Ryan Junee | |
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 Junee at G'Day USA | |
| Born | 17 November 1979 [1] |
| Nationality | Australian-American |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 2002—present |
| Known for | Founder of Parsable, Omnisio and Inporia |
| Website | http://ryanjunee.com/bio |
Ryan Junee is an Australian-American entrepreneur. [1] [2] He is the founder of Parsable and is based in San Francisco. [1]
In 2002, Junee graduated from the University of Sydney in Australia with degrees in computer engineering and commerce. [3] [4] After graduating, Junee worked at Telstra, but left when one of his friends raised money for a startup, Sensory Networks. [3] [5] Junee was the first non-founding employee at Sensory Networks, and was with the company as it grew from 5 employees to 70. [3] [6]
In 2003, he was accepted into the Electrical Engineering PhD program at Stanford University and moved to Palo Alto, California. [3] After observing the entrepreneurial energy in Silicon Valley, he left Stanford once he obtained his Master's degree. [3] He resumed working at Sensory Networks as Director of Strategic Partnerships in their Palo Alto office. [3]
In October 2007, Junee left Sensory Networks to co-found his own company, Omnisio, with Julian Frumar and Simon Ratner. [7] Junee was the co-founder and CEO of Omnisio, a service that made online video more interactive and social, allowing users to add annotations to videos, tag people and highlights, and synchronize videos with PowerPoint presentations. [2] [3] [8] To much acclaim, Omnisio is most famous for the concept of banner advertising units on YouTube videos. The company received early-stage funding from Y Combinator and Chris Sacca. [9] [10]
In July 2008, less than a year after the company was founded, Google acquired Omnisio for an undisclosed amount (TechCrunch reported that the amount was in the range of $15 million). [11] [12] [13] [14] As part of the deal, Junee became Product Manager at YouTube. [1] While at YouTube, Junee integrated several of Omnisio's features into YouTube, including video annotations; in addition, he oversaw the implementation of RealTime, which lets users know what their friends are viewing. [15]
Near the end of 2009, Junee left Google to start Inporia with Max Skibinsky, who sold Hive7 to Playdom in 2010. [7] Inporia, an eCommerce fashion site that combines elements of social and gaming technology, has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from New Enterprise Associates, Ron Conway, Dave McClure, among others. [7]
In 2013 Junee founded Wearable Intelligence [16] with Yan-David Erlich and Chase Feiger, with a goal of bringing wearable technologies like Google Glass to enterprise markets. In 2016 the company was renamed Parsable [17] and raised an additional $20M in funding from investors including Schlumberger, Airbus and Saudi Aramco.