Ryan Kuder
Managing Director at Techstars San Diego
Encinitas, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director, Techstars San Diego powered by San Diego State University
2023 - Current
Managing Director, Techstars Anywhere
2016 - 2024
At Techstars, we believe that great founders can come from Anywhere. That's why we've built Techstars Anywhere. A full Techstars mentor driven accelerator program delivered (mostly) virtually.
Managing Director, Virgin Media Accelerator
2015 - 2016
A startup accelerator for companies using connectivity to impact the lives of millions and make good things happen. Over three months, ten companies will work in the heart of London with an extensive group of mentors from the Techstars, Virgin Media, and Liberty Global networks.
Managing Director, Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator
2014 - 2015
The Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars, invests in and supports early stage robotics startups through an intense four month mentor driven accelerator program at Qualcomm's headquarters in San Diego, CA. http://qualcommaccelerator.com/
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
First Movers Fellow
2011
The First Movers Fellowship is offered by the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program whose mission is to equip business leaders for the 21st century with a new management paradigm – the vision and knowledge to integrate corporate profitability and social value.
Aspen-HP Digital Equity Accelerator is an accelerator that fuels innovation by investing in not-for-profit organizations and NGOs.
VP of Marketing and Communications
2012 - 2014
ecoATM's automated ewaste recycling kiosks make it easy for consumers to recycle their old cell phones and other electronic devices for cash, creating the right mix of convenience and motivation necessary to drive mass consumer adoption of ewaste recycling. I was the founders first marketing hire and steered the marketing organization through a 6x increase in revenue and a $350MM acquisition in less than two years.
ecoATM is an e-waste recycling company. ecoATM kiosks evaluate and purchase used electronics from consumers for cash or store credit.
Raised $397,916,000.00 from Cowen Group.
VP Marketing
2010 - 2012
We built Bizzy because we believed there was a better way to share your opinion about a business than reviewing it on Yelp. Responsible for marketing, product strategy, community and making sure the coffee is fresh for the engineers. Led the team through two pivots to build an app our users loved. Named one of Mashable’s Apps to Watch in 2011. INFINITE percentage increase in users from 0 to tens of thousands.
VP Marketing
2010 - 2010
Biz360 is a social media monitoring and analytics company acquired by Attensity Group in April of 2010.
Biz360 provides technology to analyze consumer opinions supporting businesses to better understand their target audiences.
Raised $30,550,000.00 from Scale Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Granite Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Foundation Capital and Granite Ventures.
VP Marketing and Product
2008 - 2009
Koombea is a Silicon Valley and Colombia based interactive agency that builds awesome web 2.0 software and iPhone apps for our clients. We specialize in Agile Ruby on Rails development, design, new product development, marketing and social media. Our sweet spot is helping startups get up and running quickly and affordably. I manage our marketing and PR, our business development, and our consulting businesses as well as our internal product initiatives such as The Purple People Collective and Neighborsville. I work with our startup clients to help them develop their business, product and marketing strategies. We understand how startups work and how startups get built. This understanding has helped us grow our business from a small handful of clients to a full portfolio of startups that are doing awesome things.
Founder
2008 - 2009
The Purple People Collective is a place for laid off Yahoos and other tech workers to band together and find some work in a really crappy economy. Job listings are totally free for hiring companies.
CEO & Founder
2008 - 2008
Neighborsville is the easiest way for neighbors to share and discover information about what's going on in their neighborhood. Alpha re-launched in July 2009 at http://neighborsville.com.
Sr. Manager, Integrated Campaign Strategy
2005 - 2008
Created multichannel integrated marketing campaigns for the Yahoo! Network Division. Set campaign strategy for key corporate marketing initiatives across product and audience priorities. Managed overall brief as well as crossfunctional campaign implementation including online and offline advertising, promotion, PR, integration.
Sr Global Marketing Manager
2005 - 2007
Manage key global marketing and advertising programs for the Yahoo! brand, Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! communications properties.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Product Manager, Global Content Management Systems
2003 - 2005
EBay Ventures invests in disruptive companies that are revolutionizing the commerce landscape.
Education
BS, Business Administration
1992 - 1996