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Their latest funding was raised on 19.11.2015. Their latest investor Arturo Duran. Their latest round Seed
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Worked on great products and that's what I want to back.
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Ben Smith
Mr. Benjamin Smith serves as Advisor and Limited Partner at Cendana Capital. He co-founded and served as a Board Member at Spoke Software. He serves as an Advisor at Wild Wood Ventures. He serves as an Advisor at Parade Ventures. He served as Venture Partner at Accelerator Ventures. Before joining Accelerator Ventures, he served as President of Reply Media which acquired MerchantCircle where he had been a cofounder and CEO. He cofounded MerchantCircle and incubated it at Rustic Canyon Partners while he was an Entrepreneur in Residence with Alex Lloyd. Before co-founding MerchantCircle, he was the SVP of Corporate Development at Borland through four acquisitions and drove the spinoff of their subsidiary, CodeGear, as their CEO through the separation and startup. Additionally, he co-founded the company Spoke and is still serving on its board. He also serves as a Board Member & Chairman of the Compensation Committee at Glu Mobile. He is a long-time angel investor with over 40 early-stage investments, often alongside Accelerator, and is an LP at several venture funds. He previously served in the White House as the Senior Advisor for Strategy and Planning to the Secretary of Transportation, assisting with the creation of the Transportation Security Administration after 9-11. Among his other accomplishments, he was a Vice President in Electronic Data System's A.T. Kearney management consulting subsidiary, leading the West Coast operations of the Kearney/EDS Venture Development Group, was one of the youngest partners in the history of the firm, and was named one of the 25 most influential strategy consultants in 2002. As a Partner in the High Technology and Strategy Practices at A.T. Kearney, he advised leading technology companies on business, acquisition, investment, and marketing strategies. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. [Source: Public Company Filing]
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Mark Goldstein
Mark got his start as a full-time operator – co-founding a dozen fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, retail, green tech, online gaming, and music ventures over the past 30 years. Now, Mark's passion is as 'player/coach'. His mission is two-fold: helping America reduce the cost and increase the efficacy of health care via technology, and enabling founders (with deep domain experience in their respective industry) to take on the legacy providers that directly or indirectly are holding back change. Mark is Founder and Chairman of the recently launched UCSF Health Hub, UCSF's new innovation hub and non-profit growth studio that connects ideas and companies with the people, expertise, and capital needed to grow and scale breakthrough healthcare solutions. Mark also previously was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Softbank and then at NEA and founded Bad Ass Advisors, a curated community of thousands of Silicon Valley tech mentors and early-stage companies and has made over 125 investments in tech either as an angel or institutional investor. Mark is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has served on it's Board of Overseers.
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Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts joined Google as a Software Engineer in January 2000. Before Google, he was working on his Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky. Matt wrote SafeSearch, which is Google's family filter. In addition to his experience at Google, Matt held a top-secret clearance while working for the Department of Defense, and he's also worked at a game engine company. He claims that Google is the most fun by far. Matt talks about webmaster-related issues on his [blog](http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/).
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Ram Gudavalli
Ram Gudavalli is the Co-founder / Engineering at Sense Inc. He is a former founder and CTO of Spaced Out Labs. Prior to that, he was the CTO of Funzio. He worked as the VP of engineering at GREE and Hi5 as well as a senior software engineer at Mixonic.
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Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce. Marc attended the University of Southern California.
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Arturo Duran
Having lived in Mexico, Canada, China, Spain, France and the United States, Arturo is not only worldly — he’s also seriously experienced. In addition to his role as Managing Director at Digital First Ventures, Arturo serves as Chief Innovation Officer for Digital First Media. Before that, he was Chief Executive Officer of impreMedia Digital, the largest Hispanic news-and-information company in the country. He was also previously the President of Interactive and Business Integration for Canwest Mediaworks’ and was the one responsible for their record-breaking online revenue growth and converting them it into the largest Canadian News and Information Network. A quick glance at Arturo’s resume will also reveal successful stints as: • Vice President, Multicultural, AOL Media Networks • VP Marketing and Interactive Content, AOL Canada • Director Business Development, AOL Mexico • Launch Team Member, AOL Latin America • Director of Business Development, Internet Division for the Polaroid Corporation Arturo is based out of Silicon Valley — making him super accessible to the area’s startups.
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Craig Forman
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Jonathan Abrams
Jonathan Abrams is an engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. Jonathan is a co-founder and General Partner of 8-Bit Capital, an early-stage investing firm. 8-Bit Capital invests in startups that connect people and businesses in new ways. Jonathan is also a co-founder and Managing Partner of Founders Den, San Francisco’s most exclusive workspace and community for startups and investors. Previously Jonathan was the founder of Nuzzel and Friendster, and a software engineer at Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan is an investor in over 50 startups, and a board member at Girls in Tech.
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