Ambitious Labs

Building the #1 app idea accelerator in the world.

- Raised mid 6-figure angel round
- 7-figure annual revenue 
- Built a high performing enrollments department 
- 4.9 star google reviews
- Developed cutting edge ai powered learning platform

Founder + CEO

Closercademy

CEO, Founder

University of California, Berkeley

Guest lecturer for the Product Launch class under the Sutardja center for entrepreneurship & technology.

Teaching full-stack no-code AI development to business students interested in launching app startups.

Guest Lecturer

FlutterFlow

Championing the FlutterFlow product for the USA market.

Content Creator & Ambassador

First Check Ventures

- Syndicate member of First Check Ventures. I write $2k-$5k checks to a handful of promising companies every year. 

- Invested in Everything Green Organics, a farm to table startup out of Windsor, California.

Angel Investor

Yummy 

Venezuela’s super app. Doordash + Uber. Invested very early alongside FCV syndicate.

Angel Investor via First Check Ventures

PrizePicks

- #1 App for Sports in the iOS App Store
- #1 Daily Fantasy Sports App in the Country 2022
- Senior Mobile Engineer owning CI/CD, release management and user acquisition engineering

Head of Mobile & Growth Engineering

- Lead product engineering of top a 10 Sports App in iOS App Store
- Day to day: React, CapacitorJS, Swift/Java, Growth Marketing, App Analytics, AdTech, Product Marketing, Re-engagement
- Achieved industry leading engagement rates by developing new features against KPI goals. (CAC, virality co-efficient, etc) 
- Built a world class marketing tech stack in close collaboration with Marketing and Data Science.

Head Mobile Engineer

Season Share

Co founded and led product and engineering. Worked closely with VPs at major league teams to earn buy in for our products. Responsible for deploying 50+ products in market generating 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for our partners. Architected a distributed system capable of supporting 500k MAUs & high traffic on-sale windows.

Co-founder + CTO 

Hourglass Education Technology Solutions, LLC

Worked on cutting edge institutional education software. Mentored on ReactJS best practices. Individual contributor in a disciplined agile/scrum environment.

Senior Mobile App Engineer (React Native) 

San Jose State University

Instructional Assistant 

Grew up in a small town and had to work extra hard to get my foot in the door working on cool tech startups. My first job at age 15 was fixing iPhone screens in the mall. Then I scooped ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and bussed tables at a local airport restaurant to pay for college. 

After football practice in high school I'd be learning how to code on CodeAcademy. People thought I was a nerd. 

Fast forward 10 years -- I've built multiple apps, b2b SaaS, internet businesses, websites, and e-commerce businesses that have generated over $100m collectively. 

I got to work remotely, travel to 12+ countries, invest in real estate and stocks and built a fruitful living for myself. 

Learning how to build apps changed my life. Now I’m on a mission to teach 10,000 people how to build apps.

Alim Charaniya

JUICED

taking any brand viral with end-to-end TikTok management. 
clients chill, we work. 

matty@juiced.media

Sales Director

AppsFlyer

Mobile games | Blockchain | Play & Earn | Real Money Gambling | Start ups 2 Global Enterprises

Holler @ me if you have any questions around (or desires to) improve visibility into your paid and owned marketing efforts in the private era we are living in today.

Growth Advisor, Gaming 

Helping marketing teams easily test any paid marketing channel, measure the cost of those campaigns and combine it with your revenue to understand the true ROI on marketing activities and user LTV.

Attribution |  Predictive Analytics | Cost ROI | Omni-Channel Measurement | Deep Linking | Fraud Protection | 8k+ Partner Integrations | Market Leading MMP (65%) 

Previously specializing in strategy for Gaming, Sports & Entertainment including: F2P, Real Money Gaming, DFS, Sports Betting & iGaming. 

Now I focused on growth in the following categories: Food & Drink, Shopping, Health & Fitness, Travel, Social Networking, Books, Productivity, Education, Medical & Utility. 

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions around (or desires to) improve visibility into your paid and owned marketing efforts in the private era we are living in today.

Senior Mobile Growth Strategist, North America

Mobile Growth Strategist, North America

I work with district leaders to not only evaluate equitable opportunities, but use the results to take action through the school schedule to create systemic change.

Biz Dev, Educational Equity 

The Absinthe Group

The Absinthe Group (TAG), founded and managed by food-industry veteran Bill Russell-Shapiro, creates and operates unique, high-quality food and wine enterprises. TAG includes a carefully built collection of seven businesses, five of which are located in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. They are overseen by TAG Vice President Eric Vreede, Executive Chef Ryan McIlwraith, Executive Pastry Chef Michael Aguilar, and Director of Bars & Development Jonny Raglin. These include Absinthe Brasserie & Bar, Absinthe Private Dining, Arlequin Café and Food-To-Go, Arlequin Wine Merchant, Barcino, Bellota in SoMa, and Comstock Saloon in North Beach.

Bartender

The Sea Star 

Improving visibility on social media via on-site presence, community events and business to business collaboration.

Marketing Manager 

Hog & Rocks

A raw bar meets pork joint and workaday drinking den mixing old-school cocktails from classics you'd find in your grandfather's liquor cabinet, located in the heart of the Mission.

The Speakeasy SF

San Francisco’s most extravagant and decadent nightlife party! Get dolled up and step back in time to the roaring 20’s for an evening of romance, spectacle, and celebration in this “choose-your-own-adventure” immersive experience.

Lead Bartender / Actor

Ca'Dario

Bustling eatery serving traditional Italian eats including osso buco, bolognese & risotto.

Nomad

Biz Ops

Redford

Bartender & Unlicensed Pyschologist

Hip-hop head who collects tattoos and sneakers. 

Previously, at AppsFlyer advising growth strategy for mobile marketing leaders in the new privacy era we're living in. 

Present day, Director of Growth at JUICED making unskippable content on TikTok for brands of all sizes. Leading all things business and partner development. DM's currently open. 

Love, peace & elbow grease.  
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