Nova Spivack
Nova Spivack (born June 5, 1969) is a technology entrepreneur and futurist. Spivack is the CEO of Bottlenose, a Los Angeles-based company that provides social search, listening and analytics tools for marketers. He is also a co-founder and investor in several other ventures, including Live Matrix, which was sold to OVGuide in 2012, The Daily Dot which provides an online newspaper about Web culture, and was the first outside investor in Klout, which measures social influence. In 1994 he co-founded EarthWeb, Inc., one of the first Internet companies (IPO: 1998), which later spun off Dice.com (IPO: 2007). He founded Lucid Ventures in 2001 and the semantic web venture Radar Networks in 2003.Spivack is an active angel investor and advisor to startups including Cambrian Genomics, Sensentia, Publish This, WhoKnows.com, NextIT, Chronos Trading and Energy Magnification Corporation. He is on the board of directors of the Common Crawl Foundation which provides a free and open 5 billion page search index of the Web. Spivack was founder and CEO of Radar Networks, the makers of Twine.com and is considered a leading pioneer in semantic web technology.Nova Spivack writes about the future of the Internet and topics concerning search, social media, personalization, information filtering, entrepreneurship, Web technology and Web applications.Nova Spivack is the eldest grandson of Peter F. Drucker. He is married to Kimberly Rubin-Spivack. His parents are Kathleen Spivack and Mayer Spivack,