Tim Friedland
Co-founder and CEO @Forwardgame
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WORK HISTORY
Co-founder and CEO @Forwardgame
Berlin, DE
Co-founded and scaled an award-winning XR studio. Directed all technical strategy, team operations, and business development, transitioning the company from an accelerator startup to a trusted partner for Tier-1 technology giants.Business & Studio Growth: Scaled the studio from an accelerator grant to a profitable B2B enterprise. Led B2B technical sales, authored SOWs, and managed budgets for complex XR/AI solutions.Team Leadership & Operations: Built and directed a cross-functional Agile team of up to 8 developers and designers. Owned the entire talent lifecycle (interviewing, onboarding, mentoring) and managed daily sprint execution to consistently hit 100% of delivery deadlines.Technical Architecture & Delivery: Acted as Lead Architect, driving technical validation and hands-on \"crack sessions\" for complex challenges across mobile AR, smart glasses, and VR headsets. Established rigorous QA processes, ensuring flawless deployment for enterprise clients.AI Integration: Spearheaded the company’s recent transition into AI, serving as the lead prompt engineer and architect for spatially aware agentic AI systems, integrating Multimodal AI and LLMs into XR applications.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS & PARTNER DELIVERABLESTier-1 Tech Partnerships: Delivered a top-20 AppStore AR game featured in Apple\'s A13 keynote; built the first active multiplayer AR game on Google\'s Depth API; delivered the premiere AR game for Qualcomm\'s Snapdragon Spaces at AWE.Ecosystem Grants: Secured developer funding and delivered a multiplayer XR game for the Meta Store (2024); accepted into the Niantic Developer Accelerator Fund (2024); Snap Inc. Ghost Fellowship alumni (developed Lenses with 26M+ global plays).Awards & Recognition: Global Winner of Google Geospatial Challenge (2023); Named \"3 Startups to Watch\" at AWE Vienna (2023); secured multiple 2nd place finishes in XR and AI Hackathons across Berlin and Cologne (20••••25).
EDUCATION
John Bryce
Android & iOS development
SKILLS
ABOUT TIM FRIEDLAND
Dynamic Technology Leader and former Studio Founder with 8+ years of experience scaling an XR/AI development studio. Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams, directing technical strategy, and delivering high-profile B2B projects for DT, T-Mobile, Meta, Apple, Google, and Qualcomm. Combines deep technical architecture expertise with strong business acumen, agile project management, and executive stakeholder communication.
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