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Sequoia Capital provides startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs”, Sequoia Capital’s Partners have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Jen-Hsun Huang of nVIDIA, Michael Marks of Flextronics, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube, Steve Goldman and Sujal Patel of Isilon Systems, Dominic Orr and Keerti Melkote of Aruba Wireless Networks and Jit Saxena of Netezza.
Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Mayfield Fund provides “venture capital with impact” by partnering with exceptional individuals to create industry-leading companies. Mayfield brings a global view to investing, with dedicated local teams in China and India who invest in early to growth stage companies in the IT and other sectors. In the U.S., the firm’s investment sectors include communications/wireless, consumer/media, enterprise software and semiconductors. Mayfield has over $2.7 billion under management and a team of twelve investing professionals. Since its founding in 1969, Mayfield has raised 12 funds, invested in more than 470 high-growth companies, taken more than 100 public, and more than 150 have merged or were acquired.
Mayfield offers entrepreneurs a team of partners with operating experience and results-driven venture capital expertise virtually unmatched in the industry. The firm has a flexible approach and encourages its portfolio companies to adapt to the latest changes, whether it’s regarding globalization or iterating toward the newest industry standards.
With over 640,000 software and service partners worldwide, Microsoft has a proven record of helping businesses increase profitability by delivering the tools, technologies, and programs that increase market reach. The Microsoft StartUp Zone helps entrepreneurs and start-ups get the most from Microsoft’s programs and resources. Select companies from Microsoft’s Accelerator Program also receive customized engagement plans to support their software and market development efforts.
Clearstone Venture Partners excels at leading early-stage investments in technology-based innovative and transformative companies. Since its inception as pioneering investors in the early internet, Clearstone has continued to support investments across numerous sectors including Internet and New Media; Wireless and Communications; Software; and Technology-enabled Services. With a strong presence in Southern California as well as offices in Northern California and Mumbai, India,
Clearstone is particularly strong at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment both in the US and globally.
Clearstone seeks out founders with a passion for building game changing companies and insights into large existing or potential markets. And with a long and distinguished track record of success incubating ideas into those game changing companies, Clearstone prides itself on its expertise in helping founding teams all the way from initiation to exit.
Past successes for the firm have included companies such as Overture (sold to Yahoo), Paypal, MP3.com, eToys, Netzero/ United Online, Internet Brands and many others. Current leading portfolio companies include Mimosa Systems, Divitas, the Rubicon Project, and Vast.
Established in 1972, Fenwick & West LLP is a full service law firm with a primary focus on technology and life sciences clients ranging from start-ups to established companies of national and international prominence. The firm’s litigation and tax groups service clients from a wide range of additional industries. They have over 250 attorneys providing services from offices located in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California.
Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services and solutions that focus on global technology industries and issues. The firm believes that technology will continue to drive our national and global economies and we look forward to partnering with our clients to create the products and services that will help build great companies. the team differentiates themselves by having a deeper understanding of their clients’ technologies, industry environment and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers.
Charles River Ventures is a venture fund with more than 30 years of history focused on early-stage investments. Commonly serving as the first investor in its portfolio companies, CRV selects visionary entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, and provides the support they need to build great companies from the ground up. The firm’s recent areas of focus include:
Communications & Technology: Broadband, wireless and enabling chip technologies
Datacenter Infrastructure: System and software solutions that scale the Enterprise IT infrastructure; Enterprise Software & Services: Opportunities enabled by the Open Source movement; and Media & Entertainment: New products & services enabled by the pervasive digital infrastructure.
Charles River Ventures generally serves as lead investor for its portfolio companies. Initial investments can be as small as $25,000, or as large as $5 million, and the firm expects to invest between $5 and $10 million over the lifetime of a project. At times the firm also provides seed financing to an outstanding individual entrepreneur, to fund the development of a business concept. CRV can add significant value in follow-on financings as well.
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm offering a full spectrum of legal services. With more than 650 lawyers in 14 offices across the United States and in China, the firm serves great companies ranging in size from start-ups to FORTUNE 100. Many of the firm’s clients are leaders in traditional industries as well as emerging technology markets, including Internet, software, digital media, hardware and telecommunications. The firm’s Emerging Companies attorneys have extensive experience in working with technology companies at all stages of development, from start-up planning to all aspects of capital formation. We help our clients protect and leverage their intellectual property, secure financing from venture capitalists, private equity groups and others, develop growth strategies and, when appropriate, exit strategies. As our clients grow, we work with them in public offerings, partnering ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
MSN Money is a premier online financial resource, providing great original editorial content plus the tools and community to empower investors and engage spenders and savers. Taxpayers can find helpful tax tips, checklists, a tax estimator and the Deduction Finder to help them make informed decisions about filing. MSN Money also helps users stay informed with in-depth and up-to-the-minute data, investment recommendations, valuable tracking tools, and opportunities to connect with other active investors to make smart financial decisions. MSN Money is located on the Web at http://www.money.msn.com.
The Founders Fund is a non-traditional investment group led by a team of four managing partners, who themselves are founders and entrepreneurs. Founders Fund Partner Sean Parker is one of this year’s TechCrunch50 experts
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). The company’s portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM (http://www.salesforce.com/products/), revolutionized the ways customers manage and share business information. With the company’s Force.com PaaS, customers, developers, and partners build, deploy, and share powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily shared, exchanged, and installed with a few clicks via salesforce.com’s AppExchange marketplace (www.salesforce.com/appexchange).
As of April 30, 2008, salesforce.com manages business information for approximately 43,600 customers, including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, Sprint Nextel, and SunTrust Banks. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “CRM.” For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc. is the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, discovering popular culture, and making a positive impact on the world. MySpace has created a connected global community by integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, college communities, and member forums. MySpace’s international network includes more than 25 localized community sites in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Latin America, Mexico, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Japan, and New Zealand. Fox Interactive Media is a division of News Corp. (NYSE:NWS - News, NWS.A - News; ASX:NWS - News, NWSLV - News).
Symantec’s mission is to deliver next generation security solutions with protection that revolves around you, not just your computing device. Combining industry-leading security features with more than 300 new improvements, the newest versions of the company’s flagship Norton products — Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009 – have been designed with a “zero-impact” performance goal, setting a new industry standard for speed and performance. Featuring innovative new technologies and features, the products are being engineered to deliver a superior customer experience that is light on system performance and strong on protection.
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minn., Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people
in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. For more information, go to thomsonreuters.com.
Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect with each other online through video conversation. See and hear people share their experiences straight from their webcams and mobile phones, join in active conversations, and engage in real interactions with real people. The Seesmic platform also enables video conversations on more than a thousand sites, blogs and broadcasts them to other social software such as Twitter and Friendfeed thanks to its robust API. Seesmic also operates twhirl, a social desktop client that enables Seesmic video comments. twhirl represents 12% of Twitter messages being sent and has over 400,000 downloads. For more information, please visit www.seesmic.com.
Ustream is the leading internet broadcasting platform. Ustream’s proprietary technology powers an easy-to-use, web-based interface, allowing anyone with a camera, computer and Internet connection to broadcast live to the world. Integrated with a host of interactive tools including chatrooms, co-host, and shout meter, Ustream’s platform delivers real-time, social experiences on the web. Since its beta launch in March 2007, Ustream has grown to 360,000 registered users broadcasting 15,000 live shows a day. Ustream.TV is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is privately held. For more information, please visit: www.ustream.tv.
Qik
Qik, the leading mobile video streaming platform, enables cell phone users to stream video live to their friends, family and their world on the web. Its innovative, patent-pending video technology enables you to:
* Share moments and events live on your website and blog, as well as popular social networks and broadcasting solutions like MySpace, Mogulus and Justin.tv
* Interact with your friends while broadcasting through engaging live chat
* Notify your friends via e-mail, SMS, Twitter, and Pownce
* Post videos automatically from Qik to YouTube.
Based in Redwood City, California, Qik Inc. is changing communications across the world for individuals, enterprise and media. Notable events captured by Qik users include live footage of the Mars landing from mission control, live sessions from the World Economic Forum in Davos, behind the scenes live video of the Pope’s tour to Australia, and live interviews with Bono of U2, Michael Stipe of R.E.M., and Michael Moore.
Eventbrite is a leading provider of online event management and ticketing services. Eventbrite makes it easy for anyone to hold a successful event of any type and size. The Eventbrite service includes many features and tools intended to help event planners publish, promote and sell their events effectively.
Mixx is a branded social media site and active online community dedicated to connecting users and publishers through communities and tags. Launched in October 2007, Mixx has more than 2 million users and is the social media platform of choice for major publishers such as CNN, Los Angeles Times, USATODAY, New York Times and thousands of blogs.
MediaTemple
Media Temple. is an industry-leading, privately held web hosting and software services provider. Since 1998, the company has provided businesses worldwide with reliable, high-capacity networks to host websites, email, business applications, video and other modern, rich-media content. The staff is friendly, accessible group of technology-agnostic managers, engineers and support professionals dedicated to making customers happy.