Rick Bentley
Founder & CEO
Technology, Entrepreneur
Truckee, CA, USA
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Rick Bentley is the Founder and CEO of Cloudastructure, a cloud-based video surveillance system for enterprises. Bentley also founded Televoke Inc, which was eventually bought by Uber. He raised eight figures of Venture Capital from VC’s including Softbank and WI Harper and is a full-time Advisor to Google X. Direct report to Andy Grove, father of “Objectives and Key Results,” for 5 years.
Rick Bentley noted on his LinkedIn Profile:
Founded Televoke Inc, in 1998, raised several rounds of venture capital, including an oversubscribed up-round the summer after the .com crash. Merged Jan 2003 with Telcontar Inc., merged entity renamed deCarta Inc. Bought by Uber March 2015.
Founded Connexed Technologies Inc. in 2003, merged with Reach Systems Inc. and relaunched as Cloudastructure. Also have worked with other great entrepreneurs on their startups, including Cheaterville/ViaView and Carbon Motors.
Spent much of 2015 as an adviser to Google X, specifically Google Life Sciences (now Verily). Direct report to Andy Grove for half a decade.
Was also at General Magic, Machina, Sensory, and various consulting jobs, including two tours of Baghdad with USAID.
Specialties: building teams using new technologies to bring new products/services to market.
