Joe Rubin

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Mr. Joe Rubin is the Founding Partner at ARC Angel Fund. He also served as a Founding Advisor at Arcview Ventures. He is a Co-Founder & serves as a Director at FundingPost.com. He also serves as Director and is a Co-Founder of FundingPost.com also serves as Venture Capital Partner at LDJ Capital. FundingPost has been introducing entrepreneurs to investors nationwide for over 15 years through its Online Venture Exchange and Dealflow Magazine and organizes Venture Capital and Angel Investor Conferences in 23 cities nationwide. He co-founded & served as Director of Corporate Development at Crowded. He has also invested in over a dozen seed deals, including Sticky, Inc. (acquired by Splashtop), Senscient, appMobi, Giftworks (acquired by Frontstream Payments), CIMA Systems, was an investor and on the advisory board of Offermobi (acquired by Moko. mobi), Human Demand (acquired by IgnitionOne) and an advisor to Gozaik (acquired by Monster), Augmate and Waveborn Sunglasses. He spends most of his time working with investors and helping early-stage entrepreneurs and speaks at events such as the NYC Economic Development Corporation's Jumpstart and Fasttrack Programs, Early-Stage-East, and Connecticut's CTech is a speaker at and sponsor of the UCLA Private Equity Club and Disruptive Technologists in NYC, and a Mentor to Angel Groups such as 37 Angels, Accel Foods and TopStone Angels. He is also a Founding Partner of ARC Angel Fund 1 & 2, seed tech funds based in NYC that have invested in, among others: Up next (acquired by Amazon), Medivo, Sidecar, Careerminds, Kanvas (acquired by AOL), Partpic, and is a prior board member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) and a founder of FP Angels, a national Angel Investor Group. Prior to FundingPost, he was instrumental in helping to raise $2.5 Million in angel and venture capital for his dot.com start-up producing a family-friendly network and over 100 flash-based video games which were playable online and sold as a compilation in stores like Comp USA. He was also the Webmaster at Knight Securities (NASD: NITE), where he helped to design its online trading platform and website. Prior to working Online, he worked in television and graphic design for companies such as NBC and MTV, in addition to doing freelance commercial production. He began working in television production, graphic design, and 3D animation professionally when he was 15 and graduated from Hofstra University with a B.A. in Communications. He served as Advisor at Elevate Innovation Partners.