries. Renée has also been an overall leader in the development and implementation of the corporate strategy. During her 25 plus year career at Intel, Renée has spearheaded the company’s strategic expansion into providing proprietary and open source software and services for applications in enterprise, security and cloud-based computing. In her most recent role as executive vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group, she was responsible for Intel’s global software and services strategy, revenue, profit, and product R&D. In this role, Renée led Intel’s strategic relationships with the world’s leading device and enterprise operating systems companies. Previously, she was the director and COO of Intel Online Services, Intel’s datacenter services business. Early in her career Renée also served as chief of staff for former Intel CEO Andy Grove. Renée is Vice Chair of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. She served 7 years as independent director on the VMware Inc. Board of Directors and was a member of the Audit Committee. She is also a member of the C200 and a non-executive director of Sabre Corporation. Most recently Renée was nominated to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list, ranking 21st and was named on Forbes 100 list at number 37. She holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Oregon.
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About Ampere Computing, Intel, The Carlyle Group: Ampere Computing develops data center processors for cloud servers.
Phillip Walker
CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member of Transcend Robotics
A serial entrepreneur who values hitting milestones for investors and producing scalable results.
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About Transcend Robotics: Transcend Robotics is a startup that develops ground-based mobile robots.
Jonathon Perrelli
CEO & Co-Founder of LifeFuels
Jonathon’s newest project and startup is LifeFuels, a beverage technology company created with the goal of helping people feel their best, from the inside out. Jonathon and his team will be launching the world’s first portable beverage maker, which makes drinks on the go tailored to match your activity and lifestyle, in 2018. Inspiration for Fortify Ventures and Distilled Intelligence came from Jonathon’s 18 years as an entrepreneur and angel investor. As a native Washingtonian, Jonathon is a key player in the thriving startup technology ecosystem in our nation’s capital. He is dedicated to and passionate about startupland. Jonathon is a proud graduate of Virginia Tech and alumnus of UUNET.
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About LifeFuels, SecureForce: LifeFuels is changing the way consumers approach hydration and nutrition by empowering them to create personalized beverages on the go.
Rob Lawson-Shanks
CTO & Co-Founder of LifeFuels
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About LifeFuels: LifeFuels is changing the way consumers approach hydration and nutrition by empowering them to create personalized beverages on the go.
Mark Gosselin
Founder & CTO of Glowforge
Mark did the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, firmware, and v1 software at the past two companies he founded. His last startup sold for $112M. He built a combination plasma torch, 3D printer, laser, & milling machine in his garage. For fun.
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About Glowforge: Glowforge is a manufacturer of 3D laser printers intended to offer printing services on a wide range of materials and many more.
Colin Angle
Chairman, CEO and Founder of iRobot
Colin Angle is incurably optimistic about the future of people and robotics. A robot builder from MIT who wanted to change the world by making practical robotics a mainstream reality, Colin envisions a world where intelligent and and purpose-first robots help people do more. As a visionary at the forefront of the growing home robot industry, today Colin serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the iconic consumer robot company he founded in 1990: iRobot. He is an industry pioneer and one of the world’s leading authorities on practical robots. Under Colin’s leadership, iRobot has grown from a MIT startup to become the global leader in consumer robots, with $884 million in revenue and more than 1,000 employees in twelve countries. In 2002, iRobot established the home robot category with the creation of the award-winning Roomba robot vacuum. The company’s product line, including the Roomba and the Braava family of robot mops, made practical home robots a reality for the first time and have become the most successful consumer robots in history, with more than 25 million sold worldwide.
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About iRobot, Ixcela, Robots in Service of the Environment, Science From Scientists: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Alan Chan
Co-Founder & CEO of Joy
Alan Chan is the Cofounder & CEO of Joy (https://joy.co)
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About Joy: Joy is the first Smart Photo Album – an all-in-one hardware, software and cloud solution for families to organize and relive their memories.
Nicholas Harris
Founder, CEO of Lightmatter
Nick Harris is the CEO and co-founder of Lightmatter, where his team is leading the evolution of computing, reducing its impact on our planet, and enabling the next great leaps in human progress through silicon photonics. Prior to founding Lightmatter, Nick was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow at MIT, where he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Nick has authored 67 academic articles and 13 patents, and his doctoral thesis was titled “Programmable nanophotonics for quantum information processing and artificial intelligence.” Nick was previously an R&D engineer working on DRAM and NAND circuits and device physics at Micron Technologies.
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About Lightmatter: Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI.
John Goscha
Founder and CEO of Native Voice
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About Lucidity Lights, Native Voice: Native Voice is a software SDK for audio device manufacturers to integrate their SDK to create the next generation of listening devices.
Maxim Lobovsky
Co-Founder and CEO of Formlabs
Maxim Lobovsky launched a successful career as an entrepreneur and startup founder by age 25. As a Program in Media Arts and Sciences master’s student at MIT’s Media Lab, Lobovsky enjoyed access to three-dimensional printers to create necessary components for his projects, designed and printed to spec. Lobovsky could see the potential applications of 3D printing for designers, architects, engineers, and other small businesses;however, the machines he used were prohibitively expensive. After graduating, Lobovsky worked with two of his friends to create the first small-scale, affordable 3D printer for “prosumers,” or professional consumers, and thus was born his startup, Formlabs. Once they had a prototype, called the Form 1, Lobovsky and Formlabs’ co-founders began a Kickstarter campaign, using the power of crowdsourced funding to finance the production of commercial models. Formlabs raised more than $1 million in a week, and nearly $3 million overall—30 times their original fundraising goal. The Form 1 is compatible with CAD software, and uses stereolithography technology to print layers as thin as .001 inches.
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About Formlabs: Formlabs develops accessible 3D fabrication systems designed for printing intricate figures.
Natan Linder
Co-Founder and Chairman of Formlabs
Natan Linder is the Co-Founder of Formlabs, creator of the Form 1 3D Printer. Natan is an R&D Executive with over 10 years of experience has a broad understanding of the Wireless and Mobile industries. He has strong entrepreneurial leadership experience, taking products from concept definition to market launch, and a proven track record building cross-functional R&D teams. Natan has worked with industry leaders leaders such as Sun Microsystems and Samsung Electronics.
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About Formlabs, Tulip Interfaces: Formlabs develops accessible 3D fabrication systems designed for printing intricate figures.
Mark Haidar
Co-Founder & CEO of Vinli
Mark Haidar is a serial entrepreneur who combines advanced technological skills with astute business knowledge. Throughout his career, Mark was able to build more than 42 different notable products and grow several technology-based businesses. Mark started his first technology company in Lebanon at age 17. By the age of 21, he had built the first fully integrated web-based university management system in Lebanon, the first 3D game engine built locally in the Middle East, the first wireless application protocol based internet-to-home remote control system in Lebanon, and won a People’s Choice Award for Best Web Product in the Middle East for transforming municipality records from paper to digital. In 2006, Mark moved to the US and led the development of a state of the art research and development project for the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC). He was able to successfully create an original service-oriented intra and inter-vehicle communication system for transportation, robotic, and military systems that enhanced each vehicle’s situation assessment and awareness in military combats and have the potential to help create safer and more efficient highway systems. With a huge demand for innovative and scalable technology solutions, Mark co-founded Dialexa, a global product-focused technology innovation and development company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Dialexa has been growing at an exponential rate with clients ranging from venture-backed startups to Fortune 20 companies and governments around the world. In 2014, Dialexa started a division under the name of Dialexa Labs, a self-funded venture lab that develops internal products or services that spins out new companies. In September 2014, Dialexa Labs launched Vinli, the first connected car technology platform at Techcrunch Disrupt. Mark is currently serving as the CEO of Vinli. Mark also serves on the board of directors for Dialexa Labs portfolio companies Robin and Silvr. Mark has numerous journal publications, pending patents, and is a regular speaker at global technology conferences. Most recently Mark founded Peace.Report, an online news aggregator that focuses on current conflicts around the world. It collects news articles that promote peace. Peace.Report is scheduled to go live early 2015. Mark has also launched LISA (Levant International Startup Association), which helps startups in the Levant region to launch and scale their companies in international markets. Mark is trilingual and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
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About Dialexa, LISA, Robin Autopilot, Vinli: Vinli is a universal car-to-cloud data computing platform that turns any car into a connected car.
Jake Rubin
Founder & CEO of HaptX
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About HaptX: HaptX is a leading haptics company that brings realistic touch to virtual reality for the first time with HaptX Gloves.
Liam Casey
Founder & CEO of PCH International
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH. He has lived 23 years in China and is recognized as a thought leader in new product introductions, supply chain orchestration, sustainability and startup initiatives. He is on the boards of the California College for the Arts, and UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.
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About PCH International: PCH provides a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands.
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, Chairman, and head of admissions and oversee investment vehicles of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Cameron Teitelman is the Founder and Chairman of StartX, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that runs an accelerator for Stanford affiliated entrepreneurs. Under his management, StartX has supported more than 1,100+ founders building 500+ companies. StartX companies have raised over $3.3B to date. In 2013, the Stanford-StartX Fund was launched. To date, SSF has invested in 250 StartX companies across 400+ rounds, investing $130 million in capital.
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Darren Bechtel
Founder & Managing Director of Brick & Mortar Ventures
Darren Bechtel is the founder and Managing Director of Brick & Mortar Ventures, the leading sector-specific venture capital fund focused on emerging technologies to improve the way we design, build, and maintain our built environment. Darren has been the single most active early stage investor in AEC and FM tech over the past five years, with his first four construction tech deals being Seed round investments into PlanGrid, BuildZoom, BuildingConnected, and Rhumbix. Since then, Darren and the Brick & Mortar team have invested in over 25 startups aiming to improve productivity, safety, and environmental impact of constructing and caring for the built environment. Darren Bechtel brings over 7 years of engineering, product and architectural design, and construction management professional experience to the Brick & Mortar team, as well as over 8 years of venture investing as the founder and managing director of South Park Ventures. Darren holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a Product Design focus from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Brick & Mortar Ventures: Brick & Mortar Ventures identifies, backs, enables emerging companies developing innovative software hardware solutions for the industries.
Alexander Green
Founder of Symmetry Labs
Founder at Symmetry Labs
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About Symmetry Labs: Next-Generation Lighting Software and Hardware
Ben Morrow
Founder of Symmetry Labs
Founder at Symmetry Labs
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About Symmetry Labs: Next-Generation Lighting Software and Hardware
Hector Hoyos
Founder, Chairman, CEO & CTO of Hoyos Corporation
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About Hoyos Corporation: Hoyos is an identity management technology solution company focused on developing systems for access control and the identity market.
Jake Duneier
Founder & CEO of Purple Technologies
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About Clyde Duneier, Inc., Purple Technologies: Purple Technologies creates beautiful products that enhance the human experience.
Hugo Fiennes
Founder & CEO of Electric Imp
Hugo Fiennes is CEO and Co-founder of Electric Imp, an innovative and powerful Internet of Things-based cloud service and hardware platform that makes it simple to connect devices to the Internet. Hugo began developing hardware and software for early ARM-based computers in the late 1980s and has been building useful and successful things ever since. After designing many MP3 players for Rio, Hugo led Apple’s hardware team through the first four generations of the groundbreaking iPhone, and was then an early advisor to Nest Labs, architecting the hardware for their first thermostat product before starting Electric Imp in 2011. He graduated first honors from University of Warwick in Coventry, England with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
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About Electric Imp: Electric Imp provides a secure IoT platform, connecting cloud services with the real world
Ilan Abehassera
Co-Founder, President & COO of Willo
Ilan Abehassera is the Co-Founder, President & COO at Willo.
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About Diaspora Ventures, Oui Are New York, Willo: Willo develops technology in oral health that automatically empowers everyone to achieve the best at-home clean possible.
Hugo de Gentile
Co-Founder & CEO of Willo
Hugo de Gentile is the Co-Founder and CEO at Willo
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About Willo: Willo develops technology in oral health that automatically empowers everyone to achieve the best at-home clean possible.
Sean Lie
Chief Hardware Architect & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Sean is Chief Hardware Architect and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Sean was Lead Hardware Architect of the IO virtualization fabric ASIC at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired by AMD, Sean was made an AMD Fellow and Chief Data Center Architect. Earlier in his career, he spent five years at AMD in their advanced architecture team. He holds a BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has authored 16 patents in computer architecture.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Chief System Architect & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Jean-Philippe (J.P.) is Chief System Architect at Cerebras Systems. Before co-founding Cerebras, J.P. was Senior Hardware Architect at rack-scale flash array startup DSSD (acquired by EMC). Prior to DSSD, J.P. was Lead System Architect at SeaMicro where he designed three generations of fabric-based computer systems. Earlier in his career, J.P. was Director of Hardware Engineering at Alcatel-Lucent and Director of Hardware Engineering at Riverstone Networks. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and has authored 24 patents.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Michael James
Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Michael is Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Michael was Lead Software Architect responsible for distributed system software at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired, Michael was made an AMD Fellow and Lead Software Architect. Throughout his career, he has designed operating systems, compilers, real-time feedback controls systems, signal process, and recognition systems. Michael has degrees in Molecular Neurobiology, Mathematics, and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Andrew Feldman
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Andrew is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Gabriel Halimi
Co-Founder & CEO of Flo Technologies
Gabriel is a former law partner turned corporate operations executive, with extensive startup experience, including in business development and brand marketing.
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Henry Halimi
Co-Founder, Chairman of Flo Technologies
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Brian Gerkey
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Open Robotics
Brian Gerkey is CEO of Open Robotics. Prior to joining Open Robotics, Brian was Director of Open Source Development at Willow Garage. Previously, Brian was a Computer Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI, and before that, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University. Brian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2003, his M.S. in Computer Science from USC in 2000, and his B.S.E. in Computer Engineering, with a secondary major in Mathematics and a minor in Robotics and Automation, from Tulane University in 1998. Among other accolades, Brian was recognized by MIT Technology Review with the TR35 award and by Silicon Valley Business Journal with their 40 Under 40 award.
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About Open Robotics: Open Robotics support the development, distribution, and adoption of open software and hardware for use in robotics.
Jonathan Sawyer
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Xetawave
Jonathan Sawyer is the Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer/Chief Technology Officer at Xetawave. Jonathan has pushed the limits over a period of three decades in the design and development of new and innovative, industry-changing wireless technologies. He is renowned in his approach for always thinking out of the box and questioning conventional wisdom. Prior to XetaWave, Jonathan co-founded FreeWave Technologies in 1993. In addition to his responsibilities as CTO, he co-managed FreeWave. Jonathan designed the very first FHSS products which employed modulation, hopping speeds and over-the-air protocols which are still considered state of the art to this day. In his 17 years at FreeWave, he designed every radio and grew the company culminating with an investment by TA Associates of $113M in 2007. During the 3 years following the acquisition, Jonathan worked to expand the management and technical team of FreeWave to ensure its continued scalability and growth from its entrepreneurial roots. Prior to FreeWave, in 1986 and as co-founder of Inovonics, Jonathan developed a unique narrow pulse wireless technology to enable low power, unlicensed devices to achieve a range of miles versus feet, a first within the industry. This technology is still in use today. In 2005, Inovonics was sold to Roper Industries for over $45 million. In the late 1980s, while director of hardware engineering for Clinicom, Jonathan pioneered the first WIFI type network at 900 MHz for use in handheld computers within a hospital environment. Jonathan’s 900 MHz technology produced an aggregate bandwidth of over 15MB and extended the range of this technology to allow a single access point to provide wireless coverage across multiple floors within a hospital. During this time, he developed much of the Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) technologies and protocols used today. Jonathan received several patents for his work.
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About Xetawave: XetaWave is a wireless network equipment company providing data-centric wireless radios for communication networks.
Blake Commagere
Co-Founder and COO of Vault12
Blake Commagere is a growth expert, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and an advisor to several companies in the SF Bay Area. In his career, he has raised over $12 million in VC/Seed funding, started 7 companies, and sold 5 of them. He regularly gives talks on a wide variety of subjects including: Growth Hacking/Viral Marketing, Fundraising, and Building a Positive Culture. He created the social gaming category by building some of the biggest apps ever (over 50 Million players) on Facebook, including the iconic games Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves. Blake wrote and designed the first version of Causes on Facebook, which has over 120 Million users and has raised over $80 million for various charities. Currently, Blake is the Founder & CEO of MediaSpike – a company that is building the first truly social applications for Virtual Reality.
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
Max Skibinsky
CEO and Co-Founder of Vault12
Max Skibinsky is serial entrepreneur, angel investor & start-up mentor. He is currently a Venture Partner with Andreessen Horowitz. Max was founder and CEO of Hive7, a social gaming company known for its smash hit game “Knighthood” that grown to 6M players on Facebook. In 2010 Hive7 was sold to Playdom/Disney. Later Max become one of the co-founders of Inporia that secured funding from YCombinator, SV Angels, Clearstone & NEA to launch number of consumer products that used machine learning algorithms for online and mobile e-commerce. Max is also one of resident mentors of 500 Startups. Max holds Masters degree in theoretical physics from Moscow State University. When not designing, brainstorming, advising, and building startups Max can be found flying in general vicinity of Palo Alto airspace.
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
Phillip Raub
Founder/Board Member of b8ta
Phillip Raub is the CEO of Model No. and also the co-founder and board member at b8ta, a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for product makers and exciting for consumers. In his role at b8ta, he oversaw the day to day operations of the company. Previous to b8ta, Phillip held executive roles at Nest/Google, where he led the Global Channel Marketing team. Prior to Nest, Phillip spent six years at Nintendo as the Director of Retail Marketing. In addition to his years of experience at Nest and Nintendo, Phillip held various leadership roles in marketing at Gap Inc.
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About b8ta, Model No.: B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all.
William Mintun
Co-Founder, EVP of Operations of b8ta
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About b8ta: B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all.
Joseph Fasone
Founder & CEO of Pilot
Joseph is the founder of Pilot, a fiber-optic internet provider for businesses in New York City.Prior to founding Pilot, Joseph was the Director of Information Technology for WeWork from 2010-2014.
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About Pilot: Pilot is a fiber-optic ISP that raises the bar for telecom and provides better business internet.
Andreas E. Haas
Co-Founder, CEO and Lead Engineer of Modbook
Andreas E. Haas co-founded Axiotron Corp. in 2005 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Mr. Haas has 18 years of extensive experience in business management, marketing & product management, as well as in hard- & software development. Mr. Haas co-founded Their World Live, Inc. and served as its Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Haas also held various management positions at Apple Computer in Europe including Apple’s Portable product lines, the Newton Systems Group, and Apple Third Party Product Marketing. He served for Apple’s European Headquarters in Paris, France as Manager of the European Product Management for Professional Desktop and Server Systems heading the European Product Management teams for Desktop and Server products. He has been Director of Axiotron Corp. since August 2008. Mr. Haas holds B.S in Management Information Systems from Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in Bavaria in 1994.
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About Modbook: Welcome to the home of the Modbook Pro, a Wacom Penabled tablet computer and the one and only Mac tablet.
Dave Evans
Co-Founder, CEO of Fictiv
Dave Evans co-founded Fictiv and serves as its CEO in pursuit of his mission to democratize manufacturing. Fictiv’s virtual manufacturing platform pairs intelligent workflow and collaboration software with a global network of highly vetted manufacturers. Prior to Fictiv, Dave was the first hire at Ford’s Silicon Valley Lab which is part of Ford’s Global Research and Advanced Engineering Division. While there, Dave was Lead Hardware Engineer on OpenXC, an open source software and hardware platform to extend customer’s vehicles with custom applications and pluggable modules. In this role, he manufactured hardware for 500+ unit production runs including injection molding, PCB fabrication, box design and assembly. He was also responsible for designing, prototyping, and sourcing hardware builds at the Lab. Dave also proudly led the Stanford University Affiliates project for Ford in the mechanical engineering senior design course.
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About Fictiv: Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers precision parts on-demand through its digital platform and global partner network.
Dan Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO of VergeSense
Dan Ryan is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at VergeSense.
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About VergeSense: VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform and provides spatial intelligence to enterprise companies.
Johnny Hou
Founder / CEO of NZXT
Johnny Ho is a Founder and CEO at NZXT. He is also Co-Founder at Acaia. Mr. Ho received a bachelor of science in Computer Engineering at UC Irvine.
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About Acaia, NZXT: NZXT builds PC hardware for enthusiasts and gamers globally.
James Tamplin
Founder Partner of Founder Collective
James has founded 4 startups. His last one, Firebase, was acquired by Google, where he leads product for Firebase as a part of Google Cloud Platform.
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About Founder Collective: Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Zach Klein
Founder Partner of Founder Collective
Zach Klein is co-founder and CEO of DIY. He was a partner and led product design at Connected Ventures, the creators of CollegeHumor. In 2006, he and his partners sold a major stake of Connected Ventures to IAC. Zach is best known for co-founding and designing [Vimeo](/organization/vimeo), a popular video-sharing community emphasizing authenticity and quality. Time Magazine’s CEO Shimon Haber named Vimeo one of the web’s Top 50 sites. He led product at [Boxee](/organization/boxee), an open-source interface for televisions making it easy to watch shows, movies and homemade videos from the Internet. Zach also serves as a director on the boards of Skillshare and Svpply.
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About DIY.org, Dwell, Dwell, Founder Collective, Svpply: Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Chad Rigetti
Founder & CEO of Rigetti Computing
Chad Rigetti is the founder and CEO of Rigetti Computing, a full-stack quantum computing startup based in Berkeley and Fremont, Calif. The company’s product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for hybrid classical-quantum computing. Founded in 2013, Rigetti has raised over $70 million from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Vy Capital, and has over 50 patent applications on file. Chad holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Regina.
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About Rigetti Computing: Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and manufactures integrated circuits.
Lael Alexander
Founder & President of Noitavonne
Lael Alexander Founder of Noitavonne™ ™ and inventor of the IP Loop Connectivity Protocol (802.11L) studied at Grambling State University prior to leaving school to join the Navy where he earned a commendation from the Admiral and The Navy Achievement Medal for his innovations in the development of a retention program for Naval human resources. After leaving the Navy he worked in the oil and gas sector where he continued to innovate new processes leading to the development of new roles designations in the refinery environment. After 14 years in oil and gas he formed PREMARC Turnkey Systems followed by Tide Wind Energy and Smart Grid Systems all of which ultimately led to the technological breakthroughs that gave birth to Noitavonne™ and a catalog of emerging devices. The visionary behind this products and services offered by Noitavonne, Lael A. Alexander, has a knack for building upon ideas to continually improve on what others might deem perfection. However, it is his experience in technology that spans decades and crosses multiple functional industry sectors ranging from healthcare to energy related segments that continue to prove up his concepts from a practitioners approach. The emergence of this technology and the devices in which it is currently being implemented has caused a seismic shift in the collective paradigm around how the world views mobility and impact how tablets, phones and personal computers as network devices will be used.
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About Noitavonne, Shenzhen Noitavonne Electronics and Appliance Corporation, Siecom International Holdings Limited: Noitavonne is a manufacturer and supplier of workstations, tablet computers, mobile phones, and smart watches.
Charles Michael Yim
Founder and CEO of Breathometer
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About Breathometer, CMY Ventures, Cohabit Labs, Inc., Cointopia, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, VitaBowl, Walt Disney Television: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Christina Bellman
Founder & CEO of LEVO Oil Infusion, Inc.
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About LEVO Oil Infusion, Inc.: The world’s first automated oil infuser
Ari Roisman
Co-Founder & CEO of Wristcam
A Mechanical and Energy Engineer by training and passionate entrepreneur at heart, Ari has founded several profitable ventures in a variety of industries. Since founding in 2012, he served as CEO of Glide, the pioneering video messenger for smartphones and smartwatches that supports millions of users and billions of live video exchanges. In 2016, Ari teamed up with an early Apple Watch program manager to develop Wristcam, an ultra-compact Camera System made for Apple Watch. Ari holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 global innovators under 35.
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Matt Frischer
Co-Founder & CMO of Wristcam
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Fred Chang
Founder and Chairman of Newegg
Fred Chang has been the President of China operations of Newegg Inc. Fred Chang has been Global Chief Executive Officer of Newegg, Inc. and serves as its Chairman. He co-founded Newegg, Inc. He served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Newegg Inc. He served as Vice Chairman of Newegg, Inc. He served as director and the acting President of Newegg China. he served as director of Newegg, Inc. Prior to forming Newegg, Fred Chang founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of ABS Computer Technologies, Newegg predecessor entity. Fred Chang holds a Bachelors degree in Applied Mathematics from the Chinese Culture University of Taiwan.
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About : Newegg is an online retail store that offers computer hardware, software, and accessories.
Zach Supalla
Founder & CEO of Particle
Zach Supalla is the founder and CEO of Particle, an IoT startup that’s making it easier to build, connect and manage internet-connected hardware products deployed at massive scale. Supalla earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MEM (masters in engineering management) from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern. Before Particle, Supalla worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy, operations and product development. He is a graduate of HAX, the world’s first, and most prolific hardware accelerator.
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Meena Sankaran
Founder & CEO of KETOS
Meena Sankaran is an accomplished technology executive, business leader and evangelist driving global strategy and innovation for customer success through a variety of leadership roles. She has been a key influencer and executed on product strategy with her unique blend of business and technical acumen to customers worldwide across organizations of varied sizes. As a Social Entrepreneur, she believes in leveraging technology for challenges that bring about global change and deliver solutions to impact at a grass roots level. She has a BE in Electronics Engineering from India and MS in Electrical Engg from UTA, Texas. Her Leadership in Ketos’s engineering innovation, product & business strategy, team discipline and strong culture are instrumental in the path to success
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About KETOS: KETOS provides hardware and software analytics solutions and real-time data for usage and flow across water systems.
Justin Oliveira
Co-Founder, Advisory Board Member of Hedron
Justin started his career at NASA in ‘07 after being recruited to work on the Space Shuttle and Constellation Programs. Later, he transitioned to R&D management, serving on various agency-wide committees and partnering with small businesses to develop space technology. In 2012 he went to NASA HQ to work on revamping NASA’s strategy capability. In 2014 he went to the White House Office of Management and Budget where he oversaw NASA’s Human Spaceflight and Aeronautics Research Program and the Smithsonian. In the spring of 2016, he co-founded Analytical Space. He holds a B.S./M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Florida Tech and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About Boston Geospatial: Hedron is a satellite communications company based out of Boston that is leveraging hybrid RF-laser communications technology.
Marc Wolf
CTO and Co-Founder of Ikeja Wireless
Marc Wolf is the CTO and co-founder of Ikeja Wireless.
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About Ikeja Wireless: Ikeja is a wireless network provider that uses bespoke solutions to provide internet connectivity to locations.
Allison Clift-Jennings
CEO & Co-Founder of Filament
Allison Clift-Jennings is the CEO and Co-Founder at Filament.
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About Filament, Tonic Audio Labs: Filament builds blockchain hardware & software solutions for enterprise and IoT.
Rahul Dewan
Founder & CEO of Duet Display
Founder at Duet Display
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About Duet Display: Duet allows users to use their iDevice as an extra display for Mac using the Lightning or 30-pin cable.
William Andregg
CEO, Co-Founder & President of Fathom Computing
William Andregg is the Co-Founder at Fathom Radiant.
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About Fathom Computing: Fathom Computing is building optics-based hardware to run artificial intelligence with unprecedented performance.
Kiran Malwankar
Co-Founder of Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
Kiran Malwankar is the Founder of Pavilion Data Systems and brings extensive experience in flash memory systems, PCI express architectures, as well as storage area networking. Prior to Pavilion Data, Kiran was Director of Hardware Engineering at Violin Memory, where he led the team responsible for the development of Violin’s next-generation flash controller architecture. Prior to Violin, Kiran led the hardware engineering team at Aprius, a provider of PCIe-based I/O virtualization systems which was acquired by FusionIO. Kiran was also part of the founding team of Andiamo, a spin-off that Cisco created to disrupt the storage networking market, and also held senior engineering roles at Nishan Systems, Stoke, and KLA-Tencor. Kiran holds a degree in MSEE from IIT Bombay (now Mumbai).
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About : Delivers unmatched performance, density, & ultra-low latency at scale, w/out the cost & complexity of traditional storage via nextgen flash
VR Satish
Co-Founder & CTO of Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
VR Satish is the Chief Technology Officer at Pavilion Data Systems and brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise storage software products. Prior to joining Pavilion Data, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Artiman Ventures.Satish was an early employee of Veritas and later served as the Vice President and the Chief Technology Officer for the Information & Availability Group at Symantec Corporation prior to joining Artiman. His current areas of interest include distributed computing, information-centric storage architectures and virtualization. Satish holds multiple patents in storage management, and earned his Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Florida.
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About Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.: Delivers unmatched performance, density, & ultra-low latency at scale, w/out the cost & complexity of traditional storage via nextgen flash
Rosanna Myers
Co-Founder of Carbon Robotics
Rosanna is the Co-Founder of Carbon Robotics.
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About Carbon Robotics: Carbon Robotics makes advanced robotics dramatically more accessible to help solve some of society’s most intractable problems.
John S. Lettow
Co-Founder & President of Vorbeck Materials
John is the president and co-founder of Vorbeck Materials Corp. John has experience in technology development, start-up companies, and consulting with a focus on materials innovations in the electronics, automotive, and energy industries. John received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT, an M.Phil. in engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK) as a Fulbright Scholar, a BSE in chemical engineering from Princeton University, and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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About Vorbeck Materials: Vorbeck Materials is a manufacturer of graphene and graphene enabled products and solutions.
Ilhan A. Aksay
Co-Founder , Advisor & Member of the Board of Directors of Vorbeck Materials
Dr. Aksay is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. Dr. Aksay has published extensively on graphene and its applications, as well as on biologically inspired and self-assembling materials, ceramics, colloids, and electrohydrodynamic phenomena. Dr. Aksay has been internationally recognized with numerous honors including the Richard M. Fulrath Award (1987) and the Edward C. Henry Award (2000) of the American Ceramic Society, the Charles M.A. Stine Award (1997) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Turkish National Medal of Science (2001). Ilhan Aksay is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, an honorary member of the Japanese Materials Research Society, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He earned his B.Sc. in ceramic engineering at the University of Washington and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Vorbeck Materials: Vorbeck Materials is a manufacturer of graphene and graphene enabled products and solutions.
Robert K. Prud’homme
Co-Founder of Vorbeck Materials
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About Vorbeck Materials: Vorbeck Materials is a manufacturer of graphene and graphene enabled products and solutions.
Jeffrey O’Neill
Founder/CEO of Zephyr Aerospace
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About flyClever, Zephyr Aerospace: Zephyr Aerospace designs affordable lie-flat seating solutions for transportation companies.
Pete Foley
Co-Founder and CEO of Ascenium
Pete Foley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ascenium.
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About Ascenium: Ascenium is a fabless semiconductor startup that develops a general-purpose microprocessor.
Roderick de Rode
Founder & CEO of Spinn
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About Spinn: Spinn makes wifi connected coffee machines that brew coffee using patented centrifugal technology.
Mahi Reddy
Founder and CEO of SemaConnect
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About SemaConnect: SemaConnect is a provider of electric vehicle charging stations and software solutions for station owners and electric vehicle drivers.
