WE HELP Entrepreneurs win.
We believe great companies are built by radical entrepreneurs, not venture capitalists. We exist to support founders and help turn their vision into great product and category killing businesses.
Investment Team
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Bill Trenchard
Partner
Bill is a partner at First Round Capital. As a founder, operator, advisor and angel investor, Bill has helped dozens of companies launch, manage through hyper growth and win. Before joining First...
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Cece Cheng
Associate
Before joining First Round Capital, CeCe was the Director of Communications at internet startup Qwiki where she led all PR and marketing efforts. Prior to Qwiki, CeCe was at Dan Klores Communications,...
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Chris Fralic
Partner
Chris Fralic is a Partner at First Round Capital. He joined the firm in 2006 and is based in their New York office. Chris has focused on a number of the firm's investments in areas such as Advertising...
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Howard Morgan
Partner
Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972...
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Josh Kopelman
Partner
Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh...
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Kent Goldman
Partner
Kent joined First Round Capital in 2008. He is based in the firm's San Francisco office. Kent has led investments in companies such as Hotel Tonight, Liftopia, Artillery and Threadflip....
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Phin Barnes
Partner
I am a Partner at First Round Capital and am fascinated by design+technology+startups. Before joining First Round, I worked at AND 1 from “day 2″ and founded a fitness video game company....
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Rob Hayes
Partner
Rob has led investments in companies such as Mint.com (acquired by Intuit), HomeRun (acquired by Rearden Commerce), Uber, TaskRabbit,AppFog, Get Satisfaction, and DNAnexus. Prior to joining First...
Platform Team
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Aaron Szekel
Platform, Insights
Aaron, based in New York City, leads Research and Insights. He works to provide our portfolio companies with knowledge and opportunities derived from the pooled experiences of our team and our...
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Brett Berson
VP, Platform
Brett joined First Round Capital in 2008 and is currently VP of Platform. Brett leads First Round's Platform team - which focuses on transforming a collection of individuals companies into a...
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Jack Leidlein
Head of Talent
Jack Leidlein leads Talent at First Round Capital. Jack has spent his career helping companies of all sizes build their teams and business operations, with a special focus on attracting, retaining...
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Kevin Kaiser
Platform, Learning
Kevin leads learning at First Round Capital. Kevin works on building scalable solutions for developing the knowledge and skills of entrepreneurs* at First Round companies. From hands-on engineering...
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Richard Smith
Platform, BD
Richard leads First Round Capital's business development efforts – making connections between our portfolio and other companies that offer business solutions and opportunities. Richard creates a...
See Our Team in Action
Our Community
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Oren Jacob
Co-Founder and CEO
ToyTalk
Before co-founding ToyTalk as CEO, Oren was an Entrepreneur in Residence at August Capital. A filmmaker and...
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Aaron Gotwalt
Co-Founder and CEO
Seesaw
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Alex Hawkinson
CEO
SmartThings
Alex Hawkinson is an entrepreneur and thought leader in the emerging “Internet of Things” space. Hawkinson...
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Ankur Pansari
Co-Founder and CEO
Artillery Games
I was Facebook's first Partner Engineer and roughly 80th engineer. I worked on all of the partner facing products...
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Brandon Ramsey
Founder and CEO
Fanhood
Brandon Ramsey is the Founder and CEO of Fanhood which develops social applications on Facebook and Mobile that make...
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Cheyenne Ehrlich
Co-Founder and CEO
Perceptual Networks
Cheyenne J. Ehrlich is a founder of Perceptual Networks. He is responsible for the strategic growth of the company,...
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Cory Booker
Co-Founder
#Waywire
A native of northern New Jersey, Cory Booker's passion for politics and justice was instilled at an early age by a...
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Hayley Barna
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Birchbox
Hayley has come a long way from her low-maintenance beauty roots. During the early days of Birchbox she served as the...
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Hesky Kutscher
CEO and Founder
MotherKnows
Hesky is co-founder and CEO of MotherKnows and the proud father of two young children. Hesky has always been an...
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Jason Heidema
Co-Founder and CEO
TalentBin
Jason is co-founder of TalentBin. Previous to founding Honestly.com with Pete Kazanjy, Jason held a variety of roles at...
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Jesse Engle
Co-Founder
Seesaw
He is also the co-founder and former CEO of CoTweet, another First Round portfolio company, that was acquired by...
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Keith Rabois
Chief Operating Officer
Square
An accomplished executive, entrepreneur and angel investor, Keith has held leadership roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide...
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Kyle Sollenberger
Co-Founder
Seesaw
Ideas need architects to translate them into the real world. Kyle knows about spaces, people, pixels, and building...
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Noah Breslow
CEO
On Deck Capital
Breslow brings substantial experience in launching and scaling venture-backed software companies to On Deck. Prior to...
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Bill Gross
Founder and CEO
UberMedia
Bill Gross is a lifelong entrepreneur and proponent of solar power. While still in college, Mr. Gross founded Solar...
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Brian O'Kelley
CEO
AppNexus
As CEO of AppNexus, the world leader in real-time advertising technology, Brian and his team are building the company...
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Dave Morin
Co-Founder and CEO
Path
Dave is an entrepreneur. Today, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Path, the modern journal that helps you stay connected...
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David Friedberg
CEO
The Climate Corporation
Prior to founding The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill) in 2006, David was with Google, where he joined as one...
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Doug Mack
CEO
One Kings Lane
As CEO, Doug is helping to create one of the most exciting online brands today. An e-commerce and consumer-industry...
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Eric Koger
CEO and Founder
ModCloth
Eric Koger co- founded and is CEO of Modcloth, the leading vintage and indie clothes site. His high school girlfriend,...
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Eric Vishria
Co-Founder and CEO
RockMelt
Vishria graduated from Stanford University at age 19 with a B.S. in Mathematical & Computational Science and a...
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Jason Goldberg
Co-Founder and CEO
Fab
Jason Goldberg is Founder and Chief Executive Officer at fab.com. Prior to founding fab, Jason was Chief Product...
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Jose Ferreira
CEO
Knewton
Jose Ferreira is the founder and CEO of Knewton, the world's leading adaptive learning company. Knewton's cloud-based...
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Joshua Reich
Co-Founder and CEO
Simple
Joshua Reich has a passion for big data and firmly believes that proprietary research requires custom techniques and...
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Katia Beauchamp
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Birchbox
Katia’s beauty motto: “I’ll try anything twice.” She’s not kidding—in the short...
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Leah Busque
Founder and CEO
TaskRabbit
A true visionary, Leah Busque (@labusque) is the founder and chief executive officer of TaskRabbit.com, an online...
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Lucas Carlson
Founder and CEO
AppFog
I am an entrepreneur and professional programmer who specializes in web development. I have authored over a dozen Ruby...
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Nikhil Sethi
Co-Founder
Adaptly
Nikhil Sethi is the Co-Founder of Adaptly, a social media advertising technology company. As an electrical engineering...
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Sahil Lavingia
Founder and CEO
Gumroad
Sahil is the designer/founder/CEO of Gumroad. Previously, he was early at Pinterest, and maker of turntable for...
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Sam Shank
Co-Founder and CEO
HotelTonight
Sam Shank is a serial entrepreneur focused on comparison shopping, mobile, online travel and ecommerce. Sam is...
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Travis Kalanick
Co-Founder and CEO
Uber
Travis Kalanick is a successful entrepreneur in the areas of transportation, consumer Internet, p2p, and enterprise...
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Craig Palmer
CEO
Wikia
Craig Palmer is leading the web’s largest network of collaboratively-published entertainment, gaming, and...
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Adora Cheung
Co-Founder and CEO
Adora previously led product for some of the top social applications at Slide. Before that, she was on her way to...
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Alex Baydin
Founder and CEO
PerformLine
Founder and CEO of PerformLine-an online marketing and technology company focused on delivering campaign verification...
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Alex Mittal
Founder and CEO
Funders Club
Alex was the founding CEO of Innova Dynamics, a touch screen hardware company backed by Rho Ventures, leading the...
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Alex Mooradian
CEO
Readyforce
Focused on improving businesses and changing traditional industries using operational process, technology and creative...
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Amit Shah
CEO and Co-founder
Jirafe
Amit R. Shah is the CEO and Co-founder of Jirafe. Prior to Jirafe Amit ran sales and business development worldwide for...
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Andreas Sundquist
Co-Founder and CEO
DNAnexus
Andreas is an expert on the analysis of ultra high-throughput DNA sequence data and has published methods in...
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Andrew Greenawalt
Co-Founder and CEO
Continuity Control
Andy has been dubbed a “technology guru” for his innovative thinking and uncanny ability to simplify...
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Andrew Nibley
CEO
Yieldex
Andy has been a CEO in five different media industries – news, Internet, film, music and advertising. He has...
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Angus Davis
Founder and CEO
Swipely
I began my entrepreneurial career taking my grandmother's magazines, clipping articles, stapling them together into new...
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Ari Jacoby
Co-Founder and CEO
Solve Media
Ari has extensive experience growing businesses. He co-founded VoiceStar after serving as a senior consultant in the...
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Ari Mir
CEO
Pocket Change
Ari brings over 10 years of entrepreneurial product leadership experience to Pocket Change. He is best known for...
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Billy Chasen
Co-Founder and CEO
Turntable.fm
Billy Chasen is the Co-founder of Turntable.fm. Before Turntable.fm., Billy Chasen was the Founder and CEO...
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Bradford Shellhammer
Founder
Fab
Named one of the ‘100 Most Creative People in Business’ by Fast Company and coined the ‘King of...
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Brent Handler
Founder and CEO
Inspirato
Brent pioneered the destination club industry when he and his brother Brad founded Exclusive Resorts in 2002. Brent...
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Alumnus
Brett Hurt
CEO and Founder
Bazaarvoice
Brett has extensive experience in the online marketing arena, especially as it pertains to the eCommerce industry. He...
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Bruce Bower
CEO
Plastic Jungle
Bruce was first introduced to Plastic Jungle in December 2008, joined as President in April 2009, and assumed the CEO...
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Bryan Birch
CEO
Truveris
Bryan Birch is currently the Chairman, President, and CEO at Truveris and brings over 20 years of experience in the...
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Chantel Waterbury
Founder and CEO
chloe + isabel
Chantel is Founder and CEO of Chloe + Isabel. In 2011, she created and launched her own socially innovative jewelry...
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Charles Thornburgh
Co-Founder and CEO
Civitas Learning
Charles discovered a passion for education while teaching high school students on the weekends during his undergraduate...
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Chet Kanojia
Founder and CEO
Aereo
Chet Kanojia is the founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., a groundbreaking online TV platform. Backed by a group of premiere...
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Craig Danuloff
Co-Founder and CEO
Rewind.me
Serial entrepreneur with a track record of early entry into important software and internet technology markets. Founded...
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Dave Baszucki
Founder and CEO
ROBLOX
David is the founder, co-creator and CEO of ROBLOX. Prior to founding ROBLOX, David was a private investor. Previously,...
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Dave Girouard
Founder and CEO
Upstart
Dave is founder and CEO of Upstart, a crowdfunding platform that lets soon-to-be college grads raise capital in...
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Dave Jakubowski
CEO
Aggregate Knowledge
David Jakubowski is a seasoned executive who brought Microsoft’s Search platform (adCenter) to market and helped...
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David Brussin
Founder and CEO
Monetate
David is an entrepreneur and technical innovator. Most recently David co-founded TurnTide, which created the...
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David Feller
Founder and CEO
Yummly
Dave has been cooking for 25 years and hates mustard. He was an early member of Half.com in Philly, running Marketing...
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David Gilboa
Founder
Warby Parker
Like a Viking from his Swedish homeland, Dave spends his free time seeking adventure. His two most recent conquests...
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David Rochon
Founder and CEO
SavingStar
Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) David Rochon brings 25 years of industry experience and proven leadership to...
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David Roth
Co-Founder and CEO
AppFirst
David brings more than 20 years of experience leading organizations and leveraging partnerships for building successful...
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Deena Varshavskaya
Founder and CEO
Wanelo
Founder and CEO Wanelo.com - a site for bookmarking and sharing your favorite products. Founder and CEO of Dynamik...
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Desiree Wrigley
Co-Founder
GiveForward
Half Costa Rican half Kansas Citian, Desiree graduated from Yale University with B.A. in Latin American Studies in...
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Elan Dekel
Founder and CEO
Medico.com
Elan Dekel, CEO and Founder - Before founding Medico.com, Elan was at Google, where he was responsible for...
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Eric Frenkiel
Founder and CEO
MemSQL
Before MemSQL, Eric worked at Facebook on partnership development. He has worked in various engineering and sales...
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Eric Wheeler
Co-Founder and CEO
33Across
Eric Wheeler is the CEO of social ad network 33Across. Prior to 33Across, Eric was the CEO of Neo@Ogilvy and Executive...
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Euwyn Poon
Co-Founder and CEO
Opzi
Euwyn is a startup founder, software engineer and designer. He is the founder of Opzi, a Y Combinator company....
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Evan Reece
Co-Founder and CEO
Liftopia
Evan founded Liftopia with Ron Schneidermann in 2005. Evan has deep experience in building pricing, yield optimization...
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Garrett Camp
Co-Founder
BlackJet
Garrett is the founding CEO of StumbleUpon.com, guiding its development from inception to over 25M registered members....
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Gary Flake
Co-Founder and CEO
Clipboard
Dr. Gary William Flake is the CEO of Clipboard Inc., a seed stage Internet startup that allows users to save, organize...
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Gina Bianchini
Founder and CEO
Mightybell
Gina Bianchini is the founder of Mightybell. She is also the co-founder and former CEO of Ning, an online platform for...
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Gurinder Sangha
Founder, Chairman, and CEO
Intelligize
Gurinder Sangha is at the forefront of incorporating modern technology into the legal, accounting and financial...
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Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder and CEO
Square
Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American web developer and businessman widely known as the creator of...
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Jack Welde
CEO
Smartling
Jack is the pilot of this team’s voyage. Literally. He’s a true renaissance man: a technology...
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Alumnus
Jared Hecht
Co-Founder
GroupMe
Jared is the Co-Founder of GroupMe, a group messaging service that lets you stay in touch with groups of people via...
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Jason Oberfest
Co-founder and CEO
Mango Health
Jason has lectured at Stanford University and has been a frequent speaker at industry events including South by...
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Jay Parkinson
Co-Founder and CEO
Sherpaa
After completing a residency in pediatrics and one in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins, I started a practice for my...
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Jeff Bonforte
CEO
Xobni
Jeff Bonforte joined Xobni as its CEO in February 2008. Prior to joining Xobni, he served as both the Vice President of...
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Jon Crawford
CEO
Storenvy
Jon Crawford. Jon is the man that you probably know of as being the one who got kicked out of Y Combinator and then...
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Joshua Schachter
CEO
Tasty Labs
Joshua Schachter is the creator of Delicious, creator of GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool. He has a B.S. in...
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Jud Valeski
Co-Founder and CEO
GNIP
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Justin Stefano
Co-Founder
Refinery29
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Lily Liu
Founder and CEO
PublicStuff
Lily has been working around public policy issues at the local and national level for over 10 years. She has been...
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Lisa Marino
CEO
RockYou
Lisa is one of the key drivers to RockYou's success, and demonstrated strong leadership in her various capacities at...
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Lynn Perkins
Founder
UrbanSitter
As a startup veteran, Lynn has more than 15 years of experience building and growing consumer businesses. Prior to...
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Manik Singh
Co-Founder
Threadflip
Threadflip was inspired by CEO Manik's wife Tea, who was having trouble parting ways with a pricey pair of boots that...
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Mark Organ
Co-Founder and CEO
Influitive
I’ve been starting businesses as long as I can remember. The process of selecting the right target markets,...
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Matt Brezina
Co-founder and CEO
Sincerely
Hi, I’m Matt Brezina an entrepreneur from State College, Pennsylvania currently residing in San Francisco, CA....
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Matt Gillin
CEO
Relay
Matt is the CEO of Relay, where he is responsible for guiding the company's strategy and overseeing the day-to-day...
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Matt Hall
Co-Founder
Docracy
Matt Hall (Marketer Matt) is the CEO and Founder of Scepter Marketing, and online marketing agency which provides...
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Matt Keiser
CEO
LiveIntent
Prior to LiveIntent, Matt Co-counded and served as the president of datran Media, Now PlusePoint, where he architeched...
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Matt Munson
Founder and CEO
Instacanvas
Matt is the captain of the ship at Instacanv.as and is involved in just about every aspect of the Instacanv.as site....
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Matt Sanchez
Co-Founder and CEO
SAY Media
Matt Sanchez is co-founder and chief executive officer at SAY Media. As the visionary leader of SAY Media, he drives...
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Michael Dougherty
CEO and Founder
Jelli
Michael Dougherty is the CEO and co-founder of Jelli, a start-up based in San Mateo, California which is seeking to...
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Michelle Lam
CEO
True&Co;
Michelle, our CEO, is an experienced investor and operator. Prior to True&Co she was with Bain Capital Ventures,...
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Mike Hagan
President and CEO
LifeShield Security
Michael Hagan joined LifeShield, Inc. as President and CEO in December 2009. Prior to joining LifeShield, Mr. Hagan...
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Mike Salguero
Co-Founder and CEO
CustomMade
Mike Salguero brings a passion for technology and loves applying it to help solve age-old problems like the...
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Nathan Richardson
Co-Founder and CEO
#Waywire
Nathan Richardson is the co-founder and CEO of #waywire, inc., a social artery for video news, information and...
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Noah Brier
Co-Founder and CEO
Percolate
Noah Brier is co-founder of Percolate, a technology company based in New York. Percolate helps brands create content at...
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Noah Goodhart
Founder
MOAT
Noah is the Founder of Moat and was the founding investor and board member of Right Media, and a Founding Partner of...
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Oliver Roup
Founder and CEO
VigLink
Oliver brings over 15 years of software experience to VigLink. Previously, he was a Director at Microsoft in charge of...
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Ophir Tanz
Co-Founder and CEO
GumGum
As the CEO and founder of GumGum, Ophir Tanz revolutionized the advertising industry with the creation of the first and...
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Oren Michels
CEO
Mashery
Mashery's co-founder and CEO has a record of success in a variety of executive positions spanning multiple industries....
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Osman Rashid
Co-Founder and CEO
Kno
Osman is a serial entrepreneur who has already left a strong impact on the world of education, as the founding CEO of...
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Patrick Peterson
Co-Founder and CEO
Agari
Pat is Agari’s visionary leader and a pioneer in the email business. Pat joined IronPort Systems in 2000 and...
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Patrick Salyer
CEO
Gigya
As Chief Executive Officer, Patrick is responsible for Gigya's overall business strategy and day-to-day operations....
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Pete Kazanjy
Founder
TalentBin
Pete is co-founder of Honestly.com. Before starting Honestly.com with Jason Heidema, Pete held a variety of marketing...
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Peter Lehrman
CEO
AxialMarket
Peter is CEO of AxialMarket. Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and...
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Pritesh Gandhi
CEO
Ambient Devices
Pritesh has more than 15 years of experience building companies focused on delivering innovative consumer applications...
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Randy Nicolau
CEO
Poppin
Randy Nicolau is an advertising technology and media executive with over 15 years experience creating and leading...
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Alumnus
Rob LaFave
Co-Founder and CEO
Foodzie
CEO of Foodzie. Tech geek, designer, foodie, entrepreneur, and urban...
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Rob May
Co-Founder and CEO
Backupify
Rob started his career as a digital design engineer at Harris Corporation. After that he held business development and...
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Rodrigo Santibanez
Founder
EAT Club
Rodrigo's adventurous appetite has given him an extended food curriculum, ranging from traditional recipes to the most...
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Ryan Gilbert
Co-Founder and CEO
BillFloat
Ryan Gilbert is co-founder and chief executive officer of BillFloat, the first bill payment service that offers...
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Sandra Oh Lin
Co-Founder and CEO
Kiwi Crate
Sandra is the mommy of a 4.5 year old girl who loves to draw - hearts are a specialty - and a 2.5 year old boy who...
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Scott Kurnit
Co-Founder and CEO
AdKeeper
Scott Kurnit founded AdKeeper with a mission to improve the Internet by enabling consumers to engage with advertising...
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Scott Varland
CEO
SocialBomb
Scott Varland has fifteen years of experience developing and deploying human-centric technology solutions for the...
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Sean Black
Founder and CEO
Crunched
Sean founded Crunched in April 2010 with a vision of building a platform to take sales from fuzzy art to repeatable...
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Sean Ellis
CEO
After running marketing at two startups from launch to IPO filings I decided to focus 100% of my entrepreneurial energy...
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Selcuk Atli
Founder and CEO
SocialWire
Selcuk is an endeavor entrepreneur, Fulbright scholar, and a song writer. Selcuk is founder and CEO at SocialWire...
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Simon Khalaf
President and CEO
Flurry
Simon is responsible for Flurry's day-to-day operations. He has been an entrepreneurial executive for over 20 years,...
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Spencer Richardson
CEO and Co-Founder
FanBridge
Co-founder and CEO of @FanBridge. startups, travel, strategy and classics are my bag,...
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Steve Barsh
CEO
PackLate
Steve Barsh is an accomplished CEO, entrepreneur, and senior executive whose expertise is leading world-class teams and...
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Steve Pretre
CEO & Co-founder
MetroMile
Steve leads the MetroMile vision to develop innovative products that fit the unique needs of low-mileage drivers. He...
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Sunny Balijepalli
Co-Founder and CEO
ZoomIn
A passionate technology innovator, Sunny Balijepalli Rao is the Co-Founder and CEO of ZoomIn.com. ZoomIn is...
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Alumnus
Tasso Argyros
co-President
Aster Data
Tasso Argyros is Co-President, Teradata Aster, leading the Aster Center of Innovation. Tasso has a background in data...
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Tim Cadogan
CEO
OpenX
Tim is the Chief Executive Officer of OpenX. From 2003-2008 Tim was at Yahoo!, most recently as Senior Vice President...
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Tony Gauda
CEO & Co-founder
Bitcasa
Tony Gauda is a veteran entrepreneur who built MasterCard's anti-fraud protection systems; co-founder Kevin Blackham...
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Wendy Lea
CEO
Get Satisfaction
Wendy Lea is the CEO of Get Satisfaction. Wendy founded The Chatham Group, where she currently serves as an angel...
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Zach James
Co-Founder
ZEFR
Zach James is co-founder of ZEFR. In this role, he is responsible for leading ZEFR’s overall strategy and...
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Zachary Rosen
Co-Founder and CEO
Pantheon
Co-founder and CEO of Pantheon, Owner of Mission Bicycle, and Partner at Chapter Three I grew up in Gibsonia, a suburb...
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Neil Blumenthal
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Warby Parker
Neil is one of four co-founders of Warby Parker, an eyewear brand that offers boutique quality prescription eyewear and...