Birdzi, Inc.
A real-time personalized shopper engagement ecosystem providing a seamless user experience inside & outside the store
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Mobile
- Location Woodbridge Township, NJ, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded June 2010
- Employees 8
- Website birdzi.com
Company Summary
Birdzi, Inc.'s vision is to transform the brick & mortar shopping experience by making mobile the hub of a realtime personalized shopper engagement ecosystem providing a contextually aware user experience inside the store, seamlessly extending the experience out to encompass other digital shopper touch points. Birdzi aims to provide brands and retailers a platform to interact with their shopper's with personalized and location-relevant content.
Team
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Shivaram KumarBoard Member
M.S in Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Extensive experience in the IT field
Partner, Vayyusoft systems- IT consultation
Partner, Vayyu LLC- Composite pipe design and manufacturing.
Board Member, IBOAI - Representing worldwide Amway Independent Business Owners
Board Member, BWW Management Committee, Global training and empowerment for Business Owners -
Shekar RamanCEO & co-Founder
began his career working on the Human Genome Project at Univ. of Pennsylvania, developing algorithms for protein modeling. He was part of some of the pioneering groups (early 90s) in BioInformatics at UPenn, and UNLV, where he applied speech recognition techniques to identify and classify genetic sequences. He then continued onto AT&T Bell labs, working in the Speech Recognition group where he developed expertise in Systems Engineering.
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Francisco BorgesCTO & co-Founder
With a strong background in Systems, Databases and application development. Franc brings over 25 years of experience in IT application infrastructure and development. He has headed several enterprise level projects and has exceptional technical leadership skills.
Has held management positions in several financial institutions in Brazil and US. -
Gary HawkinsExecutive Director, Loyalty Marketing
Gary Hawkins has more than 25 years of retail industry experience.
Involved in launhcing one of the first supermarket loyalty programs in the US in and conceiving the world’s first personalized marketing system for retail (SmartShop).2011 Retailer of the Year by Grocery Headquarters.
CEO, Hawkins Strategic
Founder, Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART).
Founder, Personiphii, a personalized marketing platform for mid-tier re -
Chief Software Architect
With over 25 years of experience in the Software industry, Volker, has extensive experience in software technologies and has lead several teams at both startups and large enterprises to build large scale and robust applications
Advisors
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Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), Palo Alto, CALawyerUnconfirmedRaji Kota, CPA, New Brunswick, NJAccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Private InvestorsUnconfirmed
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