People
Meet 2550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building San Francisco's tech scene.
Ray Wu
Founding partner of China fund and incubator. Used to lead HP Ventures, and Cisco Software Investment with M&A, built and sold my own company
Lakshmi
patent pending SAAS Model cloud services. iPhoneDevCamp Hackathon Winner Industry Expertise - Mobile and Internet - Software and Technology - Biotech
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.
Melinda Byerley
Founder, Vendorsi. Skilled in high growth, subscription and marketplace businesses. Formerly eBay, PayPal, CheckPoint, Linden Lab, Poll Everywhere. Cornell MBA
Paul Jeffries
Policy Strategy, Head of Legal Operations at @facebook • PhD Philosophy @cornell-university University
Alex Boswell
Investor at @broad-beach-ventures
Arul Velan
startup veteran at @facebook, @livingsocial, and many more. @northwestern-university engineer, @stanford-graduate-school-of-business mba.
Bernard Desarnauts
SVP & GM Ning @glam Media. 20+ years in Silicon Valley and Europe as an entrepreneur and executive with technology, Internet and media companies
Daisuke Minamide
Managing Partner @cyberagent-ventures-u-s • Worked at @DOCOMO Capital• Investor @evernote @urx @vidora @valetanywhere
Will Kessinger
Investor/Lead Partner behind Vformation -- Series A investor. Focus on Healthcare IT and Financial Services. B2B focus with interest in select B2C platforms.
James Lin
Founder @crunchyroll • Investor @beautylish, @lob • Studied EECS at @university-of-california-berkeley, @UIUC
Jared Kim
Founder & CEO at Forge. Previously founded @wegame (acquired by @tagged). Led Sidewalk, Labs, and Growth teams at Tagged.
Rodrigo Carvalho
Founded BlackLocus (sold to Home Depot)
Christophe Vandaele
Managing Director @ Vandaele Capital
J. Bryan Scott
Director of Analytics and Risk @square. My background is in product and data/analytics in Silicon Valley startups.
Jon Love
Owner of Exec Search Firm, Works with Top Tier VCs for Series A-C, Placed Execs at Top Start-Ups
Paul Kopacki
CMO @heroku • Worked at @apple, @salesforce, @sencha • Investor @socialpandas, @catapulse
Jeffrey Levy
@care-at-hand Founder. Prev @twitter & @google's CFO award recipient for $8B WW data center asset tracking & valuation system design & implementation.
Paul Sebastien
Investor, Board Member, Advisor • VP @udemy • @rock-health-v5-fund • @estimote @skykick @faraday-bicycles @stowaway-cosmetics @tapulous @selfieclub
Yash Kumar
Founder of @runnable.com. Worked at Amazon.com & Cisco Systems. Full stack hacker and engineer
Devkumar Gandhi
Founder & Board of Director at @nexage
Jason Culbertson
I design products and create brands. Creative Director @ Rewarder. Former Creative Director @yammer. Mentor @ Startup Monthly. Advisor @ Soldsie and @ringadoc.
Simon Khalaf
President and CEO at @flurry
Stan P. van de Burgt
Entrepreneur, Angel; Co-founder of @watchmouse (acquired by CA Technologies), @q-go (acquired by Rightnow/Oracle), DMO, @cloudspeakers, Geobrand;