Cory Levy Explained

Cory Levy (born October 10, 1991, in Houston) is the founder of FirstText.com[1] and ZFellows.com.[2] Z Fellows is a fellowship that offers you $10,000 to stop what you're doing for a week to work on a side project alongside mentors ranging from the Founder of Tinder to Netflix.[3] He formerly co-founded and was the COO of ONE, Inc.,[4] creators of the After School App, an anonymous social network for high school students.[5] He is also the founder of Internapalooza,[6] a one-day tech conference for Silicon Valley interns.

At the age of 19, Cory raised $1M in venture capital from SV Angel, True Ventures, Charles River Ventures, General Catalyst, Keith Rabois, Gary Vaynerchuk, Naval Ravikant and Michael Dearing to start ONE, Inc.[7]

Prior to leaving the University of Illinois to launch ONE, Inc., where he was studying computer science,[8] with co-founder Michael Callahan, Cory held internships at TechStars, Union Square Ventures, and Founders Fund.[9] Cory was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 for Consumer Technology[10] and Dorm Room Founders[11] in 2017. He is also the board member of DoSomething.org[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: First Text. 2021-04-03. www.firsttext.com.
  2. Web site: Z Fellows offers $10k to stop what you're doing for a week and work on a side project. 2021-04-03. TechCrunch. en-US.
  3. Web site: Z Fellows offers $10k to stop what you're doing for a week and work on a side project. 2021-04-03. TechCrunch. en-US.
  4. Web site: Hope Sinsky. Regina. 19 year old gets $1M to launch a social app. Watch out, Zuckerberg. VentureBeat. VentureBeat.
  5. Web site: Wagner. Kurt. Who Is Behind After School, the Anonymous App Taking Over American High Schools?. re/code. re/code. 20 October 2015.
  6. Web site: D'Onfro. Jillian. Silicon Valley interns get paid up to $7,500 per month — here's what they gossip about. Business Insider. Business Insider. 20 October 2015.
  7. Web site: Hope Sinsky. Regina. 19 year old gets $1M to launch a social app. Watch out, Zuckerberg. VentureBeat. VentureBeat. 20 October 2015.
  8. Web site: Taylor. Sean. Tech-preneur Cory Levy to visit Georgia State. ceosatgsu.wordpress.com. CEO at GSU. 20 October 2015.
  9. Web site: THE NEXT ZUCKERBERG? 19 YEAR OLD CORY LEVY SNAGS 1 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR SOCIAL STARTUP. Feuled.com. Feuled. 20 October 2015.
  10. Web site: 30 Under 30 2017: Consumer Tech. Forbes. 2017-10-10.
  11. Web site: 30 Under 30 2017: Dorm Room Founders. Forbes. 2017-10-10.
  12. Web site: Cory Levy - Board Member - DoSomething.org. LinkedIn.

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