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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Productivity Tools space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
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.
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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.
Kun Gao
Co-Founder, President & COO of GGWP
Kun Gao joined GGWP as Co-Founder, President & COO.
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About Crunchyroll, GGWP: GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game.
GEORGE NG
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of GGWP
George Ng joined GGWP as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer.
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About GGWP: GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game.
Sam Lessin
Co-Founder of Fin.com
Sam is currently the co-CEO of Fin and a General Partner at Slow Ventures. He was formerly a vice president of product management at Facebook from 2010 to 2014, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Prior to joining Facebook Sam founded drop.io, a file-sharing platform that was acquired by Facebook in 2010. Before drop.io Sam was an associate at Bain and Company. In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He writes a column at The Information, where he interns.
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About Fin.com, Slow Ventures, SocialGreat, Thimble: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Parker Conrad
Co-Founder and CEO of Rippling
Parker Conrad is co-founder and CEO of Zenefits, a free human resources platform that automates and eliminates all HR and benefits-related tasks for small and medium-sized businesses, allowing companies to focus on people, not paperwork. Parker has expanded Zenefits’ reach to more than 10,000 companies across 48 states, serving over 100,000 employees, and disrupting the $18 billion health insurance brokerage industry along the way. Ranked #1 on Forbes’ “Hottest Start-Ups of 2014” list, the New York Times calls Zenefits “one of the fastest-growing companies in recent Silicon Valley history.” Prior to Zenefits, Parker co-founded online stock research tools SigFig and Wikinvest. Parker graduated with a BA in Chemistry from Harvard University, where he was managing editor of the Crimson.
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About Rippling: Rippling is a human resource management company that offers an all-in-one platform to help manage HR and IT operations.
Shahed Khan
Co-Founder of Loom
Shahed Khan is the Founder of Loom. He previously worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence with NFX Guild, an accelerator program in San Francisco. Prior to NFX Guild, Shahed was an Analyst at Los Angeles based venture capital firm, Upfront Ventures.
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About Loom: Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.
Blake Murray
Co-Founder and CEO of Divvy
Blake Murray is the founder and CEO of Divvy.He was the owner and CEO of MRC and VP of Business Development at Weave Communications.
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About Divvy: Divvy is a platform that helps businesses manage payments and subscriptions, build strategic budgets, and eliminate expense reports.
Alex Bean
Co-Founder & CBO of Divvy
I’m into Sports, Seattle, Salt Lake, Skiing, and Start-ups. I get to build a cutting edge fin-tech platform that will literally change the way businesses spend their money.
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About Divvy: Divvy is a platform that helps businesses manage payments and subscriptions, build strategic budgets, and eliminate expense reports.
Sunmeet Jolly
Founder & CEO of GROTU
Founder and Patent holder – GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 40 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting services to Fortune 500 companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.
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About GROTU: Patented GROTU app provides a much needed “private” collection of productivity and communication tools for friends and family social groups
Shishir Mehrotra
Co-Founder & CEO of Coda
Mr. Shishir Mehrotra is a Co-Founder/CEO of Coda since June 2014 and served as Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from December 2015 to May 2017. Mr. Mehrotra is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coda, Inc. He served as Vice President of Product and Engineering, Youtube/Video at Google Inc. Mr. Mehrotra served as a Director of Product Management for Google TV Ads and YouTube Ads at Google Inc. He served as Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Centrata, Inc. Prior to working with Centrata, he was part of the team that brought the Microsoft Office email client to the market. He was Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He held positions at the W3C, Taurus Telysys and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is accurately regarded as one of the most knowledgeable people in digital content and technology. He has been a Director of Victorious, Inc. since July 23, 2015. He served as a Director of INVIDI Technologies Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Coda: Coda is a document collaboration platform that brings data and teams together.
Gaurav Sharma
Founder & CEO of Saas Labs
Gaurav is a product guy (and a techie) who loves working on disruptive ideas related to consumer internet and big data. He is passionate about building new marketplace based businesses and viral user acquisition.
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About Helpwise, JustCall, Saas Labs, Vinnex, Zuvvu: Saas Labs develops software products that revolve around productivity and business process automation.
Tope Awotona
CEO & Founder of Calendly
Tope spent the last seven years growing strategic accounts and territories for some of the most successful software companies including IBM, Perceptive Software, ImageRight/Vertafore and EMC. During that time, he managed $2m+ territories, won numerous awards, influenced others to achieve results and succeeded in high-pressure environments. When not fine-tuning and perfecting Calendly, he’s probably LOLing at a standup comedy club, occasionally showing up for CrossFit or dreaming about a tropical vacation. And oh yeah, Go Dawgs!
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About Calendly: Calendly is a modern scheduling platform that helps individuals, teams, and organizations automate meeting by removing the back and forth.
Cal Henderson
Co-Founder and CTO of Slack
Cal Henderson is the co-founder and CTO of Slack. He is an experienced technology leader, having previously built and led the engineering team at Flickr, through its acquisition by Yahoo. As a popular speaker on engineering scalability, he authored the best-selling O’Reilly Media book “Building Scalable Websites”. He was a pioneer in the use of web APIs, and created the basis for oAuth and oEmbed, now used by YouTube, Twitter, and many others. Cal has a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Central England, and was involved in London’s early online community through his work with the early digital community B3ta and his personal blog iamcal.com, which he has ran for over 15 years. Cal now resides in San Francisco.
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Brad Brooks
Co-Founder, CEO of TigerConnect
Brad is the Co-Founder and CEO of TigerConnect and a Co-Founder of Whisper. He previously ran DIC Entertainment as President for 6 years after working for Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette as an Investment Banker. After acquiring the company with Bain Capital from the Walt Disney Company in 2000, he helped grow the company from less than $10mm of revenues to over $80mm in 2005 when he took the company public on the London Stock Exchange at a $200mm valuation. Brad received his BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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About TigerConnect, Whisper: TigerConnect is a healthcare collaboration platform that streamlines clinical workflows and systems.
Andrew Brooks M.D.
Co-Founder/Chief Medical Officer of TigerConnect
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About TigerConnect: TigerConnect is a healthcare collaboration platform that streamlines clinical workflows and systems.
Brian Vallelunga
Founder & CEO of Doppler
CEO @ Doppler
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About Doppler: Doppler provides an application management platform used to help developers manage their API keys across their projects.
Zeb Evans
Founder & CEO of ClickUp
Zeb Evans is a billionaire entrepreneur that’s started several software companies worth over $4 billion. He’s founder and CEO at ClickUp, a productivity platform that revolutionizes the way people work.
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Alex Yurkowski
Co-Founder & CTO of ClickUp
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Michael Boswell
Co-Founder, CEO of Cue
Co-Founder and CEO of Cue. Previously an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures; Design Lead at Facebook, Google and Coatue. Founding member of several products with successful exits including Jobr, Pagemodo, and ContactMe.
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About Cue: The world’s first social calendar
Rui Maranhao
Co-Founder of Rows
Rui Maranhao is Co-founder and Head of Engineering at dashdash.
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About Rows: Rows is a platform that allows users to create applications using only spreadsheet skills.
Vinay Patankar
Co-Founder and CEO of Process Street
Vinay Patankar is the co-founder and CEO of Process Street.
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About Process Street: Process Street is a SaaS platform that allows teams create, track, and optimize business process workflows.
George Sivulka
Founder & CEO of Hebbia
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About Hebbia: Hebbia is a cutting-edge ML productivity tool that supercharges knowledge workers.
Saad El Yamani
Founder & CEO of Ambi
Saad El Yamani is the Founder & CEO at Ambi Inc
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About Ambi, Babson College: Ambi is designed to centralize the college experience for students through a productive and powerful social network.
Soham Khaitan
Co-Founder & COO of Ambi
Co-Founder at Ambi.network.
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About Ambi, Forbes: Ambi is designed to centralize the college experience for students through a productive and powerful social network.
Shiv Kapoor
Founder & CEO of Nifty
Shiv Kapoor is technology serial-entrepreneur currently residing in New York. Shiv has founded several start-ups, and is currently the CEO at Nifty, a NYC based workflow collaboration SaaS.
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About Creative360, Nifty: Delivering the future of project management.
Michael Pryor
Co-Founder of Glitch
Michael Pryor is CEO of Trello, the tool that helps entrepreneurs organize their businesses and lives. He’s also the cofounder of Fog Creek Software, sits on the board of Stack Exchange, and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not taking care of the office saltwater aquarium, he’s probably playing Kerbal Space Program.
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About Glitch, Trello: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
Raunak Bhinge
CEO, Managing Director & Founder of Infinite Uptime
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
Martin Mao
Co-Founder and CEO of Chronosphere
Martin Mao is the founder and CEO of Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Rob Skillington
Co-Founder and CTO of Chronosphere
Rob Skillington is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Adam Evans
Co-Founder & CTO of Airkit
Adam Evans is the co-founder and chief technology officer at Airkit.
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About Airkit: Airkit is a customer engagement platform that enables brands to quickly build digital customer experiences.
Stephen Ehikian
Co-Founder & CEO of Airkit
Stephen Ehikian is Co-Founder and CEO at Airkit.
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About Airkit: Airkit is a customer engagement platform that enables brands to quickly build digital customer experiences.
Bassem Hamdy
CEO & Co-Founder of Briq
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About Briq: Briq is a financial forecasting and data intelligence platform for the construction industry.
Ron Goldshmidt
Co-Founder – COO and Head of Fintech of Briq
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About Briq: Briq is a financial forecasting and data intelligence platform for the construction industry.
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.
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.
Brandon Foo
CEO and Co-Founder of Paragon
Brandon Foo is co-founder and CEO of Paragon. He previously co-founded and was CEO of Polymail.
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About Paragon: Paragon makes it easy to integrate your product with the SaaS apps your customers use.
Harry Qi
Co-Founder & CEO of Motion
Harry Qi is the co-founder and CEO of Motion.
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About Motion: Motion provides real-time interventions, reminders, and analytics, preventing people from getting distracted on the web.
Omid Rooholfada
Co-Founder of Motion
Omid Rooholfada is the co-founder of Motion.
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About Motion: Motion provides real-time interventions, reminders, and analytics, preventing people from getting distracted on the web.
Tania Ahuja
Founder and CEO of Nobias
Tania Ahuja is Founder and CEO of Nobias and is Head of US Operations for Arkera Inc. She is a former director of Citigroup and serves on the Board of Overseers at Stern School of Business, NYU. Additionally, she sits on the board of other learning and art organizations including the Center of Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, Salome Chamber Orchestra, The Paper Bag Players, and is Chairman of the Board for the Summit Music Festival. Tania holds a PhD in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University. She has a BS in Statistics and an MS in Operations Research.
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About Nobias: Software tools that help protect consumers from deceptive or misleading content on the internet.
Mark Donatelli
Founder of Hive
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About Hive, I-COM Global: Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward.
Eric Typaldos
Co-Founder & CTO of Hive
Eric Typaldos is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Hive.
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About Hive: Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward.
Alfonso De los Rios
CEO & Co-Founder of Nowports
Alfonso De los Rios is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nowports.
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About Nowports: Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that automates the supply chain processes of Latin American companies.
Maximiliano Casal
Co-Founder & COO of Nowports
Co-founder Nowports (YC W19 & YCG S20), a Logistics & trade SaaS platform. Max is a Software Engineer with more than 9 years of experience in different projects. Persistent, methodical & innovative.
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About Nowports: Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that automates the supply chain processes of Latin American companies.
Geoffrey Tisserand
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Figure
Geoffrey Tisserand is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Figure.
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About Figure: Figure is a compensation platform that helps companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data driven decisions.
Matt Martin
Co-Founder & CEO of Clockwise
Previously a civil litigator at an Am Law 100 firm in Minneapolis, founder of inbode, and founder MN Publius. Holds a B.A. from Dartmouth and a J.D. from UPenn in Philadelphia.
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About alesforce.com, Clockwise, LegalReach, RelateIQ: Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
Gary Lerhaupt
Co-Founder & CTO of Clockwise
Gary Lerhaupt is the Co-Founder & CTO at Clockwise.
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About Clockwise: Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
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.
David Hsu
Founder, CEO of Retool
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About Retool: Build internal software fast.
Josh Lowy
CEO and Co-Founder of Hugo
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About Hugo: Hugo is a collaborative note-taking app focused on sharing meeting notes across teams within companies.
Darren Chait
Co-Founder & COO of Hugo
Darren Chait is the Co-Founder & COO at Hugo.
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About Hugo: Hugo is a collaborative note-taking app focused on sharing meeting notes across teams within companies.
Ian White
Founder, CEO and CTO of ChartHop
Ian White is the Founder, CEO, and CTO at ChartHop.
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About ChartHop: ChartHop is transforming the way companies manage and support their people. By seamlessly consolidating and visualizing disparate sources of people data into one powerful people analytics platform, ChartHop creates more informed, empowered, and connected organizations. From executives to individual contributors to every employee in between, ChartHop is designed for everyone in the organization.
ChartHop plays well with dozens of platforms through robust integrations across the HR tech stack, and serves companies like 1Password, BetterCloud, Starburst, and InVision. Founded in 2019 by Ian White, ChartHop is backed by Andreessen Horowitz. Visit ChartHop.com to learn more and follow ChartHop on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Sarah Arnold
Head of Customer Experience and Success, Head of People and Co-Founder of Donut
Sarah Arnold is the Head of Customer Experience and Success, Head of People, and co-founder at Donut. Prior to co-founding Donut, Sarah served as a general manager at Velocity Mobile Ltd. She also held positions at Cover and Bloomberg LP. Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from Georgetown University.
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About Donut: Donut helps people get to know their team and company better.
Cyrus Karbassiyoon
CTO & Co-Founder of Scratchpad
CTO and Co-founder at Scratchpad .
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About Scratchpad: Scratchpad is an all-in-one sales efficiency toolkit that allows users to consolidate and streamline the different aspects of sales.
Henry Lippincott
Founder of // PROCRASTINAUTS
Henry Lippincott is Founder at //PROCRASTINAUTS
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About // PROCRASTINAUTS, Chubbies Shorts, JP Morgan, VoteBox: Time-management tool for the modern-day procrastinator
Vladik Rikhter
CEO, Co-Founder of Zenput
Mr. Vladik Rikhter is the Founder of Zenput Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Rikhter has over seven years of operational & business development roles in B2B technology companies. He’s participated in raising over $50M of venture funding. Helped to grow Current Energy from a few employees to over a hundred as well as leading international acquisitions. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS in Industrial & Systems Engineering.
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About Clockspot, Zenput: Zenput develops an operations execution software for restaurants, c-stores, and grocers.
Eduarda Bardavid
Co-Founder & CEO of Drag
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About Drag: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
Kishau Rogers
Founder & CEO of Time Study
Kishau Rogers is a technology entrepreneur using computer science, systems thinking, and common sense to create intelligent human-centered solutions. As the Founder and CEO of Time Study, Kishau is one of the first Black women in the state of Virginia to raise millions in venture capital to scale her tech startup. Headquartered in New York City, Time Study is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help enterprises understand the impact of how their employees spend their time. Time Study is used by four out of the top 10 hospitals in the United States as ranked by the U.S. News and World Report. Kishau’s work has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Black Enterprise. She holds a Computer Science degree and has over 25 years of technology and entrepreneurial leadership experience.
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About Time Study, Websmith, Inc: Our platform makes complex time tracking easy. We proudly serve the largest hospital systems.
Kevin Frechette
Co-Founder & CEO of Fairmarkit
Kevin Frechette is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fairmarkit.
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About Fairmarkit: Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need.
Tarek Alaruri
Co-Founder & COO of Fairmarkit
Tarek Alaruri is the COO and Co-Founder at Fairmarkit.
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About Fairmarkit: Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need.
Maggie Louie
Founder and CEO of otto by DEVCON
Maggie Louie is the founder and CEO at Devcon Detect. She has a proven experience in developing startups within corporations. Maggie has spent more than a decade as a digital leader in the publishing industry, developing products for The E.W. Scripps Company, The Los Angeles Times, American Public Media Group and Morris Communications, where she also served as the Vice President of Audience and corporate intrapreneur. She enjoys composing music with DEVCON co-founder Josh Summitt.
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About otto by DEVCON, SpoonWest: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Josh Summitt
Co-Founder and CTO of otto by DEVCON
Josh has spent over 12 years in Information Security specializing in finding, exploiting, and patching software vulnerabilities for fortune 500 companies. He has developed several open source tools for the hacker community and has presented these tools in the 2016 and 2017 Black Hat Conferences. Josh is a proven technologist, polyglot software engineer, and creative problem solver. “I had the pleasure of working with Josh Summitt for over 5 years in the security space. This work included web application penetration testing, external network and wireless penetration testing, and development of tools for authorized Phishing campaigns. Josh also developed hacking demos (showing how bad-actors practice their tradecraft) which has been used to raise security awareness for audiences globally. Josh is a very skilled security analyst and would be an asset to any organization that needs to mature its security program.” (Kevin Mitnick, Mitnick Security)
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About otto by DEVCON: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Casey Hester
Co-Founder and COO of otto by DEVCON
Casey comes to DEVCON with a publishing career spanning nearly two decades, managing operations and creating new digital products. Her current obsessions are kombucha, tom ka soup and turning her house into a botanist’s greenhouse.
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About otto by DEVCON: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Ioan Iacob
Founder and CEO of FLOWX.AI
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About FLOWX.AI: FLOWX.AI wraps and orchestrates legacy systems, making it super fast for enterprises to create digital apps for mission-critical flows.
Raphael Schaad
Founder of Cron
Raphael Schaad is the founder and CEO of Cron.
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About Cron: Next-generation calendar for professionals and teams
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.
Brian O’Kelley
Co-Founder and CEO of Waybridge
Brian O’Kelley is CEO and Co-Founder of Waybridge.
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About Waybridge: Waybridge offers a suite of digital tools that targets fundamental inefficiencies in the raw materials supply chain.
Tamir Wolf
Co-Founder and CEO of theator
Tamir Wolf is the Co-Founder and CEO at theator.
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About theator: Theator is a surgical intelligence platform that combines artificial intelligence and computer vision to improve surgeon performance.
Shmuel Kliger
Co-Founder of Turbonomic
Shmuel is currently focused on product and technology strategy, as well as strategic partnerships. Previously, he founded and served as President and CEO of VMTurbo. Prior to founding VMTurbo, Shmuel served as Vice President of Architecture and Applied Research in the EMC CTO Office. Prior to joining the CTO Office, Shmuel was the Chief Technology Officer of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group. Shmuel Kliger joined EMC with the acquisition of SMARTS. Shmuel Kliger was a Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of SMARTS. As CTO of SMARTS Shmuel Kliger was responsible for setting SMARTS vision and strategy, managing SMARTS R&D organization, as well as Professional Services, Technical Support and Technology Partner Development. Prior to joining SMARTS, Shmuel was a member of the Distributed Systems Software Technology department at IBM Research developing middleware technologies. Shmuel also served as a senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and Manager of Technical Support Services for International Business Software in Israel. Shmuel holds a B.S. in mathematics from Bar Ilan University, an M.Sc.and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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About Turbonomic: Turbonomic develops tools that optimize application performance, compliance, and cost in real-time.
Brandon Gell
Co-Founder & CEO of Clyde
Brandon Gell is the Co-Founder and CEO at Clyde.
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About Clyde: Clyde is a platform that connects retailers to insurance companies to launch and manage product protection programs.
Josh Scaglione
Co-Founder & CTO of Clyde
Josh Scaglione is the Co-Founder and CTO at Clyde.
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About Clyde: Clyde is a platform that connects retailers to insurance companies to launch and manage product protection programs.
Nick Scaglione
Co-Founder of Clyde
Clyde makes it easy for SMBs to offer extended warranties for their products at the point of sale, driving risk free passive revenue and offering a better customer experience. Learn more at joinclyde.com
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About Clyde: Clyde is a platform that connects retailers to insurance companies to launch and manage product protection programs.
Joanna Zhu
Co-Founder of Circle
Previously lead Product for Grocery/Retail at DoorDash and Driver Pricing at Uber
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About Circle: Circle develops a short video platform for video makers.
Matias Castillo
Co-Founder & CEO of Pulsar
Matias Castillo is the Co-Founder & CEO at Pulsar Global Corp.
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About Pulsar: Pulsar brings real-time productivity monitoring and analytics to small and mid-size manufacturers.
Chris Raethke
Founder & CEO of Notiv
Chris Raethke is the CEO and co-founder of Notiv. For more than 20 years, he has been an entrepreneur, designer, and technology leader, usually all at once. In 2018, Chris and Iain launched Notiv, an AI-based product thinking company that enables smart collaboration around meetings. Notiv started out of frustration from not having an ability to capture, store and recall information in the same way we access a word document. In 2012, Chris co-founded Bugcrowd Inc, the pioneer of crowdsourced security testing for web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications. As Co-founder and CTO, he led Bugcrowd’s engineering, product, and machine learning teams and set the technical vision for the company. Chris’s technical and business leadership was instrumental in building Bugcrowd into one of the largest security web services in the world. Chris continues to play a critical role in the strategic direction of the business. Chris believes that technology should allow humans to focus more and give us time back in our day. His projects do this by looking at our most important, but most inefficient daily experiences and making them better. Chris was studying a Bachelor of Computer Science and Bachelor of Microelectronic Engineering before being dragged into the world of startups.
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About Notiv: Notiv is the intelligent meeting assistant that turns all your important voice conversations into clever business outcomes.
Saje Sandhu
Founder, CEO, Designer of Bit.ai
Founder, CEO, Designer of Bit.ai
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About Bit.ai, elink.io: Next-Gen Document Collaboration Platform
Andrew Rasmussen
Founder of Canny
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About Canny: Canny helps teams collect & manage feedback from their customers
Sarah Hum
Founder of Canny
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About Canny: Canny helps teams collect & manage feedback from their customers
Jose Cayasso (Caya)
CEO & Co-Founder of Slidebean
José Cayasso (commonly known as Caya) is a Costa Rican graphics designer and entrepreneur. Caya was a Trainer and Senior Support Agent for Intel, covering Desktop Boards and Processors for the North America Region; he obtained extensive experience with hardware and software support over the course of 6 years. In 2011, Caya founded Saborstudio, a creative content company. Their first startup, Pota-Toss, was an iOS game crowdfunded on Kickstarter and released to the App Store on October 2012. It was deemed by Techcrunch and CNN as “The Next Angry Birds” and having its graphics compared to a Pixar movie by Business Insider. Pota-Toss was installed in over 300,000 devices that year. Saborstudio was also the first Costa Rican startup to be selected for a major US Accelerator. In November 2012 Caya was selected as a one of the 40 Under 40 Costa Rican innovators by El Financiero Newspaper; and was also named an Innovation Champion by the Costa Rican Ministry of Science and Technology. Caya was also invited to speak at the 2013 TEDx Joven PuraVida Conference in Costa Rica, along with speakers like Luis Von Ahn and Michael Lindenmayer. In mid-2013, Caya founded Slidebean, a simplified, cloud-based presentation tool. Slidebean was part of Startup Chile, one of the most important accelerators in Latin America and then selected for Batch 11 of 500 Startups, one of the top US Based Accelerators according to Forbes and Techcrunch. Slidebean has been featured in Techcrunch, TheNextWeb and The Economist, as the third most valuable internet startup in Costa Rica.
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About Saborstudio, Slidebean: Slidebean is an online platform that designs and creates presentations on demand with user provided content.
Joaquin Roca
CEO and Co-Founder of Minerva
Joaquin Roca is a Co-Founder and CEO at Minerva.
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About Minerva: Minerva is a platform enabling anyone to create and sharing clickable instructions for anything on the internet.
Craig T. Wood
CPO and Co-Founder of Minerva
Craig T. Wood is a Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Minerva.
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About Minerva: Minerva is a platform enabling anyone to create and sharing clickable instructions for anything on the internet.
Rafael Gonzaque
CTO and Co-Founder of Minerva
Rafael Gonzaque is a Co-Founder and CTO at Minerva.
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About Minerva: Minerva is a platform enabling anyone to create and sharing clickable instructions for anything on the internet.
Christine Carrillo
Founder & CEO of Butlr Health
Christine Carrillo is a 3x founder and software engineer. Currently the CEO and co-founder of Butlr Health. Prev founder/CEO @ JOANY.
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About Butlr Health, Techstars: Managed marketplace that matches people with highly vetted therapists.
Apoorv Khandelwal
Co-Founder and CTO of ADEx
Machine learning entrepreneur
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About ADEx: Purpose-Built Document Automation for Real Estate Industry
Kazuki Nakayashiki
Founder and CEO/CTO of Glasp
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About Glasp, Glasp: Social Web Highlighter, Social Annotation, Social Note Taking, Web App, SaaS, Browser Extension, Mobile App, Social Bookmarking
Daniel Rudman
Founder and CTO of Prodly
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About Prodly: Prodly helps companies build and continuously improve business applications faster, more reliably, and more frequently.
Jackson Noel
Co-Founder and CEO of Appcues
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About Appcues: Appcues provides a no-code platform helping teams to track and analyze product usage and publish in-app tours, announcements, and surveys.
Omri Weinberg
Co-Founder & CRO of DoControl
Omri Weinberg is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of DoControl. Omri brings 13 years of experience in sales, business development, marketing, and operations. Prior to founding DoControl, Omri was a General Manager USA at SafeDK, where he led customer acquisition, sales strategy, and US operations. There he helped grow the company from pre-revenue to a few million dollars within two years, resulting in a successful acquisition by AppLovin. Before SafeDK, Omri was a Senior Vice President of Performance Marketing at Matomy Media Group, where he led 60 full-time employees to acquire thousands of new customers globally, and grew sales to $80M. Before Matomy, Omri Co-Founded GETONIC, a marketplace for digital goods, raising $500K from The Time VC.
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About DoControl: DoControl is an automated platform that provides data access monitoring, orchestration, and remediation across SaaS applications.
Adam Gavish
Co-Founder & CEO of DoControl
Adam Gavish is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DoControl. Adam brings 15 years of experience in product management, software engineering, and network security. Prior to founding DoControl, Adam was a Product Manager at Google Cloud, where he led ideation, execution, and strategy of Assured Workloads (GovCloud) customer experience serving Fortune 500 customers. Before Google, Adam was a Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon, where he launched customer-obsessed products improving the payment experience for 300M customers globally. Before Amazon, Adam was a Software Engineer in two successfully acquired startups, eXelate for $200M, and Skyfence for $60M.
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About DoControl: DoControl is an automated platform that provides data access monitoring, orchestration, and remediation across SaaS applications.
Davit Baghdasaryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Krisp
Co-Founder & CEO at Krisp.
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About Krisp: Krisp makes remote workers more professional. It uses AI to mute background noise during the calls.
Mustafa Bayramoglu
Founder of PreFlight
Mustafa Bayramoglu has finished his master’s in High Performance Computing at TSU. He is the first engineer at Shipbob and build the infrastructure to handle millions of shipping transactions from picking to labeling and handing to the carriers. He had tremendous impact building the team at Shipbob from 2 engineers to 40+ engineers. He also was hands-on on the UI and helped other engineers building SPA at Shipbob. The difficulties of testing pushed him to create MVP at Preflight and got into YC to help Saas companies to test ridiculously easy. He is now working on Computer Vision and Self Healing tests
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About PreFlight: PreFlight is an automated software testing in the browser.
John C. Palmer
Founder/CEO of Hexel
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About Hexel: Hexel is a startup that wants to make it easy for anyone to use Ethereum-based tokens to engage their hyperlocal community.
Chad Halvorson
Co-Founder & CEO of When I Work
Chad Halvorson is the CEO of thisCLICKS , makers of When I Work, a cloud-based mobile employee scheduling software. When I Work simplifies staff scheduling and communication for restaurants, retailers, healthcare providers and countless SMBs in more than 50 countries around the world. Before thisCLICKS, Chad led the development team at Meditech Communications, a digital marketing agency that provides app development, animation and video production services to the medical device industry. For over a decade, he led the development and architecture of interactive tools, apps and web software for Fortune 500 giants like Boston Scientific, UnitedHealthcare and St. Jude Medical — plus countless small and mid-sized companies.
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About When I Work: When I Work is an employee scheduling and time tracking platform designed for shift-based teams.
Daniel Olfelt
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of When I Work
Daniel Olfelt is a Co-Founder and Chief Architect at When I Work.
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About When I Work: When I Work is an employee scheduling and time tracking platform designed for shift-based teams.
Robert Fenton
Founder & CEO of Qualio
Robert Fenton is the Founder and CEO at Qualio.
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About Qualio: Qualio is a quality management system helping life sciences companies bring quality products to the market.
Dave Idell
Co-Founder of Croissant
Dave Idell is Co-Founder & CEO at Croissant. He was born in upstate New York, but not that far upstate. He has been tinkering around with computers since he was young and have always enjoyed solving complex problems. He currently live in Brooklyn and when he is taking a break from Croissant, he likes making coffee with his french press, working out, or eating spaghetti.
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About Croissant: Croissant is the clever new way to be productive on the go. Access over 500 workspaces in NYC, London, SF, and beyond!
Nisha Garigarn
Co-Founder of Croissant
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About Croissant: Croissant is the clever new way to be productive on the go. Access over 500 workspaces in NYC, London, SF, and beyond!
John Rampton
Founder and CEO of Calendar
Best known as an Entrepreneur and Connector… John was recently named #2 on Top 50 Online Influencers in the World by Entrepreneur Magazine as well as a blogging expert by Forbes. He currently advises several companies in the bay area. John received a BA in Economics from The University of Utah.
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About Calendar, Due, Entrepreneur.com, Forbes Magazine, HuffPost, Wheelhouse Partners: A dynamic calendar that helps you focus on what you need to do and assess whether those are in line with your priorities.
