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 Software 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.
Nitesh Banta
Co-Founder & CEO of B12
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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About B12, Getaround, Rough Draft Ventures, Stellar Capital: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
Adam Marcus
Co-Founder and CTO of B12
Adam is a co-founder and CTO of B12. Previously, he was Director of Data at Locu, a startup that was acquired by GoDaddy. He has written widely on crowdsourcing and data management and processing, including co-authoring a book, “Crowdsourced Data Management: Industry and Academic Perspectives.” Prior to that, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT. His dissertation is on database systems and human computation. He is a recipient of the NSF and NDSEG fellowships, and has previously worked at ITA, Google, IBM, and FactSet. In his free time, he builds course content to get people excited about data and programming.
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About B12: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
Adam Karp
Co-Founder & CEO of Lively
Prior to Lively, Adam was the Chief Marketing Officer of 1stdibs – the world’s premier destination for unique, luxury design. At 1stdibs, Adam was instrumental in increasing the company’s revenue almost 10x; recruited and led a team of 100 and had full P&L responsibility for 1stdibs’ B2B business. Before 1stdibs Adam worked in senior roles at leading brands such as FreshDirect, Barnes & Noble and Century 21 real estate. At Century 21 he was responsible for developing and launching Century 21’s first website which at the time became the most recognized real estate website in the country and currently generates almost 50 million visits a year. After Century 21, Adam spent almost a decade at Barnes & Noble in increasingly senior roles ultimately becoming VP of Direct Marketing for both the retail stores and online. At Barnes & Noble, Adam managed some of the largest digital marketing programs in the industry, overseeing a budget of $100M. Adam graduated from the The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
Elad Kolet
Co-Founder & CTO of Lively
Elad is a technology leader with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering. Most recently Elad ran the North America Solutions Engineering team at Facebook where he managed a team of 32 full-stack engineers responsible for building Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to working at Facebook, Elad worked as an Engineering Lead at Microsoft, driving the development of Windows Azure. Before Microsoft, Elad was a Senior Software Engineer at RiT technologies LTD., where he designed and built network products used by large corporate clients including Goldman Sachs UK and Morgan Stanley UK. Elad was raised in Israel and spent four years as a software engineer in the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200, an incubator of tech talent whose alumni have gone on to found numerous technology companies. Elad earned his BS in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
David Rust
Co-Founder & Advisor of Lively
David is a seasoned operator who helped scale Lyft from 25 to 1,600 employees and an $11B+ valuation. He launched Lyft’s first markets across the US and translated these learnings into the company’s national expansion playbook. David then went on to build and lead Lyft’s internal strategy team, reporting to Lyft’s COO. This team was responsible for leading high-priority strategic initiatives, from Lyft’s partnership with General Motors to its first self-driving car implementations. Prior to Lyft, David led market expansion and local marketing for one of the early pioneers in the car sharing industry, Wheelz, which was acquired by RelayRides (not Turo). David graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Engineering and was named as a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2017.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
Dane Atkinson
Founder and CEO of Odeko
Dane Atkinson started his first company, SenseNet Inc., at the age of 18. The company grew explosively through servicing Fortune 500 companies (WPP, Pfizer, Lucent) to hundreds of employees on three continents. Since then, he’s had an extremely successful career as a technology executive and has founded, bought, and sold over a dozen companies including yourday.com, yourstuff.com, estandardsforum.com, iensure.com. His extensive technology and marketing expertise helps us deliver increasingly rich service to our customers. In addition to his position as CEO, Dane also acts as advisor and board member to several leading technology companies.
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About Odeko, SumAll: The operating platform for small businesses.
Anand Agarawala
Co-Founder & CEO of Spatial
Anand Agarawala is the creator of BumpTop, an irresistible new desktop interface with a satisfyingly three-dimensional physicality and a fresh approach to interactivity. Anand completed his Master thesis in 2006 which pioneered a novel physically based desktop interface leveraging expressive power and casual nature of real desks. His Masters of Computer Science was completed at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate thesis in 2004 at the University of Calgary. In his free time, Anand enjoys competitive team sports such as hockey and basketball. He often travels to India and across Europe and North America.
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About BumpTop, Spatial: Spatial allows NFT creators to customize a virtual space and gather for events such as exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences.
Jinha Lee
Founder & Chief Product Officer of Spatial
Designer, inventor, and entrepreneur. Cofounder of Spatial, a social immersive platform for creators. Named as a young global leader by World Economic Forum in 2015, MIT TR35, Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, and one of FastCompany’s 32 greatest living designers. Spatial has been listed as one of the most innovative company in the world by FastCompany magazine in 2021. Prior to founding Spatial, Jinha created technologies to physically interact with digital data for the past decade: SpaceTop was a pioneering Augmented Reality desktop that allowed people to reach inside the screen. He also created a physical pixel, ZeroN, that levitates and moves freely as his master thesis project at MIT. At Samsung, he led the redesign of Smart TVs, turning screens into a collaboration platform and artistic data visualization. As an advocate for inclusive design, he co-designed Bradley Timepiece, an award-winning tactile wristwatch for the blind. These projects became viral and brought him to the TED stage in 2013.
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About Spatial: Spatial allows NFT creators to customize a virtual space and gather for events such as exhibitions, brand experiences, and conferences.
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.
Spencer Kimball
Co-Founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs
Spencer Kimball is the co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he maintains a delicate balance between a love for programming distributed systems and the excitement of helping the company grow smoothly. While in university, he was one of the original authors of the GIMP. He cut his teeth on databases during the dot com heyday, and had a front row seat at Google for a decade’s worth of their evolution.
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About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
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
Michael Gronager
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis
Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Jonathan Levin
Co-Founder & CSO of Chainalysis
Jonathan Levin is a Co-Founder of Chainalysis, the leading provider of AML solutions to Bitcoin companies, banks and government agencies. He was previously CEO at Coinometrics, where he led a team of data scientists to measure the activity and health of the Bitcoin network. Levin was a Postgraduate Economist at the University of Oxford where his research focused on virtual currencies, creating one of the first statistical models of Bitcoin transaction fees. He regularly consults governments, top-tier banks and payment companies on the future of digital currencies.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Yuval Ariav
Founder and Advisor of Fundbox
Yuval Ariav is a financial technology and data science entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience operating large, complex, cross-geo operations in both startup and corporate environments. He is currently a General Partner at LionBird Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm investing in digital health and digital business services. Yuval is the Founder of Fundbox, one of the most successful Fintech startups to emerge in recent years, and was the head of its operations office in Tel Aviv. Before Fundbox, Yuval was a founding team member and Director of Product at Onavo, a mobile analytics company acquired by Facebook. Yuval is a Professor at Columbia Business School in New York City.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Herman Schreiber
Owner & Co-Founder of B&H Photo
Herman Schreiber is the owner of B&H Photo Video in Manhattan. BH is widely considered to be the largest non-chain photo and video equipment single store in the entire country.
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About B&H Photo: B&H Photo offers its users with an online platform to get information and buy photo, video, pro audio, and digital imaging equipment.
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.
Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Roman Mikailov
Founder, CEO of Hyperverse
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About Hyperverse: Hyperverse is a software company that develops VR experience distribution platforms for its clients.
Emmanuel Straschnov
Co-CEO & Founder of Bubble
Emmanuel Straschnov is the co-founder and co-CEO at Bubble. Prior to that, Emmanuel served as a special assistant to the CEO at Prada.
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About Bubble: Bubble provides a point-and-click programming tool for web and mobile applications in which no prior coding experience is needed.
Josh Haas
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Bubble
Josh started Bubble in 2012 after seeing the importance of empowering people through technology while working as the co-founder and CTO of his prior startup, KeywordSmart. At Bubble, Josh oversees technology and infrastructure. Before that, he was a manager at Bridgewater and a philosophy major at Harvard.
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About Bubble: Bubble provides a point-and-click programming tool for web and mobile applications in which no prior coding experience is needed.
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
Han Wang
Co-Founder of Mintlify
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About Mintlify: Building the 10x developer environment
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Dmitri Cherniak
Founder and CTO of Chargehound
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About Chargehound: Chargehound is a comprehensive chargeback solution that makes handling disputes easy.
Chris Bevilacqua
Co-Founder & CEO of Simplebet
Chris is the Co-Founder of Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures and is a sports, media, and tech investor with investments in companies such as StubHub, ActionX, Viagogo, Lyft, Airbnb, SpaceX, Unscriptd, and ThePostGame. He was previously the Chairman & CEO of CAA Sports Media Ventures, a joint venture between CAA and Evolution Media Capital. Prior to that, he was the Founder of CSTV, which was acquired by CBS in 2006 and is now CBS Sports Network.
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About Simplebet: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Joey Levy
Co-Founder of Simplebet
Joey was a Co-Founder and CEO of Draftpot, a daily fantasy sports platform that was acquired in 2017. Joey was a Thiel Fellow and previously studied at Columbia University.
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About Simplebet: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Yuval Rooz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset
Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk for more than three years and has held positions at DRW Trading Group and Citadel. He has experience investing in successful startups and has significant experience managing large teams of developers in financial products and operations.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Eric Saraniecki
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Digital Asset
Eric was part of the founding team for Digital Asset. Eric joined DRW Trading Group in 2006 and has more than six years of experience managing a commodities trading desk. Eric began trading bitcoin in 2011 and is one of the Cumberland Mining founders, one of the largest crypto-asset liquidity providers in the world for bitcoin.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Shaul Kfir
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Digital Asset
Shaul is a software engineer with a background in research cryptography, implementing Zero Knowledge Proof protocols for Secure Computational Integrity and Privacy (SCIP). He served as CTO for two previous startups in Tel Aviv. Prior to his involvement in cryptography, Shaul served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Israeli Navy, leading diverse professional teams across challenging environments. Shaul was also a team member of the SCIPR cryptography lab and a visiting scientist at MIT CSAIL.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Prashant Kumar
Founder of Unbxd
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
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
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.
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.
James Hutchins
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of North Island Ventures
James Hutchins is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at North Island Ventures.
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About North Island Ventures: North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund
Bridget Osetinsky
Founder & CEO of Hyperfine
Bridget is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperfine. She earned her Juris Doctor from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law in 2011 and her Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Notre Dame in 2007.
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About Hyperfine: Advanced Analytics For Precision Medicine
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
Ofer Israeli
Founder & CEO of Illusive
Ofer Israeli is the founder and CEO of Illusive Networks. His understanding of the advanced attack process played a pivotal role in shaping Illusive’s automated, agentless deception management architecture. Before Illusive, Ofer managed development teams based around the globe for Check Point Software Technologies and worked in the Atom Chip Lab at Ben Gurion University, where he focused on theoretical quantum mechanics. Ofer holds B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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About Illusive: Illusive is a defense to eliminate attacker pathways that uses deception for detection of lateral movement of APTs, ransomware & threats.
Roy Malkin
President & Founder of Venture Aviator
Roy Malkin have Fortune 500 experience in Developing and Managing Global Business across 20 markets – including USA, Europe, Japan, Russia, Ukraine. He’s currently concentrating on global IT Development and company strategy. He’s also involved in launching multiple startups in big data, e-commerce, new media / internet markets.
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About OffrBox, Venture Aviator: Venture Aviator is a Custom Software Development Company based in New York and California, and specializes in web and app development.
Aviv Eyal
Co-Founder / Explorer /Builder of Spacemesh
co-founder / explorer / r&d at Spacemesh.io – hiring strong developers worldwide!
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About Spacemesh: Spacemesh is a fair blockmesh operating system designed to run general-purpose smart contracts at web-scale.
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.
Banu Guler
Founder & CEO of Co–Star
Founder and CEO of Co-Star, the hyper-personalized, social astrology app bringing astrology into the 21st century. Fashion industry veteran, working with brands such as Diane von Furstenberg, Alex & Ani, Ann Taylor, VFILES, and Michael Kors. Began career as a graphic designer. After realizing the power of digital in the fashion space, shifted focus to creating immersive, digital experiences to integrate community and content into commerce. Studied psychology at NYU. Scorpio.
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About Co–Star: Co–Star is a real-time horoscopes bringing astrology into the 21st century.
Eliot Horowitz
CEO and Founder of Viam
Eliot Horowitz is the CEO and Founder at Viam.
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About Viam: Viam is a robotics company that aims to build products that helps people’s daily life.
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.
Matias Recchia
Co-Founder & CEO of IguanaFix
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About IguanaFix, Keyway, Unlock: IguanaFix provides software to manage field operations across multiple industries including utilities, maintenance, and manufacturing.
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.
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.
Matt Doherty
Founder & CTO of ResoluteAI
Matt Doherty is the Founder & CTO at ResoluteAI.
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About ResoluteAI: ResoluteAI makes information retrieval seamless, helping you to innovate smarter.
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
Oisin Hanrahan
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Handy
Oisin Hanrahan is the CEO and co-founder of Handy, the leading on-demand home services platform. Oisin founded Handy along with Umang Dua, Ignacio Leonhardt and Weina Scott. Oisin’s idea is changing the way people receive and provide home services. Prior to founding Handy, Oisin founded MiCandidate, a service that provided real time political content to media companies in 25 European countries. He also founded Clearwater Group, a real estate development business in Budapest, Hungary. In 2009, Oisin co-founded The Undergraduate Awards, a foundation that supports and celebrates outstanding undergraduate students globally. From day one, Oisin aimed for Handy to revolutionize the way people receive, provide and think about home services, an $400 billion market. Since it launched, nearly 3 million bookings have been made, and the Handy platform has served over 600,000 customers and activated over 80,000 independent professionals. This exceptional growth was made possible by a laser focus on the most innovative technology and service, resulting in Handy successfully expanding to 28 cities across 15 states and three countries. Oisin has deep knowledge of so many of the issues facing startups today, including navigating the regulatory environment. It is his personal mission to move the future of work of forward and find a solution that allows today’s work force to build their own business, work flexibility, but still have access to new types of “portable benefits” that would allow workers to move between workplaces while still maintaining access to benefits like training, health insurance, and disability insurance. Finding a solution to these challenges is a personal priority of Oisin’s – the demographics of the Handy platform make the company uniquely close to these issues in a way other platforms are not. In fact, 90% are women, over 60% are caring for dependents, and nearly 70% serve as the primary income earner for their household. Oisin has been unwilling to sit on the sidelines and become a leading voice in this area: He serves on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors and has written on these issues for Fox Business News and Wired.
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About Angi, ANGI Homeservices, Handy: Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.
Umang Dua
Co-Founder & COO of Handy
Umang is an entrepreneur and along with Oisin Hanrahan, Ignacio Leonhardt and Weina Scott, a co-founder of Handybook. Handybook.com enables users to book household services such as cleaners and handymen instantly for any convenient time. Prior to doing his MBA at the Harvard Business School, Umang also founded College Connect, an online platform in India that connected aspiring college students with enrolled students around the world.
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About Angi, Handy: Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.
John Acunto
Co Founder/Chief Innovation Officer of Tsū
John Acunto is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Tsū and a Member of The Recording Academy and a Board Member at Leone Asset Management.
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About Tsū: Tsū is a social media platform that shares ad revenue as well as provides tools that inspire content creation.
Kurt Lin
Co-Founder, CEO of Pinwheel
Kurt Lin is a Co-Founder and CEO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Anish Basu
Co-Founder, CTO of Pinwheel
Anish Basu is the Co-Founder and CTO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Robert Douglas
CEO and Co-Founder of Skopenow
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About Skopenow: Skopenow is an analytical search engine for discovering fraud, threat, and risk.
Gideon Mendels
Co-Founder and CEO of Comet.ml
Gideon Mendels is co-founder and the CEO of CometML & Comet AI. Gideon is an experienced data scientist and entrepreneur. He worked on Deep Learning research at Google and Columbia University and previously co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet AI, Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Nimrod Lahav
Co-Founder and CTO of Comet.ml
Nimrod Lahav is co-founder and CTO of CometML. Nimrod is an experienced technology leader and open source contributor. He previously led teams at Wix.com, vmware and co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Jenny Guo
Co-Founder of LumiereVR
Jenny Guo is a co-founder of LumiereVR, which is dedicated to using Virtual Reality (VR) to bridge the gaps between tech, arts, and design. She is a cross-border creative producer, art collector and tech entrepreneur. She has been named on Forbes 30 under 30 twice for Asia and China in 2018 and was voted in the top 10 women in VR in China in 2016. Backed by HTC ViveX and TechStars, her company LumiereVR won the top 10 VR projects in 2016 in China. The VR films she had worked on have also won multiple awards in both Asia and U.S including a prestigious Lumiere award from The Advanced Imaging Society. She majored in Electronic Art and Political Studies at Bard College and later studied Creative Producing at Columbia University. Prior to joining the VR industry, Ms. Guo had extensive experience in auction houses and art dealing between China, and U.S. She has spoken at multiple conferences including Harvard Graduate School of Design, J.P Morgan, VREdEx, TEDxBohaibay, and Wharton School of Business.
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About Forbes, Gemological Institute of America, Harvard University, Highstreet, Jenny Guo Studio, LumiereVR, The Magnetic Project: LumiereVR is a film studio that uses virtual reality technologies to make films.
Darrell Silver
CEO & Co-Founder of Thinkful
Founder of Thinkful (acq by Chegg), Perpetually (acq by Dell).
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About Thinkful: Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning with industry experts to bring high growth tech careers to their students.
Daniel Friedman
Co-Founder & President of Thinkful
Dan co-founded Thinkful with the belief that great education is built on strong relationships between students and teachers and between peers. Prior to starting Thinkful, Dan was a product manager at Elm City Labs, where he helped entrepreneurs turn their ideas into products and find their first customers. He first started as an analyst at RRE Ventures, a venture capital firm in NYC (and now a Thinkful investor). Dan attended Yale University, but dropped out after two years to join the Thiel Fellowship, a program that pays 20 people each year to leave college and start a company.
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About Thinkful: Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning with industry experts to bring high growth tech careers to their students.
Athena Karp
CEO & Founder of HiredScore
Athena Karp is the founder and CEO of HiredScore, an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to deliver deep hiring efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations adapt for the future of work. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition for delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry. Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Previously, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology and media companies. Athena is a member of the technology advisory board of Belmont Charter Network schools, and founder and board member of Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and healthy eating experiences. She formerly served on the board of the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, a network of charter schools with over 1,000 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. Athena holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also actively involved in rebuilding West Philadelphia and creating a sustainable model for poverty alleviation through various boards and initiatives.
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Vinicius Vacanti
Co-Founder and CEO of YipitData
Vinicius Vacanti is a co-founder and the CEO of YipitData.
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About 140it, UnHub, YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
James Moran
President/Co-Founder of YipitData
Jim is co-founder of YipitData.
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About YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
Erik Shani
CPO, Co-Founder of Fyllo
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About Fyllo: Fyllo is a software company that provides compliance-first solutions for highly regulated industries.
Daeil Kim
Founder and CEO of AI.Reverie
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Paul Walborsky
Founder & COO of AI.Reverie
Paul Walborsky is the Founder at AI.Reverie .
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Tiffany Pham
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mogul
Tiffany Pham is the Founder & CEO of Mogul, an award-winning worldwide platform enabling women to connect, share information, and access knowledge from each other. A coder, she developed the first version of Mogul, which now reaches 18 million women per week from over 196 countries and 30,470 cities worldwide. Mogul was named one of the Most Exciting Startups of 2016 by Business Insider, one of the Top NYC Startups to Watch by Entrepreneur Magazine, named one of the Best Websites for Finding Top Talent by Inc. Magazine, one of the Top Websites for Marketing Your Company Online by Forbes, and has been honored and recognized by Bustle, City of Fort Worth, City of New York, City of Paris, and Harvard Business School. Tiffany was named one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in Media, Business Insider “30 Most Important Women Under 30” in Technology, ELLE Magazine “30 Women Under 30 Who Are Changing the World,” Good Housekeeping “Awesome Women Award” Winner, Alice Paul “Equality Award” Honoree, Cadillac “IVY Innovator” Award Winner, SmartCEO Magazine “Smart CEO Award” Winner, “Innovation & Inclusion Award” Winner for Social Entrepreneurship, NY Business Journal “Woman of Influence” Winner, Tribeca Film Festival “Innovation Award” Fellow, and SE “Top 100 Social Entrepreneur.”
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Discovery, Macmillan, Mogul, Mogul Global Fund, Simon & Schuster: At Mogul, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential.
Jordy Leiser
Co-Founder & CEO of Stella Connect
Jordy Leiser is the Co-Founder and CEO of StellaService, the customer service measurement and ratings company. Prior to founding StellaService, Jordy worked in investment banking at JPMorgan, where he worked on leveraged buyouts and other transactions for private equity-backed consumer retail brands. After seeing firsthand the value of great customer service for retailers – both from the business and consumer perspectives – Jordy teamed up with longtime friend and college roommate John Ernsberger to create a robust system for measuring and rating the customer service performance of online retailers. Jordy and John officially launched StellaService in March 2010. Jordy has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, New York Times, Fox Business, Forbes, Reuters, TIME, Ad Age, WWD, Internet Retailer as well as other TV and print media nationwide. A Colorado native, Jordy graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell University with a degree in Economics and Political Science and completed the year-long General Course at the London School of Economics
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About Stella Connect, StellaService: Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams.
Chetan Narain
Co-Founder and Software Engineer of Pepper
Chetan Narain is a Co-Founder and Software Engineer at Pepper. He is also the Group Product Manager at Uber. Mr. Narain previously the Software Engineer / Analyst and Associate Product Manager at Google. Chetan graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering and Computer Science.
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About Pepper: Building the digital operating system for the food supply chain
Ivana Tesanovic
Co-Founder of Pepper
Ivana Tesanovic is the Co-Founder of Pepper. Previously, She was a Manager of Baker McKenzie and Massive Insights. Ms. Tesanovic received a bachelor of arts at York University.
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About Pepper: Building the digital operating system for the food supply chain
Pieter De Leenheer
Founder of Collibra
Pieter De Leenheer is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and computer scientist. He is Chief Technology Officer at Zenoptics, an analytics catalog and governance software company. Previously, Pieter founded Collibra, a unicorn software venture, that spun off from his data governance research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Pieter writes, teaches and advises on computing and management aspects of data innovation. He serves as expert to several national governments and the European Commission. Pieter has held academic positions across the globe, including Harvard Business School, Columbia University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, VUB Brussels and VU University of Amsterdam. He lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.
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About Collibra, ZenOptics: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Anda Gansca
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Knotch
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About Knotch: Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time.
Chris Kiernan
Founder of RiskIQ
Chris has been designing and building data-intensive, Internet-scale applications for more than 16 years. He is responsible for driving web and mobile security innovations at RiskIQ. Previously, Chris architected the ground-breaking Merchantize™ advertising platform at NewGate Internet (acquired by iCrossing in 2006). He also redesigned the data warehouse infrastructure for online designer fashion retailer Bluefly.com (NASDAQ:BFLY) and was the lead architect at Bigstep, a web hosting and e-commerce content management provider.
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About NewGate Internet, RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Hicham Oudghiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Enigma Technologies
Hicham is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, an open data technology company. In addition to managing the company’s commercial efforts, Hicham contributes heavily to Enigma’s platform product development as well as to the company’s R&D in architecture for semantic linking of data. Prior to Enigma, Hicham was managing a private sustainable finance program in Africa at BMCE Bank in partnership with the World Bank Group. Hicham spearheaded project finance initiatives and created energy models for large-scale alternative energy projects in Africa . He also developed a rating system and software for environmental and social risk management across the bank’s entire commercial loan portfolio. Hicham started his career at an energy fund in Dallas, Texas where he was responsible for hedging physical energy assets against modeled counterparts in the electronic markets. Hicham holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Marc DaCosta
Co-Founder & Chairman of Enigma Technologies
Marc DaCosta is Co-Founder and Chairman of Enigma. Marc has deep expertise in both the technical and cultural aspects of how data can be harnessed to transform the way that organizations operate. In addition, Marc is a fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, collaborating with investigative journalists to develop new approaches to data-driven storytelling. Marc holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of California, where his research examined the social consequences of new forms of data analytics. Marc has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Intel Labs. Marc began his career as an intellectual property strategy consultant to Global 500 technology companies, where he helped develop offensive and defensive licensing strategies.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Theodore Bailey
Founder & CEO, Chairman of Dataminr
Ted is the Chairman and CEO of Dataminr. Since founding the company in 2009, Ted has scaled the company to 250 employees, raised $180M in financing, and established Dataminr as the world’s real-time information discovery company, serving thousands of customers in over 40 countries. Ted has appeared as a guest on CNBC’s SquawkBox, CNBC’s Fast Money, BBC News, and Fox Business News. He is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations and has been at speaker at Davos & the Aspen Ideas Festival. Ted was one of Crain’s 40 under 40 business leaders in 2017, Business Insider’s 40 under 40 Tech Entrepreneurs in 2015, and has been included numerous times in the Silicon Alley 100. Dataminr, considered one of the 50 most Disruptive private Technology Companies by CNBC in 2016, transforms public social media feeds into the earliest alerts on high impact events and critical breaking information for clients in Security, Government, News, Finance, and PR/Crisis Management. Ted earned a BA from Yale in 2004, where he focused on the impact of disruptive technologies on American Industry and Government.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Jeff Kinsey
Co-Founder & CTO of Dataminr
Jeff Kinsey is Chief Technology Officer at Dataminr. Prior to co-founding Dataminr in 2009,]eff worked as a Software Engineer at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he developed research software for the study and modeling of the micro-behaviors of language comprehension. Additionally, he was a Consulting Engineer at Market & Research Systems, where he built custom CRM and database tools for enterprise clients. Before UMASS,Jeff developed computational emulators of the human language acquisition process, leveraging large behavioral data sets.Jeff holds a BS in Computer Science from Yale University, with a focus on computational linguistics. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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About Dataminr: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Mitchell Green
Founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital
Mitchell Green is a Managing Partner and Partner at Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He also founded Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He serves as a Senior Analyst at Eastern Advisors LLC. Mitchell Green primarily invests in public and private companies in the consumer, internet, software, and digital media sectors in Asia and the U.S. He joined Eastern Advisors LLC in 2008. Prior to founding Eastern Advisors Private Investments, Mitchell Green was an investor and Analyst at Bessemer Venture Partners and he worked at UBS Investment Bank in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He has a decade of technology and consumer venture capital/ growth equity investing and operating experience. He is a formerly nationally ranked alpine ski racer. Mitchell Green holds an M.B.A. degree in Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Williams College.
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Scott Booth
Founder of Lead Edge Capital
Scott V. Booth serves as a Founder and Special Advisor at Lead Edge Capital, LLC. Scott Booth serves as the Founder and Managing Partner for Eastern Advisors, LLC and Managing Partner at Eastern Advisors Capital Group Ltd. He was a Portfolio Manager at Kingdon Capital. Scott Booth serves as an Advisor at Fyrfly Venture Partners. He serves as a Director of OrderGroove, Inc., Banks.com Inc., and fisoc, Inc. He served as the Chairman of Remark Media Inc since December 14, 2011 and its Director since December 17, 2009. He holds M.I.A. in International Economics and Finance from School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in 1994 and a B.A. in History from Holy Cross College in 1991 where he was awarded a Watson Fellowship.
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About Eastern Advisors, Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Chris Muir
Founder of Underdog.io
Founder of Underdog.io.
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About Underdog.io: A curated marketplace for technical, product, and business talent.
Reghu Hariharan
Co-Founder of Quantiphi
Reghu Hariharan is the Co-Founder at Quantiphi where he is responsible for customer care and maintaining relevant market focus and business expansion. Prior to founding Quantiphi, he was a Senior Vice President and integral part of the executive leadership of its insurance business at Capgemini where he is directly responsible for its global operations. Reghu holds a Bachelors’s degree in Computer Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University in India.
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About Quantiphi: Quantiphi is a category defining data science and machine learning software and services company.
Benjamin Sun
Co-Founder & General Partner of Primary Venture Partners
Benjamin Sun is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Primary Venture Partners.
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About Ollie, Primary Venture Partners: Primary Venture Partners is a seed stage VC firm focused on ecommerce and enterprise SaaS.
Brad Svrluga
General Partner & Co-Founder of Primary Venture Partners
Brad Svrluga is Founder and General Partner at Primary Venture Partners. He got his start in the venture business in time to see the last 12 months of the bubble, which was not early enough to lead to early retirement. Since then he has led over two-dozen investments across a range of software sectors. Brad co-founded High Peaks Venture Partners in 2004 and reinvented it 8 years later. Prior to his venture career, he was a strategy consultant with Monitor Group, leading projects out of the firm’s Cambridge, South Africa, and Brazil offices. Brad focuses his investing activities on SaaS and enterprise mobile applications, with a particular focus on vertical SaaS applications and the transformational impact of mobile computing on traditional business processes. He has led the firm’s investments in Divide (sold to Google), Savored (sold to Groupon), TxVia (sold to Google), Pump Audio (sold to Getty Images), Threadsmith (sold to Vistaprint), and Allworx (sold to PAETEC). Brad is a graduate of Williams College, where he captained the rugby team and majored in economics. He blogs not nearly enough at www.bradsvrluga.com.
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About Handshake, Healthify, Primary Venture Partners, PublicStuff, WhoSay: Primary Venture Partners is a seed stage VC firm focused on ecommerce and enterprise SaaS.
Shmulik Fishman
Founder, CEO of Argyle
Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned records in real-time. With a solution that enables coverage of the majority of the US labor market, companies across industries leverage Argyle for frictionless, automated verification of income and employment (VOIE) and direct deposit change. Shmulik started Argyle in 2018, with the backing of Bain Capital and Checkr, after experiencing the complexity of work verification in his previous venture STRATIM, which he founded in 2014. At STRATIM, Shmulik acted as the Chief Operating Officer, raising $42M in venture funding and sold in 2018 to NYSE listed KAR Global (NYSE: KAR). Prior to STRATIM, Shmulik worked on the S1 team at Adap.tv during its IPO that was subsequently acquired by AOL. Shmulik has an undergraduate degree from Hampshire College where he became a philosopher by training and a storyteller by practice. While earning a business degree at Columbia University, a chance meeting catapulted Shmulik into the world of machine learning, setting him on a path of disrupting today’s employment and income verification space. When not writing, sitting on panels, keynote speaking, and conjoining fragmented networks, you can find Shmulik falling down the rabbit-hole of Wikipedia, in awe of our collective wisdom and communal capacity.
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About Argyle: Argyle provides a consumer-controlled, software gateway to employment records.
Michael Oved
CEO, Co-Founder of Fluidity
Michael Oved is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fluidity and a Co-Founder at AirSwap.
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About AirSwap, Fluidity: Fluidity bridges traditional finance to decentralized infrastructure.
Peter Pezaris
Founder & CEO of CodeStream
Founder & CEO at CodeStream.
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About CodeStream: CodeStream puts team chat directly into most popular IDEs, making it easier for developers to talk about code & write software together.
James Price
Co-Founder of CodeStream
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About CodeStream: CodeStream puts team chat directly into most popular IDEs, making it easier for developers to talk about code & write software together.
Michael Gersh
Co-Founder of CodeStream
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About CodeStream: CodeStream puts team chat directly into most popular IDEs, making it easier for developers to talk about code & write software together.
David Hersh
Co-Founder and Head of Product of CodeStream
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About CodeStream, Glip: CodeStream puts team chat directly into most popular IDEs, making it easier for developers to talk about code & write software together.
Evan Kohlmann
Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer of Flashpoint
Evan Kohlmann is responsible for innovation and product development at Flashpoint. He has served as a private sector International Terrorism Consultant who has spent over a decade tracking Al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations. In addition to being an on-air terrorism anlayst for NBC, he has consulted on terrorism matters for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY) at the Hague, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Scotland Yard’s SO-15 Counter Terrorism Command, the Central Scotland Police, West Yorkshire Police, and the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET).
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
Aytekin Tank
Founder & CEO of JotForm
Aytekin Tank is founder of JotForm. He currently leads the JotForm development team. He loves to hear from Jotform users. Feel free to shoot him an email to him at aytekin at jotform.com.
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About JotForm: JotForm is an online form building tool that helps users create and publish forms, and get an email for each response.
Shiv Kapoor
Founder & CEO of Nifty
Shiv Kapoor is technology serial-entrepreneur currently residing in New York. Shiv has founded several start-ups, and is currently the CEO at Nifty, a NYC based workflow collaboration SaaS.
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About Creative360, Nifty: Delivering the future of project management.
Amber Atherton
CEO & Founder of Zyper
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About Zyper: Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other.
Lisa Skeete Tatum
CEO & Co-Founder of Landit
Lisa Skeete Tatum is the founder and CEO of Landit, a technology platform created to increase the success and engagement of women in the workplace, and to enable enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent. Landit provides each woman with a personalized playbook that empowers them with the tools, resources, and human connections they need to successfully navigate their career path.
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About Landit: Landit is a personalized career pathing platform that enables women and diverse groups to succeed in the workplace.
Ulrik Bo Larsen
Founder & CEO of Falcon.io
Ulrik Bo Larsen founded Falcon Social in 2010 after working in the groove between marketing and technology for an A-list of global clients such as PANDORA Jewelry, Carlsberg, Georg Jensen, JWT, IUM, Mindshare and MediaEdge CIA. Prior to Falcon, Ulrik founded and ran the digital agency Mingler, producing data-driven, social campaigns and assets for a global audience. He also created the first Scandinavian social network and led it to a successful exit to Danish media company – JP/Politikens Hus.
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About Falcon.io: Falcon.io provides an SaaS platform that allows marketing departments to create, launch and measure social media campaigns in real time.
Justin Zhen
Co-Founder of Thinknum
Justin Zhen’s mission is to crowd-source the best practices of financial analysis, bringing the tools of Wall Street to the masses and pooling their best insights. He believes that by creating a larger pool of insights, the best ones will get filtered out. The platform – Thinknum – is the brain-child of Justin and his Co-Founder Gregory Ugwi. After graduating from Princeton, Justin went to work at a hedge fund.
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About Thinknum: Thinknum is a web platform that allows investors to get data driven investment ideas by monitoring companies’ websites.
