Kevin Swan
Been in a startup, ran a seed fund and now a VC, but an entrepreneur at heart. A Canadian who lived in the Silicon Valley and took it back home with him.
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Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Founder Super Rewards, acquired by AdKnowledge. Founder GrowLab Accelerator, Founder and CEO at Eastside Games. Investor in many.
Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games Inc.
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
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously intern at IA Ventures. Founder of Quirk. PS3 R&D at Naughty Dog. CMU CS BS and MS.
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
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
Canadian. CEO/Founder of Clarity.fm. Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired '11), Founder of Spheric Tech (Acquired '08), Mentor @ 500Startup. Investor in many.
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
Investor in Infospace, StubHub, Serious Materials, Evite, Seagate, Spinner, LiveBid.
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Co-founding Partner @Venture51
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors. Building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world. Stanford MBA.
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
CEO/Founder oneforty, Co-Auth Twitter for Dummies, Founder, Pistachio Consulting, lectured at HBS, MIT-Sloan, Cornell. MHT, Pepsico & WEST award recipient.
Internet entrepreneur (DealPilot, Pageflakes) and angel investor, mainly SaaS (Zendesk, FreeAgent Central, Clio, samedi, inFakt.pl, momox.de, Geckoboard,...).
CEO and Founder of Appstores.com, previously Partner Engineer at Facebook, Co-founder of Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic).
I am a partner at Real Ventures, a Montreal-based seed VC fund where I focus on SaaS, freemium and e-commerce seed investments.
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
Founder JustBooks / AbeBooks (sold to Amazon). Angel investor (> 30 consumer internet / SaaS investments). Venture Partner Acton Capital. Co-founder GrowLab.
Founder/Managing Partner @ BHV; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; MIT, Sloan '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger
Entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, enjoying what I do and the people I work with. Now Managing Partner @ iNovia Capital
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Founder Sprouter (acquired by Postmedia). Inc Magazine Top 30 Under 30. Canadian Business Top 20 "Power Elite".
VP @ Simplegeo
convicted serial entrepreneur, investor, teacher (Berkeley, NYU, Stanford, UCSF), daffy startup adviser, stuttering writer, loud speaker
Operator at Maintenance Assistant. EiR at UWVelocity. Worked at Microsoft, Reactivity, Trilogy, Rockwell Collins. CMU MS in HCI + UWaterloo BSc.
Social Entrepreneur
VP Product at GoInstant. Founding Partner at Year One Labs, early stage accelerator. Previously founded Standout Jobs.
Co-Founder of early stage VC, Real Ventures (Montreal, Canada) and an investor in the FounderFuel Accelerator.
Founder/President U.S. Angel Investors. VP S&M Trader Media (acquired for $350M). Cofounder JMC Telecom. VP Sales and Marketing Bull
Co-founder/CEO Perch, Observer, BCIC. Co-founder, Bootup Labs. Co-founder & CEO, Strutta. Co-founder & CEO, Peerflix. Co-founder & CEO, Spinway.
Co-founder of Spinnakr. Experienced developer of analytics software. Co-founder of @proudlymadeindc and @dctechmeetup
Founder of Arbinet, GroundLink, Transit Wireless, Comgates, Elematics. Investor in 61 startups. $350m raised for 7 startups over $1b in exits to date.
VC at Crosslink Capital. Investor at Visual.ly, Postmates, Scripted, Ark, Vungle, and several other awesome companies.
Growth Hacker @Twitter, Co-founder @summify, @balaurro
Founder and CEO of Optimal, Inc.; early at LinkedIn, NexTag, Jupiter, CFA holder.
EIR at Hedgewood.
http://johnphilipgreen.com
Investor at Rustic Canyon
Cofounder StartupNorth. Investor and Serial Entrepreneur.
I am a partner at Real Ventures, a Montreal-based seed fund, co-founder of Acta Wireless and focus on oppotunities in the mobile web.
Founder of StartupBus. Director at Charles River Ventures
VC at Atlas Venture. Co-founded GrandBanks Capital. Believe in service-based approach for entrepreneurs.
Princeton graduate.
Founder & CEO of Teamly.com, a team management SaaS tool. Serial entrepreneur with background in telecoms & web. I love starting, growing & advising companies.
FounderFuel is a startup accelerator featuring two cohorts a year and a mentor network of 120+ startup veterans that culminates with Demo Day.
Angel/VC/PE,founder. Prev Soros Fund affil, Modulus Video. Yale CS, HBS. Inv in Invite Media, iTriage, FTNT, SLTC. Acq by GOOG, GRPN, AET, CSCO, MOT, AMCC, SCMR
Founder and CEO at Ideateca and Ludei. Founder at Hostalia (acquired by Acens/Telefonica). Angel Investor.
CEO of PostRocket. Two profitable startups before age of 18. UI/UX, BD & Hustler. Babson College Tech Entrepreneurship and Design UG.
General Partner, Rho Canada at Rho Ventures
Founder Rypple (Peter Thiel, Bridgescale). Stanford Law. Sold Workbrain to Infor.
Partner at iNovia Capital
Managing Partner Reinmkr Inc.
Founder/CEO of Undrip. Founder of Zinch (acquired by Chegg). Princeton dropout. Designer/Developer by day. Rapper by night ( http://undrip.com/rap )
I'm a @startupthreads, @songsicle, @pricecrisis buildin', @Startup Weekend helpin', @StartupDigest curatin', @ZaarlyNYC teamin', hip-hop dancin' guy from Jersey
Polyhedric Lateral Thinker Human Network Router, Serendipity Innovator, 15yrs in tech, 6 startups, 10+ awards, 120+ press, 10yrs in USA, 1st co. at 18yrs old
Serial VC-backed entrepreneur in the ecommerce, new media, online advertising, virtual goods, and SMB markets with multiple exits.
Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Lover, Menace, & Shopify CPO.
Co-founder at UpWest Labs. At the nexus of everything tech between Silicon Valley and Israel.
Co-Founder of Invite Media
7-time startup CEO. Currently CEO of EquaShip, "the 4th parcel carrier" providing big shipper discounts to small and medium sized businesses.
Investor in TrueMoney, FreeMyFriends, Tazup. Team member of PowerInbox.
Pioneer & creator of CRM solutions, CEO - Nimble.com, Founder of GoldMine. Interests; Social Business, Customer Lifecycle, Acquisition, Enchantment & Retention.
Co-Founder & CEO of Unbounce.com, Entrepreneur, part-time gardener, foodie, husband, love helping others and having the time of my life... and Canadian
I'm going to make him a deal he can't refuse.
Chairman Fynmn, Founder and CEO Wize.com, President at Nextag, EIR at Mayfield, SVP Products and Technology at Markettools, Procter & Gamble, Peoplesoft, HBS
Startup attorney in Seattle for Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP. Blogs at startuplawblog.com. Co-creator of Startup Trivia iPhone & Android mobile app.
Founder of MetaLab (http://metalabdesign.com), creators of Flow, Ballpark, and more.
Founder of DressRush.com. Handles all things business development, PR, and marketing. Broadcast News Major from UGA and originally from Washington, DC.
Founder / Head of Product Design at Tinder. Founder of Carbon Ads, Fuel Brand Network (acquired). BFA, RIT.
CEO Rewardli (500 Startups W11). Early employee @ 2 startups w/exits. Founder Reflexity (0-$2M in 2 yrs), Imviva (failed), SmartHippo. FounderFuel mentor.
Executive Director, Growlab.ca. 20 years of startups. Last one was NowPublic. Sold it last year to Phil Anschutz. Afternic (register.com). Webpool (telus)
Entrepreneur - 99designs, SitePoint, Flippa. Started at age 15. Inc Magazine 30 under 30 & Forbes 30 under 30.
- CEO, Teambox
- COO, Tripwire (tripled revenue - 100M. Filed S1, sold company)
- Mercury Interactive - created $800M product line,
- Compuware, ran M&A
Investor in Talend, Netvibes, Greenext. Founder LesMobilizers, Comwax. Partner Chausson Finance. Chicago MBA. @Marc Brandsma
Co-Founder of HighScore House
Founder of the One Million by One Million global initiative aimed at helping a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars in annual revenue and beyond.
Co-Founder of Hotlist. Entrepreneur. Investor.
CEO / Founder Springleap.com;
CoFounder evly.com;
Designed 16 mobile phones;
Radio tech journo;
M&G Top 200 South Africans;
Old Mutual top 36 Entrepreneurs;
Founder, MeMeTales. Founder DoodleADoodle, Trendspace. MS Electrical Engineering - Ohio State, MBA - Fisher COB.
co-founder of demand analytics. started innovation incubator palomar5 in 2009. dropped out of a master in philosophy at oxford. and loves food.
@TechZulu COO, Chief Host. Tech journalist. Rumored Bene Gesserit. Heirophant. A 5' 2 force to be reckoned with.
Co-Founder at Owzom (mobile games). Previously founder of email SaaS company Kenzei. High level online marketing, media buying, business development.
vc associate @inovia - excited about ideas
http://www.inoviacapital.com
Co-Founder of Blockboard, formerly head of product for del.icio.us, PM for Yahoo Search and BEA Systems.
Senior Director, Rogers Ventures. Board Member, Scribble Technologies & GridCentric
Social/digital media startup lawyer, advisor, investor, Board member. Former eHarmony VP/global head of Legal. OG MySpacer. Prolific commentator.
CrunchGear co-founder. Data and analytics ringer. Transient technologist.
Founder of Bryght, the first commercial business focused on Drupal. Founder of Bootup Labs, the first Canadian seed accelerator. West coast mischief maker.
Founded Emotely (Acquired by Brass Monkey Inc.). Senior Game Engine Architect turned HTML5 Developer & Evangelist.
Venture Advisor, CEO, technology catalyst, innovator, foodie, music aficionado, and passionate startup guy who thrives on meeting people.
Director of User Experience at Disqus. Co-founder of @Pixelcloud.
Advisor - Sr Project Manager - Investor: TMT, Consumer, FinTech. Dartmouth '88, NYU Stern MBA '95. Former GS & McKinsey. 85 Broads. DV survivor/advocate.
Co-Founder and CEO. MediaCore and PandaStream.
Co-Founder & CEO of CPUsage. Formerly a strategic planning and finance professional at Synopsys & Nike. UO Entrepreneur of the Year, 2000.
