Jens was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Redpoint Ventures prior to Jaunt. Before that he was a founder and CEO of Ellerdale, an AI startup focused on real­-time semantic analysis. Ellerdale assembled a world-­class technical team and was one of the first companies to process the full Twitter stream, enabling it to identify and organize trending topics in real-­time. Flipboard, the worlds' first social magazine, acquired Ellerdale in 2010. Jens was also a founder of WebSwap, a pioneering barter site. Earlier, he was a founder and CEO of PostModern, a software company that developed the first Java ORB. It merged with Visigenic, a private enterprise software company, where he continued on as CTO and board member through its IPO and subsequent acquisition by Borland. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.A. in Computer Science from Columbia University. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jens-christensen#sthash.jZZ1HL0s.dpuf