Founder Stories: Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce & Founder of SnipSnap

Jersey Shore Startup School Presents:
Founder Stories: Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce & Founder of SnipSnap

Join this session to learn from Ted's experience as a Founder of SnipSnap, the first mobile app that allowed consumers to save and use coupons on their phones, and as CEO of Slyce, a market leader in image recognition and visual search. Ted will speak about how he got started as an entrepreneur, overcoming unexpected obstacles (including COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdowns), and his advice to new entrepreneurs and small business leaders. There will be time to ask questions.

Ted is the CEO of Slyce, the market leader in image recognition and visual search. Slyce has created the first computer vision system for visual product search, has led to customers like Macy's, Home Depot, JC Penney, Neiman Marcus, Best Buy, and Urban Outfitters deploying our image recognition in their apps. Ted came to Slyce via the acquisition of SnipSnap, the coupon app business he founded.

SnipSnap was the first mobile app to let consumers save printed coupons to their smartphone and redeem in store. We utilized several image recognition techniques to instantly transform a scanned paper coupon into a mobile-optimized offer, which could be scanned and redeemed in store. At the time SnipSnap was acquired, it was profitable and had grown to 5 million users, who redeemed more than 250 million coupons. The company was started at the DreamIt Ventures accelerator in Philadelphia and launched in May 2012.

Prior to starting SnipSnap, Ted was Digital Development Director at Gannett, where he led development of the company's first hyperlocal network, daily deal websites, and blog operations, in addition to managing the core news websites. He began my time in the news industry as a writer and editor, having worked for publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The Journal News, and InTown Magazine.