People
Meet 655 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Houston's tech scene.
Louis Marascio
Entrepreneur; Market Hacker; Troublemaker
Ken Tola
CTO of @ip-ghoster Startup focused on providing next generation communication security which will replace VPN.
Sudz Khawaja
Angel Investor, @band-of-angels, Founder / Executive at 4 startups (3 exits, 1 operating). Enterprise Software & Professional Services (@accenture) background.
Robert Dale Smith
Entrepreneur, Full Stack Developer, Founder of @mote-labs-1 & author of Chromemote.com and Flinger.co. Microsoft Imagine Cup & Red Labs Accelerator Alum
Murtaza Jawadwala
Entrepreneur & Investor
Shantanu Agarwal
Investor in Direct Drive Systems, @oxane-materials, @arkex, @stingray-geophysical, @fotech.
Joel Fontenot
Trailblazer Capital Managing Partner. Micro VC focused in Texas. Startup founder of Metreos, sold to Cisco. Early stage entrepreneur and investor.
Graham McFarland
A practicing entrepreneur, knee deep in his fifth start-up. Successfully built, funded and exited multiple companies ranging from $10K to over $10M in sales.
Greg Novak
managing partner Novak Druce + Quigg, LLP partner HalberdCross, pe/vc partner HalberdCross Risk Max Planck Foundation, board member @oxford-university SBS, board member
Gaurav Khandelwal
Founder/CEO at ChaiONE.com
Lavon Woods
CTO / Founder of @gamebuilder-studio, Lead UI Team @ Shutterfly, Lead Dev. @ Fujitsu Founded Revelation Designz, BA in 3D Animation
Jamieson Becker
Founder TLS Accelerator • Worked at @hp, @intuit • Studied at @state-university-of-new-york-system
Karim Solanji
Co-Founder of Paradigm Partners, an Inc. 500 fastest growing company for 2011. Serial Entrepreneur and Investor.
Jason Gill
Investor/Seasoned Executive. Marketing, sales, bizdev, and seed stage start-up experiences.Worked @polycom, @sonicwall, @sun, @Vocera, etc. MBA from IU/BA U.Va. Active angel Investor.
Brooke B Farrell
CEO, Founder @recyclematch; 10 yrs waste industry; '08 Mashable Best Environmental Site ThinkGreen.com, Dumpster.com for Waste Management Inc.
James Norris
(Social) entrepreneur since 6. Working on behavior change at scale. Co-built 6 startups. 4 secured/earned $100K+. Co-built 15 orgs. 3 majors/4 minors in uni.
Bryan Guido Hassin
Co-founder of three global cleantech startups (two acquired), CXO of two more (one acquired). @imd-1 MBA, @rice-university CS/EE, and ex @uunet
Mohith Julapalli
Founder & CTO @boutiika. Strong education & industry experience in both tech (BS CS/EE Rice; MS CS Stanford; Oracle) & legal (JD Stanford; Latham & Watkins)
Ciprian Stavar
Co-Founder Omnipaste
Mark Streich
Investor in @neptune-mobile-devices. Advisor to @dealvita.
Gary Glass
@xensource @homestead-technologies @objectrocket Founder @crewtrader @glass-group-advisers Member @house-of-genius. Angel Investor. VC Scout. Startup Adviser.
Peggy Dold
Founder, Navigation Partners LLC; Global Marketing Strategist & Entertainment Consultant
Irfan Ahmed
Founder Myke Larry
Jordan Thaeler
Founded @whatsbusy. I execute like the Spanish Inquisition. Passionate about value. Conservative business models.