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Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.
He graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts in 1994. In 1998, he received a B.A. from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. In 2004, he received a M.P.S. master's degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
In 2003, Crowley co-founded Dodgeball with fellow student, Alex Rainert, while attending New York University. Dodgeball was acquired by Google in 2005.
After Google abandoned the Dodgeball project in 2007, Crowley found work at a company called Area/Code where he met Naveen Selvadurai and co-founded Foursquare in 2009. Foursquare, known for its location intelligence offerings for both enterprises and consumers, is used by more than 50 million people every month. In January 2016, after seven years as CEO, Crowley handed the role of CEO to Jeff Glueck and became Executive Chairman of the company.
He was an adjunct professor in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
In 2024, Crowley began a new startup, Hopscotch Labs, co-founded with Max Sklar and Alejandro Fragoso. Hopscotch labs created an app called BeeBot, which uses Bluetooth headphones such as Airpods to give users information about places and events nearby in real time.
In 2012, Crowley received the George Arents Award for Excellence in Social Media Innovation from Syracuse University.
Crowley is the Founder and Chairman of Kingston Stockade FC, a semi-professional soccer team in the Hudson Valley region of the state of New York that competes in the fourth division of the United States soccer pyramid.
In 2014, Crowley admitted to producing a fraudulent Boston Marathon bib for his wife, Chelsa Crowley, to use. He apologized for his actions. In a statement, Crowley admitted what he had done had "overshadowed the event for those who ran and those who ran to honor others".
In 2015, he was a keynote speaker at the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.
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