Kevin Surace

Futurist | AI & Generative AI | Top 10 Keynote Speaker | Inventor (95 Patents) | TED Speaker | Father of Voice AI & the AI Assistant | Author: The Joy Success Cycle | Film & Broadway

πŸ“ Sunnyvale, California, United StatesπŸ”„ Updated September 2026πŸ’Ό 9 investmentsπŸ“… 28 years investingπŸ—“ Last invested Nov 2016𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Feb 2014
Spot Trender is an advertising technology platform that helps brands and agencies predict the impact and persuasiveness of their TV, online, and radio advertisements from creative concepts to post-production. Spot Trender's powerful cloud-based testing platform has developed an impressive track record as the world's fastest qualitative and quantitative ad testing solution with the largest worldwide audience reach accurately predicting ads success in as little as 3 hours instead of 3 weeks. For more information, visit Spot Trender's website at www.spottrender.com or email at info@spottrender.com. See our explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buKlqLicwIY
Board Member
2011
Yap is a mobile service that delivers personalized media streams around entertainment content to consumers worldwide. Fans of TV shows, movies, and music, log in with Facebook and Twitter, and receive personal media streams based on their social entertainment interests using Yap's proprietary and patent-pending social entertainment discovery platform. Yap's family of consumer apps include Yap TV Guide, the number one social TV app for TV fans, and the newly released Yap Music, keeping fans up on all the latest artists, releases, and news. More information can be found at www.yap.tv.
Board Member
Aug 2008
Cisco has acquired Arch Rock Corporation. Please continue to follow Cisco on our company page on LinkedIn. http://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco Arch Rock is a pioneer in IP-based wireless sensor network technology and provides products that bridge the physical and digital worlds. Our open, standards-based approach and real-world know-how make us uniquely capable of delivering solutions that combine data from the physical world with state-of-the-art technology.
Board Member
2007
Integrity Block, Inc. is an information technology and services company based out of 4966El Camino Real, Los Altos, California, United States.
Board Member
1998
deCarta is the leading provider of advanced and comprehensive geospatial software platforms for today's cutting-edge Internet, mobile, personal navigation and enterprise location-based service (LBS) applications. deCarta's technology has proudly enabled some of the industry's most successful LBS applications such as those that have been deployed by Ask.com, AT&T, ATX Technologies, Google, Hotels.com, Maps.com, Qualcomm, Sprint Nextel, Sage-Quest, Verizon, Yahoo!, Zillow.com and many others.
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2020
Producer & Partner
2020
WITZEND PRODUCTIONS is an entertainment company.
2016
Board Member
Nov 2016
Agilyx is a plastic recycling technology company offering waste-to-feedstock and feedstock-to-product solutions. Our feedstock-to-product chemical recycling technology uses pyrolysis to convert all types of waste plastic into their original building blocks for reuse. We license this technology to industry leaders, providing them the core equipment needed to become a part of the circular economy. We co-founded Cyclyx, a consortium-based waste plastic innovation company. Cyclyx understands the chemical complexity of plastic, allowing us to get the right waste plastic feedstock to the right recycling technology.
2014
Board Member
Feb 2014
Spot Trender is an advertising technology platform that helps brands and agencies predict the impact and persuasiveness of their TV, online, and radio advertisements from creative concepts to post-production. Spot Trender's powerful cloud-based testing platform has developed an impressive track record as the world's fastest qualitative and quantitative ad testing solution with the largest worldwide audience reach accurately predicting ads success in as little as 3 hours instead of 3 weeks. For more information, visit Spot Trender's website at www.spottrender.com or email at info@spottrender.com. See our explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buKlqLicwIY
2012
Cantimer, Inc
Board Member
2012
2011
Board Member
2011
Yap is a mobile service that delivers personalized media streams around entertainment content to consumers worldwide. Fans of TV shows, movies, and music, log in with Facebook and Twitter, and receive personal media streams based on their social entertainment interests using Yap's proprietary and patent-pending social entertainment discovery platform. Yap's family of consumer apps include Yap TV Guide, the number one social TV app for TV fans, and the newly released Yap Music, keeping fans up on all the latest artists, releases, and news. More information can be found at www.yap.tv.
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