Background
He was born on 18 June 1983 in Lexington, Massachusetts.
He was born on 18 June 1983 in Lexington, Massachusetts.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 with a degree in Mathematics.
He is known for co-authoring Etherpad, co-founding AppJet, and for his work as a partner in
Iba and Greenspan would go on to attend the program, where they created AppJet and Etherpad. Iba would go on to become a partner in, and was named "one of the best hackers among the YC alumni". Iba is also an Angel investor in over 10 companies, including Meteor, PlanGrid, and Light Table.
In 2007, Iba co-founded AppJet, a company providing JavaScript development and hosting tools.
AppJet received funding from notable investors including Paul Graham, Paul Buchheit, Trevor Blackwell, Mitch Kapor and Scott Banister. AppJet failed to gain traction with developers, but in 2009 the company used its own tools to launch Etherpad, the first web-based realtime collaborative text editors
In 2009, AppJet was acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum. The Etherpad technology and team were merged into the Google wave project
In 2011, Iba became one of 6 full-time partners in, where he oversaw and participated in numerous investments in startup companies.
In 2013, Iba left to found PayGarden, an Alternative payments company borne out of insights he gleaned as an investor in various online merchants.