Dominic Penaloza is a Chinese-Filipino entrepreneur and investor who was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He was the CEO & founder of Ushi, a Chinese professional network based in Shanghai. [1] [2] He was the CEO and founder of WorldFriends, a social networking service for internationally minded people, with offices in Shanghai and Tokyo and partnered with Yahoo Japan. [3] [4] He has received several awards including the Ivey Emerging Leaders Award. [5] He was the Chief Innovation & Technology Officer at naked Hub, a company that was acquired by WeWork for USD 400 million. [6] At WeWork China he was the Head of Innovation & Technology. After leaving WeWork in early 2020, he started REinvent, Asia's first proptech startup studio as CEO and cofounder. [7] One of REinvent's ventures is Switch, a workspace on-demand platform. [8]
Mark Jonathan Pincus is an American Internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Pincus also founded the startups Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com. Pincus served as the CEO of Zynga until July 2013, then again from 2015 to 2016.
Singularity Education Group is an American company that offers executive educational programs, a business incubator, and business consultancy services. Although the company uses the word "university" in its branding, it is not an accredited university and has no academic programs or accreditation.
Taneli Tikka is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and IT influencer.
Pranav Mistry is a computer scientist and inventor. He is the former President and CEO of STAR Labs. He is currently the founder and CEO of TWO, an Artificial Reality startup. He is best known for his work on SixthSense, Samsung Galaxy Gear and Project Beyond.
Brian Halligan is an American executive and author. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of software company HubSpot based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is also a senior lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Halligan coined the term "inbound marketing" to describe the type of marketing he advocates.
Amol Sarva is an American entrepreneur who founded Knotel, Halo Neuroscience, Knote, Peek, and Virgin Mobile USA.
Steve Guengerich is an entrepreneur, educator, and author of several books and numerous articles on information technology.
WeWork Inc. is a provider of coworking spaces, including physical and virtual shared spaces, headquartered in New York City. As of December 31, 2022, the company operated 43.9 million square feet (4,080,000 m2) of space, including 18.3 million square feet (1,700,000 m2) in the United States and Canada, in 779 locations in 39 countries, and had 547,000 members, with a weighted average commitment term of 19 months.
DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational technology company and cloud service provider. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York, US, with 15 globally distributed data centers. DigitalOcean provides developers, startups, and SMBs with cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platforms.
Adam Nash is the CEO and co-founder of Daffy, a new fintech platform focused on charitable giving. Nash has been influential in fintech most notably as a serial angel investor, advisor, and board member in over 100 companies such as Acorns, Gusto, Figma, and Opendoor. His investments are geared towards making financial tools more accessible to the public via tech-enabled products. Nash’s interest in democratizing access to technology and its communities extends through his non-profit work starting in 2011 with Oshman Family JCC and most recently as the co-Chairman of ICON, a non-profit organization.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a technology executive and entrepreneur. Formerly the president of StubHub, she has worked at various tech and media companies including Google, Amazon and News Corp, Yodlee (YODL), and Polyvore. In 2011, she founded JOYUS, the video shopping platform for women, and served as CEO then Chairman until 2017. Singh Cassidy is also Founder of theBoardlist.
The News Lens (TNL) is an independent digital media based in Taiwan, founded by Joey Chung and Mario Yang in 2013, with multilingual versions in Chinese, English and Japanese. Since 2017, it has maintained content partnerships with other outlets such as Time and Fortune. Article categories include politics, economics, technology, society, and more.
Barrett Comiskey is an American innovator. He is recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and was the youngest inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, for inventing and co-founding E Ink while an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently the Founder of Migo.
1871 is a non-profit digital startup incubator located in the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois. The organization was founded in 2012 by J. B. Pritzker and is the flagship project of The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC), a non-profit organization that supports entrepreneurs on their path to building high-growth, sustainable businesses that serve as platforms for economic development and civic leadership. Led by CEO Betsy Ziegler, 1871 has become a major hub of Chicago's technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem and hosts over 400 early-stage companies as well as nationally recognized accelerators, industry-specific incubators, and tech talent schools. 1871 was recognized in 2019 by UBI Global as the Top Private Business Incubator in the World and Most Promising Incubator for Women Founders.
Narendra K. Gupta was an Indian-American venture capital investor and technology entrepreneur. He founded the investment company Nexus Venture Partners, as well as various other investment and software firms. He was also CEO and president of Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI) for a decade and a half. In a career spanning over three decades he was recognized for his contributions to global technology and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and for venture capital investments in India.
Alma Asay was the CEO and co-founder, along with Dana Peterson, of Allegory Law, a legal technology company that provided a software platform for litigation management. Asay founded the company after departing a career at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, where she learned from and worked with top litigation attorney Orin Snyder working on complex litigation. Allegory Law, during its infancy, like many startups, has had bumpy moments. Disagreements with Peterson lead to the founding team breakup, and Asay had to sell her home to fund the startup, leading to her having to stay on couches of friends and family to extend her financial runway. In addition, in the early stages of the startup, the members of Asay's engineering team were paid in equity; and when they decided the product was ready to launch, Asay disagreed, thinking more work was needed. This forced the company to a standstill, and it took a year to raise the money needed to buy out her partners so she could restart her work. Since then, Asay closed a convertible debt round in early 2014, raised $715,000 from individuals in late 2016, and raised $500,000 from legal tech executives and investors in early 2017.
Royole Corporation is a manufacturer of flexible displays and sensors that can be used in a range of human-machine interface products, including foldable smartphones and other smart devices.
Steve Gu is an entrepreneur, computer vision scientist, author and the Co-founder and CEO of AiFi, an AI technology company providing autonomous store technology for retailers and brands, recognized as an Amazon Go rival by Fortune and CNBC. Gu has his PhD from Duke University in computer science, advised by Carlo Tomasi.
npm, Inc., is a company founded in 2014. It was acquired by GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, in 2020. The company maintains the npm package manager for Node.js and the npm Registry, which hosts software packages and version control based on Git.
Deepak Sahni is an Indian entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Healthians, a diagnostic company headquartered in Gurgaon.