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Sam Stokes

Overview

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  • Primary Job Title Co - Founder & CTO
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Sam Stokes is a software engineer who can’t leave well enough alone. He’s compelled to fix broken things, whether they are software systems, engineering processes, or cultures. After watching too many systems catch fire, he’s building better smoke detectors at Honeycomb; in a past life, he cofounded Rapportive and built recommendation systems at

LinkedIn.

Personal Investments

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Sam Stokes has made 2 investments. Their latest investment was Seed Round - Dark on
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Exits

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    Smarking Smarking is an information technology company that provides business intelligence and yield management solutions.

Jobs

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Number of Current Jobs 2
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Sam Stokes has 2 current jobs as Co - Founder & CTO at Rapportive and Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Additionally, Sam Stokes has had 1 past job as the Software Engineer at Honeycomb.
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Events

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Sam Stokes has participated in 1 event, O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference New York 2018 on Feb 25, 2018.

Recent News and Activity

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Funding Round•Jul 15, 2017
Dark raised
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from Albert Ni and 36 other investors
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Funding Round•May 13, 2015
Smarking raised
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from CLI Ventures and 19 other investors
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