6/6/14 Todd Ray AMC's Freakshow

Published: June 6, 2014, 8:09 p.m.

b'Todd Ray is the mastermind behind The Venice Beach Freakshow, a classically-inspired circus sideshow with an attached museum of oddities. A 21st century P.T. Barnum with a congenital resistance to very concept of "impossible," Todd has set out to build the world\'s greatest showcase for the unique, the bizarre and the wondrous.

Venice Beach Freakshow opened in 2006, and since then Todd has searched the world for animal anomalies, bizarre artifacts, and people with unusual physiological traits and astounding talents. He has embraced the word "freak" as a joyous rebuttal to "normal" and the pressure of conformity. "Every single one of us, by virtue of our individuality, is an oddity. We\'re each a freak: a freak of the universe," he stresses. "But a \'freak\' meaning the most special, the most unique, the most magical creatures in the universe."

Eric Rice is CEO and Founder of TrepScore, a dynamic transparency platform that tracks, analyzes and scores startup execution to help build better decisions and trust for entrepreneurs and investors. TrepScore is designed to create a level playing field in startup funding by providing entrepreneurs (Treps) and investors valuable data that drives more informed decision-making. Eric calls this project the, \\u201cculmination of his career\\u201d. His vision of TrepScore has been recognized by multiple start-up and investment authorities as \\u201cthe trend of the future\\u201d.
Previous to starting TrepScore Eric was the CEO of 25 Inc. where he worked with startups and investors on multiple projects including ideation and funding communications. This early work with 25 helped drive the necessary research for TrepScore by working with a control group of more than a dozen startups in various sectors to gather data and track results.


Erik Caso is co-founder and CEO of younity (Entangled Media). Prior to building younity, he spent over 15 years as an entrepreneur and product designer in the enterprise and consumer software world, leading the design and development of several market defining technology categories. company description: younity creates a personal cloud for all your files, built from your devices and online services. By building the cloud into the operating system of all your devices, younity enables you to unify, access, search, stream and share all your files from all your devices. No configuration, no management, no syncing and no storage limits. With younity, all your devices work as if they were a single device, so you can stop thinking about which device you have to use and only think about the screen that is most convenient.'