Cyriac Roeding, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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entrepreneur
Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1973
Place of Birth: Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Profession: businessperson
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Cyriac Roeding
- Cyriac Roeding (born March 26, 1973) is a German-American entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.
- Roeding's focus areas are consumer businesses, software meets biology, brain-to-machine interfaces, AI and consumer robotics, in the U.S.
- and China.
- He is a former EVP of CBS (NYSE: CBS), where he started the division CBS Mobile, and an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers., where he co-founded and led shopkick to >20 million users and a $250M cash acquisition by SK Telecom/SK Planet (Fortune 100 from South Korea).
- Shopkick is a mobile shopping app that rewards users for just walking into retail stores such as Macy’s, Best Buy, Target Corporation and scanning products from Procter & Gamble, Revlon, Unilever, Pepsi, L'Oreal.
- Fast Company ranked shopkick one of the world's 10 Most Innovative Companies In Retail, alongside Apple and Starbucks.
- Nielsen ranked it the most widely used shopping app in the real world, driving over $1B in sales annually for its partners. The World Economic Forum named Roeding a Tech Pioneer in 2013. Roeding is a Limited Partner in Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Bond, Greylock Partners, KPCB, IVP, ZhenFund (China), SV Angel, Silicon Valley Bank.
- He is a direct investor and advisor in over a dozen startups, including LTSE (Long-Term Stock Exchange), Synthego (CRISPR genome editing), Karma Science (acquired by Facebook), Cardspring (acquired by Twitter), Click Diagnostics, Grofers (e-groceries in India), Curbside (acquired by Rakuten), Zumper, Brilliant (intelligent home light switches), Bulletin (pop-up stores), Furaxa (brain-to-machine interfaces). He is frequently included on innovation topics such as Chinese vs Silicon Valley startups on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, has published on these topics e.g.
- on Recode, and has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Program, the CTIA Wireless Summit and Money 2020.
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