Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 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 York based Founder operating in the Mobile space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
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 Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Itai Tsiddon
Co-Founder of Lightricks
Itai Tsiddon was one of the 5 co-founders at Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn. He leads two deals a year, broadly ranging from 6-60m in size (early A to Pre IPO). Itai serves as a board member at Lightricks, Frame.io, Homesome, and Standard Bots and led Forter’s Series E pre IPO fundraise with Bessemer and Felix capital joining his TS as a solo capitalist.
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About Lightricks: Lightricks develops creativity tools that enable its users to craft and share visual content on mobile devices.
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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.
Christopher Cheung
Co-Founder of Boxed
Chris is a Co-Founder at Boxed; an mobile commerce startup focusing on delivering wholesale goods at wholesale prices for smartphones and tablets, as well as a co-founder and managing partner at Blackgate Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in leading-edge, early-stage technology and mobile companies. Prior to forming Boxed and Blackgate Ventures, Chris was Director of Game Design at social gaming giant Zynga and former Co-Founder at Astro Ape SGS (which was subsequently acquired by Zynga). Before pursing his entrepreneurial passions, he worked at a number of Fortune 500 companies in a variety of roles, but most recently at Goldman Sachs, before leaving to pursuing social gaming. Since he never sleeps, he has also pursued side businesses ranging from Korean fashion imports, eBay stores, print-on-demand apparel and web design services; all while maintaining his day job. Chris earned his Bachelor’s of Economics from The Johns Hopkins University. Currently in semi-retirement, his main interest is financing companies that may one day grant him immortality.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
William Fong
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Boxed
William Fong joined Boxed as CTO in 2013. Having developed an early love of programming, William has been coding since the age of 9. Prior to Blackgate Ventures, William was Co-Founder and CTO of Astro Ape Studios before being acquired by Zynga and becoming CTO of Zynga Mobile NY. William holds a Bachelors of Computer Science from Rutgers University.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Jared Yaman
Co-Founder, COO of Boxed
Prior to Blackgate Ventures, Jared was a corporate attorney at Proskauer before becoming a Co-Founder at Astro Ape Studios. Most recently, he was made upper level management at Zynga Mobile NY where he oversaw high profile mobile properties. Jared holds a J.D. from Fordham University and a Bachelor’s in Economics and Business from Michigan State University. Unbeknownst to most, Jared is actually Troy Aikman’s younger, stronger, better looking brother.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Oleg Tscheltzoff
Co-Founder & CEO of Fotolia
Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a global vision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).
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About 90 Seconds, Aircall, Birchbox, Bird, Calm, Carta, Customer.io, Dealroom.co, Doctrine, eFounders, Farfetch, Fotolia, Molotov TV, Opendoor, PandaDoc, PayFit, Robinhood, SimpliField, StarOfService, Stash Financial, talent.io, Tempow, WeWork: Fotolia is an image bank that offers a crowdsourced library, which includes royalty-free images, vectors, illustrations and video clips.
Artem Petakov
President and Co-Founder of Noom
Artem Petakov is the president and co-founder of Noom Inc. Prior to that, Artem co-founded WorkSmart Labs and served as CTO. He is also a former software engineer at Google.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Saeju Jeong
CEO & Co-Founder of Noom
A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Saeju has always an intense desire to help people. He sits on South Korea’s Ministry of Science & Technology’s steering committee and the board of Chonnam Hospital, South Korea’s largest private hospital.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
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.
Tyler Spalding
Co-Founder of Flexa
Tyler Spalding is currently a Co-Founder at Flexa, a blockchain payments company based in New York City. Tyler is the former Chief Technology Officer at Raise, the world’s largest gift card marketplace with over $1B in sales and $150M in venture funding. Tyler has more than 20 years of technology experience, has founded and sold three software companies, and is an active seed-stage investor in 25+ startups. He is an author to more than 50 technology patents and was previously an aerospace engineering faculty member at two universities. Tyler is also a proud former engineer for the United Space Alliance, the United States Air Force, NASA Mars Crew Module, and the NASA Space Shuttle Program.
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About Flexa: The fastest, most fraud-proof payments network in the world.
Trevor Filter
Co-Founder of Flexa
Trevor Filter is a Co-founder at Flexa. Prior to that, he was the Head of Product and Design of Raise and the Co-founder and Head of Product at Slide. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Flexa: The fastest, most fraud-proof payments network in the world.
Zachary Kilgore
Co-Founder of Flexa
Zachary Kilgore is the co-founder of Flexa. Prior to co-founding Flexa, Zachary served as an engineering manager at Raise. He also held positions at Slide, Warby Parker, ZKTK Design, and Hearst Digital Media.
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About Flexa: The fastest, most fraud-proof payments network in the world.
Arthur F. Muldoon
CEO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
Arthur Muldoon is CEO and Co-founder of ArcSpan Technologies. Previously, he was co-CEO of Amnet US and the CEO and Co-founder of Accordant Media, a leading technology-driven programmatic media specialist company. Accordant Media was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2016. Over the past 20 years, Art has carved out a digital media career launching innovative solutions to help marketers achieve better audience engagement. Earlier, Art was SVP, Global Data Platforms at Aegis Media; SVP of Client Services and Analytics at BzzAgent; and General Manager, Client Services, Avenue A | Razorfish. Art also led the launch of an e-commerce business at Corbis Images in Seattle and was a corporate strategy consultant in the Media, Entertainment and Telecoms group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles. Earlier, Art was a Corporate Finance Analyst at Lehman Brothers in NYC, focused on high tech. Art holds a BA from Trinity College (CT) and an MBA from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters.
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Garret Vreeland
CCO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
After spending many years at advertising agencies, Garret moved into ad sales at about the time the internet was coming of age. He sold his first banner in 1996 on moneymagazine.com (part of Time Inc’s Pathfinder initiative), and has since led sales teams at some great companies. These include premium publishers (Time Inc), portals (Lycos, Yahoo!), search (Looksmart), and performance networks (24/7 Real Media, Right Media and most recently Akamai/Acerno).
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Rishi Malhotra
Co-Founder & CEO of JioSaavn
Rishi Malhotra is Co-Founder and CEO of Saavn, India’s leading music streaming service. Rishi has led the company through significant and rapid user growth, while helping to secure partnerships with companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Shazam, T-Mobile, and Sonos. He is focused on driving the global Saavn team to deliver award-winning mobile products, big data systems for media, and industry-defining business innovation. Saavn is on track to become one of the largest streaming music companies in the world by 2017. Saavn is backed by leading institutional investors including Tiger Global, Bertelsmann Media, Liberty Media, Steadview Capital, and Mousse Partners. Previously, Rishi was VP, HBO On Demand and Multi-Platform for Home Box Office, Inc., where he pioneered HBO’s SVOD products, digital distribution, and original VOD content for many HBO franchises.
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About [212]Media, JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Shad Interligi
Founder of Wall Mural
Founder at Wall Mural
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About Wall Mural: Wall Mural is the first ever mural preview app for your mobile device.
Harry Kargman
Founder & CEO of Kargo
Harry founded Kargo in 2003, and over the past decade he has grown it from a small start-up shop to the leader in mobile brand advertising. In 2015, Kargo was recognized as one of the America’s fastest growing companies by Inc. magazine. Today, Kargo works with the world’s most prestigious media companies and brands to deliver high quality mobile brand advertising. Kargo’s technology and ad experiences are integrated into the sites and apps of more than 300 of the largest publishers, and its technology powers the campaigns of more than 200 of the most influential brands. Kargo has won more than 7 Mobi and OMMA awards for creative innovation. Harry’s experience building Kargo from the ground up gives him a deep understanding of the latest trends, consumer behavior, and the broader forces reshaping the media and advertising landscape. He holds over fifty patents related to Kargo’s technology and continues to drive the company to innovate around mobile advertising solutions, data products and programmatic technology. Harry is a frequent speaker at advertising and technology conferences including CES, IAB and Advertising Week, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Today Show, Advertising Age, The Wall Street Journal, NPR and dozens of other media outlets. Harry graduated with honors from Harvard College where he is now an advisor to young entrepreneurs through the Harvard Innovation Lab. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
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About Kargo: Kargo is the leader in mobile brand advertising.
Jackson Vaughan
CEO & Co-Founder of Whim
CEO and Co-Founder of Whim
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Rohan Pathak
Co-Founder of Whim
CMO and Co-founder at Whim.
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Sharad Devarajan
Co-Founder & CEO of Graphic India
Sharad Devarajan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Graphic India Pte. Ltd. since 2011. For Sharad, Graphic India is the culmination of his lifelong dream to launch characters, heroes and stories that tap into the unique creativity and culture of India but appeal to audiences worldwide. In the same way the West has created superheroes or Japan launched anime, Graphic India is transforming the perception of India in animation from being an ‘outsourcer” to being ‘the source.’ Sharad overseas all aspects of the business and has had nearly two decades of experience in the character entertainment industry. Sharad is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Liquid Comics, an entertainment company that uses the medium of graphic novel storytelling to develop original content for various media platforms. Sharad was previously the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of Virgin Comics LLC a company he co-founded, with Sir Richard Branson, authors Deepak Chopra, Gotham Chopra and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. Sharad is also a Producer / Executive Producer on a number of theatrical live-action film and television projects in development including The Leaves with Summit Entertainment; Ramayan 3392AD with Mandalay Entertainment; The Sadhu with producer Mark Canton (‘300’ ‘Immortals’); Dominion: Dinosaurs Versus Aliens with filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld (‘Men in Black’ trilogy); Coming of Rage, with filmmaker Wes Craven (‘Scream’); Gamekeeper, with filmmaker Guy Ritchie (‘Sherlock Holmes’); and Marked, with Emmy-Award Winning writer James Manos Jr. (Sopranos, Dexter); Devarajan also worked with filmmaker John Woo (Mission Impossible 2; Face Off) as Executive Producer on the animated web series, “John Woo Presents: 7 Brothers. In 2010, Sharad led a project with the Open Hands Initiative, to bring together a group of American and Middle Eastern students with disabilities to work together and create a new superhero that reflected their shared challenges & values. The superhero, “Silver Scorpion,” received worldwide acclaim for promoting advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities in the Middle East. President Clinton honored the students at the Clinton Global Initiative, stating that the comic book “will help to establish trust and understanding between cultures, to empower young people with disabilities.” In 2004, Sharad worked with Marvel as the creator of a new reinvention of Spider-Man as an Indian boy growing up in Mumbai, transforming “Peter Parker” into “Pavitr Prabhakar”. Unlike traditional translations of western characters into foreign markets, the new series, “Spider-Man: India” was heralded as one of the industry’s first “trans-creations.” For his activities, Sharad was featured as CNNfn’s ‘Maverick in The Morning’ and covered in numerous media including WSJ, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Fox News, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air. He has been a speaker at various events including, TEDX Gateway, Fortune Magazine’s Global Forum, FICCI and Harvard Business School. Sharad holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MBA from Columbia University where he is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School teaching, Media Marketing and Entrepreneurship; Transmedia & Transcreation; and Just Capital & Cause Driven Marketing.
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Graphic India, Liquid Comics: Mobile Content & Character Entertainment Company
Maurice Harary
Founder and CEO of Fluz
Maurice is a Founder of the Fluz App. He is a serial entrepreneur with a 10-year background in e-commerce. He currently manages over 20 e-commerce sites in the B2B and B2C environment, ranging from interactive learning-based experiences to price-competitive marketplace trading sites. Experience in all areas of e-commerce sites, ranging from custom e-commerce software development to operational planning. He has extensive experience in fashion eCommerce and marketplace selling.
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About Fluz: Reinventing cashback to give you more. Get paid when you shop + when your friends shop. Earn Cashback Forever.
Kuty Shalev
Founder of Clevertech
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About Clevertech: Clevertech is a custom software and app development company that solves hard problems. Business & systems integration.
Andrew Boryk
Co-Founder and CTO of Lunchbox Technologies
Co-founder at Lunchbox Technologies.
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About Lunchbox Technologies, Tapt: Lunchbox Technologies offers digital marketing and ordering solutions for brick and mortar restaurants.
Elias Guerra
Founder & CEO of Popwallet
Elias is the Founder and CEO of Popwallet, a mobile wallet marketing automation platform.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
Coley Parry
CEO and Founder of FriendHealth
Coley Parry is the Founder & CEO of FriendHealth.
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About FriendHealth: FriendHealth is a risk-bearing provider that deploys multidisciplinary care teams and proprietary technology to bring health home.
Andy Ellwood
Co-Founder & President of Basket
Andy Ellwood is cofounder and president of Basket, the first ever shopper powered smart shopping list and grocery business intelligence platform. Prior to Basket, Andy ran Business Development for Waze until their acquisition by Google in 2013 and before that, for Gowalla until their acquisition by Facebook in 2011. Andy is also cofounder of Exosphere, a learning and problem solving community headquartered in Catalonia, Spain. Andy is a graduate of Texas A&M University and serves as an officer for the New York Aggies alumni club, most recently as President of the club for the past two years. Andy frequent speaker, contributor, and serves as an advisor to early stage companies around the world. For more of his adventures, follow along on Twitter: @andyellwood.
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About Basket: Basket believes you should never overpay for groceries and is the largest community of Shoppers working together to save time and money.
Thomas Pasquet
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Ogury
Thomas Pasquet is an entrepreneur and business angel within the Digital Advertising market. After graduating from Grenoble Ecole de Management and a Master entrepreneur HEC, he co-founded the company BeeAd. BeeAd was the first outstream Adnetwork with innovative formats and was sold to e-buzzing group (Teads). After developing BeeAd in Europe (Uk, Italy, Spain, Germany), he left e-buzzing with his business partner Jean. BeeAd is now making around 50 million revenue worldwide. After this experience, they created Ogury Ltd, a British company focused on mobile advertising with a technology that allows the advertiser to chase new clients.
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About Ogury: Ogury is building a world of highly effective and sustainable advertising, anchored in consumer privacy protection.
Lloyd Gladstone
Founder, Chief Operating Officer of Prong
Founder of Prong.
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About Crush Roulette, Prong: Prong is a consumer electronics company that is dedicated to designing and manufacturing innovative accessories for electronic devices.
Chris Stang
Co-Founder & CEO of The Infatuation
Chris Stang is the Co-Founder & CEO of The Infatuation,and also serves as CEO of Zagat. Since its inception in 2009, Stang has been the architect of The Infatuation’s editorial voice, creative vision, and marketing strategy. Today his role still encompasses all those things, but also includes pushing the company forward into new arenas, including the development of The Infatuation’s EEEEEATSCON food festival, and leading the company’s recent acquisition of Zagat from Google. He was nominated in 2015 for a James Beard Award for Humor Writing, and in 2019 the Financial Times called him “arguably the most influential restaurant reviewer in America.” Prior to taking on The Infatuation full time, Chris was the Vice President of Marketing at Atlantic Records, working closely with many of the label’s biggest acts including Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Skrillex, Gnarls Barkley, and the Panic! At The Disco.
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About The Infatuation, Zagat: The Infatuation is a website, app, newsletter, and recommendation platform that helps users find restaurants for every situation.
Andrew Steinthal
Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer of The Infatuation
Steinthal is the quarterback of The Infatuation sales and partnerships team, using his skill set as a former music business publicist to build deep, meaningful relationships with like minded brands such as American Express, Samsung, PAIGE, Anheuser-Busch,Whole Foods, Jameson, Airbnb, Delta and more. Steinthal was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale, where he still returns quite often to visit the Candlelight Inn and get dirty on a big sloppy bowl of wings. He’s scared of cheese, hates mushrooms, and refuses to eat olives. His true food passions include cereal, ice cream, and chocolate chip cookies. Weird, we know. Prior to going full time Infatuation, Steinthal was the VP of PR at Warner Bros. Records. His dream would be to own the Knicks some day.
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About The Infatuation, Zagat: The Infatuation is a website, app, newsletter, and recommendation platform that helps users find restaurants for every situation.
Nick Ganju
Co-Founder of Zocdoc
Nick Ganju is a founder at ZocDoc and leads strategic initiatives that address some of the company’s most impactful opportunities. He helped build ZocDoc because he believes that the power of technology can bring about a more efficient healthcare system. He has extensive experience in product development, database management and site architecture, including having personally built the earliest iterations of ZocDoc and directly overseeing its development for many of its first years Prior to ZocDoc, Nick worked as the CTO of cfX, where he oversaw the design and implementation of financial software used by several Fortune 100 Wall Street firms. A Trilogy Development Alumnus, Nick previously lived in Silicon Valley. There, he played a pivotal role in the architecture and development of eBoodle (later acquired by BizRate), and in 2002 founded his first company, called Mixonic. He remained at Mixonic as the architect, manager, and lead programmer until moving to New York. Nick was awarded an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. He also has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He first met ZocDoc founder and CEO Cyrus Massoumi when the two shared a desk at Trilogy Software. Nick was born and raised in Chicago, and currently resides in New York. When he’s not working, the former Bay Area Amateur Billiards Champion can be found fronting his semi-professional cover band.
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About Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Oliver Kharraz
CEO & Co-Founder of Zocdoc
Oliver Kharraz, MD, is CEO and founder of Zocdoc. Oliver is the most recent doctor in a 300-year family tradition. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, Oliver has accrued comprehensive experience effecting change and building efficiency in large scale healthcare organizations using information technology. Prior to Zocdoc, Oliver was an Associate Principal at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. During his seven-year tenure at McKinsey & Co., Oliver developed and implemented new patient utilization models for the national health services of a number of governments and major hospital chains. In 1994, Oliver built and sold his first business – a forerunner of early internet software. He later became a resident doctor at the clinic of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he earned an MD and a Doctorate in Neuroscience. Oliver also has a Masters Degree in Philosophy from the Jesuit College of Philosophy in Munich. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Born in Germany, Oliver immigrated to the U.S. during his work for McKinsey & Co. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and their twin daughters.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Ned Kenney
Co-Founder & CEO of Laughable
Finance/biz dev background + tech nerdery + comedy fanaticism + millennial mandate to ‘do what I love’ –> starting Laughable. If you like comedy or podcasts, you should download our iOS app here: laughable.com/download _ _ _ The evidence is building that we’ve built something special: – 92% of our 275+ reviews are for 5 stars — a higher percentage than that of any other app focused on comedy or podcasts. – Our average user spends 3.5 hours per week listening to podcasts and 25 minutes per week directly engaging with our UI (i.e. tapping, typing, swiping, etc.). – Apple has featured us in the App Store multiple times, including in the ‘New Apps We Love’ section of the App Store homepage, an honor reserved for only a few hundred apps each year out of of more 2m+ iOS apps total. _ _ _ Other Links: – Android users can sign up to be notified when we have an app ready for them: laughable.com/android – We recently announced Laughable 2.0, which allows you to subscribe not only to podcast series, but also to individual artists. You can read more about 2.0 here: laughable.com/blog/april2017announcements – More on our long-term vision for Laughable: laughable.com/blog/helloworld – The ‘Unified Theory of Laughable’: laughable.com/blog/unifiedtheory – My thoughts about the future of comedy and podcasting: laughable.com/blog/nkthoughts16 – An FAQ for podcasters and comedians: laughable.com/artist-resources Instagram: @nedkenney Email: n@laughable.com
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About Laughable: A better way to discover comedians and podcasts
Jorge Perdomo
Inventor, Co-Founder of goTenna
Jorge leads the expansion of goTenna’s business into professional markets. Earlier on, Jorge headed up the product team. He previously worked as a data analyst and solutions architect.
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About goTenna, Lima Consulting Group, Lima Consulting Group: GoTenna is advancing universal access to connectivity by building intelligent and scalable mobile mesh networks.
Ben Anderson
Co-Founder and CEO of Amino Apps
Benjamin Anderson is a co-founder and CEO at Amino Apps.
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About Amino Apps: Amino Apps enables people to discover, develop, and express their interests and passions.
Yin Wang
Co-Founder and CTO of Amino Apps
Yin Wang is a Founder at Amino Apps company.
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About Amino Apps, Narvii: Amino Apps enables people to discover, develop, and express their interests and passions.
Maximus Yaney
CoFounder & CEO of Kangaroo
Maximus Yaney is a disruptor, entrepreneur, engineer, and avid inventor. A serial dreamer and company builder, Maximus is Co-Founder and CEO of Kangaroo.
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About Ellis Carpet Cleaning, Kangaroo: Kangaroo is an electronics company that provides simple home security systems.
Jeremy Levy
Co-Founder & CEO of Indicative
Mr. Jeremy Levy co-founded Indicative, Inc. in 2013 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Levy co-founded meetMoi, LLC and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Levy oversaw meetMoi’s technical architecture and engineering. Prior to meetMoi, he worked for Morgan Stanley, where he helped design and build the content management, workflow and trade approval systems. He has over 10 years of experience in the full life-cycle of software development ranging from design to execution. Prior to meetMoi, Mr. Levy served as software architect working in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance. He worked for Pfizer, where he designed and implementED its Intranet portal for its 12,000 person sales force. He began his career as a developer at Joltage, an infrastructure services business. Mr. Levy holds a BS from Syracuse University.
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About Deciding by Data Podcast, Indicative: SaaS company that provides behavioral analytics solutions.
Sharron Battle
Founder & CEO of Derbywire
Sharron Battle is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of selfiepay and Derbywire.
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About Derbywire, selfiepay: Derbywire is a mobile social marketplace allowing individuals to store, sell, and buy digital content.
Michael Jaconi
Co-Founder and CEO of Button
Michael Jaconi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Button, the mobile commerce platform that maximizes the value of every tap. Jaconi formerly served as the CEO of Rakuten Loyalty and Executive Officer of parent company Rakuten. Michael helped build Rakuten Loyalty from a fledgling state to a multi-million dollar business in less than two years and led Rakuten’s $100M investment in Pinterest, helping bolster Rakuten’s position as one of the most innovative and aggressive global internet companies. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies and has been a lifelong entrepreneur. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten Loyalty, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies in Washington, D.C. and served in a variety of capacities within various political campaigns.
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Siddhartha Dabral
Co-Founder and Vice President of Platform Engineering of Button
Co-Founder at Button
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Jay Bregman
Founder and CEO of Thimble
Jay Bregman is the Founder & CEO of Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Eugene Hertz
Founder / CTO of Thimble
Eugene Hertz is founder & CTO at Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Ajay Yadav
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Roomi
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About Dada Room, Forbes, Forbes Real Estate Council, Roomi: Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions.
Allon Bloch
Co-Founder and CEO of K Health
Allon Bloch is the CEO and Co-founder of K Health. Previously he served as the CEO of Vroom, the largest online car retailer in the U.S, Co-CEO of Wix, the world’s leading website publishing platform, and CEO of mySupermarket, a digital platform that empowers consumers to find the best prices for their groceries. Allon is also a former venture capitalist, serving as a Venture Partner with Greylock’s Europe/Israel fund and a General Partner at JVP. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and is based in New York.
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About K Health: K Health is a data-driven digital primary care system that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.
Val Katayev
Founder & Managing Partner of MobileFuse
Val Katayev is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led four successful startups to hyper-growth centered around digital media in display, mobile, music, search and data. Two of these tech companies, ToneMedia (now Bandsintown Amplified) and ToneFuse resulted in being acquired by Lagardère Group. In addition to success in tech, Val is a pioneer in the Marketplace Lending space as he later partnered with Prime Meridian Capital Management to help the firm grow it’s AUM from $5M to $500M in 3 years. Operating and growing with capital efficiency is where Val excels. This management style generated over $100M through profits and exits, all before taking any venture capital. While at ToneMedia, Katayev grew it to a top 3 music property according to Comscore and developed ToneTargeting, a patent pending tech that evaluates consumer demo, buying habits and hobbies based on musical tastes. In 2009, Katayev founded ToneFuse, which he grew to become the world’s largest ringtone marketing platform. Also in 2009, Katayev co-founded and laid the early foundation for MobileFuse, one of the leading mobile advertising companies that he still oversees. In 2001, Katayev founded Poise Media, an industry leader in performance and paid search marketing for 800+ clients including eBay, VistaPrint and Rhapsody, while still attending Baruch College. These days Val is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies. As always on the lookout for the next big project to dedicate himself to.
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About Jocalio, MobileFuse, Poise Media, Poise Ventures, Prime Meridian Capital Management: MobileFuse is a mobile-first ad network offering advanced targeting and ad serving solutions to marketers.
Laurence Zimmerman
Founder/CEO of Landover Wireless Corp.
Laurence Zimmerman has been successfully engaged in the global wireless telecommunications industry since 1991. He has over 25 years of experience building, strategically planning, and investing in growth companies in the telecom industry. Laurence is an experienced spectrum license holder who has acquired and developed national and regional footprints of 38 GHz, 3.5 GHz, 2.6 GHz and 1600 MHz/MMDS licenses and developed strategic relationships creating additional value in the spectrum assets. Laurence was the Founder, Principal, and Board Member of two Nasdaq-listed companies: Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (now Fiber Tower) and National Wireless Holdings Inc. Laurence was an early seed investor and one-time largest individual shareholder of Nasdaq-traded Winstar Communications (now StraightPath), the largest 38 GHz last-mile broadband solution in the US. Laurence founded Landtel, a European broadband wireless provider which won spectrum licenses in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and several Eastern European countries, and built high-speed internet access on 3.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz. Laurence was the co-founder and control shareholder of Bazillion, Inc., one of the first nationwide toll-quality VoIP service providers in the US addressing the residential market. Laurence re-entered the telecom market in 2007, pursuing opportunities driven by the accelerating demand for mobile bandwidth, emerging technologies, and spectrum scarcity. In April 2008, Laurence founded Landover Wireless to build a nationwide mobile broadband platform utilizing the 600 MHz spectrum band.
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About Landover Wireless Corp.: Landover Wireless is a mobile broadband operator building nationwide services for enterprise customers.
William McClelland
Co-Founder & Partner of Elizabeth Street Ventures
Co-founder & Partner at Elizabeth Street Ventures, an early stage investment firm focused on the digital consumer and next generation brands Co-founder of Bambike, a bamboo bicycle manufacturer and tour operator with an environmental & social mission based in the Philippines Prior to founding Elizabeth Street, I was a Partner at Grace Beauty Capital, a Managing Director/Portfolio Manager at Ironwood Capital Management and a Tech-Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers Investor @ Bambike, Birchbox, Costa Brazil, Current, Eloquii, Events.com, Glamsquad, High Court, MM. LaFleur, Parachute Home, Perch Interactive, Pixlee, Primary.com, Ringly, Rothy’s, SKU IQ, Sourceeasy, Supergoop!, ThirdLove, Trendalytics, Vengo. Graduated from Yale University with a BA double major in Economics and Anthropology.
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About Elizabeth Street Ventures: We are an early stage investment firm focused on the digital consumer and next generation brands that improve daily life
Tyler Faux
Co-Founder & CEO of Supergreat
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About Supergreat: Supergreat is a beauty community of real people reviewing the beauty products that work for them.
Dan Blackman
Co-Founder of Supergreat
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About Supergreat: Supergreat is a beauty community of real people reviewing the beauty products that work for them.
Dr Andrew Botham
Co-Founder and CSO of TestCard Ltd
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About TestCard Ltd: TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Stepan Pachikov
Founder, board member, СEO of Evernote
Stepan Pachikov is the Co-Founder of ParaGraph Intl., Parascript, Evernote Corp. among other software companies which contributed heavily to the development of Handwriting recognition and VRML technologies. From 1989 to 1997, Stepan worked at the ParaGraph Intl. in Moscow, Russia; a company which dealt with handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton. In 1992 Stepan opened the US branch of ParaGraph in Silicon Valley, CA, where he created and distributed software called Calligrapher for handwritten input on tablets and touchscreens. From 1997 to 1998 Stepan served as Vice President and established a Pen&Internet division of Silicon Graphics. Stepan earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Moscow State University in 1975.
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About Evernote, Parascript: Evernote is a suite of software and services that allow users to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms.
Jeff Krahel
CEO & Co-Founder of Playbook
Founder at Fitner Media.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Michael Wojcieszek
Co-Founder & CTO of Playbook
Michael Wojcieszek is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Jeff Krahel
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbook
Jeff Krahel is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Edrizio De La Cruz
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Arcus
Edrizio De La Cruz is Founder at Regalii.
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About Arcus: Arcus is a payments-as-a-service platform, fueling smarter, faster, integrated, and more accessible financial services.
Shawn Melamed
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiral
Shawn Melamed is a serial fintech entrepreneur that founded Spiral. He is the former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. He also founded software company Correlix, which was acquired by TSA, and led StrikeNet to its M&A with TMX Group.
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About Spiral: Spiral is a provider of a banking solution for the charitable sector.
John S. Shriber
Co- Founder & CEO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Aaron Albert
Co-Founder/CEO of Mine’d
Co-Founder/CEO at Mine’d
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About Mine’d: The Emotional Network – Daily, live guided emotional health sessions
Ashwini Anburajan
Founder & CEO of Social Data Collective
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About Social Data Collective: Social Data Collective allow consumers to trade data from a variety of sources for high quality products and services offered.
Tarik Sansal
Founder & CEO of Romio
Tarik Sansal is an internet entrepreneur. He is currently the founder and CEO of Romio, a smart social real estate search engine which leverages neighborhood networks (Romio is going live shortly). Previously, Tarik was the founder of onTargetJobs.com, currently #3 vertical job site behind Dice and Linkedin. Tarik created the original strategy for onTargetJobs.com and assembled the original management team by bringing in Allen Paschal as CEO and Curt Thompson as CFO. onTargetJobs.com is a Warburg Pincus backed company (WarburgPincus.com). Prior, Tarik started InvestmentPositions.com, a job site focused on recruitment of investment professionals which evolved into RecruitmentBox, a multi vertical recruitment technology provider to vertical publishers. Tarik started his careers in investments. He was the 1st investment analyst at Moon Capital (www.MoonCapital.com), the emerging markets hedge fund. He is passionate about leveraging socially conscious internet ventures to make a positive social impact. He also has ideas around new alternative investment models which leverage a socially conscious approach to deliver superior returns to investors. Tarik wrote white papers which were published and reference in financial media such as The Financial Times.
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About Romio: Romio let’s you book “trusted” local services (Housekeeper, Runner, Dog Walker…) through recommendations from local experts and friends
Brian M. Fenty
CEO & Co-Founder of TodayTix
Brian has led and managed varied private investments across a broad range of industries, focusing on product and talent. He is an active adviser to start-ups, growth stage companies and management teams. Previously an MD at Hamilton Investment Partners. Currently, Brian serves on the Board of The Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he received his Bachelors degree in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
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About TodayTix: TodayTix is the premier digital gateway to shows, arts, and cultural experiences.
Merritt F. Baer
President & Co-Founder of TodayTix
Merritt started his career in mergers and acquisitions at Lazard, before moving to Europe to lead the primary inventory division at viagogo, the world’s largest ticket marketplace. He became a Broadway producer in 2010 (The Merchant of Venice), and later produced Death of a Salesman (Tony Award Winner) and Romeo and Juliet. In 2012, he teamed up with his life-long friend, Brian Fenty, to launch TodayTix.
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About TodayTix: TodayTix is the premier digital gateway to shows, arts, and cultural experiences.
Samer Hamadeh
Founder & CEO of Zeel
Samer is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which he joined in January 2010. Samer is currently founder & CEO of Zeel.com. Relaunched in December 2012, Zeel gives consumers the power to book same-day, in-home massage appointments via app or website in under a minute. Prior to that, Samer Hamadeh was co-founder and CEO of Vault.com, the most trusted name in career information, which was sold in October 2007 to Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a New York-based media-and-communications private-equity firm. Before co-founding Vault, Samer was an associate at the Los Angeles management consulting firm LEK Consulting, where he focused on corporate and business strategy. Prior to that, Samer co-founded and managed a customized-textbook printing company, worked at the Chevron Corporation, and co-authored The Internship Bible and America’s Top Internships (Random House/Princeton Review). Samer sits on the board of the non-profit PeaceWorks Foundation and is a board observer, angel investor, and/or advisor in two dozen early-stage companies, including GrubHub, SalesCrunch, Insidr.com, Splurgy, and PublicStuff. Samer is also a mentor at several accelerators, including Blueprint Health, NYCSeedStart, and First Growth Venture Network, as well as a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Georgetown McDonough School’s Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. A David Rockefeller Fellow, Samer holds a BS in chemistry and an MS in chemical engineering from Stanford University.
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners, One Voice Movement, Venture for America, Zeel: Zeel delivers on-demand massage from vetted therapists.
Matt Bailey
Founder and CEO of GameOn
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About GameOn: The future of engaging superfans. If it’s on, it’s on.
Heath Ahrens
Founder and CEO of Talkz
Heath Ahrens is the founder of iSpeech, a text-to-speech (TTS) and speech recognition (ASR) provider. In 2009, Ahrens pioneered a new solution to distracted driving, DriveSafe.ly®, an award winning mobile app downloaded over 20 million times. DriveSafe.ly® reads text messages and emails aloud in real time and allows voice response, hands-free. In addition to winning the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show app competition, DriveSafe.ly® won the 2010 Mashable Award for Best Mobile App. The leading distracted driving application has been written about in Consumer Reports, Wall Street Journal, major tech blogs such as TechCrunch and VentureBeat and featured on CNN, CNET, ABC, and FOX. To date, iSpeech apps have received over 30 million downloads. In 2010, Heath was named to NJBIZ’s “40 under 40”. Ahrens has spoken about speech technology and distracted driving at SpeechTEK 2011, CTIA 2010, Mobile Voice Conference 2010 and 2011 and TEDx. He most recently gave the keynote address at the NJTC 2011 Regional Commercialization Conference. Ahrens continues to grow iSpeech®, delivering human quality speech and recognition to developers and businesses through simple APIs and SDKs. The iSpeech Cloud has been used over a billion times. Bringing speech everywhere through partnerships with developers and Fortune companies, iSpeech’s mission remains: “Speech-enable the Web and the world.”
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About iSpeech, Talkz: Talkz provides text and voice into every message.
Jeff Chen
Co-Founder of Pixlee
Cofounder at Pixlee TurnTo. MIT ’12, Facebook ’12, RSI ’07. Jeff is currently based in the United States.
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About Pixlee: Pixlee is a user-generated content marketing platform that helps brands to market and sell by using real customer photos and videos.
David Lighton
Founder & CEO of SendFriend
David Lighton is a CO-Founder of Lithium Finance.
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About Lithium Finance, SendFriend, Yale University: SendFriend leverages the blockchain to make remittance transactions less expensive, faster, and more secure.
Michael Provenzano
Co-Founder/ CEO of Vistar Media
CEO & Co-Founder of Vistar Media
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About BrandVerge, Vistar Media: Vistar Media turns movement data into actionable insights about consumer behavior.
Gabriel Savit
Co-Founder of Runway
Gabriel Savit is the Co-Founder at Runway.
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About Runway: Air traffic control for mobile app releases.
Samir Arora
Founder and CEO of Sage Digital
Samir Arora is an American entrepreneur, inventor and investor. He is best known as a veteran of Apple Computer and a serial founder, investor and CEO in Silicon Valley with a passion to lead team of incredible people to perform the impossible. He is listed as one of the 100 Internet Pioneers along with Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen and others, and as the 21 people that shaped the World Wide Web at the 1st Web Innovators Awards by CNET. Samir started his career at Apple, and currently is the founder & Group CEO of Sage Digital Corp and serves as a Managing Partner of the venture firm Information Capital. At Sage, Samir is building a platform for experts, publishers and businesses: Sage Plus for Experts currently is an invite-only platform or experts, talent and celebrities and their teams. He was the CEO of Mode Media /Glam Media and founder and CEO of one of the first web site building platform company NetObjects.
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About Foodie Top 100, Information Capital LLC, Mode Media Japan, Project Bento, Sage Digital, Woodside Incubator: Sage Digital is a AI-driven platform for verified experts to manage their online presence
Zuben Mathews
CEO & Co-Founder of Brigit
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About Brigit: A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Deena (Gianoncelli) Fox
Founder & CEO of Brightfox
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About Brightfox: Brightfox is the world’s first talent experience platform.
Adarsh Alphons
Founder and CEO of Wardrobe
Adarsh Alphons is the founder and CEO of Wardrobe. Prior to Wardrobe, Adarsh founded ProjectArt—currently the nation’s largest art school, without owning a single building. Adarsh’s expertise in catalyzing underutilized resources into productivity, building asset-light organizations and ability to bring self-interested partners together for a common cause made ProjectArt a leader in its field and a nationally-scaled enterprise. He is a CNN Hero, Columbia University Community Scholar and a 40 Under 40 in Global Art Business.
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About Wardrobe: Wardrobe is a peer-to-peer luxury clothing rental app focused on sustainability.
Jeremy Friedman
Founder, CEO of Spiral Connect
Jeremy is the Founder and CEO at Spiral Connect. Prior to that, he was the SVP of Schoology at PowerSchool and the Founder and CEO of Schoology. He is a recognized education technology thought leader and frequently sought speaker at industry events. Jeremy was selected as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Education. He co-founded Schoology while an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis earning his BA in Economics.
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About Spiral Connect: Spiral Connect is an app that is useful for stores a person’s personal information.
Stephane Guez
CTO and Co-Founder of Dalet
Stephane Guez is the CTO and Co-Founder at Dalet.
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About Dalet: Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Vatch Vartanian
Co-Founder of GiftsApp, Inc.
Serial Entrepreneur, PhD in Business, 20y+ experience in retail business, finance & HR management
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About GiftsApp, Inc.: GiftsApp is a social gifting app
Dmitry Koltunov
Co-Founder & CTO of ALICE
Dmitry Koltunov is a Co-Founder and CTO at ALICE. He is also Founding Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners and Founder and CEO at Collective Catalyst. Mr. Koltunov is a former CTO at Novus Partners and Software Architect/Developer at Morgan Stanley. Dmitry received a BA in Economics and a BSE in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About ALICE, Collective Catalyst, Startup Leadership Program: ALICE connects every department of a hotel with one platform for all staff communication and guest requests.
Justin Effron
Co-Founder & CEO of ALICE
Justin Effron is the Co-Founder and of ALICE.
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About ALICE: ALICE connects every department of a hotel with one platform for all staff communication and guest requests.
Christopher Grewe
CEO & Founder of American Prison Data Systems
Chris is an entrepreneur with a passionate belief in the power of education to change lives for the better. Chris has more than 25 years of experience leading start-up, turnaround, and mature educational publishing businesses to substantial revenue growth and profitability. He co-founded and was CEO of the Princeton Review in Japan, and has worked since in senior business development and publishing roles at Scholastic, Kids Discover, Triumph Learning, Troll Communications, and MetaMetrics.
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About American Prison Data Systems: American Prison Data Systems utilizes advances in edtech to help make quality education more accessible to incarcerated learners.
Philip Eytan
Co-Founder of Pager
Philip Eytan is a co-founder at Pager.
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About Pager, Voyager: Virtual care technology platform that provides communication, collaboration, navigation, and care coordination solutions.
Sean Engelking
Co-Founder and CEO of Starship
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About Starship: Starship is mobile health savings account (HSA) with automated investing built for humans.
Boris Abaev
Co-Founder of Bidease
Co-Founder @bidease Investment advisor @betastagecapital Board member @rocket10 Father of 3 and an Entrepreneur, Angel investor – Love Startups and building them!
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About Bidease, Cashsquare, Rocket10: Bidease is a mobile DSP that provides advertisers with access to the entire mobile ecosystem through mobile publishers and exchanges.
Nikesh Desai
Founder & CEO of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Nikesh is a founder and CEO of InvestingChannel. As CEO, he leads the company’s overall strategic direction. Nikesh and Bob started the consultancy Giant Step Strategies which served as the initial underpinning of InvestingChannel. They successfully helped major financial media companies with their ad strategies which created the demand and impetus for InvestingChannel. He has been the key figure in building the largest exclusive consortium of financial destinations at InvestingChannel. Prior to building Giant Step Strategies and InvestingChannel, Nikesh served as the Vice President of Business Development at TheStreet.com where he implemented strategic initiatives and new technologies, including partnerships, contextual advertising, co-registration, customer acquisition/lead generation and many other programs to increase revenue, drive traffic and enhance site performance. He was one of the original members of PeoplePC’s business development team and was instrumental during its IPO process and sale to EarthLink. Nikesh focused on product development, sales, strategic partnerships and acquisition activities. He started his career as an investment banker with Robertson Stephens involved in public offerings and mergers & acquisitions aggregating over $1 billion with Internet and software companies. Nikesh aspires to be a traveling food critic while trying to hit every major soccer stadium across the world.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc.: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Bob Verrico
Co Founder / Executive Chairman of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Bob Verrico is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of InvestingChannel.
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About Giant Step Strategies, LLC, InvestingChannel, Inc., OspreyMedia: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Brendan Alper
Founder & CEO of Hater
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About Hater: Hater is a dating app that matches people based on the things they hate.
Susannah Vila
Co-Founder, CEO of Caretaker
Susannah Vila is the Co-Founder and CEO of Caretaker.
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About Caretaker: Caretaker builds property management automation software for small and medium sized landlords and property managers.
Emeka C Anen
Founder & CEO of THRONE
Emeka serves as a Founder and CEO at THRONE. THRONE’s is creating technology based tools in order to add value to the sneaker and streetwear ecosystem. THRONE’s first product is a peer-peer marketplace available for download on iOS now. Learn more at www.THRONE.xyz.
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About THRONE: THRONE is a mobile-first marketplace created to faciliate buying , selling and discovery within the footwear community.
Pratham Mittal
CoFounder of VenturePact
Pratham Mittal is the CoFounder at VenturePact
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About 606 VENTURES, Masters’ Union, Outgrow, VenturePact: On Demand Software Development teams
Charles Shrem
Founder of Crypto.IQ
Charles “Charlie” Shrem IV (born November 25, 1989) is an American entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate. He co-founded the now-defunct startup company BitInstant, and the investment company Intellisys Capital. He is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, and formerly served as vice chairman. In December 2014 he was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road marketplace. He was released from prison around June 2016.
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About Bitcoin Foundation, Crypto.IQ: Come join us for the ultimate insider’s guide to investing in cryptocurrencies with confidence, by Charlie Shrem and Randall Oser.
Harnil Oza
CEO & Founder of Hyperlink InfoSystem
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About Hyperlink InfoSystem: Hyperlink InfoSystem is a mobile app development company that providers information technology services.
Vishal Agarwal
Founder & CEO of ItsaCheckmate
Vishal Agarwal serves as a Founder & CEO at ItsaCheckmate.
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About Forbes Technology Council, ItsaCheckmate: ItsaCheckmate is a leading service in integrating 3rd party delivery platforms directly into POS systems.
Justin McLeod
Founder and CEO of Hinge
Founder and CEO of Hinge.
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About Hinge: Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application.
Shachar Golan
Founder & CEO of Baby Doctor, Inc.
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About Baby Doctor, Inc.: Baby Doctor, Inc. was a healthcare startup that offered pediatric services on demand
Dr. Dania Rumbak
Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Baby Doctor, Inc.
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About Baby Doctor, Inc.: Baby Doctor, Inc. was a healthcare startup that offered pediatric services on demand
Eden Full Goh
Founder of Mobot
Eden Full Goh is the Founder and CEO of Mobot.
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About EES Ventures, Mobot, SunSaluter: Mobot is a mobile QA solution that uses supervised, mechanical robots to test native mobile web apps on actual iOS/Android devices.
Marah Lidey
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Shine
Marah Lidey is the cofounder of Shine Text, helping people live more intentionally through the power of daily messaging. Her expertise lies at the intersection of millennials and messaging. Lidey previously directed mobile and social for brands like DoSomething.org, American Express, and Viacom. She earned her BA in Journalism at the University of Georgia and currently resides in Brooklyn. A World Economic Forum Global Shaper and one of the “Top 35 People to Watch in NYC Tech” by Built in NYC, Lidey also actively advocates for increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in technology and entrepreneurship.
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About Shine: Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression.
Naomi Hirabayashi
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Shine
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About Shine: Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression.
