Alex Iskold

Founder & Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures

Alex Iskold is a co-founder and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures. Alex is a 4x founder, a software engineer, and an investor in over 110 startups. He writes one of the top startup blogs called Startup Hacks. Alex is also a co-founder of the 1kproject - a volunteer effort focused on pandemic relief.

Prior to founding 2048 ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director of its NYC program. Alex was also the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO).

Alex currently serves as a Coach and a VC in Residence at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School. Alex previously taught an award-winning undergraduate computer science class at NYU. He holds a B.S. in Math with Honors from Lehigh University and M.S. in Computer Science from NYU.

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2048 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm. They invest in exceptional first-time entrepreneurs who are building businesses differentiated through technology. They are based in NYC, and invest in founders from New York, Boston and Emerging Tech Cities.


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