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Deepen Shah (born March 4, 1984) is an American web developer and businessman known as the creator of buzzd, FanBridge , and eztxtmsg which was acquired by Omnicom's BBDO ad agency in 2006.

Early years
Shah grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, and by age 11, he had become interested in computer hacking and computer programming. Shah got involved within the computer hacking culture of 2600 and other hacker organizations. Shah ran several online web businesses while attending high school. He went to high school at Livingston High School and Newark Academy. Shah graduated from New York University Stern School of Business's in 2006, where he majored in Finance and Information Systems. Shah sold his first start-up company eztxtmsg to Omnicom's BBDO ad agency as he was graduating.

eztxtmsg
eztxtmsg was founded by Shah in 2006 while at NYU. eztxtmsg was the one of the first self serve Application_service_provider mass SMS / text messaging tool for businesses. eztxtmsg was featured in Inc Magazine's Five Ideas to Watch. Shah created eztxtmsg out of a need to allow small businesses to send text messages to customers about sales, coupons, and offers. In 2005, eztxtmsg worked with singer John Legend's Show Me Campaign to help raise awareness for education.

FanBridge
Shah co-founded FanBridge in 2006 with people he met in college. Shah was responsible for the Technology of the company and built the platform to support sending emails to hundreds of millions of music fans.

buzzd
Shah was Chief Technology Officer and co-founded the mobile social cityguide, buzzd. Shah raised venture capital from BlackBerry Partners Fund, ff Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Greycroft and Monitor Ventures. In 2010, buzzd] pivoted to the platform "LocalResponse," to help brands reach consumers across aggregate location-based services. Prior to buzzd, Shah founded [[ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which he sold to Omnicom in 2005. Shah's other entrepreneurial projects include co-chairing the innovation advisory board for Reshma for Congress, co-founding the non-profit Project Ahimsa, and being a co-founding general partner at the mobile seed venture fund Eniac Ventures.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100830085129/http://alleyinsider.slinkset.com/

Non-violence advocacy Shah is a outspoken advocate of non-violence and has been involved with the Temple of Understanding, a 501c3 United Nations NGO organization, in promoting inter-faith discussion and dialogue. Shah has spoken at the United Nations and organized youth events on the topic of non-violence.

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/gaid/unpan032783.pdf

Features / Mentions as a Technologist and Entrepreneur
Deepen Shah has been featured and mentioned in various publications regarding location-based services and mobile technology. Those publications include the New York Times, New York Times Bits Blog, Forbes Magazine, TechCrunch.