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Buddy was started by David McLauchlan and Jeff MacDuff. Dave & Jeff met when they both worked at Microsoft, and a decade later launched Buddy to the public in September, 2011.

 

About Buddy

Buddy provides hosted, tested, scaled and managed web services for developers building apps on any operating system, for any connected device. Buddy provides the publishers of those apps with high fidelity analytics to help understand the usage, demographics, customer base and ROI of their titles.

We're located at 401 Parkplace Center (suite #103), Kirkland, WA 98033 (USA).

 

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Founders

David McLauchlan

David McLauchlan - CEO 

Dave brings a strong breadth of international business development and program management skills to Buddy. Prior to co-founding Buddy, he spent nearly eleven years at Microsoft Corporation, where he most recently led business development for the Zune hardware business. Prior to that, he spent five years in strategy & standardization roles within the Windows division, as well as externally with the CEA, USB-IF, IEEE, UPnP and Bluetooth SIG and before that was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Jeff MacDuff

Jeff MacDuff - CTO 

As CTO, Jeff has overall responsibility for the architecture of the Buddy Platform, as well as topology planning and is head of development. Prior to co-founding Buddy, he worked for over twelve years at Microsoft Corporation, where he most recently managed a team in the Windows Embedded business focused on UX and app platform technologies.

Advisors

Ron Spector

Ron Spector 

Ron has had a successful career of over 20 years as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, adviser and CEO in and around the digital media and technology sector. He is a results-driven executive with an operational and advisory background in strategic planning, business and corporate development, M&A and corporate finance with a focus on digital media, e-commerce, mobile-wireless and internet applications.

Charlie Kindel

Charlie Kindel 

Charlie Kindel is the founder and CTO of a stealth Seattle startup and an active angel investor, mentor and advisor in the Seattle startup community.  Charlie was formerly the General Manager for the Windows Phone Developer Ecosystem at Microsoft where he drove the creation of the application and game ecosystem for Windows Phone 7. During his 21 year tenure at Microsoft, Charlie worked on Premier Support, Internet Explorer, ActiveX, Windows NT, Windows home networking, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, and Windows Phone 7.

KickLabs

KickLabs works with a selected group of companies that are typically ready to start acquiring customers and generate revenue. Our focus is to connect our companies with prospective brand partners and key customers so they can build relationships that accelerate growth. KickLabs was recently named by Forbes as one of the top 10 U.S. incubators and accelerators.

Investors

Transmedia Capital

Transmedia Capital helps build digital media and marketing businesses, bridging the gap between new and traditional media. We've started companies, raised venture capital, taken companies public, sold companies, and mentored many young entrepreneurs. We have a tremendous network of advisers and venture partners that can provide our portfolio companies the assistance to help accelerate their growth. Transmedia Capital is the only seed fund investing in specifically the new media and online advertising sector providing deep domain expertise, operating experience, and expert advisory relationships for entrepreneurs.

BingFund-About

Bing Fund is an angel fund with an incubator program that gives startups access to Microsoft technology assets and expertise, and funding.

CrestLight

Crestlight Venture Productions challenges the investment status quo by engineering the success of early-stage technology companies. We do this with a revolutionary system that we call "Venture Production", which is an elegant blend of 'private equity-like' hands-on execution and staged investing. This revolutionary "Venture Production" system is used to actively increase the value of a business by measurably accelerating the company through a series of stages identified to build core strength and sustainable revenue. Once inflection points that focus on customer discovery and validation as well as product protection and scale are identified, the production model then uses specialized teams to jump in and execute. Crestlight is an impact investor that engineers success.

ANGELS

Charlie Kindel, Boedian Lumanau, Robert Brinker, Beverly Parenti, Jeff Ravencraft, Kirk Drage, Paul Ginsburg, Nick Foskett, Brian McLauchlan, Michael Papps and Christina Storm.