Dave Mathews

Inventor with more than 70 granted patents, technology expert in print and television converged media and serial entrepreneur. Dave was on the early stage teams for Sling Media makers of the Slingbox, boxee.tv where he helped them win the 2008 iStage startup competition and inventor of the CueCat, the first ever consumer barcode reader and "Shazam" for TV which Time magazine called one of the worst inventions of the decade. It is the most hacked consumer gadget to this day. Currently founder of NewAer, makers of a proximity platform - a SDK to make smartphones truly smart by automating actions to take place based upon a phone's proximity with other people, places or things. NewAer has been called the operating system for the Internet of things by Fierce Wireless, one of the top 10 companies to watch in the mobile space and was winner of best technology in the inaugural LAUNCH competition, a spinoff of TechCrunch 50. Advising CTO for Softeq Venture Studio, an incubator team who takes early stage startups from around the world through a program of mentorship to launch in front of VCs as part of a quarterly cohort.