People
Meet 1950 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Seattle's tech scene.
Ben Elowitz
Co-founder and CEO of @wetpaint, author of Digital Quarters blog, co-founder of @blue-nile, and Publishing 2.0 evangelist.
Kirill Zubovsky
Engineer, wonderer, designer. Founder of @scoutzie and @ramen-1 . Alum of @y-combinator and University of Toronto.
Kushal Chakrabarti
Founder, @vittana (Khosla, Google-backed). Advisor, @experiment, @benetech. Former @amazon, @university-of-california-berkeley. 2x Ironman, 2x TED speaker.
Rudy Gadre
Former general counsel of @facebook, VP Legal at @amazon. Active angel investor focusing on Seattle-area startups.
Edward Yim
President of @blue-moon-ventures. 25+ angel investments in last 5 years. Sat on boards of @cheezburger, @minted and others. Founded and sold multiple companies.
Kelly Smith
Serial seattle start-up guy & seed investor. Founder of Zapd, @inkd, & @imagekind.com. See CuriousOffice.com. http://www.curiousoffice.com
Jed Stremel
Investing in early-stage mobile and online companies; Worked at @facebook (Director of Mobile)
Clinton Foy
Partner @CrossCut Ventures. Early stage VC. SQUARE ENIX former COO, GC, head of business development, mobile, social, online. Advisor, Investor, Friend.
Jenny Rooke
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.
Phil Gordon
Founder Chatbox, @jawfish-games, @netsys-technologies • Investor @skillshare, @jawfish-games • Former Pro Poker Player/Author/TV Host
Jennifer Cabala
Director at @microsoft Accelerator powered by @techstars-1
Jenni Hogan
Chief Media Officer at Tagboard, Founder TVinteract. Emmy-award winning interactive journalist passionate about innovation, the broadcast industry and Social TV
Bob Lesko
Helper-Investor-Advisor
David McLauchlan
CEO of @buddy - before that: over a decade at Microsoft, a stint at PricewaterhouseCoopers and formerly a professional pianist in Australia. Yes, really.
Max Pellegrini
President Prod&Mktg @realnetworks, mobile guru, angel investor and Newyorker in a random order
Andrew Rebele
Founder @pure-watercraft, Grokhome hacker houses. Founded CityAuction, sold IACI 1999. Biz dev Webvan, General Magic. MIT @mit-sloan-school-of-management MBA 95
Rebecca Lovell
Chief Business Officer at @geekwire
Anthony Bontrager
Founder of @Soda Media, President of McCaw-backed @onecast, Co-Founder of @broadstream Communications (acq'd by Avail-TVN/Vubiquity)
Philip Cortes
Avid Ideologist, Co-Founder of @meeteor.com Dual MBA/MA from Wharton and the Lauder Institute at UPenn
Ken Glass
early investor in @housevalues, @yapta, @snapdeal, @diapers, @shiftwise, @ZeroVM, @porch-1 and others
Dan Rosen
Ideas into Opportunities
Steve Banfield
Worked at @realnetworks, @microsoft • Studied at @harvard-business-school, @transylvania-university
Steve Hall
Seattle-based VC
Kevin Mease
Startup Veteran, Managed Startup through Acquisition, Grew product from 0 to 10 million per year, Managed two Agile Development Teams, Strong Customer Focus