Pitch & Demo Holiday Party #SVEPnD

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Welcome to our last Pitch and Demo night of 2014! We will celebrating with a holiday party , packed with food, investors, and prizes for the whole audience to enjoy.

Speakers: Larry Sanger (Wikipedia), Gurkaran S Buxi (Startup.ml), Daniel Casner (Robot Garden)

7 Startups: Senic, Sutro, Chapulin, VisitVR, HANGO, Betaout, Navigine

=== Open Remarks ===

David Cao

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/7/a/600_432588762.jpeg Founder, F50 Ventures

Brad Strum (Moderator)

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/8/4/600_432588772.jpeg Venture Partner Executive

Sydney Lai (Moderator)

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/8/8/600_432588776.jpeg Startup Evangelist

=== Speakers ===

Larry Sanger

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/a/4/600_432588804.jpeg Founder of Wikipedia, Founder of Infobitt

How robotics and artificial intelligence is used to source news.

Gurkaran S Buxi

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/b/2/600_432588818.jpeg Startup.ml, a machine learning incubator based in SF

Daniel Casner

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/b/8/600_432588824.jpeg President, Robot Garden First robotics-themed hackerspace in the world and is the first hackerspace open to the community in the Tri-Valley

=== Demos ===

Senic (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-an-intuitive-precise-wireless-controller)

An intuitive and precise wireless controller

Sutro (http://mysutro.com/)

The nest for your swimming pool

Chapulin (http://oakfinancialcorp.com/)

Alternative payments card and mobile transfer

VisitVR (http://visitvr.com/)

Transform your photos into immersive virtual reality

HANGO (http://www.hangoapp.me/)

Sharing the groups’ chat, location, and photos real time at events

Betaout (https://www.betaout.com/)

Cloud-based platforms and tools that enable digital agencies to manage content production

Navigine (http://navigine.com/)

Platform for development of high accurate indoor navigation and tracking services

=== Judges ===

Canice Wu

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/f/c/600_432588892.jpeg Venture Partner at F50, Former President at Plug and Play Tech Center

Dave Bell

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/f/0/3/600_432588899.jpeg CEO of Gummicube, changing the way developers approach mobile app marketing.

Anu Nigam

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/f/0/7/600_432588903.jpeg Former President at Sand Hill Angels, Founder at Best Apps Market (BAM), a leading app discovery platform on Android

Mike Loftus

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/f/0/c/600_432588908.jpeg VP Product & CMO at Zentera Systems, providing secure hybrid cloud virtual infrastructure solutions

=== Agenda ===

5:30 p.m. Doors Open (food and networking)

6:00 p.m. Opening Remarks

6:05 p.m. Founder Story

Daniel Casner, President, Robot Garden (http://www.robotgarden.org/)

Gurkaran S. Buxi, Startup.ml (http://www.startup.ml/)

Larry Sanger, Founder of Wikipedia

6:50 p.m. Startup Pitching

7:45 p.m. Open Mic/Judges Convene/Break

8:00 p.m. Judging Panel & Winner Announcement

8:10 p.m. Raffle & Christmas Gift