Product
Humanoid is a crowdsourcing QA and cost optimization technology built on top of Amazon Mechanical Turk. We use advanced machine learning techniques to model and predict how well individuals will perform different virtual tasks, then assign work to them in a way that optimizes speed, price and quality.
Our engineering team comes from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and our investors include Google Ventures, 500 Startups and Mitch Kapor.
Founders
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Matt MirelesFounder/CEO of SpeakerText. Reporter at NY Times. BA from Columbia.
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Tyler KieftFounder/product lead at SpeakerText. Worked as a python dev for IBM in high school and college. BS in EE from Rochester, Summa Cum Laude.
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Ben MorseMachine Learning at Humanoid. Carnegie Mellon Electrical and Computer Engineering BS & Robotics MS w/ 4.0 GPA
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Matt SwansonFounder/CTO at SpeakerText. Built autonomous farming robots for John Deere. MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon.Unconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Mitch KaporLotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
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Kenny Van ZantBusiness guy for @asana, entrepreneur, angel investor in many great start-ups. Former Chief Product officer at SolarWinds (SWI).
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Geoff RalstonCEO of music startup Lala (acquired by Apple); Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!
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Roger DickeySerial entrepreneur (3 startups), Mafia Wars founder, Angel investor (10+ companies)
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Georges HarikDistinguished Engineer at Google (One of first 10 employees); PM & Strategy on Gmail, GTalk, Video, Picasa, Orkut, Groups & Mobile. Co-dev of AdSense targeting.
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Nat FriedmanCEO/cofounder of Xamarin, cofounder of Ximian, former CTO of SUSE, private pilot. http://nat.org/blog
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Dave McClureFounding Partner + TroubleMaker @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Mint.com. Geek, entrepreneur, marketer, interwebs addict. Investor 250+ co's in 15+ countries.
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Joshua BaerFounded 3 email companies and Capital Factory. Teaching 1 Semester Startup at University of Texas. Trilogy Alumni 1999. CS Carnegie Mellon.
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Chris YehVP Enterprise Marketing, PBworks; Startup Investor and Advisor
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Brandon ZeunerCo-founding Partner @Venture51. Republic Project & Flypaper. Started at Interact (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix).
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Ryan SwagarCo-founding Partner @Venture51
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Wesley ChanPartner at Google Ventures. Angel Investor. Founder of Google Analytics and Google Voice.
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Maneesh AroraCEO/Cofounder @ MightyText. Product Management: Google (Consumer,Ads), Zynga. Google Founders Award:AdSense. b4:Enterprise software. CS degree UCLA. 500S Mentor
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Eghosa OmoiguiAngel investor (Consumer, Mobile, Media, SemTech); Intel Capital; Investor in dots before they become lines; Plot/execute daily assaults on conventional wisdomUnconfirmed
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David BeyerCEO of Chart.io (YC 2010). Investor in awesome companies.
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Roy RodensteinCo-founder & CEO, SocMetrics. Co-founder HackerAngels, Going.com (acquired by AOL). MIT Media Lab 2000.
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Jeff MillerHacker Angel. Founder @Punchfork. 11 yrs on Wall Street as a quant trader at Millennium & Goldman Sachs. BS Harvey Mudd, MS NYU/Courant. Data enthusiast.
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Russell FradinCEO of Dynamic Signal. Founder/Executive at 4 companies: 2 IPO's, 2 Exits.
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Adam SchwartzFounder/CEO Articulate
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Amit SanganiGoogle (AdMob, AdWords, Analytics), Cisco, Composite Software and Tibco.
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Steve TranCo-founded BeVocal (acq'd by Nuance). Ran Products, Mktg, Sales, BD, & Finance. VP of BD at Nuance. Cadence (BD), Petrie Parkman (M&A) & Compaq (HW engineer).
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Luke RajlichCTO of Farmville.
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Mikael BernerEntrepreneur In Residence at U.S. Venture Partners SVP Enterprise Division at Nuance Communications Co-Founder, President and CEO at BeVocal
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Jessica RichmanUnconfirmed -
Lukas BiewaldCEO of CrowdflowerUnconfirmed
Advisors
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Marc RandolphNetflix Co-founder. Entrepreneur, Investor and Advisor
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Joe KennedyPresident and CEO, Pandora Media, Inc.
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Seth SternbergUnconfirmed
Employees
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Matt MirelesScrappy Mofo. Hustler. Co-Founder/CEO of Humanoid SpeakerText.Unconfirmed
