People
Meet 2550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building New York's tech scene.
Jorge M. Torres
Venture Partner @silas-capital, venture firm for young consumer businesses; co-founder, VenSeed; Kauffman Fellow @kfp.
Gui Ambros
Managing Director @wunderman • Former Co-Founder @plug-in, sold to @uol-universo-online. Co-Founder @Gratis1/Starmedia • Investor @fundersclub, @indinero, @sendhub, @circa, @qwiz-perguntas-respostas, @boosted
Paul Canetti
Founder of @stream & @maz. Instructor at @general-assembly. Designer. Entrepreneur. UX aficionado. Inc.'s 30 Under 30. Formerly at @apple.
Andrew Merkatz
Co-Founder @inappfuel, @familybuilder (Intelius), @sitespecific (CKS Group) • Work @VisionCapital • Studied @HBS, @university-of-pennsylvania
Drew Sanocki
Founder and builder of companies. Angel investor now running small pre-venture fund. @stanford-graduate-school-of-business.
Geoff Grandberg
CEO @ministore, Llaunched nat'l magazine at 20, diverse engineer, backed by NY Angels ran edu and gaming start ups with exits. Fluent in startup.
Tim Dierks
Security & Privacy @google; Board @securerf, @seen; Advisor @altschool, @pymetrics, @songza; Past: CTO @the-huffington-post, CTO @certicom; Engineer @apple
Deepen Parikh
Partner at Interplay Ventures
Enzo Villani
Founder @villani-advisors, @nasdaq-omx Corporate Solutions • Worked at @nasdaq-omx, @mz-consult • Investor @cinchcast, @df-king-worldwide • Studied at @cornell-university, @pratt-institute
Winson Wong
Innovation and Partnerships @singtel Connecting startups and corporates for US + AsiaPac (@flurry @gree @oliver-wyman, @capgemini, @pwc-1), Kellogg MBA
Ajay Rajani
CMO @inventure; formerly led product @grovo. Hack growth for @igloo-studios & others. Investing is a guilty pleasure.
Jon Feldman
Founded @open-air-publishing to create a better way for people to learn, using iPads. Ran biz dev, mrktg & mobile at @collegehumor; e-commerce MTV. Wharton MBA.
James Han
Co-founder of @seedinvest; Spent time at @francisco-partners, @morgan-stanley IBD (Technology Group), @cisco, @riot-games. MBA @wharton-school School 2012, UG Finance/CS @university-of-pennsylvania
Brendon McQueen
Founder @tuition-io • Studied at @columbia-university
Ellie Cachette
VP @koombea
David Perla
Managing Director, 1991 Ventures
James Smits
Currently: Founding Partner @tigerlabs. Previously: Business Development @banyan-water, Honorary Fellow @university-of-melbourne.
Matthew Myers
Founder Tidal Labs, 30elm, Wharton grad with tech exp (CTO, DBA)
Avi Karnani
Research-driven product development. CEO of Thrive (acq'd by Lendingtree); led a digital agency (@churnless); now building products at Hazards & Compass.
Casey Berman
Managing Director of Camber Creek, a corporate venture fund. President of Ops for Real Estate Portfolio.
mac hofeditz
Nearly a quarter century of working with institutional investors to discover outstanding investment opportunities. Private investor, wine collector, UCLA sports fanatic, traveler, husband, and father to 2 amazing kids.
Sasha Laundy
Programmer. Love building beautiful and useful products. Formerly #4 at Codecademy and support engineer at Twilio. Taught physics and neuroscience.
Caya
TEDx Speaker. CEO of @slidebean. Designer. Startup Chile and DreamIt Ventures Alumnus. 40-under-40 Costa Rican innovator.
Sean Moran
Product @circle-1 • Former Associate @lightspeed-venture-partners