At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based COO’ operating in the Augmented Reality space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Matt Grimm
Co-Founder and COO of Anduril Industries
Matt Grimm is Co-Founder and COO of Anduril Industries. Matt was profoundly moved by the tragedy wrought on his community and many others around the world by the attacks of 9/11. It was then that he decided to combine his passion for building with a deep sense of mission to further the country’s national defense—a career path that ultimately led him to co-found Anduril. While classmates at Cornell University, Matt co-founded with Brian Schimpf the university’s autonomous vehicle entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge competitions. He graduated from Cornell with both a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering. After consulting for the Department of Defense at Booz Allen Hamilton, Matt was an early hire at Palantir. In this role, he deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan to ensure U.S. forces had the best technology for the mission. Matt co-founded Anduril after some time working in venture capital in the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives in Orange County, California with his wife and two children.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Neal Rickner
Chief Operating Officer, Makani of X, the moonshot factory
Neal Rickner is a tech executive that specializes in advancing new ventures through early-stage growth. He has led multiple teams at Google including a team on “Helpouts,” a live-video learning startup within Google Inc. Neal is currently the Head of Strategy and Operations at Makani, a next-generation wind-turbine project within Google[x]
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About X, the moonshot factory: X, the moonshot factory invents and launches breakthrough technologies and radical solutions.
Ratson Morad
COO of DigiLens
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About DigiLens: DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR).
Ben Conway
COO/Co-Founder of VNTANA
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Matt Stern
Co-Founder & COO of Mira
Matt Stern is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Mira. He is also one of the thirty inaugural students in Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young’s Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at USC.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Jing Xue
Co-Founder & COO of DecorMatters
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About DecorMatters: Building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem for the trillion dollar home renovation industry
Maydan RothBlum
CFO & COO, Co-Founder of The Glimpse Group
Maydan Rothblum is CFO & COO at The Glimpse Group.
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About The Glimpse Group: The Glimpse Group, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies.
Gavin Weigh
Co-Founder & COO of Revieve
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About LandInChicago, Revieve, ULLAC: Market-leading beauty customer-experience personalization solution for beauty brands and retailers
Jereme Pitts
Chief Operating Officer of Librestream Technologies
Jereme Pitts is the chief operating officer of Librestream Technologies.
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About Librestream Technologies: Librestream Technologies develops mobile video collaboration solutions for enterprises and provides onsight collaboration platform.
George Haber
Chief Operating Officer of Fyusion
Haber’s Law! “If it can be done in Software it will”. Successful Serial Entrepreneur, Marketing Guru, Strategist, with proven track record, from envisioning, implement, guide and manage High Tech Companies from StartUp up to M&A or IPO. A dynamic example of that special breed of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are powering the technology revolution. Frequently quoted speaker at national and international conferences, and one of the key people of the story of the Xbox. You can read it in the book “Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution” By Dean Takahasi. ISBN-10: 0761537082 http://www.amazon.com/Opening-Xbox-Microsofts-Entertainment-Revolution/dp/0761537082 Specialties: Starting StartUps and helping Private / Public Companies with Strategy and Tactics to gain and sustain long-term growth and financial success. Expert in Marketing, Competitive Analysis, financing, Mergers and Acquisitions. Active Angel Investor and Board Member working with entrepreneurs on serious, innovative, disruptive technologies. A few select Public and Private Companies: Zoran (Nasdaq: ZRAN), 3Dfx (Nasdaq: TDFX), Intervideo (Nasdaq: IVII), Class Data Systems acquired by Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), Lucid, InterAKT acquired by ADOBE (Nasdaq:ADBE) , BitDefender.
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About Cresta Fund Management, Fyusion: Fyusion develops products powered by 3D computer vision and machine learning.
Kenneth Ryu
Co-Founder & COO of BinaryVR
Kenneth served as VP of Operations at Playnery for over 2 years. He was responsible for launching two mobile game titles in the global market, where he also experienced and learned everything that a start-up could possible teach. Prior to Playnery, he was Monetization Manager at Gala-Net, a Webzen company. Kenneth received a BA in Business Administration from Yonsei University, and earned an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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About BinaryVR, Hyprsense: BinaryVR develops facial expression tracking technology for AR/VR.
Sonia Tsao
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Camera IQ
Sonia Tsao serves as co-founder and chief operating officer at Camera IQ, helping brands tell stories that captivate. She is uniquely in tune with how technology impacts the consumer experience. Previously, she headed Brand Strategy at Google Venture-backed mobile commerce app, Spring, where she grew the supply-side community to over 1,000 digital brands. Sonia holds as MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Tufts University.
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About Camera IQ, Chief: Camera IQ is a camera experience manager platform that helps marketers create new worlds that customers love to explore.
Michael Rucker
Co-Founder & COO of OmniVirt
Michael Rucker is the Co-Founder and COO of OmniVirt, a 360° VR advertising and distribution platform. Prior to OmniVirt, Michael spent 7 years at YouTube holding a variety of different leadership positions. Michael led YouTube’s content strategy across its 5 main verticals: Entertainment, Music, Sports, News, and Education. Joining YouTube in 2007, Michael helped drive YouTube’s growth from its early days, launching YouTube’s first monetization products to leading consumer marketing for the site across Asia-Pacific. Michael has touched both the consumer and business side of the digital video business.
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About OmniVirt: Leading Immersive Advertising (VR/AR) Platform
Rob Saperstein
COO of SWAG’R Digital Media
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About SWAG’R Digital Media: SWAG’R Digital Media uses gamification, geolocation technologies, and augmented reality to drive real actions with brands.
Jan-Hein Pullens
Co-Founder and COO of roOomy
Jan-Hein Pullens is the Advisor To The Board at Loft.
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About roOomy: roOomy’s patented 3D/AR/VR technology brings your listing, home and décor to life with fast, scalable 3D modeling and rendering services.
Annie Rogaski
Chief Operating Officer of Avegant
Building on a 20 year litigation and intellectual property practice, Annie joined the Avegant team as its General Counsel and first lawyer to support the growth of the Avegant Video Headset. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara and McGeorge School of Law, Annie has co-founded a non-profit organization and a law firm. She was also awarded Top 50 Women Leaders in Technology Law and 2015 Woman of Influence by San Jose Business Journal. Passionate about litigation and IP, Annie runs a podcast focused on law, life and women outside of the office.
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About Avegant: Avegant specialize in developing display technology to enable previously impossible augmented reality experiences.
Adil Suranchin
Chief Operating Officer of ORBI
Adil Suranchin is the CEO of ORBI Inc.
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About ORBI: We built Orbi Prime – 360° video recording eyewear that seamlessly integrates into a mass consumer’s daily lifestyle.
Adil Suranchin
Chief Operating Officer of ORBI
Adil Suranchin is the CEO of ORBI Inc.
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About ORBI: We built Orbi Prime – 360° video recording eyewear that seamlessly integrates into a mass consumer’s daily lifestyle.
Zachary Chun
COO, CFO of Sixense
Over 10 years in finance, including investment banking and private equity, with firms such as Robertson Stephens in San Francisco and Citigroup in New York and London.
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About Sixense: Sixense Enterprises Inc is a leading provider of VR/AR enterprise solutions.
Lauren Taylor
Co-Founder and COO of 3XR
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About 3XR: 3XR improve brands’ visual product offering with augmented-reality ready 3D models.
Siddharth Saxena
Co-Founder & COO of Reactiv
Siddharth Saxena is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Reactiv.
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About Reactiv: Reactiv is a mobile-based virtual occupational therapy clinic that uses and combines computer vision and gaming to increase engagement.
Drew Harding
COO & Founder of Neon Roots
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About Neon Roots: Neon Roots is a full-service custom design and development shop specializing in responsive web/mobile solutions and custom applications.
Artur Tkachuk
COO of Arhead
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About Archeads, Arhead: City-scale AR operator. Augmented Reality content delivering and management platform
AJ “Dr Doom” Shewki
Co-founder ,CEO & COO of LIV
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About LIV: LIV creates technology to share Virtual Reality experiences.
Tyler Waite
Co-Founder, CCO & COO of Holos
Co-Founder at Holos. Always pursuing new things, chronic maker, endless explorer. Loves emoji. 🦄
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About Capital Entrepreneurs, Holos, Madison XR Meetup: A virtual reality content management system that makes it easy for curriculum designers to create and deploy immersive learning experiences.
Mike Snow
COO/Founder of Seek
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About Seek: B2B SAAS bringing web-based AR to the masses
Stephen Mauri
COO of Pluto VR
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About Pluto VR: Pluto VR offers shared presence communication through virtual and augmented reality technology.
Aymara Del Aguila
COO & Co-Founder of SportsManias
Aymara Del Aguila, SportsManias co-founder and CEO, is an entrepreneur and advertising executive with over 25 years of experience within the corporate world, creating successful advertising and marketing campaigns for US and international clients. She has successfully launched and led various companies.
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About SportsManias: SportsManias is a Digital Media Innovator with an expertise in Augmented Reality and Licensed Animated Emojis.
Caleb Dermyer
Co-Founder, COO of Epigraph
Caleb Dermyer is the founding partner at Epigraph.
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About Epigraph: Visualization Technology Platform
Geoffrey Lohmiller
Chief Operating Officer of RED 6
Geoffrey Lohmiller is the Chief Operating Officer at RED 6.
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About RED 6: RED 6 is the creator of ATARS.
Azam Khan
Co-Founder & COO of Lexset
Azam Khan is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at LexSet. Previously, Azam was the Director of New Ventures at Intellectual Ventures. He has also served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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About Lexset: Lexset, better data, better vision. Creating synthetic data for computer vision.
Andrew Feinberg
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of TimeLooper
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About TimeLooper: TimeLooper revolutionizes museum and heritage site experiences through extended reality
Charles Carriere
President, COO, and Co-Founder of Scandy
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About EntreScan, Scandy: Capture 3D scans and 4D video from your mobile device
Nikita Huang
COO of DataMesh
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About DataMesh: Digital Twin + XR platform
Brain Hall
Owner, COO & Founder of Advanton Inc.
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About Advanton Inc.: Advanton Inc. is making Augmented Reality accessible to everyone whether individual or a Company.
Jared Peters
Co-Founder, COO of Expressive Inc.
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About Expressive Inc.: The Face of AI. Turning CG Characters into AI interfaces.
Dhaval Patel
COO of Sunflower Lab
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About Sunflower Lab: Your Partner For Custom Mobile & Web Aplication Development
Nick Fortugno
COO and Lead Designer of Hello Team Solar
Nicholas Fortugno is an American game designer and educator. Fortugno is perhaps best known for designing Diner Dash, a top-selling casual game developed by Gamelab, and the award-winning Ayiti: The Cost of Life. In addition to his large body of digital work, Fortugno has been involved in the design of numerous non-digital projects, including board games, collectable trading card games, large-scale social games, and live-action role-playing (LARP). Since 2002, Fortugno has taught the Game Design and Interactive Narrative program at Parsons The New School for Design, and has contributed to the development of the school’s game design curriculum. Fortugno is CCO of Rebel Monkey, a New York City-based game and entertainment company focusing on casual games.
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About Hello Team Solar, Shadow Government: Hello TeamSolar is an augmented reality tech startup.
Nick Fortugno
COO and Lead Designer of Hello Team Solar
Nicholas Fortugno is an American game designer and educator. Fortugno is perhaps best known for designing Diner Dash, a top-selling casual game developed by Gamelab, and the award-winning Ayiti: The Cost of Life. In addition to his large body of digital work, Fortugno has been involved in the design of numerous non-digital projects, including board games, collectable trading card games, large-scale social games, and live-action role-playing (LARP). Since 2002, Fortugno has taught the Game Design and Interactive Narrative program at Parsons The New School for Design, and has contributed to the development of the school’s game design curriculum. Fortugno is CCO of Rebel Monkey, a New York City-based game and entertainment company focusing on casual games.
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About Hello Team Solar, Shadow Government: Hello TeamSolar is an augmented reality tech startup.