About Solvate

Michael Paolucci

Since 1993, I have founded and raised financing for startups in the New York area, including Interactive Imaginations, Inc, and 24/7 Real Media, Inc (TFSM), which sold to WPP Group for $650 million in 2007. During that time I pioneered the interstitial ad and the first demographically targeted internet ad format.

In 2002, I founded Slooh.com, a worldwide community of people peering into space together. I hold patent US 7,194,146 B2, a method for computer image processing of telescope-received camera images of celestial objects. In 2007 I founded StartupExchange, where founders of venture-backed startups can pool equity to diversify their equity holdings. I am on the steering committee of the Small Business Majority, a national nonprofit organization of business entrepreneurs.

I was customer number one at Solvate—I started with just two assistants who supported my other business operations while I was crossing the Atlantic and Mediterranean over 80 days on a small sailboat with a 56k sat phone. No one knew I was even out of the office and I was sure we were on to something that every business operator could use.

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