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At CTO (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 San Francisco based CTO’ operating in the Internet space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Bryan McCann
CTO and Co-Founder of you.com
Bryan McCann is a Co-Founder and CTO of You.com.
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About you.com: You.com is a search engine that helps users find what they’re looking for by prioritizing real results.
John Bicket
CTO of Samsara
John is responsible for Samsara’s disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure. Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering.At Meraki, he built a cloud-based platform combining analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed enterprise networks. Starting Meraki out of his Ph.D. research at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based infrastructure that fueled continued 100% annual sales growth. Meraki’s platform scaled to connect millions of network devices across over 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco’s fastest-growing cloud product. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Ben Calderon
CTO Hardware, Operations and Support of Samsara
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Alex Vauthey
CTO & Co-founder of Curated
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About Curated: Curated is a provider of collaborative online shopping service intended to assist shoppers with high-consideration purchases.
Gaurav Agarwal
Co-Founder & CTO of 1mg
Gaurav Agarwal is CTO @ HealthKart Plus.
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About 1mg: 1mg is an online pharmacy network platform and generic medicine engine.
Geva Solomonovich
CTO, Global Alliances of Snyk
Geva brings 13+ years of experience in tech startups, with specialized experience in Fraud Management and Payments. Prior to joining Openbucks, Geva managed PayPal’s Mobile Payments Library. Before that, he co-founded PayPal’s Risk department Architecture group, in which he lead the architecture of a ground breaking, large scale, multi-tiered and highly scalable new Fraud Detection Platform. Before that, Geva managed development in FraudSciences, where he built the automated Fraud Detection Machine Learning algorithms which were a critical part in making the FraudSciences’ acquisition for $170M by PayPal happen. Geva holds a B.Sc Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, and is currently completing his MBA from Haas School of Business in Berkeley. In his free time, Geva enjoys road biking, playing the drums and poker.
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About Openbucks, Snyk: Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.
Rob Fan
Founder & CTO/COO of Sharethrough USA
Rob leads all product and technology strategy for the company. He is a practitioner, student and teacher of the “lean startup” methodology. In his spare time, Rob, hacks and plays with new technology and advises early-stage startups about the successes and pitfalls he has learned thus far. Prior to Sharethrough, Rob worked as a technology consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton advising various three-letter government agencies. As an early adopter of the Facebook platform, Rob was one of the teaching assistants for the first-ever “Facebook Class” while at Stanford. Rob holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges
Michael Egorov
Co-founder & CTO of NuCypher
Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.
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About Curve Finance, LoanCoin, NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Parag Chordia
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of HOOKED
Parag Chordia is the director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, and CTO of Khush. Parag is Chief Scientist at Smule. He is the former director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, a research institute funded by the National Science Foundation to build intelligent systems that are musically creative. Parag was recently the recipient of the competitive NSF CAREER Award for his research in music prediction. He received a PhD in artificial intelligence and music at Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics from Yale. He has extensive experience managing commercial software development, and is also the founder of BolRecords, an Indian classical music record label. Parag is an actively performing Indian classical musician and electronic music composer.
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About HOOKED, Telepathic: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
Oliver Pedersen
Co-founder and CTO of Yahoo
Oliver is co-founder of PlayerScale and an Internet entrepreneur who designs and builds highly scalable distributed systems for the Web. He has over 10 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and online communities as well as managing development teams. Prior to PlayerScale, he co-founded the venture-funded gaming site Nonoba.com and service platform Player.IO.
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About GameClub, Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Sriranjan Manjunath
CTO & Head of Engineering of JioSaavn
Sriranjan Manjunath (Sri) is the CTO of Saavn, India’s leading music streaming service. Sri joined Saavn in 2010 and helped build out its infrastructure and create initial versions of its products. He has since led various engineering teams within Saavn and currently oversees all of its engineering efforts including product development, infrastructure and operations. Prior to Saavn, Sri was a lead engineer at Yahoo focussing on building scalable backend systems.
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About JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Oskar Bruening
CTO & Co-founder of Peek
Oskar Bruening is Co-founder & CTO of Peek.com. He loves travel and exploring cultures and their histories. He knows 6 languages, amongst them ancient Greek and Korean. Oskar got his engineering start at the age of 14, leading to a B.Sc. and a M.Eng. from MIT in EE/CS. He was the director of engineering and founding employee at ccLoop/Pipewise and built serious software at VMware and Vontu/Symantec. On the side he is deeply passionate about art and design, thanks to growing up in an artist’s family and a second education at the San Francisco Studio School.
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About Peek: Peek is a booking software and marketplace for delightful things to do such as wine tours, watersports, skydiving, and art classes.
Mehmet Yavuz
Co-Founder and CTO of Celona
Mehmet Yavuz is the Co-Founder and CTO of Celona.
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About Celona: Celona accelerates adoption of digital automation and critical apps on enterprise wireless.
Pan Pan
Co-Founder, CTO of Pietra
Pan Pan is a co-founder and the CTO of Pietra.
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About Pietra: Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
Chris Clark
Co-Founder & CTO of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Deepak Gupta
Co-founder, CTO/CISO & Board Member of LoginRadius
Co-founder/CTO @LoginRadius, Securing 1B+ IDs worldwide. CyberSecurity innovator and author. Developer at heart. Infrastructure Architect.
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About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
Ezra Olubi
Co-Founder, CTO of Paystack
Ezra Olubi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Paystack.
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About Paystack: Paystack lets businesses accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps.
Amos Schallich
CTO & Co-founder of eero
Amos Schallich is a co-founder of eero inc. and serves as its Vice President of Engineering-Software. Amos Schallich previously worked at Tagged and BigTent, where he focused on backend server development and scaling. He studied large-scale distributed systems at Stanford.
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
Enrique Rodriguez
EVP and CTO of Liberty Global
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About Liberty Global: Liberty Global is an international cable company providing television, broadband internet, and telephony services.
Sharaf Nassar
Co-Founder and CTO of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Rong Yan
Chief Technology Officer of Verishop
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About Verishop: Verishop is a premium lifestyle company that offers everyday luxury in fashion, beauty, home, and more.
Nick Bushak
Co-founder, President, and CTO of Gem
Nick Bushak is a Co-Founder, President, and CTO at Gem. Before starting Gem, Nick spent 6 years at Facebook, where he led various engineering teams for Facebook Pages, Ads, and Messenger.
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About Gem: Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
Josh Newman
Co-Founder and CTO of Spectrum Labs
A former Software Architect at Salesforce, Josh began his career at a research center of Middlebury College. After transitioning to tech, Josh spent a decade developing scalable data management and distributed systems at Vodori, Syapse, and Krux (acquired by Salesforce). Sales: [email protected] | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Daniel Undurraga
Founder & CTO of Cornershop
Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.
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About 0BS, Cornershop: Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.
Bharath Ramsundar
Co-Founder and CTO of Computable
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About Computable: Computable build a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications.
Wyatt Meldman-Floch
Co-Founder & CTO of Constellation Labs
With over five years of experience as a Software Engineer & Data Scientist in Silicon Valley, Wyatt Meldman-Floch is the CTO and Co-founder of Constellation Labs. Prior to co-founding Constellation Labs, Wyatt contributed to the Graphic User Interface of the Kepler spacecraft’s light curve data and the implementation of Shannon entropy for non-human communication for NASA. He also served as a data engineer for Radius Intelligence and Rally Health, a platform engineer for Zignal Labs, and as the Lead Backend Engineer for Arrived.us. Wyatt holds a B.S. in Physics and in Mathematics from The College of William and Mary.
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About Constellation Labs, Lattice Exchange: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Peter Lee
Co Founder, CTO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Nicholas Pilkington
CTO, Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Nicholas Pilkington is the founder of DroneDeploy, a platform for simple managed drone operations. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, he completed degrees in computer science, maths and information systems at Rhodes University. After graduating he started a Ph.D in machine learning at the University of Cambridge (Magadalene College) on a Nelson Mandela Rhodes University Scholarship. While at Cambridge Nicholas co-founded MyMoneyDog and Curious-Orange as well as the South African Bitcoin Exchange, Bitx. He currently resides in SOMA, San Francisco.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Scott Fitsimones
Co-founder and CTO of AirGarage
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About AirGarage: AirGarage is the 21st century parking operator. We handle everything it takes to run your parking asset.
Farokh Eskafi
Founder and President and CTO of 11Sight
Farokh Eskafi is founder, president and CTO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight, Santa Clara University, TagArray: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Eric Lyon Miles
Chief Technology Officer of Mogo
Eric Miles has been Mogo’s Chief Technology Officer since May 2012 and has over 30 years of experience leading world-class software and technology companies. Mr. Miles’ former roles include CEO, SVP/GM/VP at companies such as IBM, Bank of America, Bi3 Solutions, AssetPoint, Entopia, Sybase, Informix and Ingres.He has deep expertise in managing the innovation, development and support of category creating technology. Significant innovative technologies include; first relational database (DB2), first mainframe UNIX system (UTS), first high-speed columns oriented database for big data analysis, personalized text search engine relating topics to employee work profiles, and mobile application for manufacturing equipment maintenance management and service prediction. Mr. Miles is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in Mathematics.
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About Mogo: Mogo is a consumer finance company that helps in managing and controlling finances.
Jun Yang
Co-Founder,& CTO of Dada-JD Daojia
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About Dada-JD Daojia: Dada-JD Daojia owns and operates an online crowdsourcing logistics portal and provides local instant delivery service.
Kenter Wu
Co-founder & CTO of Dealpath
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About Dealpath: Dealpath is the intelligent software solution empowering smart investment decisions with data-driven insights and digital collaboration
Brad Vogel
Co-founder & CTO of Mixmax
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About Mixmax: Mixmax is a sales engagement platform that helps sales and customer success teams accelerate revenue at every stage of the customer journey.
Christopher He
Co-Founder & CTO of Bravado
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About Bravado, Grady Health System: Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals.
Gajus Kuizinas
CTO of Contra
Hands-on technology leader known for a good understanding of the entertainment, advertisement and Wi-Fi industries. Extensive experience delivering scalable end-to-end solutions for starts-ups and large enterprises. Uniquely qualified to lead technical development as well as day to day execution. Breadth of experience engaging business leaders and deeply technical audiences alike. Founder of multiple successful start-ups.
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About Contra: Contra is a networking platform that gives users the freedom and opportunity to work independently.
Tong Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of Timecros
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About Timecros: Digital life sharing
Julio Casal
Founder & CTO of 4iQ
Julio Casal is the Founder & CTO at Constella Intelligence.
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About 4iQ, AT&T CyberSecurity, Constella Intelligence, Survela: 4iQ is a Cyber Intelligence company that protects digital identities and investigating threats, adversaries, and fraud.
Bob Remeika
Co-Founder and CTO of Internal
Bob Remeika is the co-founder and CTO of Harbor & Internal.
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About Harbor, Internal: Internal offers a tool that helps companies resolve customer issues.
Oleg Pravdin
CTO of Lingualeo
Oleg Pravdin is Technical Director at Lingualeo.
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About Lingualeo: Lingualeo.com is an online service for learning and practicing English, used by 17 million people around the world!
Samuel Hoffstaetter
Co-Founder and CTO of Short Story
Samuel Hoffstaetter is the Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Short Story.
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About Short Story: Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
Ethan Sutin
Co-founder/CTO of Squad
Ethan has been coding since he was 6 years old and is passionate about the intersection of social cognition and computer science. He spent 4 years as the lead engineer at Harvard’s Implicit Bias Project. His career spans low-level programming languages for container security to front-end mobile development at GoGrid, Sysdig and Code for America. Ethan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and a pursued a Master’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Virginia (incomplete). Follow Molly on TwitterGet FeaturedSend Feedback
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About Squad: Acquired by Twitter in 2020. Hang out with friends in audio and video rooms.
Julie Cullivan
CTO & CPO of ForeScout Technologies
As Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Information Officer, Julie brings over 25 years of systems and programs experience in enterprise high tech companies to FireEye. Most recently she was Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing Operations at Autodesk, where she led the global rollout of new CRM, eLearning, and lead management systems, and evaluated new technologies and tools to improve productivity and optimize resources. Prior to Autodesk, Julie was senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations at McAfee, where she led the global sales and channel operations functions to drive go-to market strategies, best practices, systems, process, and productivity across five geographical theatres. Julie has also held executive roles at EMC, Asera, and Oracle. She received a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Eric Xu
Co-Founder and CTO of Globe
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About Globe: Globe provides a real estate platform that allows people to live more comfortably.
Daniel Spoonhower
Co-Founder and CTO of LightStep
Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower is a cofounder at LightStep, a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. An expert in distributed tracing, he is a core contributor to the OpenTracing project, a CNCF project. Previously, Spoons spent almost six years as a staff software engineer on Google’s Infrastructure and Cloud Platform teams, where he ate lots of snacks and worked on various products. Spoons holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in computer science.
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About LightStep: LightStep’s mission is to deliver confidence at scale for those who develop, operate, and rely upon today’s powerful software applications.
Will Dayton
CTO & Co-Founder of Swiftly
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About Swiftly: Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Giacomo Marinangeli
CTO & Co-Founder of Cloud Academy
With a Computer Science background, Giacomo has a long experience as a Sr. Software Engineer and Project Manager on several IT Projects for small and big companies. He loves creating products with Python, Django, Linux, PostgreSQL and Javascript.
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About Cloud Academy: The best enterprise e-learning platform for cloud technologies including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and the DevOps ecosystem
Zhen Shao
Co-Founder and CTO of Parent Lab Inc.
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About Parent Lab Inc.: ParentLab helps parents connect and grow with their children through insightful, research-based content.
Kevin Huang
CTO & Co-Founder of Backbone Labs, Inc.
Kevin’s engineering skills and passion form the foundation for the technology that powers Backbone Labs. He began his career as a consultant implementing and integrating enterprise systems where he learned the intricacies of automated systems. He then moved to the world of software engineering, helping develop various applications for companies and consumers. Outside the office, Kevin enjoys following hockey (go Sharks!) and MotoGP.
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About Backbone Labs, Inc.: Identify at-risk behavior in the workplace and recommend actions to promote and maintain overall back-related wellness.
Jin Lim
CTO & Co-Founder of Intellimize
Jin is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Intellimize. Prior to Intellimize, Jin held various senior engineering positions at Yahoo, including most recently the VP of Engineering role where he led the Personalization Platform group responsible for building large-scale personalized recommendations across the Yahoo network. Prior to Yahoo, Jin co-founded and sold Blue Tiger Networks, a startup that specialized in peer-to-peer trading platform. Jin has a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
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About Intellimize: Intellimize is a startup offering tools for marketers to drive conversions by personalizing websites.
Mark Jen
CTO of Common Networks
Mark is the CTO and co-founder of Common Networks. Prior to Common Networks,he worked at Square where he helped launch Square in Japan, and then started and led the developer platform team. Mark has a long track record of building and managing high-performance engineering and product teams; he was the VP of Engineering and first employee at Airtime, served as the Director of Engineering at Tagged / Ifwe, and led the Product Management team at Plaxo. Mark started his career at IBM and Microsoft, after graduating from University of Michigan with a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering. He is an inventor on 6 issued patents and has multiple pending. His daughter, Riley, is three years old and his son, Zachary, is 9 months.
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
Chhay Chhun
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of KidPass
Chhay is the co-founder and CTO at KidPass. Chhay runs engineering and oversees the technical strategy of the company, and is dedicated to building a team of world-class engineers to modernize parenting. Chhay has an extensive background in web development and project management at The Economist, Time Out NY, and Forbes. Raised in the Bronx, Chhay has a deep-rooted love for NYC and believes KidPass will make the city a better place for raising families. Chhay received his BA from Harvard.
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About KidPass, NY Tech Mixer: KidPass is the new way for parents to discover and book amazing kids activities.
Pavel Tinuov
Co-founder & CTO of Cube Dev
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About Cube Dev, Statsbot: Cube Dev is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of open source, analytics, databases, and developer tools.
Amit Sood
CTO and Head of Product of Simplr
Amit Sood is the CTO and head of product at Simplr. Prior to joining Simplr, Amit served as a senior director and head of product for Smart Home and IoT at Asurion.
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About Simplr: Excellent outsourced customer support for companies that care about their brand.
Matan Goldschmiedt
Co-Founder & CTO of Pramp
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About Pramp: Pramp is an online community for software engineers, developers and hackers to practice live coding interviews, for free.
Sam Purtill
Co-Founder and CTO of Jyve
Sam Purtill is the co-founder and CTO of Jyve, a startup that provides on-demand merchandising services in the consumer packaged goods industry. Prior to Jyve, he was founder and CEO of ClassOwl, an edtech startup that was acquired by Branch Metrics in 2015. Sam was the first employee of the company that went onto become Quid (quid.com) in his two gap years after high school. He started programming at age 12 and studied philosophy at Stanford University.
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About Jyve: Jyve is a tech platform that matches brands’ in-store execution needs with the right skilled labor, at the right time.
David Vetrano
Co-Founder & CTO of Onfleet
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About Onfleet: Onfleet is a technology company that develops last-mile delivery management software.
Braxton Woodham
CTO of Fandango
Braxton Woodham is President, Chief Techology Officer and Co-Founder of Lasso. Prior to Lasso, Braxton was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tap11, which was acquired by AVOS. He was formerly the CTO of InfoSpace’s mobile division where he was responsible for the infrastructure that serviced approximately 70% of all mobile web traffic in North America. Braxton joined InfoSpace through the acquisition of Moviso, where he served as VP, Technology and lead the development of the V4 Platform, which scaled by more than 100 times to support more than 16 million transactions per month across US, European and Australian carriers. Prior to joining Moviso / InfoSpace, Braxton served as Executive Director of Technology at Sony Music Digital Media Ventures, where he focused on new Internet initiatives including Keyhole, which later became Google Earth. Earlier Braxton served as Lead Propulsion Engineer for two Atlas missions and was a Captain in the United States Air Force.
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About Fandango: Fandango is a corporation that sells movie tickets via telephone and Internet.
Marios Assiotis
Chief Technology Officer of adRise
Marios is the chief code monkey with over a decade of professional development experience. As a Sr Software Engineer at Microsoft in the Hotmail storage platform, he helped store bits faster, cheaper and more reliably. Marios holds a BSc in Computer Science from MIT. When he’s not writing code, he’s either snowboarding, cooking elaborate meals for his friends or obsessively reading Hacker News.
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About adRise: AdRise is an internet TV ad platform that distributes and monetizes TV shows and movies by partnering with premium content owners.
Lucien Chen
CTO of Tron
Lucien Chen has served in many first-tier Internet companies, such as Netease youdao, Tencent, Qihoo 360
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About Tron: Tron is a decentralized content entertainment protocol based on blockchain technology.
Alex Tze-Pin Cheng
Chief Technology Officer of VIPKID
Alex Tze-Pin Cheng is the Chief Technology Officer at VIPKid.
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About VIPKID: VIPKid connects teachers in North America with children around the world for real-time English immersion learning online
Pep Gubau
Executive Chairman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aizon
Pep is an IT entrepreneur and has been working in IT for the last 25 years, being pioneer in Linux adoption in the 90s, cloud in the 2000s and big data in the last years. Although having a theoretical economics and maths profile, his early career was as a software developer for the chemical industry. He later was CTO & COO of an IT consulting firm, leading a team of more than 200 engineers until 2003 when Pep created his first IT company with a clear core principle: customer centric focus. Two more followed. In 2013 Pep started thinking on the next thing to work on. bigfinite is the result of this initial spark that immediately caught fire in Pere and Toni. Pep is Economist (University of Barcelona) with an engineering background.
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About Aizon: Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Kevin Karsch
CTO & Co-Founder of Lightform
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Lei Wang
Co-Founder and CTO of Wishlife
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About Wishlife: A private communication platform that guides families and trusted advisors to build a living legacy of emotional wealth and protection.
Fang Yu
Co-founder & CTO of DataVisor
CTO and Co-Founder of DataVisor. Fang’s work focuses on “big-data for security.” Over the past 10 years, she has been developing algorithms and building systems for identifying various malicious traffic such as worms, spam, bot queries, faked and hijacked account activities, and fraudulent financial transactions. Fang received her Ph.D. degree from the EECS Department at University of California at Berkeley.
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About DataVisor: DataVisor is a fraud detection company powered by transformational AI technology.
Ben Lund
CTO of Academia.edu
Ben studied Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Before joining Academia.edu, Ben worked for Nature and as a freelance web developer building web applications for researchers and medics.
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About Academia.edu: Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.
Thomas Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Brava Home
Thomas Cheng is the co-founder and COO at Brava Home Inc Prior to his current role, he worked as advisor, head of hardware, at August Home, Inc., as technical co-founder at Streetline Networks, and as an engineering consultant at Dust networks. Cheng, through his businesses, has also won various awards including Global Entrepreneur of the year from IBM, Technology innovation award in transportation from the Wall Street Journal, and 10 most innovative companies in transportation from the Fast Company magazine.
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About Brava Home: Brava Home is an IoT and domestic automation company that integrates technology and design to enable joyful experiences in the home.
Andy Payne
CTO of Nemo
Andy Payne is cofounder and CTO of Unmeeting. Previously he founded and led Cisco Emerge, a team focused on advancing the future of work. Emerge explored new technologies to create experiences that change how teams work. The Emerge team created experimental products in areas such as AI, Augmented and Virtual Reality, and hardware design. Previously Andy started and led Norton Labs and the Emerging Products Group at Symantec. Before that he cofounded and was Chief Architect of a startup applying machine learning to detect malware.
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About Nemo: Get more out of your virtual meetings – automatically
Michael Murray
CTO of Digit
Founder at Digit
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About Digit: Digit is a finance app that analyzes your spending habits and automatically saves the perfect amount every day.
Peter Goldstein
CTO & Co-Founder of Valimail
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About Valimail: Valimail is an email security company that offers zero-trust, authentication-based solutions for organizations.
Max Haines-Stiles
Co-Founder, CTO of Galore
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About Galore: Mobile application that allows parents to book activities for their children and empowers local providers to reach new customers.
Konstantin Kladko
Co-Founder & CTO of SKALE Labs
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About SKALE Labs: SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts.
Jon Evans
CTO of HappyFunCorp
Jon Evans is the CTO of the software consultancy HappyFunCorp, TechCrunch’s weekly opinion columnist, an award-winning and widely published novelist, a journalist who has traveled to more than 100 countries and reported from Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, and the Congo, a University of Waterloo electrical engineering alumnus, and the founding director of the GitHub Archive Program.
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About GitHub, HappyFunCorp: HappyFunCorp is a software engineering firm that builds products for the web, mobile, and anything on the internet.
Jeremy Barth
Co-Founder & CTO of Brightside Health
Every day I get to work on Brightside is an opportunity for me to help improve the lives of people who are struggling. The modern world is relentless and shows no signs of letting up. I’m here to help people fight back.””
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About Brightside Health: Brightside Health is a mental healthcare company that helps employees better navigate and manage their financial well-being.
Josh Dzielak
Co-Founder and CTO of Orbit
Co-Founder & CTO at Orbit. Former developer relations lead at Algolia and VP Engineering at Keen IO. Passionate engineer & entrepreneur. Open source contributor and champion of an open, accessible web. Currently into distributed systems, organizational design, and sustainable engineering cultures. Occasional writer and speaker. Supporter of equality in tech, and everywhere else.
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About Orbit: Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, mission control for your community.
Tim Burke
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Arch Systems
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About Arch Systems: Industry 4.0 machine data and AI platform for electronics manufacturers
Brian Sathianathan
Co-Founder/Chief Digital Officer/CTO of Iterate.ai
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About Iterate.ai: AI-Powered Innovation Software Ecosystem for Large Enterprises
Sastry Malladi
CTO, co-founder of FogHorn
As CTO of FogHorn, Sastry is responsible for and oversees all technology and product development. Sastry is a results driven technology executive with deep technology and management experience of over two and half decades. His areas of expertise include developing, leading and architecting various highly scalable and distributed systems, in the areas of Big Data, SOA, Micro Services Architecture, Application Servers, Java/J2EE/Web Services middleware, and cloud Computing to name a few. Prior to joining FogHorn as CTO, Sastry was Chief Architect of StubHub, an eBay company where he led the technology architecture transformation and also spearheaded the Big Data initiatives and data driven decisions. Sastry was also a key technology executive at eBay that lead the technology re-platforming effort from its monolithic architecture to the distributed, and scalable service oriented architecture that it is today enabling the business growth. Prior to joining eBay, Sastry was co-founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, Founding member and Architect at SpikeSource, and an Architect at Oracle. Sastry has also worked at many other companies in his career early on. Sastry frequently speaks at many technology conferences, contributed to many standards and has several patents under his belt. He holds a Masters degree from I.I.T, Kharagpur, India.
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About FogHorn: FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions.
Kenny Tay
Founder and CTO of Flair
Kenny Tay is the Founder and CTO at Flair.
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About Flair: Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling.
Trey Doig
Co-founder & CTO of Pathlight
Trey Doig is the co-founder and chief technology officer of PathLight.
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About Pathlight: Pathlight is a developer of a platform designed for managers to be more effective.
Paul Kim
Chief Technology Officer of Stanford Graduate School of Education
An education technology entrepreneur, Dr. Kim leads initiatives involving the design of learning technologies, educational research, and community development. In a trans-disciplinary project aiming to promote innovation and competition by constructing a Programmable and Open Mobile Internet (POMI 2020), Dr. Kim designs and implements mobile technologies and social learning environments. In 2009, Dr. Kim founded Seeds of Empowerment, a 501(C3) non-profit global education incubator for social innovations leveraging mobile technologies. Under his direction and leadership, Stanford undergraduate and graduate students carry out mobile-social educational research and development in real-world classrooms and virtual learning environments. Dr. Kim serves on the Board of Directors of WestEd, the Committee on Grand Challenges in International Development for the National Academies of Science, and the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources Directorate.
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About Stanford Graduate School of Education: Stanford Graduate School of Education is dedicated to solving education’s greatest challenges.
Susan Gao
Co-Founder & CTO of EMQ Technologies
Susan co-founded EMQ as a CTO and VP engineering. Prior to EMQ, she founded Ryedoo,a LBS provider company acquired by LeEco in 2016. Susan has over a decade industrial experience in Silicon Valley’s high-tech companies such as Apple, Amazon as an engineering manger, a tech leader and a software engineer. She holds several U.S. patents and owned her M.S. of CS from Stanford Univ; M.S. of EE from Stevens Inst. of Tech.
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About EMQ Technologies: EMQ is an open-source IoT data infrastructure software provider in the 5G Era.
Jing Chang
CTO of ITutorGroup
Mr. Jing Chang is the chief technology officer at TutorGroup. In this role, he is responsible for developing the overall technology vision, establishing the infrastructure that supports the TutorGroup platform and driving technical innovation. In addition, Mr. Chang oversees its engineering organizations, drives engineering initiatives and fosters collaboration. In recent years, Mr. Chang designed and developed key e-learning products, including a video conferencing platform, and mobile products for TutorGroup. Mr. Chang brings over 20 years of enterprise software development experience from the U.S., and a track record of delivering innovation and clear customer focus. Prior to joining TutorGroup, Mr. Chang held various leadership positions at Saba Software, IBM, GL Trade Group, and Comcast. Included amongst Mr. Chang’s broad range of responsibilities whilst at these organizations, he managed Saba’s mobile deliverables and multi-time zone teams; provided the technical leadership for building big data analytics and digital marketing applications at IBM; designed and developed web-based real-time margin trading systems for GL Trade Group; and designed / developed service-provisioning systems to support Comcast HSD (High Speed Data) subscribers. Mr. Chang holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Villanova University.
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About ITutorGroup: ITutorGroup provides individualized and personalized learning experiences to students and business professionals.
Vish Kumar
CTO of MrktStar
Vish Kumar serves as the Chief Technology Officer at MRKTSTAR.
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About MrktStar: MrktStar is a fantasy game that provides a gambling platform where anyone can pick their favorite apps and musicians.
Guillaume Luccisano
Co-Founder & CTO of Triplebyte
Co-Founder @ Socialcam
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About Triplebyte: Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform for tech companies.
Sam Cheng
CTO & Co-Founder of Rinse
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About Rinse: Rinse provides garment care services. Its services include dry cleaning, launder and press.
Vahed Qazvinian
Co-founder and CTO of Praisidio
Vahed Qazvinian is the founder & CTO of Praisidio, Inc.
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About Praisidio: Praisidio™ protects your enterprise by mitigating talent risk through the use of a new generation of augmented intelligence tools.
Wayne Sutton
Co-Founder & CTO of Change Catalyst
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About Change Catalyst, gokit, Icon Project, Observable, Revolution, SocialWayne.com, Tech Inclusion, Tech Inclusion: Change Catalyst empowers inclusive and sustainable innovation.
Elliot English
CTO of Pilot AI
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About Pilot AI: Software-based deep learning computer vision on commodity embedded platforms
Peter Carlson
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder of HydroPoint Data Systems
Peter Carlson co-founded HydroPoint and has 15 years of experience building IT product and services using distributed data systems and scalable Software-as-a-Service solutions for the small to medium enterprise and Fortune 500 markets. Before HydroPoint, Peter was VP Engineering at Shaman Corporation, providing industry-leading, award-winning IT data services. Prior to Shaman, Peter held environmental management positions at UC Berkeley.
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About HydroPoint Data Systems: HydroPoint Data Systems develops various irrigation system controllers for residential and commercial landscape applications.
Abhishek Mahanti
CTO of Do
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About Do: Do offers a platform that works as one place for all the notes, presentations, docs, and all other collateral to live together.
Jonathan Chu
Co-founder & CTO of Verdigris Technologies
Jonathan Chu is a Co-Founder of Verdigris Technologies, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer and Director.
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About Verdigris Technologies: Verdigris Technologies is a SaaS-based platform that develops artificial intelligence in order to optimize energy consumption.
Alex Neskin
co-founder & CTO of Petcube
Tech entrepreneur
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About Petcube: Petcube is a worldwide leader in pet cameras & software, connecting pets to the internet and giving them a voice.
Ekate Kuznetsova
Founder & CTO of Token Transit
Ekaterina Kuznetsova is CTO & Founder at Token Transit
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About Token Transit: Token Transit is a provider of a mobile ticket booking application intended to help riders pay for transit via a mobile application.
Syed Zaeem Hosain
CTO & Founder of Aeris
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About Aeris, iFAST: Aeris is the only cellular network designed and built exclusively for machines.
Fletcher Foti
CTO of Populus
Fletcher is the CTO and co-founder of Populus, a data platform for private mobility operators and cities to deliver safer, more efficient streets. Fletcher has been a software engineer and data scientist for two decades. He’s worked at all levels of the stack, first writing database search technology in raw C, then writing an urban simulation framework in numeric Python, and for the past few years has been working to bring urban planning tools to the web. In 2015 he turned his interest in cities into a PhD in City Planning from UC Berkeley, after which he co-founded and led the data science team at Synthicity, a startup which simulated alternate urban futures, which was later acquired by Autodesk. After that he founded MapCraft, which helps governments make public policy choices based on how real estate markets are impacted. Now he’s turning to transportation to understand and communicate how the new mobility companies are changing how people move around cities. When he’s not working, he enjoys yoga, playing guitar, and biking the hills of Oakland.
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About Populus: Populus is a technology startup that entails micromobility services and ride hailing for cities to manage the future of mobility.
Atsuhiro Takahashi
Co-Founder / CTO of Chomp
Atsuhiro Takahashi is the co-founder and CTO of Chomp.
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About Chomp: Send Your Tasty Moments
Ethan Kan
Co-founder and CTO of MODE
Ethan Kan joined Mode as Co-founder in 2014.
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About MODE: MODE provides a scalable data infrastructure that collects data from the physical world to help businesses improve their operations.
Matthew Wesly
Co-Founder and CTO of Shrimpy
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About Shrimpy: Shrimpy is the most trusted way to trade on crypto exchanges. APIs for exchange management, trade execution, and real-time data collection.
Christopher Neale
Co-Founder, CTO of Avochato
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About Avochato: Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management.
Martin Samami
Co-Founder & CTO of Upgraded Technologies
Martin considers himself a company kickstarter with a keen eye for beautiful products and deep technical knowledge. He programmed and designed his first video game hit at 12 and sold it a couple of years later. Since then, he managed to burn and fail in one company, succeed in another and also advise other founders on their journey to building something great.
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About Upgraded Technologies: Upgraded sells and manages device subscription plans. Upgraded customers always own the latest and responsibly repurpose or recycle the old.
