Nick Grouf co-founded Firefly, an outgrowth of the RINGO project at the MIT Media Lab.
14 Facts About Nick Grouf
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Nick Grouf later co-founded PeoplePC, which bundled personal computers with internet service and access to other discounted products and services, and Spot Runner, an internet-based platform to produce, buy, place, and distribute targeted cable TV ads.
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Nick Grouf was interested in both music and business, and attended Yale University.
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Nick Grouf graduated with a degree in American Studies in 1990; his senior thesis, an opera, won Yale's Norman Holmes Pearson Prize.
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Nick Grouf deferred admission for three years, and instead returned to New York in September 1990, where he focused on media and technology as a business analyst at McKinsey and Company.
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In January 1995, Nick Grouf met David Waxman on a flight from San Francisco to Boston.
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In 2003, Waxman and Nick Grouf reunited to work on IT and online-fundraising strategies for John Kerry's presidential campaign.
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Nick Grouf led the development of Spot Runner's Malibu Media Platform, a marketplace for buying and selling national and regional ad time.
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In 2011, Nick Grouf founded Clementine Capital, a Los Angeles-based technology incubator.
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In 2016, Nick Grouf teamed with former Goldman Sachs technology banker Michael Parekh and venture capitalist Nate Redmond to form Alpha Edison, a venture capital fund.
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Nick Grouf has established scholarships related to social entrepreneurship and public health at Harvard University, Yale University, and the Horace Mann School.
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Nick Grouf has been affiliated with the National Center for Women and Information Technology and the education-focused SEED Foundation.
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Nick Grouf serves on the board of directors for The Hammer Museum, LAXART, Trajal Harrell Dance Company, and Larchmont Charter Schools.
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In 2014 Nick Grouf helped to create the Walther School Foundation, where he sits on the board.