Cyriac Roeding

{{Short description|US-based entrepreneur}}

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| name = Cyriac Roeding

| birth_name = Cyriac Raimar Roeding

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|March 26, 1973}}

| birth_place = Konstanz, Germany

| alma_mater = Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sophia University

| occupation = Executive VP of CBS
Co-founder and CEO of shopkick
President and Founder of Roeding Ventures
Co-founder and CEO of Earli
Co-founder and Chairman of Rewind Co.

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Cyriac Roeding (born March 26, 1973) is a Silicon Valley–based German–American entrepreneur and investor. He serves as the co-founder and CEO of [https://earli.com Earli], an [https://www.fastcompany.com/90700250/cancer-took-a-cancer-genius-his-company-is-fighting-back early cancer detection and treatment firm] based in Redwood City, California. Earli is based on [https://www.wired.com/story/making-cancer-reveal-itself/ Synthetic Biopsy technology] from Stanford University, and is funded{{cite web|last=Rosenbaum|first=Leah|title=This Company Raised $40 Million To Make Tumors Reveal Themselves|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2021/01/12/this-company-raised-40-million-to-make-tumors-reveal-themselves/?sh=7e2625b34016|work=Forbes}} by Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Casdin Capital, Sands Capital, Menlo Ventures, ZhenFund (China) and Marc Benioff. Roeding is also a co-founder and chairman of the board of [https://teamrewind.com Rewind Co.], a diabetes type 2 reversal company. Roeding's venture investing focuses on AI, brain-to-machine interfaces, consumer businesses, biology meeting software and engineering, and consumer robotics. He served as EVP at Paramount Global / CBS (NASDAQ: PARA),{{cite web|last=Holson|first=Laura|title=Big Executive of the Tiny Screen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/business/media/05cbs.html|work=New York Times|access-date=7 November 2007}} where he started the division CBS Mobile and brought it to profitability, and as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins{{cite web|last=Murphy|first=Matt|title=SK Telecom acquires shopkick: memorable journey with a great entrepreneur|url=http://www.kpcb.com/blog/sk-telecom-acquires-shopkick-memorable-journey-with-a-great-entrepreneur|publisher=KPCB|access-date=29 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222193838/http://www.kpcb.com/blog/sk-telecom-acquires-shopkick-memorable-journey-with-a-great-entrepreneur|archive-date=February 22, 2017|url-status=dead}} and its iFund with Apple Inc., where he co-founded and led mobile shopping app shopkick with $22M of venture capital to a $250 million cash acquisition by SK Telecom/SK Planet (Fortune 100 from South Korea){{cite web|last=McMillan|first=Doug|title=SK Telecom Agrees to Acquire Shopkick|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/sk-telecom-agrees-to-acquire-shopkick-1411781933|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=27 September 2014}} and 20 million users. Shopkick rewards users for just walking into retail stores such as Target Corporation, Best Buy, Macy's and Walmart and engaging with products from Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, L'Oreal etc., driving over $1 billion in sales annually for its partners.{{cite web|last=Rao|first=Leena|title=Aisle by Aisle, an App That Pushes Bargains|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/technology/17app.html|work=New York Times|access-date=17 August 2010}} Fast Company ranked shopkick one of the world's 10 Most Innovative Companies In Retail, alongside Apple and Starbucks, and Entrepreneur Magazine placed Roeding on its cover.{{cite news|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|title=Innovator: Shopkick's Cyriac Roeding Reinvents Retail|url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/218157|access-date=30 June 2012|newspaper=Entrepreneur|date=22 Feb 2011}}

The World Economic Forum named Roeding a Tech Pioneer in 2013 and a Global Innovator in 2021. In 2023, he was named a Member of [https://www.worldminds.org/ World.Minds], a global community of 1,000 of the world's most successful scientists, entrepreneurs and state leaders.

Roeding is a Limited Partner in venture capital funds Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Bond (Mary Meeker), Tiger Global Management, Coatue Management, Greylock Partners, KPCB, IVP, Atomic VC, ZhenFund (China), Breakthrough Ventures, Olive Capital, Script Capital, Silicon Valley Bank. He is a direct investor and advisor in over a dozen startups, including [https://openai.com/ OpenAI] (artificial general intelligence), [https://ltse.com/ LTSE] (Long-Term Stock Exchange), [https://www.synthego.com/ Synthego] (CRISPR genome editing), Science Inc. (brain-to-machine interfaces), Karma Science (acquired by Facebook), Cardspring (acquired by Twitter), [https://www.visbymedical.com/ Visby Medical], [https://www.cars24.com/ Cars24] (used car sales platform in India), [https://blinkit.com/ Blinkit] (e-groceries in India), Curbside (acquired by Rakuten), Zumper (home rental marketplace), [https://www.brilliant.tech Brilliant] (intelligent home light switches).

He is frequently included on innovation topics such as Chinese vs Silicon Valley startups on CNBC,{{cite web|last=Roeding|first=Cyriac|title=Is China going to crush Silicon Valley?|url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/05/17/is-china-going-to-crush-silicon-valley.html|work=CNBC}} Bloomberg, CNN, has published on these topics e.g. on Vox/Recode,{{cite web|last=Roeding|first=Cyriac|title=After three weeks in China, it's clear Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor|url=https://www.vox.com/2016/5/13/11592570/china-startup-tech-economy-silicon-valley|work=Vox}} and has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Program, the CTIA Wireless Summit and Money 2020.