Viva Chu

Viva Chu Email and Phone Number

Ex-Google, Product Marketing & AI Expert, Technical Founder @ Good Boy Studios
Viva Chu's Location
Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States, United States
About Viva Chu

I'm a serial tech entrepreneur and investor with a track record of successful exits. I have a software engineering background and served as the Founder, VP of Engineering, or Chief Architect at a number of high profile startup companies large and small. I am currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Good Boy Studios whose mission is to disrupt the $60 billion pet car industry. We have developed a patented Pet Identity technology platform and work with leading pet health care and insurance providers to improve the lifespan and health care of our beloved dogs and cats. I am also the co-founder of an AI startup Sagen AI. Sagen AI Personal Assistants are live human or cartoon characters who manage all aspects of your digital life. You talk with your Sagen AI Assistant just like a real person and may customize its name, personality, clothing and appearance for a personalized experience. In 2011, I left Google to found my third start-up Powhow which is the world's largest marketplace for live fitness classes via webcam. I currently serve on the board of Powhow and actively advise companies in fund-raising, business strategy, and product development. In 2008, I successfully sold Handipoints, a kids gaming company to Slide, where I led their Virtual Worlds Studio. Google purchased Slide in 2009. In 2004, Microsoft acquired my first company, an early pioneer of in-game advertising and commerce. I have a Computer Science degree from Duke University and was the Chief Architect at Adteractive, VP of Engineering at Root Markets, Principal Architect at MetaTV (acquired by Comcast) and Director of Engineering at Viador (went public in 2000).

Viva Chu's Current Company Details
Good Boy Studios

Good Boy Studios

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Ex-Google, Product Marketing & AI Expert, Technical Founder
Viva Chu Work Experience Details
  • Good Boy Studios
    Co-Founder, Ceo
    Good Boy Studios Jun 2016 - Present
    Stamford, Connecticut, Us
    Good Boy Studios operates the world's first and fastest growing Pet Identity Graph of deterministically matched pet ids and helps its clients reach and engage with pet parents with its Pet Demographics® Audience Platform and mobile apps Pet Parade® and PetStar.
  • Sagen Ai
    Co-Founder
    Sagen Ai Apr 2023 - Present
    Sagen AI is the first real-time, conversational, avatar platform to enable enterprise applications.
  • Grain Group
    Advisor
    Grain Group Dec 2014 - Present
    New York, Ny, Us
    Grain Group is a high growth digital media agency with clients in the luxury, consumer, and bio medical industries. I advise several of their clients on mobile applications, e-commerce strategy, and software operations.
  • Powhow
    Co-Founder, Chairman
    Powhow Sep 2011 - Dec 2017
    New York, New York, Us
    Powhow is the leading global marketplace for live streaming fitness classes via webcam. Over 3400 fitness professionals use powhow to train their clients via live streaming and recorded video.
  • Smrxt
    Advisor
    Smrxt Oct 2012 - Mar 2015
    SMRxT is a biotech start-up that has created the world’s first smart pill bottle and medication adherence platform. I assisted the company in developing its first prototype and advised on fund raising, product strategy, and engineering.
  • Google
    Head Of User Acquisition And Product Strategy - Slide
    Google Aug 2010 - Sep 2011
    Mountain View, Ca, Us
    I led competitive analysis, advised on new product strategy, and managed a digital marketing budget of fifteen million dollars to drive new user acquisition for mobile apps and games created by the Slide division at Google.
  • Slide
    Vp Virtual Worlds
    Slide Oct 2009 - Aug 2010
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    While at Slide, I was the VP and General Manager of Virtual Worlds. I led the original Handipoints team along with an expanded team of engineers, artists and game designers to create SocialStar. SocialStar was a celebrity focused MMOG on Facebook and the pre-cursor to Kim Kardashian's Hollywood game.Slide was purchased by Google for $228 million two months after the beta launch of SocialStar.
  • Handipoints
    Founder And Ceo
    Handipoints Jan 2007 - Oct 2009
    Handipoints was my second start-up that I sold to Slide in 2009. Handipoints was ventured backed by Charles River Ventures, Inspiration Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and Keith Rabois and other top-tier angels.Handipoints was a virtual world for kids to earn points by doing their chores in the real world. Kids used their points to adopt a virtual kitty cat to explore and play games in a massively multi-player online game (MMOG). Handipoints was an early pioneer in kids virtual worlds debuting shortly after Club Penguin.
  • Root Markets
    Vp Engineering, Chief Architect
    Root Markets Oct 2005 - Dec 2006
    Us
    Root Markets was founded by the legendary Wall Street trader Lewis Ranieri (Liar's Poker) and serial tech entrepreneur Seth Goldstein. Root was the first real-time exchange for the buying and selling of Internet mortgage leads on a pay per match basis. As the VP of Engineering and Chief Architect, I built and managed a bicoastal engineering team in NYC and San Francisco and led the technical design and implementation of the real time matching and bidding system.
  • Adteractive
    Chief Architect, Director Of Applications Development
    Adteractive Apr 2004 - Oct 2005
    Us
    Adteractive was the world’'s largest performance-based online customer acquisition network for direct response marketers in the early 2000's with annual revenues of $120 million. As Adteractive’s' Chief Architect and Director of Applications Development, I lead a department of 30 engineers organized into five separate teams in the development of all core advertising verticals: mortgage, education, consumer.
  • Transplay
    Founder / Cto
    Transplay Sep 2002 - Feb 2004
    Transplay was the first company I founded whose patented technology platform was acquired by Microsoft. Transplay was an early pioneer in in-game advertising and commerce and created the world's first platform for managing and deploying dynamically managed in-game ads and game items within connected console video games. As the CTO and founder of the company, I developed the core technology platform and gaming APIs.
  • Metatv
    Principal Architect
    Metatv Jan 2001 - Dec 2002
    Us
    As the principal architect of MetaTV, I led the design and development of MetaTV's e-commerce and advertising platforms running on interactive television set top box systems deployed by Comcast, Cox, Charter and DirectTV. MetaTV was acquired by Comcast in 2003.
  • Viador
    Director Of Engineering
    Viador Sep 1997 - Jan 2001
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Viador was a pioneer in Enterprise Business Intelligence and web based reporting. As my first job out of college, I joined a three person engineering team to develop the world's first web based reporting engine connecting to multi-dimensional data warehouses Oracle Express and Hyperion Essbase. A year and a half out of college, I was promoted to Director of Engineering leading a team of 24 engineers in the development of Viador's Enterprise Information Portal (EIP). With several hundred Enterprise customers such as Charles Schwab and Sprint the company went public in 1999.

Viva Chu Skills

Start Ups Strategy Product Management Entrepreneurship Management Mobile Applications Lead Generation Leadership E Commerce Cross Functional Team Leadership Strategic Partnerships Team Leadership Competitive Analysis Mergers And Acquisitions Product Marketing Awesomeness Saas General Awesomeness Mobile Devices Marketing Enterprise Software Software Development Software Design Online Advertising Virtual Worlds Game Development Video Conferencing Business Strategy Analytics Digital Marketing Cloud Computing Web Development Product Development Business Development Business Intelligence Agile Methodologies Software Engineering User Experience Integration Java Strategic Planning Marketing Strategy

Viva Chu Education Details

  • Duke University
    Duke University
    Computer Science
  • Duke University
    Duke University
    Public Policy

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