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 Product Design 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.
Rahul Vohra
Founder & CEO of Superhuman
Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost. Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University of Cambrigdge.
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About Clubhouse, LinkedIn, Rapportive, Superhuman, The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Vivek Sodera
Co-Founder of Superhuman
Co-Founder: Superhuman, LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) | Seed Investor: SaaS, Future of Work, productivity, collaboration, messaging, creator economy, no-code/low-code, automation, data platforms, prosumer, consumer (mobile, social, fintech), select moonshots
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About Superhuman: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Conrad Irwin
Co-Founder & CTO of Superhuman
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About Superhuman: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Daniel Curran
Founder & CEO of CustEx
57%+ / yr. liquid returns >>> https://danielcurran.substack.com/ Forbes #7 rank: bit.ly/2Oh7XhF **Only interested in start ups OVER $40k MRR w/o competition! Eqvista #5 rank: https://eqvista.com/top-100-active-angel-investors-list-for-startups/ Media/PR: https://billionairechronicle.com/daniel-curran-super-angel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAUJzDCa3Q&t=2s https://angelconnect.libsyn.com/investor-connect-episode-122-daniel-curran-of-silicon-valley https://thesyndicate.vc/angel-investor-hit-4-unicorn-companies-using-simple-investment-framework-super-angel-daniel-curran/ https://borsen.dk/soeg/daniel%20curran Bad Ass x-Rocket Scientist Rock Star! Read my 110+ Founder recommendations below. We share deal flow with billionaire Family Offices, Midas List VC’s, and other Forbes superangels. Passions: stopping/reversing human aging/immortality/parabiosis, bci, brain emulation/download, quantum teleportation, & cryonics. CustEx launches website/app soon to help Biden Admin get voters’ demands right. Benefits corp innovation, BLM, prevents civil unrest, as THE place for ads and co-creation. 2020 EBRD-led B round: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/allset-series-b/ 2017 Greycroft deal: bit.ly/2ylWbLB 2016 A16Z deal: bit.ly/2d67xJc Fortune 500 $16B WDC pivot from $2.20 to $114/share! Relentless, visionary Tech entrepreneur builds $B companies that improve world. Founded 14 startups, invested cash in 178+, created 1k+ jobs, personally netted investors $170M in exits. Startups I endorse get oversubscribed by top vc’s fast! As Angel Investor: $1B+ cash exits < 1 year @decacorn Cruise @DollarShaveClub: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/daniel-curran https://angel.co/dcurran-custex-com https://fundersclub.com/danielcurran/ Claims to Fame: -Founder/CEO, USLab NASDAQ IPO in 1998: raised $130M -VP & acting COO@Western Digital Silicon Valley sub [$40M sale to Brocade/PMCS/Snap, 2001], -Founder/CEO of 1st company [AlaStor, 2003] to converge IP+FC SAN, adopted by Cisco Systems [Andiamo], -Founder/CEO of CustEx Internet Platform [2012] Experienced ramping up companies using innate ability to quickly size up a company’s position & execute pro-customer action + cash-flow results. Began career at large companies as a software engineer and morphed into a business entrepreneur/CXO at startups with responsibility for up to 250 teammates Made sales ramp from $2M to $100M in 8 months as VP & acting COO of Western Digital’s Silicon Valley Connex Unit. Earned multiple top eng. school master's degrees (Illinois-PhD dropout, USC-cert, Penn State)
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About CustEx: If Google’s a nice-to-have, CustEx is a must-have. Try living without a voice.
Mariano Suarez-Battan
Co-Founder & CEO of MURAL
Mariano Suarez-Battan is a Co-founder and CEO at MURAL, a digital workspace for visual collaboration. He is a three-time co-founder and an inventor by trade, who is on a mission to inspire, enhance, and connect “imagination workers” so they can collaborate and solve hard problems together. Previously, he co-founded Three Melons, a video game studio that designed and published online games for clients like LEGO, Disney, Mattel, Warner Bros. Three Melons created more than 50 games as well as the soccer-based Facebook game Bola!, which had more than 20 million players globally in 2010 (1M daily during the World Cup). The company was acquired in 2010 by Playdom/Disney, where Mariano served as Creative Director following the acquisition. He then co-founded Idea.me, a leading crowdfunding site for the Latin American region. Mariano is an active angel investor and startup advisor at Endeavor.org, a global non-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement. As an Endeavor entrepreneur, he mentors other founders at various stages of their scaleup journey. He is a graduate of the Endeavor Leadership Program by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About MURAL: MURAL is a digital workspace that provides a visual collaboration platform that enables teams to work remotely and efficiently.
Clark Valberg
Co-Founder & CEO of InVision
Clark Valberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies, including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Davis Smith
Founder & CEO of Cotopaxi
Davis is the CEO of Cotopaxi, an outdoor gear brand with a social mission at its core. Davis was named CEO of the Year 2016 by Silicon Valley Community Foundation and is a member of the United Nations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council. He was previously the Co-CEO of Baby.com.br and Dinda.com.br, Brazil’s Startup of the Year in 2012, which raised over $40M in venture capital. In 2004, he also founded, and later sold, PoolTables.com, America’s largest pool table retailer. Davis holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute, and a BA from Brigham Young University.
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About Cotopaxi: Cotopaxi is an outdoor brand with a humanitarian mission at its core.
Stephan Jacob
Founder & COO of Cotopaxi
Stephan Jacob has been serving as Chief Operating Officer at Cotopaxi since November 2013.
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About Cotopaxi: Cotopaxi is an outdoor brand with a humanitarian mission at its core.
Peter Dodge
Founder and Chief Performance Officer of Hanover Research
Peter is the Founder and Chief Performance Officer of Hanover Research. Hanover is a global information services firm providing knowledge support to more than 1,100 for-profit and non-profit organizations. Through our unique, fixed-cost model, we provide customized, timely, and authoritative research and advice that enables our clients to make informed decisions, identify and seize opportunities, and heighten their effectiveness.
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About Hanover Research: Innovative Market Research – Washington, D.C.’s Hanover Research
Jonathan Anderson
Co-Founder & CEO of Candu
Jonathan Anderson is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Candu.
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About Candu: Candu is a product experience platform for software teams who want to design, refine, and personalize their application’s user interface.
Muhammet Enginar
Co-Founder, Head of Engineering of UserGuiding
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About UserGuiding: UserGuiding improves product adoption rates through ‘no coding needed’ interactive user onboarding flows.
Osman Koc
Co-Founder & CEO of UserGuiding
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About UserGuiding, YNOT Partners: UserGuiding improves product adoption rates through ‘no coding needed’ interactive user onboarding flows.
Erik Troan
Founder & CTO of Pendo
Erik Troan is the Founder of Pendo.io, Inc and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Troan co-founded rPath, Inc. in 2005 and served as its Chief Technology Officer. At rPath, Mr. Troan was responsible for all aspects of product design and implementation and for rPath’s IT infrastructure. Mr. Troan was involved in Linux development and was a maintainer of the Sunsite Linux Archives. Prior to founding rPath, Mr. Troan served in multiple roles at Red Hat, Inc. including the Vice President of Product Engineering for several years as well as the Senior Director of Marketing and Chief Developer for Red Hat Software. Mr. Troan was responsible for leading development for Red Hat Linux, RPM and Anaconda. He managed a multimillion-dollar budget, participated in two public stock offerings and assisted in acquiring and integrating nine other companies. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of Cloudsoft Corporation Limited Mr. Troan is Member of the Technology Advisory Committee at Southern Capitol Ventures. Since May 2007, he also serves on the Board of Directors for Digium, Inc. He served as a Director of rPath, Inc. Mr. Troan has co-authored two editions of Linux Application Development.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Rahul Jain
Founder & VP Business Development of Pendo
Rahul Jain is Founder & Biz Dev at Pendo.io.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Todd Olson
CEO & Founder of Pendo
Todd Olson is co-founder and CEO of Pendo, a product experience platform that helps product teams create software customers love. A three-time entrepreneur, Todd has experienced the highs and lows of running fast-growth technology companies. A proficient coder by age 14, he spent his teen years working as a database designer and software architect for MBNA Bank in Delaware. By graduation from Carnegie Mellon University, he’d invented a data integration product, co-founded Cerebellum Software, and raised seed capital. Cerebellum went on to raise $17 million in institutional capital and hire 65 people, only to shut down when funding dried up during the dotcom era. A role as vice president of product development at TogetherSoft brought Todd to Raleigh, where he eventually started 6th Sense Analytics, which he sold to Rally Software. The inspiration for Pendo came as Todd led the product team at Rally. With no product usage data available, he struggled to decide which of the dozens of feature requests that hit his desk each week were worth the investment of time and capital. After Rally’s IPO, he teamed up with fellow product leaders and technologists from Red Hat, Cisco and Google to launch Pendo in October 2013. The company has since raised $56 million in venture capital, landed more than 500 customers and now employs 170 people across offices in Raleigh, San Francisco, New York and Yakum, Israel. It was named a Top 50 U.S. Startup by LinkedIn in 2017. Todd prides himself on his product background, and the knowledge, experience and empathy it lends to customers of Pendo. He frequently speaks at industry events on topics like Agile software development, product management, startup fundraising and entrepreneurship. Outside of work, Todd is typically enjoying life in Raleigh with his wife and four children, aged 1 to 21. He also loves to bake, especially cakes.
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About Pendo: Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Omar Rada
Founder of Misen
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About Misen: Misen manufactures and sells quality tools that are essential for great cooking.
Shawn Dougherty
Founder, CEO of EXOIO
Shawn co-founded mophie in June 2005, just prior to the release of the first iPhone. It grew to become the #1 selling battery case manufacturer for mobile devices in North America. Working as a founder, COO, President & Board Member, mophie created the first juice pack battery case for the first-generation iPhone in North America and built an exclusive partnership with Apple. I led a team which built a solid business structure at mophie, allowing the company to thrive and withstand rapid growth, both in the U.S. and internationally. Shawn became a skilled operator and raised millions of dollars in multiple rounds of capital and debt facilities. Under Shawn’s guidance and strategic vision, the company grew from 3 employees in her barn in Kalamazoo, Michigan to a multimillion dollar business, mophie sold products into 38,000 retailer partners in 130 countries with 300+ employees with facilities in California, Michigan, China, Hong Kong and Amsterdam. As a leader, I established longstanding relationships with national and global retail partnerships and collaborations with top industry icons including Apple, Amazon, Verizon, AT&T, Best Buy, Product Red, Valentino, and Supreme. I am passionate about developing products and growing a business from the ground up was one of the most challenging yet satisfying experience of my life. By 2015, mophie revenue has reached $250+ million, and resulted in company being sold in February of 2016 to a strategic acquirer. Shawn was also a seed investor, Board Member, and Co-founder of Paw Paw Brewing company in Paw Paw, Michigan. The company was originated in 2010 and Shawn exited in March 2017. Since the sale of mophie Shawn has catching her breath, tending to personal relationships, and has also started a new company called EXOIO that allows her to spend time networking, consulting, and acting as an advisor to company of all sizes.
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About EXOIO: We help accelerate growth.
Mike Doernberg
CEO & Co-Founder of ReverbNation
Michael Doernberg is CEO and co-founder of ReverbNation, the leading online music marketing platform serving more than 2.9 million artists, managers, record labels and venues around the world. Every day, musicians turn to ReverbNation as a source for the powerful business tools needed to compete in the social media age, across the Internet as a whole, while other music industry participants work with ReverbNation to align themselves with the largest aggregation of independent artists. As CEO, Mike’s strategic thinking and exceptional business acumen has contributed to ReverbNation’s success and helped drive the development of their valuable social tools for the industry. Mike’s successful entrepreneurial career in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina stems from his experience in marketing and management of technology and Internet business. His past ventures include SmartPath, a marketing software company that was successfully acquired by DoubleClick (Google) in 2004. After the acquisition, he served as Vice President and General Manager of DoubleClick’s marketing automation group. Previous to founding SmartPath, Mike launched The Marathon Group, an Internet services organization. At Marathon he transitioned the company from its roots as a marketing and communication services firm to an Internet professional services company. In 1999 Marathon was acquired by MERANT, PLC and he was named Vice President and General Manager of the Interactive Division, where his team extended the business into international markets. Mike began his career in the entrepreneurial services group of Ernst and Young.
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About Adwerx, PlayMetrics, ReverbNation, Sound Around: ReverbNation connects Artists to the Music Industry.
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.
Paolo Tiramani
Founder of Supercar System
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About 500 Group, Boxabl, Supercar System: Combining precision engineering with award winning designs at an affordable price.
Will Jessup
Founder, Head of Services of TheoremOne
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About TheoremOne: We are an engineering and innovation firm. We solve complex business problems through optimization of process, technology, and culture.
Ron Garret
Founder and CEO of Spark Innovations
Ron Garret, Ph.D. began his career as a researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, where he worked on autonomous spacecraft and mobile robots for planetary exploration. His work laid the foundation for the subsequent Mars rover missions, and he became the most referenced computer science researcher in all of NASA according to CiteSeer. Ron’s entrepreneurial streak was evident as early as junior high school, when he wrote his first business plan for a retail store that would sell nothing but computer software (a radical idea in 1979) and built one of the world’s first computer dating services on an Apple ][+. Ron’s first real startup was a company that built high-speed local area networks in the early nineties. In 2000 he left JPL to work for what was at the time an obscure Silicon Valley startup called Google, where he was the lead engineer on the first release of AdWords, and the author of the Google Translation Console, the interface by which volunteers translate Google’s site content into over 200 different languages including Klingon. After the Google IPO Ron started a new career as a serial entrepreneur and independent angel investor. He co-founded three startups, most notably an on-line marketplace for charter jets called Smart Charter, which was acquired pre-launch by Richard Branson and launched as Virgin Charter. During this time he also produced and directed a full-length documentary film about homelessness. In 2008, together with Brian Singerman (now a partner at Founders Fund) Ron co-founded a small investment fund called XGYC (not to be confused with XG Ventures) which to date has an annualized IRR over 60%.
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About Spark Innovations: Spark innovations is a product design & development industrial design company that offers benefits of intellectual patents and exceptional.
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.
Jon-Ryan Riggins
Co-Founder & COO/CFO of Liquid Death
JR Riggins is a Co-Founder at Liquid Death.
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About Liquid Death: Liquid Death is a non-alcoholic beverage brand that is focused on health and sustainability.
Mike Cessario
CEO / Co-Founder of Liquid Death
Mike Cessario is the CEO & Co-Founder at Liquid Death.
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About Liquid Death: Liquid Death is a non-alcoholic beverage brand that is focused on health and sustainability.
Delian Asparouhov
Co-Founder, President, Chairman of Varda
Delian Asparouhov is the Co-Founder, President, and Chairman at Verda.
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About Founders Fund, Varda: Varda is a space manufacturing startup that focuses on creating products in space for terrestrial applications.
Will Bruey
CEO & Co-Founder of Varda
Will Bruey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Varda.
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About Varda: Varda is a space manufacturing startup that focuses on creating products in space for terrestrial applications.
Ross Haghighat
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Triton Systems
Ross Haghighat is a serial entrepreneur with nearly 25 years of experience in founding and transforming companies in the high tech fields of telecommunications, military electronics, biotechnology, and specialty materials. He is the founding CEO of Triton Systems, headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Haghighat serves on the Board of Directors of Triton Systems, S12 Technologies and FRX Polymers. Haghighat co-founded Coretek, Inc., a photonic-based telecom device company that was acquired by a Fortune 100 company in a billion dollar plus deal in 2001. Haghighat holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Advanced Materials from Rutgers University and M.B.A from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
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About Chinook Therapeutics, Triton Systems: Triton Systems, Inc. (Triton) is an advanced materials, coatings and systems engineering product development firm headquartered near
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.
Phil Dee
Founder and managing partner of U.S. Patriot Tactical
A serial entrepreneur, Phil has founded three businesses during his career. He and his wife Sandie, who is a former Army Kiowa pilot, started the business from a humble shop outside of Fort Jackson in South Carolina.
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About U.S. Patriot Tactical: U.S. Patriot Tactical sells military and law enforcement apparel, footwear, and gear.
Ismail Ceylan
Co-Founder and Software Developer of Zeplin
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About Zeplin: Zeplin is the ultimate collaboration tool between designers and developers.
Alvin Yap
Co-Founder & CEO of Airship
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About Airship: Airship is a modern product flagging framework that gives the right people total control over what your customers see and experience.
George Li
Co-Founder of Airship
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About Airship: Airship is a modern product flagging framework that gives the right people total control over what your customers see and experience.
Adam Roe
Founder and CEO of Zero Labs Group
Founder, CEO and Product Architect for Zero Labs Group – a privately held Southern California based business incubator and idea development firm for business and retail strategies, product ideation, business model architecture and exit strategy. ZLG has a specific focus on innovation for EV Automotive, Digital Retail, Snowsport Equipment and Conservation sectors. Adam competed as a skateboarder for 14 years. With a background in Advertising and design, and inspired by skateboardings energy and creativity, he started Lunchbox Studios in 1991 as an type-foundry, advertising and design company landing MTV as his first client. After, Adam went on to produce advertising and branding for hundreds of top level clients, founded New York’s Pavement Magazine, Reelhouse Footage and FX. Along with former partners, Adam reopened the Los Angeles office of Lunchbox in 2004 as the agency CEO to develop business solutions for Walmart, Unilever, P&G, Time Warner and Viacom. Adam also is a Licensed Master practitioner Neuro Linguistic Programming, Licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified NLP Communication Skills Master, Time Line therapist and has certifications from Society of NLP, American Institute Hypnotherapy and American Board Hypnotherapy among others.
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About Zero Labs Group: Private Business Incubator/Lab with a specific focus on innovation for EV Automotive, Retail, and Conservation technology.
Stephan Wembacher
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Cosmo
Co-founded multiple successful companies in Munich, Hong Kong, and California such as San Francisco and Hong Kong based Cosmo, a global technology manufacturing and supply chain leader and Paris based accessory brand Cote & Ciel. Investing in start-ups in the technology and hardware space and advising and supporting executive teams in current portfolio companies.
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About Cosmo, Weltraum: Comprehensive manufacturing solutions provider, specializing in engineered soft-goods, material innovation, and sustainability.
Peter Clay
Co Founder of Force of Nature Clean
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About Force of Nature Clean, LaunchPad Venture Group: Force of Nature is a new to the world product and brand committed to helping keep families well with products
Christopher Kryzan
Founder & Managing Director of Brilliant Things
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About Brilliant Things: Marketing & Product Strategy for the Internet of Things
Avi Reichental
Founder of XponentialWorks
Avi Reichental is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of XponentialWorks. He has a passion for innovation and is particularly focused on exponential technologies, such as 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and advanced robotics. He previously served as President, CEO and Director of 3D Systems for over a decade, has more than 35 patents in his name, and is regarded as a thought leader in the fields of 3D printing and exponential technology. Alongside his work as an entrepreneur and business leader, Reichental supports entrepreneurs and early stage startups in several capacities: In 2015 he founded XponentialWorks, a venture investment, corporate advisory, and product development company. Under his leadership, the company offers funding to early stage startups developing disruptive technologies, guides large corporations undergoing digital transformation, and unites the two in partnerships that leverage their diverse assets. Reichental is a General Partner at Cognitiv Ventures, one of the most active seed-stage venture funds in Israel. Formerly known as OurCrowd First, Cognitiv Ventures supports startups that are developing and leveraging groundbreaking cognitive AI solutions. Since April 2017, Reichental has served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Techniplas and CEO of Techniplas Digital. Techniplas is advancing the transportation industry by combining exponential technologies with traditional technologies to streamline performance and enhance user experience. Reichental is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nano Dimension, a significant player in the 3D printing industry most recognized for the printing of circuit boards and other hardware components for electronic devices. Its products serve a wide range of applications and industries from military technology, to automotive and medical devices. Reichental served on the board of directors of Harman International until its sale to Samsung in 2017. As a core faculty member at Singularity University (SU), Reichental works with other tech leaders to facilitate a better understanding of how today’s technologies can help solve the world’s most pressing issues. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors at the XPRIZE Foundation, an innovation engine that encourages the development of technologies that benefit humanity by funding competitions and engaging the public. In 2014 he delivered a TED talk on the future of 3D printing and the path it could take in revolutionizing the world for the next generations. His talk has garnered over 2.5 million views, and he contributes regularly to TechCrunch, Forbes, Fortune, and Money Inc.
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About Blink, Centaur Analytics, Cognitiv Ventures, Forbes Technology Council, NEXA3D, NXT Factory, ParaMatters, Singularity University, Techniplas Digital, XponentialWorks: XponentialWorks is a venture investment, corporate advisory, and product development company.
Troy Lee
Founder and CEO of Troy Lee Designs Inc.
Troy Lee took the art of painting custom racing helmets and turned it into Troy Lee Designs (TLD), one of the world’s leading motorsports visual design, apparel and riding gear companies. Troy and his team of artists create the helmet designs worn by a Who’s Who of racing stars including: Jeremy McGrath, Jeff Ward, Juan Pablo Montoya, Al Unser Jr., Danica Patrick, and Scott Dixon. Besides helmets and race team graphics, Troy has also designed SEMA concept cars for Land Rover, Nissan, Toyota, Hyundai, Mazda, and a custom supermoto bike for Honda. A long-time motocrosser and recent supermoto racer, Troy also serves as a race team owner, event promoter, and video producer.
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About Troy Lee Designs Inc.: Troy Lee Designs Inc is a maker of motorcycles, bicycles and apparels for the motorbike industry.
Todd Khozein
Founder & Co-CEO of SecondMuse
Todd Khozein is the Founder & Co-CEO ,Director of Secondmuse Foundation.
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About SecondMuse, Secondmuse Foundation: SecondMuse is an innovation and collaboration agency.
Vibhav Prasad
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of CreateMe Technologies
Vibhav Prasad is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of CreateMe Technologies. University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School Degree NameMBAField Of StudyFinance and Marketing Dates attended or expected graduation2001 – 2003
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About CreateMe Technologies: CreateMe is a technology platform for apparel manufacturing through automation, product design, product management, and 3D visualization.
Patrick Herning
CEO & Founder of 11 Honore
Patrick Herning is a leading executive in brand marketing and influencer engagement, and co-founder and CEO of 11 Honoré, the first size-inclusive shopping site to offer women luxury fashion straight from the runway. His impressive background spans from business development during the initial tech boom of Silicon Valley to fashion, lifestyle and philanthropic clients, projects and major marketing initiatives throughout the country. Patrick was one of the first 50 employees at Cybersource in Silicon Valley responsible for business development for their partner channels. After the company he helped build and grow IPO’d, he held two other business development positions at leading technology companies in Silicon Valley, ultimately culminating in VeriSign’s Payment Services division acquisition to PayPal. From there he relocated to Los Angeles where he formed Fathom Event Strategy, a marketing and communications agency, which was eventually acquired by global communications agency HL Group. After leading business development efforts on the West Coast at HL Group for 5 years, Patrick combined his vast experience, talent for business development and extensive client and influencer relationships to form PMH partners, before teaming up with co-founder Kathryn Retzer to start 11 Honoré.
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About 11 Honore, Thirteen lune: 11Honoré a size-inclusive shopping site that for the first time ever, gives more women the option to experience the best designer clothing
Kathryn Retzer
Founder of 11 Honore
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About 11 Honore: 11Honoré a size-inclusive shopping site that for the first time ever, gives more women the option to experience the best designer clothing
Juan David Cruz Serrano
Founder & CEO of Dhamova, Inc
Juan David Cruz Serrano, born in Bogotá, is a former student of Universidad de los Andes with a major in Computer and Systems Engineering. He currently works in the world of technology and software development. He is the founder and former president of two North American companies called Vhista Inc and Dhamova Inc. At Vhista, he developed accessible software for people with visual impairments around the world and at Dhamova he developed software for clients in different countries. Another project is AppShuttle, it helps people create their own app without a single line of code or any engineering background. Juan David has been awarded by organizations such as Apple, Facebook, Stripe, and MINTIC, for his focus on creating ventures and developments that add value to society through technology. Among its award-winning ventures are projects for the automated development of applications, artificial intelligence projects, image recognition projects, augmented reality projects and even free and distance education projects.
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About Dhamova, Inc, Pineapple.build, Vhista: Dhamova, Inc is an innovation company that preaches design and functionality in each of their projects.
JB Osborne
Co-Founder & CEO of Red Antler
JB is currently the CEO of Red Antler, a brand company based in Brooklyn that he co-founded with Emily Heyward and Simon Endres. JB started his career at Saatchi & Saatchi, working for clients such as Procter & Gamble, General Mills, and the award winning international launch of Air Tahiti Nui. An entrepreneur at heart, he left Saatchi to open the New York office of Consortium, a New Zealand ad agency. In August 2007, JB founded Red Antler, where he works with clients on brand positioning, user experience, business strategy and marketing. JB has a Bachelors degree in Business, Magna Cum Laude, from Cornell University. He is an advisor and board member to several startups, and serves on the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Advisory Council. A Philadelphia native, he currently lives in DUMBOl with his wife, his dog Brodie, and a lot of plants.
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About Red Antler: Red Antler is a brand company that works with startups and new ventures.
Jeremy Parker
Co-Founder & CEO of Swag.com
Jeremy Parker is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Swag.com.
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About Swag.com: Swag.com helps companies create quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep.
Joshua Orbach
Co-Founder of Swag.com
Joshua Orbach is a Co-Founder at Swag.com.
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About Swag.com: Swag.com helps companies create quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep.
Steven Yu
Founder & CEO of StandDesk
Steven Yu is the founder and lead product developer for StandDesk, Inc., a innovative company poised to change the way people stay healthy, happy, and productive. From a very young age, Steven and his father (mechanical engineer) have designed, maintained, and repaired complicated machinery, like automative engines and transmissions. Although he received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, he later applied his engineering talents during his International Masters Program in Beijing. Steven took on a project to develop the most affordable electric powered actuating system. Armed with his childhood mechanical engineering skills and married with his unique business flare, Steven completed the project in record time and now is poised to provide an affordable sit-to-stand desk solutions to the world.
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About StandDesk: A Wellness Company That Makes Awesome Standing Desks
Samuel Jurist
Co-Founder & CEO of SHO Products
Samuel Jurist is the CEO of SHO Products, an international ancillary product distributor for the cannabis industry housing the brands Rosin Tech Products, Dab Nation and Masterminded Distribution.
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About SHO Products: SHO Products is the leading equipment and technology provider in the world for solventless agricultural equipment
Dan Adika
CEO & Co-Founder of WalkMe
Dan Adika Before co-founding WalkMe, Dan was a software engineer at HP. Prior to that, Dan completed with honors a 6 year tenure in the Army’s elite computing unit.
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About WalkMe: WalkMe provides a digital adoption platform to let organizations measure, drive, and act to maximize their digital transformation.
James dyson
Founder of Dyson
James dyson is Founder @ Dyson.
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About Dyson, James Dyson Foundation: Dyson is a global technology company that designs iconic reinventions that work, perform and look very different.
Adam Messner
Co-Founder of Yardzen
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About Yardzen: Where beautiful, functional outdoor spaces start online.
Simon Enever
Co-Founder & CEO of quip
Industrial Design Consultant, now founder and CEO of quip – A Modern Oral Care brand www.simonenever.com www.getquip.com
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About quip: quip designs and delivers oral care products, advice, and services.
Bill May
Co-Founder & CEO of quip
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About quip: quip designs and delivers oral care products, advice, and services.
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.
Ben Magolan
Co-Founder & CTO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
Daniel Kwak
Co-Founder & CEO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
Michele Logan
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of CompoSecure
Michele Logan is Chief Executive Officer and principal owner of CompoSecure where she manages all aspects of the business enterprise. She began her career at Prudential Insurance Company as a computer programmer. Michele transitioned easily to Sillcocks in 1991 due to her extensive internship experience there during college. She learned all aspects of the company, starting in sales and then production management before returning to sales five years later to head up the department. After starting CompoSecure with John Herslow and Luis Dasilva in 2000, Michele managed the front end of the business until her move into the VP and General Manager role in 2004. She became Chief Executive Officer of CompoSecure in 2012 and now leads senior leadership in setting strategic organizational goals. Michele has overseen the move of the business to a new state of the art facility that allowed for significant expansion of output capacity. She also built experienced production management and administrative teams, while maintaining CompoSecure’s pursuit of innovation and ongoing investment in technology. Michele graduated from Boston University with a BA in Computer Science and minor in Business Administration. She also holds an MBA degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Industrial Management.
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About CompoSecure: CompoSecure is designing and manufacturing of premium metal financial cards.
John Herslow
Founder, Chief Technology Officer of CompoSecure
John Herslow is the Chief Technology Officer of CompoSecure and oversees all R&D activities including new product and materials development, as well as equipment acquisition and design. John serves on the leadership team, is a minority owner and is the most senior technical engineer in the business with over 45 years of direct industry experience. In 1967, John joined the family business, Sillcocks Plastics International, after working for Esso (now Exxon) as a Chemical Process Engineer. Sillcocks was known for innovation throughout his tenure, and John was instrumental in the company’s innovative contact smart card work and development of composite materials for long ID card life. John managed Sillcocks until the selling of its assets in 1997 before founding CompoSecure in 2000 with the help of Michele Logan and Luis DaSilva. John continues to be recognized as an industry innovator, as evidenced by the many Elan awards CompoSecure has won from the International Card Manufacturers Association (ICMA). As a result of John’s work CompoSecure, LLC holds 3 patents and 15 over pending patent applications. John graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Chemical Engineering.
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About CompoSecure: CompoSecure is designing and manufacturing of premium metal financial cards.
Luis DaSilva
Founder, Vice President of Research & Development of CompoSecure
Luis DaSilva is the Vice President of Research & Development (R&D) at CompoSecure and was one of the original founders of the company. Luis is responsible for new product development with a focus on card composition and process parameters. He is a minority owner of CompoSecure and began working for the Herslow Family at Sillcocks Plastics thirty years ago when he arrived here in the United States from Portugal at the age of eighteen. Since the inception of CompoSecure, Luis has held a variety of operational positions including Plant Manager, R&D Technician, Machine Designer, and Process Development Engineer. Luis has been the key developer in many of the groundbreaking award winning products that CompoSecure has commercialized over the years. In 2012 Luis became the Vice President of R&D to focus his time on developing the next generation of innovation at CompoSecure.
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About CompoSecure: CompoSecure is designing and manufacturing of premium metal financial cards.
Brian Chen
Co-Founder and CEO of ROOM
Brian Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO at ROOM.
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About ROOM: ROOM is a startup that specializes in designing modern workspaces.
Haven Allen
CEO and Co-Founder of mHUB
Haven Allen, chief executive officer and co-founder, is an entrepreneur and technology strategist who most recently concentrated on growing the manufacturing industry and strengthening its community throughout Chicagoland. As an economic development strategist at World Business Chicago, he directed the Advisory Council for Chicagoland Manufacturing through which he established and led the implementation of an economic development agenda to support growth and job creation in the manufacturing sector. During his graduate education, Haven served as a Mayoral Fellow at the City of Chicago. As a fellow he provided research and analysis on policy initiatives dealing with infrastructure, electricity markets and municipal marketing. In order to give back to his country, Haven joined the Peace Corps and served as a community economic development volunteer in Panama where he worked to strengthen the management and leadership capacities of rural cooperatives and local organizations in order to increase economic opportunities. In addition, Haven was a small business owner in the production and publishing industry. Haven has a Master of Public Policy and a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Science, Technology and Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of Illinois at Chicago.
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About mHUB, mHUB, mHUB, mHUB Accelerator Incubation LLC: mHUB is a hardtech innovation and manufacturing entrepreneurial center.
Bill Fienup
Co-Founder and Director of Innovation Services of mHUB
Bill Fienup, director of innovation services and co-founder, is an entrepreneur focused on delivering new product innovation to clients seeking better solutions. With experience ranges from researching fusion energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory to designing toys for Hasbro, Bill began his career as a product development consultant for IDEO and Insight Product Development. After 7 years of innovation consulting, Bill became an entrepreneur and launched several product base businesses. After experiencing several challenges launching hardware startups, Bill founded Catalyze Chicago to provide entrepreneurs with the tools, resources, mentorship, and manufacturing networsk needed to successfully develop products and launch new business. Bill holds 12 patents — including 3d printing alignment, bandage dispenser, biopsy needle and a NERF Atom Blaster™ with more pending. Bill’s reputation as a thought leader extends beyond Chicago. He was named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 in 2018 and featured in Newcity’s Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago 2019. In addition to being a repeat visitor to the White House for topics ranging from international trade to the maker movement, Bill has appeared on national television with his inventions. Bill has both a Master and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About mHUB: mHUB is a hardtech innovation and manufacturing entrepreneurial center.
Ely Tsern
Co-Founder & CEO of Bryte
Ely is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bryte. He served as the vice-president and chief technologist at Rambus, leading new business and technology roadmap initiatives from concept to production, including licensing and IP development and the invention of over 180 U.S. patents.
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About Bryte: Bryte is a sleep technology company that designs and sells restorative intelligence products and services.
Jonathan Farringdon
CTO & Co-Founder of Bryte
Jonathan Farringdon is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Bryte. He was the Director of Informatics at Jawbone and BodyMedia before that.
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About Bryte: Bryte is a sleep technology company that designs and sells restorative intelligence products and services.
John Tompane
Co-Founder of Bryte
John Tompane is the Chairman, President, and Co-Founder of Bryte.
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About Bryte: Bryte is a sleep technology company that designs and sells restorative intelligence products and services.
Philip Krim
Co-Founder, CEO of Casper
As CEO, Philip leads Casper’s comprehensive business strategy, expansion, and vision for the future. Working with the company’s four other co-founders, Philip drives Casper’s goal of becoming the first end-to-end sleep brand. Philip and Casper’s co-founders recognized a paradox in 2014 — a generation of entrepreneurs and working professionals who were placing increasing value on their health and fitness were neglecting sleep. Casper is now reimagining the sleep industry from the ground up. A serial entrepreneur, Philip has founded and served as CEO at two previous startups, where he focused on new and evolving consumer and ecommerce trends. He launched his very first business out of his dorm room at the University of Texas, Austin. Philip’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and he has been featured on CBS This Morning, Mad Money with Jim Cramer, and Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. He was named one of Business Insider’s Silicon Alley 100 and received a TechCrunch Crunchie award for Best in ECommerce
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About Casper: Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission-driven inflated prices.
Jeff Chapin
Co-Founder, Chief of Product of Casper
Jeff designs things that solve fundamental human needs and has had the opportunity to do so on a global scale. Between IDEO, The Gates Foundation and the World Bank, he has designed products in clean water, sanitation, agriculture and clean energy. With Casper, he’s trying to make sure we all get a good night’s rest.
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About Casper: Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission-driven inflated prices.
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
Ivan Braun
Founder of Icons8
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About Icons8: Icons8 provides free editing tools for design, icons, photos, interface illustrations, music, and videos.
Nicholas Parasram
Founder of Sonar Projects
Nicholas Parasram is a founder and investor in the entertainment and technology industry. Nicholas started his career working on product and growth initiatives at Kanvas Labs (f/k/a Tracks Media), a mobile-tech startup focused on creativity and self expression through viral music and video content, which was acquired in 2015 by AOL/Verizon. He then launched his own product development studio, creating three consumer apps, Eventible, FLYR and MIDI.AI. Using the experience he gained while working with influencers and artists on various mobile apps, he also launched Sonar Projects, a company focused on powering the creator economy through content marketing, talent management and seed investments. Clients he’s worked with include: Sony Music’s Epic and Columbia Records, Jack Harlow, The Chainsmokers, Universal Music’s Republic Records, Future, Verizon, and more. His talent management roster consists of producer/songwriters Marcus Van Wattum (signed with Giorgio Tuinfort, production credits include: David Guetta, Sia, G-Eazy & more) and Stryv (signed with Ian Kirkpatrick + Warner Music Group’s APG). His venture fund, Kaieteur Capital focuses on investing in early-stage startups in the crypto, gaming, cpg and creator industries. In December of 2021, Nicholas invested and joined Turnt Gaming, a blockchain gaming studio (creators of Taunt Battleworld), to lead marketing and partnerships.
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About Sonar Projects: Sonar Projects is a diversified company specializing in mobile product development, growth hacking & influencer marketing.
Matt Kandela
Co-Founder and CEO of Dear Future
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About Dear Future: Venture Design and Innovation Studio
Mark Floreani
CEO & Co-Founder of FloSports
Mark Floreani co-founded FloSports in 2006 with Martin Floreani and Madhu Venkatesan, filling a need in the market for high quality live broadcasts and original content by athletes, for athletes. An All-American track star at the University of Texas, Mark found early success filming athletes when he posted a video of the first American to break the hour barrier in the half-marathon. It went viral, kick-starting a journey that resulted in FloSports becoming a premier sports media company. Mark became CEO in 2018 and led the company to its most successful year to date in 2019. Fun fact: Mark co-founded Flo with just $20k and a van.
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About FloSports: FloSports is a media and events company that provides live streaming of premier events, original video programming, and weekly studio shows.
Andrew Dickson
Founder & CEO of Acre Designs
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About Acre Designs: Acre creates beautiful, simple and smart net zero homes.
Jennifer Dickson
Co-Founder and CDO of Acre Designs
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About Acre Designs: Acre creates beautiful, simple and smart net zero homes.
Steve El-Hage
Founder & CEO of Drop
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About Drop: Drop is a product company that uniquely uses data and insights from enthusiasts to create and curate innovative products that fuel passion.
Nelson Wu
Co-Founder of Drop
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About Drop: Drop is a product company that uniquely uses data and insights from enthusiasts to create and curate innovative products that fuel passion.
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.
Steven M. Bessette
Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of EcoSMART Technologies
Steven M. Bessette is the Company founder, and he has served as our President and Chief Technology Officer since May 19, 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Bessette served as our President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2002 to April 2006. Prior to founding the Company, Mr. Bessette was in private law practice. Mr. Bessette received his B.S. in Accounting from the University of Rhode Island and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Mr. Bessette is a member of the Florida Bar and is licensed as a certified public accountant in Florida and Tennessee. Mr. Bessette is involved in all aspects of the Company’s strategic planning, management, development and operations, and he chairs the Company’s Scientific Advisory Panel.
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About EcoSMART Technologies: EcoSMART Technologies develops and markets proprietary pesticide products derived from natural plant oil.
Dan Maccarone
CEO/Co-Founder of Charming Robot
Dan is the co-founder of Charming Robot, a product design company based in NYC. For the past twelve years, he has been helping startups and media companies shape their online product strategy, including Foursquare, Rent The Runway, Jetsetter and Savored. His experience also includes television, music and print media, and he has worked with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Gawker, Saturday Night Live, Universal Music and The Wall Street Journal. One of his most noted projects was creating the original strategy and user experience for Hulu. Prior to Charming Robot, Dan co-founded the design agency Hard Candy Shell. Dan received his Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and his Bachelor of Arts from Colby College in English and Performing Arts.
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About Charming Robot: Charming Robot is a company that aids early- and mid-stage startups with product strategy, user experience and visual designs.
Bill Dallas
Co-Founder of Cloudvirga
Bill Dallas is co-founder and chief executive officer for cloudvirga. He is responsible for founding and managing more than a dozen mortgage and financial tech companies over the past 40 years, including Skyline Homes and New Leaf. His first venture, First Franklin, grew to be one of the nation’s largest lenders and eventually sold for $330 million. Other successful ventures include risk management solution, interthinx, and lending process automation company, MindBox, which he sold for $27 million and $20 million respectively. Most recently, Dallas sold a minority stake of his company, OwnIt, to Merrill Lynch for $500 million. Although technology has disrupted and improved many industries, the antiquated mortgage lending process remains manual, slow and costly. Along with his co-founders, Dallas created the intelligent mortgage platform, which leverages data and an intelligent workflow to drastically cut the time and costs associated with closing a loan. The system, which has already processed nearly $5 billion in loans, is transforming home lending by digitizing, automating and simplifying the process for consumers, lenders and realtors. Dallas holds a law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, as well as an undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also founded and serves as the chairman of the board of directors for Oaks Christian School.
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About Skyline Financial: Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Kyle Kamrooz
Co-Founder of Cloudvirga
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About Cloudvirga: Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Aaron Garrity
Founder & Chairman of Xango.com
In a few short years, Aaron Garrity has become an inspiration to creative entrepreneurs worldwide. Recognized in a Harvard Business Review study as an enterprising innovator along with top executives at Amazon, PayPal and Ebay, Garrity has invested his career as a socially conscious entrepreneur, building a multi-billion-dollar brand and creating jobs and opportunity — even more noteworthy as it occurred in times of economic difficulty. With the U.S. mired in a 2002 recession, Garrity and his partners founded XANGO, a category-creating company, and became the first to bring the coveted mangosteen fruit to the global marketplace. Under Garrity’s leadership as chairman, president and CEO, XANGO became a story of unprecedented success and innovation in the direct-sales industry, pioneering new standards of excellence for distributor compensation, communications and use of technology. After just five years, XANGO became recognized as a force direct sales and nutrition with over one billion dollars in cumulative global sales and more than one million independent distributors in more than 40 international markets. Known for his visionary drive and exacting standards, Aaron simultaneously earned MBA and Juris Doctorate degrees while working full time managing product launches for a multi-national nutrition company. Ernst & Young honored Garrity as a Corporate, Culture and Career Architect with its 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Utah Business Magazine named him CEO of the Year in 2008, noting his achievements in fostering a workplace of service, creativity and leadership at every level. Garrity sits on the CEO council for WFDSA and the board of directors of the Direct Selling Association (DSA). In 2009, he was named one of the “most influential people in direct sales” just days after ringing the bell on the floor of the NYSE with other industry CEOs. In the midst of the most recent economic downturn, Aaron Garrity has become the iconic hope to the thousands of entrepreneurs who have come to hear him speak as he travels both domestically and internationally supporting private initiatives in the worldwide marketplace.
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About Xango.com: XANGO is began as a dreamof total wellness, of grand ambitions, of the perfectopportunity.
Gary Hollister
Founder & Board Member of Xango.com
As XANGO’s first CEO, from 2002 – 2006, Gary Hollister now serves as the company’s Board Chairman Emeritus. Hollister, along with his partner Aaron Garrity, also was named a national finalist in the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. As Chairman Emeritus, Hollister is traveling extensively to support XANGO Distributors and help fulfill XANGO’s aggressive global growth strategy. He also continues meeting regularly with the board of directors, lending strategic insight to his fellow founders and the executive team. After graduating, Hollister went to work for the accounting firm Ernst & Ernst (now Ernst & Young), later accepting a position at Merle Norman Cosmetics. After 14 years in the accounting department, Hollister was named president and COO. In a span of five years, he helped engineer growth in annual sales from $60 million to $250 million, more than doubling the number of franchises. Hollister next became president and CEO of MEI Salons, Inc., in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He later founded The Hollister Group, a marketing organization to serve the beauty and fashion industry, where he was instrumental in the successful launch of Michael Jordan Cologne, the largest-ever introduction of its kind. In 1997 Hollister was recruited to be president and CEO of a Utah-based company. It was there that he first met and worked with Aaron, Joe, and Gordon, and where he formed his passion for the life-altering benefits of network marketing.
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About Xango.com: XANGO is began as a dreamof total wellness, of grand ambitions, of the perfectopportunity.
Jonathan Denby
Founder of Alpine Labs
Jon Denby is the Head of Hardware at Rylo. He is an ex-Apple product designer, where he helped engineer the iPhone 6S Plus. He left Apple to take on challenges of building a company and product from scratch. At Rylo, Jon leads the hardware and optical design teams.
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About Alpine Labs, StreetLogic: Alpine Labs was formed to make motion time lapse photography accessible to photographers of all levels.
Steve Budill
Co-Founder of BH2 Innovations
Steve Budill currently works as the Co-founder for BH2 Innovations. He previously worked at SteriView, Inc. as the Vice President.
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About BH2 Innovations: BH2 Innovations is a product development firm that specializes in technologies that address unmet needs in the healthcare industry.
Mike Humason
Co-Founder of BH2 Innovations
Mike Humason currently works as the Co-Founder for BH2 Innovations, Inc. . He previously worked at Sanovas Inc. as the VP, Clinical Affairs and Education.
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About BH2 Innovations: BH2 Innovations is a product development firm that specializes in technologies that address unmet needs in the healthcare industry.
Michael Chow
Founder & CEO of Dart Technologies
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About Dart Technologies: Passenger In-Vehicle Infotainment for Connected and Autonomous Mobility
Henry Rahr
Founder of LeetLab.io
Founder of LeetLab.io, Coupler, Co-founder LadyLab
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About CoreLogic, LeetLab.io: LeetLab is a design agency coupling UX Design with Product Management knowledge, building things that look good AND make its clients money.
Adam Pritzker
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of General Assembly
Adam is the Chairman and CEO of Assembled Brands, a modern holding company.He is also the founding Chairman of General Assembly, a global network of campuses providing educational and professional development training. For his entrepreneurial endeavors, Adam was featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Vanity Fair’s The Next Establishment, Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30, and Business Insider’s Silicon Alley 100. Adam holds a BA from Columbia University where he studied Anthropology and Philosophy.
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About Assembled Brands, General Assembly: General Assembly is a pioneer in education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills.
Manmit Shrimali
Co-Founder of Turing Labs
Manmit Shrimali is a Co-Founder of Turing Labs.
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About Turing Labs: Turing is a research and development digital platform that improves speed-to-market for consumer goods.
Jemuel Joseph
Co-Founder of Cover
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About Cover: Cover’s mission is to make living in a thoughtfully designed and well-built home a reality for everyone.
Alexis Xavier Rivas
Co-Founder & CEO of Cover
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About Cover: Cover’s mission is to make living in a thoughtfully designed and well-built home a reality for everyone.
Nick Kishfy
Founder & CEO of MojoTech
Nick is the founder of MojoTech, a full-service software design and development agency. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with offices in New York City and Boulder, Colorado, MojoTech’s client base ranges from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. For more than ten years, Nick has helped startups to become successful companies. As an engineer, he has built applications and infrastructure used by millions, including critical safety systems for the US Coast Guard. As a leader, he has hired, trained, and managed teams responsible for creating category-leading products. Nick believes that even the best ideas can only succeed with equally strong execution, so he constantly strives to refine the process of turning ideas into products. Founded in 2008, MojoTech’s award-winning team is composed of engineers, designers, and strategists. Their innovative projects have been recognized by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Mashable and more. MojoTech was recently ranked the 42nd Fastest Growing Software Company in America by Inc Magazine, and was listed as one of 2014’s Best Places to Work, by Providence Business News.
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About Allocate, MojoTech: Software Design and Development Agency
Jason Enos
Founder & CEO of Empire Group
Jason has always had a passion for building things. He began his career in the early 90s as pattern maker for Hasbro. In 1999, Jason founded Empire Prototype (known today as the Empire Group). From its inception, Jason and the company embraced technology, 3D printing in particular. The company quickly grew into a 16,000 sq. ft. facility. Breaking away from the traditional model/pattern maker role required Empire to create a new process for creating prototypes faster and at a higher level of quality than its overseas counterparts. This process has since become the industry standard.
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About Empire Group: Empire Group is a full-service product development provider – from design and engineering, to prototype, to low-mid volume production.
Anup Mehta
Co-Founder, Head of US operations & Global Business Development of Clarice Technologies
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About Clarice Technologies: We are a software product development services company specializing in User Experience Design and cutting-edge Technologies.
Roger Lang
CEO & Co-Founder of Predicta
Roger Lang is the CEO and Co-founder of Predicta.
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About Predicta: Predicta delivers actionable insights to brands by analyzing data from social media, reviews, and blogs within market categories.
Gary Solomon Jr.
Co-Founder and President of Solomon Group
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About Solomon Group, Tales of the Cocktail Foundation, Wrstbnd: Solomon Group is an award-winning entertainment design and production firm based in New Orleans.
Jon Alagem
President, co-Founder of Harper+Scott
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About Harper+Scott: Harper+Scott is a creative marketing agency focused on design and manufacturing of branded merchandise.
Karol Banaszkiewicz
Founder, CEO & Board Member of Displate
Karol Banaszkiewicz is the Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Displate.
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About Displate: Displate is a global marketplace and a manufacture specializing in creating Magnet-Mounted Metal Posters.
