Seattle Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Seattle.
Kenji Obata
Founder & CEO @spoon-net-1 • Ph.D., Computer Science @university-of-california-berkeley • B.Sc., Computer Science and Mathematics at @yale-university • Former Development Lead at @microsoft
http://blog.spoon.net
James Gwertzman
Investor
Founder & CEO @PlayFab. Sold @SproutGames to @popcap-games. Founded PopCap Asia. Led #HourOfCode for @CodeOrg. A.B. Harvard CS. 15 yrs game industry experience.
Garyn Angel
Investor
Founder @g-angel-associates-inc, @magicalbutter-com • Studied at @university-of-south-florida, @florida-state-university
Becket S. Dillard
Founder OnFave
David O'Neill
CEO&Founder Viafo, social API management, previous big ticket global sales/biz dev guru in mobile sector at Symphony Teleca, AYG first mobile lab 1999.
Bob Thordarson
Investor
CEO/Founder BluCapp, Inc, CEO/Founder Beaker Media, Board of Directors Cloudward, Co-Founder at Cequint, Inc., @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Birthing of Giants Entrepreneurship Program
Matt Kowalczyk
Investor
Former CEO of Leviathan Security Technologies. CEO/Co-Founder of 6 additional startups. Former mgr of TabletPC team at @microsoft. Mobile guy from CMU.
Adam Dreiblatt
Founder Joblie • Studied at @middlebury-college, @fuqua-school-of-business, grew last business to $20M in B2B product/services revenue.
Ron Davis
Founder Tenacity Health • Worked at @chicago-title-ticor-heritage-fnt-lawyers-fnf • Studied at @massachusetts-institute-of-technology, @university-of-oregon
Bob Berry
CEO, Uber Entertainment. High school dropout invited to do a PhD in Japan. Running companies and making software since age 15.
Brenton Webster
15+ years experience in tech and events. Founder & CEO FastBar. Former Architect at MSFT. Built 2 companies: Shindigg and Bonza Bash Productions.
Nate Martin
7 year Microsoft veteran as both Program Manager and Software Design Engineer. Co-founded a couple startups. Building weird dreams.
Mitchell London
Investor
founded ConnectSoft (sold '96; Nasdaq exit); founded Venture Foundry incubator, founded Astrobotic Technology, founded Headroom. EE/CompSci Carnegie Mellon
Yen Tung
Investor
I am the founder and CEO of Sentri. MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.
Buddy Waddington
Marketing Strategist. Built startup marketing firm, SUM. Then moved on to develop mobile ad startup, Madison. World Economic Forum Global Shaper.
Bryan Copley
Founder/CEO @ Rebls. Serial entrepreneur. Passionate believer in tech, people, empowerment. Happy husband, father of 3.
http://www.rebls.com/blog
Marian Dusan
Investor
Founder @luly-inc, @luly-inc • Studied at @columbia-university
http://www.mariandusan.ro/despre-mine/
Craig Tadlock
Hands-on technology entrepreneur with 17+ years experience building technology products and companies. Founder of GoToTags.
http://gototags.com/blog/
Buntu Redempter
Founder @solvr-bz
http://bunturedempter.com
Sherwyn Soff
Leigh Fatzinger
Investor
Software and technology M&A and fundraising advisory for mid-market investment bank Desilva+Phillips. Previously founder & CEO of Nology Media and Prosodic.
Kyle Schei
Keeping Things Organized
Matt Bentley
Founder CanIRank.com, formerly CEO at @sedo-com • Studied at @stanford-university, @kedge-business-school
http://www.canirank.com/blog