Nova Spivack
| Nova Spivack | |
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| Born |
June 5, 1969 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author |
| Partner(s) | Kimberly Rubin |
| Parent(s) | Mayer Spivack, Kathleen Spivack (Drucker) |
Nova Spivack (born June 5, 1969) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He serves as the co-founder and CEO of Bottlenose, a Los Angeles-based company that provides software that discovers emerging trends in high-volume data streams such as social media firehoses; live TV and radio media; and real-time enterprise data such as financial and IT streams. Other companies previously co-founded by Spivack include EarthWeb, Radar Networks, which was acquired by EVRI, The Daily Dot, and Live Matrix, which was acquired by OVGuide in December 2011. Spivack was the first outside investor in Klout, a website and mobile app that measures social influence. Klout was subsequently acquired by Lithium. He is also an investor in other technology startups including, Sensentia, PublishThis, and Next IT.
Spivack is considered a leading pioneer in semantic web technology. He writes about the future of the Internet and topics concerning search, social media, personalization, information filtering, entrepreneurship, and Web technology and applications. He also sits on the board of directors of the Common Crawl Foundation, which provides a free and open search index of the Web. In 2016, Spivack co-founded The Arch Mission Foundation, a non-profit organization created to spread knowledge across the solar system.
Nova Spivack was born in Boston and grew up in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was admitted early to the University of Massachusetts Boston and attended while still in high school. In 1989, he participated in summer research at MIT and took part in a study of parallel computing techniques for research on chaos- and complexity theory focused on Cellular Automata. He studied philosophy at Oberlin College with focus on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1991. Spivack attended International Space University in 1992. He majored in Space Life Sciences, and also worked on ISU’s space humanities program. His studies at ISU were funded by NASA and the ESA. While at ISU, he also worked in Japan on a project to build an international solar power satellite system. Spivack later trained with the Russian Air Force in reduced-gravity parabolic flight and flew to edge of space with Space Adventures in 1999.
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