Join YouNoodle | Login

Anurag Nigam

CEO of BuzzBox.com, President & Board Director of the Sand Hill Angels, Board Director of Zero Divide Foundation, Board Director of the Andrew Carnegie Society at Carnegie Mellon University. Busy guy who love entrepreneurship!!

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.buzzbox.com, www.sandhillangels.com
Industries: Internet, Mobile
Location: San Francisco
Groups: Global Entrepreneurship Competition-Hit Barcelona 2010
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Supporting my investments, Trading services

FEATURED STARTUP

BuzzBox

BuzzBox BuzzBox

BuzzBox.com has released our first product, a FastForward Button for your browser. On any webpage, press the FF button to go to the top page people visited next. It's like Amazon shopping recommendations for webpages.

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Beta

FULL BIO

Anurag (Anu) Nigam

CEO at BuzzBox.com

Locality
San Francisco Bay Area

Industry
Internet

Current

* CEO & Founder at BuzzBox.com [ Edit ]
* President and Board Member at Sand Hill Angels [ Edit ]

Past

* CEO & Founder at 411Sync
* VP of Marketing at Hi5 Networks
* Professionally Retired at Self (Self-employed)
* Founder & Technical Lead at Siara Systems
* ASIC Lead & Founder at Cerent Corp
* Graduate Rotation Engineer (GRE) at Intel

Education

* Carnegie Mellon University

Summary

Anurag Nigam currently is the founder and CEO of BuzzBox.com, a social discovery platform that is in early alpha, and manages the Sand Hill Angels prescreen and deal management processes.

He is an Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been part of 6 different startups. He was part of the founding teams & leading ASIC efforts at Cerent Corp (bought by Cisco) and Siara Systems (bought by Redback Networks). Anurag switched into the consumer Internet space and was is an investor and founder of hi5.com, a profitable social networking site with over 20M users.

Anurag's Startups (1)

View all
  • BuzzBox

    BuzzBox.com has released our first product, a FastForward Button for your browser. On any webpage, press the FF button to go to the top page people visited next. It's like Amazon shopping recommendations for webpages.

Anurag is Following (4)

View all
  • Am I Worth It?

    A place for students to meet other (hot) students.

  • YouNoodle

    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

  • Slide

    New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.

  • Enternships.com

    A place for people to find internship opportunities at small companies.

Anurag's Contacts (5)

View all