Ryan Junee

Ryan Junee
Junee at G'Day USA
Born17 November 1979[1]
NationalityAustralian-American
OccupationEntrepreneur
Years active2002—present
Known forFounder of Parsable, Omnisio and Inporia
Websitehttp://ryanjunee.com/bio

Ryan Junee is an Australian-American entrepreneur.[1][2] He is the founder of Parsable and is based in San Francisco.[1]

Early career

In 2002, Junee graduated from the University of Sydney in Australia with degrees in computer engineering and commerce.[3][4] After graduating, Junee worked at Telstra, but left when one of his friends raised money for a startup, Sensory Networks.[3][5] Junee was the first non-founding employee at Sensory Networks, and was with the company as it grew from 5 employees to 70.[3][6]

In 2003, he was accepted into the Electrical Engineering PhD program at Stanford University and moved to Palo Alto, California.[3] After observing the entrepreneurial energy in Silicon Valley, he left Stanford once he obtained his Master's degree.[3] He resumed working at Sensory Networks as Director of Strategic Partnerships in their Palo Alto office.[3]

Entrepreneurial career

In October 2007, Junee left Sensory Networks to co-found his own company, Omnisio, with Julian Frumar and Simon Ratner.[7] Junee was the co-founder and CEO of Omnisio, a service that made online video more interactive and social, allowing users to add annotations to videos, tag people and highlights, and synchronize videos with PowerPoint presentations.[2][3][8] To much acclaim, Omnisio is most famous for the concept of banner advertising units on YouTube videos. The company received early-stage funding from Y Combinator and Chris Sacca.[9][10]

In July 2008, less than a year after the company was founded, Google acquired Omnisio for an undisclosed amount (TechCrunch reported that the amount was in the range of $15 million).[11][12][13][14] As part of the deal, Junee became Product Manager at YouTube.[1] While at YouTube, Junee integrated several of Omnisio's features into YouTube, including video annotations; in addition, he oversaw the implementation of RealTime, which lets users know what their friends are viewing.[15]

Near the end of 2009, Junee left Google to start Inporia with Max Skibinsky, who sold Hive7 to Playdom in 2010.[7] Inporia, an eCommerce fashion site that combines elements of social and gaming technology, has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from New Enterprise Associates, Ron Conway, Dave McClure, among others.[7]

In 2013 Junee founded Wearable Intelligence[16] with Yan-David Erlich and Chase Feiger, with a goal of bringing wearable technologies like Google Glass to enterprise markets. In 2016 the company was renamed Parsable[17] and raised an additional $20M in funding from investors including Schlumberger, Airbus and Saudi Aramco.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Biography. RyanJunee.com.
  2. ^ a b Timson, Lia. Silicon Valley success for savvy Aussies. The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 November 2008.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g View From the Top - Ryan Junee. Advance. 16 October 2008.
  4. ^ Alumni of the Year sell to YouTube. The University of Sydney. 5 November 2008.
  5. ^ Gedda, Rodney. Aussies strike it rich with $15m Google buyout. PC World. 31 July 2008.
  6. ^ Aussie online video entrepreneurs sell out to YouTube for $US15 million. Smart Company. 6 August 2008.
  7. ^ a b c Empson, Rip. Stealth Startup Inporia Raises $1.25 Million From Ron Conway, 500 Startups And More. TechCrunch. 11 May 2011.
  8. ^ Hammond, Michelle. Should you be California dreaming?. StartupSmart. 10 February 2011.
  9. ^ Cain, Alexandra. How to sell your business to Google. The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 November 2010.
  10. ^ Sacca, Chris. Couldn't be happier for Omnisio. 30 July 2008.
  11. ^ Arrington, Michael. Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube. TechCrunch. 30 July 2008.
  12. ^ Can Paul Graham Mass-Produce the Start-up?. Inc. Magazine.
  13. ^ Wanted to buy: geeks with big ideas. The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 December 2011.
  14. ^ Moses, Asher. Gold diggers: Aussies strike it rich in Silicon Valley. The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 September 2011.
  15. ^ YouTube lets users see what friends are watching. The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 April 2009.
  16. ^ "Wearable Intelligence raises $8 million to bring Google Glass into the workplace". Fortune. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  17. ^ "Could This Software Make Walkie Talkies and Binders Obsolete?". Fortune. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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