Cy Megnin grew up in Bloomington Indiana and has been an entrepreneur, founder and advisor for the past two decades. Companies he has founded include Intel Capital portfolio company PrepFlash; an artificial intelligence company that uses natural language processing to automatically create flashcards from any content, and CloudCoreo a configuration management company that garnered investment from Microsoft and ultimately sold to VMware. He was in the 2014 class of 40 under 40 for Professional Remodeler Magazine at the helm of the long running real estate investment firm OCPS and was twice featured on TLC’s hit TV show “Flip That House”. After spending the last 15 years in Austin, Seattle and the Bay area he is currently back in his hometown of Bloomington, IN with his wife Andrea and son Jack. His role at Elevate Ventures is as an EIR for the Velocities region, which is a joint venture between the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and The Dimension Mill in Bloomington. He has a degree in Economics from Indiana University where he currently teaches an MBA course on entrepreneurship. He also has an MBA from Baylor University, where he is an executive judge for their annual MBA Ethics competition.