Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

During his career, Alain Benzaken has been involved in some of the most successful startups on the East Coast. Prior to joining Decisyon in 2014 to lead technology development and services in the Americas, he worked as Senior Vice President of Technology at Buddy Media, before and after their $800M acquisition by Salesforce.com. He was also Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of food52.com, helping to raise their initial angel round. Prior to that he spent five years as Vice President of Technology at TheLadders, helping to lead the company to 100% year-over-year growth.

Alain was one of the first technology hires at Priceline.com and rose to become Vice President of Development.

He is a founding board member of the New York Tech Meetup, and regularly advises New York startups on technology architecture and teams.