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Nova Spivack

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Nova Spivack
Born
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Alma materOberlin College
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author
PartnerKimberly Rubin
Parent(s)Mayer Spivack, Kathleen Spivack (Drucker)

Nova Spivack is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author.[1] He is the founder and CEO of the early stage science and technology incubator Magical[2] and co-founder of The Arch Mission Foundation.[3]

Spivack previously co-founded Bottlenose;[4][5] EarthWeb; Radar Networks; The Daily Dot; and Live Matrix.[6] He has invested in companies such as Klout,[7] Sensentia, PublishThis, Next IT,[6] and is a venture partner in Rewired.[8] He is also an advisor for EES Ventures,[9] and is on the board of directors of the Common Crawl Foundation.[10]

Early life and education

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Nova Spivack was born in Boston and grew up in Watertown, Massachusetts.[11] He was admitted early to the University of Massachusetts Boston and attended while still in high school.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] He studied philosophy at Oberlin College with focus on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1991.[10][12] Spivack attended International Space University in 1992.[12] 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.[13][14] While at ISU, he also worked in Japan on a project to build an international solar power satellite system.[14] Spivack later trained with the Russian Air Force in reduced-gravity parabolic flight and flew to edge of space with Space Adventures in 1999.[15]

Career

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Early career

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In the late 1980s, while a college student, Spivack developed software for Kurzweil Computer Products and later at Thinking Machines.[13][14] In 1993, Spivack worked at Individual, Inc., a venture that developed intelligent software to filter news sources.[13][14] Nova Spivack co-founded EarthWeb, a website that provided career development resources and technical information to IT professionals, in 1994.[16] While at EarthWeb, Spivack helped establishments including AT&T, Sony, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BMG Music Club, and the New York Stock Exchange launch their first large-scale Web operations.[15] EarthWeb's successfully executed an initial public offering in November 1998.[17] At the time, EarthWeb's first-day return was among the largest in NASDAQ history and helped recapture dwindling[18] investor interest in new equity offerings from Internet-based companies.[17][19][20]

2000–2009

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From 1999–2000, Spivack helped co-found and build nVention Convergence Ventures, an in-house intellectual property incubator of SRI International and Sarnoff Laboratories.[12] While consulting to nVention, Spivack founded two companies of his own: business incubator Lucid Ventures in 2001 and technology venture Radar Networks in 2003. Radar Networks invented technologies based on Semantic Web standards that the company also licensed to CALO, an SRI project funded by DARPA.[21][22] Spivack raised initial outside venture funding for Radar Networks in April 2006.[23]

Radar Networks introduced its first commercial product Twine, a Semantic Web-based tool for information storage, authoring and discovery, in 2008.[24]

In 2009, Spivack became the first investor in Klout.com, a website and mobile app that measures social influence.[25]

2010–present

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Spivack and Sanjay Reddy launched[clarification needed] Live Matrix.[26]

Spivack co-founded Bottlenose in 2010 with Dominiek ter Heide.[27][4][5]

Spivack co-founded The Daily Dot in August 2011.[28] Spivack serves as a patron[clarification needed] for the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.[2] He is also a member of the Education and Awareness Council of For All Moonkind, Inc.

In 2015, Spivack co-founded The Arch Mission Foundation. Through the Arch Mission Foundation, Spivack curated the first permanent space library, which contained Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy contained on a quartz disk aboard the Tesla Roadster that was sent to space aboard the SpaceX Heavy Falcon rocket in 2018.[29][30][31] In 2019, the Arch Mission sent the Lunar Library, a 30 million page library of books, data, images and a copy of English Wikipedia to the Moon. Spivack says the Arch Mission and Lunar Library were inspired by an early childhood dream of his of the future.[32][33] In 2021, Spivack announced partnerships with Astrobotic Technology and Galactic Legacy Labs for several return missions to the Moon such as a second attempt to deliver the Lunar Library and for consumers to land their personal memories and photos on the Moon.[34][35]

Spivack is also the founder and CEO of Magical Corporation, a science and technology venture studio.[36][37]

Authorship

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Spivack is considered a leading pioneer in semantic web technology.[38][39][40] Spivack has authored approximately 100 granted and pending patents.[41][42] He writes about the future of the Internet and topics concerning search, social media, personalization, information filtering, entrepreneurship, and Web technology and applications.[43][44] Spivack has been interviewed by TechCrunch, Live Science, Space.com and other publications regarding the development of data storage for use in space missions and the preservation of earth's civilization.[45]

Personal life

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Spivack is the grandson of management theorist Peter F. Drucker.[39] He is married to Kimberly Rubin-Spivack. His parents are poet Kathleen Spivack and inventor Mayer Spivack.[11]

References

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  1. ^ Lisa Krieger (January 8, 2014). "Veneer of privacy grows thinner as technology infiltrates our live". Phys.org. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Nova Spivack". i-com. 18 December 2017.
  3. ^ "The Arch Mission".
  4. ^ a b Anthony Ha (March 25, 2014). "Bottlenose Adds Real=Time TV And Radio And Data to Its Social Trend Monitoring". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  5. ^ a b Greg Finn (October 3, 2013). "Bottlenose Launchers "Nerve Center" An Enterprise Trend Intelligence & Discovery Tool". MarketingLand. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Nova Spivack: Executive Profile & Biography". BloombergBusiness. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  7. ^ Kate Knibbs (March 27, 2014). "Klout just got its biggest perk of all: A $200 million buyout". The Daily Dot. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  8. ^ Francis, Sam (3 August 2017). "Rewired Launches $100 Million Robotics-Focused Venture Studio and Fund". Robotics & Automation News. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  9. ^ "EES Ventures Closes Inaugural Fund, at €4.16M". Finsmes. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  10. ^ a b "Distinguished Alumni Award: Nova Spivack '87". Beaver Country Day School. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  11. ^ a b Heather Green (July 8, 2007). "A Web That Thinks Like You". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  12. ^ a b c Ruth Morton (May 30, 2011). "Nova Spivack: World Renowned; Pioneering Global Technology Visionary Innovator, Strategist, Entrepreneur, Investor". TechNet. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  13. ^ a b c "Lucid Ventures Management Profile". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  14. ^ a b c d Bijal Trivedi. "Manhattan via Nepal The Earthweb Story". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. No. Spring 1998. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  15. ^ a b Dominic White (March 1, 2008). "Nova Spivack has Big Ideas on Web 3.0". Telegraph UK. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
  16. ^ Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2001). Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow. Harvard Business Press. ISBN 9781578514397. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  17. ^ a b Om Malik (November 12, 1998). "Warburg Pincus wins big in Earthweb IPO". Forbes. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
  18. ^ David Lazarus (November 11, 1998). "Net Stock Frenzy Goes Flat". Wired. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
  19. ^ Dawn Kawamoto (November 12, 1998). "TheGlobe.com sets IPO price". CNET. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
  20. ^ Jayson Blair (December 27, 2007). "EarthWeb Selling Most of Its Web Sites and News Services". New York Times. Retrieved June 3, 2009.
  21. ^ Elise Ackerman (May 28, 2009). "Siri lifts veil on intelligent assistant". Physorg.com. Retrieved June 21, 2009.
  22. ^ "Semantic Web on the Desktop". MK Bergman.com. 6 November 2005. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  23. ^ Megan McCarthy (February 25, 2008). "EarthWeb Founder Nova Spivack's Startup Finds $13M". Wired. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  24. ^ Erica Naone (September 21, 2008). "Untangling Web Information". Technology Review. Retrieved May 30, 2009.
  25. ^ Robin Wauters (October 29, 2011). "How Klout Got Klout.com". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  26. ^ Liz Gannes (March 16, 2010). "Nova Spivack's Live Matrix - A programming Guide for the Live Web". Gigaom. Archived from the original on May 29, 2010. Retrieved May 16, 2010.
  27. ^ MG Siegler (April 5, 2011). "Stealthy Bottlenose Hopes To Fulfill The Unkept Promise Of Twitter Annotations (And More)". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  28. ^ Heather Kelly (August 22, 2011). "The Daily Dot wants to be a small town paper for the entire Internet". Venture Beat. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  29. ^ Taylor, Chris (9 February 2018). "The accidental library: Why Elon Musk launched books to space that could last 14 billion years". Mashable. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  30. ^ "Putting Civilization in a Box for Space Means Choosing Our Legacy". Space.com. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  31. ^ "The special data device SpaceX's Falcon Heavy sent to orbit is just the start – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. 9 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  32. ^ Taylor, Chris (April 16, 2019). "There may be a copy of Wikipedia somewhere on the moon. Here's how to help find it". Mashable. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
  33. ^ Pignataro, Juliana Rose (July 2, 2019). "What's Your Moonshot? One Man's Quest for a Billion Year Archive Stored in the Solar System". Newsweek. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
  34. ^ Boyle, Alan (May 15, 2018). "Arch Mission teams up with Astrobotic to send Wikipedia and more to the moon". GeekWire. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
  35. ^ "The Lunar Library II (Astrobotic, 2021)". Arch Mission Foundation. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
  36. ^ "CSF Launches Patron Program To Represent Growing Commercial Space Ecosystem - Commercial Spaceflight Federation". www.commercialspaceflight.org. Archived from the original on 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  37. ^ S, John (2017-12-09). "Watch The Daily Dot Founder Grill the TokenPay CEO Live on Air". Medium. Archived from the original on 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  38. ^ Paul Miller (June 17, 2009). "Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith". ZDNet.com. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  39. ^ a b John Markoff (October 19, 2007). "What I Meant to Say Was Semantic Web". New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2009.
  40. ^ Tim Bowler (May 27, 2009). "Hello clouds, hello sky, hello future". BBC News. Retrieved June 18, 2009.
  41. ^ "Nova Spivack". Reinvent. 2014-04-23. Archived from the original on 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  42. ^ "Nova Spivack Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  43. ^ John D. Sutter (May 12, 2009). "New search engines aspire to supplement Google". CNN. Retrieved May 30, 2009.
  44. ^ "Radar Networks Management Team". Retrieved 2008-02-16.
  45. ^ "The Most Interesting Thing Shot into Space This Week Wasn't a Tesla". Live Science. 9 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
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