New Orleans Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in New Orleans.
Matt Candler
Investor
Founder + CEO: 4.0 Schools. Once upon: 96 Olympics, Casady School, KIPP, NYC Charter Ctr, New Schools 4 New Orleans. Dad, maker.
https://medium.com/future-of-school/
Max Gaudin
Founder @sidework, Airpnp • Worked at @shredworthy • Studied at @university-of-new-orleans
Jason Nicosia
CMO at @commitchange, Founded @connect-for-a-cause • worked at @transformyx • Studied at @louisiana-state-university, @california-state-university-monterey-bay
http://theperfectsteak.tumblr.com
Gil Hildebrand
Tech cofounder @squidoo, @collabfinder. Specialize in Data Analysis, Business Intel, Software Performance and Scaling.
http://techgil.tumblr.com
Richard Mueller III
Investor
Owner/partner in RPM Pizza, LLC largest Domino's Pizza franchise in U.S. Investor mostly real estate and restaurant industry. Getting into tech.
Jeffrey Lin
Founder of @lawyerfy. Created Ecommerce Webstore in 1995. CS major from USC. Former @microsoft @adobe-systems @valueclick. Currently at @strongmail
Natasia Malaihollo
2-time startup founder; Chief Innovator @wyzerr. Former trademark and copyright agent to corporations, patent specialist to tech giants (Samsung, IBM).
http://blogs.Sooligan.com
Joseph Holleman
Investor
Founder and CEO of @magister-technologies and developer of its core technologies
Will Donaldson
Founder @launchpad, @donaldson-development, Mgmt team at RES (Inc 500 company); Fellow for MBA at @tulane-university University
Peter Bodenheimer
Investor
Co-Founder & CEO of @barnotes, Partner at @launch-pad, & Partner at Ruby on Rails firm @flatstack. Building things is what makes me happy.
http://www.cycleinteractive.com
Christien Louviere
Selling conceptual products since 1991.
http://www.clouvi.com
Darren P Hoffman
Founder of Tutti Dynamics. 11+ years music & film production, Lincoln Center, New World Center. BFA, FSU. Basin Street Scholar, University of New Orleans.
Ginevra Kirkland
Community whisperer. Copywriter. Bartender to the stars.
http://anchorsocial.com
Seth B
Cornell->Local Market Operations and Supply Partnership Management at Expedia->Building Partnerships at GetGoing
Matt Ekstrom
Martin Roth
Director of Sales at @zlien
Previously a co-founder of @giftmeo
http://www.contemporarymasculine.com
Ben Lavender
Co-founder of @dydra. Programmer, founder, nerd.
http://github.com/bhuga http://bhuga.net
http://bhuga.net
Paul Hoeper
Founded @invoiceasap.
Took us from Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt all the way to the Finals!
Michael Mayer
Studied at Wharton, fellow at VFA & Marketing Manager at Federated Sample, founded non-profit, Startup Effect, & looking for collaborative & creative team
Gerard Ramos
Co-Founder at Revelry Labs. Previously e-commerce at @zappos and @williams-sonoma.
http://gerardramos.com
Kristen McEntyre
President of @tutti-dynamics. Worked at FiLife, @google News, PBS, Cambridge Associates, Roberston Stephens. MA, @stanford-university BA, Williams College
Lynn Yeldell
Investor
Founder of L Style G Style. Investor in Rockify and Ticketbud.
Sean O'Neill
Founder Couchster • Studied at @tulane-university,
http://couchster.wordpress.com/
Andrea Primeaux
Founder Dreanie, A Turnkey Vacation Rental Platform. Vacation Property Consultant, Developer + Marketing Director of Vista de la luz.
Christopher C. Brown
Producer / Government Liaison / J.D. Candidate
Marco Nelson
Founder & Team Member
Clayton Randle
Former Commercial Real Estate Executive now transforming the industry through technology Founder @ Steelbranch, Worked @Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., @ Eurohyp AG, @smith-barney
Sam Makaryan
Entrepreneur. Founded @smart-layover, @regal-hospitality-solutions and @hospitality-parking-services
Andre Feigler
Founder @youth-run-nola • Worked at @teach-for-america • Studied at @columbia-university
Oliver Azevedo Barnes
Web app dev, rubyist at @haystackedu. CTO at @3bounce
Alexander Kronberger
Founder Techomotive Incorporated • Studied at @oxford-university, @brandeis-university
Taylor Beery
Investor
Founded three companies since 2010, two with strong exits so far. Senior Policy Advisor to White House post-Katrina rebuilding Czar. I-banker with Citigroup.
http://www.tumblr.com/tbeery
Paul Dietzel
Founder of @anedot, @pepperdine-university MBA and Master of Public Policy, UX designer, team builder and product evangelist
Knud Berthelsen
CEO & Founder @connect-trade, experienced online marketing strategist • @tulane-university MBA, studied at @montana-state-university & @university-of-oslo
Blaine W. Lindsey, JD, MPH
CEO @GetHealthyInc; Founder @CapraHealth; Former BD @Healthcare_ABC; JD/MPH @Emory
Michael Angle
CEO Co-founder @giftmeo,
previously founded Classes on Demand
Travis Laurendine
Swiss Army Knife in Entrepreneurship, Technology, Entertainment, and New Orleans. Studied @Vanderbilt then learned what I know by bootstrapping new businesses.
Stacey Tallitsch
CEO of @corporate-prophet. Educated in IT, contracted by Govt & Fortune 500 for the last 15 years. Discovered how the unconscience mind can predict the market.
Barrett Conrad
Founder and Player One at @red-ticket-games.
Will Bradley
Currently working on Product at FundersClub. Co-founder of Springy LLC. Formerly at Microsoft.
Rahlyn Gossen
Founder of Rebar Interactive, a digital strategy and patient engagement company serving the clinical trial industry. Health tech geek.
http://rebarinteractive.com/blog
Dan Chiorean
Founder of LegalEZ & DC Financial Group. University of Michigan BSE, Tulane Law JD. Evacuteer. Lawyer.
Peggy Dold
Founder, Navigation Partners LLC; Global Marketing Strategist & Entertainment Consultant
John Barnette
Partner at Shady Ventures.
http://jbarnette.com
Peter Jacobson
Designing and building mobile and Web applications since 1996. Founded Linking Arts in 2004.
Specialties: Development, UX, IT Management, Event Production
http://www.petejacobson.com
Chad Baniecki
Founder @disco-melee • Worked at @happy-s-irish-pub, @plucker-s-wing-bar • Studied at @louisiana-state-university, @oklahoma-state-university
Elliot Fleming
Founder @equity-slice • Studied at @tulane-university, @boston-university
Peter Loop
Founded @eTaxCreditExchange
Pablo Guth
Founder of @yojito; Washington and @lee-university University @school-of-law JD 2011; Currently working at Arias & Muñoz Law Firm in San Salvador.
Glen Mehn
Investor
Managing Director/partner at Bethnal Green Ventures
http://glen.mehn.net/blog
Zachary
Founder HE SWIM • Worked at @beckman-coulter, @telluride-ski-and-golf-resort • Studied at @boston-college, @university-of-massachusetts-amherst
Charles Allen
http://ceaiv.tumblr.com
Samira Salman
#BusinessAdvisor #ReformedLawyer #UBERConnector #StrategicCollaborator #LifestyleArchitect #Catalyst #PassionActivator #SamirasTable #CulinaryInfluencer #Foodie
Karl V. Reed
Founder D.A.S.H. Logistics, D.A.S.H. Logistics • Worked at @ibm, @xerox • Studied at @tulane-university, @creighton-university
Staacy Cannon
Founder Grok & Banter • Worked at @kirei • Studied at @academy-of-art-university, @university-of-nevada-reno
Ryan Linstrom
Designerd and Storyteller. Focused on User experience, and social impact. MA International Development.
Michael Weber
Co-founder & developer at @pixt-com. Co-founder & developer at @noladefender-com. Art director at NYPress.
Kent Bloxson
Executive in charge at @mstv-productions. I founded @mstv-productions in 2005 and brought it to life in 2007 with our flagship programming offering - MyScene TV.
http://myscene-tv.blogspot.com/
Douglas Finley
Founder SocialChomp. Entrepreneur.
Mitchell Klein
co-founder Maxwell Worthington, turnkey solutions for the enterprise cloud
Ben Jacobson
Co-Founder & CFO of @old-harbor-outfitters (manufacture/wholesale/retail/ecommerce). Was integral in growing it to a multi-million dollar vertical company.
Walter C Flower III
Founder and President of his investment firm, Walter C. Flower, III offers investment counsel to diverse clients ranging from individuals to corporate entities.
http://waltercflower.tumblr.com/
Uchechi Kalu Jacobson
UX, Project Management and Content Strategy at Linking Arts. Strong content writing background. UC Berkeley valedictorian, 2001. Published author, 2006.
http://www.thrivingbride.com
Rand Ragusa
Chris Stuckey
Founder Maritant • Worked at @gibbs-cox, @incat-crowther • Studied at @university-of-new-orleans
Kevin Morgan-Rothschild
Founder @aquaponic-modular-production-systems
http://AMPSnola.com/blog
Rob Caraway
I created Nice applications (mobile and web) like Valt (http://getvalt.com).
http://RobCaraway.com
Will Glass
Founder of Drink Deck LLC. We've created a print and digital media concept for foodies and bar enthusiasts for travel in top food and drink destinations.
Derek Edwards
Single handily built a client base up to a full time occupation without any gym/sponsor help. Designed over 500 workout plans/systems over the past 3 years.
Brandon C. Holliday
Founder @goodhiring • Studied at @nicholls-state-university
Jeffrey Zehnder
CEO of Zehnder Communications, where we build better brands with an integrated approach to marketing. Follow us @ZehnderCom
Dan Abraham
CEO/Founder 30 years Marketing/Advertising Board of Directors of ACP (Assoc. of Coupon Professionals) Cause marketing strategist and analyst.
Justen Burdette
Healthcare geek (in recovery) helping build Ting, a mobile intrapreneurial startup at Tucows. HIStalk Industry Figure of the Year way back in 2006.
Kameron Ray Alexander
Business development at @memorandom
Ahmed Al-Massry
Strong business background, Tulane Freeman MBA 2014
Eduardo Farias
Founder BeeQO.com • Studied Applied and Computational Mathematics at @university-of-sao-paulo. Stanford's online course Social and Economic Networks Modeling
http://blog.beeqo.com
Jason Carpentier
Works at @iseatz as a software development team lead.
Reynaldo Johnson
Carol Doyel
Founder of @living-better-llc, Prod. dev & startup at 23 yrs. old, dev. pharmaceutical delivery prog. for lg. Seattle Co., multi-state broker lic.
Dennis Pritchard
Founder/CEO-The Huey System, Inc. First Ever and Only user driver assessment tool. Portfolios are portable and used to connect with organizations.
http://www.worldhuey.com
Ryan Chavez
• Business Development at @huka-entertainment •
Timothy Taylor, Jr.
Operations Manager, @new-name-coming
Studied at @university-of-phoenix-mba
Zach Kupperman
Investor
Entrepreneur, investor, corporate attorney. Co-founder @dinnerlab. Founder @SiliconBayouNews. PollBob co-founder & CEO (Acquired by QuestionPro, Inc.).
Michael Givens
Founder 39 South Productions • Worked at @many companies - see LInkedIn
Emmitt Parkman
Design engineer at ICS Nett. Strong background in social media, marketing, design, and technology. Studied Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering
Glenn Penton
Co-Founder at @GrubSquad