Tomasz Tunguz

Student of Startups
Backer of 9 unicorns
Author of http://tomtunguz.com 
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Founder

Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

Member Board of Directors

Black Swans 

Founder of Silicon Valley's top stealth strategy firm specializing in deep tech, disruptive & extremely high growth technologies. We have introduced the most innovative brands in the world. 

As the original Silicon Valley Startup Whisperer, we build brands from the start through IPO. From Comms to Brand to Strategy to Funding to Business Development to Exit. We launched and developed the program for the very 1st Venture Studio for developers, Heavybit. We have launched and advise 15+ family funds and scout for 28+ VCs and their portfolios globally. 

Highlights:  Heroku, Salesforce , GitLab, MuleSoft, YCombinator, ARM, Treasure Data, Cloudant (IBM), FOSSA, Apollo, Ockam, Zencoder (Brightcove), New Relic, HackerOne, Apiary (Oracle), Heavybit, Berbix (Socure), Contentful, Pantheon, Abbott Diagnostics, Sun Microsystems, AMD, Wind River, Intel and many more.

We find the most innovative deep tech talent globally, leading NextUp/Ne互tUp, Europe's premier startup challenge &  non-profit dedicated to promoting Tech4Good between communities around the world.

Black Swans services include specialties: Crisis Communications. GTM. Security disclosures. M&A. Strategy. Launch.

Founder Black Swans

LogLogic

Director

Bite Communications

Vice President, Provided senior communications counsel to AMD, Sun Microsystems, Wind River Systems (An Intel Company), VeriSign, BEA and key tech accounts

Ziff Davis

Journalist/Editor/Analyst | eWeek, LinuxDevices, DesktopLinux, WindowsForDevices, DeviceForce
Executive Editor 2005-2006

Editor

MontaVista Software

The world's first embedded Linux operating system founded by Silicon Valley pioneer Jim Ready, the father of embedded software.

PR Dir

Abbott

HIV Norvir + PRISM. HIV drug unit and Regulatory. Community Clinicals. Brought first blood analyzer to market for HIV. 

Brought Cell-Dyn in CA to market targetig cancer treatment and diagnostics. Clinicals. RAPS certified. Standards and Specs. 

Two tours of duty in California and Illioois Corporate.

We move great people and companies forward. With 25+ yrs experience, my big picture perspective allows me to take the complex & boil it down to "dead simple." I am a trusted advisor to execs & go-to in a crisis. I've built award winning comms teams that exceed expectations. 

Angel who builds brands. Scaled Y Combinator from Boston to California. (200+ cos), VCs, SaaS, Developer, Robotics, Space & Silicon. Former ZDNet, LinuxDevices, Forbes contributor and other publications. We works with the most visionary innovators, providing strategic counsel, funding, launch & scale. We took GitLab, Heroku (Salesforce), New Relic, Meteor, Cloudant (IBM) from cradle to grave and launched the first DevOps cos in the world, including dev standard CircleCI. Head of Comms: Salesforce, MuleSoft (Salesforce), Wit.ai (now Facebook), LogLogic (TIBCO), Sun Microsystems, AMD, BEA (Oracle), Heavybit, Zencoder (Brightcove), LexisNexis and many more. Contact us for current list, we DO NOT update LinkedIn nor solicit press on ourselves.

Jill is known as the original "startup whisperer" in Silicon Valley - from funding to scaling operations. We don't only tell your stories and get media hits, we build brands. (WE DO NOT UPDATE LINKEDIN. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR CURRENT INFO YOU NEED TO CONTACT US.)

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