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

Max Ringelheim

Miami EdTech

In my role as Head of Partnerships at Miami EdTech, I spearheaded the development of new partnership opportunities across various pillars, including STEM Programming, Teacher Trainings, and Workforce Development. By leveraging our successful playbooks from Miami, I successfully expanded our reach to other areas in the United States, driving growth and impact for the organization.

Head of Partnerships

Supporting workforce development initiatives that provide computer science training to teachers, thus allowing K-12 students to learn how to code.

Leadership Circle / Advisor

When Going Viral

Providing sales and marketing consulting services to various international and domestic companies in the CPG, EdTech, Rideables, Retail, Software, and Agency categories. Actively providing public speaking services to companies in need of new learning and development programming, or employee engagement offerings. My motivational speaking consists of me sharing the story behind 2015's viral Hoverboard fad through top specific workshops that are high-energy, engaging, and super educational. Current clients include PrizePicks, Infento, Uscooters, Alloire, Riders and more.

Founder

YouTuneIn

Assist with strategy, fundraising, and advising the CEO on company direction for her meditation app.

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

alloire

Business Development Manager

WeWork

Worked on the marketing team as the Product Marketing Lead for Strategic Initiatives at Flatiron School which is a subsidiary of WeWork. Flatiron School teaches adults how to code and then guarantees graduates jobs at premiere tech companies. I was focused on two strategic initiatives Flatiron School had invested in across two new business lines which were Universities and Enterprises. In the University space I led the go-to-market strategy for launching our coding bootcamp at new University campuses such as Yale University and UC Irvine. In the Enterprise space I've been clarifying our product offering so that major Fortune 500 companies can invest in our solutions.

Product Marketing Lead of Strategic Initiatives

littleBits

Worked with various education resellers and distributors to help drive STEAM, Coding, and Robotics throughout school districts across the US and Canada with littleBits.

Channel Manager of Education Resellers

Was responsible for managing and growing the Specialty Retail store portfolio of business in the U.S. and Canada from a revenue generation standpoint. Some daily responsibilities include assisting customers with processing new orders, making outbound sales calls to targeted leads, and communicating new programs for existing customers to take advantage of. Some key highlights include:

1) Establishing the go-to-market strategy for a Disney Star Wars licensed product in the specialty retail toy marketplace.
2) Leading, negotiating and closing a six figure deal that triggered front cover placement on America's most prestigious and longest running holiday catalog "Hammacher Schlemmer."
3) Collaborating with the education and marketing teams on a successful sales and influencer pilot program respectively.

Account Manager of Specialty Retail and Education

Freshly

Hired as a part-time consultant to assist with developing and executing an influencer marketing program to help grow brand awareness, and sales. In total we worked with 28 influencers and totaled over 62,000 engagements on social media.

Influencer Marketing Consultant

Perio On The Park

Hired as a part-time consultant to assist Dr. Navid Baradarian in establishing his new Periodontal practice as the premiere office for Dentists to refer their patients to.  Executed this by conducting door-to-door selling across 75 Dentist offices, hosting networking events for local Dentists to attend, and creating/distributing marketing materials to other Dentists.

Marketing and Business Development Consultant

PhunkeeDuck

PhunkeeDuck was the original market leader spearheading the 2015 global "Hoverboard" movement. I helped PhunkeeDuck gain viral traction online and in the marketplace through a multitude of strategies. As an original co-founder I had a wide range of responsibilities including customer support, operations, negotiating with influencers, and developing marketing plans. Some key highlights from this experience were:

1. Generating over $1 million in sales in eight weeks and over $5 million in sales in 10 months.
2. Gaining over 110,000 followers on social media in less than eight weeks.
3. Establishing partnerships with A-list celebrities such as Justin Bieber, and Jamie Foxx.
4. Earned media coverage on TV shows like CNBC and Modern Family.

Co-founder, Director of Business Development and Partnerships

ListenLoop

ListenLoop is an intelligent retargeting solution that applies marketing automation principles to retargeted advertising. As an SDR my main responsibility was managing the entire top portion of the sales and marketing funnel. This included conducting lead prospecting, mass emailing targeted leads, and booking demos of our software. Some key highlights from this experience were:

1) Booking over 200 demos of the ListenLoop software in under 12 months
2) Becoming the highest producing SDR on the team as a part-time consultant
3) Developing unique and effective tactics for booking demos at large conferences

Sales Development Representative

After graduating from University at Buffalo in May 2011, I co-founded a video conferencing company called Vonvo (short for "video convo"). I was the CEO of Vonvo for 3.5 years. Vonvo was a marketing and fundraising tool for companies almost like a hybrid of Google Hangouts meets Kickstarter.

Starting in January 2015 I began my consulting career with a multitude of different tech startups. During this time I was most notably responsible for co-founding PhunkeeDuck. PhunkeeDuck was the most popular brand spearheading 2015's global "Hoverboard" movement.  Some key highlights from working on PhunkeeDuck were:

1. Generating over $1 million in sales in eight weeks and over $5 million in sales in 10 months.
2. Gaining over 110,000 followers on social media in less than eight weeks.
3. Establishing partnerships with A-list celebrities such as Kendall Jenner, Justin Bieber, and Jamie Foxx.
4. Earned media coverage and product placement on TV shows like CNBC, Modern Family, and The Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon

In late 2016 I began my full-time corporate career working for a high growth venture backed company called littleBits Electronics. I worked in a multitude of different sales roles at littleBits. As a result I gained a vast amount of knowledge in speciality retail sales, big box sales, education sales, distributor sales, reseller sales, and channel sales. In early 2019 I began working full time on the marketing team at the #1 ranked coding bootcamp Flatiron School which is owned by WeWork. I was leading product marketing efforts for key strategic initiatives Flatiron School was investing in across university and enterprise business lines.

In 2020 - 2021 I returned to consulting, as I help international companies bring their products to the US and specifically focus my efforts in sales and marketing. I've also successfully embarked on my career in public speaking as I facilitate my learning and development educational workshops called "When Going Viral", which companies use as part of their employee engagement programming.

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