Aardvark’s advisors
David Hornik (Board Member) -- For more than a decade, David has worked with technology startups throughout the software sector. In 2000, David joined August Capital to invest broadly in information technology companies, with a focus on enterprise application and infrastructure software, as well as consumer facing software and services. In addition to Aardvark David serves on the Boards of DoneRight, Nomis, PayCycle, Six Apart, Splunk, and VideoEgg.
Sep Kamvar (Technology Advisor) -- Sep founded Kaltix, a contextualized search company acquired by Google. At Google, he led engineering for personalized search products for 5 years. He now teaches Computational Mathematics at Stanford and is chairman of Wildflower Capital.
Michael Dearing (Product Advisor) -- In addition to working closely with and investing in numerous startups, Michael teaches courses around Innovation and Product Marketing at Stanford's design school. He previously spent 7 years at eBay, where he was a Senior Vice President in charge of marketing and seller strategy.
Deep Nishar (Product Advisor) -- Deep is responsible for setting and executing global product strategy as VP of Products at LinkedIn. Previously Deep ran Google's mobile businesses and the company's Asia-Pacific product organization.
Jeff Hammerbacher (Technology Advisor) -- Jeff was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners prior to co-founding Cloudera. Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for driving many of the applications of statistics and machine learning at Facebook, as well as building out the infrastructure to support these tasks for massive data sets.
Eric Ries (Technology Advisor) -- Eric is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the creator of the Lean Startup entrepreneurship methodology. He was the co-founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, and in 2009 he was recognized with a TechFellow award in the Engineering Leadership category.
Aardvark has received investment from numerous prominent institutional investors in a Series A led by August Capital including Baseline and Harrison Metal. We're also fortunate to have a number of well-known technology leaders as seed investors including Barney Pell, Shawn Fanning, Rajeev Motwani, Aydin Senkut, Jim Lanzone, Shervin Pishevar and Marc Andreessen.
