Riz Virk Email & Phone Number

Tempe, AZ, US

Tempe, AZ, US

In parallel with working on my PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology in the College of Global Futures, I am faculty associate at the Fulton School of Engineering where I designed and am teaching a course on the social and entrepreneurial dimensions of the Metaverse. I also help as a teaching assistant for entrepreneurship courses in.

Cambridge, MA, US

I started, raised money for, and ran this accelerator/incubator for playful technology startups on the MIT campus, in conjunction with the MIT Game Lab (located at the MIT Media Lab) during the summer. I ran all aspects of getting the accelerator off the ground, selecting speakers, selecting companies, making investments, and overseeing the program. We.

Santa Monica, US

Helping out as a venture partner to this new fund dedicated to video gaming and related startups. It has become the largest dedicated fund in this space. As a venture partner I am on the lookout for interesting investment opportunities for the fund.

In addition to working on my books, I have been writing articles on on many areas, including video games/virtual reality, science, technology, consciousness, startups, venture capital, leadership and more. My articles have appeared on NBC News.com, TechCrunch, Venture Beat, Digital Trends, Variety, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Hackernoon, One Zero.

San Francisco, California, US

Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) specializes in enterprise software and b2b models. Over the years, I have been part of their extended team as a founder of multiple portfolio companies, as a co-investor and venture affiliate and advisor. In my latest capacity, I help them find VC investments in their areas of focus.

San Francisco, California, US

Doing my usual thing - helping out entrepreneurs at 500 startups.

Mountain View, CA, US

Bayview Labs has helped launch many startups; Bayview Capital has invested in a large number of startups in media, gaming, advertising, VR, aerospace. Bayview Films is a division for producing documentaries and narrative full length features and TV shows. Some of our investments have included Tapjoy, PocketGems, Funzio, Apsalar, Discord, iddiction.

Cambridge, MA, US

Over the 25+ years, I have played many roles in this world famous business plan competition, which started out as the $10k competition. I was originally a contestant/finalist (when I was a student at MIT), then was invited to be a speaker, then was invited to be a judge for several years, and was invited to mentor teams which had made it to the.

Andover, MA, US

I originally helped launch and am on the board at North Bay Solutions, a firm delivering big data/cloud solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. North Bay is one of the top Amazon AWS partners on the East Coast.

San Jose, California, US

Cupertino, CA, US

Offshoot from silver.tv, esports and virtual reality startup. Theta is a Decentralized video delivery network, powered by users and an innovative new blockchain. I was an initial investor, board member and in charge of business development for sliver.tv, and when Theta was started, helped with strategy, legal, white paper, recruit advisors, wrote content.

Blockchain meets Hollywood - Bitmovio was an innovative platform for content creators to connect with consumers in many genres, including paranormal, sci fi/horror/fantasy, gaming.

Sausalito, CA, US

Advisor to Free Range, a VR and mobile gaming company, which acquired the games we created at Midverse, including IP based games such as Penny Dreadful: Demimonde and Grimm: Cards of Fate

Midverse Studios is a mobile gaming company, with a particular focus on Science Fiction/Horror/Fantasy IP based games. Our games have included Penny Dreadful: Demimonde, Grimm: Cards of Fate, Bingo Run, and others.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP

I ran the Gameview division of DeNA after they acquired us. Our hit mobile games games included Tap Fish, Tap Ranch, Titans vs. Olympians, Tap Birds.

Lahore, Punjab, PK

I co-founded Gameview in 2010 with my long time friend and business partner, Mitch Liu. We made one of the top free-to-play games on mobile, Tap Fish, and sold the company to DeNA, a public Japanese company and pioneer in free to play mobile gaming.

San Francisco, California, US

I was the first angel investor and part of the founding team at Tapjoy, a mobile game and advertising company, and Offerpal, which was a leader in the Facebook/social gaming advertising market, which combined in 2010. The combined company, Tapjoy, went on to become one of the largest mobile advertising companies in the world. I was on the board, helped.

Round Rock, Texas, US

EMC Document Sciences, acquired my company, CambridgeDocs, which I co-founded and ran from 2002-2007. I was responsible for finding ways to integrate the Document Sciences XML products (the CambridgeDocs xDoc products) into the EMC Documentum product line and exploring business opportunities around XML with the various product lines. As cofounder of.

I was part of the team which founded Service Metrics, which was funded by SoftBank and IDG Ventures, and which sold to Exodus in 1999.

American Fork, UT, US

As co-founder and CEO I was responsible for all aspects of starting and growing Brainstorm from a 2 person to a 100 person company, including technical vision, architecture, recruiting management, raising venture capital financing, and overseeing sales and marketing of our products. Brainstorm's products, VB/Link and DataLink, were used by over 2000.

US

Lotus (later acquired by IBM) was one of the largest software companies in the world at the time. I worked on their ground breaking Lotus Notes platform for groupware, collaboration, and application development, developing apps using their VB-like tool, which later became Notes ViP.

Shortly after graduation from MIT, I worked at DiVA, the developer of pioneering desktop digital video editing software - DiVA Videoshop - for consumers. The company was the first successful spin-out from the MIT Media Lab and was acquired by Avid Technology in 1993. I helped the CEO with various projects.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, School For Future Of Innovation In Society

Bs, Computer Science And Engineering

Ms, Management