Scott Rafer

CEO, Lumatic | Co-founder, Mashery | Chairman, Delivr

Location: San Francisco, California (San Francisco Bay Area)
Industry: Internet

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Scott Rafer's Overview

Current

CEO at Lumatic
Co-founder and Board Member at Mashery
Chairman at Delivr

Past

CEO at Lookery
CEO at MyBlogLog (now part of Yahoo!)
President and CEO at Feedster

Chairman at WiFinder
President, CEO, and Founder at Fresher Information
President at FotoNation
General Manager, Network Products and Services at Kodak Entertainment Imaging

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Education

University of Pennsylvania

Recommendations

2 people have recommended Scott

Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Entrepreneur, team leader, and most often honorary co-founder focused building profitable businesses that solve the usabililty problems posed by every new technology.

Specialties

Business Development, Large/Conceptual Sales, Strategic Analysis, and Negotiation

CEO

Lumatic

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry

January 2011 – Present (1 year 2 months)

We believe that cities are humanity's future, and that they need to be easier to love. Humans evolved for the plains -- we're more Serengeti than SoHo. But now there are seven billion of us, and we need to find ways to live happily while living densely. Smartphones will be the enablers -- both in terms of mobility and delight. Lumatic is building photographic maps of the world's cities for smartphones. We're replacing bird's eye view navigation to better serve walkers, cyclists, and transit riders by catering to humans' visual cognition, curiosity, and social nature.
We've released our first city map as an Android application, with iOS on the way in Q1. Google Maps on mobile is about to be assailed from all angles -- Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and most of Asia -- and we've got a key part to play in that market dislocation.

Co-founder and Board Member

Mashery

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

May 2006 – Present (5 years 10 months)

Chairman

Delivr

September 2005 – Present (6 years 6 months)

CEO

Lookery

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

July 2007 – November 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Lookery is assembling anonymous profiles on more than a hundred million people. Using this data and our 160M+ page-per-month Facebook ad network, we will raise the price paid for billions of remnant Internet ad impressions each day. We collect profiles from and with the permission of social networks, dating sites, ISPs, and e-commerce sites. We aggregate those profiles into demographic targeting services, both as an ad network for sites without profiles and as user targeting services for other ad networks. When Lookery gets paid, we revenue share back to the profile contributors, providing them a new revenue stream, completely detached from their site traffic.

CEO

MyBlogLog (now part of Yahoo!)

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry

March 2006 – March 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Every web site is already one of millions of overlapping social networks, we're just making it explicit. Please join us: http://mybloglog.com/buzz/join.php

President and CEO

Feedster

October 2003 – September 2005 (2 years)

Feedster (http://www.feedster.com) is a rapidly growing Internet search engine and advertising network that searches the Web for user-defined information from blogs, news, classified listings, and RSS. Feedster provides a fresh index across over millions of sources several times per hour, adding millions of new documents daily. In April 2005, Feedster launched the Feedster Media Network, a blog and RSS advertising network. Applying its proprietary search technologies, Feedster is redefining targeting, timeliness, and relevancy for ad contextualization and delivery. For large publishers, the company’s content management and developer platform powers content syndication for targeted vertical categories such as technology for Slashdot, sports for Boston.com, jobs, products, politics, and rich media feeds. Feedster is privately funded by Selby Venture Partners, Omidyar Network, New York Angels, and a number of well known online industry executives.

Chairman

WiFinder

March 2001 – June 2003 (2 years 4 months)

Co-founded the world’s leading Wi-Fi directory services company which is exploiting the de facto deregulation of wireless data communications and its impending convergence with mobile wireless networks.

President, CEO, and Founder

Fresher Information

September 1998 – February 2001 (2 years 6 months)

• Acquired both Matisse Software, a Sofinnova-owned, bankrupt French object database company, and its intellectual property, which was separately controlled by a Safeguard Scientifics company
• Reincarnated company as a content syndication infrastructure startup that grew to 60 employees in 4 offices
• Raised $24 million of institutional venture capital within 18 months of Matisse acquisition

President

FotoNation

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry

August 1997 – August 1998 (1 year 1 month)

• Re-started wireless photography startup and focused it on insurance and real estate vertical markets
• Created strategic customer relationships with Adobe Systems, Microsoft, and others
• Re-acquired valuable patent portfolio that predecessor company had lost to Vancouver Penny Stock investors
• Achieved $1 million revenues and breakeven for 1998 without outside financing
• Company sold to the Kleiner Perkins startup in its sector

General Manager, Network Products and Services

Kodak Entertainment Imaging

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; EK; Printing industry

November 1995 – August 1997 (1 year 10 months)

• Resuscitated Kodak Entertainment's network product and services group. Migrated the business from a defunct, proprietary on-line service to a provider of Internet digital photography server software
• Achieved customer acceptance from thirty beta-customers
• Managed department of 18 people remotely and $3+ million annual budget with P&L responsibility
• Led strategic and financial analysis for acquisition of Picture Network International Ltd., a leading provider of on-line photography and image hosting products and services. Now found at http://www.emotion.com
• Reported directly to Corporate Senior Vice President