Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Seattle.
Been in a startup, ran a seed fund and now a VC, but an entrepreneur at heart. A Canadian who lived in the Silicon Valley and took it back home with him.
http://onceabeekeeper.com
Partner @CrossCut Ventures. Early stage VC. SQUARE ENIX former COO, GC, head of business development, mobile, social, online. Advisor, Investor, Friend.
Founder and Managing Partner @New Highlands Ventures. Employee @microsoft; @bluecoat-inc | PhD @McGill
Angel investor and former GP at @googleventures. Investor in @optimizely, @parse, @firespotter-labs, @the-climate-corporation and @crittercism. Founded @google-analytics & @google-voice.
http://www.weschan.com/blog.html
Worked at
Finance, Biz Dev @microsoft.
Project Management @nintendo.
Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency Miner.
Active Angel Investor.
Co-Founded Onvia - IPO 2000. EIR Maveron, Global Director education Microsoft, COO World Learning.
Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.
http://christinetsai.co
Director at @microsoft Accelerator powered by @techstars-1
GP @founders-co-op. Director @techstars Seattle. Co-founder @adjacency (ACQ @sapient). Led @patagonia eCommerce. @stanford-graduate-school-of-business, Yale.
http://www.crashdev.com
Serial seattle start-up guy & seed investor. Founder of Zapd, @inkd, & @imagekind.com. See CuriousOffice.com.
http://www.curiousoffice.com
http://www.curiousoffice.com
Founder Techcrunch, @crunchfund Partner, blogger at Uncrunched.
http://www.techcrunch.com
Investor @theorem-ventures, EVP and tech practice lead at Grayling. Formerly co-founder & CEO Atomic, acquired by Grayling.
http://www.theoremventures.blogspot.com
Investor @maveron
Consumer-tech obsessed. Believer that brand makes all the difference. Adventurer.
Co-Founder, @neverblue-media., bootstrapped to mid 8 figures rev in 4 years then exited. Angel Investor.
@stanford-university PhD, Early Internet pioneer, 20+ Internet startups including founder/CEO Friend Finder (grew to $300M/year)
Managing Partner at @divergent-ventures
CEO of @picnik
@techstars-1 Seattle Director. Founder of Abuzz (sold to NYT), Firefly Network (sold to MSFT)
http://asack.typepad.com/
Investor, Intellectual Property Guru, Smithsonian Laureate CTO at @Majestyk -- founder @instantservice (now Oracle), VirtualOR (now Swedish Medical) -- ingk.com/d
Associate at ENVIRON
Gabriele Gresta is a world-renowned speaker and considered an expert in digital media and associated technologies, Participative Tv and Finance
Engineer. Worked to make the fail whale extinct at Twitter. Launched rockets and airplanes
Life sciences VC and early-stage investor with focus and expertise in research tools and synthetic biology. Kauffman Fellow. Operational experience; startup utility player. McKinsey. PhD Genetics. BS Physics. Unafraid of category-defying opportunities.
Member at Banyan. Partner at @indicator-fund. Advisor to @robinhood. Seed investor to great people with exceptional ideas.
http://www.indicatorfund.com
Owner Custom Tailored Marketing. Founding team: MedicalRecords.com. Current and former clients: Rhapsody, Dell, Vonage, Intelius, Jones Soda, and KEEN.
Managing Director @alliance-of-angels, Focus on investments in the Pacific Northwest
Atlas team has invested in over 100 startup and early companies
Online & Enterprise Data Visualization @tableau-software, seed round VC investor, founder @sufferhub, family guy, mediocre bicycle racer, expert bacon consumer.
Current - @tableau-software
Founder @sufferhub
Worked at @microsoft (MSN, Xbox divisions)
http://brianlockhart.com
Tech Entrepreneur and Co-Founder @9mile-labs, Founder Lostpedia.com, Co-Founder JupiterHosting, MBA @university-of-washington
Digital Media Executive
http://overadmedia.wordpress.com
Founder @enom, @donuts-inc • Studied at @purdue-university
Founder @unitusseedfund, @pengala • Investor @ncomputing, @corengi
http://www.creativecap.vc/blog
Message is everything.
Managing Partner @dapps-fund-i
Board Member @mastercoin-foundation
ED @bitangels
Triple Major('10) & MS Engineering ('12) @johns-hopkins-university
CEO at Porch (porch.com). Previously, founder/CEO @thriva (<$200K funding) to $60M sale, then Active Network from $65M to ~$400M and an IPO. @stanford-university BS MS '03
President at Makena Partners, Experienced Recruiting and Software Professional
Director BD @parallels. Strong business background.
Also studied EE @brown-university and MBA @wharton-school
Investor @rallyware
Matt Hall is the Global Head of Payment Acceptance for Amazon.com where his role spans strategy, product innovation and business development. In addition to his role at Amazon Matt is an active investor as the Managing Member of Hall Family Management LLC
Deeply engaged in machine learning and shifting the data paradigm to pervasive prediction. Prior career at Microsoft.
Manager @bloompad. Investor - Co Founder @www-anniesbid-com, CEO, Founder @vinyl-solution-inc, Founder @bloompad-group, CEO, Founder @the-big-print
CFP at Strategic Wealth Management and Owner, Strategic Wealth Management
VP of Marketing at Decide.com
Managing Director of The CAPROCK Group, a $2.5 billion multi-family office.
Director of Marketing @utrip. Worked at Expedia and aQuantive. Studied Business @PLU.
Co-Founded Ignition Mobile (sold to A Thinking Ape, inc.) and @AppRebates. YC alum.
CEO of MealDrop. VP of Business Strategy at E&T Startup, Past Education Director for Social Entrepreneurship at @brigham-young-university and Regional Manager at Elevate Comms.
Previous: Founded Colusa Software, acquired by Microsoft; Microsoft CVP running product management for $15B business. Now: CEO of Highspot.com.
Business Development Executive
Entrepreneurial, results-driven with 12+ years in high-tech leadership, driving re-engineering initiatives and process improvements to drive revenue and efficiency.
Founded several companies in Hong Kong.