Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the iOS 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.
Kevin Long
Co-Founder & CEO of The Dyrt
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About : The Dyrt is consumer subscription software and top ranked camping app, with over 1.5M user-submitted reviews and tips across the U.S.
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Sarah Smith
Founder of The Dyrt
Sarah Smith is Founder at The Dyrt.
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About The Dyrt: The Dyrt is consumer subscription software and top ranked camping app, with over 1.5M user-submitted reviews and tips across the U.S.
Roy Malkin
President & Founder of Venture Aviator
Roy Malkin have Fortune 500 experience in Developing and Managing Global Business across 20 markets – including USA, Europe, Japan, Russia, Ukraine. He’s currently concentrating on global IT Development and company strategy. He’s also involved in launching multiple startups in big data, e-commerce, new media / internet markets.
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About OffrBox, Venture Aviator: Venture Aviator is a Custom Software Development Company based in New York and California, and specializes in web and app development.
Michael Ritter
Founder & CEO of Maple Media
Michael Ritter is the Founder and CEO of Maple Media, a mobile apps and games company backed by private equity firm Shamrock Capital. Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising and technology company that acquires, manages and operates mobile applications focused on the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. Popular titles include Snowboard Party: World Tour, Skateboard Party, Minesweeper Classic, Sudoku 🙂 and CalConvert. Previously he was SVP of Business & Corporate Development for Jam City, a large social and mobile game company based in Los Angeles where he oversaw mergers & acquisition activities, publishing, licensing, distribution, sales, legal and partnerships for social and mobile games. Michael was also the Founder and Publisher of Saturday Night Magazine, which at the time, he built into the largest circulated monthly collegiate lifestyle and entertainment magazine in the country.
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About Fantasy Baseball Arbitration, Maple Media: Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising, and technology company that acquires and operates category-leading, consumer apps.
Uri Raz
Founder & Executive Chairman of Tango
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About Tango: Tango Live is a leading global social media platform connecting influencers and their followers through live mobile video engagement.
Susan Brazer
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of LionShare Media
Susan is a commercial visionary with a 2020’s view. She’s led the successful development, launch and scale of consumer-facing platforms, apps and services for world-leading media, tech and telecom companies: Apple, DirecTV, SES Astra, FIFA World Cup, Viacom, Virgin Mobile, and Nokia. Susan is the CEO of LionShare Media, which is launching the THIN/AIR™ Metaverse, a 5G cloud-native, blockchain-enabled distribution platform for premium entertainment and immersive media. Previously, Susan was VP, Strategy and Business Development at Nokia, and VP, Corporate Development and Entertainment Services at Virgin Mobile USA). Prior to this, Susan was EVP, Corporate Development at KirchMedia’s Venture Fund for the FIFA World Cup, where she raised $50M+ for interactive TV, gaming and mobile app ventures. Susan was the SVP, Networks & Marketing for Viacom’s Showtime service in the Middle East and Africa, overseeing a P&L and operations for MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, TV Land, Bloomberg, Paramount, Style and Discovery. Susan led the launch of DirecTV as VP, Marketing at Compression Labs and the migration of 85M European TVHH to digital satellite and cable services for SES ASTRA. The genesis of Susan’s product development and UI/UX expertise began at Apple Computer, where she launched its 1st portable computer, the Newton, and Knowledge Navigator (prototype for the iPAD and Siri). She was also served as an M&A analyst at PepsiCo and International Treasury Analyst at Phillip Morris. Susan holds a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and attended the London School of Economics. Susan is on the Board of Global Women in Blockchain, a UN Delegate for Media for Social Impact and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller School of Engineering for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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About LionShare Media: LionShare Media develops a media distribution platform-as-a-service to harness the power of converging and emerging technologies.
Wesley Pettit
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Kandji
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About Kandji: Kandji is a management platform for apple devices such as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.
Mark Daughters
Co-Founder & VP Operations of Kandji
Founder & Head of Operations of Kandji.
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About Kandji: Kandji is a management platform for apple devices such as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.
Adam Pettit
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kandji
Adam Pettit is the founder and chief executive officer at Kandji.
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About Kandji: Kandji is a management platform for apple devices such as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.
Sonny Caberwal
Founder of Exclusively.In of Zuldi
Founder & CEO of BOND.
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About Zuldi: Zuldi extends Legacy Point-of-Sale systems to Mobile
Gerard Cunningham
Founder & CEO of Winistry
Gerard is a Blue Chip & Startup CEO, Board Member, Adviser and Investor. He is a former CMO, with expertise in strategy, operations, Big Data, AI, Digital Transformation, Mobile.
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About Winistry: The Intelligent Mobile App Platform: “WordPress for Mobile Apps, plus AI”
Bo Fishback
Co-Founder & CEO of Zaarly
Bo Fishback is the Founder and CEO of Zaarly. He was previously vice president of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the president of Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation.
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About Zaarly: Zaarly is an American private company focused on developing a proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered market platform.
Boaz Hecht
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SkyGiraffe
Boaz Hecht is the Co-founder and CEO of SkyGiraffe.
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About SkyGiraffe: SkyGiraffe is an enterprise mobility platform that mobilizes back-end data, enabling employees to manage business processes on any device.
Zachary Hamed
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Clay
Zachary Hamed is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Clay.
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About Clay: The most beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your life.
Matthew Achariam
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Clay
Matthew Achariam is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Clay.
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About Clay, Custora: The most beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your life.
Hrish Lotlikar
Co-Founder & CEO of SuperWorld
Hrish is Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer of The Rogue Initiative (therogueinitiative.com). The Rogue Initiative is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company composed of award-winning entertainment industry professionals including alumni from Amblin Entertainment, Pixar, Dreamworks Animation, Disney and Activision Entertainment creating new AAA cinematic interactive virtual reality, digital media experiences, feature film, and television content. Hrish is Co-founder of SuperWorld (http://superworldapp.com), a social Augmented Reality app on iPhone. SuperWorld allows users, brands and influencers to tag anything anywhere in AR with photos, videos, texts, and 3D objects, and share their AR world with friends, followers and fans. Hrish is a founding Managing Partner of EastLabs, a seed stage venture capital fund based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was the Senior Business Developer/Global Evangelist at Toptal (https://www.toptal.com/), backed by Andreessen Horowitz, providing elite talent (software engineers, designers and finance professionals) to companies globally. He is also a Director at Startup Labs, a seed stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco, California, investing in emerging markets around the world. He is also a Mentor at TechPeaks, an information technology accelerator based in Trento, Italy and and Grand Central Tech, an early stage accelerator in New York City.(https://grandcentraltech.com/). He is on the Supervisory Board of TechMinsk (https://techminsk.com/), an international technology entrepreneurship school based in Minsk, Belarus. Previously, he was in venture capital at Spencer Trask Ventures, an investment banker at HSBC Securities in New York, and at UBS Investment Bank in investment banking/M&A and in global business development at management consulting firm Aon Hewitt. Hrish earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Pre-Med from Rice University, a Master of Public Health and MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Illinois at Chicago. A U.S. Congressional Scholar, Hrish Lotlikar served as a Board Member of the New York Executive Forum, and is a member of the New York City Venture Connection and the New York Private Equity Network.
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About Diarize, Eastlabs, GLG, Growth Engine, Startup Labs, SuperWorld, The Rogue Initiative: Social Augmented Reality Platform
Max Woon
Co-Founder of SuperWorld
Co-founder of SuperWorld (AR real estate + ad marketplace on the blockchain: https://superworldapp.com), SKIT! (animations by kids for kids), Phizzle (mobile sports marketing for Knicks, Cavaliers, HBO, Comcast, etc), Xfire (social gaming, acquired by Viacom/MTV for $102m in 2006).
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About Flowroom, Foundry Six, SuperWorld, Xfire: Social Augmented Reality Platform
Ajay Yadav
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Roomi
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About Dada Room, Forbes, Forbes Real Estate Council, Roomi: Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions.
Omer Perchik
Founder & CEO of Any.do
Omer Perchik is the Founder & CEO of Any.do . A passionate entrepreneur who loves putting simple yet effective products in the hands of millions. Fascinated with behavioral economics, neuroscience and people at large, Omer sought to explore new ways of how people interact with the world and those around them. As the Founder & CEO of Any.DO, he aims to revolutionize the way people get things done.
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About Any.do: Over 25M people rely on Any.do to stay organized and get more done.
Stepan Pachikov
Founder, board member, СEO of Evernote
Stepan Pachikov is the Co-Founder of ParaGraph Intl., Parascript, Evernote Corp. among other software companies which contributed heavily to the development of Handwriting recognition and VRML technologies. From 1989 to 1997, Stepan worked at the ParaGraph Intl. in Moscow, Russia; a company which dealt with handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton. In 1992 Stepan opened the US branch of ParaGraph in Silicon Valley, CA, where he created and distributed software called Calligrapher for handwritten input on tablets and touchscreens. From 1997 to 1998 Stepan served as Vice President and established a Pen&Internet division of Silicon Graphics. Stepan earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Moscow State University in 1975.
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About Evernote, Parascript: Evernote is a suite of software and services that allow users to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms.
Natalie Gray
Co-Founder and Design of Cover
Natalie is the co-founder and head of product at Cover where she is responsible for setting the direction for product and design. Prior to Cover, Natalie co-founded Stylekick––an e-commerce fashion app––which was acqui-hired by Shopify in 2015. Natalie is a Y Combinator Fellow and Alumnus, and she was selected for the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017. She has spoken at a variety of events including Forbes Women Summit, Insurtech Insights, Tech Intersections, Empire Conference and TechTO. She has also been interviewed for publications like Forbes, Business Insider, Thrive Global and Buzzfeed.
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About Cover: Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure.
Anand Dhillon
CTO & Co-Founder of Cover
Anand Dhillon is the CTO of Stylekick.
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About Cover: Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure.
John S. Shriber
Co- Founder & CEO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Ryan Carson
Founder & CEO of Treehouse
Ryan Carson is the Founder and CEO of Treehouse.
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About Treehouse: Treehouse is an online technology school that guides students from zero to job-ready for the tech industry in 6-12 months.
Jane Chung
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Klooff
Jane is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Klooff. She leads Klooff’s vision and strategy by creating experiences through intuitive design, curating, and storytelling. She oversees Klooff’s brand and product development. She has a black lab named Cooper who will sit for Korean corn puffs. Sometimes she wonders if it came down to it, Cooper will pick the corn puffs over her. Jane is a design director that focuses on approaching work through a strategic, data-driven, and emotional lens. She specializes in creating narratives around brands across all channels, forms, and experiences. Jane received her BFA in graphic design at RISD and has 9+ years of experience concepting and designing for the world’s largest brands including Coke, Nike, Skechers, Leo Burnett, Epson, Sony, Quicken, Interscope Records, LG, L’oreal, and Hershey’s. Jane currently resides in New York where she dabbles between art, advertising, and film.
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About Klooff: Klooff is bringing Happiness Through Pets.
Omar Gabr
Co-Founder & CEO of Instabug
Omar Gabr is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Instabug.
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About Instabug: Instabug is a computer software company that offers services for mobile app developers to help them in testing their applications.
Dave Swartz
Founder, President and CCO of Hang w/
Dave has served as MEDLʼs creative director since its inception. While at MEDL, Dave has overseen the development and design of hundreds of mobile applications for names as diverse as About.com, Encyclopedia Britannica, Medtronic, Taco Bell and Universal Picturesʼ Ted. Prior to MEDL, Dave served as the Creative Director of DGWB Advertising, named by Creativity Magazine as one of the top 20 Creative Agencies in the U.S. Dave has led strategic and creative marketing efforts for regional and national advertising accounts in a variety of industries such as publishing, banking, multi-unit retail, fast food, healthcare and technology.
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About Anonymous Philanthropy LLC, Hang w/, MEDL Mobile: Hang w/ empowers users to stream and broadcast live high-quality video to other phones using their standard wireless service.
Andrew Maltin
Founder & CEO of Hang w/
Andrew co-founded MEDL Mobile in March 2009. Prior to founding MEDL Mobile, Mr. Maltin served as the Chief Executive Officer of Momentum Gaming, Inc., where he led the company’s marketing, business development and technology efforts to build a world class online gaming infrastructure which both operated independently and licensed its technology to several of the world’s leading gaming sites. He has been featured in Entrepreneur, 944, Success, The Wall Street Journal and The LA Times. He is also the CEO of Hang w/ a company that he also co-founded in 2012.
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About Hang w/: Hang w/ empowers users to stream and broadcast live high-quality video to other phones using their standard wireless service.
Oksana Kovalchuk
Founder of ANODA Web & Mobile Development Agency
“When I started ANODA in 2013, my experience in the industry was frustrating. From one side waterfall way built buggy products. On the other, we had dozens of uncontrolled tickets without a plan and with missed deadlines. Both developers and clients were completely frustrated with results, expectations, and quality. Experience working inside big outsourcing companies gave me an idea to create another(anoda) way to create software. For customers and team players, this way should be both flexible and predictable. This value became our DNA. I wanted to make excellent software that people would actually use. And to do that by putting the human element back in software development. As a first stage, we implemented our processes like Agile. That gave power and responsibility back to the creator. And we built the principle of testing constantly into our flow. When completed these changes, I added warranty in our responsibility. It is a personal challenge to keep any application that was crafted by our minds on a top-level of quality. No matter what. Transform people’s life through software. Automate boring tasks and free up more time for creativity. Now we’re working on robotic process automation to free up more time for creative people from routine to put in place innovative things. It is to achieve more than 1 billion downloads of all our crafted apps by the end of 2030. We think we’re off to a pretty good start.
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About ANODA Web & Mobile Development Agency: Web and Mobile solutions for Healthcare and IoT
Mazy Dar
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenFin
Mazy Dar is CEO and Co-Founder of OpenFin. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy of the company. Prior to OpenFin, Mazy was VP of CDS Strategy at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS strategy and managed the company’s CDS e-trading and processing platforms. He also led ICE’s launch of CDS central clearing for buy-side market participants. Before ICE, Mazy served as Chief Strategy Officer of Creditex which was backed by JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and TA Associates and acquired by ICE in 2008. He joined the firm in 2000, prior to the company’s launch, and was a key architect of Creditex’s innovative products and services. Earlier, Mazy worked in information technology at UBS. He attended Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and French Literature.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Chuck Doerr
President, Co-Founder & COO of OpenFin
Chuck Doerr is President, Co-Founder, and COO of OpenFin. He is responsible for the company’s technology strategy and business operations. Prior to OpenFin, Chuck was VP of CDS Technology at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS e-trading and processing technology and software development. Before ICE, Chuck served as Chief Technology Officer of Creditex where he was responsible for all technology initiatives. He architected the company’s award-winning technology platform, led software development and managed Creditex’s global technology infrastructure. Before Creditex, Chuck worked at UBS automating their front office equity trading operations. Earlier, he worked on missile system software at Raytheon. Chuck attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Dhanush Balachandran
Founder & CEO of Sortly
Founder, Sortly • Former: Marketing @Intel , iOS apps lead @Jiff • Self taught coding • Reinventing people’s relationship with physical stuff through technology
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About Sortly: Sortly is the leading “mobile centric” inventory platform that is simplifying how businesses and consumers keep track of their stuff.
Vlada Bortnik
CEO & Co-Founder of Marco Polo
Vlada Bortnik is the Founder at Joya Communications.He is Co-Founder & CPO at Happy Bits Company.
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About Happy Bits Company, Marco Polo, YPO: Marco Polo is a video communication application designed to help foster closeness between friends and family.
Stephanie Dua
Co-Founder and President of BEGiN
Stephanie Dua is Co-Founder & President of BEGiN, parent company of HOMER. After launching her career at McKinsey & Co.,Stephanie spent 15 years in public education, most recently as a Senior Advisor to the Common Core Standards effort.She served as the CEO of the New York City Education Department’s Fund for Public Schools, raising more than $165 million to support literacy and teacher-training efforts. In 2009, she was named to Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40 list. She received a BA in geophysics from UCLA and a Masters from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Kennedy Fellow. Stephanie lives in Coconut Grove, FL, with her husband and three daughters.
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About BEGiN, HOMER: BEGiN is an award-winning company offering best-in-class solutions across digital, physical, and experiential learning to kids globally.
Neal Shenoy
Co-Founder & CEO of BEGiN
Neal Shenoy is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BEGiN. Neal manages BEGiN’s purpose and vision, sets its strategy and execution plan, recruits talent and manages strategic relationships with investors and partners. Neal has built a team with deep industry expertise across organizations such as Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Scholastic, Barnes & Noble, Pearson and Mattel.He has helped guide BEGiN to be one of the largest, fastest growing and most promising platforms for early childhood literacy and language learning, earning recognition from the Aspen Institute, American Library Association, Education World and National Education Association. Neal is also a Co-Founder of SAAVN, the largest streaming service for South Asian music in the world, and a Founding Partner at [212]MEDIA, which builds consumer media ventures in fragmented markets alongside major media companies. Prior to [212]MEDIA, Neal was Co-Founder and President of Simile, a contextual advertising platform in media and publishing. With a B.S.F.S. in International Relations from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Neal began his career as an Investment Banker in an upstart unit of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette that advised media & telecom companies.
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About [212]Media, BEGiN, HOMER, Speakaboos: BEGiN is an award-winning company offering best-in-class solutions across digital, physical, and experiential learning to kids globally.
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.
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.
Carter Russ
Founder & CEO of Champions Round
I am an entrepreneur with a passion for creating exceptional products and building fantastic working cultures. I am the founder and CEO at Champions Round. I’m interested by sports tech, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, physics, investing, art and music, and pretty much anything nerdy or cool under the sun.
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About Champions Round: Fantasy & sports betting operator offering hyper casual skill based contests.
Keith Siilats
Founder of Bytelogics
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About Bytelogics, Denario: Software for fixed income investing and micromobility
Hanna Paat
Founder of Bytelogics
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About Bytelogics: Software for fixed income investing and micromobility
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Juan Pablo Gnecco
Founder & CEO of MOVL
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About MOVL: MOVL enables users to discover multi-screen content available on smartTVs through their mobile devices.
Steve Murch
CEO, President & Founder of BigOven
Steve Murch is the Founder at HipHip.app.
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About Aisle Ahead, BigOven, HipHip.app: BigOven is a mobile app that enables users to create grocery lists, access and import recipes and analyze the nutritional levels of recipes.
Bill Gelpi
Founder & CEO of Rocket Games
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About Rocket Games: A great team building great games
Sean Fannan
CTO & Co-Founder of Chartboost
Sean Fannan is co-founder and CTO of Chartboost, a technology platform for mobile developers to find new users and monetize their games. Chartboost works with over 32,000 games, serves over 12 billion game sessions per month and has raised $21M from Sequoia Capital and other investors. Prior to Chartboost, Fannan was one of the early employees at Tapulous, that was acquired by Walt Disney in 2010 to become Disney Mobile.
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About Chartboost: Chartboost is one of the largest mobile-games only marketplace to increase revenue and discover new players.
John Traver
Co-Founder & Creative Technologist of Frame.io
John Traver is the co-founder and CTO of Frame.io.
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About Frame.io: Frame.io is a cloud-based video collaboration platform that allows users to upload source media and assets into private workspaces.
Miten Mehta
Co-Founder & COO of KloudData Inc.
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About Fractal Analytics, KloudData Inc., Xoogler: KloudData is providing software solutions and services.
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.
Vatch Vartanian
Co-Founder of GiftsApp, Inc.
Serial Entrepreneur, PhD in Business, 20y+ experience in retail business, finance & HR management
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About GiftsApp, Inc.: GiftsApp is a social gifting app
Colin Hodge
CEO & Founder of DOWN
Head of Growth, Head of Paktor Labs @ Paktor Founder & CEO at Down, Inc. (formerly Bang With Friends). Sold Down, Inc. to Paktor. Previously founded HeardAboutYou (dating site to meet friends-of-friends) and Cloud 8 Studios (publisher of the flick+share photo sharing app). Regular speaker at tech, startup, social, and dating conferences including Glimpse Social Discovery Conference (San Francisco), Business Insider’s STARTUP Conference (New York), and SXSWi (Austin).
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About DOWN: DOWN is the developer of the DOWN Dating (casual) and Sweet Dating (romantic) apps, boasting millions of users worldwide.
Manik Juneja
Founder & CEO of Vinsol
Manik Juneja is the Co-Founder & CTO at SnackMagic.
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About Senstream, SnackMagic, STADIUM, Vinsol: Leading Ruby & Mobile app development agency
Howard Chai
Founder and CEO of Taroko Software
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About Resume Genius, Taroko Software: We build, market and operate our own web and mobile apps used by millions.
Sam Osman
Founder & CEO of Playas Play
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About Playas Play, SocialVenu: Playas Play is a new mobile app that rewards sports fans for doing what they love — betting and talking trash.
Yi Shi
CEO & Founder of Dotc United Group
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About Avazu, Dotc United Group, Net Impact: DotC United Group creates and architects internet platforms to simplify globalization complexities
Darin Buxbaum
Co-Founder, President & COO of WiderCircle
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About WiderCircle: WiderCircle is a provider of an in-personal social platform designed to connect older adults.
Nolan Amy
Founder of Plickers
Nolan Amy joined Plickers as Founder in 2011.
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About Plickers: Plickers is an online assessment tool used by teachers to check the student’s understanding.
Pratham Mittal
CoFounder of VenturePact
Pratham Mittal is the CoFounder at VenturePact
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About 606 VENTURES, Masters’ Union, Outgrow, VenturePact: On Demand Software Development teams
Harnil Oza
CEO & Founder of Hyperlink InfoSystem
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About Hyperlink InfoSystem: Hyperlink InfoSystem is a mobile app development company that providers information technology services.
Joseph Terzi
CEO & Co-Founder of Priv
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About Priv: PRIV is a mobile and web platform where clients can book vetted beauty and wellness professionals to their location.
Chris Boyd
Founder/CEO of Apptitude
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About Apptitude: App development made easy.
Sian Morson
Founder and CEO of Kollective Mobile
Sian manages Kollective Mobile’s operations and Biz Dev. She also speaks and writes about mobile when she’s not arguing with Henry. Before founding Kollective Mobile, Sian worked at some of the top agencies in the US & UK.
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About Kollective Mobile, Republic, Starfish Accelerator: Kollective Mobile is a mobile development agency located in Oakland, CA.
Esben Friis Jensen
Co-Founder and CGO of Userflow
Esben Friis-Jensen is the co-founder of Userflow and Cobalt.
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About Cobalt, Userflow: Userflow is a platform for building onboarding guides, product tours and more. No coding needed.
Sebastian Seilund
Founder and CEO of Userflow
Sebastian Seilund is the founder of Userflow – a powerful, modern solution to no-code user onboarding software. Sebastian previously worked as a software engineer at Google and founded the Danish accounting software Billy.
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About Userflow: Userflow is a platform for building onboarding guides, product tours and more. No coding needed.
Matt Berry
Founder and CEO of Orca Health
Having co-founded ConSource.org before graduating from BYU in 2005, Matt helped build ConSource into the first online repository built to house the comprehensive documentary history for the Constitution, presently used as a resource by the Supreme Court. Matt resigned from the ConSource board in 2007 when he began serving our country in the Armed Forces as a combat engineer. He is also a former quarterback and team captain at BYU, served a two-year humanitarian mission in Panama, and is fluent in Spanish. Having helped to democratize access to the Constitution, Matt is now trying his hand at democratizing the capital markets.
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About Orca Health: Orca Health is an innovative patient education and technology company bridging the gap in provider-patient understanding.
Ashish Rangnekar
Co-Founder and CEO of BenchPrep
Ashish Rangenkar is one of BenchPrep’s co-founders, and directs business development, public relations, and operational efforts on a day-to-day basis. Before founding BenchPrep, Ashish perfected his analytical skills as a strategy consultant for Capital One. At 22, he was an adjunct lecturer in the Math department at the City University of New York, an experience that has helped inform his perspectives on education and learning.
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About BenchPrep: BenchPrep offers a learner success platform to improve engagement and outcomes for learners.
Ujjwal Gupta
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of BenchPrep
Ujjwal Gupta is one of BenchPrep’s co-founders. Day-to-day, he leads a variety of marketing, product and project management initiatives. Prior to founding BenchPrep, Ujjwal’s started several companies across a variety of industries –including nanotechnology, rural tech, and events management. Long story. His educational background includes a PhD in Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University and a BS/MS from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has been published 15 times. Ujjwal’s background in science helps keep the BenchPrep team methodological and evidence-based in our decision-making.
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About BenchPrep: BenchPrep offers a learner success platform to improve engagement and outcomes for learners.
Sidney Price
Founder & CEO of Byi Byi
Sidney is Founder and CEO at Byi Byi. Sidney drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth with his wide-ambit experience in tech and non-tech industries the past 17 years.
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About Byi Byi: Byi Byi develops, markets, and operates a tech support mobile application that matches technicians with customers who request service.
Kirill Suslov
Founder and CEO of TabTrader
Kirill Suslov is the Founder and CEO at TabTrader.
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About TabTrader: TabTrader is the mobile crypto trading terminal.
Denis Suslov
Founder of TabTrader
Founder at TabTrader
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About TabTrader: TabTrader is the mobile crypto trading terminal.
Yaroslav Madarakh
Founder of TabTrader
Founder at TabTrader
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About TabTrader: TabTrader is the mobile crypto trading terminal.
Srinivas Sriramdas
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Edyst
Srinivas (Vasu) Sriramdas is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Edyst. He is also Vice President at Deloitte – Marketing, Communications and Business Development (Australia EDC) at Deloitte. Sriramdas is a former Project Manager at Satyam and Manager of VisualSoft Technologies. Srinivas earned an MBA in Marketing at Andhra University.
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About Edyst: Edyst is an early stage online learning & employability startup for aspiring software developers.
Guy Pistone
Founder & CEO of Fitivity
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About Elete, Fitivity, Playbook: Collection of over 400 sports/fitness mobile workout apps.
Frederic Joye
Co-Founder & Head of Business Development of Arcanys
Co – Founder & Head Of Business Development at Arcanys
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About Arcanys: Arcanys specializes in building highly-skilled teams of software developers for tech-enabled companies in need of robust software solutions.
Ravi Rishy-Maharaj
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of GigSky
Founder & CEO – GigSky.
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About GigSky, The Fast Mode: GigSky is global mobile data service provider. The service was launched in 2015 on Apple SIM for iPad and in 2018 on eSIM based iPhone.
Nick Halavins
Founder & CEO of AntiLand™
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About AntiLand™: AntiLand is a community of likeminded people. Saves people from depressions, boredom, and loneliness by anonymous talk therapy.
Arthur Iinuma
President and Co-Founder of ISBX
Arthur derives his business experience through the culmination of various disciplines acquired throughout years of professional experience both in the United States and Southeast Asia and leads in the development of new business, growth strategy and capital finance. Arthur’s financial experience includes managing investments at Morgan Stanley, as well UBS Private Bank where he served as Vice President of Investments – the youngest within the region. He has also worked overseas leading in the expansion of a Southeast Asian real estate development company as their Executive Director. During this time, Arthur had been involved in the internet marketing and consulting fields, alongside Kelly, on various projects as a Project and Account Manager. Arthur currently serves as a Principal of a private equity firm centered around the acquisition and development of real estate properties and maintains an agency managing the import of goods into the United States. He holds a Bachelor’s in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Riverside. Arthur’s experience as a promoter of business development will serve as the cornerstone for the allocation of resources and investment in regards to the future expansion of the company.
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About Iinuma.io, ISBX: ISBX is a digital agency providing creative, technology, marketing, and app development services to Fortune 500 companies.
Eric Wise
President & Co-Founder of ISBX
Eric is the President and founder of ISBX, Inc. (ISBX). ISBX is one of the top mobile technology developers in the US. ISBX’s, customers include Apple, Sony, Honda, Anhueser Busch, Coca-Cola and many other corporations. ISBX has been listed on Inc’s 5000 fastest growing companies for the past three years. Eric is primarily responsible for leading the product development team across the Website, iOS/Android applications, and Backend.
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About ISBX, Picturizr: ISBX is a digital agency providing creative, technology, marketing, and app development services to Fortune 500 companies.
Joe Stump
Founder of Blunder Move
Joe Stump was the Lead Architect of [Digg](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digg). While there he was responsible for making sure the applications built at Digg will scale into infinity and beyond. For the last 10 years he’s specialized in building highly scalable LAMP solutions. When not working on Digg he spends time maintaining a number of PEAR projects and explores San Francisco. Joe [left Digg in May 2009](http://www.joestump.net/2009/05/moving-on-to-the-next-chapter.html) to found SimpleGeo.
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About Blunder Move, Quick Left, SimpleGeo, Sprint.ly, Tweetimag.es: Blunder Move makes asynchronous board games for the iPhone and iPod Touch that you can play against your Facebook friends via Facebook
Dan Cornish
CEO & Founder of Cosential
Dan oversees Cosential’s strategic direction. He’s grown the company for more than 20 years, providing the marketing and business development expertise needed to build the industry’s leading solution. Previously, Dan spent eight years as the President of Cornish Productions, where he created marketing presentations for architecture, engineering and construction firms. He is also known for his photography of the Statue of Liberty’s restoration in the 1980’s.
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About Cosential: Cosential provides cloud-based CRM and proposal automation solutions for architecture, engineering and construction firms.
Haroon Elsarrag
Founder and CEO of Trust Sourcing
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About Cygility Inc., Mr. Tomato, Trust Sourcing: Trust Sourcing is a Software Development company that specializes in web design and software, mobile apps and web development and testing.
Kyle Matthews
CTO & Co-Founder of Laicos, Inc.
COO & Co-Founder at Laicos.
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About Laicos, Inc.: A Tampa Based Startup Studio turning ideas into products into companies
Lisa Vann
COO and Founder of MeetingPlay
Lisa Vann is the Co-Founder and COO of MeetingPlay.
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About AppAtlas, MeetingPlay: MeetingPlay – The mobile event app to connect your attendees
Joe Schwinger
Founder of MeetingPlay
Joe Schwinger is the Founder of MeetingPlay. He is an alumnus at George Washington University.
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About AppAtlas, MeetingPlay: MeetingPlay – The mobile event app to connect your attendees
Matthew Beasley
Founder of 5th & Melody
Entrepreneur by heart. My passion for digital design began back in high school. While other kids were playing video games, I was learning to build them – I even owned my own server and managed my own website. From there, I starting playing with typography and layout which led me to start designing full-scale websites for local businesses. In turn, that lead me to purchase my first car – a 1972 emerald green Gran Torino. After high school, I supplemented my own learning with a formal education. I earned a BA in Multimedia Design and Development from DeVry University, where I spent all four years on the Dean’s List. I was fortunate enough after college to land my first gig with American Book Company. I built an online testing platform using PHP and MySQL, a custom e-commerce site, and many other tools for the organization. With that experience, I had the opportunity to land several other gigs which furthered my experience. One of them being Cox Automotive, one of the largest private corporations in Georgia. These organizations gave me a large deal of design experience. Currently, I do high-level freelance work, including: web & graphic design, front-end development, and WordPress development. I create anything from logos, illustrations, and flyers to large e-commerce sites. I am a kind hearted consultant with a kick-ass delivery. Both God and the devil are in the detail. So who are we to disagree. Details cost more money, take more time, experience, heart, and conviction. But we love ‘em because they make the difference.
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About 5th & Melody, Hempie’s: We take the hassle out of website and graphic design. For a low monthly rate, get a professional custom design services.
Robi Ganguly
CEO & Co-Founder of Apptentive
Early on, Robi learned about customer experience as a paperboy for The Seattle Times. From there he instructed Tae Kwon Do, learning that 7 to 14 year olds are some of the toughest customers on Earth. As a bag boy (nee’ Courtesy Clerk) for Olson’s Food Stores he learned the value of a simple conversation and taking the bags out for each and every customer. “How you leave them is how they leave,” his store manager repeated and it hit a chord. Years later, whether it was working for Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown advising companies like Ameritrade on their M&A strategy or helping WebEx pioneer and popularize the SaaS business model, Robi was lucky to always be close to customers in his roles. At Yahoo!, he spent his time with teams in product, design and sales, working closely with global CPG brands. Robi constantly found that global business leaders were yearning for deeper, more direct customer relationships and that they were convinced that advertising had to change. In 2011, Robi founded Apptentive with the goal to help brands around the world give each of their customers a voice. Outside of Apptentive Robi enjoys running, cooking for his wife and friends, reading, and is a long-time board member at the Developer Alliance.
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About Apptentive: Apptentive’s mobile customer experience software helps the World’s largest Consumer companies collect and act on 100x feedback at scale
Mark Alan Prior
Co-Founder of Reach
Mark leads Rocket Fuel’s business in Mobile, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. As a 15-year veteran of online ad technology, he enjoys finally realizing the long-time industry promise to deliver marketing performance by evaluating the interest and intent of individual consumers. Previously, as Yahoo!’s International Behaviouralist, Mark owned the localization and growth of Yahoo!’s international media targeting products, finally making it possible to reach motorcyclists in Taiwan, consumers of marriage services in India, or residents of certain Spanish pueblitos. Earlier at Yahoo!, he managed its inventory-prediction system and shipped a media-pricing and RFP proposal system still in use by 2,000 salespeople in 17 markets. Prior to that, he led product management at DoubleClick for their flagship DFP for Enterprise tool, which became the global standard for publisher ad-revenue management. This built upon his experience in client services at NetGravity, provider of the web’s first advertising platform, where he helped define the online ad business model for early leaders like CNN, The Weather Channel, Sina.com, and Deutsche Telekom. Mark holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a joint MBA from the University of Navarra (IESE) in Spain and China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in China.
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About Reach, Rocket Fuel: Be A Better Friend
Rajaraman Periasamy
Co-Founder & CTO of Reach
Rajaraman Periasamy is the Co-Founder & CTO at Reach.
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About Reach: Be A Better Friend
Yalda Moshiri
Co-Founder of SaF
Yalda Moshiri is a dynamic and strategic leader with a career history of shaping, launching and managing front-line marketing strategies that position companies and their products for sustainable revenue growth and heightened consumer engagement.
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About SaF: SaF is a peer to peer marketplace that allows clients to skip the wait time and avoid long lines by hiring a line concierge proxy.
Jennifer Richey
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Gravity Jack
Jennifer is a southern California native, transplanted to the Great Northwest. Along with being a mother, a triathlete, fitness model, extreme athlete and skydiver, Jennifer is a technology futurist and entrepreneur. With extensive experience speaking to groups of all sizes and background — ranging from Fortune 500 executives to college students — Jennifer helps provide an understanding of augmented reality and mobile technology. Jennifer discusses the past, how technology has gotten to this point, and what investors, consumers and developers can expect as technology continues moving at lightning speed into the future. Jennifer has been in the technology sector, since leaving college to help kickoff a startup in 2002. Her first foray into technology startups was as the CFO of Tometa Software, a custom software company that was acquired in 2007. From this, Jennifer went on to take the same role at PlayXpert, a gaming company and in 2009, helped spearhead the formation of Gravity Jack.
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About Gravity Jack: Gravity Jack is a custom software development company offering mobile AR software for the iPhone, iPad, and Android operating systems.
Bret Cox
Founder, Chairman & CEO of TRUE
Bret Cox is Founder and CEO at True.
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About TRUE: Private Group Sharing
Kahl Orr
Founder of Rise.co
Kahl is an entrepreneur, web developer, and the founder of Rise, a digital marketing agency that specializes in web design. Rise builds high-performing, custom websites and apps for some of the fastest-growing national brands. Need help with a project or want to get in touch? Email me at kahl@rise.co
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About Rise.co: We’re Rise, an award-winning digital agency. We specialize in design and development for the web and mobile.
Terence Huang
Co-Founder of sndbx
Terence Huang is a co-founder at sndbx. Prior to that he was a business development manager at LiveRamp and throughout his career; an equity tech analyst at BTIG and Nuveen Investments. Terence obtained a degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About sndbx: New event based dating app that leads users to actual meetups. People want dates NOT penpals!
David Sanderson
Founder & CEO of Reelgood
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About Guidebox, Reelgood: Reelgood provides a complete guide to online streaming content.
Sobbie Bawa
Founder of TeamHandOut
Sobbie Bawa (born 12-22-1998) is a successful entrepreneur and a great singer. TeamHandOut, SphereHunt, and the Beat Box Music Company were all founded by him. He is living in California. He is known for producing music and apps. At this moment, he is associated with MultiSolution Technology Pvt. Ltd.
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About Gyaanipedia, SphereHunt, TeamHandOut: TeamHandOut is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, which focuses on the development of mobile apps and games.
Joice Perumalil
Founder of TeamHandOut
Joice has well known experience in working as a Visual Effects Supervisor, Film Editor, Cinematographer and Computer Programmer.
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About SphereHunt, TeamHandOut: TeamHandOut is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, which focuses on the development of mobile apps and games.
Anya Oleynik
Founder & CEO of Craft Music
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About Craft Music: Craft Music is a social media app, pocket studio, and peer-to-peer marketplace launching in 2019.
John Ostler
Co-Founder & Principal of User Experience and User Interface of Eight Bit Studios
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About Bughouse, Creative Candor LLC, Eight Bit Studios, Unicorn Road: Let’s create the world’s best mobile apps & websites.
