People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Mahrinah von Schlegel
CoFounder @pxnow, Founded @cibola, Strategy @proofx, digital dev since 2001, Anthropologist, sustainably developed nearly $1B in Real Estate, @Penn + @Wharton
Mike Zivin
Co-Founder at @whittl. Ex-Yahoo. Sold previous startup. Carnegie Mellon & Cornell.
Ted Feierstein, Sr.
Experienced Lean Software Company Investor, Technology I-Banker, Company-grower, Deal 'de-risker'
Tim Skaggs
Develop and design apps. Dev/Design for @steamboat-labs-1 and @Brewerbox. Worked on @kloudless @deskhero
Jared Keller
Worked at @belly, @groupon • Studied at @university-of-kansas
Jeremiah Seraphine
CEO and Co-Founder at @groovebug
Mohammad Gaber
Co-founder @beebillion acquired 08/11. Strong Biz Dev, Customer Acquisition and eComm background.
Thomas Pham
Entrepreneur.Technologist.Consultant - ETC
Amanda Cannan
Recovering tax accountant; Director, Internal Strategy Consulting @ibm; Past @ernst-young ; Bridge between our investments & the angels and VCs
Craig Carapelho
Founder and CEO of @3d-travel, a travel-tech startup that raised $3.5MM. Founder and CEO of @team-vision, a successful interactive agency for over 15 years.
Brad Wilkening
We put together high quality software for our clients. We are prolific in Rails, Backbone.js, Ember.js, TDD, Machine Learning & much more!
Eric Pitt
Marketing Coordinator @opternative Formerly @mentormob & @groupon
Jonah Grant
Developer @modest-inc Helped to found @belly out of high school. Previously @lightbank. School during the day.
Jonathan Baran
Co-founder and CEO of heathfinch.
Kevin Leland
Founder @pawngo, @bodyshopbids • Worked at @lightbank • Studied at @university-of-pennsylvania
Asaf Elani
Co-Founder at @ourlabel; Former Technology Consultant at @accenture Technology Labs; B.S. Electrical Engineering @northwestern-university University.
Jake Lumetta
Sr. Software Engineer @chooseenergy
Jonathan Krieger
Full stack marketer specializing in early-stage and growth startups
Byron Burke
Lateral thinker & Founder at @bb-media-global-group, Studied @stanford-university & DePaul University
Zak Boca
President at @singlehop-llc, Inc
Amber Porter Telfer
Partner leader at Lithium. Agency background. Digital and social strategy experience: BofA, Coca-Cola, etc. Product development at a dot com. U.S. Army Veteran
Brent Hill
Partner at Origin Ventures - early stage venture firm in Chicago focused on e-commerce, software, and digital media. Ex-Feedburner, Ex-Google, Ex-Twitter.
Craig Sweeney
Founder & CEO at IconBocs
David Gamperl
Investor in @osborn-energy, @m37-marketing.