Cheesy 1990s sitcom reference aside, i/o Ventures‘ incubator space in San Francisco’s Mission District centers around the idea of community: The neighborhood community that drinks exotic lattes in the expansive Summit cafe, the network of young developers that rent desks on the other half of the ground floor, the startups in the i/o incubator program holding court on the top floor and the accomplished mentors who filter in and out of the building.
This is the house-slash-cafe that a handful of entrepreneurs built.
Founded by Ashwin Navin (co-founder of BitTorrent), Jim Young (co-founder HotOrNot), Aber Whitcomb (former MySpace CTO) and Paul Bragiel (co-founder Meetro), the i/o Ventures program opened its doors in January and held its first Demo Day Tuesday evening. The program has come a long way since it began as a simple idea by Young to build a fun (Wifi-robust) cafe in San Francisco.
Navin and Bragiel gave us a full tour on Tuesday, it’s worth a look, see above.
Credit to TCTV’s John Murillo for his camera work.
Paul Bragiel is a co-founder and managing partner at i/o ventures, an early stage startup accelerator which operates out of a funky workspace+cafe in San Francisco. Previous he has founded and served as the CEO of 3 companies including: Lefora, a product bringing forums into the 21st century, proudly hosting over 100,000+ unique communities. Meetro, the first location based social network. Paragon Five, a game development studio specializing in console and mobile content with offices in Chicago and Krakow, Poland. He...
Ashwin Navin is the CEO and co-founder of Flingo, the largest developer of applications for Smart TVs. Flingo currently reaches more than 7 million TV screens in 118 countries worldwide. Ashwin also founded the start-up incubator I/O Ventures where he is currently a Managing Partner after departing BitTorrent as the company’s President and Co-founder. He spent time at Yahoo, as a member of the company’s Corporate Development group. He developed extensive experience in structuring and negotiating acquisitions, partnerships and alliances...
i/o ventures is an early stage startup program that focuses heavily on its mentorship. We work closely with founders from product launch through the next stage of company development, sharing what has proven to work for product scaling, revenue growth and fund raising. Our partners and mentors have started and ran some of the top internet companies. We want you to take advantage of our experience leading teams, building great products, raising money, negotiating mergers and acquisitions, scaling infrastructure, all with...
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