| Harvey Mudd College, Bachelors Degree | |
| Engineering |
Jonathan Gay is the co-creator of Flash, the most popular multimedia player on the Web. Jon founded FutureWave Software in 1993 to develop FutureSplash Animator, which was acquired by Macromedia and became Flash. Previous to Software as Art Jon served as Chief Technology Officer for Macromedia, where he was responsible for leading teams across Macromedia to redefine multimedia on the Internet.
It was Jon’s product vision for Flash that led the company to seamlessly meld sound, video, and interactivity across a broad range of internet enabled devices. As a result Flash has become the de facto standard for implementing multimedia on the Internet. Flash serves as the multimedia backbone for millions of Web sites from YouTube to The New York Times.
Jon started his programming career building the Macintosh computer games Airborne!, Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle. He also led development of Aldus Intellidraw, an illustration program for Macintosh and Windows. Jon graduated from Harvey Mudd College with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Smilebox | 2/06 | Series A | $5M | 4 |
