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Listen to the Podcast with Jeff Paul of Viziotag . In 2017, 500 hours of video content was uploaded to YouTube every 60 second s . Many of these videos are well over an hour long making finding the exact piece of information you are really interested in quite a long and tedious experience. It is also easy to skip past the part in the video that you are looking for or miss it entirely making it necessary to start all over again from the beginning. Viziotag is an innovative pl

Disruptive Technologists' writer Xiling Gu talks with Leah Callon-Butler , the founder of intimate.io , about how she started her career and how she deals with the media about the delicate business of sex. XG: Could you tell us a bit about your education and career background before becoming a co-founder of intimate.io ? Leah Callon-Butler : My career has been a lot of fun. I delivered a sustainability award-winning community bulk-buy project that saw $6.5mil worth of solar t

Giovanni Fumei, Disruptive Technologists’ Podcast Director, interviews the three young and very enthusiastic founders of Crescent Crypto Enjoy this educational podcast as all three founders discuss their views on Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and how this all fits into Banking . “Here at Disruptive Technologists, we have a shared fascination with different and unique views -- idiosyncratic minds, as we'd like to call them. So when we decided the Disruptive March event will be

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco C. Lee Smith is the President and CEO of SalesFuel whose mission is to help sellers change the way they sell and help managers change the way they manage. He does this by leveraging critical insights that enable clients to acquire, develop and retain their best employees and customers. SalesFuel just released new game-changing technology called TeamKeeper -- which applies analytics to management. Lauren Keyson: So, your most disruptive tech

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco McCarter & English represents about a dozen venture funds, a number of private equity funds, angels and hundreds of tech, tech-enabled and life sciences enterprises. They also created their own unique accelerator program and cofounded a venture fund. Roughly 65% of their client base is the company side now, which crosses virtually every technology center and life sciences. David Sorin is Partner, Co-Chair of the Venture Capital and Emergi

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco “ I came up with a decision that many people thought was unwise. I decided to compete against Adobe,” said Eugene Xiong , Founder of Foxit , a leading innovator in the document technology field. “They spent more than 10 years to build that stack of technology; I decided to build one myself.” Xiong is a genius – when he was 15 years old he started at the University of Science & Technology in China. Now a giant international company, he began

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco An interview with Tom Eck, CTO of Industry Platforms at IBM : Lauren Keyson: What is the premise behind Industry Platforms? Tom Eck : A year or two ago we launched Watson Health , and now we’ve launched Watson Financial Services. The current focus of the Industry Platforms team is in financial services, which is "How do we serve today’s both enterprise and startup entities for building the next generation financial services application.”

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Lauren Keyson: This is Jack Noble, the youngest partner at DeSilva Phillips. How did you get to be the youngest person at this company? Jack Noble: Well I started on the ground floor as an intern with Yale for undergrad. Then I spent a summer at a company in Alabama where I am from called EBSCO Industries. They are a 2.5 billion privately held business that owns 40 different companies. I worked in the acquisitions group for a summer, and t

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco “Most banking apps are pretty bland,” according to Jerry Rudisin, the CEO of Flybits . “ They know where you are, and who you are, which is great. You can transfer money and do the usual things, but that’s not enough to really be competitive. Enterprise mobile app users get tired of having a cookie-cutter, one-size fits all app, and that puts the enterprise at a competitive disadvantage. Flybits is a software product company with a uniqu

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Watch Jeremy Braff’s full sports tech presentation at the May 2016 Disruptive Technologists event at Microsoft in Times Square at http://disruptivetechnologists.com/videos/ Jeremy Braff is an expert software architect working for MLBAM , the technology arm of Major League Baseball which focuses on full service solutions delivering world-class digital experiences across all digital media platforms. Braff helps MLBAM get sports data and infor

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Co-founder Scott Reynolds created Armor Payments with his partner Mark French to act as a kind of B2B Escrow Service. He designed it to focus on business-to-business transactions that tend to be of the larger size. He feels that consumer-oriented payment methods, such as credit cards and PayPal, are just taken for granted by consumers, and aren’t particularly suited for B-to-B transactions. Armor's disruption stems from the fact that it

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco iQuantifi is unique in that it is the only robot advisor in the marketplace that doesn’t require a human advisor to personalize comprehensive financial advice. The service works with all financial institutions including banks, credit unions, investment and insurance companies, who can now provide financial advice to their entire customer bases, not just the wealthy. Tom White: We call ourselves robo-planners because I believe we’re the on

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Ingredient1 is a personal food shopper that empowers foodies to discover, locate and share food tailored to their specific needs. It disrupts the way people feel about food because it gives them assurance that it will taste great even before they purchase it. In addition, it provides daily curated recommendations from nutritionists and tastemakers that allows eaters to escape their boring food routines. Founder Taryn Fixel came up with the

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Edward Brooks is a Scottish-born founder and CEO of the photography startup Snapped . He has made New York his home mostly because he believes that the greatest thing about NY is that it’s such a small, compact place and that people can get things done very quickly. That is part and parcel of his vision -- to be able to make great photography available to everyone quickly. He believes that while there are lots of iPhones and selfie stic

by Altynay Demeubayeva Igor Gonta is the CEO of Market Prophit . His company offers a unique tool that organizes all information on the Internet and puts it in an adjustable way. We caught up with him at the Big Global Tech Pitch to Investors. Igor Gonta, CEO of Market Prophit Altynay Demeubayeva: So, do you track the tweeters in social media? IG: We track people as they tweet and we want to measure their performance because otherwise there is so much noise, how does the in

by Zak Niazi I had a chance to talk to the founders of Blokify , a startup that creates 3D modeling software allowing kids to create toys physically or virtually via an app and 3D printers. The company is co-founded by Jenny Kortina and Brett Cupta . I met Brett in NYC at an Ultralight Startup event in downtown Manhattan. We were standing near the doors because it was a packed house. The story of Blokify goes back to 2012 when Jenny fell in love with 3D printing. Impressed b

By Zak Niazi Joshua Weiss founded Teliapp , a builder of mobile applications that focuses on geosocial networking and games. The inspiration for his first product came when he was sitting in a coffee shop and watched a teenage boy try to approach a girl. The experience, he thought, could have been made much simpler with app technology where people log in and see who around them wants to engage in a conversation. Soon after, he created the app WannaHang in an effort to do jus

by Lauren Keyson Victor Wang Victor Wang is the creator of a quirky little dog called Gerijoy , a virtual companion for seniors. About 42 million Americans provide care for a senior in their life, but care is not enough. Many of them are depressed. Gerijoy is trying to change that by simultaneously raising awareness while giving them healthy social interaction through a tablet. There are millions of lonely seniors in the U.S. that could use interaction. “Why a dog you might

by Lauren Keyson Oded Grinstein is the Deputy Economic Minister at the Israel Economic Mission in NYC. He works in NY but actually lives in Israel. What is your mission about? We promote and facilitate bilateral trade and business between Israeli and U.S. companies in various sectors. I lead the high-tech activities, which is one of the leading and most exciting sectors in the Israeli economy. I introduce Israeli technologies and innovation to U.S. companies, partners and i

Corey Massella is a partner with the accounting and business consulting firm Citrin Cooperman , and is the CEO of the firm’s SEC Solutions Group. He has more than 20 years of experience in counseling entrepreneurs in financial and business strategies. He is also a board member and sponsor for Keiretsu Forum and the president of Long Island Capital Alliance and a board member of the prestigious MIT Entrepreneur Forum in NYC . “In the technology sectors, the entrepreneurs th