![Me](/img/damien-square-small.jpeg)
Damien C. Tanner #
Co-founder, CEO of Layercode.
Previously I co-founded MediaCore (ed-tech, sold to Workday inc), Pusher (realtime messaging, sold to MessageBird), thoughtbot (my agency merged with them), Rebase Ventures (person holding company) and a few other things.
My Companies #
Layercode - The GenAI Cloud.
Rebase Ventures - My personal holding company. Home various companies, including UseCSV (CSV import API) and UseScraper (web scraping API).
Pusher (Co-Founder. Acquired by MessageBird in 2020) - Realtime messaging platform.
MediaCore (Co-Founder. Acquired by Workday in 2015) - Video platform for education.
New Bamboo (Co-Founder. Acquired by thoughtbot in 2015) - Digital agency.
Panda (Co-Founder. Acquired by Xenon in 2013) - Cloud video processing.
Investing #
Some select private investments I’ve made:
MCJ - early LP in the MCJ climate focused funds.
Entocycle - Insect farming for fish & animal feed.
Mytos - Lab automation.
Strateos - A robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences.