Illinois Innovators

Fullstack is an immersive software engineering school or "coding bootcamp" in lower Manhattan and Chicago. Seeing that coding is a skill with increasing career applications, David Yang and Nimit Maru founded Fullstack in 2012 through a collaboration at Y Combinator.

David and Nimit met on the first day of freshman orientation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating in 2004 with degrees in computer science and electrical engineering, they have joined forces on at least five startups and worked together at Yahoo.

Fullstack is an immersive software engineering school or "coding bootcamp" in lower Manhattan and Chicago. Seeing that coding is a skill with increasing career applications, David Yang and Nimit Maru founded Fullstack in 2012 through a collaboration at Y Combinator.

David and Nimit met on the first day of freshman orientation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating in 2004 with degrees in computer science and electrical engineering, they have joined forces on at least five startups and worked together at Yahoo.

Terry Howerton is the founder and CEO of TechNexus, a Chicago-based venture development firm building a new, collaborative model for leading corporations to engage and extract value from the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. A lifelong entrepreneur, Terry talks about Chicago as an incubator for tech talent and companies

Terry Howerton is the founder and CEO of TechNexus, a Chicago-based venture development firm building a new, collaborative model for leading corporations to engage and extract value from the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. A lifelong entrepreneur, Terry talks about Chicago as an incubator for tech talent and companies

Personify uses the most advanced technologies in computer vision and machine learning to develop awesome immersive experiences involving video. CEO and co-founder of Personify, Sanjay has grown Personify from 5 people at the University of Illinois to a global team of more than 30 technologists and innovators, with dozens of partnerships and relationships with companies like Intel, SAP, and Lenovo.

Personify uses the most advanced technologies in computer vision and machine learning to develop awesome immersive experiences involving video. CEO and co-founder of Personify, Sanjay has grown Personify from 5 people at the University of Illinois to a global team of more than 30 technologists and innovators, with dozens of partnerships and relationships with companies like Intel, SAP, and Lenovo.

Mani Golparvar Fard, CEO of Reconstruct, and his team at the University of Illinois has developed a sophisticated construction monitoring systems, which takes videos and photos using drones and a web-based platform, which continuously reconstructs and visualizes reality directly within 4D BIM, measures progress and productivity, and analyzes risk for delay.

Mani Golparvar Fard, CEO of Reconstruct, and his team at the University of Illinois has developed a sophisticated construction monitoring systems, which takes videos and photos using drones and a web-based platform, which continuously reconstructs and visualizes reality directly within 4D BIM, measures progress and productivity, and analyzes risk for delay.

Mayank Kale, is building the startup Invoq Health to develop a new way to deploy high- tech data collection, retention and analysis solutions intuitively in low tech environments - enabling the adoption of important population and health management applications in under served markets of India and Africa. Mayank holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mayank Kale, is building the startup Invoq Health to develop a new way to deploy high- tech data collection, retention and analysis solutions intuitively in low tech environments - enabling the adoption of important population and health management applications in under served markets of India and Africa. Mayank holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.