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Seed & Series A funding for startups beyond Silicon Valley. Mucker backs founders with hands-on guidance to build enduring businesses.

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Investor at Crosscut Ventures

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Ben is a serial entrepreneur and the managing partner at Chancebending Ventures, a digital media parent company, as well as a full-service digital consulting agency servicing early stage startups to Fortune 500 clients. He is also SVP of Corporate Development at Vobile, where he’s responsible for growing the company global strategic partnerships/m&a across all traditional media sectors. A seasoned digital media executive, Ben previously founded Blayze Inc. (acquired by Vobile in Feb 2014). Prior to that, Ben was an early Google and YouTube businessperson behind YouTube’s biggest partnerships and strategic efforts. Ben created many first of its kind social media partnerships on the web, and led YouTube’s efforts with Hollywood for years. He helped bridge the gap between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, leaving YouTube HQ to be the company's first businessperson in Los Angeles. * Active venture/angel investor and advisor (Digital Media and ecommerce) * Founded and exited on venture backed startups in the video ecosystem * Key part of early YouTube and Google BD teams, signed first of its kind video deals * Longtime LA tech community lover and fan! Specialties: Expertise: Voice technology, Blockchain & Crypto, Virtual Reality, YouTube strategy, online video, digital media, strategic partnerships, early stage startups, entrepreneurship, social media strategy, original content creation, product management, product marketing, internet marketing. Extensive experience in government 2.0, game design, interactive media, and prediction markets.

Antonio Magnaghi

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Sr. Director of Engineering, Google Display Ads at Google

Benjamin Lalezari

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Senior Analyst at VILA

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Dan Flanegan is a seasoned product and business leader with a track record of driving growth in XR, AI, gaming, and social tech. A three-time venture-backed entrepreneur, he specializes in product strategy, execution, and partner management for high-growth startups. Dan has held leadership roles at Qualcomm, ClayAIR, and Butter, and he currently advises and invests in emerging tech companies. As Product Lead at ClayAIR (acquired by Qualcomm), Dan built platform-agnostic hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions leveraging breakthrough computer vision, machine learning, and advanced cognitive science. The technology enabled hand interactions with XR virtual content, smart devices, and digital interfaces—no controller, no touch. As CEO & Co-founder of Butter, he led the development of a mobile app designed to help people make new friends anywhere in the world. Butter built a graph of people users wanted to connect with through photos and chat, generating over a billion mobile page views. Previously, Dan was Co-Founder & CEO of Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO, he was responsible for the company’s vision and mission of helping brands enhance customer engagement through mobile. He played a key role in developing a next-generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that powered campaigns for major brands, including Levi’s, Guinness, Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, and General Motors. Soapbox was acquired in 2007. Dan is a Product Hunt Golden Kitty Winner and has been a featured speaker at The UC Irvine Graduate Computer Science Program, The Rady School of Management at UCSD, The MIT Enterprise Forum, and Dow Jones VentureWire. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, growth, product management, marketing, advertising, virtual reality, mobile & wireless, mobile marketing, public relations, public speaking.

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Luke Stefanski is a student-athlete with multiple years of experience in landscaping, retail, and entrepreneurship, known for adaptability and problem-solving. A hard worker, Luke is passionate about solving problems more efficiently and has a proven track record in retail when he outperformed his co-workers in sales. With a background in business and coding, Luke excels in most business-related problems and is dedicated to making your business more efficient and productive.

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Building and scaling sales organizations from open to close is what I do best. As a prolific Sales Team Architect, I build and scale sales teams that consistently beat quota. Together we build processes to ensure the highest levels of productivity. In doing so I’ve played a key role in taking startups to their next level of growth by enabling them to better control their sales force and sales processes. More than ever, effective sales processes are dependent upon technology. Those companies that adopt technology in the very beginning of the sales process will always have the most robust sales results. Along with technology, you need professionals who are willing to think outside the box and ask tough business questions to effectively determine and meet the needs of the customer. Great sales performers don’t just think outside the box…great sales pros are also willing to take the risk that come with thinking outside the box …. They are individuals who are willing to accept a little failure once in a while in order to achieve great success in the long run. John Wooden said it better than I can when he said “If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.” Doers are the kind of individuals you’ll find on the sales teams I build and run…and if they are not on the team when I arrive, they soon will be. I’m on LinkedIn to strengthen business relations, make new connections and help others optimize their performance as well. Please feel free to connect with me.

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Entrepreneur. Investor.

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Global technology and interactive entertainment executive with over 20 years of business development and general management experience with Activision Blizzard, Disney, NBA, and 20th Century Fox in gaming, streaming video, and sports. Victor has been at the forefront of leveraging technology to enable new ways to consume entertainment and games, and has led large, global teams across diverse business models including free-to-play (F2P), licensing/co-development, ad-supported, and subscriptions. Victor is passionate about scaling interactive entertainment businesses, and is a Venture Partner at Mucker Capital and a mentor at Techstars. For his contributions to the tech and entertainment industries, Victor was awarded The Wharton School's inaugural 40 Under 40 distinction. Some wins: > Authored alternative payment strategy and launched partnerships with leading fintech platforms that are acquiring high ARPU new spenders with improved margins to Activision. > Significantly expanded 20th Century Fox's digital distribution partnership base internationally, and grew Asia Pacific P&L by 2.5X in 3 years. > Launched the NBA's digital presence in Greater China through streaming live games, mobile gaming, and social media, and grew the division to become the league’s largest digital revenue generator outside of the US. > Founded Disney’s first ever interactive division in China, with focus on multiplayer online gaming. Led product development, negotiated partnerships, and recruited talent. Grew business from scratch to multi-millions in revenue. Specialties: gaming, mobile, free-to-play (F2P), digital media, content licensing, sales, contract negotiations (including cross-border), business development, partner management, startups, technology, interactive products, strategic planning, product development, product management, sports, entertainment, film, television

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