StartupDigest’s Leaders

Each StartupDigest Curator is handpicked to lead the growth of startup communities in every city around the world. To apply to become a Curator, please fill out our Curator Application Form. Silicon Valley, CA, USA Chris McCann is Co-Founder of StartupDigest and Curator of the SIlicon StartupDigest. He was the organizer for Geeks on a Plane Tokyo 2010 and manages social media outreach for both TEDx Silicon Valley and TEDxBerkeley. Brendan McManus is co-founder of StartupDigest. Brendan was also part of the original first Wildfire Interactive, Inc. and the UpDown team. . New York, NY, USA Carter Cleveland is Curator of the NYC StartupDigest and Founder of Art.sy, an online marketplace for original artwork that helps artists and art buyers connect through social networks. Michael Heinrich is Curator of the NYC StartupDigest and Founder of his own stealth startup, VrLocal, that aspires to become the premier online marketplace for people to buy and sell services. Follow him on twitter @mheinrich Los Angeles, CA, USA Matt Sandler is Curator of the LA StartupDigest, founder of the music education startup Chromatik, a core team member at the social media startup CitizenNet, and a professional saxophonist. London, England Aaron Gerard Franco & Gabriel Ortiz are the co-founders of nothingGrinder.
Cape Town, South Africa Sheraan Amod is Curator of the Cape Town StartupDigest and Co-Founder of Personera, a global personalized publishing service offering useful print products enhanced with Facebook content. You can follow him on Twitter here: @sheraan. Philippines Terence Pua @terencepua is the co-founder of Insync

New Orleans, LA, USA Chris Schultz is the founder of The Launch Pad, partner at Voodoo Ventures, and board member of the Jackson Square Group.
Copenhagen, Denmark Alex Farcet is Curator of the Copenhagen StartupDigest and co-founder of Startupbootcamp, a Techstars-inspired micro seed mentorship program based in Copenhagen. Follow him on Twitter at @bootcampdk. Shanghai, China Kai Lukoff is co-curator of the Shanghai StartupDigest. He is an analyst at BloggerInsight and an editor at China Social Games. He is also the marketing strategist at Cooltuan, a group-buying website in China. Follow him on twitter: @klukoff Rachel Zhong is the co-founder of Duqi.com

Toronto, Canada Josh Sookman (@jsookman) is a co-Curator of the Toronto StartupDigest. He is an Analyst with the BlackBerry Partners Fund and RBC Venture Partners. He also keeps a blog on technology, startups and venture capital. Will Lam is a Curator for the Toronto StartupDigest. He is the Founder of Cheap Date Ideas! and keeps a blog on Analytics and Entrepreneurship.
Salt Lake City, UT Kyle Mathews is the founder of Eduglu


Jon Bradshaw is the founder of BoomStartup & works with UtahAngels


Phoenix, AZ Francine Hardaway is a partner at Stealthmode Partners and is an entrepreneur-turned-investor-turned coach

Beijing, China Frank Yu is the founder of Dragon Moss


David Ding is the founder of the Beijing Angels and Startup Entrepreneurs (BASE).

Philadelphia, PA Brad Oyler is the Co-Founder & CTO of W3GiftCards

Madrid, Spain Alex Barrera @abarrera is the founder and CEO of Inkzee + cofounder of Tetuan Valley + partner at Okuri Ventures

Luis Rivera @luisriverag is the cofounder of Tetuan Valley + partner & founder at Okuri Ventures
Hackers Digest Santiago Zavala, @dfect


Mexico City Enrique Diaz @nRikeDiaz, Founder of AndroidTitlan.org, Mobile Developer SocialAtom Group

Singapore Gwendolyn Regina Tan is a partner at Thymos Capital and Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief of SGEntrepreneurs.

New York University (Tech@NYU) Trevor and Matylda are curators for the NYU edition and run Tech@NYU the entrepreneurship club at NYU.

Stanford University (BASES) Yin Yin Wu is the curator for the Stanford University edition and is co-president of BASES (Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students)

UC Berkeley (ST@B) Kevin Gong is the curator for the UC Berkeley edition and is co-present of ST@B (Startup at Berkeley)

Princeton University Ryan Shea is the curator for the Princeton edition and director of competitions for the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club

Columbia University Zach Sims is the co-curator for the Columbia edition and has worked with 1 startup and 1 VC firm (drop.io and AOL Ventures).

Dennis Kwon completed his undergrad in Computer Science at MIT and is now going to Columbia B-School. Prior to B-School Dennis worked at Siebel, Yahoo!, Lala.com, and is now at CBS. Vancouver, BC, Canada Jon Chui is Curator of the Vancouver StartupDigest, leads mobile strategy & iPhone development at Invoke Media and helped Bootup Labs with student outreach. . Tokyo, Japan Jonny Li is Curator of the Tokyo StartupDigest and organized Startup Weekend Tokyo. . Hiromi Okuda is Curator of the Tokyo StartupDigest and Founder of WizGroup Inc. .
Boston, MA, USA Steve Gold is Curator of the Boston StartupDigest, teaches entrepreneurship at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, is the author of Entrepreneur’s Notebook, and is always working on yet another startup of his own (he thinks he’s up to #7). Steve is also the Director of Babson College's Summer Venture Program. Paris, France Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is Curator of the Paris StartupDigest. Check out his new blog! . Seattle, WA, USA Jaremy Rich is curator of the Seattle StartupDigest and Co-Founder of Rich and Murray Creative, a web design and social media consultancy. You can follow him on Twitter: @jaremy. Washington, DC, USA Chris Selmer is Curator of the DC StartupDigest and a senior partner at Intridea where he creates internal company products and helps startup clients to flesh out their ideas and develop core web applications. Seoul, Korea TaeWoo Kim is Curator of Seoul StartupDigest and CEO of Mneighbor a social network company which helps people to find and communicate with other people who have a common with them. Follow him on Twitter at @challengekim Chicago, IL Mark Bertrand is Curator of the Chicago StartupDigest and Principal of Structured Prints, a web-based blueprint printer serving the construction industry, and is working on 2 new projects, ChatsWithMyEx.com and BorntoBootstrap.com. Zishan Ahmad is Curator of the Chicago StartupDigest, founder of Chicago Tech Scene, co-organizer of Chicago Tech Meetup, and founder of his own fledgling startups, FriendMeNot and MusliMatcher. Research Triangle Park Mac Elatab is the founder of Rollscritique and an analyst at TrueBridge Capital Partners
India Parul Raj Lodha "PRL" leads marketing and sales at Webaroo

Middle East Muhammad M. Mansour is the curator of the Middle East StartupDigest issue

Pittsburgh, PA Abhishek Sharma is Curator of the Pittsburgh StartupDigest and both Co-Founder and VP of Technology of MobileFusion Inc. Wellington, New Zealand Paul is CEO at ideegeo, creators of iWantMyName the world's most innovative domain registrar platform. He is also co-chair at Unlimited Potential, a network for I.T. professionals and manages W2W New Zealand's leading technology startup showcase event Columbus, Ohio Ben is a serial entrepreneur with an incredible wife Sandy and 4 daughters. By day he is VP of Information Services for Progressive Medical (a Inc500 Hall of Fame company) and by night he is the curator for TechLife Columbus. To have fun he plays soccer, runs, and volunteers for many community organizations. To learn more check out his linkedin profile and facebook page. Berlin, Germany Holger Dieterich is the curator of the Berlin StartupDigest. He organizes regular meetups with other entrepreneurs and works as an independent project manager for several startups. Rany Keddo likes to builds stuff, and is a soundcloud developer.

Baltimore Maryland Brian Sierakowski is Managing Editor of the Baltimore StartupDigest and is currently in the early stages of launching his startup, Cahoots. . Dave Troy is Curator of the Baltimore StartupDigest and the force behind many tech-community initiatives including SocialDevCamp East, Barcamp Baltimore, Beehive Baltimore (a coworking facility), Baltimore Angels (an angel investment group), TEDxMidAtlantic, and BmoreFiber Tel Aviv Amir Harel is the Founder of Web-exposed, and a Javascript Ninja for hire. In his spare time Amir Co-organize the Startup Weekend Tel-Aviv and the curator for StartupDigest Tel-Aviv Hong Kong Vincent Chan is Curator of the Hong Kong StartupDigest and Co-founder of Primitus, Resume Tracker and Power of Scale, a blog on startup case studies. Follow him on twitter @VincentChan Sydney Marko Vasiljevic is curator of the Sydney StartupDigest and co-founder of HopShopper - mobile application that transforms the way you shop. Follow him on twitter @marmarko. Des Moines Shane Reiser is Curator for Des Moines StartupDigest. He also organizes Startup Weekends around the country. Follow him on twitter @shanereiser Any questions about Curators? Email chris [at] thestartupdigest [dot] com.