Sheeroy Desai
Love to start and build businesses.
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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.
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
VC at True Ventures. Lover of Disruptive Technology, Punk Music, and Burritos.
http://www.lifeinbeta.org
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
convicted serial entrepreneur, investor, teacher (Berkeley, NYU, Stanford, UCSF), daffy startup adviser, stuttering writer, loud speaker
Hacker. Georgia Tech Alum. Texas born Greek. Known for PSTAM.com. Co-founder @Picplum (YC S11), Notifo (YC W10), Skribit. Got my 15min in my own Nike ad.
Active angel for 17 years; Currently working on a new gig;
Senior Partner with VC Globespan Capital for 12 years;
Top rated Wall Street analyst; Entrepreneur
Investor at Rustic Canyon
Partner at Rembrandt Venture Partners. Fan of E2.0 and SaaS startups. Former SW engineer.
Founder of Pepperjam (sold to GSI / eBay). Founder KBJ Capital and ReferLocal.com. Best Selling Author.
Founder & CEO of Teamly.com, a team management SaaS tool. Serial entrepreneur with background in telecoms & web. I love starting, growing & advising companies.
The original Nerdgirl.com. Founder of Grows Up. Previously at Netscape, Sega, Skype, PeoplePC & Atomico Ventures. International e-comm & product geek.
Investor in Episencial, give2gether, Bit.ly, Powermat, Briefcam, Ctera Networks. Team member of ALM-UNLTD.
CEO at Genomera. Designer-Founder. Xing ($75M) Experts Exchange ($20M/yr) Softec, iPlanet, Vantive ($500M) Responsys ($700M) Chordiant ($200M) Genetic Alliance
CEO usell.com. Founder of LiveOps. Serial Entrepreneur and Angel investor. Strong entrepreneur with Senior management experience
Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds
GroupCharger CMO and VP Product. Track record of traction and growth for early stage ventures including Zvents, & Outright.com. Early career with HP and Yahoo!
Co-founder of Zerply. Started my first web company in junior high. B.Sc. Business Adm. from Stockholm University.
Partner Stech Ventures investors in Tapulous (sold to Disney), iSocket, Zwapp.com
host & founder of @venturestudio, 3x entrepreneur, angel investor, director university venture lab
Columnist at The Washington Post
Business Development and Strategy at LinkedIn
Founder, Internetrix (award winning digital consultancy), co-founder Omnidrive, MBA
Co-Founder of Hotlist. Entrepreneur. Investor.
Co-founder & CTO 500friends (a Y Combinator company). CTO of StrongMail, PopularMedia (funded by Sequoia, acquired by StrongMail), and Digitas. VP at Sapient.
CEO & Co-Founder at Spool
Corporate Development/Business Development at LinkedIn
co-founder Activision ATVI $14B cap, founder Acclaim Games (sold to Playdom). Founder and co-chair Start Engine LA's largest accelerator.
Founder @BraveNewTalent Community platform around employment & skills. Into future of Education, Youth,Talent Communities, Entrepreneurship, Social recruiting
Serial Entrepreneur • last w/ an exit in just 18 months! • strong Technical&Biz background • M.Sc. in Information Technologies • worked at Vodafone, Nokia, ION.
CEO & Co-Founder at Stor Networks, 4 successful exits for previous investors, Founder FreshTrackLabs - Connecting Silicon Slopes to Silicon Valley & Alley.
Currently CEO of Pangea Media, makers of SnapApp.com: engagement to drive customer acquisition. Entrepreneur | Father | Runner | Diver | General Life Enthusiast
Former strategist of Spilgames.com and Founder of MMO LIFE (Parent company of for example www.mmotraffic.com).
CVO at Jajah (sold to Telephonica 2009) - CVO and Co-Founder of Bilbone, Carezilla, Linoq, Lookk, QRmore, Twingz, Wappwolf, xScited
Co-founder of tapviva, next-gen mobile ordering restaurant technology platform (AngelPad S11). Web developer and Pomona grad. Tech geek who likes to think big.
CEO & co-Founder of UpNext.
SVP / Customer Development at Gild
Scott has a unique perspective having been an entrepreneur seeking funding as well as assisting in raising venture capital f
General Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners
MyID.is Certified Founder & CEO. Launched http://myid.is. Entrepreneur since '94, I love Xtrem sports, sailing, kitesurf, rugby, photo, Harley & spirituality
MD,Southboro Capital,5X start-upCXO, 2 IPOs,5exits; Mentor:TechStars, Founders Inst, Long MIT affiliation.Ex McKinsey.Connector to large global start-up network
Principal at ConvertClick
Head of Investment Department at TMT Investments, Plc. MBA Kingston University. I am passionate about Mobile, Cloud, Scalability, Revenue-focused solutions.
CEO, Droisys - Product Engineering in Cloud, Mobile & mLearning
Technical Co-Founder at Blockboard. Formerly: senior engineer at Craigslist, ran engineering team at Delicious. Technical background but always product-focused
CTO of Enthuse, Fusion Evangelist at ITER, B.A. in Physics from Kenyon.
Sensei. Angel Investor/Advisor/Entrepreneur/Mentor with Cap Markets / Finance COO/CTO background. MIT Engineer. Founder Stamford Innovation Center.
Straight talk, thought leadership, and best practice implementation for pre-employment assessment
Marketing Director at Gild
CEO at ClickFuel
Team member of Top Hat Monocle.
CEO, Co-Founder at Autumn Games
Delivering web products since 1996 • Hacker @Gild • Investor, advisor @Dropis • Founder/CEO @Coderloop (bootstrapped + sold in 12 months) • ex Yahoo!, Vodafone
Founder of four start-ups and officially unemployable.
Founder of Lutebox, Serial Entrepreneur, Double Masters (MBA + MSc)
Founder & CEO of TrustCloud.
Social media, games, 3D film, & China biz background.
Worked at Microsoft & Sony.
Santa Clara University
Managing Director @ Gild India
Coder, manager, hustler. Started Yahoo's developer network and led eBay's platform evangelism team. Advisor to Twilio. Currently running CodeLesson.
Tech entrepreneur and exec
AdventureLink is now in beta! Previously founded LeisureLink (vacation rental web site) & specialize in developing online travel companies.
first US employee @ Skype, founder Betaworks, xCOO OMGPOP!, CEO online ad&payments companies.
SocialBro is an advanced management tool for twitter that let social media professionals know in depth how their communities are and manage them
Director of Investment & Entrepreneur Services at Investors' Circle.
Also an aspiring Ironman, wannabe photographer, and hopeful dog-owner.
CEO, Founder at ArcTouch
- Private investor since 2001
- Founding chairman/CEO, MyPoints.com; led $46MM IPO & $211MM secondary offering
- Grew consumer membership from zero to 16MM
Leadership roles in multiple successful startups including Workgroup Management, VP Sales and Professional Services - Xtime, EVP, Europe - Second Foundation
Founded OZ when 17 yrs old, OZ sold to Nokia. Founded Vodafone Iceland when 26, now public
Entrepreneur, Technology Visionary, Angel Investor
Passionate about changing the world, I solve problems and create solutions.
Entrepreneur at heart who thrives at the intersection of Product Management, User Experience and Interaction Design. Stanford Engineering Graduate. oDesk Alumni
5 companies = 2 IPOs + 5 acquisitions: CRI, Zero G, Adero, ValiCert, Individual; consumer, enterprise, mobile, social, realtime, cloud
CMO of ThriveHive.Former Marketing Executive at Monster.com, NBC, IBM and OnForce. Board Advisor for Life360.
Infrastructure/Arch. expert. Past at IBM, Lloyds & E*TRADE in roles inc. CTO/Head of Inf/Head of Strategy. 3rd startup. 1 modest yet successful exit to date.
Linkovery CEO & Founder
Team member of echoecho.
Co-Founder - Recruiterbox. Past: Founded Classifieds Portal in India | EMC Corp Alum | Babson College Alum
Founder at Diroddi
CEO of Tie Society, funded by 500 Startups. Former Management Consultant with focuses in Thought Leadership, Business Analytics, and Supply-Chain Management.
Founder NodeSocket. Founded 619Cloud a cloud hosting company. Comp Sci major.
Founded successful Rails consultancy & created a number of products. Two sold to the Next Web. Now building predictive social analytics engines at Socialyzer.
Chief Technology Officer at Iora Health
CTO at DramaFever.com, building new features and scaling the site while managing the development team.
Founder at LifeGadget
Partner at Velacor
Cofounder Presive.com, advisor to several startups, has worked with companies all over the globe.
Angel and serial entrepreneur. Founder/Chief Architect at Fortify Software (acquired by HP). VP Eng at EchoSign (acquired by Adobe).
Program Coordinator at StartEngine. Partner at Jacaranda Ventures.
Founder at Dittit.com, Berkeley Math Geek. Product Management and Finance background.
EECS Berkeley; Crowdstar Lead Producer and Developer; Hacker
Founder of LegitLead. My background is in online marketing, technology, innovation & leadership. Harvard MBA and Purdue Engineer.
Founder & CEO - Cauzly.com, Parabolic Ventures, NextGen Leaders Council, EndeavorCard, InterCapital Group, Inspired Futures Foundation
VP Engineering at Gild
I have been working with webdesign, webdevelopment and analytics since 2001.
Sales & Marketer with an Entrepreneurial mindset
CEO - Serial entrepreneur and UX lover. 3rd Startup.
