Top 6 Dealmakers in Media under 30

No. 5: Matt Galligan, 29


Co-founder of Circa, Socialthing, and SimpleGeo

Galligan has knack for creating successful start-ups and selling them to bigger companies for profit. His first endeavor was Socialthing, which gathered updates from social networks and was bought by AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) back in 2008. His second was SimpleGeo, a location service provider, purchased by Urban Airship in 2011. Currently, he still owns his third startup Circa, which is a news delivery platform for mobile consumers.