QUOKKA Inc.

A mixed reality, A.I. V-commerce solution that gives B2B and B2C consumers a true-to-life, holographic design & shopping experience anywhere they are

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location New York, NY, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded February 2017
  • Employees 6
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website quokkalens.com

Company Summary

1) QUOKKA is a mixed reality, V-Commerce platform that enables a true-2-life, holographic shopping experience anywhere;
2) QUOKKA tears down barriers to entry & enables manufacturers to SAVE money by NOT having expensive brick-&-mortar showroom operations
3) QUOKKA presents brands immersively, experientially, & interactively;
4) QUOKKA's A.I. designer program will recommend items based on décor that matches existing items in consumers’ spaces.

Team

  • NIcholas Bentivoglio
    Founder - CEO

    9 years experience in Private Equity & finance;
    - Spearheaded strategic investment & financing decisions as well as all analysis underpinning transactions of more than $250MM
    - specialized, high-yield debt products,
    - real asset arbitrage investment,
    - quantitative & qualitative analysis for Value-Add portfolio
    - IP Acquisition
    - Level 2 CFA candidate;
    Bachelor’s & Master’s Deg. – Oberlin College;
    Master’s Deg. - The Juilliard School;

  • Daniel Schmeisser
    Co-Founder - COO

    Quantitative Research & machine learning in commodities Trading
    Project Management Professional (PMP)
    IT project manager IV BOYD Gaming Corp focusing on core data warehousing, cloud integration, business intelligence & predictive analytics implementation, coding & training of neural networks, software development life cycles with budgets in excess of $10mm, & infrastructure development consultant for Fortune 600 cos
    Bachelor’s University Colorado

  • Praphull Alavekar
    Partner - SVP Sales & Biz Dev.

    Virrea Tech, ​Pune — Team Leader IT sales and Marketing 2016-
    F1 coders software Pvt Ltd, ​Pune — Team Leader IT sales 2015-2016
    F1coders software Pvt Ltd, ​Pune — Manager Operations 2014-2015
    SourcePEP, ​Pune — Pre Sales research, Sales, PM – 2014-2015
    MBA Operations, ​ADTU- 2017

  • Darshanpreet Singh
    CTO

    - AR Expert >8 years in computer vision technologies
    - Developer at Cognizant Technology Solutions
    - Gesture Recognition Expert > 6 years experience at Microsoft Kinect
    - Virtual Reality Expert with 4 years of experience across various device types & content integration capabilities
    - Mixed Reality Expert
    - co-participated with Microsoft to promote Hololens in Middle East
    - Bachelor’s National Institute of Technology - Engineering

  • Manpreet Singh
    Snr. systems architect

    - Technical Lead for SharePoint Developer team at Microsoft India R&D, Bangalore (Jan 2005-Dec 2011)
    - Associate Technical Architect for .net & SharePoint technologies at Aditi Technologies (now part of Samsung) (Jan 2012 – May 2015)
    - Senior Solutions Architect at Jasiel Creations (Jun 2015 – Present)
    Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA), Master’s of Science in Information Technology (M.Sc. IT) from Punjab Technical University, (2003-2005)

  • Nipun Seth
    Snr. Developer

    Senior software Developer at IGNIFY Inc
    Senior Technologist at GENUITEC, LLC
    Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) University of Pune
    The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), UNSW, Sydney, Australia.

Advisors

  • Donald Coolidge
    Unconfirmed
    Bruce Bockmann
    Unconfirmed
    Alistair Bentivoglio
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

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