Amp.it
Your Content. Your Audience.
- Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
- Industry Media and Entertainment
- Location Los Angeles, CA, US
- Currency USD
- Founded January 2015
- Employees 8
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website amp.it
Company Summary
Amp.it is YouTube 2.0 - an interactive digital media platform that tells content owners who's watching and why, so they can finally know their audience.
Team
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Founder and CEO
Derrick made it from a house with no running water in Accra, Ghana to the Ivory Tower of Harvard where he researched how Open Source software concepts could influence the content industries. He has spoken on 5 continents, including for UK Parliament, the United Nations, & Stanford & Harvard Business Schools on issues of Tech & Society. He's been a TED Fellow, a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow & consulted for Fortune 500 companies in Media and Mobile.
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Co-Founder/CTO
Esteban made his bones in Silicon Valley as Lead Engineer for the LinkedIn Influencer program & a Senior Engineer at Globant (Google, Playdom, Fox Networks). Hailing from Argentina, he is a Senior Software Engineer with deep knowledge in software design, architecture, development & testing. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universidad Nacional de la Plata & is a published author & presenter on Software/Web Engineering.
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Co-Founder/COO
Jonathan, who manages our engineering & product teams, helped pioneer online fundraising as Deputy Director of Technology for the DNC. And he worked at the heart of data-driven reform in education as Director of Technology for the See Forever Foundation in Washington, DC. He has been performing as a musician his entire life, is an award-winning writer & vocalist, and an advisor at Harvard University, his alma mater.
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Co-Founder/Business Development
amp.it co-founder and head of business development, Lucia helped drive 20M+ media impressions with no marketing spend, 12x social media engagement, 2 Emmy nods and 5x the ROI of a SuperBowl ad. She contributes to CNN.com & the Huffington Post and is a speaker around the country. Lucia was a top California organizer in the '08 Obama campaign. She attended Harvard & Yale Universities.
Advisors
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Desiree Peterkin BellUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Peter FriedlandUnconfirmed
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Astia AngelsUnconfirmed
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