Alex Iskold Is a Founder and a Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures. Prior to founding 2048 ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director of its NYC program. Alex was also the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, and Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed. computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO).. He holds a B.S. in Math with Honors from Lehigh University and M.S. in Computer Science from NYU.