Scott Banister
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Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.
Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired by Microsoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.
Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Zivity, a social networking site co-founded with his wife, Cyan Banister. He was an early investor in Powerset, a startup building a natural language search engine, and sits on the company's Board of Directors. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Slide, a start-up founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.
Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.
Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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iLike iLike offers an online platform that enables its users to download and share music with the other users.
Zappos Zappos is an online retailer specializing in shoes and apparel.
Wavii Wavii provides an iPhone app enabling users to follow and receive updates on topics such as celebrities, companies, and politicians.
Vamo Vamo is an event discovery platform providing users with information that help them plan vacations.
ToutApp ToutApp helps organizations transform their sales teams into revenue generating machines.
Topsy Labs Topsy, a social analytics company, provides instant answers to critical business questions via real-time analysis of public conversations.
Thinkfuse Thinkfuse is a SaaS-based enterprise that allows companies to send regular progress reports to stakeholders.
Teleport Move to your best place to live and work.
Slide Slide enables users to create and personalize widgets and use them on social networks, blogs and desktops.
Sense Platform Sense Platform is a cloud-based platform for data science and big data analytics.
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