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Cory Levy (born October 10, 1991, in Houston) is the founder of FirstText.com[1] and ZFellows.com.[2] Z Fellows is a fellowship that offers you $10,000 to stop what you're doing for a week to work on a side project alongside mentors ranging from the Founder of Tinder to Netflix.[3] He formerly co-founded and was the COO of ONE, Inc.,[4] creators of the After School App, an anonymous social network for high school students.[5] He is also the founder of Internapalooza,[6] a one-day tech conference for Silicon Valley interns.
At the age of 19, Cory raised $1M in venture capital from SV Angel, True Ventures, Charles River Ventures, General Catalyst, Keith Rabois, Gary Vaynerchuk, Naval Ravikant and Michael Dearing to start ONE, Inc.[7]
Prior to leaving the University of Illinois to launch ONE, Inc., where he was studying computer science,[8] with co-founder Michael Callahan, Cory held internships at TechStars, Union Square Ventures, and Founders Fund.[9] Cory was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 for Consumer Technology[10] and Dorm Room Founders[11] in 2017. He is also the board member of DoSomething.org[12]
References
edit- ^ "First Text". www.firsttext.com. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ "Z Fellows offers $10k to stop what you're doing for a week and work on a side project". TechCrunch. 29 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ "Z Fellows offers $10k to stop what you're doing for a week and work on a side project". TechCrunch. 29 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ Hope Sinsky, Regina (3 August 2011). "19 year old gets $1M to launch a social app. Watch out, Zuckerberg". VentureBeat.
- ^ Wagner, Kurt. "Who Is Behind After School, the Anonymous App Taking Over American High Schools?". re/code. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ D'Onfro, Jillian. "Silicon Valley interns get paid up to $7,500 per month — here's what they gossip about". Business Insider. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Hope Sinsky, Regina (3 August 2011). "19 year old gets $1M to launch a social app. Watch out, Zuckerberg". VentureBeat. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Taylor, Sean. "Tech-preneur Cory Levy to visit Georgia State". ceosatgsu.wordpress.com. CEO at GSU. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "THE NEXT ZUCKERBERG? 19 YEAR OLD CORY LEVY SNAGS 1 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR SOCIAL STARTUP". Feuled.com. Feuled. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "30 Under 30 2017: Consumer Tech". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- ^ "30 Under 30 2017: Dorm Room Founders". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- ^ "Cory Levy - Board Member - DoSomething.org" – via LinkedIn.