Washington DC Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Washington DC.
Dan Donahoe
Founder @koofers • Worked at @oracle-corporation, @hewlett-packard • Studied at @virginia-polytechnic-institute-state-university
Zvi Band
Founder @contactually. CTO @workstreamer (acq 2009). Rails developer, community organizer, UMD alum
http://zviband.com/blog
Carl Leubsdorf
Former CTO and GM Asia Pacific of @match-com. Current CEO of Solvitor
http://solvitor.com
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
Doug March
Design, Development and Music Intelligence
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)
Jen Andre
Founder Threat Stack • Worked at @symantec, @mandiant
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)
Ryan McGrath
Self-taught developer, designer, and author; consulted with companies across the world, always looking for new and interesting technology.
http://venodesigns.net/
Jonathan Kau
UMD Student and Aspiring Entrepreneur, 2014 Summer Intern at Yelp
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
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
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
Sean Schofield
Founder and CEO of @spreecommerce. Long time open source enthusiast and entrepreneur.
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
Charlie Gelman
Berkeley CS, PayPal Fraud Group, Sales Engineer. 7 years enterprise search. Rapid prototyping in python and django. Amazon AWS.
Shaun Johnson
Co-founder at @StartupInst. Associate at @techstars. @georgetown Hoya & Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
Gabriel Handford
Worked at @yelp, @revolution-health. Computer Science at @cornell-university
http://rel.me
Dave Maestri
Investor
Invented Mob Wars. Co-founded @metamoki. Angel investor here and there.
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/
Zack Liscio
Founder @naytev - Former Googler - SF and DC - front-end developer, sales hustler
http://www.sprezzy.com
Sam Street
Co-founder of @postmates. Front-End / iOS Engineer
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
Aaron Houghton
Investor
Co-founder and CEO @boostsuite. Co-founder and Chairman at @icontact
Karl Johnson
Experienced Startup CTO, Former Microsoft Engineer, Booz and Accenture Consultant
