AI

Alex Iskold

Founder | Investor | Partner 2048 Ventures

New York, New York

Skills

Start-ups
Software Development
Social Networking
Blogging
Software Engineering
Distributed Systems
User Experience
Digital Media
Digital Strategy
Strategic Partnerships
Web Applications
Scalability
Online Advertising
User Interface Design
JavaScript
Big Data
Social Media
Mobile Applications
Product Management
Entrepreneurship

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder and Partner

    2018

    2048 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm. We are the first-check, high conviction, lead investor backing founders who are building businesses differentiated through technology. We are based in NYC, and invest across North America. Pitch us: https://2048.vc/pitch First check investor in: GlossGenius, Vitally, soona, AirspaceLink, nomic.bio, Aerodome and many other incredible companies.

  • Founder

    2022

    The mission of The $1K Project Ukraine is to help sponsors around the world to directly send $1k to families in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees. Sponsor a family: 1kproject.org/sponsor Make a large donation: 1kproject.org/donate Місія The $1K Project Ukraine полягає в тому, щоб допомогти спонсорам у Сполучених Штатах, Європі та всьому світі напряму надсилати гроші сім’ям в Україні та українським біженцям.

  • Coach and Venture Capitalist in Residence

    2020

    Holding regular office hours and working with the Harvard Business School students as a coach and VC in Residence.

http://startuphacks.vc

2014

  • Blogger

    2014

    I write one of the top blogs for startups featuring detailed advice on Fundraising, Metrics, GTM, Product, Growth and much more. http://startuphacks.vc

2020 - 2021

  • Co-Founder

    2020 - 2021

    Helped raise more than $3 Million for over 1,000 families to help with pandemic relief. Visit http://1kproject.org for more info: #1kproject - Inspired by the immense needs felt by families in the pandemic, we came together to connect families in crisis with direct support of $1k each month for 3 months from a sponsor family. Within a few tweets, a team of entrepreneurial, tech and design talent came together to start The $1k Project. We use personal networks to directly match a family impacted by the pandemic with a family committed to giving them $1k for 3 months.

2013 - 2018

  • Managing Director, NYC

    2013 - 2018

    Helping create next generation of amazing startups & valuable companies in New York City. Invested in 100 startups. First check in: GlossGenius, Gorgias, Narmi, Vitally, DataCamp, Stream, Mantl, BentoBox, Healthie, Scopenow, PathSpot and may others.

GetGlue

2010 - 2013

  • Founder/CEO

    2010 - 2013

    Created and ran social TV/second screen network called GetGlue.

AdaptiveBlue

2007 - 2010

  • Founder/CEO

    2007 - 2010

    Envisioned and built innovative semantic web browsing technologies.

2006 - 2009

  • Feature Writer

    2006 - 2009

    Moonlighted writing about trends and analysis posts for one of the best tech blogs.

Data Synapse (acquired by Tibco)

2005 - 2007

  • Chief Architect, VP

    2005 - 2007

    Built distributed computing software.