Jean Sini
| Jean Sini | |
|---|---|
 Jean Sini Western Cape January 2017.jpg | |
| Born | July 20, 1973 Nice, France |
| 🏡 Residence | New York City and San Francisco, California |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American, French |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | Personal Blog |
Jean Sini is a New York-based entrepreneur, public speaker[1], angel investor,[2] computer scientist, and software executive of French descent, noted for his active investing roles in early-stage startups, as well as his contributions to mobile computing standardization efforts [3] and profiled[4][5] for his participation in the web 2.0 movement and ecosystem. Since September 2018, he is part of First Round Capital's Angel Track in New York[6].
Career[edit]
Jean Sini, a graduate from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, moved to Silicon Valley and joined Oracle Corporation in 1996.[7] From 2000 to 2004, he was director of software engineering in the company’s server technologies division, while simultaneously representing Oracle at several standards organizations including PayCircle and the Open Mobile Alliance. He also led initial efforts promoting a standard protocol to support push email, leading to the first draft of Push IMAP. He holds several patents[8][9][10] related to online mobile computing and commerce.
In 2004, he joined Symbol Technologies (acquired by Motorola in 2007) as senior director of software engineering, and continued work on Push IMAP at IETF.
In 2005, he co-founded[11] Activeweave, inc., a Silicon Valley-based startup, operating in the attention management and social web arenas.[12][13] As Chief Technology Officer, he built the company from inception to funding to launch, and scaled its architecture to accommodate growing traffic as its flagship service BlogRovR earned recommended[14] Firefox add-on status.
In April 2008, he sold[15] Activeweave, inc. to Buzzlogic, inc. and he joined the acquiring organization as Chief Technology Officer.[16]
In March 2009, he founded Untangly, inc., a stealth, Silicon Valley-based software startup working on large-scale web mining, where he was Chief Technology Officer.[17] Untangly was a division of Mint. It is now part of Intuit as part of Intuit's acquisition of Mint in September 2009.[18]
In August 2012, he joined E-Commerce startup One Kings Lane as Chief Technology Officer, to further the company's focus on mobile commerce.[19]
In November 2013, he co-founded Fountain Software, Inc. with Aaron Patzer,[20] building machine learning technology to instantly analyze questions asked by consumers, in plain English, through natural language processing techniques, to connect them with relevant subject matter experts and professionals.
Fountain Software was sold to Porch.com in October 2015. Sini became the leader of Porch’s San Francisco office.[21]
In October 2016, he joined FinTech startup Cadre as Chief Technology Officer[22], backed by Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Investments[edit]
Jean Sini is an early-stage investor and advisor to Yukihiro_Matsumoto and Hiro Yoshikawa's data infrastructure company Treasure Data, sold to Arm Holdings in June 2018[23]. He's also an investor and advisor to graphic design company Canva.
Patents[edit]
- US 9779007, "System and method for building and repairing a script for retrieval of information from a web site", issued 2017-10-03
- US 8706762, "System and method for automated web site information retrieval scripting using untrained users", issued 2014-04-21
- US 8533586, "Annotation overlay collection, storage, and display system and method", issued 2013-09-09
- US 8327258, "Automated entry of information into forms of mobile applications", issued 2012-12-03
- US 8028073, "Mobile meeting and collaboration", issued 2011-09-26
- US 7379733, "Mobile meeting and collaboration", issued 2008-05-26
- US 7062258, "Wallet for storage of information for automated entry into forms of mobile applications", issued 2006-06-12
- US 6697839, "End-to-end mobile commerce modules", issued 2004-02-23
- US application 20140379533, "Story-based selling of products"
Bibliography[edit]
- Reshaping your business with Web 2.0 by Vince Casarez, Billy Cripe, Jean Sini, and Philipp Weckerle; McGraw-Hill Osborne Media ISBN 978-0-07-160078-1 Search this book on
., September 2008
See also[edit]
- FinTech
- Porch.com
- Mint.com
- Activeweave
- Oracle Corporation
- Push IMAP
- BlogRovR
- Stickis
- Social Web
- Open Mobile Alliance
- Web Mining
References[edit]
- ↑ Jean Sini's talk at First Mark Capital's October 2017 Data Driven event
- ↑ Angel List Profile for Jean Sini
- ↑ Push IMAP Standard, IETF Draft
- ↑ BFM Broadcast Radio interview, 2006
- ↑ French Trade Commission profile, 2007
- ↑ First Round Capital Announcement of Fall 2018 Angel Track
- ↑ Jean Sini’s professional profile on LinkedIn
- ↑ Patent, Mobile meeting and collaboration
- ↑ Patent, End-to-end mobile commerce modules
- ↑ Patent, Wallet for storage and automated entry of information for mobile applications
- ↑ Overview of Activeweave’s Stickis by Michael Arrington's Techcrunch
- ↑ Overview of Activeweave's Stickis by Rafe Needleman on CNet
- ↑ Video Interview with Jean Sini on the Billaut Show
- ↑ Recommended Firefox Add-ons
- ↑ Mashable coverage of Activeweave acquisition by Buzzlogic
- ↑ Buzzlogic’s executive team page
- ↑ Jean Sini’s resume
- ↑ "Intuit to Acquire Mint.com". Sep 14, 2009.
- ↑ Gigaom coverage of One Kings Lane recruiting Jean Sini as CTO
- ↑ Fortune coverage of Fountain launch
- ↑ Lardinois, Frederic. "Porch Acquires Mobile Advice Marketplace Fountain". techcrunch.com. TechCrunch. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ↑ New York Business Journal: Cadre CEO Ryan Williams - Hire people you have no business hiring
- ↑ Techcrunch coverage of Treasure Data Acquisition by ARM
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