About Pixable

The company

With hundreds of millions of photos and videos being shared every day it’s easy to miss out on the ones that actually matter to you. Pixable finds the best photos and videos shared on your social network so you never miss an important moment.

Pixable, founded in 2009, is a start-up headquartered in SoHo, NYC with MIT roots. The company has enabled over a million users to manage and enjoy their online photos with a powerful set of features centered around photo search, discovery, aggregation, and editing. The company's free application offers a unique, personalized browsing experience by aggregating photos from different social networks and then sorting them into fun feeds like “Best Photos of the Day” in order of their relevance to the user. Pixable also doubles as a notification service allowing users to follow friends’ photo activity and be notified of newly tagged or uploaded photos.

Pixable has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, Newsweek, CNN, USA Today, Mashable, Tech Crunch and The Atlantic Magazine. It was also highlighted as one of the coolest companies to work for by Time Out Magazine.

The app

Pixable is the only solution to browse, search, and keep track of friends' photos, while providing a tailored experience that learns a user's preferences and gets better with every visit. The app is accessible via the web and can be downloaded from the iTunes store for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

Our name

The company is named after the Miss Pixable title that photographers would award to the most photogenic contestants in the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants during the 1960s.

Our roots

Pixable was founded by Inaki, Andres and Alberto in 2009 at Inaki's apartment on the MIT campus. They met at MIT and are living the dream.

Founders

Inaki Berenguer
Before Pixable, Inaki completed Master's and PhD degrees in Engineering at Cambridge University, completed an MBA at MIT, and spent two years as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University. He also worked as a researcher at HP, NEC Labs and Intel. More recently, he spent two years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in the high tech, banking and telecom sectors, and as a manager in the Corporate Strategy Group at Microsoft. Inaki is trying to convince the rest of the team to open a Pixable office somewhere warm in Spain.

Andres Blank
Before Pixable, Andres started three other companies in his native Venezuela, the first one at the age of 18 and the last one with over 30 employees. He has a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from MIT. Andres has recently been spotted in Uganda, playing with gorillas. They apparently have welcomed him as one of their own.

Alberto Sheinfeld
Alberto is a Computer Science graduate passionate about technology and gadgets. Before Pixable, he worked as a project manager in various successful startups. In his free time, he enjoys organizing barbeques and spending time on the beach in the Caribbean. Don't we all!

Alberto Lopez-Toledo, CTO
Alberto received his Master's and PhD degrees in Engineering from Columbia University. Prior to Pixable he was a research scientist at Telefonica Research, working four years on innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. Alberto has also worked at Microsoft Research and Columbia University, founded two companies, and authored over 50 published scientific papers and patents. Nicknamed "Your Highness", he is rumored to be a direct descendent from the Spanish Royal family. True or not, he is happy to have taken the position of "the funny guy" from Andres at Pixable.

Advisors

We are very proud to have a valuable team of advisors with extensive experience in the Internet sector, including

Paul English, co-founder and CTO of Kayak
Beth Ferreira, former VP at Etsy
Douglas Alexander, former General Manager at Flickr
Mario Brueggemann, founder of Asesorseguros
Freddy Kerrest, founder of Okta.com
Ed Roberts, MIT Professor
Daniel Loreto, entrepreneur and expert in Search (Google)

Board of directors

Inaki Berenguer
Andres Blank
James Joaquin, founder of oFoto, former CEO of KodakGallery and serial entrepreneur
Bob Davis, founder of Lycos and General Partner at Highland Capital Partners