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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Developer Platform space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Guillermo Rauch
CEO & Founder of Vercel
Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He’s the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.
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About Vercel: Vercel is a platform that enables users to develop, preview, and ship Jamstack sites.
Richard Bernardino
Founder & CEO, Software Architect of Orchidware Studios
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About Orchidware Studios, Project Blue Butterfly, Project Shrub, Project Umami: Fun, exciting, fascinating video games for players of all ages to enjoy.
John Riccitiello
CEO of Unity Technologies
Since joining Unity as CEO in 2014, John Riccitiello has been a driving force in the successful launch of Unity 5 – the company’s next-generation multiplatform engine and development tools. Previously serving as CEO of Electronic Arts, John played a critical role in the company’s transformation into a mobile, online, and digital gaming leader, with subsequent revenue growth exceeding $1.6 billion during that time. John is also an active private investor, serving on Unity’s board since 2013 as well as Syntertainment, Telltale Games, and a few other higher-ed and non-profit boards. In addition, he was an investor and advisor to Oculus.
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Robert Nishihara
Co-Founder and CEO of Anyscale
Robert Nishihara is a fourth-year PhD student working in the UC Berkeley RISELab with Michael Jordan. He works on machine learning, optimization, and artificial intelligence.
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About Anyscale, UC Berkeley College of Engineering: Anyscale accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale — with Ray.
Magnus Kongsli Hillestad
CEO & Co-founder of Sanity
Magnus Kongsli Hillestad is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sanity.
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About Sanity: Sanity is a platform for structured content that lets teams build digital experiences.
Geoff Schmidt
CEO and Co-founder of Apollo
Geoff Schmidt is the CEO and Co-founder at Meteor.
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About Apollo, Meteor Development: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Ryan Atallah
Co-Founder & CEO of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
As co-founder and CTO, entrepreneur and engineer Ryan Atallah sold his natural language analytics startup Cleargraph to Tableau for $30 million in 2017; after which Tableau was acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), where Ryan served as a senior Software Engineer Manager overseeing the NLP-powered Ask Data product now featured in Tableau’s offerings. He departed to co-found intelligent No-Code enterprise data applications platform Spindle (www.spindle.app) with his twice-cofounder Carson Kahn. Spindle is now backed by Accel Partners (Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT, Notion, Airtable, Vercel), and diverse Fortune 100 executives who share in its mission to give teams data superpowers.
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Tableau: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Kwindla Kramer
Co-founder & CEO of Daily.co
Kwindla Hultman Kramer is CEO of Oblong Industries, developer of the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. Oblong was responsible for the gestural interfaces in the film Minority Report, and the company’s current customers and partners include Boeing, GE, Saudi Aramco and others. Kwin’s background is in programming, hardware design, and the development of large-scale systems architectures. Before helping to start Oblong he served as the founding CTO of AllAfrica.com, one of the web’s largest content aggregators and a two-time webby award nominee. Kwin holds degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory and Harvard College and lives in Los Angeles.
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About Daily.co: Daily.co offers video chat as an API.
Dmitry Shapiro
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Koji
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About Koji: Koji is the world’s most powerful link in bio platform, building the app store for the Creator Economy.
Brendan Falk
CEO and Co-Founder of Fig
Brendan Falk is the co-founder and CEO of Fig.
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About Fig: Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Haseeb Budhani
Co-founder & CEO of Rafay Systems
Haseeb Budhani is the CEO and co-founder of Rafay Systems, which he co-founded in October of 2016. Prior to Rafay, Haseeb spent at a year at Akamai Technologies as the company’s Vice President of Enterprise Strategy. Akamai acquired Haseeb’s previous company, Soha Systems, in October 2016. Haseeb co-founded Soha in the second half of 2013 and served as the company’s CEO. Prior to Soha, Haseeb served as the Chief Product Officer for Infineta Systems, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company’s product marketing, marketing communications and partner management activities. Prior to Infineta, Haseeb served as Vice President for NET’s Broadband Technology Group, spearheading the group’s product marketing, program management and business development functions. Previously, Haseeb held senior product management, marketing and engineering roles at Personal IT, Citrix Systems, Orbital Data, IP Infusion and Oblix. Haseeb holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
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About Rafay Systems: Rafay enables enterprise Platform teams to manage the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters and modern applications with ease at any scale.
Shashank Samant
CEO of GlobalLogic
Since joining GlobalLogic in 2008, Shashank Samant has helped turn the company from a group of bright technology minds working with startups into a global Digital Product Engineering Services leader helping Fortune 500 companies on their innovation agenda. In Shashank’s time as President and CEO of GlobalLogic, the company has experienced explosive growth in size and revenue – all while developing a culture that fosters engaged employees around innovation and client success. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Shashank was President of Ness Technologies, where he founded and built their product engineering services business. Prior to Ness, Shashank managed product engineering for Hewlett-Packard’s Verifone line of business. Furthermore, Shashank was instrumental in establishing IBM’s first Indian engineering lab, thus globalizing its R&D and engineering. Shashank started his career at Citicorp where he was part of the core team that developed the FlexCube banking product that changed retail banking. With a passion for technology and innovation, Shashank is focused on transforming GlobalLogic into a trusted partner for the Fortune 500’s and a trusted employer with a strong culture that evolves as the company grows. Shashank is a frequent speaker on the topics of global innovation and digital disruption. He is also an avid cook and history buff. You can find him dining late at night with the chefs of the hotels where he stays during his travels, or reading in his home library.
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About GlobalLogic, GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Nikil Viswanathan
Co-founder and CEO of Alchemy
Nikil Viswanathan is the Co-founder and CEO at Alchemy.
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About Alchemy: Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Assaf Resnick
Founder & CEO of BigPanda
Assaf Resnick is CEO and founder of BigPanda, a data science platform for automating IT event correlation. BigPanda brings order to the alert chaos of large and fragmented IT Operations environments. Prior to founding BigPanda, Assaf was an investor with Sequoia Capital from 2005-2011. He lives in California with his wife and two beautiful kids.
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About BigPanda: BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily.
Joseph Walla
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloSign
Joseph is the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco based startup HelloSign. The idea behind HelloSign was sparked by Joseph’s first successful product alongside co-founder Neal O’Mara, HelloFax. HelloFax launched in 2011 after attending the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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About HelloFax, HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Akhil Bhiwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Phyllo
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About Phyllo: APIs to access creator economy platform data
Quinn Slack
CEO of Sourcegraph
Quinn Slack is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sourcegraph.
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About Sourcegraph: Sourcegraph provides universal code search for developers and companies so they can innovate faster and manage billions of lines of code.
Zak Holdsworth
Co-Founder & CEO of Hint Health
Zak Holdsworth is the Co-founder & CEO at Hint Health.
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About Hint Health: Hint Health fixes healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered.
Karri Saarinen
CEO & Co-founder of Linear
Karri Saarinen is the Co-Founder & CEO at Linear.
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About Linear: Linear allows users to manage software development and track bugs.
Alon Girmonsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Up9
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About Up9: UP9 is an autonomous forum for developers to test the microservice.
Bryan Cheung
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Liferay
Bryan Cheung steers the company’s strategic direction and worldwide business development efforts as one of the founders serving with the company since its inception in 2004. Drawing on his technical experience, understanding of customer needs, and a passion for end users, Bryan leads Liferay in meeting its commitment to deliver focused and effective business solutions to its customers and its community. Bryan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science, and is a sought-after keynote speaker at major IT and open source industry events.
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About Liferay: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices.
Brian Bell
CEO of Split Software
Brian Bell is the CEO of Split Software.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Rami Tamir
CEO & Co-Founder of Salto
Rami Tamir is Co-Founder and CEO at Salto.
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About Salto: Salto provides software development and DevOps concepts and tools to business operations teams.
Jonathan Zweig
CEO / Co-Founder of AppOnboard
Jonathan Zweig is Founding CEO of AppOnboard Inc – the Premium Private Platform for Full-Fidelity App Demos & Next-Gen Heat-Map Analytics. Zweig, creator of 14 of the first 100 native iOS games in 2008 — was previously CEO and President at AdColony, which he also founded and sold to Opera in 2014 for $350M Jonathan Zweig was the Founding CEO/President of AdColony which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June 2014. AdColony is the largest independent mobile advertising platform in the world. AppOnboard is his new company focused on monetization through download-less app technology and playable ads with patent-pending fraud protection. Jonathan has also was Founding CEO of Jirbo, Inc which developed 14 of the first 100 games ever on the iPhone AppStore: https://www.macworld.com/article/1134395/jirbo.amp.html Under his guidance as CEO, Jirbo would eventually put out over 200 games and apps for ESPN, Sony Music, Universal, Kaplan Test Prep, and many more global brands. Jirbo would eventually pivot to become AdColony, the largest independent mobile ad network in the world.
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About AdColony, AppOnboard, Literati Labs, Inc.: AppOnboard is a software company that empowers creators to build businesses without any programming experience.
Anant Bhardwaj
Chief Executive Officer of Instabase
Anant Bhardwaj is the founder & CEO of Instabase. Prior to Instabase, he was a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.
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About Instabase: Instabase provides a broad technology platform, and an app store for businesses applications.
Chaoyu Yang
Co-found & CEO of BentoML.ai
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About BentoML.ai: The machine learning model serving platform, from the creators of open-source BentoML.
Adam Smith
Founder, CEO of Kite
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About Kite: Kite augments coding environment with the use of internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning.
Divanny Lamas
CEO of Transposit
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About Sutter Hill Ventures, Transposit: Transposit delivers connected workflow, giving TechOps and SREs visibility, context, and actionability across people, processes, and APIs.
Vince Zampella
CEO of Respawn Entertainment
Vince Zampella is Co-Founder at Nuclear Division.
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About Nuclear Division, Respawn Entertainment: Respawn Entertainment is an independent video game development studio located in the San Fernando Valley.
James J. Peterson
CEO of Microsemi
Mr. James J. Peterson is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Microsemi Corporation.He served as President of LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc., a manufacturer of linear and mixed signal integrated from 1997 to 1999 and as its Vice President of Sales from 1996 to 1997. We acquired LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc. in 1999. Prior to joining LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc., Mr. Peterson served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Corporate Communications of Texas Instruments Storage Products Group from 1984 to 1996. Mr. Peterson was a Director of STEC, Inc., a storage solutions technology company based in Santa Ana, California, from 2003 to 2009. Mr. Peterson possesses significant experience in our industry and contributes detailed knowledge of our Company’s strategy and operations to the Board of Directors.
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About Microsemi: Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions.
Sundar Krish
CEO & co-Founder of Sken.ai
Sundar Krish is a Serial Tech Entrepreneuer. He is currrenlty the CEO and co-Founder of sken.ai. He was previously the CEO and Founder of a venture funded startup waygum.io
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About Sken.ai, Waygum, Inc.: Sken.ai, offers a “DevOps first AppSec”.
Sol Eun
CEO and Co-Founder of Uiflow
Sol Eun currently works as the Chief Executive Officer and the Co-Founder of Uiflow. He previously worked as Manager, Product Management, Data Discovery Platform at Workday.
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About Uiflow: Uiflow is a no-code platform that allows its users to build production applications using their enterprise data.
Keith Richman
Co-Founder and CEO of Boosted Commerce
Keith is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and board member. He co-founded Boosted Commerce because he is passionate about taking products that successful sellers have developed and helping scale those products on a global level. Previously, he was a co-founder of Voi Technology, a leading European based mobility company with operations in 34 cities across 11 countries. From 2005 until October 2013, he served as the co-founder and CEO of Break Media, where he developed an expertise in digital marketing across multiple brands and vertical. Prior to Break Media, he was the co-founder and vice president of OnePage, which was acquired by Sybase in 2002, and co-founder of Billpoint Inc., which was acquired by eBay in 1999. Keith currently serves on the board of directors of GrubHub (Nasdaq: GRUB), The Meet Group (Nasdaq: Meet) and Vostok New Ventures (Nasdaq: VNVSDB:SS). Keith received a B.A. in International Relations and M.A. in International Policy from Stanford University.
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About Boosted Commerce, Voi: Boosted Commerce is a CPG platform that buys a variety of verticals and business sizes.
Andrew Paradise
CEO & Founder of Skillz
Andrew Paradise founded Skillz Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Skillz, Mr. Paradise was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AisleBuyer LLC, the first mobile self-checkout company that was acquired by Intuit and is now Intuit GoPayment. Prior to AisleBuyer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Double Picture LLC, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. Before his career as a technology entrepreneur, Andrew worked in private equity and venture capital investing for Fort Washington Capital Partners and The Watermill Group.
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About Skillz: Skillz is a marketplace platform for competition-based mobile games.
Shawn Douglass
CEO of Amberdata
Shawn Douglass is Managing Director at EMC Ventures, where he is looking to make strategic investments in Big Data/Analytics, Cloud, Security and Disruptive Technology and Business Models. Prior to his role at EMC Ventures, Shawn led the Advanced Technology Ventures Group in the Office of the CTO, where he was responsible for Identification, Evaluation and Development of opportunities to accelerate EMC’s growth via High-Leverage Technology Incubations, strategic investments, partner-based technology collaborations and the leverage of emerging technologies to foster and drive innovation for EMC. Prior to leading ATV, Shawn was responsible for Global Technology Partner Strategy. Before joining EMC, Shawn held positions with managed services provider leaders, LoudCloud and Digital Island where he was responsible for automating all aspects of the production operations including component provisioning/maintenance, problem detection/resolution and perimeter/core security in global distributed environment, supporting aggressive uptime and SLA’s in an ultra scalable, multi-tenant, secure infrastructure.
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About Amberdata, Rally Ventures: Amberdata is a blockchain and cryptoasset data company that offers tools for exchanges, wallets, traders, and developers.
Esteban Gorupicz
CEO & Founder of Atexto
Proud member of 500 Startups Family #500Strong Machine learning researchers say that if a genie grants you 3 wishes, ask for data, data, and more data. But one of the main reasons I see for unsuccessful ML projects is that people stick into their model tons of bad data, hoping things will somehow work out. They don’t. Atexto creates, collects, annotates and transcribes speech to help machines understand people. Our customers are companies that use Atexto to improve their machine learning models in a wide range of use cases including call centers, voice assistants, regulatory surveillance, speech to text analytics, and more.
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About Atexto, Atexto: Atexto is the voice data solution the world needs to get rid of keyboards and adopt voice interfaces.
Daniel Bilbao
Co-founder & CEO of Truora
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About Truora: Truora provides fast, innovative, and safe solution in background checks and identity theft detection.
Kurt Brendlinger
CEO of Freebird
Kurt Brendlinger is the CEO of Freebird Rides.
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About Freebird: Freebird is a mobile application that gives users cashback and points on all Uber and Lyft rides.
Arjun Ohri
CEO and Co-Founder of Fanrock
Arjun Ohri is the CEO and Founder at FanRock and ShopMessage.
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About Fanrock, ShopMessage: Fanrock is focuses on arming the product creators of the world with the tools they need to reach the right audience and drive sales.
Naveen Jain
CEO of Sparkart
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About Sparkart, Sparkart, Tari Labs: Sparkart is a digital agency developing websites and interfaces.
Eric Simons
CEO of StackBlitz
Eric Simons is Founder at Songhop.
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About ClassConnect, Songhop, StackBlitz: StackBlitz is a developer of an integrated software used to offer comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.
Khizer Khaderi
Founder & CEO of Vizzario
Founder & CEO, Vizzario. Medical Advisor, Magic Leap. Member of Stanford AI community.
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About CITRIS, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University School of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Vizzario: Using AI to Improve Human Computer Interactions
Bernd “Bernie” Blume
CEO and founder of antsle, Inc.
Bernie started coding at age 13 and made it his profession at age 17. After a corporate career at IBM and a telecoms carrier (having managed teams of 500+ people and budgets of >$300M), he ran his startup Xionet with 100 employees from 1999 to 2009 and founded a number of other startups. Bernie founded antsle in early 2015 and is the acting CEO. Bernie has a BSCS from University of Dortmund and a MSCS from University of Bonn.
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About antsle, Inc.: antsle is a private cloud server designed for developers.
Andrew Roberts
CEO and Co-Founder of Tiny Technologies
Andrew is cofounder and CEO of Tiny.
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About Textbox.io, Tiny Technologies: Tiny is a text editing platform that helps nontechnical users to create content for application and website.
Gal Zabib
Founder and CEO of Altostra
Gal Zabib, Founder & CEO at Altostra.
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About Altostra: No-Code infrastructure platform for developers
Matt Casamassina
Co-founder & CEO of Rogue Games
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About Rogue Games: Rogue Games is a subscription games (Apple Arcade, Google Play Pass) and cross-platform digital games publisher (mobile, console, PC).
Brian Leonard
CEO of Grouparoo
Brian Leonard is the Co-Founder and CEO at Grouparoo
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About Grouparoo, TaskRabbit: Open source customer data framework built to easily sync data from your data warehouse to all of your 3rd-party tools
April Chang
CEO and Founder of 10by10.io
April Chang is our CEO and Founder. She has over 20 years of software engineering experience, along with a proven track record of leading teams through periods of extraordinary growth. Throughout her career, she has hired hundreds of engineers working with both corporate recruiters and external recruiting agencies.
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About 10by10.io: 10by10 uses AI to quickly match qualified candidates with companies by aggregating data across recruitment agencies.
Avinash Harsh
Co-Founder & CEO of Weavr Inc.
Co-founder & CEO, Weavr Wannabe cartoonist. Patents: System and method for multi-channel delivery of transformed and augmented messages in real-time
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About VDOSH, Weavr Inc.: Weavr is a community-driven knowledge exchange network that brings developers, tech professionals and companies on the same platform.
Elliott Sergeenko
CEO of Geecko
Tech entrepreneur from 2010
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About Geecko: Geecko targets competent developers and challenges them with high-quality programming games. HR marketing targeted for software engineers
Anders Lassen
Co-Founder & CEO of Fuse
Anders Lassen is Co-Founder & CEO at Fuse, a development tool combined with a rich set of libraries that help both developers and designers build better apps.
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About Fuse: Fuse makes apps development faster, easier and more fun for both designers and developers.
Dan Tsui
CEO of Kyokan
In past lives, Dan was a Software Engineer at LePort Labs, where he built internal tools for modern, tech-enabled “smart” Montessori schools. Before starting Kyokan, he was a Senior Software Engineer at BlacklightCMS building rapid domain provisioning and site-building tools for direct response marketers. We’re often hiring and accepting new clients: please direct all business inquiries to [email protected]
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About Kyokan: Making blockchain accessible to everyone on earth.
Lukas Gentele
CEO of Loft Labs
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About Loft Labs: Loft Labs enables any organization to scale self-service access to Kubernetes from 10 to 10,000 engineers.
Ben McGraw
Chairman & CEO of TheraVida
Ben McGraw is Chairman & CEO at TheraVida.
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About Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Auration Biotech, Evommune, TheraVida, Trefoil Therapeutics: TheraVida develops and markets therapeutic products for urological disorders.
Mark Cooke
Founder & CEO of Shiny Shoe
Mark has experience working as a programmer, game designer, and producer. He’s also known for wearing absurdly shiny shoes.
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About Shiny Shoe: Shiny Shoe building competitive multiplayer mobile games. We also like sparkly footwear.
Rush Tehrani
CTO, Co-Founder & CEO of Onepanel
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About Onepanel: The open and extensible integrated development environment (IDE) for computer vision
Drew Taylor
Co-Founder, CEO of AstroPrint
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About 3DaGoGo, AstroPrint: AstroPrint operates as a cloud platform for Additive Manufacturing.
Eileen Drake
CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings
Eileen is the vice president and general manager of Pratt & Whitney AeroPower. She previously served as vice president and general manager for Hamilton Sundstrand Power Systems, and vice president of operations for United Technologies Corporation. She is a graduate of the U.S. Army Aviation Office School, where she qualified as an Army Aviator in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft as a distinguished military graduate. She subsequently served years of active duty with the Army with her final assignment being Airfield Commander of Davidson Army Airfield in Virginia.She and her husband are building an RV-8.
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About Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings: Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings is an innovative, technology-based company that provides solutions to aerospace, defence & real estate markets.
Jonathan Stambolis
Founder & CEO of Zenysis
Jonathan Stambolis is the Founder & CEO at Zenysis Technologies.
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About Zenysis: Zenysis build the software that governments & international organizations need to confront some of the biggest challenges facing humanity.
Shira Shamban
Co-Founder and CEO of Solvo
Shira Shamban is a security researcher and technical expert with a focus on threat intelligence. Shira started her professional career in cybersecurity as a military officer in the elite intelligence unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Force. During her 13-year service in the unit, Shira acquired hands-on experience in cybersecurity and intelligence operations while earning an engineering degree from Tel-Aviv University. After her military service, Shira turned to security innovation in business. As the Data Initiative Lead at Dome9 Security, Shira is now leading the company’s security research, in order to implement its results in Dome9’s products and by that help organizations embrace the public cloud securely. Shira strongly believes in empowering women in the world of technology. She volunteers as a lecturer and a mentor in forums such as SheCodes and OWASP-WIA.
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About Dome9 Security, Solvo: Solvo allows developers and DevOps to deliver a cloud product with a lease-privileged security configuration.
Vincent J. Angotti
Chief Executive Officer & Director of Xenoport
Vincent J. Angotti was named Chief Executive Officer and joined our board of directors in October 2015. He was previously our executive vice president and chief operating officer from June 2012 to October 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Angotti was senior vice president and chief commercialization officer from May 2008 to June 2012. From 2001 to 2008, he held several positions with Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the most recent of which was senior vice president of sales and marketing. GlaxoSmithKline acquired Reliant Pharmaceuticals in 2008. Prior to Reliant Pharmaceuticals, from 1991 to 2001, Mr. Angotti held several positions at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, most recently as executive director, field operations. Mr. Angotti received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
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About Xenoport: XenoPort is a biopharmaceutical company that develops a portfolio of product candidates to treat neurological disorders.
Ray Kallmeyer
CEO of Enklu
Ray Kallmeyer is the CEO at Enklu.
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About Enklu: Enklu is a low-code SaaS platform which allows 3D designers to build for the web, mobile, and AR/VR devices for education and entertainment.
Paul Nakata
Founder and CEO of A Serious Business
Paul Nakata founded A Serious Business along with Phil Haack in May, 2020.
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About A Serious Business, Abbot: A Serious Business develops software with expertise in ChatOps.
Sujay Karve
Co-Founder & CEO of Simply Compete
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About Simply Compete: Simply Compete is a membership engagement platform for sports organization.
Peter Voss
Founder, CEO of AGI Innovations Inc.
Peter Voss founded AGI Innovations in 2013. He also founded SmartAction in 2006, Adaptive A.I on 2001, Ohio Group Limited in 1980-1993, and Electronics Design in 1979-1991. Peter also writes about ethics and futurism.
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About AGI Innovations Inc., Aigo.ai Inc.,: AGI Innovations is a developer of an advanced, general-purpose natural language intelligence engine.
Bryan Costanich
CEO, Cofounder of Wilderness Labs
Bryan Costanich is the Vice President of Education Services at Xamarin and heads up both Xamarin University and the Documentation team. He’s a renowned Software Architect, published author, mobile development expert, and a seasoned entrepreneur. In addition to having published App Store apps, he led the team that built Cricket’s MuveMusic service, which runs on Android and is the largest mobile music subscription service on the planet. When not working in tech, you can find Bryan building robots, monkeying around in Hollywood, or out in the mountains (usually hanging from a cliff).
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About Wilderness Labs: Professional connected things (IoT) development platform
Bradley Simpson
CEO / Creator of Vection Group, Inc.
Brad has over 20 years in the software business with 15 years at Braxton Technologies, a government contractor specializing in satellite command and control software and currently seven years leading Vection Group. He is a senior software engineer and a technology futurist. With many years working in the Joint Domain Command & Control space. As well, he is a SME (Subject Matter Expert) on geospatial alerting of wearable data. Brad is the author of two very significant patents: Highly Efficient and Parallel Data Transfer and Display, USPTO No: 9,665,267 and Geospatial Alerting (Push-notifications), USPTO No: 9,910,561
His proven track record of pulling together the right talent to create the right team, from software and business-minded professionals to creative and financial gurus, shines with the success he experienced at Braxton Technologies. He’s carried the same style of talent acquisition to Vection where he’s assembled a top-tier group of tech and business executives with a single goal, to make VG and their products globally recognized and successful.
His entrepreneurial vision and technical DNA have merged beautifully into SmartSync. SmartSync, a OS agnostic data ingestion hub that passively uploads from data devices, no user button-pushing! With your data being pushed to a human performance data management software.
When not tethered to his digital device, which is rare, Brad scans the consumer landscape for needed innovation that he thinks is missing on the consumer front. He is always ready to pounce on opportunities to create products and technologies to fill pressing needs. Brad attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and the University of Southern California.
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About Vection Group, Inc.: Vection Group is an ongoing cloud based streaming API software company. We provide B2B, B2C and B2M SaaS for the IoT, Smart Cities & others
Elmer Morales
CEO / Founder of Koder
Elmer Morales is the CEO & Founder of U.
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About Koder, U.: Koder is an on-demand platform that connects startups with highly-vetted coders to get work done.
Marek Sadowski
CEO of Robotics Inventions
The founder of the Robotics Inventions; at RI Marek is responsible for business development and overall leadership; he manages investor relationships, answers RFIs and RFPs and supervises RI offerings; previously Marek worked at NASA Ames (Virtual Reality systems to control robots) and at NTT Tokyo Software Laboratories as a research engineer, for more than ten years he has worked at IBM, HP, AMS, and TPSA as an IT architect, Project Manager and salesman; graduated from The International Space University. In the free time Marek is a scuba diver, a snowboarder, a martial arts instructor, and finally a father and a husband.
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About Robotics Inventions: Cutting edge of the emerging automation industry, with leading R&D in artificial intelligence (AI), edge compute and robotic systems.
Vishnu Datla
CEO of AutoRABIT
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About AutoRABIT: AutoRABIT is a provider of the Salesforce release management platform for regulated industries.
Marty Sprinzen
CEO of Vantiq
Marty Sprinzen is a visionary leader and successful software entrepreneur. The organizations he created and led have introduced some of the most innovative software solutions in the areas of systems management, relational databases, internet application development and currently, smart systems. Sprinzen founded and became CEO of Vantiq Corporation. Prior to Vantiq, he was CEO and co-founder of Forte Software, which was acquired for over $1B. He also served as VP of International Operations and VP of Engineering at Ingres and VP of Development at Candle Corporation. He holds a BSEE from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
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About Vantiq: Vantiq is the only fully integrated, edge-native development and deployment platform for distributed, event-driven applications.
Daniel G. Welch
CEO of InterMune
Daniel Welch is the CEO at InterMune.
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About InterMune, Sofinnova Investments: InterMune is focused on the research, development and commercialization of innovative therapies in pulmonology and orphan fibrotic diseases.
David Jung
CEO of Pulzze Systems
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About Pulzze Systems: Pulzze Systems is an Innovative IOT startup in the Silicon Valley addressing the needs of IOT solutions.
Miguel Valdes Faura
Co-Founder & CEO of Bonitasoft
Miguel Valdes Faura is the CEO and co-founder of Bonitasoft. Miguel leads the charge for Bonitasoft’s mission: to unleash the full potential of development teams to create applications with seamless, engaging and personalized user experiences. Miguel is a recognized thought leader in the BPM and digital transformation fields and is passionate about open source community building. He is a regular speaker at international conferences sponsored by O’Reilly, Global Expansion Summit and Web Summit and has been featured in media such as Forbes, CNN and Mashable. Miguel received a prestigious CEO World Award in 2014.
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About Bonitasoft: Fully supports digital operations & IT modernization with Bonita, an open-source & extensible platform for business process automation.
Tatsunori Suzuki
Co-Founder, CEO of Zeptor
Prior to founding Zeptor, Suzuki led the Micro Fuel Cell research project at Intel Corporation. His passion for that project led directly to the formation of Zeptor. Prior to join Intel, Suzuki worked on engine management systems for the automobile industry including the development of a Formula-1 racing engine. From there he branched out into EV research. His goal is to guide the world into a regime of economic and environmental sustainability.
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About Zeptor: Zeptor develops an innovative silicon anode that enables battery makers to produce lithium-ion batteries that exceed 700Wh/L.
Ethan Jackson
Founder and CEO of Kelda
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About Kelda: Kelda provides dev environment in the cloud.
Wilhelm Wonigkeit
CEO of Vorteil.io
Proving that solutions and products can always be better! I’m the CEO and co-founder of Vorteil.io, which is completely reinventing the way operating systems are used! I’m driving people, organizations and cultures in IT to question why we do things the same we’ve always done it. I’ve had the pleasure of working for dynamic large enterprises, the knowledge and experience of building a consultancy and professional services business from scratch ( … and from scratch implies that I was the first employee, the first consultant on site … and the only revenue generating member on staff) and now the opportunity to build a software company that will change the way IT operates and consumes resources. I’m never the smartest person in the room, I enjoy listening to people and absorbing everything non-technical and technical around me. I depend on a brilliant team which I trust and who supports me in every step we’ve taken thus far.
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About Vorteil.io: Next generation cloud operating system
HUGH NARCISO
Chief Executive Officer & President of BAROnova
Hugh Narciso has more than 25 years of medical-device and pharmaceutical development experience with an emphasis on establishing and building venture-funded start-up companies. Prior to founding BAROnova in 2006, he held senior executive positions or served on the board of directors at a variety of companies including Leptos Biomedical, Inc. (COO), Lambda Pharmaceuticals (board member), Corvascular Surgical Systems, Inc. (COO/VP, Research and Development), and Miravant Medical Technologies (VP, Product Development). Mr. Narciso is a named inventor on more than 30 U.S. patents and on a comparable number of international patents.
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About BAROnova: BAROnova is a clinical-stage medical-device company focused on developing non-surgical non-pharmacologic devices to induce weight loss.
Jason French
Founder & CEO of Gameplay.fm
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About Gameplay.fm: Gameplay.fm platform is a revolutionary way for developers and musicians/actors/models to work together.
Moe Jame
CEO & Founder of Team Extension, Inc
Moe Jame is the Founder & CEO at Team Extension.
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About Team Extension AG (Switzerland), Team Extension SRL, Team Extension, Inc: Your Leading Workforce Partner
Ariella Lehrer
CEO of Legacy Interactive
Ariella Lehrer is Advisor at Playlife Media.
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About Legacy Interactive: Legacy Interactive is a leading developer and publisher of casual games on P
Trevor Call
CEO and Co-Founder of Grapevite, Inc.
Trevor Call is the CEO and co-founder of Grapevite.
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About Grapevite, Inc.: Grapevite is a premier experience-driven social media platform designed to empower everyday people to create, discover and join experiences.
