Stephanie Volftsun: San Francisco

A Founder, Coder, currently helping people find Love at Bubby. What’s your historical NYC and SF connection? I spent my college summers living and working in New York, and always intended to end up there. But when, in 2011, I had an incredible opportunity to work with and learn from some of the most renowned entrepreneurs…

Olark: San Francisco

Olark is the most beautiful and effective way to talk to your customers for sales and support. And they make it super easy for you! Solve customers’ problems before they have a chance to click away. Give them the answers they need immediately and gain powerful insights about what they want for relationships that last….

Erica Anderson: New York City

What’s your historical NYC and SF connection? I moved to NYC in 2010 to work for Katie Couric. I came on board to amp up her social media presence and integration into broadcast. It was crazy – and a blast! I learned so much from her about the many dimensions (and pressure) of being a network…

Segment.io: San Francisco

Segment is a platform for collecting customer data wherever it’s generated — your website, mobile app, servers, and more — and sending it to third-party tools, internal systems, or databases with the flip of a switch. By consolidating data tracking to a single API, Segment saves engineers’ time integrating new tools, eliminates data discrepancies, and…

Paull Young: San Francisco

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I moved to NYC from Australia in 2006 for a brief stay… 8 years later it was home. I started to think about moving back to Australia after exhausting my 20s in NYC when SF came knocking. Now I’m 1 year in to SF life and…

Envoy: San Francisco

Envoy’s mission is to bring increased efficiency, security, and delight to your front desk. With Envoy, we’re reimagining the future of visitor registration. Team Envoy wants to tackle your workplace pain points, from the complicated to the mundane, and bring you modern solutions. They use smart design to create user-focused products that encourage interaction and…

Gillian Morris: New York City

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection?I was born in NYC a few blocks from my current home. I first visited SF when I was looking at colleges, but concluded that Stanford was too sunny and beautiful – if I went there, I’d just play frisbee all the time and never learn anything….

Danielle (Danny) Robin: New York City

What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? Born and raised 5 minutes from the GGB >>> moved to NYC for college and have been living here ever since (UWS, Chels-Packing, SoHo, Nolita, and now Williamsburg) and I never, ever want to leave. Describe your experience in SF and your experience in NYC. SF…

Bento: San Francisco

Bento believes that you should not have to choose between eating healthy and conveniently. Bento delivers delicious Asian food in minutes in San Francisco. Using their mobile app, customers start building their Bento by choosing a main dish and four side dishes. The menu focuses on Asian-inspired food with dishes like Korean short ribs, Japanese…

Sarah Farzam: San Francisco

Founder of Bilingual Birdies What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? I was born in the Bay Area, lived in New York City for the last 9 years (made it out alive) and have been living in the Mission for the last 5 months. I started Bilingual Birdies in Manhattan 8 years ago by…

Vantage.tv: San Francisco

If you love traveling that means you also love trying new experiences and being in different environments. Virtual reality will allow all of us to teleport to different places and become virtual travelers. Launching this Fall, Vantage.tv lets you experience a concert in virtual reality making your location irrelevant. Not only that, you can enjoy…

Mark Rosin: San Francisco

Co-founder of Guerilla Science & Professor @ Pratt Institute What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? My mother’s side of family is from New York, and although I grew up in London, I spent a lot of my childhood in NY. We would go to Fire Island in the summer. I have a…