Ryan Kuder

Managing Director, Techstars San Diego powered by San Diego State University

2023

Managing Director, Techstars Anywhere

2016 - 2024

At Techstars, we believe that great founders can come from Anywhere. That's why we've built Techstars Anywhere. A full Techstars mentor driven accelerator program delivered (mostly) virtually.

Managing Director, Virgin Media Accelerator

2015 - 2016

A startup accelerator for companies using connectivity to impact the lives of millions and make good things happen. Over three months, ten companies will work in the heart of London with an extensive group of mentors from the Techstars, Virgin Media, and Liberty Global networks.

Managing Director, Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator

2014 - 2015

The Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars, invests in and supports early stage robotics startups through an intense four month mentor driven accelerator program at Qualcomm's headquarters in San Diego, CA. http://qualcommaccelerator.com/

First Movers Fellow

2011

The First Movers Fellowship is offered by the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program whose mission is to equip business leaders for the 21st century with a new management paradigm – the vision and knowledge to integrate corporate profitability and social value.

VP of Marketing and Communications

2012 - 2014

ecoATM's automated ewaste recycling kiosks make it easy for consumers to recycle their old cell phones and other electronic devices for cash, creating the right mix of convenience and motivation necessary to drive mass consumer adoption of ewaste recycling. I was the founders first marketing hire and steered the marketing organization through a 6x increase in revenue and a $350MM acquisition in less than two years.

VP Marketing

2010 - 2012

We built Bizzy because we believed there was a better way to share your opinion about a business than reviewing it on Yelp. Responsible for marketing, product strategy, community and making sure the coffee is fresh for the engineers. Led the team through two pivots to build an app our users loved. Named one of Mashable’s Apps to Watch in 2011. INFINITE percentage increase in users from 0 to tens of thousands.

VP Marketing

2010 - 2010

Biz360 is a social media monitoring and analytics company acquired by Attensity Group in April of 2010.

VP Marketing and Product

2008 - 2009

Koombea is a Silicon Valley and Colombia based interactive agency that builds awesome web 2.0 software and iPhone apps for our clients. We specialize in Agile Ruby on Rails development, design, new product development, marketing and social media. Our sweet spot is helping startups get up and running quickly and affordably. I manage our marketing and PR, our business development, and our consulting businesses as well as our internal product initiatives such as The Purple People Collective and Neighborsville. I work with our startup clients to help them develop their business, product and marketing strategies. We understand how startups work and how startups get built. This understanding has helped us grow our business from a small handful of clients to a full portfolio of startups that are doing awesome things.

Founder

2008 - 2009

The Purple People Collective is a place for laid off Yahoos and other tech workers to band together and find some work in a really crappy economy. Job listings are totally free for hiring companies.

CEO & Founder

2008 - 2008

Neighborsville is the easiest way for neighbors to share and discover information about what's going on in their neighborhood. Alpha re-launched in July 2009 at http://neighborsville.com.

Sr. Manager, Integrated Campaign Strategy

2005 - 2008

Created multichannel integrated marketing campaigns for the Yahoo! Network Division. Set campaign strategy for key corporate marketing initiatives across product and audience priorities. Managed overall brief as well as crossfunctional campaign implementation including online and offline advertising, promotion, PR, integration.

Sr Global Marketing Manager

2005 - 2007

Manage key global marketing and advertising programs for the Yahoo! brand, Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! communications properties.

Product Manager, Global Content Management Systems

2003 - 2005