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Cole Rise is a Principal Designer at Microsoft and a serial technology entrepreneur based in San Francisco. He is recognized for his early contributions to Instagram, where he designed the original application icon in 45 minutes for CEO Kevin Systrom and created seven of the platform's initial photo filters. Rise began his startup career by founding Flagr during the Y Combinator Winter 2006 batch, later co-founding the HTML5 web application company Particle, which was acquired by Apple. In 2014, he launched the photo-editing application Litely before serving as Chief Design Officer at Polaroid Swing, a startup that Microsoft acquired in 2017. He has also contributed software and interface design work to early smartphone production prototypes. His professional background centers on mobile photography innovation, user experience design, and consumer software development for major technology corporations.
Cole Rise is Principal Designer @ Microsoft AI at Microsoft, based in Charleston, SC, USA.
Cole Rise has founded companies and has also been involved with Space Camera Co., Polaroid, Apple, Langly, Litely, Subatomic Systems, Inc., Instagram, Particle Programmatica, Inc, Yahoo, Flagr Inc., Barbarian, Productorials Inc., BETELGEUSE MEDIA LIMITED, Liquid Silver Technologies Inc..
