About Us
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We’re a bunch of engineering, research and product geeks who think we can change the way research is done online. The first piece of this puzzle is Crowd Science Demographics, an audience analytics service for publishers.
We’re opinionated, and we care deeply about user experience, elegant engineering, and providing stellar customer service. We think we can build a great research platform by being polite and clever.
We’re based in Silicon Valley and Toronto (and Arizona and Sydney). We come from the halls of Apple, Cisco, comScore and Kontiki.
Founders
The founding members have a proven track record in building clever software products and turning them into viable businesses, both inside the research industry and out.
John Martin, President, CEO, is a software architect out of comScore and Cisco Systems. At comScore, John designed and built SiteRecruit, an enterprise recruitment product that started out as a simple enabling technology, allowing enterprise customers to intercept and recruit website visitors for in-house research, but soon grew to become a business driver in its own right, and now sits on some of the busiest websites on the internet.
Paul Neto, VP Operations,spent a number of years designing, supporting and consulting in the field of geographic information systems, including internet mapping technologies and international boundary delineation. After a short stint in market research, Paul led a technology and operations team at comScore and worked hand-in-hand with research and sales teams conducting various types of online research, including customer satisfaction and advertising effectiveness, on some of the company's biggest accounts.
John Wainwright, CTO, has a long history of important work for some of Silicon Valley's most distinguished companies. He was most recently cofounder and Chief Architect of Kontiki, a Granite Ventures, Benchmark and MK Capital-funded content delivery company that was acquired by Verisign in 2006. Before that he created MaxScript, a scripting language for Autodeskʼs modeling package, 3dsmax, which Autodesk eventually bought and integrated into the product. And before that, he was the Chief Architect of Kaleida Labs, an Apple/IBM joint venture formed around Objects In C, an object-oriented programming language system he had written and sold to Apple.
Investors
Crowd Science received a series A investment from Granite Ventures in December, 2007. As part of that deal, Standish O'Grady took a seat on the Crowd Science Board of Directors.
Granite Ventures, based in San Francisco, started in 1992 as the early-stage venture capital group within Hambrecht & Quist, and became an independent firm in 1998. They manage over $1 billion in venture capital and have invested in more than 90 companies. Granite's portfolio includes AvantGo, Bunchball, Five Across, Kontiki, Shutterfly, Salon.com, Siebel Systems, and Vignette.
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