Top Founders

Martin Koppelmann. He is the co-founder and CEO of Gnosis, the decentralized platform for prediction markets. He has been an entrepreneur and thought leader in the blockchain space for more than 4 years. He is closely related to prediction markets and has worked on decentralized, market-driven, governance mechanisms. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Martin does not read books, but considers Reddit a...

Nick Candito. He is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the company called Progressly, championing the company's mission towards becoming the new standard for how teams find and execute business processes. He previously served as Relate IQ's head of user success and business operations which was acquired by Salesforce, the first automatic and intelligent CRM solution. Nick founded Progre...

Anindya Datta. He is the CEO and Chairman of a company called Mobilewalla, a mobile consumer, audience platform company. Before Mobilewalla, he founded a company called Chutney Technologies where he was backed by Kleiner Perkins which was eventually acquired by Cisco Systems. He has been on the faculties of Georgia Tech, The University of Arizona and The National University of Singapore. He obtain...

Cameron Herold. He's known as the business growth guru. He's the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth. He's built a dynamic consultancy whose current clients include the big 4 wireless carriers. His clients like that Cameron only speaks from experience. He's earned his reputation as the business growth guru by guiding clients to double their profit and revenue in just 3 year...

Jack Peterson. He's the co-founder of Augur which is a decentralized, prediction market platform that runs on the ethereum decentralized network. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Handbook of Applied Cryptography What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Ethereum How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "Don't...

Steve Kirsh. He's the CEO of Token, a Silicon Valley startup company developing a modern platform for open banking. He's pioneered several computer core technologies like optical mouse, Internet search, spam filtering, and secure identity and founded 7 high tech companies—two with billion dollar market caps such as Infoseek and Frame Technology. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering...

James Smith. He's the co-founder and CEO of Bugsnag, the leading crash monitoring platform for web and mobile applications. The company helps companies like Airbnb, Lyft, Cisco, Pandora and Yelp catch and fix errors on their applications. Originally from London, James moved to the Bay area in 2009, leading the product team as the CTO of Heyzap. In his spare time, he likes hacking open source softw...

Jim Larrison. He's the co-founder and president of Dynamic Signal, the leading, customer-employee, advocacy engagement platform. Jim has been involved in a handful of startups that were successful from within big companies to venture-funded businesses. With a couple of sold businesses and an IPO, he is set to come forward with Dynamic Signal which has already raised over $68M in funding. Famous Fi...

Brendan Candon. He's the co-founder and CEO of SidelineSwap, an online marketplace for athletes to buy and sell their sports gear. The company has over 100K users, participated in 500 startups and has raised $1.5M in venture funding. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Leaders Eat Last What CEO do you follow? – Jack Ma Favorite online tool? — Slack and Appear How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6-7 If...

Eric Tang. He's a computer programmer and co-founder of Live Peer, a decentralized video live streaming platform incentivized with the blockchain. He was introduced to the blockchain in 2014, and it's pretty much everything that Eric thinks about now. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Jerry Colonna Favorite online tool? — MetaMask How many hou...

Anthony Diiorio. He's a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, community organizer and thought leader in the field of digital currencies, blockchain technology, and decentralized technology. He's the founder and CEO of Decentral and Jaxx and co-founder of the Ethereum project. He previously served as the chief digital officer of The Toronto Stock Exchange. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The 7 Hab...

Emily Paxhia. She's the founder of Poseidon Asset Management and she shifted her focus entirely to the cannabis industry, in 2013. Since that time, she's taken her experience of researching markets, companies and strategic opportunities and turned them entirely to the world of cannabis. Her focus on understanding where the market is headed rather than where it has been, has been critical to develo...

Julian Marchese. Julian was introduced to Nathan by a mutual friend and he's the CEO and portfolio manager at Marchese Investments in New York City. Julian is only 21 and was already featured in Bloomberg, CNBC and Dragon's Den, which is Shark Tank of Canada, where he managed to get 4 out of 5 dragons in the den that showed interest. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Market Wizards What CEO do you fol...

Tom Kineshanko. He's been investing in cryptocurrencies, also called digital assets or tokens, since 2013. He founded and exited the first bitcoin and ethereum fund in Canada, invested in the ethereum cloud sale and has made 10x the returns in bitcoin after ethereum classic, golem and several other tokens. He's also the founder and general partner at First Block Capital, a digital asset fund manag...

Louis Jonckheere. He's one of the co-founders of Showpad which is the second company that he's founded. He and his co-founders founded the mobile development agency, In The Pocket, in 2010 where he still is on the board. Prior to In The Pocket, he was a strategic project manager at NetLog where he first met one of his co-founders. He also holds a masters degree in law and business and he's current...

Shlomi Gian. He has served as PacketZoom's Chief Executive Officer since June of 2016. He joined the company after spending 4 years at Akamai, where he founded the emerging mobile business unit and service—the head of mobile market development. Before that, he was the general manager of mobile solutions at Cotendo that invented Mobile CDN back in 2011 before it was acquired by Akamai. Famous Five:...

Adrien Nussenbaum. He's the co-founder and CEO of Mirakl which was founded back in 2012. He's currently based at the company's Boston office and is responsible for the business' growth in both the business to consumer and business to business sectors. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Hemingway What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite online tool? — Instacart How many hours of sleep do you get?— 5 If yo...

Mark Chung . He's the CEO and co-founder of Verdigris , a Silicon Valley-based internet of things startup focused on smart buildings. Previously, he was a principal engineer for Net Logic, AMD and PA Semi. He graduated with electrical engineering from Stanford University and lives in Sunnyvale, California. When he's not building, he's spending time with his family. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Ho...

Mikita Mikado . He's the CEO of PandaDoc , a company founded to accelerate the way organizations transact. He's an entrepreneur, engineer, and executive focused on creating self-sustaining companies. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Pitch Anything What CEO do you follow? – Satya Nadella Favorite online tool? — Google Calendar How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 If you could let your 20-year old se...

Gavin Wheeldon . With over 15 years of experience working in technology led or enabled businesses, Gavin has a deep understanding of the impact of technology on the bottom line of an organization. He sold his last business, Applied Language Solutions, a global language technology and service business, and has used some of the earnings to set up a new company, Purple WiFi . Famous Five: Favorite Bo...

Tomer Levy . He's the CEO and co-founder of Logz.io . Before co-founding Logz, he co-founded and was the CTO of Intigua , a company that innovated locker-like containers designed for large enterprises. Prior to Intigua, Tomer spent 6 years at Check Point , where he led its intrusion prevention system product from concept to market. He has an MBA for Tel Avi University, a BA in Computer Science, an...

Derric Haynie . He's the CEO of Vulpine Interactive , a social media marketing agency that helps build contagious brand and passionate fans. Nathan met Derris at Los Angeles when they were at Sean Ellis ' Growth Hacking event. Derris has an interesting story that goes from poker to social media to speaking, blogging, growth and digital marketing. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – They Ask You Answer W...

Hal Howard , 20-year Microsoft veteran who gave up a stable, secure position leading the Dynamics ERP development team to satiate a spark of creativity. Today, he's the founder of Komiko , a sales intelligence tool that helps their businesses understand what engagement with customers is working. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Execution What CEO do you follow? – Satya Nadella Favorite online tool? —...

Jose Cayasso . He's a growth hacker, co-founder and CEO of Slidebean , 500 Startups alumni, and a frequent flyer miles hoarder. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Lean Startup and Traction What CEO do you follow? – Josh Pigford Favorite online tool? — Amy@X.ai How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Jose would tell himself t...