Mark Friedgan
Manager at CatapultFund; Angel Investor; CTO at FundScience Inc.; BS/MS Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; CIO Top 100/InfoWorld Top 25 CTO
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CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
Co-founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks • EIR at Atlas and Bessemer • Worked on Songbird, Grockit, Kovio • Schooling at MIT • Published in Science • 2 Patents
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.
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
CEO, Buyosphere (current); Founder, Coworking; Author, The Whuffie Factor; Speaker, Leigh Bureau; Founder, Citizen Agency; Online Marketing Director, Like.com
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Partner at Rockfish Brand Ventures, co-founder at The Brandery
Co-founder and VP Marketing of Rally.org. 4X venture backed exec (Troux, Ventix, Question.com). MBA + Engineer.
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Angel Investor. Former CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) and Organic; Entrepreneur in Residence at Idealab! Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Entrepreneur; Startup Advisor; Angel; Consultant & Aspiring Author on Corporate Engagement with the Startup Ecosystem.
Social Entrepreneur
General Partner, merrickhanna ventures. Venture Partner, PIE. Chairman, Tangible Worldwide. Worked w/ Mosaic, Flash, Urchin, marchFIRST & top ad agencies.
Founder & CEO at Rentabilities.
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
Founder/President U.S. Angel Investors. VP S&M Trader Media (acquired for $350M). Cofounder JMC Telecom. VP Sales and Marketing Bull
Six Tech Start-Ups. Co-Founder/CEO LimeLife (sold to Total Beauty), VP Marketing XFire (MTV) / Mplayer (IPO), Electronic Arts, McKinsey. Mobile Expert.
Entrepreneur, Investor, Connector. Chairman & cofounder of inSparq. Previously, I led the acquisition of Bebo from AOL.
Alireza is in charge of Investment for Plug & Play’s Ventures where he is responsible for supporting the firm’s investments and venture capital partners .
CEO / CTO @ Precog.io. Veteran software craftsman, experienced manager, entrepreneur, startup junkie, consultant, master generalist. http://precog.io
Founder @ K5Launch, member and board member @ Tech Coast Angels, deal committee ACE Fund, COO of Vokle, active investor.
Founder & CEO of Teamly.com, a team management SaaS tool. Serial entrepreneur with background in telecoms & web. I love starting, growing & advising companies.
Hacker/Founder. Co-Founder of Contactually. Formerly Founder of Struc.to(2010), CTO of Workstreamer (acq. 2009). Washington, DC tech community organizer
Investor in Klout, 500px, and many others.
4th time as startup CEO. COO, Heidrick & Struggles. SVP Sales & Marketing, Ameritox. VP Marketing, Dyson. Kellogg MBA. Wharton BS.
Hesky Kutscher previously founded ShopLocal.com which sold in 2004 to Gannet and HighGear Media which is funded by Accel and Greylock
Founder of urbantag. Secured banks at VeriSign, networked supercomputers at NASA.
Managing Partner at Red Rocket Ventures in Chicago. Serial Entrepreneurial CEO from iExplore, MediaRecall and elsewhere.
CEO / Founder at Rescale. Previously, 4 yrs 787 software dev at Boeing, associate at McKinsey. MBA (HBS), Aerospace MS (UW), Mechanical BS, Applied Math (UM).
10-yr CEO, founder, BoD @ eBags (34% CAGR, 9.4M bags sold, 1.4M reviews, profits, $30M raised); CEO @ UsingMiles; Advisor Runa; Facilitator Founder Institute CO
Co-Founder at Cube. Previously at WePay. Spent two years at Deloitte consulting travel and payment clients. Former NCAA Division I Wrestling Captain.
Strong business & development background (UBS, Citigroup, UNFPA, UNICEF). Love all things data & micro. kickboxer & yogi by night. CEO of @InVenture
Fndr Webprendedor; ECLA Columbia Business School
Managing Partner Reinmkr Inc.
Founder at gtrot (Lightbank funded). Product, ruby on rails, UX. New product development at American Express. Amex Chairman Innovation Award. NYU Stern BA.
Technical Advisor, Software Development Trainer, Co-founder of MercuryApp.com
Fndr Blueleaf, Board of Oneforty, Org. of Lean Startup Circle-Boston. Prod Mgt at Authentify, Veritel (Speechworks), iFlourish, Listen Systems (Bell Helicopter)
Professional Trader, Genetic Algorithmist, Managing Partner Purvi Capital LLC.
Turns Concepts into Profits. Serial Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Hyde Park Angels, Angel Investor, Independent Trader, @Jeffrey Carter
Angel Investor
Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds
Founded first business at 13. Invested in equities since 14. Started 4 companies after MIT Econ '07, sold one so far. Now CEO of Abroad101.
Partner Stech Ventures investors in Tapulous (sold to Disney), iSocket, Zwapp.com
Cofounder of Zillabyte (YC W12). Former Google Engineer, Darpa Challenge, Ironman Triathlete.
founder fwd, e-commerce entrepreneur, designer, programmer.
Avado powers h/c providers changing the game. Saving MDs admin costs, improving patient satisfaction and most importantly, improving health outcomes.
Early Zimbra engineering team member. Now lead Zimbra R&D at VMware. Interest in SaaS, Internet Publishing, Ad Networks, Communications/Email, and Enterprise.
Education Startup mode. Previously: Citizen Schools, Google (AdSense, AdWords). Masters in Education from Stanford.
3x tech CEO (2 public, IPO Egreetings); Mint, Ark, Curebit, Cube, Telesocial, Operators Fund; Excite SVP; LoJack EVP; earlier: P&G. Photographer, Ironman tri
Former bond trader (merrill lynch).
Among first to invest in zappos.
Co-founded flicklaunch.
Dartmouth BA Wharton MBA
Best Trade: mentoring inner city kids
Founder of WeSprout, formerly Director of UX at Posterous, LinkedIn, Viget Labs.
Angel Investor; Entrepreneur; Was Principal at Pangea Properties REIT; Ex-CIO, Co-Founder at CashNetUSA.com
Co-Founder of Technori and InsuranceAgents.com
CEO of Gridium. Former EnerNOC VP of Energy Efficiency, CEO of TerraPass. Tech before cleantech: Redback, Cisco, Mercer. Wharton MBA Dartmouth AB.
Stanford MS in Comp Sci, BS in EE. Frmly VP of Tech Hearsay. NVDIA, STAR Lab @ Stanford.
On a mission to make auto repair convenient, affordable, and transparent.
Co-founder and CEO at Chartboost. Employee #10 at Tapulous. Worked on monetization of Tap Tap Revenge from 5M to 50M users
Director of Biz Dev for lead gen startup Affiliate Fuel, acq. by Experian. Co-founders left, I took over all operations, took it from $19M to $48M in two years.
Partner, New World Ventures & DFJ Portage
Co-Founder & CEO of PVPower. Excelerate Labs 2010 Graduate. SEO, Analytics & Content Expert.
Cofounder at LendFriend. Financial services background includes loss mitigation, regulatory compliance, and risk assessments at PayPal, Deutsche Bank, and RBC.
COO, Buyosphere (current); Advisor, Spectrum Data Technologies; Business Development, Fluid; Business Development, Truition
CEO & Founder @ 71lbs. Founded logistics company. Ran FedEx's $1.5B Retail & eCommerce practice. Managed Jamba Juice's logistics. Ex Alibaba.com, Goldman Sachs.
CEO of Travelgoat, investor in mobile location based platforms, business development connector, tour guide.
- CEO, Teambox
- COO, Tripwire (tripled revenue - 100M. Filed S1, sold company)
- Mercury Interactive - created $800M product line,
- Compuware, ran M&A
BizDev at FeeFighters. Early at Kiva.org, boostrapped a few startups of my own. Consulting experience (BCG, Chartis), CMU undergrad, Michigan MBA
Launching one startup per month 2012 as investor / co-founder. Stay tuned for some amazing stuff!
Founded & exited from Qubulus, old style programmer since -81.
Senior Investment Manager at venture capital firm of Deutsche Telekom AG, former CTO & entrepreneur. Board member at MyTaxi, flaregames, 6Wunderkinder, apprupt
Founder at Popset (YC W12)
Product Designer at Groupon 2012. Co-founded MyZeus in 2011. Previously founded P41 Studios in 2007.
Airborne Ranger. Decorated Combat Veteran. Harvard Business Graduate Frequent Contributor to NPR and BBC via Public Radio International. Entrepreneur.
Current: CEO & Founder Qubulus, Founder ClickClacks.
Past: Founder IRL Connect, co-founder non-profit Verbeterdebuurt
Founder FastCall. Three time entrepreneur. 1st startup in college. Cofounder Seattle-based OpenSpace.com.
Technology Founder/CEO/CTO - five exits totaling $500m. 12 patents. Mentor, advisor. Speaker on technology and entrepreneurship.
Analyst at Lightbank, former consultant, UIUC engineer, born and raised in Chicago
co-founder Activision ATVI $14B cap, founder Acclaim Games (sold to Playdom). Founder and co-chair Start Engine LA's largest accelerator.
Managing Director of Sandbox Industries, led a buyout of The NutraSweet Company and served as CEO
Co-founder at Tech.li
CEO of Mortar Data. Worked at Wireless Generation (acq for $400M), built all 3 flagship products (TPRI, DIBELS, ARIS) which reach 5M people.
Apple, AOL, Viacom, Yahoo. Outlook Ventures: Digital Chocolate, Reply.com
Founder and CEO of Meograph, the four-dimensional storytelling platform. Former aerospace engineer and McKinsey consultant. MIT and Berkeley alum.
Building a better mobile phone for India. Creator of IdeaExchange at salesforce.com. Worked at Digital Chocolate, Bank of NY-Mellon.
Founder of Foodstream.net. Co-founder of award-winning data mining company E-Steam. One of the early employees and former Director of Engineering at Yahoo!
Founder MoneySmart.sg. Founder HomeSpace.sg. Founder e27 Singapore.
BComp (Honours) Computing National University of Singapore
MS&E Stanford University
Advisor of Fast Air Buy LLC, co-chair Heartland Mobile Council's Summit 2012, former digital strategy consultant at Chicago Fire Soccer Club. UC Berkeley MBA.
Entrepreneur/Russian/Chicagoan/Foodie, @FeeFighters, @IgniteChicago @EntUnpluggd
Founder & CEO CookItFor.Us | Founder, MonksOfInvention.com | Founder, InnovationCenter.com | Intrapreneur - American Express, GE Capital, Kraft Foods
Co-founder of BeCouply. Open source contributor. Helped write a few federal privacy/security standards. CS grad from MIT, where I was student body president.
Entrepreneur, angel investor in Istanbul. Co-founder of Enuygun.com, former founder of cember.net. Invested in 7 ventures in Turkey, ME, and the US.
CEO of RidePal. Ex-product manager @ Google, AdMob, Meebo. INSEAD MBA. Founded BeatSarcoma (nonprofit).
