Washington DC Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Washington DC.
Frantisek Brabec
Investor
PhD in CS (spatial DB), co-founded @roam-secure, grew into a market-creating pioneer of emergency alerting technology. Sold to Cooper Industries (now Eaton)
Alex Rudloff
Investor
Founded @emurse-com, sold to @aol in 2008; Founded @twitterholic.com, sold to TNW in 2010; Currently working at @ted
http://alexrudloff.com
Joseph Santoro
DC/LA Superconnector @forbes @MoxieStrategy @StartupGrindDC @ADmapco Creative Strategist, Media2.0Sensei, Political Wonketeer, Entrepreneurial Techie, Neuro PhD
Aaron Houghton
Investor
Co-founder and CEO @boostsuite. Co-founder and Chairman at @icontact
Doug March
Design, Development and Music Intelligence
Karl Johnson
Experienced Startup CTO, Former Microsoft Engineer, Booz and Accenture Consultant
Sam Street
Co-founder of @postmates. Front-End / iOS Engineer
Jonathan Kau
UMD Student and Aspiring Entrepreneur, 2014 Summer Intern at Yelp
Dan Donahoe
Founder @koofers • Worked at @oracle-corporation, @hewlett-packard • Studied at @virginia-polytechnic-institute-state-university
Charlie Gelman
Berkeley CS, PayPal Fraud Group, Sales Engineer. 7 years enterprise search. Rapid prototyping in python and django. Amazon AWS.
Scott Day
Investor
CTO of SoundExchange. Former CTO of @the-motley-fool, @in-q-tel tech practice lead, and founding employee at @foliofn (Mayfield).
http://scottdday.blogspot.com/
Shaun Johnson
Co-founder at @StartupInst. Associate at @techstars. @georgetown Hoya & Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
Nick ONeill
I founded Social Times Inc. in 2007 and sold it to WebMediaBrands (parent company behind mediabistro.com) in 2010. Now I'm building my next company...
http://nickoneill.com
Dan Molloy
CS Major, launched many web pages for folks of all walks of life, love all angles of IT to include networking, programming, and website creations
Jen Andre
Founder Threat Stack • Worked at @symantec, @mandiant
Zvi Band
Founder @contactually. CTO @workstreamer (acq 2009). Rails developer, community organizer, UMD alum
http://zviband.com/blog
David Naffis
Investor
Founder @ideaspace, @intridea, @socialspring, @scalr, @unlikely-ventures • Worked at @aol, @mckinsey-company, @fiveacross • Studied at @university-of-virginia, @Loyola
http://naffis.com
Dave Maestri
Investor
Invented Mob Wars. Co-founded @metamoki. Angel investor here and there.
Ryan McGrath
Self-taught developer, designer, and author; consulted with companies across the world, always looking for new and interesting technology.
http://venodesigns.net/
Gabriel Handford
Worked at @yelp, @revolution-health. Computer Science at @cornell-university
http://rel.me
V. Rao Dumpeti
Investor
Founder @makeme • Worked at @yahoo, @new-york-times, @proquest, @hughes-network-systems • Studied at @mit-sloan-school-of-management, @university-of-maryland-college-park
Sean Schofield
Founder and CEO of @spreecommerce. Long time open source enthusiast and entrepreneur.
Zack Liscio
Founder @naytev - Former Googler - SF and DC - front-end developer, sales hustler
http://www.sprezzy.com
Carl Leubsdorf
Former CTO and GM Asia Pacific of @match-com. Current CEO of Solvitor
http://solvitor.com
Raj Das Gupta
Investor
Cloud Computing at scale for A&D and Life Sciences, mission critical SAAS and developed some commercially successful mobile gaming apps (partnered w Chillingo)
Brian Muller
Co-founder of @opbandit. Created Data Science group at @livingsocial. Formerly at Washington Post. Engineer, Data Scientist, and recovering Bioinformatician.
http://findingscience.com