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 SaaS 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.
Mathilde Collin
CEO and Co-Founder of Front
Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
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Laurent Perrin
CTO and Co-Founder of Front
Laurent Perrin is the CTO and co-founder at Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Brian Long
Co-Founder and CEO of Attentive
Brian Long is the co-founder and CEO of Attentive. He previously was the CEO of TapCommerce. Prior to TapCommerce, Brian led mobile products at Pontiflex, a mobile advertising company. At Pontiflex, Brian conceived of the mobile ad product, brought it to market, and scaled it across thousands of mobile apps. Prior to Pontiflex, Brian held various sales management roles at CNET.com (acquired by CBS Interactive), where he worked closely with large advertisers like Dell, Samsung, and AT&T to build performance-based interactive advertising programs.Brian has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently on-leave from NYU, with half of an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Ethan Lo
Co-Founder and Head of Special Projects of Attentive
Ethan Lo is a Co-Founder at Attentive Mobile. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Twitter, and one of the first engineers at TapCommerce, an ad-tech startup acquired by Twitter in 2014.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Andrew Jones
Co-Founder and CPO of Attentive
Andrew is the co-founder and head of product at Attentive. Before co-founding Attentive, Andrew served as the vice president of products at TapCommerce. Prior to TapCommerce, Andrew helped lead Agile development teams at Demdex (acquired by Adobe Systems in 2011), the first online advertising Data Management Platform (DMP). Prior to Demdex, Andrew helped build technology products at leading startups and big companies including TheLadders.com and Goldman Sachs. Andrew has a B.S. in Information Systems and Finance from NYU.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Jack Mardack
Co-Founder of Oyster®
Jack Mardack is the Co-Founder of Oyster.
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About Oyster®: Oyster is a Distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.
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.
Henry Ward
Founder & CEO of Carta
Henry Ward is the CEO and co-founder of Carta (formerly eShares), With a background in finance and technology. Prior to eShares, Henry was the Founder and CEO of Secondsight, a portfolio optimization platform for retail investors. Mr. Ward received a BGS in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Michigan and an MSC in Market Finance at EDHEC Business School.
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Urmas Purde
Co-Founder of Pipedrive
Co-Founder of Pipedrive.
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About Pipedrive: Pipedrive is the global sales-first CRM and revenue platform for small businesses
Mickey Alon
CTO and Founder of Gainsight PX of Gainsight
Mickey Alon is the founder and CTO of Gainsight PX (previously Aptrinsic), the Product Experience Platform. He is a serial entrepreneur focused on designing, building and launching innovative products that help drive business outcomes. Before joining Gainsight through the acquisition of Aptrinsic, Mickey was Global VP of Engineering where he led the global engineering and product management for their web personalization and predictive content solutions. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Insightera, a personalization and predictive analytics software, which was acquired by Marketo in 2013. He also co-authored Mastering Product Experience in SaaS – a book on delivering personalized product experiences with a product-led go-to-market strategy.
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About Aptrinsic, Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Parker Harris
Co-Founder, EVP Technology of Salesforce
Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez in the spring of 1999. As Executive Vice President, Harris oversees the development of all software for salesforce.com. Prior to founding salesforce.com, Harris developed web application and salesforce automation expertise at Left Coast Software, a private consulting company he co-founded, as well as at Metropolis software, an early pioneer in field sales force automation subsequently acquired by Clarify. Harris has over twelve years of software engineering and management experience. He graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Brad Birnbaum
CEO & Founder of Kustomer
Brad is an innovator and a trailblazer in creating disruptive enterprise technologies. He has spent more than 20 years as a C level executive and a serial entrepreneur, building companies and solutions for customer service and support. Mission driven and passionate, he believes in leading with purpose and building solutions that solve real world problems. As co-founder and CEO of Kustomer, Brad set out together with Jeremy Suriel and the Kustomer team to build something the world desperately needs: a modern, customer-centric platform for building applications while modernizing the customer support tool landscape. Before founding Kustomer, Brad co-founded Assistly which was acquired by Salesforce and rebranded as Desk.com; making it the Salesforce SaaS SMB support solution. Brad began his career by founding eShare Communications while in college. As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development at eShare Technologies, he took part in revolutionizing community chat and launching the first chat tool used for customer support. eShare was later sold to Melita International where he continued his role as CTO for the larger entity which rebranded as eShare Communications. Brad held executive roles at Divine Interventures, eAssist and Talisma all the while focusing on improving customer support for enterprise companies. Additionally, Brad lead the community chat team at AOL and was CTO for Airtime. Brad contributes regularly to Forbes where he writes about trends that affect the customer service industry today. As a born and raised New Yorker, Brad insists on building the next great NYC based tech startup. Brad serves as Kustomer’s Chairman of the Board. Birnbaum served as a Justice Louis Brandeis Scholar at Brandeis University and a Simon’s fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he conducted advanced organo-metallic research in chemistry. Birnbaum has been published in a variety of publications and has also served as a technical editor for some of Macmillan’s best-selling Java and Internet books. Birnbaum holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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About CRMXchange, Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Jeremy Suriel
CTO & Founder of Kustomer
Jeremy is a seasoned tech founder with a deep knowledge and expertise in software development & architecture.Jeremy was Co-founder and Chief Architect of Assistly. Previously he was a Co-founder of eAssist, then a Co-founder & CTO at Goowy Media which was acquired by AOL.
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About Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Christopher Kirchner
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Slync.io
Christopher S. Kirchner is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO at Slync.io. Prior to this, Christopher has worked as a senior vice president of sales and marketing and a director of marketing and sales at Turner Labels. Christopher holds a degree in communications, minor marketing from the University of Kentucky.
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About Slync.io: Slync.io is a provider of process automation for enterprise supply chains and the global logistics industry.
Raj Patel
Co-Founder and CPO of Slync.io
Raj Patel is the Co-Founder and CPO of Slync.io.
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About Slync.io: Slync.io is a provider of process automation for enterprise supply chains and the global logistics industry.
Peter Kazanjy
Co-Founder of Atrium
Pete Kazanjy (LinkedIn, Twitter) is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor. Pete founded TalentBin, a category-defining talent search engine and recruiting CRM, which exited to Monster Worldwide in early 2014. Pete currently is the founder of Atrium, a proactive sales performance analysis solution, author of Founding Sales, the definitive Startup Sales Handbook, and founder of Modern Sales, the nation’s largest sales operations, leadership, and enablement community.
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About Atrium: Atrium help sales managers with its data-driven management software that provides coaching insights and continuous monitoring.
Christopher Bergh
Founder, CEO & Head Chef of DataKitchen
Christopher Bergh is a Founder, CEO, and Head Chef of DataKitchen. As CEO, he oversees the Product, Engineering, Implementation, Services, Sales, and Marketing teams. DataKitchen’s mission is to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. Chris and his fellow co-founders started DataKitchen because they envisioned a world where every data professional and his or her data team no longer felt powerless or frustrated by failed and painfully slow projects, but instead were excited and energized by their ability to deliver high-quality, on-demand insight. In 2013, the trio of founders launched DataKitchen and built their own end-to-end DataOps software platform to do just that. Chris is an industry-recognized expert on DataOps. He is the co-author of The DataOps Cookbook and The DataOps Manifesto as well as a speaker on DataOps at many industry conferences and with media outlets. Chris has more than 30 years of research, software engineering, data analytics, and executive management experience. At various points in his career, he has been a COO, CTO, VP, and Director of Engineering at various tech startups, which were acquired by IBM Unica or Model N. Chris holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About DataKitchen, DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Products & Implementation of DataKitchen
Gil Benghiat is a Founder and VP of Product & Implementation of DataKitchen, a company on a mission to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. At DataKitchen, Gil leads an Implementation Team of talented software and data engineering professionals responsible for guiding customers’ adoption of DataOps and optimal use of DataKitchen’s DataOps Platform. Gil also leads a Product Development Team responsible for the definition, design, development, quality, and operation of DataKitchen’s SaaS DataOps Platform. Gil has over 35 years of experience in software engineering spanning multiple technical leadership roles at data-oriented technology companies, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories collecting and displaying network data, managing data at Sybase, collecting and cleaning clinical trial data at Phase Forward, integrating pharmaceutical sales data at LeapFrogRx, and liberating his clients’ data at Solid Oak Consulting. At previous companies, he achieved results such as growing a company from 4 to 320 employees and revenue from $0 to $60M resulting in IPO and improving the scalability of the product to increase the number of systems managed from 300 to 12,000. Gil holds an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Jason Lemkin
Trusted Advisor, Founder of SaaStr
Jason M. Lemkin runs SaaStr, the world’s largest community for B2B/SaaS founders, and is the managing director of SaaStr Fund, a $90m venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise investments. Prior to that, Lemkin was the vice president of [Adobe Systems](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems); a co-founder and the chief executive officer of [EchoSign](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/echosign); a co-founder and the president of [NanoGram Devices Corp](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nanogram-devices-corporation); vice president of [NeoPhotonics](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/neophotonics); and a senior director at [BabyCenter](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/babycenter). Lemkin has studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.
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About SaaStr, SaaStr Fund: SaaStr is a blog about web services.
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.
Igor Jablokov
Founder & CEO of Pryon
Igor is the founder and CEO of Pryon, an artificial intelligence (AI) company delivering an enterprise knowledge management platform. Pryon’s natural language processing (NLP) engine ingests and transforms data into experiences that solve critical business challenges. Previously at IBM, Igor grew impatient with the gap between the invention and commercialization of AI, and departed to establish cloud computing pioneer Yap. Five years later, Amazon acquired the company for its AI expertise and machine learning (ML) technology, now embedded in billions of Alexa-powered devices. Igor was subsequently awarded Eisenhower and Truman National Security fellowships to leverage entrepreneurial ecosystems in addressing geopolitical concerns. Igor passionately supports STEM career and educational opportunities. As such, he is a TechStars’ Alexa Accelerator mentor, was a Blackstone NC Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR), and founded a chapter of Global Shapers, a program of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Igor holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was named an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus, and an MBA from The University of North Carolina.
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About Pryon: Pryon is an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge management.
Barak Kaufman
CEO/Co-Founder of Intello
Barak Kaufman was CEO & Co-Founder of Intello (acquired by SailPoint) and was an investor at Insight Venture Partners.
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About Intello: Intello’s SaaS operations platform enables companies to discover, manage, secure & optimize their SaaS applications
Shlomo Dalezman
CTO/Co-Founder of Intello
Shlomo is CTO/Co-founder of PlatformWatch. He previously was a Senior Full Stack Engineer at The Muse.
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About Intello: Intello’s SaaS operations platform enables companies to discover, manage, secure & optimize their SaaS applications
Jeff Clavier
Founder and Managing Partner of Uncork Capital
Jeff Clavier Is The Founder and Managing Partner At Uncork Capital.
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About Uncork Capital: Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.
Nicole Stata
Founder and Managing Director of Boston Seed Capital
Ms. Stata is the Founder and Managing Director of Boston Seed Capital, LLC. From 2007 to 2010, Ms. Stata worked as an angel investor, advisor and start-up executive. Ms. Stata founded Deploy Solutions in 1996, an award-winning leading provider of SAAS Human Capital Management. As CEO and President, she led Deploy for eleven years through its sale to Kronos in 2007. Deploy was widely recognized as a national best place to work and was the recipient of Deloitte and Touche’s Fast 50 award in 2006. Before Deploy, Ms. Stata managed the global service center for Restrac (Webhire) and started her career with Lotus Development Corporation. Nicole serves as an advisor and board member for several companies and non-profit organizations.
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About Boston Seed Capital: Boston Seed Capital provides seed stage funding for internet-enabled businesses.
Jyoti Bansal
Co-Founder & CEO of Harness
Jyoti Bansal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Harness.
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About BIG Labs, Harness, Traceable, Unusual Ventures: Harness is a Continuous Delivery as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
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.
Steve Kokinos
Founder & Chairman of Fuze
Steve is responsible for the strategic direction and management of Thinking Phone Networks. Under his leadership, the company is transforming the way enterprises view communications as a key driver of business visibility, process improvement, and results. Previously, Steve was a founder of BladeLogic, Inc., a recognized leader in the data center automation market with a Fortune 500 client list that includes GE, Time Warner, Microsoft, Cable & Wireless, Walmart, and Sprint, among others. Prior to BladeLogic, Steven was founder, president, and CEO of WebYes, Inc., an early market leader in the Web hosting and application service provider arena. WebYes provided the electronic software distribution platform for all of Sun Microsystems’ software products, including Java, and was acquired by Breakaway Solutions in 1999. At Breakaway, Steve established and ran the company’s ASP business. He played a critical role in driving the business to $120M in revenue and taking the company public, and in just 18 months was responsible for Breakaway’s #2 worldwide ASP industry ranking. Steve holds a B.A. from McGill University
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About Algorand, Fuze, G20 Ventures: Formerly ThinkingPhones, Fuze is a cloud-based communications and collaboration solution that connects organizations across devices.
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.
Richard Smullen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pypestream
Richard is the CEO and founder of Pypestream, a secure mobile messaging platform that uses real-time chat to transform the way brands and businesses connect with customers. Through ‘Pypes’ listed in a searchable catalogue, businesses are provided with a direct connection to their customers for increased engagement, automated customer service, and in-message payment processing. The ultimate customer engagement tool, further loyalty is derived by using proprietary AI and chatbot technology to allow conversations at scale. A serial entrepreneur, Richard previously co-founded Genesis Media LLC, a real-time video advertising platform, and is a board member of SouthWinston LLC, a New York-based, global private equity and VC fund.
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About dhomain llc, Pypestream, SouthWinston: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
Ashutosh Garg
CEO & Co-Founder of Eightfold
Ashutosh Garg is the CEO and co-founder of eightfold.ai and a true guru of all things AI, with 10 years of information retrieval, machine learning and search experience. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BloomReach. Prior to that, he was at IBM research. He is also a prolific publisher/inventor, with a book on machine learning, 30+ papers, and 50+ patents. Ashutosh holds a BTech from IIT-Delhi and a PhD from U of Illinois UC. Ashutosh has numerous awards, including best thesis award at IIT Delhi, IBM Fellowship and outstanding researcher award at UIUC.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Varun Kacholia
CTO and Co-Founder of Eightfold
Varun Kacholia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eightfold.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Scott Wolfe
Founder & CEO of Levelset
Scott is a husband, dad, and entrepreneur in New Orleans. Bothered as a lawyer at the unfairness for the little guys, Scott founded zlien to even the $1 trillion construction playing field. He’s on a mission to kill liens, fix slow payment, and eliminate bad outcomes in construction payment. Headquartered in New Orleans, zlien now has more than 90 employees and is used by thousands of contractors and suppliers nationwide to make payments easier on billions in contract value each year. Scott has led zlien through two rounds of venture capital financing, raising over $16 million in outside investment from national venture capital firms like S3 Ventures, Altos Ventures and Brick & Mortar Ventures. Recognized by New Orleans City Business as an “Innovator of the Year” and part of their “Leadership in Law Hall of Fame,” Scott has been on the Silicon Bayou 100 list every year since 2014, is a winner of Idea Village & Jim Coulter’s IDEAPitch, is the ACG’s reigning Emerging Growth Company, and is a Junior Achievement Rising Star. Scott is a graduate of Brother Martin High School, Southern Methodist University (B.A.), and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (J.D.).
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About Levelset: Levelset is a platform that helps contractors get paid faster and more efficiently.
Howard Katzenberg
Founder & CEO of Glean analytics
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About Glean analytics: Glean unlocks the powerful data detailed in vendor invoices/receipts to surface relevant spend insights and drive spend accountability
Michael Reitblat
CEO & Co-Founder of Forter
Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Forter, the leading payment fraud prevention solution. Prior to founding Forter, Michael was the VP Product & International Operations at Pango Parking where he was in charge of the deployment and adoption of Mobile Wallet technologies worldwide. In 2008, before its acquisition by PayPal, Michael led Product at Fraud Sciences, where he faced some of the most challenging questions in the cyber security ecosystem. Michael’s fascination with online fraudsters began following a successful “self experimentation with the Internet” phase as a teenager and an even more successful period of service as an intelligence officer in the early days of the Israeli Cyber Command.
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Alon Shemesh
Co-Founder & Chief Analyst of Forter
Alon is an experienced Big Data Expert. He leads Forter’s Risk Analysis Division and proprietary know-how. Alon co-founded Forter after leading the integration of Fraud Sciences’ solution for PayPal, after they were acquired in 2008. He served as the head of Automation Analytics, creating a cutting edge,scalable fraud decision-making system for Fraud Sciences and PayPal. Alon received his bachelor’s degree in business and economics from The Open University in Tel Aviv.
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Liron Damri
President and Co-Founder of Forter
Liron is an experienced Fraud Prevention professional. He heads Forter’s overall Product and Business Operations.Liron co-founded Forter after serving at the leadership of PayPal’s risk organization in Tel Aviv. Prior to that he was the head of operations at Fraud Sciences,where he was responsible for behavioral analytics, taking an active role in building one of the most robust fraud detection systems in the world. Liron received his MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Vlad Shmunis
Founder, CEO, Chairman of RingCentral
Vlad Shmunis founded RingCentral in 1999 and launched RingCentral’s cloud business phone service in 2003. He developed the service based on the need he saw among businesses for an alternative to inflexible and expensive hardware-based phone systems. Since founding RingCentral, Shmunis has led the company in reimagining business communications. Today, the company empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses and their employees to work with unparalleled freedom and in imaginative new ways, via a wide variety of mobile and fixed line devices in traditional as well as dispersed work environments. Shmunis has more than 25 years of industry and management experience. Prior to launching RingCentral, he founded and served as the CEO of Ring Zero Systems, a desktop software communications company. After shipping more than 25 million copies of its Windows software through partnerships with leading PC manufacturers, Ring Zero Systems was acquired by Motorola. Shmunis was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Northern California Award finalist. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from San Francisco State University, and is a named inventor in a number of U.S. patents.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Sahil Gupta
CEO & Co-Founder of Onera
Sahil joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2010. In the summer of 2011, he moved to Silicon Valley to help start Bain Capital Ventures’ Palo Alto office. Sahil is a strong advocate of social content discovery and data-intensive platform services; therefore, he spends most of his energy with early-stage companies in consumer, mobile and social. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Sahil started Zodah, an Internet startup focused on improving consumer bill management. Zodah was a DogPatch Labs and First Growth Venture Network portfolio company and exited to Hearst Corporation in 2010. Prior to Zodah, Sahil worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
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About Onera: Onera is building the Onera Decision Engine—the cognitive operating system that harnesses AI to power the modern commerce supply chain.
Roland Ligtenberg
Co-Founder and SVP Growth & Innovation of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Reza Olfat
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Jorn Lyseggen
Founder & CEO of Meltwater
Jorn Lyseggen, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the Founder & CEO of Meltwater. Launched in his home country of Norway in 2001 with just a $15,000 investment, Jorn and his team have grown the company to become a global leader in media intelligence. Today, Meltwater has more than 1,500 employees in 55 offices across six continents, with more than 30,000 clients worldwide. Jorn released his first book, Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data, in October 2017. The book describes the emergence of a new software category that will leverage insights gleaned from the vast amount of external information available on the web to transform corporate decision-making.
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About Meltwater, Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST): Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Ivan Novikov
Founder & CEO of Wallarm
Ivan Novikov serves as an advisor at ElectroNeek.
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About Wallarm: End-to-end API Security for the Modern Teams
Stepan Ilyin
Co-Founder & COO of Wallarm
Stepan is a co-founder of Wallarm, Y Combinator-backed company, which provides AI-driven security for modern applications and APIs.
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About Wallarm: End-to-end API Security for the Modern Teams
Shreesha Ramdas
CEO & Co-Founder of Strikedeck
Shreesha’s an entrepreneurial executive with a track record of launching and growing products in competitive markets. He has demonstrated experience as a GM in the areas of product conception and development, growth hacking, go-to-market strategy and execution. Shreesha is currently VP of Corp Dev & Partnerships at CallidusCloud. Shreesha Ramdas was the co-founder & COO at LeadFormix, a marketing automation platform, where he raised the initial funding, built the company and contributed to a successful acquisition by CallidusCloud in January 2012. Prior to LeadFormix, Shreesha was a co-founder of OuterJoin, an online marketing services company and an early member at Yodlee, where he held the role of General Manager of Yodlee’s offshore development center in Bangalore, India.
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About Aavenir, AccuKnox, BuyerAssist.io, Cultivate, Enact Systems, Forbes Communications Council, Fullcast.io, Medallia, Metadata, Promethium, Revv, Rocketlane, Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Shabd Vaid
Co-Founder, CTO of Strikedeck
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About Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Daniel Saks
Founder & Co-CEO & President of AppDirect
Daniel Saks is the Co-CEO of AppDirect, which he founded in 2009 with Nicolas Desmarais. Daniel plays a key role in the growth and development of AppDirect, from attracting a leading team, to nurturing relationships with customers and partners. Daniel’s presentation at the Under the Radar conference in the spring of 2011 resulted in AppDirect winning “Best in Show,” earning coverage in Wall Street Journal. Daniel received a BA in political science from McGill University then studied finance and accounting at Harvard. Prior to AppDirect, Daniel worked at Viant Capital, a boutique tech investment bank. In his free time, Daniel enjoys traveling, attending hockey games, and studying contemporary architecture and impressionist paintings.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Chase Gilbert
Co-Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer of Built Technologies
Chase Gilbert is the CEO at Built Technologies, Inc.
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About Built Technologies: Built Technologies is an enterprise technology company that provides cloud-based construction lending software.
Andrew Sohr
Co-Founder – Director of Enterprise Accounts of Built Technologies
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About Built Technologies: Built Technologies is an enterprise technology company that provides cloud-based construction lending software.
Martin Gedalin
Founder & Partner of Lumia Capital
Martin is Founder of Lumia Capital, an expansion-stage VC partnering with leading tech companies in under-invested emerging markets and forward-thinking US companies targeting these markets to accelerate growth. Previously, Martin was one of five investment professionals at Focus Ventures, a technology-focused venture capital firm in Palo Alto with ~$850M under management and ~110 expansion-stage investments across three funds. Prior to Focus, Martin was a Product Manager at Oracle Corp., where he was responsible for core components of Fusion CRM, Oracle’s next generation CRM strategy, and a $1B+ product line. Prior to these roles, Martin was a management consultant for both Siebel Systems (Customer Strategy Team) and, post acquisition, Oracle (Insight Group), where he provided strategic recommendations across people, process and technology domains to Oracle/Siebel’s top global customers. Martin began his career in Corporate Strategy at NCR Corporation. Personally, Martin is also an adviser to a number of private companies and funds.
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About Lumia Capital: Expansion-stage VC firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European innovators expanding internationally for breakout growth.
Jose Vieitez
Co-Founder, Director and Portfolio Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators, The Farm Atlanta: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Stephen Groth
Co-Founder of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Ruzwana Bashir
Founder & CEO of Peek
Ruzwana Bashir is Co-founder & CEO of Peek.com. She is a travel junkie, having navigated her way through 40 countries. She previously worked at Gilt Groupe, Art.sy, the Blackstone Group and Goldman Sachs. Ruzwana has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and a BA in Economics from Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union.
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About Peek: Peek is a booking software and marketplace for delightful things to do such as wine tours, watersports, skydiving, and art classes.
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.
Bilal Aijazi
CTO and Co-Founder of Polly
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About Polly: Polly is a survey platform that makes it simple for anyone to engage with colleagues, capture feedback, and make more data-driven decisions.
Francis Duong
Co-Founder & CTO of Flexe
Francis has deep experience as a software engineer and a successful track record as an entrepreneur. Prior to co-founding FLEXE, Francis started and built Ignition Mobile, a Y-Combinator backed mobile analytics company, leading it to a successful exit in 2011. Earlier in his career, Francis spent several years at Microsoft as a Developer for Windows and a PM for Xbox.
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About Flexe: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
Karl Siebrecht
Co-Founder & CEO of Flexe
Karl is a seasoned technology executive, with leadership experience in both startups and large, global corporations. Prior to co-founding FLEXE, Karl was CEO of AdReady, a Seattle-based advertising technology company. He is also a founding Board member of EnergySavvy, a SaaS-based solution for energy efficiency management. Previously, Karl was President of Atlas at aQuantive, before its $6B acquisition by Microsoft, and earlier in his career he was a Manager at Bain & Company in Boston and a Diving Officer in the U.S. Navy.
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About EnergySavvy, Flexe, NetNavy: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
Edmond Yue
Co-Founder of Flexe
Edmond is an accomplished software engineer and entrepreneur with FLEXE being the third company that he has built with Francis. Edmond was Co-Founder and CTO of Ignition Mobile, a Y-Combinator backed mobile analytics company, leading it to a successful exit in 2011. No stranger to the Cloud, Edmond spent 5+ years as a software engineer on the founding teams of Microsoft Windows Azure and AWS.
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About Flexe: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
Austin Brooks
Co-Founder of Rentroom
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About Rentroom: Next generation software for property owners and tenants
Alex Britton
Co-Founder and CEO of Rentroom
Alex Britton is the co-founder and CEO of Rentroom. Prior to founding Rentroom as CEO, Alex worked as a growth product manager at Toast Inc. and Blue Apron. These positions assisted Alex in gaining a strong understanding of B2B and consumer software businesses. He has led software development, go-to-market strategy, and operations teams. Alex holds a B.A. in Entrepreneurship and Computer Science from NYU.
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About Rentroom: Next generation software for property owners and tenants
Howard Lerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.
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About Confide, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Higinio O. Maycotte
CEO and Co-Founder of Molecula
Higinio is CEO & co-founder at Molecula.
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About Molecula, Pilosa, YPO: Molecula closes the gap between data and decision, enabling organizations to unlock the power of real-time analytics and AI.
Adi Kunalic
President & Co-Founder of Opendorse
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About Opendorse: Opendorse operates the leading SaaS-enabled Marketplace in the athlete endorsement industry.
Blake Lawrence
CEO and Co-Founder of Opendorse
Blake Lawrence is the CEO and co-founder of Opendorse, the athlete endorsement company. More than 75,000 athletes use Opendorse to understand, build, and monetize their name, image, and likeness (NIL) value. Prior to Opendorse, Blake co-founded Hurrdat, a social media agency, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Over four years, Hurrdat grew from two to twenty-five employees, and was acquired in July 2014 by B2 Interactive. Prior to his journey as an entrepreneur, Blake was a member of the Nebraska football team. Lawrence was a highly recruited linebacker, who started at Linebacker in 2008 and 2009, before his career was cut short due to recurring concussions. Off the football field, Blake earned his marketing degree in just 2.5 years, and received his MBA from Nebraska in 2011.
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About Opendorse: Opendorse operates the leading SaaS-enabled Marketplace in the athlete endorsement industry.
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.
Aaron Frazin
Founder and CEO of Detective
Aaron Frazin is the Founder and CEO of Detective.io.
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About Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Dario Vergara
CTO & Co-Founder of LendingFront
Formerly SVP of technology for OnDeck. Most recently, VP of Technology for Bonobos, the largest apparel brand ever built on the web in the US.
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About LendingFront: Small business lending software platform for banks and other financial institutions
Jorge Sun
CEO & Co-Founder of LendingFront
Founding team member and Chief Credit Officer for OnDeck. Most recently, Head of Small Business Credit at Capital One Bank.
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About GATHER & SAVE, LendingFront: Small business lending software platform for banks and other financial institutions
Peter Brodsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Hyperscience
As Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Peter drives the strategy and direction of Hyperscience.
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About Hyperscience, Instinctiv: Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes.
Scott Britton
Co-Founder of Troops
Scott Britton is the co-founder of Troops. Prior to founding Troops, he also founded Life-LongLearner.com and handled Business Development in SinglePlatform. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Politics, Economics at Princeton University.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Greg Ratner
Co-Founder, CTO of Troops
Greg Ratner is co-founder and CTO of Troops.ai, a venture-backed company building artificial intelligence and automation for Sales and Customer Success teams.Greg is a serial entrepreneur focused on scalable, cutting-edge technology solutions and distributed systems. For over 15 years he managed teams and built technology solutions for startups, government, and fortune 500 companies. Greg leads engineering at Troops where systems process billions of Salesforce records to streamline process and provide real-time intelligence to over 1,000 companies.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Dave Garr
Co-Founder, SVP of Customer Experience of UserTesting
Specialties:A/B testing, conversion rate optimization, interactive marketing, market research, multivariate testing, product marketing, social networking, usability
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
Jennifer Bisceglie
Founder and CEO of Interos
Jennifer Bisceglie is the President and CEO of Interos Solutions, Inc. and Vigillence Inc., which are vendor and supply chain risk management (SCRM) companies that serve the US public, and global commercial, sectors. Interos is a leading provider of cyber security solutions and supply chain risk reduction to the Federal Government. Named the AT&T Innovator of the Year for its Global Threat Information Center (GTIC) ™ launched in 2015, Interos is renowned for its expertise in cyber security, supply chain risk management (SCRM) and network security. As such, Jennifer is a sought after expert on the impact of cyber risk and supply chain risk on US and global economies. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience in managing and mitigating risks in supply chains, Jennifer launched Vigillence in 2016, as the world’s leading supply chain risk research and advisory company. Vigillence provides a big data and analytics platform to proactively reduce supply chain threats for its global commercial clients by identifying risks based on each customer’s unique operational requirements and third-party partnerships. Vigillence partners with its customers to define their risk assessment posture based on organizational vulnerabilities related to supply chain vendors, partners and service providers; benchmark current risk profiles and provide “what if” scenario analyses; and provide its clients’ Boards, senior leadership and business managers with the knowledge required to make informed decisions on acceptable vendor risk exposure and how to allocate resources to mitigate it.
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About Interos: Interos helps companies manage risk and continuously monitor their supply chain and business relationships to avoid disruptions.
Scott Harris
Co-Founder | VP. Product Definition & UX of Onshape
Scott Harris is a Co-founder and the vice president of product definition and user experience at [Onshape](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/onshape-inc-#/entity), a full-cloud 3D CAD system. Previously,he co-founded and worked as the VP of new concepts at SolidWorks.
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About Onshape: Onshape is a product development platform that unites CAD, data management, collaboration tools, and real-time analytics.
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.
Patricia House
Co-Founder of C3 AI
Pat House is the Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman at C3 Energy. She co-founded and served as Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President of Siebel Systems. Patricia House is chairman of the Mary Mae Foundation and is a member of the board of directors of the Hewlett Foundation and The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Dan Siroker
Co-Founder & Chairman of Optimizely
Dan Siroker is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Optimizely. The inspiration for Optimizely came from Dan’s work as the Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential Campaign and Deputy New Media Director for the Presidential Transition. Before Optimizely, Dan co-founded an online math game for kids called CarrotSticks. Formerly, he was also a Product Manager for Google Chrome and AdWords. Dan graduated with Honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in Computer Science.
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Don Kingsborough
CEO&Founder of OneMarket
Don has been a serial entrepreneur for 30+ years and is Managing Director GM/VP Payments & Ventures at Capital One. He was formerly Head of Retail at PayPal, CEO of Worlds of Wonder and President of Atari. He was also the Founder and former CEO of Blackhawk Network. Don lives in Silicon Valley and likes to vacation in Hawaii.
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About OneMarket: OneMarket offers customer data management and activation that empowers mid-sized and emerging retailers to acquire new customers.
David Politis
Founder and CEO of BetterCloud
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About BetterCloud: The SaaS Operations leader: Transform employee experience, centralize data protection, and maximize operational efficiency.
Joseph Quan
CEOa and Founder of Knoetic
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About CPOHQ, Knoetic, Twine: Knoetic is the all-in-one platform built for Chief People Officers. Powerful people analytics & the world’s #1 CPO community (CPOHQ).
Gautham Viswanathan
VP of Product & Co‑Founder of Workato
Gautham created the first integrated middleware platform, BusinessWorks, that became the template for the more cloud integration platforms of today. Gautham was an early employee of TIBCO, where he held several leadership positions – engineering, product marketing & management, and corporate development. BusinessWorks powered TIBCO’s growth from a startup to one of the top names in enterprise software. After TIBCO, Gautham founded and was the CEO of two SaaS startups.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Vijay Tella
CEO & Co‑Founder of Workato
Vijay has led creation of market leading integration technologies for over 25 years. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world’s first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP, Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform in 2005.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Dimitris Kogias
Co-Founder and Software Engineer & Architect of Workato
Dimitris Kogias is the Co-Founder and Software Engineer & Architect at Workato.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Harish Shetty
VP of Engineering & Co‑Founder of Workato
Harish has extensive experience leading engineering teams and building highly scalable products. Prior to Workato, he led engineering at two SaaS companies and before that was Director of Engineering and Lead Architect at TIBCO and for products like BusinessWorks, ActiveMatrix and Tibbr.
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About iProfile, Thinkspeed, Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Ankit Somani
Co-Founder of AllyO
Ankit Somani is the Chief Product Officer at HireVue. He is responsible for leading the Product, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and I/O Psychology Teams. Before joining HireVue, Ankit co-founded AllyO, an innovative chatbot and conversational AI tool that was acquired by HireVue to help deliver personalized, automated conversations for high volume recruitment. He has 10+ years of Product Management and Software Engineering experience at Google and Oracle. Ankit holds an MS in Thermal-Fluid Sciences & Economic Decision Analysis from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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About AllyO, HireVue: AllyO tackles workplace engagement challenges, from hi to goodbye through the world’s first AI powered HR Communications Platform.
Bryan Mahoney
Co-Founder, CEO of Chord
Bryan started his career in Montreal, pursuing a degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship at McGill University. In 1998, during his sophomore year, he founded Dynamo, a digital design studio that would later become his full-time job with a team of thirty-five. Over the course of 15 years, Dynamo established itself as a go-to partner for venture-backed startups in the e-commerce space, including brands like Blue Bottle Coffee, Samsung, the Honest Company, and Glossier. After Glossier launched in 2014, Bryan was tasked with helping the New York-based company build out their own in-house tech team. He ended up taking on the job himself and now serves as their Chief Technology Officer. At Glossier, Bryan’s focus has shifted to overseeing an international team of developers and data analysts as they work to create a forward-thinking experience for customers and build a technology infrastructure from the ground up. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.
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About Chord: Chord offers a commerce-as-a-service software that provides businesses with technology and products to access meaningful data.
Ashish Bahl
Founder & CEO of KyckGlobal
Ashish Bahl is a proven FinTech entrepreneur who has founded, grown, and monetized significant ventures in the eInvoicing, debit routing, eCommerce, and home banking industries. Ashish’s current company, KyckGlobal, is a powerful SaaS-based payments platform that enables companies of all sizes to pay employees, contractors, and customers through more than a dozen payment types. Ashish holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About KyckGlobal: SaaS firm with a cloud-based platform featuring 15 integrated payment methods to streamline overhead and optimize the payee experience.
Scott McFarlane
Founder & CEO of Avalara
Scott co-founded Avalara in 2004 and today is responsible for the vision and strategic direction of the company. He has a long history of advancing ideas that shake up the status quo, going back to his college days when he partnered with his roommate to launch Lifecycle, the most popular computerized exercise bike of all time. Since then Scott oversaw development for AIRCOA, the largest independent hotel company in the U.S., and he has led and developed several companies including MetaInfo, a pioneering internet software firm that was ultimately acquired by Check Point.
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About Avalara: Avalara develops a platform that automates the major steps of tax compliance, all in the cloud.
Daniel Michaeli
Founder & CEO of Glia
Dan Michaeli is the CEO and Co-Founder of SaleMove, where he is responsible for everyday strategy and shaping business direction. A proponent for customer-centricity, Dan is the driving force behind SaleMove’s mission to meet or exceed the in-person customer experience online. Prior to SaleMove, he served as a consultant working with several top enterprises on pricing strategy. Dan is originally from Guatemala and is a proud graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
Carlos Paniagua
CTO & Co-Founder of Glia
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
Justin DiPietro
Co-Founder & COO of Glia
Justin DiPietro is Founder & COO at SaleMove.
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
Curtis Liu
Co-Founder, CTO of Amplitude
Curtis is an MIT grad with degrees in EECS and Mathematics. After happy days working at Google, he decided to start Sonalight, an effort to improve how people use voice to interact with their mobile devices. He likes to balance work with a dose of movies and television, and strongly believes in video games as art.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Spenser Skates
CEO and Founder of Amplitude
Spenser Skates is the CEO and Co-Founder of Amplitude.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Randy Chou
Founder and CEO of Nubeva
Randy Chou is the Founder and CEO of Nubeva. Randy’s experience spans 15 years of technical and management leadership in the security, networking, and application acceleration fields. Prior to co-founding Panzura, Randy was a member of the founding software team at Aruba Networks, where he managed the architecture and development of the company’s security software. The combination of his technical expertise and business acumen helped Aruba become the leader in the enterprise Wi-Fi security market. Prior to Aruba Networks, Randy led the development of SSL security and load balancing software at Alteon WebSystems. Randy holds a degree in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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About Nubeva: Nubeva is a cloud security software company that provides decryption solution for real-time, historical or on-demand decryption.
Jett McCandless
Co-Founder and CEO of project44
Jett McCandless is Founder and CEO of project44.
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About project44: Project44 is a logistics technology company that provides a visibility solution to span the entire shipment workflow.
