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SVASE Announces The 30 Hot Companies Selected For
Product Debut Demos at “Launch: Silicon Valley”
Find out who will be named Most Promising New Company on June 5, 2007
Mountain View, CA – May 22, 2007— The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) today announced the 30 companies chosen to demo new products at “Launch: Silicon Valley 2007”. The event, which will be held June 5 at the Microsoft Campus here, is a venue for emerging technology companies to share their vision of the next big thing, while networking with an audience of Silicon Valley’s top movers and shakers.
Selected demonstrating companies for “Launch: Silicon Valley“ include:
BooRah
Catalog Data Solutions
ClearlyBest.com
Concilio Networks
Connectance
d.light design
Datamash Corp.
Data Robotics
Exinda
Eyejot
fix8, a division of Mobinex
FogScreen
GroupScope
H3.com
Industrial Origami
Jaxtr
Kongregate
LogSavvy
MyShape
Nuvora
Ready Solar
Redwood Renewables
Sensl
Shapewriter
SnapJot
Spresent
Telid
VastPark
Wrike
Yodio
“With more than 160 companies applying from across the globe for presentation spots at ‘Launch: Silicon Valley’, we feel confident we’ve seen some of the best and most exciting new startups out there in high growth sectors including digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy,” said Chris Gill, President and CEO of SVASE.
Selected companies will present on stage for 10-minutes during “Launch: Silicon Valley 2007”, with the opportunity to explain their products in more detail to the audience during planned networking breaks. Culminating the event will be the “Launch: Silicon Valley 2007” award for the “most promising new company” in each of the six presenting categories.
In addition to the company presentations, the event will be keynoted by renowned industry and economic influencers: David Crane, Special Advisor to the Governor for Jobs and Economic Growth, will open the event with remarks on the state of startups in California; Reid Hoffman, veteran entrepreneur and founding CEO of LinkedIn - currently LinkedIn’s Chairman and President, Products - will deliver the event’s closing keynote.
“We extend a special thanks to our advisory board of leading members of the Silicon Valley investment community, for their time and dedication to helping us identify the “double A” companies that we think will set “Launch: Silicon Valley” apart from other launch venues in 2007.”
The advisory board consists of Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures; Allan May, Founder & Chairman, Life Science Angels; Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Ian Sobieski, Managing Director, Band of Angels; John Occhipinti, Managing Director, Woodside Fund, and Nancy Pfund, Managing Director, Bay Area Equity Fund, and JPMorgan.
The event, to be hosted at the Microsoft Campus here, and co-hosted by Garage Technology Ventures, has attracted many high profile sponsors. Gold sponsors are Bridge Bank, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Garage Technology Ventures, Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, Townsend Townsend and Crew, White & Case LLP, and Wilmer Hale.Silver sponsors include: The Angels' Forum, LLC, Band of Angels, Cooley Godward Kronish, JP Morgan, Link Silicon Valley, Microsoft, National Venture Capital Association, OuterJoin, Sand Hill Angels, Siemens Technology-to-Business Center (TTB), and the Woodside Fund.
Attend Launch: Silicon Valley
For more information or to register for the event, go to http://launchsiliconvalley.org/event.htm.
Registration price for SVASE members is $195, for non-members the price is $145.
About SVASE
Founded in 1995 by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) is the largest and fastest growing nonprofit in Northern California dedicated exclusively to helping technology and life science entrepreneurs start and grow successful businesses.
SVASE provides support and resources for entrepreneurs, from the idea through initial rounds of funding to product launch, delivered at 12 monthly events and a continually evolving web site. For more information about SVASE, please visit www.svase.org.
About Garage Technology Ventures
Garage Technology Ventures is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with investors that include Thomas Weisel Partners and CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System. Garage is focused on investing in information technology and materials science startups in the Western U.S. Garage is also the creator of the “Art of the Start,” a renowned conference series for entrepreneur education. For more information about Garage, visit www.garage.com.