Leonard Speiser Email & Phone Number

Los Altos, CA, US

Los Altos, CA, US

Horizon 3 is a Corporate Venture Studio. Just as Amazon jumpstarted AWS by being it's first customer, we believe that within every large, successful company is the opportunity to jumpstart a billion dollar startup. Instead of building inside the company, Horizon 3 works with entrepreneurs to found companies outside, but gives them insider access to the.

Palo Alto, US

Level developed a commercial oven with RF steering, RGB/Thermal Cameras, closed loop AI algos to steer heat to multiple foods at the same time and automate cooking.

The world's first Deep Learning fund. Specifically, I'm excited by the ability of this technology to tackle problems that previously would have taken traditional programmers far too long. From medical diagnostics to construction, there are going to be a lot of exciting opportunities for this tool in the future. The fund is now closed and not making new.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

- Sold company to First Data/KKR- Clover has shipped over 1 million hardware devices, processes over $300B in credit cards, and supports over 150 third party apps on our platform. - Clover opens the counter top of the brick and mortar merchant to a world of innovative developers. We bring a combination of outstanding hardware, reliable services, and.

Ran an incubator of about 20 products.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Worked with the great team at Trinity. Helped evaluate companies and made connections to entrepreneurs.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Yahoo Groups had not be touched for 10 years (same code from the original acquisition). We started work on a complete rebuild of the product but it became clear that the company needed a lot more help than a new Yahoo Groups to survive.

US

- Acquired by Yahoo!- We built a killer voting engine that allowed anyone to vote even without registering and detected fraud with great precision. Our voting algorithm brought the best singing, photography and acting talent to the top. - Eight months after fund raising, two months after launch we were acquired by Yahoo! (in February 2007) to help them.

San Jose, CA, US

- Added Fixed Price to the core marketplace, accounted for 25% of items 4 weeks after launch. I am most proud of this project and we did it as a skunkworks project that surprised everyone.- Launched the API program at eBay in 2000, 40% of items listed through it within 6 months of launch. Worked with some fantastic developers and learned a lot about.

Vision was to enable users to upload text, photos, video and share online. I didn't execute this one the right way, but the team was awesome and went on to build great companies.

Mountain View, California, US

Responsible for entry into new products/markets via a combination of partnerships and internal product development.

Responsible for Corporate Finance and M&A for a variety of technology companies.

Founded first internet-based client/server instant messaging system.

S.B., Course 11 - Urban Planning

Education record

Education record