Benjamin leads the product, vision, and strategy of Colingo. His focus is on education, engineering, design, and operations.
Prior to starting Colingo, he co-founded a boutique software development firm, taught himself Spanish traveling through Chile and Argentina, studied neurobiology with a focus on the evolution of language , and taught Spanish to elementary school students.
He enjoys biking, welding, and speaking Portuñol. He is a 2007 graduate of Oberlin College.
Robert leads software development at Colingo. His focus is on research, design and implementation of software and systems architecture.
Robert is passionate about information, the built environment, and the interplay between the two. He draws on an education in new media from San Francisco State University and has since created public art installations which challenge our conceptions of the digital information that surrounds us.
Robert was raised in Colorado but has since lived and worked in Banff, Montréal, and New York. He experienced the challenges (and rewards) of learning a new language while exploring China in 2005, and living in the bilingual city of Montréal in 2010.
When not coding for Colingo you will find Robert on a walk to somewhere of interest.
Jake leads software sanity at Colingo. His focus is on research, maintainability and keeping the software ship flying straight.
Prior to joining Colingo, Jake was studying Computer Science at University of Bath (UK). When studying didn't keep him busy, he focused on open source and interacting with the JavaScript community, learning all the secrets he can.
When not writing software at Colingo, Jake spends his time hacking on mad science and developing new paths for writing software.
Prior to Colingo, Lee worked as Senior Product Manager focusing on social media at Comcast Interactive Media. While in school, he co-founded a college classified website which was widely used on campus.
Lee feeds off the hustle of urban life. He has explored cities in 30 countries around the world. Barcelona and Hong Kong currently top his list. Capitalizing on this love of cities, he recently formed a real estate investment partnership in Philadelphia. He also loves to eat in great towns and once devised a scheme to help with that.
He lives in the mission in SF, but has a multi-speed bike.
Lee graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania.
Colingo is funded by top-tier Silicon Valley Venture Capital firms and angel investors.
Investors include Morado Ventures, Crosslink Capital, 500 Startups, Howard Lindzon, Russ Fradin, Ben Ling, Hot-or-Not Founder Jim Young, Dogster Founder Ted Rheingold, Chegg Founder Aayush Phumbhra, and Shan Mehta.