San Jose

Nova Spivack's life reads like a novel. He has done everything from going into space and launching a business with a record-breaking IPO, to hanging out in Tibetan monasteries and inventing new technology that has changed tech as we know it.

Nova is a long-time serial entrepreneur in the technology industry. In the late 80s and early 90s, he worked with leading technology ventures like Kurzweil Computer Products, Individual, and Thinking Machines. In 1994, he co-founded one of the first Internet companies, EarthWeb (IPO: 1998), which generated DICE.com (IPO: 2007). He then worked with SRI to co-found their business incubator, nVention.

Nova currently serves as Founder and CEO of Radar Networks, a company at the forefront of Semantic Web development. The company's first product, Twine (http://www.twine.com), is a service that helps people track their interests, using the Semantic Web and collective intelligence.