Pitch & Demo Day - Jan 2013
- January 19 · 9:00 AM
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Pitch: your Start-up to a panel of VCs / Angels (Prior registration is required)
Win for the Startup of Month Jan. 2013
Apply for pitching: goo.gl/8D29i
Co-founder Pitch: Are you looking for mobile developer or co-founders? Join this event! (Registration not required)
Invest: investors, find the newest innovative startups in the valley, invest in them!
Food Sponsor: Elance
=== Agenda ===
9AM Networking
9:30M Opening & Introduction
9:35AM Opening Remarks
Cory Langner, Seasoned pro, Business Development Associate at Elance
Kayvan Baroumand, Founder and CEO at nestGSV
9:50AM Startup Pitch
5 minutes for each company. Additional 5m for Q&A.
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Presenter List
Cynthia Typaldos, Founder at Kachingle
Greg Mandanis, Scrum Master/QA Automation at YouScreenWriter.com
Michael Fedyna, co-founder & CEO at Grocerize
Jimmy Johnston, Founder at Viciniti
Eric Tao, Innovate, Integrate and Inspire
David Downes, Founder, CEO and Gamemaster at YouGaming
Iddo Tal, Co-founder & CEO at invi Inc.
Artem Gassan, CEO at Whale Path
Speaker & Judge Panel List
Kayvan Baroumand, Founder and CEO at nestGSV
Richard Melmon, Managing Partner at Bullpen Capital, LP
Akhsar Kharebov, CEO at InfoMeters.com
Moderator: David Cao, Founder & Fire Starter
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11AM Founder Story
Fred Radford, Founder at NinjaMyApp, winner of Dec startup pitching
11:10AM Panel Discussion
11:50AM Open Mic (Co-founder Pitch, Job announcements)
12:15PM Lunch and Networking
=== Speaker/ Judge of Panel ===
Cory Langner is a seasoned pro with a passion for connecting people and nurturing customer relations. He’s helped small and medium businesses embrace new technologies to freshen-up their brand image, acquire new customers, foster relationships and develop solid frameworks to enhance business operations. Currently he is a Business Development Associate for Elance, the leader in connecting freelancers with businesses who need online workers. Since 1999 Elance has been helping businesses hire skilled freelancers for jobs in Finance, IT & Programming, Marketing, Writing & Translation and more. Whether it’s small project or long-term contract, Elance can connect you with instant, on-demand talent without draining your budget. Elance is pioneering a new way to build and grow your company.
Kayvan Baroumand is the Founder and CEO at nestGSV, a global platform supporting innovation that aims to connect the “Global Silicon Valley”. nestGSV has one of largest networks of venture capitalist, angel investors, large corporations, governments, universities, professional service providers (investment bankers, lawyers, accountants) and entrepreneurs that that enables cooperation amongst these entities to compete in the global marketplace. nestGSV aims to develop a standard around entrepreneurship with a focus on entrepreneurial development and training and by coordinating its activities, programs and processes to create a global filter of entrepreneurs that could compete without prejudice of where they come from. nestGSV is a partnership with GSV Capital a 300 Million Dollar venture capital firm that invest in global companies. nestGSV aims to establish center around the world to support “global entrepreneurship”. nestGSV is strategically located at Stanford University Mid Point Technology Center in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Kayvan Baroumand was also the Founding Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Plug and Play Tech Center. In this role, Kayvan was responsible for Plug and Play's multiple business divisions providing early stage technology companies accelerated access to angel, institutional and corporate venture funding, flexible real estate services, datacenter services, product development, corporate development, government partnerships, recruiting services, events, legal and financial services all under one roof to help build tomorrow’s technology leaders.
Prior to Plug and Play, Kayvan was an Investment Manager at Amidzad Ventures, a seed stage investment company with a portfolio of over 50 early stage companies. Some of the notable investments in the portfolio include companies like Danger (acquired by Microsoft), Paypal (acquired by ebay) and Sendori (acquired by ask.com).
Kayvan gained turnaround experience as Director General of Triple A France, a water production and distribution company. Within four years, Kayvan took the financially distressed Triple A to profitability and successfully sold the company to Eden Springs, the largest water distribution company in Europe.
Kayvan also spent more than 7 years with Xerox Corporation, holding a variety of sales and management positions.
Kayvan holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from the University of California, Irvine. He and his family reside in the Silicon Valley.
Richard Melmon, Managing Partner, co-founded Bullpen Capital in December, 2010. Bullpen has offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco. It focuses on funding early stage companies that have begun to show product/market fit. It sits between the microVCs and large funds. Bullpen has invested in 25 companies over the past two years, and has had two exits.
Richard is a long time resident of Silicon Valley. He helped launch Apple, the first spreadsheet, and many other well-known Silicon Valley brands. He and Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts in 1982.
Richard’s hobby is re-teaching himself physics, his first passion. He received his MBA from Stanford University, and a BA in physics from UC Berkeley.
Akhsar is an engineer-turned-entrepreneur and an advisor for HTH, with a passion for health care. During the past eight years, Akhsar has built products and companies in web, mobile, social and health. He spends his time helping startups solve their technology and business problems. His focus is on opportunity and strategy in new-stage or developing markets.
Akhsar's other passion is helping promote entrepreneurial culture and exploring new models and ecosystems. This is loosely centered around crowdfunding and co-working communities. He started the Health 2.0 chapter for Silicon Valley to create a community of health care startups. He is also involved with StartUpBnB, which enables entrepreneurs’ peers to judge their ideas, and StartUpIdol, which invites startups to pitch their “hatching” companies to venture capitalists, investors and early adopters.
=== Selected Startup Pitching ===
Cynthia Typaldos, Founder at Kachingle
Cynthia is the co-inventor of Kachingle, a platform for app bundling, billing and co-marketing. She previously was a software developer at Bank of America, and Director of Software Product Management and Marketing at Sun Microsystems. She founded GolfWeb and RealCommunities before starting Kachingle. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and MIT. Her passion is internet bundles and micropayments.
Presentation:
Kachingle is a platform that allows web and mobile app vendors and cloud services providers to team up and co-market their complementary apps and services to their users, in the form of bundles for a recurring subscription fee. Because the value of these bundles is so compelling, users who normally would not subscribe to an individual app or service will actually sign up to start paying ongoingly. And app vendors get a reliable ongoing revenue stream and access to eachother's users.
http://www.kachingle.com/
Greg Mandanis
Scrum Master/QA Automation at YouScreenWriter.com
Greg Mandanis is the author of the best-selling Software Project Management Kit For Dummies (Wiley and Sons), and The Genes of Wrath, from The Man From V.E.N.U.S. Series, first edition published by Dry Bones Press.
He works as a software Agile program manager, and is co-founder and president of YouScreenWriter.com, the first one-stop-shop social media network where aspiring content creators can write, publish and monetize quality content all online with only a web browser.
Presentation:
YouScreenWriter.com deploys the first one-stop-shop platform that allows for aspiring social marketers, journalists, videographers and producers, to write/video, edit, distribute and monetize publishable New Media content via a set of online tools, processes, and a social network business model.
The value is a distributed, social network of story producers, who will be able to deliver content faster, cheaper, and with comparable quality to all social advertising and news outlets.
Michael Fedyna
co-founder & CEO at Grocerize
Michael has spent the past 10 years working with startups around the world in Australia, South Korea, Canada and the US.
Presentation:
Grocerize is a widget, browser plug-in and mobile app that makes any digital recipe show what ingredients to buy, where to buy them and what they cost. Grocerize will solve the problems between meal inspiration and grocery procurement, connecting shoppers at the point of relevance with local grocery retailers and food brands.
http://sobeys.engrocer.com/
username: user99 password: cheese07
Jimmy Johnston
Founder at Viciniti
"20+ years in IT where I've worked with business both large on small, and in all sorts of roles. Today, I'm trying to document every single interesting thing that I can on San Francisco - from the useful to the fun to the strange."
Presentation:
Viciniti Guides are for when you’ve reached your destination rather than just trying to help you pick one like other travel guides. See a tree and wonder what it is? Viciniti can tell you. How about an old building – Viciniti will tell you all about its history and even show you old photographs. Looking for something to do, or a spot to take a rest? Viciniti has you covered. We even show you where the restrooms are and what they look like so you can judge if they are clean and/or safe enough. Each app takes over a thousand hours to create, covering hundreds of locations and including thousands of photographs. On the AppStore now.
Eric Tao
Innovate, Integrate and Inspire
Dr. Eric Tao is a professor of School of Information Technology and Communication Design (ITCD) at California State University Monterey Bay
since 1998 and serves as director of the school since 2005. The School offers several undergraduate and graduate degree programs. He also directs of theInstitute for Innovation and Economic Development. Supported by Economic Development Administration of United States, the Institute serves the Greater Monterey Bay region by providing a venue for innovative ideas, the commercial transfer of research and technology, and a support network for start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Dr. Tao has taught and conducted research in information technology, innovation, e-learning and globalization. He has published numerous academic papers in educational technology, globalization, medical image processing and higher education. He often speaks at international conferences on global technology, innovation and education issues. He also serves as judges at many business plan competitions.
He currently serves as a board member of Leadership Monterey Peninsula, Zeuss Group Inc. and CALMAT - California University of Management and Technology. His past board services including Substantive Change Committee of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), one of the six accreditation bodies sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Education, Digital Technology advisor for the National Health Research Institute of the Republic of China, Marina Technology Cluster and University Corporation.
Between 1987 and 1992, he worked for RMO Inc as Chief Software Engineer. Between 1992 and 1997, he co-founded and worked as CEO of WingTech Corporation, a firm that specialized in industrial and medical image-based inspection systems.
Eric Tao received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, M.S. in Computer and Information Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Bachelor's degree is in Electrical Engineering is from National Sun Yat Sen University.
Presentation:
"CALMAT - a new university for innovators"
David Downes
Founder, CEO and Gamemaster at YouGaming
David has over 20 years of marketing, sales and engineering experience with leading network equipment and wireless telecommunications companies such as Cisco and AirTouch (now Verizon Wireless). He has previous startup experience, having co-founded a wireless company, obtained VC funding, and qualified as a bidder in the December 2000 US PCS spectrum auction.
Recently, David completed the Master of Hospitality Administration program from the Harrah Hotel College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In addition, David holds a MBA from National University, a MSEE and BSEE from California State University, Sacramento, and is a licensed Electrical Engineer in the State of California.
Presentation:
YouGaming is creating a new category in the gaming market by developing pari-mutuel fantasy games, protected by multiple patents, providing innovative fantasy sports skill games and new offerings to the regulated pari-mutuel wagering market.
Corporate website (live): www.yougaming.com
Skill game website (live): www.procontest.com
Iddo Tal
Co-founder & CEO, at invi Inc.
"I’m an entrepreneur. I make things happen. I find an idea I like, talk with the target audience, learn the market and design a product they need. Build a team, develop strategic partnerships and raise funds. Get into the garage with a few talented developers and bring it to life."
Presentation:
invi is the next generation of texting. No more tiny thumbnails and dull links. Share pictures, YouTube videos and so much more within your text conversations, as beautiful and interactive content.
You can read more about us here on our press release, Techcrunch , TheNextWeb, AndroidSpin, Applatter, keithwkoch, VentureBeat, Talk Android and Drippler.
Artem Gassan
CEO at Whale Path
Artem Gassan is a lifestyle entrepreneur, source of ideas and founder at viestly.com and Vesta Digital. Served as mentor and adviser to numerous startups in software technology space.
Presentation:
Whale Path is a crowdsourced research platform where professionals such as financial analysts, lawyers and management consultants can outsource their research projects to a selected group of students from top universities and save up to 50% on quality research.
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Email the organizers if you are VC or Angel who are interested in being a judge.
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Shreesh Holla
Was a good meet and well organized. I too hope the next meet has a bit more enterprise/big systems people - since I am actively looking for such people
January 22
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Daniel Wencel
It was my first time at your meeting. Very good. I liked the format. The problem with malfunctioning sound system was a bit of a nuisance. I noticed that most of companies that pitched were phone app developers.
January 22
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David Cao
Invi, founded by an Israel born entrepreneur (who lived in states for the past 1.5 years), won the Startup of Month at the Jan 19 Pitch & Demo day; Whale Path, another startup founded by an Russia immigrates was the runner.
http://mlogy.net/2013/01/22/sta...
January 21
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Shira Abel
It was a great meetup! Here's something I think most of the people present will find helpful: http://www.slideshare.net/shira...
I gave this lecture at the Microsoft Accelerator.January 21
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Jermy
it is the first time to attend such an exciting event! thanks for organizing! pretty good!
January 20
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Christy Johnston
Hi Everyone, we would like to thank everyone who gave us such great feedback and for SV Entrepreneurs for giving us the opportunity to present.
We've made more apps available for download - you can get them here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/arti...
We would love to hear your feedback.
Thank you,
Jimmy & Christy Johnston
viciniti travel appsJanuary 20
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Peter Touschner
This was a great event. Highly recommended. For those who didn't catch my announcement during the co-founder pitches at the end, I'm designing a location-based messaging and social discovery app with a unique feature set unavailable on the market. The designs are detailed and I'm looking for a tech co-founder to work with on the prototype. This will be iOS first, but I can be convinced to go with Android. Message me if you have skillz and are interested in learning more.
January 19
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Michael Brill
This may be a goofy request, but is there someone with an Android device that has/would install Invi and invite me as a contact [masked])? I just want to check it out and everyone I know uses an iPhone.
January 19
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Michael Brill
Really great event... thanks David, NestGSV et al. One modest request is that the 20 or so people who get their 2 minutes at the end get a bit more respect because they probably need the most help! Again, really great event!
January 19
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Fred Radford
Yes but because the food has to be ordered in advance there will always be the potential for this problem. The presenters can help address this by sticking to the 10 minutes total for presentation & questions, and the "other guys" can apply to pitch so they are in the main group.
January 19
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Cynthia Typaldos
Fantastic group of people. Many thanks to the organizer David Cao for giving my company, Kachingle, a pitching slot. I learned a lot and met some terrific people that I plan to network further with.
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Luis Montes
Ditto, two thumbs up and a superb event; the judges shared superb information and the "relationships," snippet was worth the price of admission. Super people as well.
January 19
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Eric Tao
Two thumbs UP! 250 talented engineers, managers, investors, educators mingled and sparked new ideas and ventures. My presentation of http://CALMAT.us
as a university for start-ups generated a lot of interest. I will definitely be there next time.January 19
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Jan Hutchins
Coming with a few guests. We're interested to see if there are ventures worth covering in the press. We have publications and radio talk shows that are looking for interesting content. Make sure you connect with me if you are looking for publicity.
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Yuchen Wang
Jan, our product is called "TaggTo", which makes product reviews easier to create and consume, and more social and fun! iPhone app can be downloaded from: http://goo.gl/nUPU1
. Thanks!January 19
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Yuchen Wang
Jan, our product is called "TaggTo", which makes product reviews easier to create and consume, and more social and fun! iPhone app can be downloaded from: http://goo.gl/nUPU1
. Thanks!January 19
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Fred Radford
joinnest
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Fred Radford
Founder, NinjaMyApp.com
Mobile Backend-as-a-ServiceJanuary 19
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Michael Brill
I'm coming from San Francisco... I'm in Potrero, so south side of city is better. Can fit 3 people or 24 clowns.
January 15
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Akram Benmbarek
Hi Michael - I created an Album on Snapstrs for the event. If u have an iPhone pls use it add your photos.
January 19
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Jonathan Govette
Healthcare collaboration software company, referralMD, is looking for creative content writers, .net developers, UX designers to come on board. Trillion dollar opportunity, global market. We offer a way for healthcare providers to exchange patient information with 3rd party providers (referrals, progress updates, and insurance authorizations) without the traditional paper and fax machine.
Join our team of 7 talented staff on our way to a global launch.
Great opportunity for the right person, let's chat at the event. [masked]
1 · January 19
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David Snyder
Within the next 10 days, I am organizing a group to get discounts on attending the HIMSS13 annual meeting in New Orleans. Save 15%. See SVForum Healthcare IT SIG Meetup page for link to get in on the group. Or www.42tek.com/HIMSSgroup
.Regards,
David Snyder
[masked]January 19
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Sanchit
IS this event is only for those who has pitch or demo? Can someone please respond.
Thanks a lot!
January 18
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Frank
Hi, a recently funded startup is looking for IT architect, UI designers, and software engineers with mobile development and/or cloud computing expertise. If you are tech guru, do not miss this lifetime opportunity as you will be the very first few staff on the team working with the brightest people and most prestigious financial backers. Please email your bio and demo/work sample if you have. If you leave your cell then meeting up at the event is also possible.
1 · January 18
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Raed Almasri
Hey frank, I have a friend who's a computer systems engineer by academia and she has been a UI designer for many years now and is based in LA but looking to relocate to the valley if if u can provide me with ur email I'll have her reach out to you
January 18
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Raed Almasri
I will be at the meetup tomorrow and can discuss further, how will I recognize u though
January 18
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John Le
What is up with the group organizers of this meetup? You have a google form that is required for speakers/presenters, yet, no confirmation of any kind is ever acknowledged. #FAIL!
January 17
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David Cao
@john @Pawel: we will add an acknowledgement process to all the companies who were not selected for demo. Thanks for the feedback.
January 18
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David Cao
This is the highest RSVPs ever. Thanks a lot for all the support. It also give us lots of pressure to do it right.
We received lots of demo requests, to make sure its clear that, our two basic requirement:
A: Founder must be full time preferable with a team (One man show has the least priority);
B: Product must be live.
My team WILL check your public profile and your product website (Although we may make mistake, if so, please send me an email).Also, to help us:
If you available to help this event as timer, presenter assistant, etc please arrive in at 9AM so we can coordinate the process. Welcome people who wanted to help as event organizer regularly.Look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
1 · January 18
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Daniel Wencel
A few of us have a startup called Altrasense. We have developed a design for micro array chip to detect in breath biomarkers (tiny particles exhaled by people and animals) for various diseases. The chip has to be configured for a specific disease, like for example cancer. We have tested each individual portion of the device design, but now we have to render it into a single semiconductor chip. To build and test such a chip we need about $4Million. It will also take 8-12 months. So far we have relied on our own funds, but to build prototype chips we need outside funding. I wonder if this group is the right venue for us to proceed.
1 · January 18
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Yinan Huang
I will drive from San Jose. email me ur address and phone number. i can pick you up.
January 18
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Sanchit
Hie Yinan, I live in Sunnyvale, CA. Can I ride with you if you have space in your car.
January 18
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Alexander Khimich
Guys, can i just come and see what is that? I always wanted to see that. But i dont have demo or pitch.
January 18
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A former member
Hi Andrea, do you still any spot available?
January 18
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Michael Brill
Nia, ErMoviola et al, I can drive 3 people from south side of SF tomorrow AM
January 18
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Farnaz Erfan
Hi all - can anyone attend the session? Or only those with a pitch?
Appreciate if someone could answer please. Thank you.1 · January 18
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A former member
Thx so much Fareed!! cu there!!
January 15
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