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Photorank
Photorank measures photo-sharing activities to determine social influence and discover good photographers.
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Headoo connects user-generated visual content with brand platforms for personal customer connection.
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Candid™ helps brands improve engagement by incorporating user-generated media into their marketing experiences.
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Viraltag is a visual marketing and commerce platform that helps brands increase engagement, traffic, and ROI from visual content.
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Squarelovin is a user-generated content management tool that turns selfies into sales.
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Felix Capital
Felix Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in digital lifestyle companies at the intersection of technology and creativity.
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Fabrice Grinda
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors. He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll. Fabrice is currently investing in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding. Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets. Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years. Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis. In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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Jose Marin
Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq . Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IG Expansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success. Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns. Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.
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Michael Lazerow
Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.
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Fung Capital
Fung Capital is the investment arm of the Fung family in Hong Kong that invests in B2B technology companies.
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Fung Capital
Fung Capital is the investment arm of the Fung family in Hong Kong that invests in B2B technology companies.
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
Great Oaks is an early-stage venture investment firm that invests in tech-based startups.
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Ben Lin
Ben Lin is the Co-Founder of Coral.
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Andrew Boszhardt, Jr.
Andy is Managing Partner of Great Oaks Venture Capital, LLC (GOVC). Prior to forming Great Oaks, Andy was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Neuberger Berman; previously he provided wealth management services at Goldman Sachs from 1980 to 1996, serving as a Vice President starting in 1985. Andy holds an Accounting degree and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Andy is also the Founder and President of Great Oaks Capital Management, which previously managed a long/short equity hedge fund and continues to manage long-only equity portfolios and alternative equity products for high-net-worth individuals, families and institutions since 2003.
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Scout Ventures
Scout Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York that invests in technology-based businesses.
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Bradley C. Harrison
Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During this experience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies. While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications before retiring as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.
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Piqora acquired by Olapic
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Piqora helps businesses discover, amplify and monetize user-generated imagery on e-commerce sites and ads.
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Jose De Cabo
Jose De Cabo is a Co-Founder at Remotely.works.
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Luis Sanz
Based in Olapic’s New York headquarters, Sanz serves two roles as Chief Operating Officer and as head of technology and product development. Sanz’s deep technical background fueled the development of Olapic’s proprietary predictive algorithm, Photorank™ that analyzes dozens of different aspects of an image to determine its likelihood to trigger a purchase. Raised in Zaragoza, Spain, Sanz earned a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from University of Zaragoza, completing a thesis in Active Noise Control using Machine Learning. Sanz also holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York, where he co-founded Olapic in 2010. Prior to founding Olapic, Sanz was a consultant for Accenture, working for aerospace/defense projects in Europe and also worked for Ericsson, responsible for all support teams for the Billing Gateway and Service Provisioning departments across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Sanz and his Olapic co-founders have been recognized by the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund at Columbia Business School and were recipients of the E-cademy Award. Sanz is sought after by media and conferences for his expertise in image recognition and digital imaging technologies.
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Pau Sabria
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Ted Lattis
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