Rick Bentley
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Master's degree, Engineering 1991-01-01 - 1993-01-01
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics 1988-01-01 - 1991-01-01
University of California, Santa Cruz
, Physics 1986-01-01 - 1988-01-01Work Experience
Hydro Hash Inc.
Current
Hydro Hash Inc.
Cloudastructure, Inc.
Current
Cloudastructure, Inc.
Google Life Sciences
2015-01-01 - 2015-10-01
Google Life Sciences
Kinetics Foundation
2009-11-01 - 2014-06-01
Kinetics Foundation
Connexed Technologies Inc.
2003-06-01 - 2014-01-01
Connexed Technologies Inc.
Carbon Motors Corporation
2013-02-01 - 2013-04-01
Carbon Motors Corporation
Viaview
2012-01-01 - 2013-01-01
Viaview
Telcontar
2003-01-01 - 2003-06-01
Telcontar
Televoke Inc.
1998-12-01 - 2003-01-01
Televoke Inc.
General Magic
1998-01-01 - 1999-01-01
General Magic
Skills
Summary
Republic did a nice piece on me: https://republic.co/blog/rick-bentley-cloudastructure 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.
