Cyriac Roeding

Cyriac is an entrepreneur and investor who builds companies on the intersection of the physical, engineering and digital worlds. At Earli, he is inspired by connecting the living physical world (the human body) with bioengineering software approaches. He has previously built three companies, and is an investor in more than 20 startups and venture funds including a16z, Bond, Founders Fund, Greylock, IVP, ZhenFund. He incubated shopkick in the basement of Kleiner Perkins during the financial crisis, which is a shopping app that rewards consumers just for walking into stores without having to buy anything. With 20M users, it was acquired five years later for $250M by SK Telecom (SK Planet) from South Korea. Before that, he created CBS Television’s mobile division in LA, and co-founded 12snap in Europe, one of the first mobile marketing firms, working with Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Sony and others. Cyriac sold his first computer program in Germany at age 15, attended high school in Texas where he proudly ran the school flag at Friday night football games, studied Japanese Management in Tokyo, and at 25, co-authored the Harvard Business School book Secrets of Software Success while at McKinsey. He was named a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer and a Fortune 40 Under 40 Mobilizer. Today, he has three beloved mini children who push him and his startup-loving wife Angel to the outermost frontier in multitasking.