Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Seattle.
CEO of @buddy - before that: over a decade at Microsoft, a stint at PricewaterhouseCoopers and formerly a professional pianist in Australia. Yes, really.
Founder @mobile-nations, notifyer • Worked at @hapilabs • Investor @rockhealth, @anyperk
CFO
CoFounder at @decide.com (acquired by Ebay) - shopping with no regrets. Previously: @zillow, @microsoft, UW. My Blog: www.zealoustiger.com
https://www.zealoustiger.com
CEO of Zillow; father of three; husband of one; real estate junkie
Chief Product Officer @rosetta-stone
Worked @salesforce and @deloitte-consulting. Now works by referral only helping B2B SaaS companies with their go-to-market strategy and marketing.
ceo at wtia, livemocha. built real games biz into global company. rebuilt consumer products at monster.
http://ceosherpa.com/blog
Founder and CEO of @drawn-to-scale, a distributed database company. Deep enterprise tech and open source love. Did SQL Server @microsoft, OSCON @o-reilly-media.
http://www,roadtofailure.com
Serial entrepreneur (@feedburner sold to @google, @spyonit sold to 724 Solutions). My head is full of zero-billion dollar business ideas.
Founder @ Jobaline Investor & Executive Advisor to Fortune 500, emerging and midsize technology companies.
http://www.NakedCMO.com
Entrepreneur
http://ozzie.net
Amazon Web Services Startup BD. Former founder and CEO, @teachstreet. Early Amazonian. Amateur poker superstah. 1/2 of a Wharton MBA.
http://blog.nosnivelling.com
Founding Managing Director of Microsoft Accelerator powered by TechStars; Former TechStars and long time Microsoft prior to that; Advisor
Spends his time advising startups and matching talented folks with companies that need (and reward) them.
http://www.everyonehateshr.com
VP Product at UP Global, Tech Entrepreneur, Board Member, former EIR. Sales & Marketing tech background
http://www.dkparker.com/blog
Worked at @apple, @microsoft • Investor @leanplum, @pinnatta • Studied at @queen-s-university
Mobile, device, cloud software. Founded @mergelab. Worked at @jawbone, Symform, PortalPlayer (NVIDIA), Open Interface (Qualcomm).
CEO OwnerListens: Before You Yelp, Let The Owner Help
Mentor @sgblank's Lean Launchpad Class & @upwest-labs
Worked @clarium, @google & @idf
Stanford MBA
Engineer @amazon & Kindle • CS @carnegie-mellon-university • Investor @slidepay, @lovely, @anyperk, @drync, @true-co, @Change.org, YC S13 Fund (@fundersclub)
Founder, @vittana (Khosla, Google-backed). Advisor, @experiment, @benetech. Former @amazon, @university-of-california-berkeley. 2x Ironman, 2x TED speaker.
http://www.obviouslywrong.org
Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone.
http://www.davidgcohen.com
http://www.davidgcohen.com/
Expanding the Startup Ecosystem. Lean Startup Seattle , Seattle Angel Conf, Global Facilitator for Startup Weekend, Past Oregon Angel Fund participant
Engineer. Worked to make the fail whale extinct at Twitter. Launched rockets and airplanes
Decades of experience building media businesses and strategic partnerships at Disney, @realnetworks, @rhapsody, Blade Games World and RollingStone.com.
Director, System Sales at Zetron, Inc (subsidiary of JVC KENWOOD). Investor in @buddy.
Team member of @balance Financial.
VP of Products at @glympse • Founder @seattlerentals-com, @playfield • Pioneered mobile initiatives at @amazon.com, @realnetworks and @expedia.
Consultant. Investment Professional. Advisor. Mentor.
Opportunities Evaluated, Innovation Managed, Problems Solved, Ideas Developed Into Businesses.
Seasoned IT and InfoSec pro. Worked on Cloud Services at Microsoft. Started company in 2012. Built Enterprise Security products for workflow and remediation.
Founder of @dla-piper-s-venture-pipeline-group. Have been helping start-ups raise capital for 10+ years.
Technical customer service practitioner. Former web application developer helping the next generation succeed.
I build strategic partnerships and consumer facing technology companies.
Managing Partner @dapps-fund-i
Board Member @mastercoin-foundation
ED @bitangels
Triple Major('10) & MS Engineering ('12) @johns-hopkins-university
CMO @meshfire-1, Co-Founder @head-of-lettuce-media, @foursquare Day Founding Team Member, @sxsw speaker.
http://missdestructo.com
CEO/CMO/COO/GM = growth @ Starbucks, Eddie Bauer, Blue Nile, Timberland, Sperry Top-Sider. Now helping startups sharpen the message, get traction, build growth.
Board member, Public Knowledge, media strategist, founder of digital media consultancy, NVPR, in Seattle, LA & Buenos Aires: marcom, biz dev, creative services
VP Marketing @abodo. Founder + advisor @crowdstreet @cinephiled @founderspad @aquo @rent.com. Aspiring polymath. Ciderist. Hiker. Skier. Diver. Husband + dad.
Product guy @google, advisor @startup-institute. Formerly @edx, @franklin-w-olin-college-of-engineering.
Vice President
Groupon, Inc
Founder, CEO @onewed-formerly-nearlyweds, Inc. / OneWed.com. Previously helped build 3Gupload to $10mm in sales in 3 years.
Director at @amazon, advisor to @soniqplay
http://www.pocketvintages.com
Advisor & Entrepreneur. Career focused on marketing & consumer experience on web and mobile. I've done just about all you can do in & around start-ups.
Biz Dev @ AWS | ex-MSFT | C100 | Growlab | Advisor @ LX Ventures | Startup Advisor | Technology Evangelist | Corporate Venturing.
Technical Advisor on Scalability, Data Science, Product and Funding
Founder of a Financial Planning & Wealth Management Practice and Co-founder of @trubalance
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning @university-of-washington. Leader of GraphLab project providing Machine Learning for Big Data. Was Assoc. Prof. @carnegie-mellon-university, worked @intel.
Former CEO of Leviathan Security Technologies. CEO/Co-Founder of 6 additional startups. Former mgr of TabletPC team at @microsoft. Mobile guy from CMU.
CEO of @dealer-ignition and Dealy, Strong sales and Marketing, Product Development and Architecture. Work @ford-motor-company, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz.
http://saasceo.me
Founder @startup-recroot, startup growth investor • Studied at @university-of-toronto
General Counsel @bitcoin-foundation
Integrated Marketing & Content Solutions Executive at CAA (@creative-artists-agency). Featured in Wired, Fast Company and Banff Media Festival.
http://www.andrewsaunders.com
Founder Juke • Studied at @massachusetts-institute-of-technology, @new-york-university Founder Thinking Pictures. Patent holder (Digital Content and Wearable Video). Digital Rights Mngt, AI and Human Interface
CEO of Glooey, Founder Zazengo, CTO/Founder of NRG Group (IPO), General Manager Microsoft Developer Network, Lead PM Microsoft Visual C++
http://theartofwork.com/blog
Founder @mowdo • Worked at @tred • B.S. & M.S. Economics & Sport Management at @FSU • Former D1 Athlete at Florida State
CEO & Co-Founder @oscilla-power • Investor @bioiq, @fledge-1 • Worked at @general-electric, @amyris-biotechnologies, @ballard-power-systems • @massachusetts-institute-of-technology ChemE, @harvard-business-school
Founder @tda-tech • Worked at @idealab, @airwave-wireless • Studied at @university-of-waterloo, @carleton-university
Entrepreneur
Emergency Response Director - @nethope by day. Advisor to startups, VCs, investors, companies, and governments around the world at other times.
http://blog.disasterexpert.org
Preschool Educator. @stanford-university Grad Sch of Education. Education Manager, Zeum (San Francisco Children Museum)
Faculty @university-of-washington
Clinical Adviser @heapsylon-sensoria-wearables
Interest in mHealth for chronic disease
Studied @Penn Med, @oxford-university, @university-of-michigan
Entrepreneur, board member, investor, advisor. Former CEO Coinstar, Founder/CEO Naverus (now GE Aviation), VP Intellectual Ventures, VP Concur Technologies.
VP, Technical Strategy at @neustar, a public company. Past: Senior roles at Symantec and Veritas in R&D, BD, PM, patent strategy, more. Philosophy professor.
Brand Marketing @google. 8+ years CPG Intl @starbucks. Founding Team, Growth Hacker @Tatcha Beauty. Founder @airbrush-genie @Geminievents & @bittybcosmetics.
CTO of @ip-ghoster Startup focused on providing next generation communication security which will replace VPN.
@microsoft on @bing, previously founder at @churnless, Lead Scientist at @thrive-acquired-by-lendingtree, behavioral psychologist (focused on behavior change and decision making)
Startup attorney in Seattle. I blog at startuplawblog.com and joewallin.com. Ideator of the Washington State equity crowdfunding law.
http://www.startuplawblog.com
Advisor @drone-vc • Engineer @facebook • Worked @amazon , @microsoft • Professional geek
Worked at @realnetworks, @witcom-wireless-isp • Studied at @university-of-california-irvine, @california-state-university-fullerton
Experienced Global Business Project Manager w/ passion & skills to drive on-time and on-budget delivery in launching new products, organizations or businesses.
Currently looking/investing (VP/CTO); Worked at Microsoft, CTO/VP Engineering at Caldera (IPO), Novell.
Energy, tech and sustainability entrepreneur & executive. CEO Propel Fuels.
http://www.robelam.com
Founder @idefi
Creator, Connector & Sometime CEO. Co-Founder of The Next Big Thing Foundation. Passionate activist & speaker for women in tech & entrepreneurship.
http://www.ucantbuycool.com
Tech evangelist, Social venture catalyst, Founding team of stealth startup, Venture capital junkie, e-commerce executive, Foodie
http://srivatsansivanandan.wordpress.com/
UX Consultant - Founder @decoravi-com, @flamini-associates • VP of Product Design @pictureiq - Worked @microsoft, @adobe-systems @landor-associates
Creative consultant with expertise in marketing, digital media, art, film.
Studied at @duke-university & London Film School.
Founder of @gear-live (profitable startup since day one,) speaker, advisor, strategist.
http://www.gearlive.com
Founder @sophos-law • Studied at @purdue-university, @university-of-richmond
VP Strategy @aplaceformom (@warburgpincus portfolio company). Previously @olympics 2010 @mckinsey @INSEAD MBA. Advisor to great leaders & companies.
Entrepreneur, instructor, and advisor in the world of social entrepreneurship. More at www.scottjames.me. CEO @trash-backwards.
http://www.scottjames.me
Startup Technologist, Tech Advocate and Tech Mentor for SoftLayer's Catalyst Startup Program.
SVP @ PCM, Former EVP & MD at Elevation Home Loans. Advisory Boards Zillow, Follr, Progress in Lending, Easy Mortgage Apps.
Seattle, WA · http://follr.me/joe
Multiple time CEO/COO/VP of Sales and Services. Active Angel investor. Worked at Accenture and Cambridge Technology Partners before becoming a start-up junkie.
Technology & IP Attorney @wilson-sonsini-goodrich-rosati • Startups • Licensing • Big Data • Privacy • SaaS • Cloud • Open Source
President, @liftport-group – The Elevator to Space Companies. Globally (in)famous for developing the Space Elevator from science fiction to a real-world program.
http://www.liftport.com/get-lf8d/
Product leader, extensive experience in blank-canvas opps, mobile & UX. Design thinker, user obsessed, lots of informed small bets, avid prototyper.
http://oyjo.tumblr.com
Adviser and Service Provider Looking for My Next Role
Business Consultant, Financial Analyst, CFO, Strategy Consultant, @exeter MBA, Over 12 Years Experience in Financial Management and Business Planning
http://lscocpa.com