Blake Commagere
Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
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Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
Partner at Embarcadero Ventures;
VP, User Growth, Mobile at Facebook;
VP, Platform & Monetization at Facebook;
VC at Mayfield Fund, VP & GM, AIM + ICQ at AOL
Co-founder of BetterWorks. Founder of MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga). Co-Creator of Farmville.
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
CEO iSkoot, sold to QCOM (VP now). EVP loopt. Founder, Pres DChoc. Founder, CEO SW Sports & Soft, sold to Paul Allen & iXL. CS Harvard. Inventor fantasy sports
Partner, Accel. Founder, Breyer Capital. Early Facebook investor. Board of Directors: Facebook, News Corporation, Dell, Etsy, Brightcove, Prosper, Wal-Mart
Founder and CEO, Flixster
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games Inc.
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
Co-Founder/CEO Webs.com (acquired by Vistaprint). Co-Founder SGN (acquired by Mindjolt). Strong product focus.
Co-Founder of SpeedDate
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
Venture Hacker and Product Designer @AngelList. Ex-Google head of UX for Ads and Commerce. Ex-BofA head of UX.
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously at Super Rewards (Adknowledge).
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously intern at IA Ventures. Founder of Quirk. PS3 R&D at Naughty Dog. CMU CS BS and MS.
Funding team at AngelList + VC at Atlas Venture; founded and killed Social Swipe. Retail + SMB in my DNA.
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Partner at 500 Startups
Partner & GM, Business Development
Managing Member at SV Angel
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
A man. A plan. A panda.
Investor for 20 years in teams (Zynga, XenSource/CTRX Facebook, Datamirror/IBM, Fortinet/FTNT, Tango, Metaweb, D-Wave) solving hard problems for large markets.
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Venture Partner at SoftTech VC (with @Jeff Clavier), CEO and Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games. BD roles at Serious Business (now part of Zynga), Google, and Gaia Online
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
Investor in Infospace, StubHub, Serious Materials, Evite, Seagate, Spinner, LiveBid.
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Co-founding Partner @ Venture51. Founding team @ Flypaper (acquired in '11). Started at Interact (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix).
Co-founding Partner @Venture51
growth @ twitter by profession / kiter by addiction / nerd & entrepreneur by passion / casablanca native by origination
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable.
Not gonna stop until we win.
Angel investor and founding partner of Amidzad, investor in Dropbox, Zoosk, Path, Causes, Soundhound, Backplane, Addepar, Ark and 40 other startups
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
I founded Social Times Inc. in 2007 and sold it to WebMediaBrands (parent company behind mediabistro.com) in 2010. Now I'm building my next company...
Founder: ChoiceVendor (LNKD), Social.IM (QCOM)
Operator: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn
Investor: Mixer Labs (Twitter), iSkoot (QCOM), BetterWorks, Thumbtack
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Founder & CEO of @Brit; Worked at Google, Apple, Tiny Pictures; Investor and advisor to tech startups
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Managing Director of Singtel Innov8 VC fund. 23 angel investments over 7 years mostly in China. Steering Committee for Angelvest largest angel group in China
Developer Community Manager at Spotify in New York, NY. Formerly at SimpleGeo, Ning, CBS Interactive, and ESPN.
Venture Partner 500Startups (focused Latam + international); Founder Brazil Innovators - epicenter of startups in Brazil. Connector, community builder
Founder of Seraph Group. Invested more than 50 companies.
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
CEO Friendsheet, 64px, Free Gifts, LikeButton, early SGN, early @ Tapulous. FB Fund advisor, 500 Startups mentor. Notable FB Platform developer.
convicted serial entrepreneur, investor, teacher (Berkeley, NYU, Stanford, UCSF), daffy startup adviser, stuttering writer, loud speaker
Managing Partner at Cendana Capital; Investor and LP Advisory Committee member of IA Ventures, PivotNorth Capital, Freestyle Capital and SoftTechVC.
Hacker. Angel: Dropis.com, Iubenda.com. Advisor: Coderloop.com. Dave McClure's Shadow @ 500startups.
BD at Unified. Advisor to BranchOut. Was employee #6 at Involver, grew customer base to more than 100K as the Head of Marketing (now at over 1m).
Now: VP Mobile @ PayPal. Before: Founder & CEO @ Zong.
cto @ onsports. ex-product at IGN. ex-product on microsoft's windows phone 7. startup enthusiast. developer evangelist. saints fan. boilermaker. foodie. hack3r.
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
Co-Founder and CEO of @MindSnacks
Serial Entrepreneur.
Recently: Big Viking Games/co-founder/ceo, Kontagent/co-founder (Analytics).
Sold: BubbleShare (Disney), MyDesktop (WebMediaBrands).
Brock Pierce (30) is an entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for virtual goods in online games.
Six Tech Start-Ups. Co-Founder/CEO LimeLife (sold to Total Beauty), VP Marketing XFire (MTV) / Mplayer (IPO), Electronic Arts, McKinsey. Mobile Expert.
Co-Founder of Scaffold, 500Startups Accelerator W11, University of Virginia alum, Ex-Wall St
Co-founder of 9GAG. Co-creator of Startup Quote. LLB HKU.
Founder & Executive Chairman Clearspring
Entrepreneur, Investor, Connector. Chairman & cofounder of inSparq. Previously, I led the acquisition of Bebo from AOL.
Designer, Hacker, and Serial Entrepreneur
Executive Chairman and Founder of Inporia
Head of Strategic Development at Khan Academy. I like to build things that help humanity.
CEO of BlitzLocal-- creating killer Facebook apps for big brands, soon modified for small biz.
VC at Shasta Ventures, entrepreneur, bon vivant
anarchist, ruby hacker, trouble maker
COO of Senzari, Founder of HackDay Foundation, President Aunken Ventures, Founding Shareholder BroadSpan Capital.
Founder & CEO of Teamly.com, a team management SaaS tool. Serial entrepreneur with background in telecoms & web. I love starting, growing & advising companies.
Technology Entrepreneur
Jesse Thomas is the Founder of JESS3 – a creative interactive agency specializing in Social Media Data Visualization.
Co-Founder & CTO of CrowdMob Inc.
I started a car company & sold it. I help Founders build their startups. Mentor at 500 Startups and 20Under20. I find talent for startups & I invest in people.
CEO & Co-Founder of Gamify & Gamification.org. Began career in game industry at age of 15. Raised $10 million with previous startup GameStreamer.
Co-founder, CEO - Fitocracy. BA Economics UPenn.
Fndr Webprendedor; ECLA Columbia Business School
CEO & Founder, Paymentwall Inc.
I've been investing in mobile since before it was cool. I've invested and sold companies (profitably!) in US, Asia, and Europe. I started and sold my own biz.
Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor,
Founder & CEO, PlaySpan (Acq. VISA)
MobileAria (Acq. Wireless Matrix)
E&Y Entrepreneur of Year 2010- Northern California
Hacker (iPhone, Android, Web); ex-CEO; Googler
Internet Entrepreneur
Former ex-Googler. All-around swell guy. Hobbies include code reviews, exception handling, and logs analysis.
Serial Entrepreneur. 2 exits.
Co-founder at UpWest Labs. At the nexus of everything tech between Silicon Valley and Israel.
Founder, Fundly. VP ProfitLogic (sold to Oracle). HBS.
Venture Partner at 500 Startups. Profitably ran a $500M P&L at Dell; secured $200M+ in BD deals; $12B+ in financings and M&A; former firefighter--a real one!
Co-founder & CEO at CrowdMob Inc.
Previously the Social Product Lead at Ustream - 3.5 years, Digital Strategy for Lil Wayne - 2 years (Grew him from 1M to 30M+ fans on fb)
Investor in 12 Gigs. Advisor to CrowdMob.
Entreperneur and angel investor in Brazil
I have helped brands invest more than $100m in Social Advertising during the last 4 years.
