Suzanne Borders

CEO and Founder

BadVR, Inc.

Suzanne studied psychology at University of Missouri, Kansas City and previously worked as 

Lead UX/Product Designer for over 9 years at companies such as Remine (raised $48M) and 

CREXi (raised $54M) where she specialized in designing intuitive, high-performant data analytic 

interfaces. In 2019, Suzanne founded BadVR and was awarded a “Rising Stars” innovation 

award from IEEE. To date, she’s raised over $4M in non-dilutive funding for BadVR, via grants 

from the National Science Foundation, NOAA, Magic Leap, Qualcomm, and more. Suzanne has 

grown the company from 2 to 25 people and was awarded 4 patents for innovations she created 

while leading the BadVR team. 

Over the past 5 years, Suzanne has been a thought-leader in the immersive data visualization 

and analytics space. She has been a keynote speaker at over 25 national and international 

conferences. In her spare time, Suzanne travels for inspiration (81 countries and counting) and 

is proud to be a published author and former punk. Suzanne thrives at the intersection of 

product design, immersive technology, and data; she’s a believer in the artistry of technology 

and the technicality of art and remains passionately dedicated to democratizing access to data 

through universally accessible products.

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