Startup Grind Washington DC Hosts Nick Lavezzo (FoundationDB)

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Nick Lavezzo, FoundationDB

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Nick Lavezzo is cofounder and COO of FoundationDB (http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/foundationdb), which is an industrial strength NoSQL database with a data model similar to Google’s Spanner and F1 projects (which run AdWords).

FoundationDB is the only DC startup that is angel funded by the famous Ron Conway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Conway)’s SV Angel fund.

FoundationDB also raised $5.5MM seed from Michael Walrath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Walrath) (founder of Right Media), and Howard Lerman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Lerman) (CEO of Yext), and their most recent $17MM Series A (http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/12/foundationdb-raises-17m-for-database-similar-to-next-generation-google-technology-used-to-run-adwords/)from west-coast firm Sutter Hill Ventures with additional investment from CrunchFund (which is owned by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Arrington)).

Prior to FoundationDB, Nick and his cofounders built another successful startup in the DC area, Visual Sciences, which after a series of acquisitions was ultimately sold to Omniture for $394MM (http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/analytics/omniture-buying-visual-sciences-for-394-million/) then to Adobe (where they are still selling their product today)

Topics include: fundraising, marketing developer oriented products, building a community using social media, getting press attention, solving “impossible” problems, DCTech

Agenda

6:00 Networking and Food
7:00 Fireside Chat
8:00 Networking

Hosted By Brian Park, Washington DC Chapter Director

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Hosted By Elyssa Rae, Washington DC Co-Community Manager

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Elyssa Rae is a co-community manager for Startup Grind DC, where she enjoys connecting aspiring entrepreneurs to seasoned veterans. During the day, she works in public relations and corporate communications, specializing in consumer tech, entrepreneurial tech and corporate philanthropy. She previously lived in Beijing, where she helped launch Girls in Tech China, a startup working to foster female entrepreneurship and innovation.

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