Top Founders

Ran Korber . He's the CEO and founder of BreezoMeter . His ambition is to improve the health and quality of life for billions of people across the globe by providing accurate and actionable air quality data. It's truly the leading air quality analytic company and one of Israel's top 10 promising startups in 2015 with millions of daily users. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do yo...

Emília Chagas . She's the CEO of Contentools.com , a company that helps over 700 companies plan, create, distribute and analyze content. As a content manager for over 8 years, she has led video, book and web-based strategies at both enterprises and SMBs. She's a 500 Startups entrepreneur and part of the Endeavor Promises Program. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Hooked and The Hard Thing About Hard T...

Stu Sjouwerman . He's a serial entrepreneur and currently the founder and CEO of KnowBe4.com . He's a big Shark Tank fan. He's based in Tampa, Florida. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Positioning What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — SurveyMonkey 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? – "I wished that my 2...

Ryan Sevey . He's the CEO of Nexosis , an artificial intelligence and machine learning startup focused exclusively on developers. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Aha! How many hours of sleep do you get?— 4 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "Learn how to be true to yo...

Sheri Atwood. She's the founder and CEO of SupportPay . She's also a former Silicon Valley executive and a child of a bitter divorce who also went through her own divorce a few years ago. She's created SupportPay when a search for a better way communicate about child support systems with her ex-husband proved totally fruitless. SupportPay is the first-ever automated child support payment platform...

Ryan Hungate . He's the co-founder of Simplifeye , it's the number one technology experience for healthcare providers, patients and their businesses. The company's platform of software solution health care providers improve productivity, efficiency and profitability. Ryan is an orthodontist and previous Apple retail strategist and Zach is a previous founder and Wall Street alum with a background i...

Seymour Duncker . He's the co-founder and CEO of a company called iCharts , the leader in cloud business intelligence and analytics and a seasoned entrepreneur who has been both a consumer and developer of visual analytics. Before founding iCharts, Seymour assisted SAP's senior management in driving the company's product strategy and was an early team member at 2 enterprise software startups befor...

Daniel Fagella . He started a mixed martial arts gym when he was an undergrad and sold it after getting a UPenn graduate degree in cognitive science. He did turn his grad school thesis on skill development into an ecommerce business that grew for 4 years, reaching $4.2M in top line sales and recently sold it for a million dollars with 90% paid upfront. He's now using his funds for TechEmergence.co...

Allan Willie . He's the co-founder and CEO of Klipfolio , a software-as-a-service dashboard company with over 8500 paying customers including Jet.com , Zendesk , Aviva and Ikea . He previously co-founded a company called Espial , an internet device software firm that is now publicly traded on TSX. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and 2 daughters. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Lead by Greatness Wha...

Blake Smith . He's the CEO and co-founder of Cladwell , a clothing company that doesn't sell clothing. His goal is to fight for sustainability and human labor practices by enabling people to buy fewer, but better clothes. Blake was at The Top a year ago where he articulated that they passed 11,500 customers with each customer paying $6/month; so, they were doing about $70K MRR a year ago. They wer...

Assaf Resnick . He's the founder and CEO of BigPanda , an algorithm-make IT operations platform that turns IT alert noise into insight, unifies fragmented operations and enables digital enterprises to attain dramatic or pretty high service levels. Prior to founding the company, he was an investor for Sequoia Capital where he focused on early stage companies across enterprise software, SaaS and the...

Manny Fernandez . He's a Stanford University educated Angel investor, serial entrepreneur and best-selling author featured on CNBC's Make Me a Millionaire Inventor premier episode. He's been successfully investing his own ideas as well as taking companies from startup to exit. Recently, he was named by INC magazine as one of the 33 entrepreneurs to watch in 2016. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Thin...

Vinay Patankar . He's the CEO of Process Street , the simplest way to manage your teams' recurring processes and workflows. Vinay sets up new clients, onboard employees and manages content publishing with his tool. He also co-host the podcast Business Systems Explored where he deep dives into business systems with industry experts. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things Wha...

Scott Clark . He's the co-founder and CEO of SigOpt , a Y-Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz backed, optimization as a service startup. Scott has been applying after-learning technologies in industry and academia for years. He holds a PhD for applied mathematics and an MS in computer science from Cornell University and a BS degree in mathematics, physics and computational physics from Oregon State...

Eric Dolan . He's the co-founder and CEO of Neutun . He has 5 years of startup experience and business management experience. He also has data science experience with a focus on product development and management. In 2014, his team received an award for Best Smartwatch App in the Hack the North Competition in Canada. Recently, Eric was named INC's 30 under 30, a list that recognizes the best young...

Paul Tyma . He's the founder and creator of a tool called Mailinator which is an email system. He's also a startup veteran and has focused on 4 Silicon Valley startups including Preemptive Solutions , Manybrain Inc which owns Mailinator , Home-Account.com which was acquired by Bills.com , and Refresh Inc which was acquired by LinkedIn . He's a frequent speaker, writer and author of one of the orig...

Kathryn Minshew . She's the CEO of founder of TheMuse.com , a career platform that is used by over 50M folks to find jobs, learn professional skills or advance in their careers. This platform is also used by hundreds of companies looking to grow their employer brand and to hire. Kathryn is a Harvard and Wall Street Journal contributor and she's spoken at MIT in Harvard along with the Today's Show....

Duy Huynh . He's the founder of Autonomous.ai which builds smart office products to help people work smarter. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? –   Stewart Butterfield Favorite online tool? — Google Analytics How many hours of sleep do you get?— 4 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "Focus on and build something really helpful...

Connor Gillivan. He's a 27-year old serial entrepreneur and published author. He started his first company out of his college dorm room and built it to sell over $20M in products on Amazon.com. After he became an expert on hiring online, he co-founded FreeeUp , an online hiring marketplace focused on connecting the top 1% freelancers with business owners. He's the author of Free Up Your Business:...

Dan Gamito . He now leads partnerships and B&D for a company called ManyChat . Formerly, he led the customer success team for ConvertKit . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What CEO do you follow? – Des Traynor Favorite online tool? — Calendly How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "Just chill out"   Time Stamped Show Note...

Sam Caucci . He's the CEO of Sales Huddle , a training and development team that is using game technology to help organizations better prepare their people for the workforce. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Meditations What CEO do you follow? – Jason Lemkin Favorite online tool? — GrowBots How many hours of sleep do you get?— 4 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be...

Scot Wingo . He's the CEO of Spiffy . He's also a 4-time serial entrepreneur and industry thought leader in ecommerce and on-demand economy realm. He's appeared on CNBC's Today's Show and contributed his expertise to The Wall Street Journal, New York Times along with many other publications. He previously founded Stingray Software which he sold to Rogue Wave Software, AuctionRover which was sold t...

Dimitris Giannoccaro . He founded IAMIP , in 2013, after an extensive career in engineering and intellectual property together with some of the strongest leaders and inventors at ABB . The urgent need for digitizing an intellectual property world and maximizing the potential of intellectual property successfully has been felt during his work at his company. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – n/a What C...

Rickard Carlsson . He's the CEO of Detectify , a Stockholm-based security startup selected as one of Sweden's super talents, in 2015, by the Swedish business publication, Veckans Affärer. He has lived and worked in Sweden, USA and India and holds an MSc of applied physics and electrical engineering. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Home Improvement Books What CEO do you follow? – N/A  Favorite online...

Don Mal . He's the CEO and co-founder of Vena Solutions which was established in 2011 and is the fastest growing provider of cloud-based corporate performance management software. Prior to Vena, he's owned several executive tech positions along the way with companies like Clarity Systems and IBM . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Who Moved My Cheese What CEO do you follow? –   Satya Nadella Favorite...