People
Meet 2550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Austin's tech scene.
Joshua Baer
Founded 3 email companies and @capitalfactory. Teaching @longhornstartup at @university-of-texas-austin. @trilogy Alumni 1999. CS @carnegie-mellon-university .
David Cohen
Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
Michael Dell
Family man, Chairman and CEO @dell.com msdf.org msdcapital.com
Kenny Van Zant
Business lead for @asana, entrepreneur, angel investor. Former Chief Product officer at @solarwinds (SWI).
Bradley C. Harrison
Founder/Managing Partner @scout-ventures; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology, @mit-sloan-school-of-management '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger
Bill Boebel
Founder & CEO of @pingboard; previously founded @capitalfactory & @webmail-us-acq-rax; Virginia Tech software engineer.
Noah Kagan
I love tacos and running AppSumo.com
David Hauser
Founder of @grasshopper. Founder of @chargify. Founder of @popsurvey. Angel Investor.
Howard Marks
co-founder Activision ATVI $14B cap, founder @acclaim-games (sold to @playdom). Founder and managing partner @startenginela LA's largest accelerator.
Bob Metcalfe
UTexas Austin Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, @stanford-university, @3com, InfoWorld.
Sam Decker
Founder/CEO @mass-relevance, Founding CMO @bazaarvoice, Co-founder @capital-factory, 7-year Dell Exec, 5 startups B2B & B2C (product, marketing, biz dev), author.
Nitesh Banta
Investor at General Catalyst. Co-founder at @RoughDraft.vc. Founding team of @getaround and @summer-workation. Invested in @kayak, @hubspot, @bigcommerce, @locu
Josh Williams
Co-founder + CEO @last Formerly at @gowalla and @facebook Maker of the finest margarita in Noe Valley.
Neal Rapoport
Investor in over 20 tech companies. Founder of @dealtaker-com (sold to Media General 2008, bought back 2012), Dude.
Rick Wittenbraker
CMO at @howler-brothers-2, Partner/Co-founder of @stage-one-capital. Multiple start-ups, former private equity. Marketer and fisherman at heart.
David Crow
EiR at @OMERSVentures. Focused on custdev & productdev. Cofounder of @influitive. Worked at @microsoft, @reactivity, @trilogy. @carnegie-mellon-university MS in HCI + UWaterloo BSc.
Rudy Garza
Founded G51 Capital 25+ Investments, Acq by SAP, ADP, Cisco, Prudential & others, National network of G51 Venture Scholars w/10+ leading MBA prgms & 150+ Alumni
Jason Seats
Managing Director @techstars • Co-founder @slicehost (acq by @rackspace)
Kip McClanahan
Founder @broadjump (IPO), over six startups returned $800m in shareholder equity
Sebastian Bruce
Founder @networklift • Worked at @thread-1, @balderdash • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1
Andrew Romans
General Partner Rubicon Venture Capital / Author The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital (McGraw Hill) Twitter: @RomansVentures www.linkedin.com/in/romans/
Robert Afshar
Founded 3 internet companies. All successful. Last company @leadclick-media took no investment and sold for $200mm. Currently, running a Hedge Fund & Angel Fund.
David Wieland
50+ investments: @ginkgotree @noredink @good.co @change.org @schoola @datanyze Founder: @rivs, @innflux , @iestates , @irishangels edu: @NotreDame @Kellogg
Jason Cohen
4x founder, 2x exit, bootstrapped & funded; Angel