Founder and Partner at 2048 Ventures · Joined 2018
View Live Interactive Profile →Alex Iskold is Founder and Partner of 2048 Ventures. His team-page biography describes him as a 5x founder, a software engineer and an investor, and says he writes a startup blog called Startup Hacks. Before founding 2048 Ventures he spent five years at Techstars as Managing Director of the New York City program; before that he was founder and CEO of Info Lab, which the firm says was acquired by IBM, founder and CEO of GetGlue, which the firm says was backed by USV, RRE and Time Warner, and Chief Architect of the distributed computing company DataSynapse, which the firm says was acquired by TIBCO. He holds a B.S. in Math with Honors from Lehigh University and an M.S. in Computer Science from NYU. His team page also states that he is a VC in Residence at Harvard Business School and a member of the Board at NYU Entrepreneurship; neither is a portfolio-company board and neither was independently verified, so neither is recorded in boardSeats. He signed the Form D filings for all three 2048 Ventures funds, and is named as a Director in the Form D filings of two portfolio companies, Aclid and Rely Intelligence.