Daniel Goldman

Co-Founder at EDGEof
Daniel Goldman is dedicated to a world that works for everyone. He has worked with technology to engage and transform communities since the 70s when he started building games and apps on a calculator at age 7. He has spent most of his time on the leading edge, or supporting those on the leading edge, and building communities of trust and collaboration. Daniel built the popular online community, Inner Circle, before the public internet and was senior developer on the top selling game SimCity. 
He was founder and built Total Entertainment Network, now POGO, an early online community bought by Electronic Art. He has built teams with talent who have gone on to win awards and create billion dollar companies. He lead innovation work with the EPA and WHO, bridging innovation communities, and has raised over $50 million for technology and media companies, creating products and services used by millions, 
His service on non- and for-profit boards, includes the public board of Netcom, the first internet company to go public, and Climate Cartoons , the Al Gore endorsed non-profit, founded by the people behind Tri-star Pictures and Colossal Pictures. Daniel began mentoring and angel investing in 1997 with Ellie Mae, which went public in 2011 and currently trades at more than 15x its go to market price. He speaks and supports entrepreneurship, collaboration, start ups, and economic development around the world. He and his work have been included in publications from the SF Chronicle to Time magazine. He has a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and did graduate studies in Cognitive Neuroscience at Columbia. 
Daniel’s focus is supporting people making positive world change through entrepreneurship and place.

Lev Mass is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at XSeed Capital, bringing extensive expertise in cloud computing, mobile, and business development.

Prior to joining XSeed, Lev ran operations and business development for the Cloud Group at Yahoo!. While at Yahoo!, Lev helped to facilitate the spin-off of the Hadoop Group into what is now Hortonworks, a leading big data company. In addition, he held a number of executive roles at Yahoo! helping to define strategy for mobile, social, cloud and big data. Previous to Yahoo!, Lev was an investment banker with Thomas Weisel Partners focused on TMT (technology, media, telecommunications) and health technology.


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