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Zann AliAlex Iskold founded 2048 Ventures after leading Techstars’ New York City program. He previously founded Info Lab and GetGlue and served as Chief Architect at DataSynapse.
Alex Iskold founded 2048 Ventures after leading Techstars’ New York City program. He previously founded Info Lab and GetGlue and served as Chief Architect at DataSynapse.
Career
Alex Iskold holds a BS, Mathematics (Honors) from Lehigh University and an MS, Computer Science (2000) from New York University.
T$Founder at The $1K Project for Ukraine from 2022 to PresentBuilt a volunteer initiative connecting sponsors with Ukrainian families.
Founder and Partner at 2048 Ventures until PresentHBVenture Capital Advisor at Harvard Business School until PresentAdvises founders through the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
NYBoard Member, NYU Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute at New York University until PresentServes on the NYU Entrepreneurship board.
Managing Director, New York City at Techstars from 2013 to 2018Led eight New York City accelerator programs.RFeature Writer at ReadWrite from 2006 to 2009Wrote analysis of technology and software trends.
DChief Architect, VP at DataSynapse from 2005 to 2007Developed distributed computing infrastructure.
IChief Architect, Application Analysis Tools at IBM from 2003 to 2005Worked on analysis tooling for Rational software products.
ILFounder and CEO at Information Laboratory from 2000 to 2003Created software architecture analysis tools; acquired by IBM.
PDSoftware Engineer at Plumb Design from 1998 to 2000Built visualization software.
TDSoftware Engineer at The D. E. Shaw Group from 1996 to 1998Developed trading software.
GSSoftware Engineer at Goldman Sachs from 1994 to 1996Built financial systems.
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Cosigns Received
These Cosigners would work with Alex anywhere
Daniella CohenPrincipal at 2048 Ventures
and pushing me to give it my all.