Nextbox

Nextbox is email, liberated: we remove chaos from your inbox, giving you the chance to enjoy email again.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location Oakland, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded May 2012
  • Employees 2
  • Website nextbox.co

Company Summary

Email isn't broken, it's just misunderstood. We continue to treat email as one step above postal correspondence and expect it to compete with the social media channels of today. Nextbox is different, it treats email as a feed, and lets the consumer digest email easier and faster.

Team

  • Ipsheeta Furtado
    CEO

    Earned a B.S. in Engineering Physics from UC Berkeley and worked in Materials Science at LBNL then in corporate R&D at FormFactor. I was employee #2 of a SF-NYC financial services startup and I left to start FTW group with Julian. I did business development and built our team to work on applications in education, finance, and healthcare industries. I'm responsible for frontend code, customer development, and user acquisition at Nextbox.

  • Julian Threatt
    CTO

    Earned a B.S. from Morehouse College in Physics and an M.S. in Applied Science & Technology at Berkeley. I took leave from my doctoral work and formed FTW Group to leverage big data to execute scientific methods in business to build practical and simplistic products for the every day consumer. With Nextbox, I'm responsible for product decisions, backend architecture, and implementing algorithms and learning mechanisms.

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