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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Apple | Mobile |
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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Provides an information service for investments.
Year Established: | 2008 |
Funding: | 4.6 |
Address: | Oakland, CA 94610 |
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Company URL: | http://www.stocktwits.com |
Foundry Group,True Ventures
Howard Lindzon is the Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits.
Howard Lindzon has over twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. Mr. Lindzon spent the last ten years managing his hedge fund, Lindzon Capital Partners, and is Partner and Principal of Knight's Bridge Capital, a private equity firm based in Toronto.
Mr. Lindzon has tremendous insight into new media and is a very active angel investor in the financial and internet business sectors, invested and involved with over 30 companies. He sold his startup videoblog Wallstrip to CBS Corp. and has made many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (sold to Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), and Internet Brands (NASDAQ).
Mr. Lindzon's new media and internet business investments include: MyTrade.com (purchased by Think or Swim in December 2008, NASD SWIM), Limos.com (sold December 2008), Covestor.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Foodzie, and Tweetdeck, to name a few. Mr. Lindzon is actively involved in his latest venture, Stocktwits, an open, community-powered investment idea and information service built on the twitter platform.
Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management
Soren Macbeth
Soren Macbeth is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of StockTwits.
Prior to founding StockTwits, Mr. Macbeth spent a decade working as an information security engineer and analyst for Fortune 500 companies such as Apple Inc ($AAPL), Symantec Corporation ($SYMC), and Safeway ($SWY). Mr. Macbeth specialized in reverse engineering, threat modeling and penetration testing of networked computer systems and applications. For the past five years Mr. Macbeth has also run an actively managed friends and family investment office developing and deploying proprietary quantitative and algorithmic strategies focusing on the global foreign exchange markets.
Phil Pearlman
Phil Pearlman is the Director of Community at StockTwits.
Phil Pearlman was a co-founder of Lumina Fund Management, a long/short equity hedge fund which focuses on behavioral and sentiment analysis to exploit under and overreactions in options markets. He is an expert in the area of market participant behavior and emotion and consults with professional investors employing strategies adapted from empirically validated psychological treatments to improve trading performance. Phil has developed a proprietary prescriptive model of investor experience which integrates empirically validated clinical models and behavioral finance. He is a contributor to Real Money, a paid service owned by TheStreet.com. He currently trades a private account in New York.
Phil is an investor in and community director at StockTwits. He also makes angel investments in other social media based start ups and focuses on the relational and community aspects of online social networks.
Phil earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from Argosy University in Washington DC.
Chris Corriveau
Chris Corriveau is the Chief Technology Officer of StockTwits.
Mike Kasten
Mike Kasten is the Chief Financial Officer of StockTwits.
Jon Labes
Jon Labes is the Executive Producer of StockTwits TV.
Ben Weiss
Ben Weiss is the Director of Business Development.