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Hey, there! My name is Alex Iskold and I am a Tech Entrepreneur & Investor working in New York City. Currently, I am a Co-Founder and Managing Director at 2048 Ventures. Read more about me http://startuphacks.vc/about
I write about startups and venture here: http://startuphacks.vc
My twitter: @alexiskold
My email: first at 2048.vc
What I’m working on now:
- Co-Founded and building earliest stage venture firm called 2048 Ventures
- Investing in companies differentiated through technology
- Investing in startups across US and Canada
- Co-founder 1kproject.org focused on pandemic relief
- Coaching and helping as a VC in Residence at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School
What I’ve worked on in the past:
- Ran Techstars NYC program for 5 years and invested in 100 startups
- Founded GetGlue – a leading social TV network. (acquired by i.tv, 2013)
- Created one of the most exciting startups in NYC, backed by Union Square Ventures, RRE
Ventures, TimeWarner Investments, Rho Ventures
- Won 2011 Mashable Breakout Startup of the Year (awesome)
- Named to Hollywood Reporter 2012 Digital Power 50 (surreal)
- Started a company called Information Laboratory (acquired by IBM, 2003)
- Built new grid computing technology at DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO, 2009).
- Contributed hundreds of articles to influential technology blog, ReadWriteWeb.
- Invented software analysis and visualization tool called Small Worlds
- Taught award-winning undergraduate software engineering class at NYU
- Contributed to development of innovative visualization technology called Thinkmap
- Engineered large-scale financial applications for D.E.Shaw & Co. and Goldman Sachs
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