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Partners and Exhibitors
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.
Microsoft BizSpark is a program that provides Software, Support and Visibility for Software Startups.
Software – all the tools and platforms Startups need to build, test and run their applications.
Support – Professional Support from Microsoft – email support, community forums and training. Plus Community support from Network Partners.
Visibility – the BizSparkDB provides Startups visibility to investors, clients and partners.
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 700 attorneys in 15 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 and emerging technology markets. They counsel emerging companies in a range of industries including the Internet, digital media, software, telecommunications, life sciences, and cleantech.
Perkins Coie emerging company attorneys work with technology companies at all stages of development, from start-up planning to all aspects of capital formation including with respect to angel, venture capital and private equity funding. Corporate and patent attorneys collaborate to help emerging company clients protect and leverage their intellectual property. As its clients grow, Perkins Coie represents them on ongoing matters as well as on mission-critical transactions, such as strategic partnering, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings.
With a keen understanding of the market and its clients’ needs, they provide forward-thinking legal counsel and creative, cost-effective solutions. Perkins Coie is rated highly by its clients for the quality of its client service and has been named to FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for the seventh consecutive year.
Founders Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2005. Founders Fund is run by entrepreneurs who have started and managed their own companies, and is committed to innovation in venture capital using a non-traditional, founder-focused approach to investing. The Founders Fund team is comprised of people with engineering, product, design, and online marketing experience from companies like PayPal, Facebook, and Google. They like to hear from entrepreneurs solving big and interesting problems.
MySpace is the world’s leading social portal for connecting people, content, and culture. MySpace empowers its global community to experience the Internet through a social lens by integrating personal profiles, photo sharing, professional and viral videos, blogs, mobile, instant messaging, and the world’s largest music community. MySpace is the highest trafficked website in the United States and includes an international network of more than 30 local community sites throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Fox Interactive Media is a division of News Corporation. (NYSE:NWS – News, NWS.A – News; ASX:NWS – News, NWSLV – News).
Bing.com is designed to help people overcome search overload and make faster, more informed decisions when searching online. No longer satisfied with the status quo of search, Microsoft designed Bing as a “Decision Engine” to provide people with intelligent search tools to help them simplify tasks and make more informed decisions, from simple decisions like choosing the fastest route to get home to more complex ones like researching a product purchase or planning a trip.
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
Redpoint Ventures teams up with exceptional entrepreneurs to help build industry defining technology companies. Redpoint partners have many decades of experience and success in technology investing; combined with this foundation, the firm is able to leverage a thriving network of entrepreneurs, partners, and industry experts to accelerate building market-leading companies. Redpoint’s portfolio includes innovative start-ups like Scribd, LifeSize, Blue Kai, HomeAway, Solyndra, Topspin Media, Gaia, Fortinet, Answers.com, and others. Redpoint partners have also backed industry leading companies such as MySpace, Netflix, Danger, TiVo, Juniper Networks, Foundry Networks, Ask.com, Zimbra, RightMedia, and Documentum. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, China.
AdMeld (www.admeld.com) helps the world’s premium online publishers maximize revenue from ad networks and exchanges, reduce operating costs and protect their brands from unwanted ads. AdMeld’s real time optimization technology generates the highest possible yield from each ad impression, and its suite of tools and services enhance publishers’ understanding and control of their discretionary ad inventories. Current AdMeld customers include IAC, Discovery Communications, The Huffington Post, Pandora, World Wrestling Entertainment and more than 80 others worldwide. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco and London.
Sponsors
Ustream
Ustream is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand. Visit Ustream.com to start a broadcast now or learn more about broadcasting. Ustream’s Shiba Inu Puppy Cam, seen by more than 18 million viewers worldwide, was listed as one of 2008’s top 10 Web videos (Source: Associated Press). Ustream powered more than 3.8 million streams during the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.
Answers.com
Answers.com and WikiAnswers.com are two sides to the same coin. Answers.com is the world’s greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia – or, a ‘one-stop shop’ with instant information on over 5 million topics. Look up any word or phrase and get just the answers you’re looking for – not lists of links. WikiAnswers.com harnesses the power of crowdsourcing to give you useful answers about anything… with a wiki-twist. It’s a global Q&A project powered by contributors from all walks of life. Anyone can ask, answer or edit questions, building a vast Q&A collection, covering any topic.
Orange
Orange Labs San Francisco is part of one of the world’s largest corporate research and development organizations, owned by France Telecom. It is a multidisciplinary and multinational team of engineers, scientists, developers, software & network architects, and researchers working in a startup-like atmosphere with small teams working on innovative ideas.
AIM
AIM connects you with your friends and family instantly. The new Lifestream feature lets you stay on top of what your AIM buddies are doing by allowing you to add a variety of accounts such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. With AIM, you can follow your friends and comment on their status, photos, and even post your own status messages to stay connected in real time. With a great new look and feel, it’s faster and lighter than ever. AIM is available on Windows and Mac, your favorite mobile phones like iPhone and Windows mobile, or try it out on the web using AIM Express.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services delivers a set of simple building block services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform “in the cloud” built upon the same technology that Amazon.com uses to run its global web properties. These pay-as-you-use services include Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, CloudFront, Elastic MapReduce, and more. Companies of all sizes, from all across the globe, are using these solutions to power their Web sites and workflows – everything from SaaS applications to social networking sites.
Exhibitors
CubeTree
CubeTree’s collaboration suite helps companies create private social networks with features like profiles, activity feeds and microblogging. Your company’s CubeTree network is private to your company, secure, and free for any number of employees. To help you collaborate better, applications like wikis, microblogging, blogs, polls and chat are built on top of CubeTree’s social networking platform, and included for free. CubeTree also supports a range of integrations, from consumer software like Twitter to enterprise applications like ERP, CRM and Google Apps.
E-junkie
E-junkie is a hosted, copy-paste shopping cart and digital delivery solution for selling tangible and digital goods on any website, blog or a social network.
Mashery
Mashery provides on-demand infrastructure for API development and publishing. It offers a powerful, flexible, and automated approach to business development that supports diverse business models. Mashery’s secure, scalable management and developer support tools enable its customers to leverage the benefits of an open API, while maintaining focus on core business.
GoGrid
GoGrid is a Cloud Computing hosting service for deploying and scaling server infrastructure on demand. Load balanced cloud servers and virtual server networks can be created in minutes via GoGrid’s unique web interface or API. Windows Server 2008, 2003, Red Hat or CentOS linux are supported, and all accounts include free f5 load balancing and 10 GB of cloud storage. Parent company ServePath was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
SnapPages
SnapPages offers website creation for the rest of us. Now anyone can create and manage a professional quality website with drag-and-drop simplicity.
DESIGN about TOWN
DESIGN about TOWN is a graphic communications firm in San Francisco. This talented team completes projects in web design, graphic identity, mobile design, print design and social network customizations. Their clients include Robert Mondavi Winery, Orange, Weather Underground, Tribal Fusion, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, PG&E, Zoho and many more.
Konolive
2Win-Solutions has created a generic, intuitive and robust internet application for individuals and teams. This is KonoLive, the first instant collaboration application that is defining the future of knowledge sharing.
LifeIO
lifeIO is a personal information platform that simply and flexibly aggregates and integrates all of the elements of your daily online life in a single browser window including mail, chat, social networks, calendar, todos, notes, rss and shopping.
Networks In Motion
Networks In Motion transforms today’s GPS enabled mobile phones into navigation devices, making it easy to find anything from ATMs and restaurants, to people and events.
Reliable, fast, and incredibly easy to use, NIM’s customizable applications allow subscribers to get traffic and weather conditions, turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions to a particular address, or to locate a nearby restaurant, ATM machine, gas station or other point of interest on the road or at home.
WizeHive
WizeHive was the product used by TechCrunch to collaboratively track, review and rate over 1,000 TeachCrunch50 applications! Our collaboration platform allows groups to share conversations, notes, tasks, calendars, files, and other information in secure, private, workspaces. Information can be entered from within WizeHive or via email, Twitter, and mobile devices. Our form builder, data utilities, and workflow tools enable collaboration around business process such as managing projects, processing resumes, evaluating funding requests, scheduling development, and more…
app2you
app2you provides a web service that enables anyone to create their own custom, hosted, interactive web applications simply by outlining the pages of the application. app2you’s licensed, patent-pending technology originated in UCSD’s web and databases lab and won the UCSD von Liebig Technology Commercialization award in May 2006.
AskYourTargetMarket.com
AskYourTargetMarket.com is target market research priced for the rest of us. AskYourTargetMarket.com provides a consumer panel and an easy-to-use web application for defining your target market demographic, then writing a survey. and then launching it to your desired group of respondents. Your survey is launched immediately for as little as $29.95. Analytic tools are provided for helping you make sense of your results.
BlogWire
BlogWire, based in West Palm Beach, FL, offers a suite of tools that enables PR and marketing pros to easily and cost-effectively connect with niche bloggers, combining elements of traditional PR with social outreach tools for effective social media campaigns. SheBlogs.org, BlogWire’s flagship site, was launched in Beta in late July, 2009, and has worked with companies such as Lands’ End, Thermos, Gatorade, and other household brands on successful outreach campaigns.
Blueprint Cleanse
Blueprint Cleanse delivers a nutritional juice cleanse to one’s doorstep – delivering within Manhattan and shipping nationwide. BluePrintCleanse uses a special hydraulic press that yields a far superior product than standard juicers, allowing live enzymes to stay intact for an extended period. Each day’s supply features six 16-ounce bottles of juice with flavors like pineapple-apple-mint, spicy lemonade, and cashew nut milk with cinnamon. Cleansers can choose from one to six day programs, knowing that BPC offers complete nutritional balance. Whether it’s to bounce back from over-indulgence, jump-start a new fitness regimen, or simply to look and feel one’s best, BluePrintCleanse is designed to let the body restore and begin its natural healing process.
BuildASign
BuildASign.com is the leading online source for custom signs, banners, magnets and more. Using the company’s proprietary web-based technology, customers can design and purchase signs online quickly and easily, any day, any time, from anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. With BuildASign.com’s innovative production system, each high quality sign prints and ships with industry-leading speed.
comScore
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital marketing intelligence. In an independent survey of 800 of the most influential publishers, advertising agencies and advertisers conducted by William Blair & Company in January 2009, comScore was rated the ‘ most preferred online audience measurement service’ by 50% of respondents, a full 25 points ahead of its nearest competitor.
CrunchBase
CrunchBase is the free directory of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. It is developed and maintained by TechCrunch with the support of the tech community and web visitors.
Expensify
Expensify does “expense reports that don’t suck!” They do this by importing expenses and receipts straight from your credit card, submitting PDF expense reports by email, and reimbursing reports up to $10,000 entirely online – now with QuickBooks support. Expensify launched at last year’s TechCrunch50 and took home the “DemoPit 2nd Place” prize.
Gapingvoid
gapingvoid Ltd., founded by Cartoonist, Hugh MacLeod (gapingvoid.com) and long-time Winery Entrepreneur, Jason Korman, (Stormhoek.com) in 2005, use cartoons, art, consulting and Web 2.0 Marketing practices to help companies and individuals think and act more creatively. They also sell fine art prints online at gapingvoidgallery.com.
Girls In Tech
Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector.
PeopleConnect
PeopleConnect is the most unique recruiting company in the United States! Why? It’s simple: Our Employees Without Paychecks program. For our early stage high tech and clean tech clients we find people willing to work for options only until companies secure their Seed Round or A Round of funding. For funded companies, PeopleConnect’s unique Contingency Plus recruiting service provides the thorough research of a retained search without having to pay in advance.
Seesmic
Seesmic allows you to manage your community in both a web platform and a desktop client. With Seesmic Web, you can manage your Twitter stream in a Gmail-like minimal mode and create seamless saved searches in unlimited columns. With Seesmic Desktop, you can add Facebook and multiple Twitter accounts, and integrate several tools and services from URL shorteners to image-sharing services. With Seesmic, we are working to be a gateway to all your social services.
StrataScale
StrataScale is the only managed hosting company that provides an Instant Physical Infrastructure with cloud capabilities. Its flagship product, IronScale, provides customers anywhere anytime control to build, manage, and scale their hosted physical server infrastructure on-demand in minutes from a secure Web portal.
TriNet
TriNet delivers HR outsourcing services that allow small companies to do what they do best. Over 8,000 companies have turned to TriNet for human resources, benefits, payroll, workers compensation, and strategic HR services. As their trusted HR advisor, TriNet helps these organizations contain HR costs, minimize employer-related risks, and relieve the administrative burden of HR.
VueLive
VUELIVE is a Dallas-based, video technology company. Our patented technology is a video CODEC that is considered one of the best in the world for delivering high quality video at low bandwidths. Our flagship application is OpenACircle, a team collaboration and work-space tool, targeted at small-to-medium size businesses. The application is a web 2.0, software-as-a-service that provides online meetings and virtual workspaces that are fully equipped with everything a team needs to work better together.
Service Partners
Animoto
Animoto generates custom, professional-looking slideshows from user-uploaded music and photos. Their “patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design” drives the web app. They say the Cinematic A.I. analyzes users’ photos and music like an actual director and editor. For instance, to analyze music the genre, song structure, energy, rhythm, instrumentation, and vocals are all taken into consideration.
EventBrite
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.
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.