6.6: SF New Tech presents Belgian Tech Pitch Night! (Free!)

by Myles Weissleder on 20. May, 2013 in SF New Tech Events

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MIGHTY @ 119 UTAH, SF, CA

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013

DOORS OPEN, COLD DRINKS & FREE MUNCHIES @ 5:30 pm

LIVE DEMOS & DISCUSSIONS @ 7:30 pm

COMPANIES:

Radionomy
Alexandre Saboundjian & Thierry Ascarez
Radionomy is a ground-breaking online radio platform for producers, for listeners and for broadcasters. Radionomy allows radio enthusiasts from around the world to create their own online radio stations for free. It provides the tools for members to broadcast, promote and monetize their own station. The platform features a wide variety of music and themed stations to discover and to listen to. Radionomy is one of the largest user generated online radio networks in the world. Radionomy also offers the possibility to any stream broadcasters to join the platform and to benefit from all the advantages from its services such as monetization. http://www.radionomy.com/en

4DDynamics
Denise Rauzinis-Bartels
Technology leader in high-end 3D human acquisition algorithms & developer of 3D Bodyscanning devices based on this technology. Fully automated pipeline from acquisition of the data, merging rendering, processing, uploading to cloud and the creation of a user account link to a (printed on site) QR code for easy login. This particular system is being offered on a small initial cost-price with a pay per scan revenue model making it an affordable and scalable solution. Our Bodyscanning solutions are tested, automated and ready to be rolled out on a world-wide bases. http://www.4ddynamics.com/

Additionly
Jonathan Van Parys
Additionly brings tailored analytics and storytelling with data to advertising agencies. Our technology makes it incredibly easy for you to monitor hundreds of campaigns by automatically identifying performance drivers. And when the time comes to communicate results, Additionly provides the perfect combination of templating and narration to build reports that truly showcase the value of your work. https://additionly.com/

Proxistore
Bruno Van Boucq & Frederic Convent
PROXISTORE® is the leading innovator in geo-targeting solutions for digital and local market campaigns on the internet, using its proprietary geo-localisation engine. The Belgian commercial launch has started in Q2/2012 with successful leads on the web for about 2.000 local campaigns of around 100 advertisers such as Deutsche Bank, ING, IKEA, car companies etc. In the meantime PROXISTORE® has built an enviable reputation for creating exciting new marketing solutions, also based on strong partnerships with key resellers such as Roularta (ROU:BB) & IPM Advertising and with specialized content groups and web news-editors. PROXISTORE®’s headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, where sales & marketing and IT activities are currently located, cooperating with the German French, Dutch sales teams. In 2013 the company was awarded by the Belgian AMMA Innovation Award and the Red Herring Europe 100. http://www.proxistore.com/

MetaMarketing
Toon Deleeck
MetaMarketing brings real-time financial optimization of marketing campaigns to branded companies. With increasing fragmentation of data, media and markets, marketers spend more time collecting and processing information than they actually spend optimizing their campaigns. MetaMarketing centralizes all information and optimizes offline and online campaigns from a marketing and profit point of view, dramatically cutting staff time and improving return on marketing spend.

Vasco Data Securities
Jan Valcke
The Ultimate Password App, MYDIGIPASS.COM helps you to secure access to your websites. Adding an additional security layer on top of your password protects your online accounts from hackers who want your identity and credentials. We recently launched our new business model “MYDIGIPASS.COM”, where the DIGIPASS itself becomes free, but the ASP pays for the use. http://www.vasco.com/

2 Houses
Mr. Gill Ruidant, Founder & CEO
2houses is a web platform that helps divorced parents to communicate and get organized for their children. 2houses was established by Gill Ruidant in 2011. Having gone through a separation himself in 2004, he looked for a tool, an interface, which could have helped him, his son, and his ex-partner to communicate and better organize their custody arrangements and the well-being of their son, Noé. After discovering that the existing tools were not tailored to divorced parents, Gill decided a few years later to build his own platform: 2houses. http://www.2houses.com

Knowledge Plaza / Whatever
Mr. Antoine Perdaens, CEO
Knowledge Plaza is an enterprise, social business software that connects people and information based on their affinities and interests, making it easy to share, organize and access knowledge and information within an organization. http://www.knowledgeplaza.net/en

Selinko
Mr. Patrick Eischen, Partner
Selinko offers brand protection services both physical and on-line to fight effectively against counterfeiting. We have the first secured and integrated platform to give each object a unique identity which can be verified by everyone. This identity allows us to offer unique direct marketing and online sales services. http://selinko.com/

The BELGIAN TRADE COMMISSION - Wallonia Investment and Trade Office (BTC-WIT) is a government agency entrusted with promoting trade and business opportunities between Belgium and the US. Our mission is simple: “To help businesses from Belgium, and more specifically from the Wallonia Region, export their products and services more efficiently to the United States and attract new American investors in Wallonia.

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5.29: How To Avoid Online Security Headaches. With Facebook, Mozilla, Impermium, DHS, Ars Technica

by Myles Weissleder on 20. May, 2013 in SF New Tech Events

SECURITY!

If you’re running a business that relies on the internet to succeed, online security protocols need to be front-and-center in your business planning — not an afterthought. Too many startups neglect to invest properly in their security infrastructure, often citing that being popular enough to get hacked would be a good problem to have. WRONG. Startups need to be locked down from day one. And they need to be proactive and aggressive in their approach to security. Passive defense and adhering to minimum compliance standards are a recipe for disaster.

On Wednesday, May 29th, we’ve assembled some of the top experts in online security who will share their experiences, and provide tips and tricks to help make your startup bulletproof.

This is a VERY special event.

We’ll receive expert advice from:

* Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer of Facebook
* Michael Coates, Director of Security Assurance at Mozilla
* Mark Risher, CEO/Founder, of Impermium
* Deron McElroy, Director of Regional Partnerships, Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C) at U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Invited)
* Dan Goodin, IT Security Editor at Ars Technica (Moderating)

Join us and get secure!

Register @ http://areyousecure.eventbrite.com

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60 Second Spots from 5.15

by Myles Weissleder on 16. May, 2013 in 60-Second Spots

Track down that lead. Here are the folks who made requests on the open mic last night.
Camille Kander
camille@ kander.com
I need a job!
http://github.com/xzoky
I am an exchange student and iOS developer from France. I have until June 7 to find an internship, or Homeland Security will send me home. I don’t need a visa, but I need to show immigration that I have a reason to be here. Hit me up: camille@kander.com

Pulkit Agrawal
pulkit@ shoto.so
shoto
http://www.shoto.so
We are building a photo collection mobile app – get all the photos from the friends you took them with! Automatically! No need to share – just take photos! We are conducting in-depth user interviews to better understand the needs of early adopters and avid smartphone photographers. We’ll thank you with $50 and you’ll get on the alpha tester list if you’d like. Please get in touch!

Sam Blackman
sblackman@gmail.com
Project Freedom
http://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelblackman
Checking out the scene in San Francisco — would love to get involved in projects in the crossover between creative content industries and technology. If you’re in the space and want to chat, ping me!

Yumio Saneyoshi
yumio@ gorillaanalytics.com
Gorilla Analytics
http://www.gorillaanalytics.com
Startups, Small Biz Owners, Non Profits who are looking for a cheap way to get the world to find out about your product! We are a guerrilla marketing agency that will provide unique campaigns for super-cheap.

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Keep Track of the New Tech Tour Live!

by Greg Viloria on 15. May, 2013 in Updates

Live streaming by Ustream

You can watch the Las Vegas Leg of our New Tech Tour journey here.

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6.5: SF New Tech presents The Best of the French Tech Tour!

by Myles Weissleder on 13. May, 2013 in SF New Tech Events

presents

MIGHTY @ 119 UTAH, SF, CA

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013

DOORS OPEN, COLD DRINKS & FREE TACOS @ 5:30 pm
LIVE DEMOS & DISCUSSIONS @ 7:30 pm

WITH

Cognik
Stéphane Reynaud, CTO
CogniK’s solution combines big data with cognitive sciences to provide reliable TV and video recommendations without having to collect enormous amounts of information about the viewer.

Followapps
Samir Addamine, CEO
Followapps provides brands with a SaaS platform to launch, measure, optimize, and maintain their presence and grow their audience in the mobile world. This platform provides guidance to implement a successful mobile strategy, and recommends step-by-step actions to guarantee consistency across all the apps.

Kpsule
Franz Tournadour, CEO
Kpsule is a SaaS platform that allows rich media campaign delivery within just 24 hours, easily disseminated and targeted to the most powerful web audiences. Kpsule offers unmatched performance – 3 to 5% engagement rates with up to 50% agreement rates.

Leankr
Pierre Roulph, CEO
RedBox, created by Leankr, is a unique search engine-like second screen platform that uses the Web to gather only the most relevant content, and then pushes and synchronizes it with the TV programs in real-time. Leankr’s clients include television networks, and Tier-1 operators and broadcasters.

sush.io
Sush.io
Thomas Guillaumin, CEO
Sush.io provides startups and mid-sized companies with a tailored business intelligence tool aimed at reducing paperwork and Excel spreadsheet usage. Its platform automatically aggregates and organizes data from 300+ Online accounts such as Paypal, T-Mobile, Github, Recurly, Mailchimp, Google adwords on a clear and well-designed dashboard.

Wimi
Lionel Roux, Founder, CEO
Wimi is a cloud-based platform for small and mid-sized companies and entrepreneurs that simplifies file sharing and project management. Additionally, Wimi synchronizes professional data (files, calendars, tasks, contacts) across team members, according to their role. It is a professional, user-friendly and secure alternative to Dropbox.

xilopix
Xilopix
Eric Mathieu, Co-Founder and CEO
Xilopix has developed a search engine and digital asset management solution featuring automatic indexing, annotation, and image content recognition. It provides a way to search, manage and find multimedia content intuitively by using your fingertips.

UBIFRANCE is France’s public agency for international business development and it is represented in 44 countries by the FRENCH TRADE OFFICE-UBIFRANCE. In San Francisco, the office is in charge of the Information & Communication Technology sector for the entire North American market. We provide French startups with consulting and business development services, in order to promote their products/services and assist in establishing partnerships with US companies. The French Tech Tour is one of our most comprehensive services, formed through a unique partnership with the business and corporate development teams of some of the largest technology corporations in the US.

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New Tech on Tour in Vegas

by David Spark on 10. May, 2013 in Las Vegas, New Tech Tour, videos

SF New Tech is San Francisco’s largest, longest-running, and most loved technology showcase. It didn’t start that way. It took years of hard work from its creator, Myles Weissleder, to get the show to that point. I met Myles more than five years ago after I attended my first SF New Tech event and was really impressed with how he followed up with all the attendees. I ended up writing an article entitled “A great example of conference follow up.” Since then I’ve attended dozens of SF New Tech events and was honored to be invited by Myles and Outlook.com to cover the third leg of their event New Tech Tour in Las Vegas.

I chatted with Myles about the event, what it is, and why it’s on tour. In the video is also Tony Stilling of Microsoft, who explains why Outlook.com is proud to support both SF New Tech and New Tech on Tour.

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5.15: SF New Tech: Gigwalk, Nifty, Chartio, Logbar, Joy Sprouts, & more!

by Myles Weissleder on 08. May, 2013 in SF New Tech Events

MIGHTY @ 119 UTAH, SF, CA

WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2013

DOORS OPEN, COLD DRINKS & FREE TACOS @ 5:30 pm
LIVE DEMOS & DISCUSSIONS @ 7:30 pm

Chartio
Dave Fowler, Founder & CEO
Chartio is building the best interface to data. Simple to set up and easy to use, explore the worlds most popular data sources in real-time by working with your database, not a data warehouse. With Chartio, anyone can build beautiful dashboards and visualizations and share them across the organization. http://www.chartio.com // @chartio

nifty
Nifty
Daniel Wang, CEO
Nifty is a mobile-centric, social marketplace where users give & trade items with people they know, as well as donate to charities. Charities and other organizations use Nifty to create awareness, advertise current needs and raise funds. http://www.nifty.io // @NiftyApp

Joy Sprouts
Leo Lau, Co-founder & Executive Director
The tablet marketplace offering educational content for kids ages 2-6! Joy Sprouts is the first ever app in the market that offers: i)a store for content purchase, as well as content delivery within the app in a single-app solution; ii)personalized profiling and progress tracking using an authoritative standard, the holistic U.S. Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework published by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; The two unique value propositions significantly reduce the fiction for parents discovering new content, as well as, making purchase decisions. http://www.joysprouts.com // @joysprouts

Gigwalk
Gigwalk
Matt Crampton, CTO & Founder
Gigwalk is the world’s largest on-demand mobile workforce, connecting businesses large and small to their very own smartphone army to get work done anywhere. Since its launch in May 2011, Gigwalk has become the leader in completing temporary field work, having performed 3.5 million tasks to date in over 6,500 cities across the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. Over 280,000 Gigwalkers use the Gigwalk smartphone app to earn money doing work such as store audits, location inspections, customer interviews, field photography, usability testing and much more. For more information, visit http://gigwalk.com or email mobilize@gigwalk.com // @gigwalk

Logbar
Logbar
Takuro Yoshida, CEO
Logbar is a unique bar in Tokyo where each customer receives an iPad when they walk in the door to interact with the bartenders/servers and to receive additional services. Services include a Communication System where customers can communicate with each other inside the bar by clicking “Like!” & “Cheers!” buttons or sending comments; an Auto Recommendation System that analyzes each customer’s drink preferences and sends recommendations; and, an Original Cocktail Making System allowing customers to build their own drinks that will be published for all to see. If other customers order your original cocktail, you will receive 50 cents as a reward! Our goal is not just opening a bar, but customizing and expanding our iPad system to other social places, such as stores, restaurants, cafés, etc. The possibilities are infinite! http://logbar.jp

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20 Reasons Why the Vegas Startup Scene is the Best

by David Spark on 07. May, 2013 in Las Vegas, New Tech Tour, Tour

One of the problems with living in San Francisco is we’re surrounded by so many brilliant and successful people that we start to believe that all the world’s great ideas and technology comes out of the Bay Area. While so many great companies have started here, there are many other great pockets of innovation happening across the country and around the world.

During the third installment of SF New Tech’s road show, New Tech Tour, I asked the attendees at the yet to be opened InNEVation Center, “What’s so awesome about the Las Vegas startup scene?” They gave us 20 great answers. Watch.

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Thoughts on the New Tech Tour from Tony Stilling of Outlook.com

by Greg Viloria on 04. May, 2013 in Updates

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The tour is done but the comments still flowing. We had a great tour sponsor in Outlook.com. We sat down with Tony Stilling of Outlook.com and get his thoughts on the New Tech Tour which went through the cities of San Diego, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.

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5.2: Las Vegas’s Awesome New Tech @ The InNEVation Center

by Greg Viloria on 30. Apr, 2013 in New Tech Tour, SF New Tech Events, Updates

Ready to Get INSPIRED Las Vegas?

Join us at the InNEVation Center on Thursday, May 2nd, for an amazing and inspiring event where the drinks are cold and the ideas are red hot!

Come meet up with Las Vegas’s tech community who’ll be taking to the stage and showing off some of their new tech!

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW

Tabeso

Joe Herrera, CEO

Destroy Boredom with Tabeso. Tabeso is an iPhone app that connects the best event information in the world and combines that data with your social connections. Whether you’re looking for free plays in th park, or the best concerts coming to your town…we gather data from sources across the globe and put them at your finger tips. And we give you the world’s best sharing features so that you can easily attend events with your friends and family.

http://tabeso.com // @tabeso

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ALICE Receptionist (WinTech LLC)

Mike Yoder, CTO

ALICE, the 2-Way virtual video receptionist is changing the future of your front desk or lobby. ALICE is the last receptionist you’ll ever hire. #VegasTech proud.

http://www.alicereceptionist.com // @alicereception

Nihongo Master

Taylor Dondich, Founder

Nihongo Master is an online social language learning experience. Immediately you realize you are learning alongside other people and are rewarded for competing and collaborating with others. Scoring points and gaining achievements makes learning a language fun and keeps you engaged.

http://www.nihongomaster.com // @masternihongo // @tdondich

Histuffy.com

Brian Liebzeit, Founder

It’s not just your stuff, it’s your history. Create and share your own museum of personal objects and the memories they hold.

http://www.histuffy.com

LazyHusband by MER LV Labs

Ethan Duggan, 12 year old developer

When it’s too hard to actually say it, LazyHusband comes to your rescue. One day, my mom came home with a bunch of new clothes. She kept asking me how she looked. Then I realized, “I have a smart phone in my hand.” So I recorded myself saying “You look wonderful.” I decided to make that into an app. So over the summer, I taught myself Javascript, HTML, and CSS. It took a few months, but I built the app (using Phonegap) then eventually got it approved by Apple. I also built an Android and Kindle version. All 3 version launched at SXSW. Since then, I’ve build LazyKid and LazyWife and just started on my next app, Bargument.

http://www.merlvlabs.com // @lazyhusbandapp // @ethanduggan

imagoo

Mickey Hernandez, Founder and CEO

imagoo is a real-time social polling app and Web platform that lets consumers, brands and businesses issue challenges and comparisons and vote on content.

http://imagoo.com // @imagoochallenge