Bringing to bear elite engineering and data science to solve the most pressing data and measurement problems facing our clients. We work with all of the major movie studios and many major TV networks.
Helping marketers understand the actions that are driving economic results for their films and TV shows.
Leveraging consumer behavioral signals to offer dynamic forecasts for marketers, distributors, and programmers.
Bringing innovative mobile technology and industry-leading expertise to test screenings and panels.
Daniel is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of EDO.
Daniel is also the CEO of Kensho Technologies, one of the fastest growing financial technology companies in the world. Kensho is frequently cited as an industry leader in the application of AI and machine learning to financial market analysis and its strategic investors include Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Standard & Poors, InQTel and Comcast.
Daniel received his PhD from Harvard University and is currently the Director of Research for Financial Technology at Stanford University's School of Engineering. He previously served as a Visiting Scholar at the United States Federal Reserve.
Edward is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of EDO.
Edward is one of the most celebrated actors of his generation and has starred in, produced, written, or directed over 30 films. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won the Golden Globe, an Emmy, an Obie and numerous other awards for his work.
Edward has a substantial parallel career as a technology entrepreneur. In 2004 he was one of the founding investors of Baswood, a provider of technologically disruptive industrial and municipal scale wastewater digestion systems (recently named by Forbes as one of the most promising water technology startups). He ran the company as its Acting CEO in 2007-2008 and now serves as Chairman.
In 2010 Edward and three partners founded CrowdRise, a crowdfunding platform for charities and nonprofits that quickly grew into one of the largest charitable platforms in the world, processing over $500M in donations. Backed by Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, and Index Ventures, Norton served in both a day to day executive role and as Chairman of the Board. In 2016, he drove the deal for CrowdRise to be acquired by GoFundMe. The combined company will process over $2B of donations in 2017 alone, making it the largest crowdfunding platform in the world. Norton now serves on GoFundMe’s Board of Directors.
As an investor, he has made early or seed stage investments and played strategic roles in companies such as Uber, Inventure/Tala, and Kensho.
Jim is our founding investor and a board member at EDO.
Jim is the Founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA. Jim has been an investor in over 40 consumer internet/technology companies that have completed successful public offerings or mergers, including Facebook, Etsy, Legendary, Datalogix, and Marvel Entertainment. As a lead investor and/or board member, Jim has assisted teams at over a dozen companies complete IPOs. Several of his investments have returned to investors over 100 times their cost, and over a dozen more have returned over 25 times cost.
Over the past several years, Jim has developed a deep personal and investment interest in long-term oriented entrepreneurs and teams working in artificial intelligence (AI) and human assisted intelligence (HAI), and he has made numerous investments in this space.
Jim currently serves on the board of directors of Blackstone and 21st Century Fox, where he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating Committee. Jim served on Facebook’s board from 2005 to 2013 after leading the company’s Series A funding round. He served on Etsy’s board from 2008 to 2016 and was the company’s largest outside shareholder at the time of its IPO in 2015.
Industry experts and world class engineering and data science formerly at Google, Airbnb, Asana, Dropbox, Quora, Nielsen, and NBCUniversal.
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam.
Either find a way or make one.
OUR CULTURE: We are a small team that believes in excellence, working hard, moving fast, and always helping each other grow and achieve our goals. We enjoy being unconventional and answering thought-to-be unanswerable questions.
OUR WORK: We are working on engineering and data science problems that we believe will help the Media and Entertainment industry thrive in the 21st century. The work you would do with us will make an immediate impact.
OUR BENEFITS: We have all the benefits and perks of a fast-growing company, plus you get to see up-close how movie studios and TV networks operate (and sometimes we get invited to movie premieres).