Rahul Sood is the CEO and co-founder of Irreverent Labs, the former CEO of Unikrn), and was the founder of VoodooPC. Sood was also an early investor in AR/VR company Vrvana he's also an investor in blockchain play to earn horse racing game ZED Run, and high end PC gaming company, MAINGEAR.
Aber Whitcomb is the CTO and Co-Founder of Jam City, Inc. As CTO of Jam City Inc, a multi-platform game developer and distributor, Aber Whitcomb oversees the cross-platform technology strategy and plays a key role in developing and operating Jam City titles on a global scale. Whitcomb is a recognized expert in large scale computing, networking and storage and frequently speaks on these topics at industry events. He has been profiled in publications such as VentureBeat, The New York Times, and SoCalTech.
Skytap, Inc. is a private company based in Seattle, Washington offering a public service for cloud computing. Skytap provides self-service access to environments for learning, developing, testing, training, and running enterprise applications. The company was founded as Illumita in 2006 and renamed in 2008.Skytap is also offered by IBM to enable enterprises to migrate and modernize their core business applications.
Chase Jarvis is an American photographer, director, artist, and entrepreneur. From April 2014 until July 2022 Jarvis was the chief executive officer of CreativeLive, an online education platform that he co-founded in 2010.
Versive was a machine learning startup based in Seattle, Washington, US. Founded in 2012 by Stephen Purpura and Chris Metcalfe, the company sells on-premises software, cloud services, and professional service solutions to help businesses automate human expertise.
Mixpo is an advertising software company, which provides software that allows companies and agencies to execute multi-screen video advertisement campaigns. The company’s services include software that allows clients to create online video ads and VideoVerify, a tool meant to identify fraudulent web publishers who inflate online ad numbers through the use of bots.
Zulily, LLC was an American e-commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Its target audience was young mothers interested in brand-name goods for their children. It held no inventory, instead consolidating shipments of vendor-owned merchandise at its fulfillment centers, or drop shipping directly to customers. Zulily offered different discounts each day. In 2014, half of Zulily's orders came from mobile devices. Sales generally lasted 72 hours.
Indix was a company based in Seattle, Washington, in the United States that was offering a cloud-based product information platform. It also built a broad and deep product catalog to enable mobile and desktop apps and websites to become product-aware. Indix provided access to APIs that enable developers to build product-aware applications. The big data startup was headquartered in Seattle with a product development office in Chennai and was founded in 2010 by former Microsoft executive Sanjay Parthasarathy.
Julep Beauty, Inc. New York based cosmetics company founded in 2007 by Jane Park. The company sells its products online and in its own branded beauty parlors
Madrona Venture Group is an American venture capital firm, founded in 1995 and based in Seattle, Washington. Madrona specializes in seed, startup, Series A and early stage investments.
Oregon Venture Fund makes venture investments in the Portland, Oregon area and throughout Oregon and SW Washington. The fund consists of 180 institutional and angel investors, of whom 85% have run or founded a business. The fund evaluates up to 300 business plans per year, selecting five to seven to invest in annually. In 2018, the fund changed its name from Oregon Angel Fund to Oregon Venture Fund and launched a new $30M fund. Since its inception, Oregon Venture Fund has generated an average annual rate of return of 34% and a return on investment exceeding $3.50 for each dollar invested.
YourMechanic is an American company that provides mobile automotive repair and maintenance services to vehicle owners at their location, such as their home or office.
A startup studio, also known as a startup factory, or a startup foundry, or a venture studio, is a studio-like company that aims at building several startup companies in succession. This style of business building is referred to as "parallel entrepreneurship".
AnswerDash is a B2B software company that facilitates customer service for e-commerce businesses. AnswerDash was founded in Seattle, Washington in 2012 as a spin-off from the Information school of the University of Washington. Its software-as-a-service utilizes machine learning to create databases of context-sensitive support answers for end-users of webpages and mobile applications, thus reducing the need for human customer service. AnswerDash claims to be the first, and as of 2015, the world's leading provider of contextual point-and-click answer technology. In June 2020, AnswerDash was acquired by CloudEngage.
Icertis is a privately owned software company that provides contract management software to enterprise businesses using a software-as-a-service model. The company, which was founded in 2009, is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
Convoy was an American trucking software company co-founded by CEO Dan Lewis and CTO Grant Goodale.
Booster Fuels is a company that develops an app-based service to deliver and pump gas in office parking lots. The San Mateo, California-based startup partners with campus-based companies, commercial real estate owners, universities, and commercial fleets. The company has stated that it serves tens of thousands of commuters working at more than 300 companies, including Cisco, Oracle, eBay, Pepsico, and Facebook.
Qumulo is an American data storage company based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2012, it offers products and services to help other companies manage and curate large amounts of data.
Amy Mezulis is an American clinical psychologist and researcher, based at Seattle Pacific University since 2006.
