Partner
Alex Iskold
FOUNDER AND PARTNER, 2048 Ventures
- Firm
- 2048 Ventures
- Title
- FOUNDER AND PARTNER
- Role
- General partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 17 September 2026
About
Alex Iskold Is a Founder and a Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is a 5x founder, a software engineer, and an investor. Alex writes one of the top startup blogs called Startup Hacks. Prior to founding 2048 ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director the New York City program. Before that he was a founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO). Alex currently is a VC in Residence at the Harvard Business School and member of the Board at NYU Entrepreneurship. He holds a B.S. in Math with Honors from Lehigh University and M.S. in Computer Science from NYU.
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