Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Seattle.
Director at @microsoft Accelerator powered by @techstars-1
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.
Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.
http://christinetsai.co
Worked at
Finance, Biz Dev @microsoft.
Project Management @nintendo.
Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency Miner.
Active Angel Investor.
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
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)
Investor @maveron
Consumer-tech obsessed. Believer that brand makes all the difference. Adventurer.
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
CEO of @picnik
Co-Founded Onvia - IPO 2000. EIR Maveron, Global Director education Microsoft, COO World Learning.
Managing Partner at @divergent-ventures
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
@techstars-1 Seattle Director. Founder of Abuzz (sold to NYT), Firefly Network (sold to MSFT)
http://asack.typepad.com/
Investor @theorem-ventures, EVP and tech practice lead at Grayling. Formerly co-founder & CEO Atomic, acquired by Grayling.
http://www.theoremventures.blogspot.com
Founder and Managing Partner @New Highlands Ventures. Employee @microsoft; @bluecoat-inc | PhD @McGill
Message is everything.
Founder @unitusseedfund, @pengala • Investor @ncomputing, @corengi
http://www.creativecap.vc/blog
Member at Banyan. Partner at @indicator-fund. Advisor to @robinhood. Seed investor to great people with exceptional ideas.
http://www.indicatorfund.com
Engineer. Worked to make the fail whale extinct at Twitter. Launched rockets and airplanes
Gabriele Gresta is a world-renowned speaker and considered an expert in digital media and associated technologies, Participative Tv and Finance
Managing Director @alliance-of-angels, Focus on investments in the Pacific Northwest
Managing Partner @dapps-fund-i
Board Member @mastercoin-foundation
ED @bitangels
Triple Major('10) & MS Engineering ('12) @johns-hopkins-university
Investor, Intellectual Property Guru, Smithsonian Laureate CTO at @Majestyk -- founder @instantservice (now Oracle), VirtualOR (now Swedish Medical) -- ingk.com/d
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.
Associate at ENVIRON
Owner Custom Tailored Marketing. Founding team: MedicalRecords.com. Current and former clients: Rhapsody, Dell, Vonage, Intelius, Jones Soda, and KEEN.
Atlas team has invested in over 100 startup and early companies
Digital Media Executive
http://overadmedia.wordpress.com
Founder @enom, @donuts-inc • Studied at @purdue-university
Tech Entrepreneur and Co-Founder @9mile-labs, Founder Lostpedia.com, Co-Founder JupiterHosting, MBA @university-of-washington
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
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
President at Makena Partners, Experienced Recruiting and Software Professional
Business Development Executive
Previous: Founded Colusa Software, acquired by Microsoft; Microsoft CVP running product management for $15B business. Now: CEO of Highspot.com.
Director of Marketing @utrip. Worked at Expedia and aQuantive. Studied Business @PLU.
Founded several companies in Hong Kong.
Manager @bloompad. Investor - Co Founder @www-anniesbid-com, CEO, Founder @vinyl-solution-inc, Founder @bloompad-group, CEO, Founder @the-big-print
Director BD @parallels. Strong business background.
Also studied EE @brown-university and MBA @wharton-school
Investor @rallyware
CFP at Strategic Wealth Management and Owner, Strategic Wealth Management
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
Co-Founded Ignition Mobile (sold to A Thinking Ape, inc.) and @AppRebates. YC alum.
VP of Marketing at Decide.com
Deeply engaged in machine learning and shifting the data paradigm to pervasive prediction. Prior career at Microsoft.
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.
Managing Director of The CAPROCK Group, a $2.5 billion multi-family office.
Entrepreneurial, results-driven with 12+ years in high-tech leadership, driving re-engineering initiatives and process improvements to drive revenue and efficiency.