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9/15 SF New Tech: Vufind, Spreaker, Let’s Woosh!, Lending Club, Law Pivot, Bee.TV

9/15 SF New Tech: Vufind, Spreaker, Let’s Woosh!, Lending Club, Law Pivot, Bee.TV

JOIN US FOR LIVE DEMOS & DISCUSSIONS WITH …

Law Pivot
Nitin Gupta, Co-Founder
Law Pivot is a legal question and answer website, which allows companies to confidentially ask legal questions to highly qualified lawyers for a fraction of the cost, and find the right lawyers for their specific legal needs.  www.lawpivot.com

Bee.TV
Bill Godwin, Business Development
Bee.TV is a smart navigation guide for TV shows and movies that are available on your TV, the web and mobile.  www.bee.tv

Spreaker
Francesco  Baschieri, CEO
Spreaker allows you to host a radio show and broadcast it on Social Media Platforms.  www.spreaker.com


Let’s Woosh!
Parris Khachi,  Founder/Developer
A web mashup that aggregates events from various websites, and shows users what is happening in their vicinity through a map. It also features social networking elements, a ticket selling service and other community oriented features.  www.letswoosh.com


Vufind
Moataz  Rashad, Co-Founder & CEO
Vufind is a media-based mobile social network that connects friends, family and places by recognizing interests based on photos and video, and then providing coupons and deals based on those interests. Using Vufind, people check in and send out their memorable moments with a photo or video, which are automatically tagged and searchable by friends and others with similar interests.  www.vufind.org


Lending Club
Rob Garcia Sr. Director, Product Strategy    Lending Club’s technology allows people to invest and borrow from each other, sans the bank, resulting in better rates for borrowers and better returns for investors.  We’ll show the tools that make it easy to invest in loans, diversify and track your social investments.  www.LendingClub.com

AND OF COURSE…

FREE TACOS!!

(For the first 150 in the door.)
Tickets:
$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$22.50 for all other (late bird) online tickets
$25.00 cash at the door if not sold out
Mighty is a 21+ venue.
Schedule:
5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open
5:30 -7:30 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Live Demos
9:00 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze

Become an annual member: http://www.sfnewtech.com/membership

Interested in being considered for a demo? Apply here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

7/20 SF New Tech: Doochoo, Lunch, CrispThinking, MotherApp, Sococo and more!

7/20 SF New Tech: Doochoo, Lunch, CrispThinking, MotherApp, Sococo and more!

 

 
 
LIVE DEMOS & GOOD TIMES WITH …
 
 
 
Doochoo
 
Doochoo    
Armando  Biondi, CEO & Paolo Privitera, CTO
The Doochoo project is about revolutionizing the way opinions on the web carry meaning, starting with some applications, followed by a proprietary platform that will give opinions on the web tangibility and critical weight.
 
 
 
Lunch
 
Lunch   
JR Johnson, CEO

Lunch.com is a social media site for sharing and discovering information and opinions most relevant to you.
http://www.lunch.com
       
 
 
CrispThinking
CrispThinking   
Peter Maude, CTO   

CrispThinking offers real-time user profiling and management technology that detects, tracks, reports and actions on anti-social behavior including spamming, gold farming, bullying and online grooming. It manages the individual not just the resulting content allowing sites to scale their user management efforts.  http://www.crispthinking.com
 
 
      MotherApp 
       
MotherApp   
Kedar Shah, Marketing Evangelist   
MotherApp has created over 400 apps for clients such as Vodafone, Standard Chartered Bank, and Financial Times. We have a Blog Engine and Application Engine that bloggers, developers, and enterprises can use to create rich, native apps for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry and have a roadmap for iPad, Silverlight (Windows Mobile), and Symbian.    http://www.motherapp.com

 

 

sococo
Sococo
Paul Brody, President
 
Sococo – Social Communications Company – delivers personal communication services that put you together with the people that matter.   http://www.sococo.com

 

 

WITH FREE TACOS


FOR THE FIRST
150 PEOPLE IN THE DOOR!!
 

 
Tickets: 
$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$22.50 for all other (late bird) online tickets
$25.00 cash at the door if not sold out
 
Mighty is a 21+ venue.
 
 
Schedule:
5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open
5:30 -7:30 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Live Demos
9:00 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze
 

Become an annual member: http://www.sfnewtech.com/membership

Interested in being considered for a demo? Apply here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

6/8: The Best of the French Tech Tour as selected by SF New Tech!

6/8: The Best of the French Tech Tour as selected by SF New Tech!

Register for 6/8: The best of the French Tech Tour as selected by SF New Tech!  in San Francisco, United States  on Eventbrite

 

It’s the best of the
French Tech Tour
as selected by SF New Tech! 

 
 
With live demos from . . .
 
 
 
Laster Technologies
 

Laster Technologies
Zile Liu, CEO

LASTER Technologies has developed stylish and ergonomic informative
eyewear technology designed to enhance vision sunglasses, helmets,
goggles, and masks for medical, military, civil-security, and
industrial maintenance applications at a reasonable price. As a light
weight and stylish accessory, it connects to personal or mobile
devices, providing unequalled mobile displays. http://laster.fr/?lg=en 

 

 

Alpha UI

AlphaUI
Patrice Jolly, CEO

AlphaUI provides innovative back-typing solutions for mobile devices.
Based on intensive R&D; on ergonomic finger placement and psycho-visual
information displays, the company delivers natural handling comfort
and improved typing efficiency. http://www.alpha0.com/

 

Lexip
Lexip
Éric Delattre, CEO
Lexip manufactures 3D mice that allow users to fully benefit from all
features of 3D applications, promoting the concept that design and
navigation has to be driven through a universal, intuitive, ergonomic
and efficient one-handed device. http://www.lexip.fr/en.html

 

 

MLstate


MLState
Henri Binztok, CEO

MLstate has developed a new, original, and integrated solution to the
problem of building and running secure web applications. Relying on
formal methods and mathematical proofs, their technology relies upon
incredibly advanced typing algorithm for enhanced security.
http://www.mlstate.com/home

 


Mobile Distillery

Mobile Distillery
Tim Baker, Director of Marketing

Mobile Distillery helps businesses go mobile, by providing a unique
cross-platform technology that will run their applications on all
existing and future phones. This allows businesses to concentrate on
the resolution of business problems, rather than on mobile phone
complexity. http://www.mobile-distillery.com/home.htm

 


 avob

Avob
Pierre Duchesne, CEO

AVOB helps companies improve the efficiency of their IT infrastructure and “go green”, by cutting costs (up to 70% savings) and eliminating wasteful use. AVOB not only ensures that all computers switch to sleep mode when users are away, it assesses power-consumption in real time when in use, and instantly allocates computer power depending on user needs. http://www.avob.fr/

 

 

 

WITH FREE TACOS


FOR THE FIRST
150 PEOPLE IN THE DOOR!!
 

Tickets:

$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$22.50 for all other
(late bird) online tickets

$25.00
cash at the door if not sold out
Mighty is a 21+ venue.

Schedule:
5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open

5:30 -7:30 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Live Demos
9:00 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze

Become an annual member: http://www.sfnewtech.com/membership

Interested in being considered for a demo? Apply here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

 

Register for 6/8: The best of the French Tech Tour as selected by SF New Tech!  in San Francisco, United States  on Eventbrite
 

 

5/18 SF New Tech: The Belgian’s Are Back!  Details inside! #sfnewtech #webmission

5/18 SF New Tech: The Belgian’s Are Back! Details inside! #sfnewtech #webmission

 

 

The Belgian’s Are Back!

 

With Awesome Live Demos From . . .
 

woorank
 

WooRank

Lionel Cordier (@blobinabottle), co-Founder & Lead UX Designer &
Vincent Bataglia (@vinch01), co-Founder & Lead Developer
WooRank is an automated Website Analysis Tool to help Marketers understand and improve their website. WooRank gathers data about any website, analyze it and provides a personalized report to improve the website on a marketing standpoint. http://www.woorank.com
 
 
 
 
 
beebole
 
 

BeeBole

Yves Hiernaux (@yveshiernaux), Co-founder & CEO
Business Apps Reloaded. Mobile & Personal.  (BeeBole will also be presented at the Google IO 2010 Sandbox in San Francisco.)  http://beebole.com

 
 
 

knowledgeplaza

 
 

Knowledge Plaza

Antoine Perdaens (@tlg), Co-Founder & COO
Knowledge Plaza is the central web-based tool where you can collaboratively aggregate, organize and discuss information that matters to your team or SME. Knowledge Plaza is the place to build your knowledge base together.  http://www.knowledgeplaza.net

 
 
 
razwar
 
 

Raz*War

David Hachez (@TheAfter), Co-founder & Brand Activist
Raz*War is a new shaving brand aiming at selling shaving products and services the same way high tech company sell software: SAAS; it stands for Shaving as a service.  At Raz*War we believe the service is key to enjoy a great shaving experience.  We tackle a classic / traditional market  and we innovation by using a new disruptive communication attitude and branding experience.  We apply the codes of the coders to s(h)ave the world!   http://razwar.com

 

tweetwallpro
 
 
 

TweetWallPro

Vincent Vandoorne (@gplouf), Client Director & Co-Founder
Pascal Alberty (@zorrobiwan), Technical Director & Co-Founder
TweetWallPro is the first Twitter Wall designed to be used during your professional events.
This new web service offers an innovative approach full of features and configuration possibilities.
Join us at the SFNewTech Belgian session and be part of the official worldwide launch of TweetWallPro!http://tweetwallpro.com
 
 
 
 
musescore
 
 

MuseScore.com

 

Thomas Bonte (@thomasbonte), Co-Founder & CEO

Nicolas Froment (@lasconic), Co-Founder & CTO  
MuseScore.com is a sheet music sharing website which gives your scores a social life. Using the leading free & open source music notation software MuseScore downloadable from MuseScore.org, you can upload and store your scores on MuseScore.com. Via the MuseScore.com API, your scores will also become available on devices such as the iPad.  http://musescore.com

WITH FREE TACOS


FOR THE FIRST 150 PEOPLE IN THE DOOR!!

 

Thanks to the

Belgian Trade Commission

Wallonia Investment and Trade Office

 

Wallonia

 

Tickets:

$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$22.50 for all other
(late bird) online tickets

$25.00
cash at the door if not sold out
Mighty is a 21+ venue.

Schedule:
5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open

5:30 -7:30 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Live Demos
9:00 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze

Become an annual member: http://www.sfnewtech.com/membership

Interested in being considered for a demo? Apply here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

4/21 SF New Tech: Zuumer, Citizen Effect, Collaborize, Threadbox, Task Squid, Encoding.com, Apture, and more!

4/21 SF New Tech: Zuumer, Citizen Effect, Collaborize, Threadbox, Task Squid, Encoding.com, Apture, and more!

 

Events

 

WOOT!

IT’S OUR 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

 

LIVE DEMOS ON TAP . . .

 

 

zuumcraft

 

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Zuumcraft’s Zuumer
Amish Parashar, Technology & Operations
Zuumer is a totally awesome zero-emission three-wheel Very-Light Electric Vehicle (VLEV).  Hop on and take a ride! We’ll be having Zuumer races outside on the street before the demos start!  http://www.zuumcraft.com

 

citizen effect

Citizen Effect
Dan Morrison, Founder & CEO

Citizen Effect is changing the face of philanthropy and empowering anyone to change the world one small, cut critical project at a time. We will show you how to become a Citizen Philanthropist.  http://citizeneffect.org

 

collaborize
Democrasoft’s Collaborize

Colt Briner, Vice President & General Manager
Collaborize is for any group or organization with topics to discuss and decisions to make, allowing any group or organization with a common purpose to organize conversations, capture great ideas, collect votes and streamline the decision making process in minutes, not weeks.   http://democrasoft.com

 

threadbox

Threadbox
Michael Cerda, CEO & Co-founder

Threadbox is a simple, workgroup collaboration service. We will demonstrate how workgroups can get more done while collaborating, in a real-time demo. http://www.threadbox.com

 

 

Task<br /><br /><br /> Squid

Task Squid
Josh Vickers, President/Co-Founder

Task Squid harnesses social networking for productivity, helping people collaborate via twitter, instant messenger, and mobile.  http://tasksquid.com

 

enocoding.com

Encoding.com
Jeff Malkin, CEO

Encoding.com, the world’s largest video encoding service, has transformed the video encoding market with a cloud-based, pay-as-you-go SaaS model. http://www.encoding.com

 

Apture
Tristan Harris, CEO

Apture lets you see, hear, and truly experience the ideas on the page. Through contextual search and our Magic Search Bar, you can find wikipedia entries, pull up maps and even watch entire videos without having to leave the page. http://www.apture.com

 

 

 

WITH FREE TACOS


FOR THE FIRST 150 PEOPLE IN THE DOOR!
 

Tickets:

$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$22.50 for all other (late bird) online tickets
$25.00 cash at the door if not sold out

Mighty is a 21+ venue.

Schedule:
5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open
5:30 -7:30 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Live Demos
9:00 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze

 

Become a annual member and get into events for free! Register here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/membership

Interested in being considered for a demo? Apply here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

2/17 SF New Tech: Working Smarter! With BizVideosOnline, CloudCrowd, Tweetajob, Refollow, Livevol, SlideRocket and more!

2/17 SF New Tech: Working Smarter! With BizVideosOnline, CloudCrowd, Tweetajob, Refollow, Livevol, SlideRocket and more!

February 17, 2010
SF New Tech
@ Mighty – 119 Utah, SF CA
5:30-11pm

Working Smarter!

BizVideosOnline

BizVideosOnline
Allen Tatomer, Producer/Director

BizVideosOnline will showcase an awesome video we made especially for SF New Tech!  BVO specializes in creating custom video content for the web and is offering a very, very special deal for members of SF New Tech to get a professional, high quality video of their own.  We’re offering SF New Tech members a 60-second video (filmed and edited) for only $299 plus ongoing hosting fees.  Longer length videos start at $100 per additional minute, up to a maximum of 5 minutes. This special offer is limited to first 45 SF New Tech members only.  http://www.bizvideosonline.com

 

CloudCrowd

    
CloudCrowd   
Alex Edelstein, CEO
   
CloudCrowd has created an Internet workspace that taps into vast underutilized pools of talent, labor, and creativity– bringing work and workers together, and getting work done for businesses on a task-oriented, piece-work basis. CloudCrowd enables disruptive market entrants to tackle established players by radically reducing the cost of labor, while dramatically increasing efficiency and scalability.  http://www.cloudcrowd.com

   

Tweetajob

Tweetajob   
Kapenda Thomas,  CTO   

Tweetajob simplifies Twitter for recruiters and jobseekers. Our targeting algorithm distributes job tweets that match jobseeker location and career preferences. Jobseekers get relevant opportunities – real time — via twitter or mobile phone.  http://tweetajob.com

 

Refollow

Originate Labs | Refollow   
Rob Meadow, CEO

Refollow.com is a Twitter relationship manager that was developed by Originate Labs. You can do cool things like quickly view info about friends and followers, explore other’s friends and followers, filter, sort, bulk follow/unfollow/block, tag users, add user comments, and lock relationships. http://refollow.com

Livevol

Livevol   
Ron Horwath, CEO & Stefen Choy, President (Co-Founders) 
Livevol™ Pro is a cutting edge front-end application. Designed by some of the option industry’s most successful traders, Livevol™ Pro is built to be the new standard in option trading front-ends. Livevol™ Pro is structured around proven, real-world decision-making processes of traders, market makers and brokers with long-term, profitable trading careers.    http://www.livevol.com

 

SlideRocket

      SlideRocket   
Chuck  Dietrich, CEO   

SlideRocket is the only on-demand presentation software that allows you to create stunning presentations, manage them intelligently, share them securely and then measure the results, is reinventing presentations.
http://www.sliderocket.com

 

WITH

 FREE

TACOS!

 

Tickets:

$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$20.00 for all other (late bird) online tickets
$25.00 cash at the door, if not sold out

Mighty is a 21+ venue.

 

Schedule:

5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open
5:30 -7:30 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Live Demos
9:00 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze

 

Become a annual member and get into events for free! Register here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/membership

Interested in being considered for a demo? Apply here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

 

2/3 SF New Tech: It’s Social Media Week! With Superfeedr, Bonvoy, Soundtrckr, LikeMinds, Amadesa, Talenthouse, and more!

2/3 SF New Tech: It’s Social Media Week! With Superfeedr, Bonvoy, Soundtrckr, LikeMinds, Amadesa, Talenthouse, and more!

 

It’s Social Media Week !

 


Live at Mighty
119 Utah Street, SF CA

 

Demos on tap for February 3, 2101 . . .

 

Superfeedr

Superfeedr
Julien Genestoux, CEO   
We do Real-time feed parsing in the cloud for web-developers : instead of building your own polling infrastructure, we push you feed updates in real-time.  Superfeedr will demo the magic of PubSubHubbub through some of the hubs we host. http://www.superfeedr.com

 

 

Bonvoy

 

Bonvoy
Muj Naqvi, CEO & Founder   
Bonvoy is a social media centric online travel agency native to the facebook platform, that recommends, communicates, coordinates, and sells travel.  We will be showing the bonvoy travel application that lets you book air, hotel, and car within facebook. http://bonvoy.com

 

 

soundtrckr

Soundtrckr
Ken Manning, COO

Soundtrckr is a geosocial music app for smartphones that allows users to discover new music and meet new people based on where they are and what they’re doing in the present moment.  http://www.soundtrckr.com

 

 

LikeMinds

 

LikeMinds, Inc.   
Alan El Sheshai, Founder & CEO   
Connect and share with like-minded people. Discover new books, movies, people and music. http://www.likeminds.com

 

 

Amadesa

Amadesa
Jay Sahourieh, Director of Sales   
Companies turn to Amadesa to test, automate, refine and optimize their web sites’ content delivery and personalization processes. The Amadesa Customer Experience Suite™ is tailored to provide maximum web site optimization benefits with minimal IT involvement, enabling marketers to quickly test, learn and implement the most successful content to visitors. Whether testing targeted elements of the home page, landing pages, product information pages, or any page in its entirety, Amadesa offers a data-driven decision-making engine to grow revenues and increase your site’s return on investment.  http://www.amadesa.com

 

 

Talenthouse

Talenthouse   
Frederik Hermann, Vice President of Marketing      
The Talenthouse platform, which provides opportunities to the world’s creative community, is a place to participate in unique projects with artists and brands, collaborate, gain recognition and compensation. Brands choose Talenthouse to engage in a dialogue with their audience in a targeted, relevant and credible context. http://www.talenthouse.com

 

 

WITH

 FREE

TACOS!

SPONSORED BY AMADESA

 

 

Tickets:

$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$20.00 for all other (late bird) online tickets
$25.00 cash at the door, if not sold out

Mighty is a 21+ venue.

 

Schedule:

5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open
5:30 -7:30 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Live Demos
9:00 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze

 

Become a annual member and get into events for free! Register here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/membership

Interested in being considered for a demo? Apply here: http://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

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10/14 SF New Tech: Bodukai, YourVersion, MeeHive, ZoomPool, FamiliLink, Plurchase … and more!

 

OCTOBER 14, 2009 SF NEW TECH!

  

Tickets on sale now at  http://oct14sfnewtech.eventbrite.com
 
With live demos from . . .
 

bodukai

Bodukai

Jon Rahoi, CEO
Bodukai will demo Boutique, their modular, 100% Ajax ecommerce front end and associated technologies.

 

 

yourversion

Dan Olsen, CEO & Founder

YourVersion is a real-time discovery engine that continuously discovers new, relevant content tailored to your interests and makes it easy to bookmark and share that content. YourVersion launched their website, free iPhone app, and Firefox toolbar at TechCrunch50, where they won the People’s Choice Award.

 

meehive

Saumil Mehta & Tracy Lou, Kosmix Product Leads

MeeHive is a personal news service from Kosmix that scours millions of media sources across the Web to find stories about your interests. You can share articles with others, see what friends read, and use your iPhone to get MeeHive on-the-go.

 

ZoomPool

Donna Horne, CEO & Co-Founder

ZoomPool is an Internet rideshare matching service for people wanting to save money, parking headaches and carbon emissions when going to one-time events or on occasional trips, and also for event organizers looking to "green" their event as well as increase attendance by offering a well coordinated carpool program.

 

FamiliLink

Laura Nuhaan, CEO & Co-Founder

Inger Rarick, CMO & Co-Founder

FamiliLink empowers families to include their aging loved ones in their digital lives and provide care.

 

 

Plurchase

Tom Seffell, Co-Founder

Plurchase makes it easy and fun to shop with friends on existing e-commerce sites.

 

 

 

 

WITH

  FREE

TACOS!


Thanks to

NIM

 

 

Tickets:
$15.00 for early bird online tickets
$20.00 for all other (late bird) online tickets
$25.00 cash at the door, if not sold out
 
Mighty is a 21+ venue.
 
 
 
Schedule:
5:30 pm – Doors & Bar Open
5:30 -7:30 pm – Schmooze and Free Tacos!
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Live Demos
9:00 – 11:00 pm – Schmooze
 
Tickets on sale now at  http://oct14sfnewtech.eventbrite.com/
 

bizSessions 1.0 Recap

bizSessions 1.0 Recap

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Inagural BizSessions 1.0.

It was a packed house with a mixed audience of techies, entrepreneurs and VC’s.  A successful and educational event, filled with great panelists and good conversations.

The topic of the evening was:  VC FTW or WTF?  or Funding models for cash-starved times.

Panelists Included:

Ping LiPartner, Accel Ventures
Jonathan Abrams — Founder, Socializr
Kent Goldman — Principal, First Round Capital
Igor Shoifot –COO, Fotki

Check out more pictures on Flickr and Facebook.  See you in August for the next SF New Tech & BizSessions event.