MindSnacks - AngelList

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MindSnacks builds touch-based educational games for foreign language learning, test prep and other subjects.

MindSnacks Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, German, Italian, Portuguese and SAT Vocab are available in the App Store today.

Selected as 2011 Education App of the Year by Apple.

MindSnacks is a profitable 13-person company with significant traction.

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Jesse Pickard

Co-founder and CEO. Ex-Razorfish UX designer and strategist.
Andy Mroczkowski

Co-founder at MindSnacks
Karl Stenerud

Co-founded Trickshot Games. Co-founded MindSnacks.

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Mitch Kapor

Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Geoff Ralston

Partner at Imagine K12. Partner at Y Combinator. Former CEO of music startup Lala (acquired by Apple); Former Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!
David Jeske

Founder Neotonic (sold to Google). Engineering Director @ Google for orkut.com, Google Groups, sign-in. Manager / Architect for eGroups.com and Yahoo Groups.
Dave McClure

Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Christine Tsai

Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed.
500 Startups

Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.

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DreamIt Ventures

Our goal at DreamIt is simple: Help great people with great ideas build great companies.

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Rafael Corrales

CEO of the wonderful @learnboost; Advisor or Endorser of startups trying to change the world

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Ignacio Soto

Spañiard working in Silicon Valley. Web & iOS developer @ MindSnacks. I tell computers what to do.
Katarina Ling

Making Educational Mobile Games @ MindSnacks!
Ben Tobias

Artist at MindSnacks
Marianne Salciccia

Community Outreach & Support at MindSnacks
Kathrin Kaiser

Content Development at MindSnacks
Mindy Eve Myers

Director of Education, MindSnacks

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Matt Sandler

Co-founder and CEO of Chromatik. Professional saxophonist and music tech lecturer at UCLA. A&R/Programming at Capitol Records and KROQ.
Samuel Ian Rosen

Co-Founder of Scaffold, 500Startups Accelerator W11, University of Virginia alum, Ex-Wall St
Andrew Maguire

Chief Executive Officer at InternMatch
Alex Moore

CEO at @baydinsoftware, makers of Boomerang and the @emailgame. I cook well, play frisbee poorly, and am the loudest Alabama fan in Bryant-Denny once a year.
Brett Kopf

Co-founder at remind101 & founder of Social Bonfire
Anil Dharni

Co-Founder at Funzio

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Matt Sandler

Co-founder and CEO of Chromatik. Professional saxophonist and music tech lecturer at UCLA. A&R/Programming at Capitol Records and KROQ.

“Yesterday was our best sales day of all time! ”

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Brett Kopf I met Jesse 7 months ago and am continually impressed by him and the folks at Mindsnacks. They've built an amazing product that's incredibly engaging.

Highly recommend.

3 months ago · Maneesh Arora and 1 other person like this

Dave McClure Jesse and team are building something huge & valuable, and they are killing it. BIG thumbs up.

3 months ago · Maneesh Arora and 1 other person like this

Alex Moore Jesse and the MindSnacks team are some of the hardest working, sharpest, most passionate folks I know. As a fellow entrepreneur, it's been amazing watching them grow and seeing the impact their products have.

3 months ago · Maneesh Arora likes this

Samuel Ian Rosen Jesse and his team are top notch. People love their product. The numbers speak louder than words.

3 months ago · Maneesh Arora and 1 other person like this

Maneesh Arora Have been a huge fan of Mindsnacks and Jesse for a while now. It was one of the easiest investment decisions I have ever made :)

3 months ago · Jesse Pickard likes this