Winz
We enrich sports photography with real-time game data to fully deliver on the fans' bragging rights by providing eye-catching, information-rich images to share.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Livermore, CA, US
- Currency USD
- Founded October 2013
- Employees 5
- Website mywinz.com
Company Summary
Winz adds real-time scores to mobile sports photos to fully deliver on the fans' bragging rights by providing eye-catching, information-rich images to share.
There are no widely available photo apps that let sports fans to easily share their passion when they are watching a game.
Fans cobble up solutions from general-purpose tools to accomplish this. Winz removes this need.
Demo: http://youtu.be/hnbQ3wXSMnY
App Store: http://mywinz.com/gust
Team
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CEODmitri’s career started at a military technolgy start-up Photonics Systems. His subsequent projects included an e-tailer, and a manufacturing process control business. Dmitri then took his business, technical and finance skills to Wall Street, and worked for 9 years at JPMorgan. He then returned to entrepreneurship full-time, and started Winz. Dmitri holds degrees from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and London Business School.
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UI, UX DesignerA Web/Mobile QA, User Experience and User Interface Designer, Julia is also a photo enthusiast, a sports fan and an active social network user. Julia conceived the idea of Winz after going to multiple sporting events, and not being able to find a mobile photo app that would fully reflect the thrill of the moment, let alone a social network dedicated to sports fans. Julia graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute.
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Alex is a seasoned technologist working in the field of quantitative finance. He worked at major Wall Street firms since 2005, where he built real-time pricing and trading systems. Prior to that he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Wayne State University and a Bachelor of Science from Moscow State University.
Alex lives in Jersey City, NJ with his wife and son
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