Thank you for a fantastic 2015.  Come raise a glass with us to celebrate on Wednesday night!
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What a year it was!  Highlights include but are not limited to:
- Getting invited to the first-ever Tech Meetup at the White House to discuss how SFNT serves the tech community and those wanting to be a part of it.
- Producing 20+ phenomenal tech events, including:
- 16 hot, new tech demo eventsÂ
- 2 FoodBytes! Summits: Bringing new food ideas and new capital to the plate
- A deep dive into online storytelling
- An inspiring discussion on Innovative Women in Tech
- A draw-dropping exposé on the state of Internet security
- A city-wide, day-long Tech Crawl in downtown SF
- News coverage on ABC News (Twice! FoodBytes & New Tech Crawl)
- The launch of our new website @ sfnewtech.com and its revamped career hub — a job board designed to serve the SFNT community (post for free with the code “SFNTspecialâ€)
- Our ever-growing video library of pitches on KSVN-TV
- Our incredible support team: Russel ClÃmaco-Estardo, Greg Viloria, Jimmy Giliberti, Alexander Elsen
- Our amazing sponsors including: Akamai, Authy, Bizzabo, Brussels Invest & Export/Webmission, Consulate General of the Netherlands SF, Covisint, DesignMind, IBM, eBay, Fathom Law, LaunchSquad, Rabobank, Runway, Sensible San Filippo LLP, SmartNews, StubHub, and Thumbtack!
- To all the companies who formally presented at an SFNT event in 2015!
- 2600HZ, 500 Mobile Collective Fund, Acadia Harvest, Agerpoint, Airbnb, Archive.org, Authy, Autodesk, Back to the Roots, BagIQ, Bitty, Change Catalyst, Chartcube, Cherish, CloudFlare, CloudHQ, Cola, Corigin, Covisint, Cubr, Dear Veronica/Engadget, Dolby, eBay, Engager, FarmX, FlowHub, FireEye, Glass Chart, GoPro, GreenRush, Handscape, Handscape, Headset, Ingrain, Ipipit, Jaswig, Jobr, Kontakt.io, Kuli Kuli, Launchsquad, Magisto, MassRoots, MoMo Board, Monday Envelope, Motherly, Mr Gabriel, MycoTechnology, Noble Brewer, NOFOODWASTED.com, Nouka, Odoo Inc, Okta, Pantry, Patrick’s Fine Sodas, PayNut, Pick, Pitchly, Plimpton, Produce Pay, RapidBio Systems, Inc., Raw Shorts, ReadWrite, Rocket, Rocket Brewing Company, Rodeo Software, SckipioTechnologies, SherpaFoundry, Shots, SmartNews, Smoke Reports, Sparkgift, Speakeasy, SPONSORMYEVENT, SportLocker, Spright, StubHub, TappCtrl, The Algae Factory, The Town Kitchen, Thistle, Thumbtack, Tiny Farms, Tribe of Noise, troupeIT, VINEBOX, Wearable World, weekly, WeHandcraft.com, Will Someone.
- To all the companies who showed up in 2015!
- #UP27, 10Fold, 10X Shift, 21Teach/21st Century Education, 24 Seven Inc., 2600Hz, 263Chat, 2RE, 42, Inc., a different engine, A Vehicle for Change, A.P.Printing, AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah, Aalborg University, Accelerate, Achieve Consulting Group, Act-On Software, Inc., ActiveMindTechnology, actvt, Adhoc, Adictiz Box, aditazz, ADM, Adobe, Advance Ventures, advent, Adventa, Adways, AGERpoint, Inc., AgFunder, Agilysys, Agora.co, Airpush, Ajinomoto Windsor Inc. , Akademos Fu, Akamai Technologies Inc., AKQA, AkzoNobel, AL, Alaris, alexeckhart.com, Algolia, Aliencranberry, Alliance of CEO’s, Alliance of Chief Executives, Almond Systems, Altera, ALYND, AM Entertainment, American Express Ventures, Amerijuanica Inc., Ancestry, Anni Yang Media, Anterra Capital, Apitronics, Appanite, Apple, Appthetable, Arlon Group LLC, artificium – word/image/sound, Artists Management Reps, ArtRage, Asana, Asian American Art Musuem, Associated Press, AT&T, Atlas Rewards, Atmio, Atomystic, Auction.com, Audit Associates, August Home, Authy, Autodesk, Avaya, Inc, Avenue Code, Babel PR, Back to the Roots, Bake450, baml, Bank of America, Bank of the West, Bannerman, BARCEL, S.A. DE C.V, Barnraiser, Bask Labs, Inc., BAVC, BAY ANGELS, Bayleaf Enterprises Pvt Ltd, Be-Bound, Belcham, Benchmark, Bento, Berkeley, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Berman Entertainment and Technology Law, Bestseller GmbH, Beta Law Group, betacooking, Better World Associates, Betts Recruiting, BFG Partners, Big Red Communications Group, BioTag, BitPusher LLC, Bitty Foods, Bitwater Farms, BizCare, Inc., Black Knight Financial Services, Blazing Content, Blink, Blockchain University, Bloom & Associates, Blossom Coffee Inc., Blueberry Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, BlueTies, Bogatin, Corman & Gold + Allegiance Law, Bogdan & Frasco, LLP, Bon Appétech, Boodschapp , Bootsoft, Borel Eye Doctors, Bouche, Boulder Food Group, Brandwatch, breakaway communications, Breaking Bread, Brightpath Capital, Brightpearl inc., Brigitte’s Naturally Alive, BriskBars, British Airways, Brussels Invest & Export, btrax, BUILDUP, buldegerwheat, Business France, Business Insider, Business Model Innovations, LLC, BY HMP, C Young Works Productions, CaCube Consulting, CAD Cloud Systems, Cadreon, California Academy of Sciences, California Agricultural Orchards LLC, California Keg Wine Works, LLC, Canada Bread Company, Canada’s Technology Triangle Inc, Cannaisseur, Cantaloupe Systems, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Carolyn Suh, Casenexus.com, cavu, CBRE, CFSI, CGMEDIA, CGMEDIA Web Design, Change Catalyst, Change Communications, Changemakers Publishing and Writing, Chariot, Chartcube, Cherrysh, Chicken of the Sea, China, Circle UP, CircleClick, Cisco, citrix, City College of San Francisco, City Tennis, Civil Eats, CK, Clean Pacific Ventures, Clef Consulting, CleverCoin, Clif Bar & Company, Cloud City Development, CloudFlare Ltd, Cloudspace, CMB Consulting, CNBC, codescrum, Cogent, Cogniflux, Cola, Inc, Comment Ground, Committed Capital, LLC, Community of One, Computerworld, Consulate General of the Netherlands, ContentMutual.com, Conviva, Cookies Factory, Copa Airlines, Copperfield’s Books inc., Cornish & Carey, County of San Mateo, Coverhound, Inc., CRCM, CreativeLive, Credibles, CRESA, Cresa San Francisco, Criotivity, Crosslink Capital, Crowdfooding, CSM, Cucina Testa Rossa, Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, Cultivian Sandbox , cyberwizard, Cyclops Media, Dangerous Knowledge Appllied, Datagami, Datasnap.io, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, De Tijd, Deezer, deGo, Deloitte Center for the Edge, Demandbase, Denise Chiang, Design Concepts, DesignCastillo, DesignMind, Desti, Deutsche Bank, DEUTSCHE TELEKOM , Dev Bootcamp, Dev Shop, Deviate Marketing, DFJ Global Network, DGUS, inc, diesel shark, inc, DigiSFere, Digital Media Academy, Direction 21, Discovery Communications, DLA Piper, Doehler GmbH, Dolby, Dote IT, Doughbies, Dow Jones & Co / News Corp., Dreamscape Global, Drync Wine App, DSM Venturing, Duda, Duetto, Dunhill Partners West, Dutch Consulate, Dutch Sprouts B.V., DW & Associates, eBay, Ecamb LLC, Echo SEO, Ecoqualia, Eddie.com, Edelman, Editorial Office Silicon Valley, EFactor, The Entrepreneur’s Wingman, Eggcyte, Ejenta, elevo.tv, Elm Grove Partners , ELN, Emerge Health and Fitness, Emmer & Co., EMW Partners, enano, Encoding.com, Energyworx, Engagepoint, Enphase Energy, Entrepreneur Circle, EOSV, EPIC, Equidate, Inc., Equity LLP, Esther Mallouh, EVAOS INC, Evernote, Evolva Inc, Expertly, Inc., Exploded Views Media, EXQUISE Magazine, ExtendTV, Extractable, Extreme, EY, eZ-XPO, f8, Facebook, Faller Real Estate, FarmsReach, Federal Government, Felton Institute, Fenox Venture Capital, Financial Attubement, Financial Samurai, Financial Times, Finistere, FireEye, Firelake Capital, First DataBank, Fish 2.0 , FISY 3D, FitCentirx, Fitroom, Flagship Ventures, Fluidigm, Folio Fine Wine Partners, Food , Food Business School , Food Guru, Food Lounge, Food Starter, Foodfighter.io, FoodLuxe, LLC, FoodStarter, For-eva, Forbes, Forward Push Media, Found Eats, Freelance, Freelance Journalist, Freelance/Contract, frog, Frogmen Lab, Frontdesk Anywhere Inc, FusePhase, Future of Money & Technology Summit, Gastronomicdiva Personal Chef Services , GateWang, Gatherly.IO, General Assembly, Gensler, Georgia Institute of Technology / Intel, Getty Images, Gigaom Research , GISSV, Glass Chart, Glassdoor, Gliffy, Global Privat, Globo News, Globus Media Works, Gloopt, Goalwerks, Golden Gate Univeristy School of Law, Golden Seeds, GOmentr Inc., GoodCall.io, Google, GoPro, GP21 Utility Services, GraphFM, gravitytank, Greenleaf SF, GreenRush, Greylock Partners, Groshelle Communications, GrowMobile, GrubMarket Inc., GSV Asset Management, GUCC, Guru Design, GWC Inc, Hakimi Law, PC, Hampton Creek, Handelsroute.nl, Handpick, HandScape, Inc., HandsOn Bay Area, HCL America Inc., Healthcare Innovation Transfer, Hearsay Social, Hearst Advertising Worldwide, Hearst Corporation, Heirloom Computing, Inc., Hellene, Herbalife, HERE, a Nokia Company, Het Foodatelier, Het Foodatelier.nl, HEXO+, Heymarket, Highland Capital Partners, Hipcamp, Hipp Kitchen, Holon Enterprises, Holy Craft Brewing Company, Holyappx, Horn Group, hqp investment, HSHub, HTG Capital Partners, hub:raum , Hult Business School, hwd3d, HWTrek, IBM, IBM SoftLayer, Ic reality, Icebreaker Health, iClinical Inc, Idean, IDG, IDG Ventures, IDO, idoc24, Ignite 360, Ignite Communications, IGT, il Morso , Imgur, Impossible Foods, In-Q-Tel, Inbenta Technologies, Inc. Magazine, Indecent, Independent, Independent Films, Info-Tech Research Group, Information Machine LLC, InfoWorld, ingear corporation, Initialize Media LLC, inMarkit, InMoment Software, Innovation & New Ventures, eBay, Inc., Innovation Endeavors, Insight Data Science, Insight Market Data, Inc., INSITUM US, Instalert Inc., Instaply, Intel, Interethnica, Interior Monkey, Intertrust, Intuit, Inveneo, Inventec, Inventec Ventures, Inventivity, Investopedia, ipiit, The Food Ambassador, IQLABS INC, iQuarkt, Ironed Ideas, iSEC Partners/NCC Group, Isolutions, working at eBay Inc, iStumbler, ITFT, IUI, J-POP SUMMIT / SAKE SUMMIT, J.R. Simplot Company, Jack Mobile Inc., Jaswig, jay blakesberg photography, Jc bentures, Jeff Fox Communications, JENI, JENO, Jincubator, Job Hunting, John Epler & Associates, Jon Lou, Jonathan Brill, Josephine, JR Simplot, JRB Consulting, Juma Ventures, KairoStar, Keenwawa, Kevin Kelleher photo, KGO-TV, KissFly, Kitchenette, KitchenTown, KLEA, Inc., KlineDirect, Koc University, Koeppel direct, KonMari Media, Inc., Korean Broadcasting System, KPCB, KPIX CBS5, Kreitech Software, kSafe, Kuli Kuli, KYLEGR, labnrmal srl, Larta Institute, Launch Pad Designs, Lazarus Data Recovery, LBL, Le Grand Courtage, Lean Studio, LearnTech Labs, Leeo, Lenda, Lending Club, Leslie Lum Marketing PR, Leslie Lum PR, lexaSG, Lifetime Memori Inc, Lightyear, Limelight, Limos.com, Link Group, Linky, Liquid Digital Agency, LiquidSpace, Live Nation, Local Orbit, Lofaso & Lofaso, LOKL, London Business School, Lookout Security, LotaData, Love With Food, lovely, Lynx, Maadly, Magisto, maison de monaco, Makers Academy, Makers United, MangoApps, Mappr, Marceau Innovation, Marker, Marketing Consultant, Marpe Consulting, Marquis Advisory Group LLC, Mars Ventures, MATRIX, MaxPlay, MCG, Me, Medallia, Mediainmotion.com, MediaMobz, Medrio, MEET, MeetingPulse, meMINI, MessageMedia, MG Taylor, Michael Barton, Michigan State University, microMarkets, Microsoft, Miego, mileME, Mindfulexistenc, Mivi neuroscience, Mixing Bowl, Miz En Place, Mobile Action, MobileApp.io, Modentify, mojo interactive, MOMO BOARD, Monday Envelope, Monj, Monsanto Growth Ventures, Monster Inc., Moore & Company, Moovweb , Motherboard (VICE), Motherly, Mr.Gabriel, Mrs. Moskowitz’s Munchies LLC, mta, Mundea Group Inc., Muufri, MycoTechnology, MyFootprint, NamePlace, Nanigans, nap, Nasdaq, naybors Inc., nb, NB Consulting Services, Nearsoft, Inc, NeighborMe, Nelson, Neomobile, Nerd Stalker Media, Nestle, Netflix, Netforce, Netherlands Consulate General, Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency, Netherlands Office for Science and Technology, NetSuite, Network World, Neurologic LLC, New Barn, New Tree, NewAer, Newbean Capital, Newforma, newmanmedia, Nexmo Inc, NextSpace SF, NF, NFIA, NG Vanguard, Nikkei, Noble Brewer, NoFoodWasted, Northbound Films, Northbound Films LLC, NOST, NoukatTech Inc, Nutrition Capital Network, nuuo, OceanIQ, OceanIQ partner, ocrowd, Office Lease Center, Okobay Ventures, Okobay Ventures Ltd., Okta, Olark, olc, Olympus Recruiting, Omnibeam.com, Omnivore Marketing, One Month, OneCarna, OneLogin, OneTraction, Ooyala, Opera Software, Optimizely, Optona, Oracle, Orange, OrangeTwig, Oratory Glory, Oresund VR, OSI Group, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Pacific Sun, Paine & Partners, LLC, Paragon, Pareto Biotechnologies, Inc., Paris Region Entreprises, Parish Entertainment Group, PARISOMA, Parqd, pARTy/SCIENCE, Patrick’s Fine Sodas, Paula Polley Copywriting, Paymentwall, PCH, PCMag.com, pegasus, PeopleConnect, Peppercomm, Pepples Donuts Inc, persefon ventures, Personal Health Cloud, PG&E, Phone Reports, Pick, Pick1, Pilly, Pilly.me, Pinkeye, Pitch.ly, Pitchly, Pivotal Software, Inc., PlanGrid, PlantLab USA, Plate iQ, PlatterPix, Play Money Media, Pole To Win International, Political Bridge, PopPack LLC, Povoh, Practice Fusion, Pre Pain, Precise Effect, Premier Staffing, PRESERVE Sonoma, Presidio Ventures, Prezi, Prezz.tv, Priceline.com, PRIME, Produce Pay Inc., Product Manager, Product Strategy Partners, Prolog Ventures, Propeller Labs, Inc., Proud to Pay, Provectus, ProxToMe, Pumbble, PwC Digital, Q-Architecture, Qualcomm Ventures, Quick.ly, Quirk Creative, Quixey, Quri, Rabobank, Rabobank – North American Wholesale, Rabobank International, Rabobank Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Raizlabs, Raizlabs West, Rally.org, Rasputin M&D, Raw Material Juice Vompany, Raymond James Financial, Inc., Razer, Inc., Razorfish, RDP, ReadWrite, Rebel Unit Media, Rebellion Lab, Red Hat, redbubble, Redis Labs, RedWire Media, Reiter Affiliated Companies, Reloadmedia, Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, Resource Magazine, RESTOLIKK, Restoration Hardware, Rev.com, richmedium, RideLater, RideLater INC., Ripple Labs, Riverbed Technology Inc., RN Solutions, Robert Walters, Roccam Recruiting, Rocketbites Inc., RocketSpace Inc., Rodeo Software, Ron Lichty Consulting, Rovi Corp, Royse Law and RL Agtech Incubator, Ruder Finn, Runway, RxMatch, Salesforce, Salt Venture Partners, Sand Hill Insights, santa clara university, SAP, SAVALABS, Scalus, School loop, ScreamingBox, Scripps Networks Interactive, sdg, Searchmetrics, Seat77, See Your Box Ltd., SeeWho, LLC, Self-Emplyoyed, Self, Inc., Semantic Press, Sensiba San Filippo LLP, Sequoia, Sequoia Consulting Group, Sequoia One, SEWORKS, SF Marin Food Bank, SF MusicTech Summit, SF Station., SF Weekly, SFDI, sg+d, sharecredentials, shaw communications, Sherbit, Inc., ShinyRedPhoto, Shoporama, Shutterfly, SIG – Shanghai Industries Group, Silesian University of Technology, Silicon Valley Growth Fund, Silicon Valley Watcher, Singularity University, Six Foods, SixDoors Inc, SK Telecom, SkyGeo, Sling Media, Smallholding Investments, SmartNews, Snip2Code, Snowulf, SocialNation.IT, SolarNexus, Inc., Sooz, Sophatar Inc, Soundtap.com, Sous Vide Cuisine LLC, Sozialia, space design BYHMP, Space555 Digital Agency, Sparkpr, Special Projects Agency, Spectrum Group Online LLC, SPS, Stanford Athletics, Stanford Consulting Group, Stanford University, Star Micronics America, Starboard TCN, Starter.io, Startup Basecamp, State Farm, STI, Stibhub, Stitch, Strap, Strategic Experience Design, LLC, StubHub, Inc., Studio of good living, Sullivan IP Consulting Services, Suntory Global Innovation Center Ltd., Sustainable Brands, Swapbox, SweetLabs, SyntaxVision, T3 Advisors, LLC, Tabula Fabula, TalkToChef (Cookstream, Inc.), Tango Me, Tasteful, Tata Communications, TATCHA, TCI, TechLink Systems, Technogel, Technology, Technovature Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., TechSpace, Tengizchevroil LLP, Tenthbit, Terrapin, terrapn, the A.M. Group, The Associated Press, The Bulleit Group, The Culinary Institute of America, The Custom USB, The Customer Success Association, The Daily Californian, The Honey Wine Company, The PFM Group, The Plant | Cafe Organic, The Selkirk Ranch, The SF Restaurant Tech Meet Up Group, The Townsend Team, ThomasPape, tigerapps, To Wear With, Tobi.com, Tom Ford, Topaz Ventures LLC, Tribe of Noise, Trvl Genie, Tweney Media, Twilio – Authy, U.S. Coast Guard, UC Berkeley EECS, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Udacity, UFP Identity, Inc., Unilead, Union Bank, Unity3d, Universidad de Guadalajara, University of California, Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz, Upcycle Coaching, Upfront Ventures, Uptime Robot, Urban Airship, US Healthful Food Council, USC, UserVoice, uSPORT, Utavi, VadaBing, Various, VCM, Venovate, Venture Capital Journal, venture insight, Vero Water, Veterans Administration, Viant Capital LLC, Vibrantly, vidlet, Vilynx, Vision & Execution, Visium, Vorteks Coffee, Wageningen University Research Center, Walmart.com, WarHorse Capital, WashQ, Wavetech solutions, Waxxi, WazardsWay.net, WCL IP Brief, Wearable World, WearMD Inc., Web, Wedding Paper Divas, Weekdone, Weemo Inc, WeMeUs.com, Western Union, Wexford Systems, White Road Investments, Whole Foods, WhosIn, WHU, Widget Revolt, Wikreate, WildOutWest, Will Someone, Wilmer Fung and Associates, WISE Public Relations, Women Who Code, Wordpixel, Wrapt, WSGR, WU, Yodlee, yumdom, yumquotes, ZDNet, ZEEF
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- And last but not least — a big honking THANKS to YOU!!  It’s YOU who make SFNT what it is!
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We’ve got soon much cool stuff shaping up for 2016 and can’t wait to see you next year!
Happy Holidays!!
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Myles Weissleder
Founder, SF New Tech
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Myles Weissleder
Founder, SF New Tech
sfnewtech.com / @sfnewtech  / #sfnt
415-843-1850
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SF New Tech (SFNT) is a world-renowned live platform for technology startups to showcase their latest innovations in front of 100s of tech-minded founders, engineers, investors, media, and more. Since 2006, over 700 companies have leveraged SFNT to launch and/or demo their new products, services, and features, including such internet luminaries Evernote, Waze, 23andMe, Flipboard, Twilio, Splunk and many other pre-fame startups.  As a cornerstone of the San Francisco technology community and as SF’s largest, longest-running, and most-loved technology event, SFNT is laser-focused on putting innovators and their innovations in the spotlight in front of their peers — and beyond.
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We covered a ton of ground… Â Check it out!
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Dolby
Runway
Some parting notes….
* Did you see yourself on ABC News?
* A great documentation in photos of the entire day from our friend @Photo.
* A Storified view of how the day unfolded.
* A fun Flipgram created by fellow crawler.
And…
* Be sure to keep tabs on the SFNT Job board for new opportunities from the companies we visited. Bonus: If you’d like to post a job here (for free!), use the code “crawlspecial†good now through the end of the year.
* Connect with fellow attendees via the SFNT mobile app.
Lastly but not leastly, BIG thanks to our sponsors!
Visit them today!
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Cheers all! Â See you out there again soon!
With close to 300 people in attendance and some of the most promising (and exciting) innovations in food and agriculture tech in the house — yesterday’s FoodBytes Summit with Rabobank was 120% awesome!
Check us out on ABC News!
And here’s “the rest of the story” from our big Video 3.o “It’s Your Story” event held last week….
We kicked off the evening by welcoming everyone to the conversation and introduced the panelists: Veronica Belmont, Host of “Dear Veronica” on Engadget; Chris Painter, Director of Product for GoPro; Allison Gay, Filmmaker for Airbnb, and Magisto CEO Oren Boiman. Before the conversation commenced, each panelist explained why video storytelling is changing the way people interact with the world.
Speaking on behalf of Magisto, CEO Oren Boiman touched upon the unique stories that each of us carries inside. Video is the best way to release these ideas that are in our heads and Magisto’s technology makes it easy for anyone to share their inner stories through video–on the go. GoPro’s Chris Painter provided adrenaline fueled moments and aerial views that adeptly embraced the GoPro moto, ‘This Is Your Life. Be Your Own Hero’, reinforcing the passion aspect of documenting your story through video.
This ability to use your device to role play as a hero, world traveler or director flowed seamlessly into the next guest speaker, Airbnb filmmaker Allison Gay. Lending a heartbeat to the evening, Allison spotlighted a film she created around a daughter who reconnected her father to a house he lived in when he was born, on another continent, decades ago. Now imagine for a moment if the daughter knew about this once in a lifetime coincidence ahead of time and was able to document those precious moments using her phone and Magisto technology. This is the future: unlocking the story inside all of us, magically, instantly.
For more about Magisto, Airbnb, GoPro, SF New Tech and “Dear Veronica” please visit the links below.
Magisto:Blog Entry:Â http://blog.magisto.com/2015/06/22/sf-new-tech-magisto/
Magisto Video From Evening:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDzKf6x3xGM
Nielsen Study:Â http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/252386/magisto-turns-photos-video-into-sharable-mobile-m.html
Twitter:Â https://twitter.com/magisto
Today I am beyond thrilled to make a few BIG announcements.Make that HUGE announcements.
No wait, F’IN AMAZING announcements.
Let’s just say we’ve got some real KICK ASS stuff in the works!
In waaaay too many words… please check what’s news!
THE BIG NEWS
This month SFNT enters its 10th year of bringing together the tech community of SF. Happy Birthday to us! I haven’t done a full audit — but since we started, it’s safe to say we’ve seen 800+ startups hit the SFNT stage, over 5000 unique companies in the house, over 16,000 members across all our media, and god knows how many millions of dollars and found dream jobs have filtered through our community since our very first gathering in 2006.  We’ve come a long way, baby!  And that’s thanks to YOU.
THE BIGGER NEWS
The way SF New Tech brings together the tech community apparently has not gone unnoticed!  I’m excited to report Megan Smith, the CTO of the United States of America and Assistant to the President, has invited me to the White House (gulp!) on April 17 to represent SFNT as part of the very first White House Tech Meetup!  Crazy, eh?!  If you’ve got anything you’d like to relay to POTUS, let me know!  Check out the official invitation below.   🙂
THE INCREDIBLY HUGE NEWS
I’ve spent most of my time building the SFNT community through producing compelling events.  Big wheels are turning and today I’m officially announcing that I am joining the awesome team at Wearable World as Vice President of Marketing. Wearable World’s job is to connect the market makers that drive the Wearable Tech and IoT revolutions forward. We’re in the business of creating mutually beneficial opportunities.  It’s a perfect match — WW has done what I’ve always wanted to do with SFNT through creating an ecosystem for startups (here, largely in wearable and IoT tech) to interface with corporates (and vise versa), to find funding/support, and to go big, fast. I’ve known and been friends with Redg Snodgrass, WW’s CEO, for a long, long time and our coming together makes perfect sense. SF New Tech will continue operate independently —it’s not going away by any means— but you will, no doubt, begin to see more opportunities through our new extended family come through the ether … starting today.
AND EVEN HUGE-ER NEWS!
Enter Wearable World Congress! I’m helping to produce and promote this down-home 2-day wearable-and-IoT-love-and-business-conference at Wearable World’s super-cool HQ inside the Palace of Fine Arts.  We’re expecting over 2000 people to join the conversation about all-things wearable and IoT. This is the BIG one, folks. If you have any business in the ever-evolving world of the Internet and the connected society, you NEED to be here.  Trust me, you’ll hear more about this from me in the coming days and weeks.  Early bird tickets are available NOW.  And because you’re in the SFNT family, you can apply and additional 15% off discount right now.  Use the the code SFNT at http://www.wwcongress.com to score.
THE F’IN AMAZING NEWS
Our first-ever FoodBytes Summit event produced in partnership with Rabobank (the world’s largest food/agtech bank) was so amazing — we’re doing it again!  Save the date: June 25, 2015 at the Bluxome Winery.  More info soon … but if you’re innovating with food or agriculture, we want to hear from you. Apply to demo in front of leaders in the food world (BIG brands, investors) who want to do business with you. AND … we’re going to bring FoodBytes to NYC in the fall, too!  Apply to demo here!
 AND …SFNT RIGHT NOW
SFNT in March at Runway rocked. We love Runway! Authy stepped in as a special sponsor and they brought sandwiches! (Bulletproof 2-Factor Auth FTW!)  Akamai was back to share their latest dev and career opportunities.  And Eric Ferraro of Fathom Law was there in spirit — probably too busy with legal stuff from startups!  And, the beer was delivered by Instacart because, why not?
For our April event, SF New Tech has partnered with Kontakt.io and Wearable World for “Beacons & Retail: Putting Proximity to Work!” — a very special event being held at Wearable World HQ inside the Palace of Fine Arts on April 16th.  Expect a formal invitation from SF New Tech soon… but act now and you can score early bird tickets at http://sfntbeaconweek-mail.eventbrite.com
SFNT ADMIN
If you’ve got what it takes to help organize killer events for the tech community, please get in touch — we’re looking for help!  We love working with bright, amazing people. Like Russel ClÃmaco-Estardo! Big ups for helping me wrangle the tiger that is SFNT. And like John-Paul Bulow, for kicking ass with FoodBytes 1.0 & 2.0!  Like Matthew Gonzales who calls it in from Dublin-town, old school: far out but not far gone! And of course, @socialgreg and JimmyG for plugging in and making shit happen.
And … here’s the invitation I received from the White House.  Sorry but it’s not transferable.  🙂
Friends,
You represent the incredible local community organizing that happens every day across this country, connecting people who share common passions and who would otherwise be strangers to one another. By sharing your talents and knowledge with your neighbors and peers, organizing meetups, investing in people’s development, and helping connect people to reach their goals, you’re keeping our nation on the cutting edge of innovation. In short, the work you do is critically important on so many levels.
We also know that more Americans need to plug into the new interconnected ecosystems we live in, to surface their talents, and connect them to opportunities they deserve, and we know that there are more ways than ever to leverage networks and technology to improve lives. We have a lot of work to do to bridge connections and ensure all of our neighbors can participate.
On April 17, we’re hosting community organizers, city and state officials, and technology thought leaders for a Tech Meetup at the White House. Our goals in gathering are to support America’s innovators, to better bridge digital divides, to interconnect us on common topics, to better collaborate on challenging projects where we have deep need and passion to solve them, and figure out how to include all Americans everywhere in our #InnovationNation.
I hope you will be able to join us!
Megan
U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President
Most Innovative and Promising Startups in Food and Technology to Demo: Cricket-Flour Cookies, Probiotic Sodas, Algae Proteins, “Smart†Beer and Much More
“Investor’s Den†to bring Startups and Investors together
Rabobank, the world’s premier bank to the food, beverage and agribusiness industry, and SF New Tech, San Francisco’s largest and longest-running tech showcase event have announced the lineup for FoodBytes!, a unique half-day conference to bring together new ideas in food, innovation, and technology, with venture capital.
FoodBytes! is scheduled for Wednesday February 25, 2015 at the Bluxome Street Winery in San Francisco starting at 2:00pm PT. The half-day event is dedicated to helping investors in the food industry meet new companies that are disrupting and/or innovating in food-related software and applications, distribution, manufacturing, production and more. The event is expected to draw 200 attendees. For more information, the full agenda or to purchase a ticket to attend FoodBytes!, visit:Â http://www.foodbytessummit.com.
FoodBytes! attendees – investors, technologists, media, and others – will see live demonstrations from rising stars who are innovating and disrupting in the food industry, converse with food industry leaders, and network with food industry peers and opinion leaders, among many others.
The event will include a fireside chat between Nick Fereday, Senior Analyst for Food & Consumer Trends at Rabobank, and Deven Clemens, Managing Partner at White Road Investments, which will be a spirited conversation on the intersection of food and technology.
Trends in Food & Technology
According to Dow Jones VentureSource, food- and beverage-related startups attracted $1.1 billion in venture capital world-wide in the first half of 2014. In all of 2013, the industry saw $1.59 billion in venture funding, which constitutes a 39% increase from the $1.14 billion the industry saw in 2012.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts a 60% increase in food demand by 2050, but reduced land, water and other resources. Rabobank’s 2014 report Unleashing the Potential of Global F&A calls on the global food and agriculture industry to invest in innovation to meet that demand and overcome resource limits by focusing on three core areas: R&D, new technology, and leadership.
Presenting Companies
A call for demos by companies looking to present at FoodBytes! went out in December 2014. From over 100 applicants, only 12 were selected. From consumer goods (food and beverages) to AgTech and software, these companies are innovating for a more sustainable, smart and healthy future.
Demo companies at the first-ever FoodBytes! Summit will include:
- Kuli Kuli (Founder & CEO, Lisa Curtis) – Introducing a new superfood, moringa, to the US market.
- Patrick’s Fine Sodas (CEO, Shawn Patrick) – Drinks capitalizing on the collision of the rise of probiotics and new awareness around sugary soda.
- Bitty (Co-Founder, Megan Miller) – Making delicious baked goods powered by cricket flour.
- The Algae Factory (Co-Founder, Pierluigi Santoro) – Addressing the need of alternatives to animal proteins and soy based products.
- RapidBio Systems, Inc. (CEO & President, John Erickson) – Developing a unique and fast food borne bacteria pathogen detection system.
- Agerpoint (CEO, Thomas McPeek) – Developing industry-leading technologies that redefine data acquisition, analysis, and translation for growers of fruit bearing trees and vines.
- Cherrysh (Co-Founder & COO, Bhushan Surve) – Bringing revolution to the soda industry by creating bubbly drink using fruits and vegetable juices with zero sugar added but tastes refreshingly sweet without a sense of guilt!
- BagIQ (CEO, Matthew Stanfield) – Helping consumers make better informed decisions on purchases that impact health, budget and lifestyle.
- Pantry (Co-Founder & COO, Alex Yancher) – Making fresh food accessible. Anytime. Anywhere!
- FarmXÂ (Co-Founder & CEO, Sanjay Rajpoot) – Solving problems in Food, Water, Education, Poverty and the Environment – deploying FarmMap Soil to create an IT infrastructure for outdoor industrial farms.
- Rocket Brewing Company (CEO, Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt) – “Beer that makes consumers smart!â€
- Produce Pay (Founder & CEO, Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck) – A payment platform that connecting Farmers, Distributors and Banks to ensure faster cash turnover and provide necessary financing throughout the supply chain.
Investor’s Den
A featured component of FoodBytes! is the “Investor’s Denâ€, a special tasting room inside Bluxome Winery dedicated to providing investors and food entrepreneurs a comfortable environment to get to know each other, and where potential deals will be made.
Investors interested in participating with FoodBytes! should contact Myles Weissleder, Founder, SF New Tech at myles@sfnewtech.com.
“FoodBytes! is a perfect example of the support that SF New Tech shows to the local tech community. With Rabobank as a committed partner, together we are thrilled to help nascent companies who are innovating in the food industry find capital and partners to help their businesses grow,†said Weissleder. “We’re equally excited to help investors connect with companies who may not have been on their radar screens. When we say we’re bringing new food ideas and new capital to the plate, we mean it!â€
“Rabobank has been investing in the food and agriculture sector for over 100 years, but new challenges are arising from increased demand for food, changing consumer preferences and the need for sustainable food production. We want to help spur the leaders and technology solutions that will help address the world’s food challenges,†said Manuel Gonzalez, Managing Director and Rabobank’s West Coast Head of Corporate Clients. “Through FoodBytes!, we can leverage our experience and knowledge to connect innovators with investors, and create a platform to turn today’s new ideas and technologies into tomorrow’s solutions.â€
About Rabobank
Rabobank Group (www.Rabobank.com) is a global financial services leader providing wholesale and retail banking, leasing, real estate services and renewable energy financing in more than 40 countries worldwide. Founded a century ago as a Dutch farmers’ cooperative, Rabobank today ranks as one of the largest banks in the world, with nearly $1 trillion in assets, and remains committed to its core mission to create customer value. Rabobank is recognized as a premier bank to the global food, beverage and agribusiness industry, providing a compelling combination of deep sector expertise, strategic counsel and specialized financial solutions to clients across the entire food value chain. Rabobank. The financial link in the global food chain.® @RaboWholesale
About SF New Tech
SF New Tech (SFNT) is a world-renowned live platform for technology startups to showcase their latest innovations in front of 100s of tech-minded founders, engineers, investors, media, and more. Since 2006, over 700 companies have leveraged SFNT to launch and/or demo their new products, services, and features, including such internet luminaries Evernote, Waze, 23andMe, Flipboard, Twilio, Splunk and many other pre-fame startups. As a cornerstone of the San Francisco technology community and as SF’s largest, longest-running, and most-loved technology event, SFNT is laser-focused on putting innovators and their innovations in the spotlight in front of their peers — and beyond. SF New Tech is been supported by amazing companies including Fathom Law, Akamai, Microsoft, Twitter, DoubleDutch, Telerik, Macworld, The New York Times, and many others. For more information, visit https://www.sfnewtech.com @sfnewtech
______________________________________Myles Weissleder
Founder, SF New Tech
sfnewtech.com / @sfnewtech  / #sfnt
415-843-1850
Founder, SF New Tech
sfnewtech.com / @sfnewtech  / #sfnt
415-843-1850
SF New Tech (SFNT) is a world-renowned live platform for technology startups to showcase their latest innovations in front of 100s of tech-minded founders, engineers, investors, media, and more. Since 2006, over 700 companies have leveraged SFNT to launch and/or demo their new products, services, and features, including such internet luminaries Evernote, Waze, 23andMe, Flipboard, Twilio, Splunk and many other pre-fame startups.  As a cornerstone of the San Francisco technology community and as SF’s largest, longest-running, and most-loved technology event, SFNT is laser-focused on putting innovators and their innovations in the spotlight in front of their peers — and beyond. Big thanks to Fathom Law, Akamai, Microsoft, Twitter, DoubleDutch, Telerik, Macworld and [YOU?] for sponsoring SFNT in 2014.
It’s official! Â We can’t wait to hear from all you disruptive and innovative food companies!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOODBYTES! SUMMIT – CALL FOR INNOVATIVE FOOD COMPANY DEMOS
Bringing New Food Ideas & New Capital to the Plate – 2/25/2015 in San Francisco
San Francisco, CA and New York, NY – December 30, 2014 – Rabobank, the world’s premier bank to the food, agribusiness and beverage industry, and SF New Tech, San Francisco’s largest and longest-running tech showcase event, today announce the call for entries for innovative food companies to demo at FoodBytes!, a unique half-day conference that will bring together new ideas in food and new capital, on February 25, 2015 at the Bluxome Winery in San Francisco, CA.
FoodBytes! is dedicated to helping investors in the food industry meet new companies that are disrupting and/or innovating in food-related software and applications, distribution, manufacturing, production and more.
Food-related startups who are selected to participate will connect to and build relationships with interested investors and those seeking to support innovations in food.
FoodBytes! attendees – investors, technologists, media, and others – will view live demonstrations from rising stars who are innovating and disrupting in the food industry, participate in conversations with food industry leaders, and network with food industry peers and opinion leaders, among many others.
Companies are invited to demo their food-related innovations by applying online no later than 5 p.m. PT on Friday, January 9th, 2015 at https://www.sfnewtech.com/foodbytes.
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Media Contacts
lynne.burns@rabobank.com 212-808-2581 or catharine.rossano@rabobank.com 212-808-2576
myles@sfnewtech.com 415-843-1850
About Rabobank
Rabobank Group is a global financial services leader providing wholesale and retail banking, leasing, real estate services and renewable energy financing in more than 40 countries worldwide. Founded a century ago as a Dutch farmers’ cooperative, Rabobank today ranks as one of the largest banks in the world, with nearly $1 trillion in assets, and remains committed to its core mission to create customer value. Rabobank is recognized as a premier bank to the global food, beverage and agribusiness industry, providing a compelling combination of deep sector expertise, strategic counsel and specialized financial solutions to clients across the entire food value chain. Rabobank. The financial link in the global food chain.® www.Rabobank.com // @RaboWholesale
About SF New Tech
SF New Tech (SFNT) is a world-renowned live platform for technology startups to showcase their latest innovations in front of 100s of tech-minded founders, engineers, investors, media, and more. Since 2006, over 700 companies have leveraged SFNT to launch and/or demo their new products, services, and features, including such internet luminaries Evernote, Waze, 23andMe, Flipboard, Twilio, Splunk and many other pre-fame startups. As a cornerstone of the San Francisco technology community and as SF’s largest, longest-running, and most-loved technology event, SFNT is laser-focused on putting innovators and their innovations in the spotlight in front of their peers — and beyond. SF New Tech is been supported by amazing companies including Fathom Law, Akamai, Microsoft, Twitter, DoubleDutch, Telerik, Macworld, The New York Times, and many others. For more information, visit https://www.sfnewtech.com // @sfnewtech
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ABC News: Â SF Tech Crawl Gets An Inside Look At Startups
By Jonathan Bloom
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) —
A large crowd of techies wandered around Downtown San Francisco Friday, some of them in strange costumes, as part of a tech crawl.
The group was led by a woman wearing Google Glass and a couple of guys in orange astronaut suits — a gaggle of mainly 20- and 30-somethings that snaked its way through the streets of San Francisco. The group resembled a pub crawl and that’s because it’s exactly like a pub crawl. There’s free popcorn and there are glasses, the safety kind, not the drinking kind.
Myles Weissleder is the founder of San Francisco New Tech, the monthly mixer that’s like speed dating, but for startups.
This year, for the second time, he’s took that show on the road for the New Tech Crawl. With help from the mayor’s office, he’s asked local tech companies to open their doors as a sort of open house for fellow techies.
“We have a lot of startup founders, we have a lot of engineers, we have a lot of people working for their next opportunity and a lot of people who are just curious to get behind the doors of a lot of these companies that they’ve heard so much about,” Weissleder said.
From design labs to co-working spaces, the crowd got to see the creatures of tech in their natural habitat.
“This is one way, not just to see them present, but actually go to their place of work, which shows a lot of about a company,” Luxer One creative director Andres Acosta said. “And I think you learn a lot meeting their employees at their place of business, at their home.”
The tech crawl is about learning, networking, and for the companies presenting, it can also be about recruiting.
There are big names involved like LinkedIn and GitHub. For people who are new in town, it’s the best way to see why San Francisco is the capital of innovation.
Source:Â http://abc7news.com/technology/sf-tech-crawl-gets-an-inside-look-at-startups/355684/
He just doesn’t learn! Â Don’t be like Myles! Â See you on Friday for the #newtechcrawl!
Post by SF New Tech.
Guess what happens if you show up at Wearable World HQ a little too early for the #newtechcrawl? Hint: The cool kids at Wearable World have some great beanbag throwing skillz!
Post by SF New Tech.
We showed up at @prezi a bit too early for the #newtechcrawl and got a resounding “You need to go!”
Yikes!
Check out the video!
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On the eve of the #newtechcrawl on 10.17, we are hosting a huge bash at GitHub to celebrate and highlight Bay Area cause-based initiatives that are innovating for social good.
If you (or anyone you know) are working to make the world a better place (more so than your bank account), we want to hear from you!
Get in touch!
Email myles @sfnewtech.com
Call for demos is OPEN for our 10/15 #sfnt event!
What are you innovating? We want to shine a light on it!
Apply now @ sfnewtech.com/demo
Discounts to events, that’s what!
Hope to see you out there!
Humans According to Data: Christian Rudder
http://bit.ly/humansdata
Impact Hub Oakland
Sep 17, 2014 @ 18:30:00
INFORUM at the Commonwealth Club is bringing OkCupid co-founder and author of Dataclysm Christian Rudder to Oakland this week. Christian will talk about what our own online data can teach us about human behavior. The event is Wednesday, September 17th at Impact Hub Oakland, and will be INFORUM’s inaugural event in Oakland! Tickets: http://bit.ly/humans-eb
IoT meets UX #flipthinking
http://communications.globant.com/Comm/Events/ext/2014/Future-proof/future3.html
875 Howard Street #320 San Francisco, CA 94103
Sep 17, 2014 @ 18:00:00
IoT meets UX. Get inspired and tynker We want to invite you to a night of inspiration and tinkering. We’ll share some of the work we are doing with some disruptive technologies. And some guest speakers will discuss how these emerging technologies are overtaking traditional markets, surprising society and creating new and exciting business opportunities. / Learn about the new gen hardware: simple, accessible and easy to use. And what it means in terms of design and integration / Explore key concepts such as wearables, Internet of things, embedded computing and data analytics / Understand how UX and design works in this new platforms. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flipthinking-iot-ux-registration-12785530867 (FREE).
Venture Capital & The Internet of Things
http://bit.ly/1phaxj4
2550 Hanover St. Palo Alto, CA 94304
Sep 24, 2014 @ 18:00:00
Venture Capital & The Internet of Things Sept. 24th at 6-9 pm 2550 Hanover St. Palo Alto, CA 94304 25% OFF with 25OFF This is Founders Space’s BIG Internet of Things event! Find out why top VCs are investing like crazy http://bit.ly/1phaxj4
Discount Code: 25OFF
Founders Space Angel Pitch
http://bit.ly/1lqPX4U
450 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107
Sep 25, 2014 @ 18:00:00
Founders Space Angel Pitch Sept. 25th at 6-9 pm 450 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107 25% OFF with 25OFF Join us at Founders Space’s Fall Angel Pitch Event. Meet top angels, VCs and startups Tickets: http://bit.ly/1lqPX4U
Discount Code:Â 25OFF
FREE: The World’s Largest MBA Admissions Event comes to San Francisco!
Westin San Francisco Market Street
Sep 27, 2014 @ 12:30:00
http://goo.gl/oeCyuY
To redeem your FREE ENTRANCE voucher, please register via this link http://goo.gl/oeCyuY. Entrance to this event is usually $15 so this is an exclusive offer for members of Silicon Valley New Tech! The QS World MBA Tour provides the opportunity for attendees to speak face-to-face with MBA admissions directors from top local, regional and international schools – so in the case of the San Francisco fair, attendees will be able to speak directly to the likes of Univ of San Francisco, UCLA, UC Irvine, UC Davis, Pepperdine, CSU East as well as Johns Hopkins, American Univ, IE, IESE, ESADE, HEC, Imperial London, Univ of Hong Kong and many more. Aside from speaking with admissions directors, attendees of the San Francisco fair will be able to apply for over $1.7M of MBA scholarships, learn how to improve your GMAT score with a presentation by GMAC and network with top Ivy League alumni from Stanford, Wharton & Harvard. So essentially this is an all-encompassing day for anyone considering an MBA at some point in their career. Registration starts: 12.30pm Pre-Fair presentations: 1pm Main Fair opens: 3.30pm *You can attend anytime between 12.30pm-6pm Don’t forget to register for the event at: http://goo.gl/oeCyuY
TC3: Telecom Council Carrier Connections
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
Oct 01, 2014 @ 08:30:00
http://www.telecomcouncil.com/tc3/
New technology. New business models. New Companies. New Relationships. TC3 is the only executive summit where you can meet 25 telcos, review 50 new technologies, learn about countless alternate paths to market, meet 8 award-winning startups, leverage many pre-arranged 1-on-1 meetings…all in 2 days, in an environment built to optimize networking. Tickets: http://telecomcouncil.cvent.com/d/h4q0pt/4W
Discount Code: SFNewTech14
The Global App Summit
Dubai
Oct 01, 2014 @ 09:00:00
http://AppsGlobal.Ae
In 2013 we brought to you The Global App Summit 2013, the biggest mobile innovation event in the Middle East that congregated enthusiastic and passionate mobile app companies, developers, SMEs and all technology enthusiasts under one roof. In March 2014, we brought to you yet another mammoth size event, the SME World Summit 2014, attended by more than 2000 entrepreneurs and industry professionals from across the globe, offering tremendous networking opportunities for enterprises to prosper. This year, in keeping with our promise to showcase something unique and help you prosper and succeed, we bring to you The Global App Summit (TGAS) 2014. http://appsglobal.ae
Hackership Course
2081 Center St Berkeley CA 94704
Oct 07, 2014 @ 18:30:00
http://hackership.co
Hackership is a new web development bootcamp in Berkeley. It’s perfect for people who want to learn about programming but don’t have the time or money to commit to a full-time bootcamp. In 5 weeks, students will build and deploy a functional prototype using Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and HTML/CSS. The course includes 20 hours of online videos and 40 hours of seminars at our office in downtown Berkeley on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. First class begins on October 7th. Learn more at http://hackership.co
Discount Code?:Â Mention SF New Tech in comments
PITME Catalyst Conference
Yoshi’s SF 1330 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA
Oct 27, 2014 @ 08:30:00
http://www.pitmecatalyst.com
Catalyst is an event where social entrepreneurs, investors, decision-makers and others involved & interested in emerging markets gather to exchange ideas and shape the future. Join us to learn how creative entrepreneurs are leveraging tech for positive change and how emerging markets are quickly becoming the drivers of global growth. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitme-catalyst-conference-fall-2014-tickets-11397794109
Discount Code: SFNewTech
Google Cloud Platform Live
Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco
Nov 04, 2014 @ 09:00:00
https://www.gcp-live.com/
Our engineering leadership will be giving an update about Google’s vision for cloud computing, including how new advances in cloud technology are making it easier for developers to build great applications, faster. The day will have two tracks: 1. Learn about what’s hot in cloud computing, from bleeding-edge container technologies to security best practices. 2. Learn how to build a scalable app powered by Google Cloud Platform, from coding and deploying the app to using BigQuery to analyze user logs and make improvements. It’ll be an end-to-end development cycle — deep on code, with real examples to make your apps better. Tickets: https://www.gcp-live.com/register
Discount Code:Â SFnewtech
SF MusicTech Summit
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Hotel Kabuki San Francisco, 1625 Post St, San Francisco
http://www.sfmusictech.com/
Discount Code:Â sfnewtech10
https://sfmt16.eventbrite.com/?discount=sfnewtech10
Future of Money & Technology Summit
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Hotel Kabuki San Francisco, 1625 Post St, San Francisco
http://www.futureofmoney.com/
Discount Code:Â sfnewtech10
https://futureofmoney5.eventbrite.com/?discount=sfnewtech10
Big news to report today! Â We just released the SFNT 6 Plus Watch Pay!
Just kidding! Â But we are thrilled to announce a brand new partnership with our friends at RocketSpace!
Starting next week on 9/17, RocketSpace will co-host SF New Tech events at RocketStudios at 180 Sansome Street.
Come on down and join us as we blast off into a new era of SF New Tech!  To celebrate, we’re offering 50 tickets at 50% off.
Register @ http://917sfnt.eventbrite.com and use the code “blastoff”
Come see great new tech from Algolia, Snip2Code, Anonymess, Near Me, Freshdesk, depict, and more.
We’ll also welcome John Boitnott, as co-moderator.  John is a journalist and digital consultant who’s worked at TV, newspapers, radio and internet companies in California for 20 years; writing for NBC, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur, USAToday and Venturebeat among others.  If you’re a startup, you’ll want to meet John!
Cocktails will be courtesy of Sage Human Capital.
Schedule:
6:00 – 7:30 – Mingling & Networking, Cocktails
7:30 – 9:30 – Live Demos & Discussions
9:30 – 10:00 – SFNTinvest, 60 Second Spots
Innovation tap on September 17, 2014:
Algolia
Nicolas Dessaigne, CEO
Algolia provides an API that allows developers to implement relevant instant search inside any website or app. Algolia provides full results as you type, making access to content seamless and fluid which increases users’ engagement. (we’ll demo our API and build a search engine live). http://www.algolia.com // http://www.twitter.com/algolia
Snip2Code
Cristiano Ghersi, CEO
Where Coders Share Snippets.  Programmers create their own applications using building blocks, the code snippets, to make the software development faster and more reliable. Snip2Code provides the platform to manage such code snippets and share them, directly within the development environments that programmers use every day.  http://www.snip2code.com // http://www.twitter.com/snip2code
Anonymess
Marcus Perezi-Tormos, CEO
Who are you? Share anything with your closest friends without revealing your identity!  Anonymess is an anonymous and fun cross platform mobile messaging app. So many new possibilities at your finger tips!  http://anonymess.co // https://twitter.com/Anony_mess
Near Me
Michelle Regner, CEO
Near Me is a peer-to-peer commerce solution enabling brands and entrepreneurs to build their own branded marketplace. Near Me makes peer-to-peer commerce simple with their ‘platform as a service’, revolutionizing traditional e-commerce forever. Â http://www.near-me.com // http://www.twitter.com/nearmeco
Freshdesk
Dilawar Syed, President
We’ll show how Freshdesk’s powerfully simple cloud-based customer support software can enable even tiny startups to provide exceptional support to their customers affordably via phone, email, chat, web, social networks and mobile apps.  http://www.freshdesk.com // http://www.twitter.com/freshdesk
depict
Shambhavi Kadam, Co-founder &VP of Product
depict lets you fill the blank spaces in your home with work by the world’s best digital artists. We’ll be demonstrating how you can use depict to collect art you love on any device, and display it on any blank screen in your home.  http://depict.com // http://www.twitter.com/depictarts
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Here’s info on parking near the venue:
https://www.parkinsf.com/sanfrancisco/parking-near/180+Sansome+St/wed/starting-6-00pm/for-3-hours
As you may already know, GROW Conference is heading to Whistler for their 5th Annual event August 20-22, 2014 with 1000+ attendees and some of the tech world’s top thinkers.
GROW is a place where founders, brands, retailers, investors and startups will explore how to build and leverage technology for living in a connected world. This is your opportunity to hear leaders from Google Glass, Qualcomm, Lululemon, Life360, SmartThings, Mondelez, Flextronics and Jawbone (to name but a few) talk about building context aware and personalized customer experiences, new app ecosystems on device platforms and the connected stores of the future – not to mention, test out the latest tech making waves in our space.
We’ll explore the mountain terrain with the latest in wearable tech and beacons to understand context, engagement and what experiences we would actually want in a connected environment. The GROW Conference will give you insight into the future. Join us in the mountains and meet your future partners, customers, investors and mentors at GROW.
We’ve spoken to the organizers and secured a $100 discount off the regular price. Use Promo Link: http://bit.ly/GROWtixSFNT with the access code: SFNewTech to get the deal.
They also have the “Lean Pass†for $195!
WHY GO?
// Outdoor Fitness Activities: Lululemon Execs are leading early morning and late afternoon group yoga sessions, mountain biking and mountain top hikes. Bring your fitness trackers, download the Strava routes and let’s quantify ourselves.
// Invite-Only Founder Event: For the first time we are hosting an invite-only, closed doors sessions for Founders on the top of the mountain.
// Gondola Talks: Ride up the mountain in our Gondola Talks with founders, partners and investors.
// Game of Drones: Meet us in the Olympic Plaza and fly your RC Helis, Quadcopter or Drone. Sign up HERE
// Pitch at the Smackdown: Companies have 1 minute to WOW the panel of VCs and Press. Sign up HERE
// Hardware Talks: Meet founders who are building the latest hardware products and learn how they’re incorporating software models on top of the mountain.
// Connected Resort of the Future: Help us make Whistler the most “connected resort in the world”.
It’s official!
We’re producing the 2nd Annual #NewTechCrawl on October 17th in SF!
You’re invited to join the fun as 100s of tech lovin’ geeks take to the streets of San Francisco to check in, first-hand, with innovative companies who put our little town on the map.
If you’re a startup based in SF and want entrepreneurs visiting your space en masse, want to volunteer, or sponsor this city-wide event, please tell us who you are here.  Big thanks to Prezi for jumping in and making this happen!
Check out how things went down last year via ABC News:Â http://abc7news.com/archive/9301925/
Come crawl with us!
We see a lot of conferences come and go.  When we learned about Techmanity we quickly realized how this event really stands out from the crowd and is poised to kick some serious ass as they bridge together tech, culture, and community … like rock stars.
And we’re thrilled to invite you to exhibit your startup as a part of it, for free.
Techmanity is looking for the most dangerous and disruptive startups in the world to feature as part of their special Startlandia exhibit at our upcoming launch event October 1 – 2 in San Jose. If selected you will be showing your innovations in front of the Bay Area’s tech elite – market movers and influencers that can help launch your project into the stratosphere. Are you dangerous and disruptive?
Check out http://www.techmanity.com and apply!
Isn’t it about time you showed off your startup to the Marin crowd?
TEDxMarin is search of great new tech that really wants to make the world a better place to be a part of their startup showcase.
TEDxMarin’s 650+ attendees are progressives, mostly 40+, mostly affluent, early adopters, some angels and VC’s (high net worth investors), as well as very green, health and fitness oriented, philanthropic, and outdoor focused.
The startup showcase will commence between 5:45 and 7:30.  If your startup is accepted, you’ll receive a 6-foot table and access to power and your logo goes up on all-things-TEDxMarin until April 2015.
Apply at http://www.tedxmarin.org/innovator-showcase-application/
(And definitely say SFNT sent ya.)
Here is the latest event video at AKQA – Outside the Boxes – Tales of UX Less Ordinary. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 | 9AM-5PM
Fox Theatre, 2223 Broadway St, Redwood City, CA 94063
SF New Tech is proud to support the organization of the Startup Conference 2014. Discover how to start your own startup and network with 2,000 fellow entrepreneurs and engineers. Journalists from TechCrunch and other media will be present as well. Conference speakers include Guy Kawasaki, Tim Draper, Vivek Wadhwa, David Hornik, Christine Herron, Bill Reichert and many more. If you just want to learn about hot new startups, stop by the International Startup Fair on the Courthouse Plaza in front of Fox Theater and browse the aisles of an outdoor street festival for startups. Exhibitors include venture capital firms and startups launching new products in the Demo Pit. The Startup Fair is free and open to the public –  SF New Tech members receive a 20% discount for the Startup Conference and demo tables at the fair, please use promotion code “SFNT20″.
Monday, May 19, 2014 | 8AM-6:30PM
Grand Hyatt, San Francisco
Big data analytics will continue to ignite explosive growth for those able to leverage it in 2014.
But while the data-science field continues to evolve at warp speed, companies are moving to a more practical stage this year: They’re seeking real results from their investments in analytics tools. They’re looking to boost revenue or curtail costs — or best of all, both.
VentureBeat hosted our inaugural DataBeat event in 2013, and it was a smash success, bringing together some of the top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs in the field of big data.
This year’s DataBeat will be laser focused on helping companies increase profitability through smart analytics and big data tools. We’re gathering the brightest minds to filter through the noise and give new insights on the people, technologies, and strategies that will accelerate growth.
Purchase one of the first 50 tickets and save $300!
The 5th Annual PR Summit Conference: Content Connect
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 | 9AM-6PM
The Old Mint 54 Mint Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94103
On Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 join 500 executives, top media influencers & entrepreneurs discuss the latest trends and best practices in business communications, story telling and content marketing. Â Spend One-on-one time with this industry visionaries, and leaders from the world of publishing, public relations, marketing, branding, advertising agencies, and other verticals and brands with a vested interest in the future of social journalism and digital storytelling.
HEAR SPEAKERS FROM:
USA Today, Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur TechCrunch, Venture Beat, GigaOM, San Jose Mercury News, Google, Wall Street Journal, AirPR, Thrillist & LinkedIn
DISCUSS:
Content Marketing, and PR Thought Leadership.
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
1. Ben Parr, (Co-Founder & Managing Partner DominateFund)
2. Cotton Delo (San Francisco Bureau Chief, Advertising Age)
3. Jon Swartz (SF Bureau Chief, USA Today)
4. Josh Constine, (Writer, TechCrunch)
5. Paul Walborsky (CEO, GigaOM)
6. Porter Gale (Author, Marketer, Tech-Lover and Start-up Advisor)
7. Rebekah Iliff (Chief Strategy Officer, AirPR)
8. Sarah Buhr (Writer, USA Today)
9. Tim Draper (Founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson)
REGISTER:
Promo of 20% off (Only 10-Available)
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CloudNOW
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 | 1:30PM – 7PM
Parc 55 Wyndham, San Francisco
CloudNOW, the non-profit consortium of the leading women in cloud and emerging technologies, invites you to attend our Third Annual CloudNOW Top Women in Cloud Innovation Awards. This year the focus of the Awards is on the end-user customer. We hope that you will join us for CloudNOW’s flagship event featuring the Top Women in Cloud, industry pioneers, and leading academicians from Stanford. Enjoy no-host bar, and an elegant dinner buffet at one of the most exclusive hotels in SF!
The Innovation Awards recognize the Top 10 cloud end-user customers for outstanding cloud and converging technology projects and implementations. During the event, the Top 10 Women will present their projects in a pitch-style competition where the Top Woman in Cloud will be named on-site for a real-time award of the title, Top Woman in Cloud.
Attendees: Cloud end-users, analysts, tech thought leader/ pioneers, VCs, and entrepreneurs
Sponsors: Dell, Cisco, GreenQloud, HP, IBM, VMware
Speakers: Manjula Talreja, VP Cloud Practices, Cisco; Margaret Dawson, Chief Cloud Evangelist, HP; Vanessa Alvarez, cloud thought leader, former Forrester analyst; Dr. Andrea Davies, Stanford.
Judges: Gia Scinto, Partner Andreessen Horowitz, employee #8; Amber Osborne, CMO Meshfire, Twitter “Top CMOâ€
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SFNT is seeking a UI/UX designer to polish up an MVP that we’re building to give startups an amazing new way to showcase their work.  Since we’re zero-funded on this project, we’re looking for your love in exchange for ours.  You’ll work with great people and, at the least, walk away with a great portfolio piece. This is just the beginning.  Big things are afoot!  Ping us here.
We debuted a brand new mobile app at our last event.  And it’s now open for everyone!
If you download it now and leave notifications on, you’ll get a free ticket to our next event!
We’re set on set on making mobile your spot for all-things-SFNT.
Now, you can:
- interact with others in the room when you join us live
- get tips on free stuff (tickets, prizes, discounts) at and in between events
- access to video archives of past demos
- access to SFNTinvest
- much, much, more.
RIDE ON, DANNY!
Daniel Jabbour, pictured above, helped us build SFNTinvest.  As the leader of a team of hackers at Amoeba Consulting and as the founder of The Psychedelic Society of San Francisco, Daniel was always up to something mind-bending.  He was an amazing collaborator with a heart of gold.  We lost Danny a few weeks ago and we will miss him. You can read more about Daniel here.
Ride on, Danny. Â Thanks for everything!
Photo Courtesy of Haj Matsukata
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Live from the Expo Hall, Macworld/iWorld 2014 attendees and a panel of all-star judges have named the co-winners of the inaugural Macworld/iWorld and SF New Tech 6 About to Break competition. Out of more than 100 entrants, Avegant Glyph and Petcube emerged tied as the overall winners based on their innovative design and technology. 6 About to Break was created to spotlight the most innovative apps, accessories, software, hardware and utilities uniquely positioned to breakout as leaders in the Apple marketplace.Continue Reading
What a great experience to do an SF New Tech pitch event at MacWorld 2014. We thank some of our regulars who came by to check it out. Enjoy the pictures.
We are pleased to announce the 6 Finalists for the First Ever ’6 About to Break’ Competition
Macworld/iWorld 2014 and SF New Tech have partnered to produce  the first-ever competition spotlighting the most innovative apps, accessories, software and utilities uniquely positioned to breakout in the Apple marketplace. The six final products span mobile, wearables, home automation, 3D and social media, and include:
AppPresser: A plugin framework with a set of tools that gives you the ability to create a native iOS and/or Android app using WordPress. AppPresser brings the power of building native apps with WordPress available to everyone. http://apppresser.com/
Everypost:Â An easy and convenient mobile social media app where anyone can manage and publish content to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedin, tumblr, and many other social networks all at once, from one place: Â http://www.everypost.com
Glyph: A wearable mobile personal theater device that allows users to experience all media with vivid life-like clarity and exceptional sound. Glyph combines a unique flip-down form factor, super sharp imagery and premium noise-canceling audio that revolutionize personal display technology. http://avegant.com
MotionPortrait: An app that enables users to transform a facial photo into a realistic 3D avatar that can talk and mimic words. The avatar moves and reacts with touch controls and can be customized and shared. http://www.motionportrait.com
Petcube: A home gadget that enables users to watch, talk and play laser games with their pet through a mobile phone app. Petcube comes in a sleek box that includes a laser pointer, wide angle camera lens, speakers and Wi-Fi. http://petcube.com
ReKognition: A cloud-based open API platform which helps developers incorporate state-of-the-art computer vision capabilities of facial recognition, object recognition and scene understanding into their apps or software. http://rekognition.com/
Join us LIVE on March 27 from 4:30-5:30pm on Macworld/iWorld’s Second Stage as the ‘6 About to Break’ finalists battle it out in front of thousands of conference attendees and hundreds of media. Each finalist will do a 5-minute demo and a 5-minute audience Q&A. An all-star panel of judges from Cult of Mac, Quake Labs, Macworld/iWorld, SF New Tech and more, will help determine the final winner.
Register for your discounted tickets @ http://www.macworldiworld.com with the code SFNT
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Our Liberty Madison (aka That Tech Girl) and Greg Viloria (aka SocialGreg) breakdown the iOS App pitches of the 2.19 event.
Here’s the pics from the 2.19 event. Enjoy!
Are you (or anyone you know) building the most kick-ass iOS app? Yeah? Then prove it!
As a lead up to our big “6 About to Break†event inside of Macworld on 3.27, we’ll be showcasing 6 Totally Kick Ass iOS Apps in front of 100s of SF’s digerati at the next SF New Tech event on February 19th @ Mighty.
One (or more) iOS apps demo’d on 2.19 may find themselves as one of the “6 About to Break”!
There’s no better place to show off your iOS wizardry. Macworld/iWorld attracts over 25,000 Apple enthusiasts, over 500 media folks, and generates over 2 billion media impressions.
Applying and showcasing (if selected) is absolutely FREE.
Do you have the world’s best iOS App?
Let us know… and you may end up famous!
Hey everyone! Here’s the pics from last night’s Mobile Live event. We appreciate the Twitter support! Check it out!
Yes!
We’re thrilled to finally formally announce that we’ve partnered with Macworld/iWorld to scout the best new apps, accessories, software and utilities tied to Apple-products and will showcase them in a very special SF New Tech-styled event called â€6 About to Break†*inside* of Macworld/iWorld on March 27th @ Moscone in front of media, VCs, and end users, and more.
The call for entries officially starts today!  

The opportunity is amazing.  First, it’s absolutely free to apply and free to showcase if chosen.  Second, those that rise to the top can realize some of the 2.4 BILLION media impressions generated via the event.   And to top it off, we’ll be throwing a party immediately following the event to celebrate.
Check out the official announcement below with all the juicy details — and spread the word!
We’ll also be sending discount out codes to Macworld soon.  Stay tuned!
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SF NEW TECH & MACWORLD/iWORLD PARTNER TO DISCOVER THE BEST NEW APPLE-CENTRIC INNOVATIONS TO SHOWCASE AT MACWORLD/iWORLD 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Francisco, CA — (January 15, 2013) SF New Tech, the Bay Area’s largest, longest-running, and most-loved technology event, is partnering with Macworld/iWorld, the largest event for those who use, create, and love Apple products, to scout out the best new apps, accessories, software and utilities tied to Apple and showcase them at a very special event called “6 About to Breakâ€. The event will take place inside of Macworld/iWorld Expo on March 27, 2014 at the Moscone Convention Center, and will give the six finalists an exclusive opportunity to present and showcase their products with exposure to over 500 media and more than 25,000 attendees.
Unlike most competitions, it’s absolutely free to apply to “6 About to Break†and also free to showcase if chosen. Macworld/iWorld offers an incredible opportunity for developers and innovators to put their product in front of avid Apple fans and garner significant media coverage (Macworld/iWorld generates over 2.4 billion media impressions). “6 About to Break†will be the talk of the event and is bound to make an innovator — or six — famous. Macworld/iWorld 2013 media in attendance included The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Mashable, Macworld, CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, New York Times and more.
The call for submissions for “6 About to Break†officially starts today.
Qualified entries include any newly released software, iOS applications, iPhone or iPad accessories, or Apple utilities within the last year. Simply tell us about your amazing product(s) at https://www.sfnewtech.com/sfntmacworld to be considered.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 3, 2014 at 5 pm PST. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 12, 2014.
The six winning selections will each be given five minutes for a live demo and then another five minutes for a robust Q&A on stage at Macworld/iWorld on Thursday, March 27, 2014 in front of thousands of conference attendees and hundreds of media. Winners will also be awarded prizes, including but not limited to six Complete Kendo UI and Icenium full product licenses and support from Telerik. Â We will also promote the winners via our media partnership with VentureBeat.
Immediately following the showcase, SF New Tech and Macworld/iWorld will host a special reception to celebrate the winners of the event and raise a glass to all things Apple and innovation. For those applicants not selected, Macworld/iWorld will be offering a special rate to both attend and showcase at the conference.
For more information or to inquire about sponsorships, please contact:
Myles Weissleder, Founder, SF New Tech
myles@sfnewtech.com
(415) 843-1850
Hi everyone! Hope the holidays are treating you well. Here are some pics from last week’s holiday event. Enjoy!
Here are a few takeaways from our big holiday party!
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PHOTOS & VIDEOS!
* Visit the SkyDrive folder with the mother lode of photos @ http://sdrv.ms/SFNewTechHolidays & download the one of you looking silly! [Thx for sponsoring us, SkyDrive!]
* You may also seen the event photos up on our Facebook page, too? Go tag, baby! http://www.facebook.com/sfnewtech
* NerdStalker was in the house and they probably stalked you! Watch the video!
http://youtu.be/QJqLSHIyd4c
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BIG NEWS!
You heard it first! SF New Tech is partnering with Macworld/iWorld to host a panel called “The Next 6 Products About to Break”. We’ll be selecting the best new apps, accessories, software and utilities tied to Apple-products to showcase their innovations LIVE on the Macworld/iWorld stage in front of media, VCs, and end users. We’ll be sharing details on how to enter in the coming weeks, but the buzz around these 6 hot products is sure to be huge. Macworld/iWorld generates over 2 billion media impressions – there is no better place to launch products for the Apple products market place. This is gunna be fun!
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DISCOUNTS TO MACWORLD/IWORLD
Score 3-day expo hall passes and 3-day conference passes to Macworld/iWorld (March 27 – 29, 2014) @ Moscone for only $10 & $149, respectively. Register with the promo code SFNT @ http://www.macworldiworld.com — sweet!
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WINNERS!
Big congrats to @Chrisbator, @Skinnyjeans, @Mohurley, @Dianasky, @Curtislu, @Irahulrana, @Libertymadison, @Aniline, @Magicsaucemedia, @Annebot who all walked away with awesome prizes!
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THANKS TO NEWAER & TRUNX
* NewAer – http://www.newaer.com
Hope you got to meet Nick Palmer, CTO of NewAer, which enables any smartphone to automate your life from physical space. Here his Nerdstalker interview live from Mayes: http://www.nerdstalker.com/2013/12/newaer-enables-any-smartphone-to.html
* Trunx – http://www.trunx.me
Hope you got to meet Sandra Ponce De Leon of Trunx, the newly launched cloud photo storage solution that’s generating a lot of buzz lately because their focus on privacy. You’re invited to score Free Unlimited Trunx Storage until Feb 2014. That’s right — upload as much as you can now for free, forever. That means that any photo you upload to Trunx or any photo, video or EchoPix you take with the app from now until then will always be free. You can use 5 GBs or 500 GBs! After, it’s simply pay as you go. Go upload privately now.
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UBER!
Your Uber code is still valid, use it or lose it! Register with code “sfntmacworld” and get 20% off your first ride. Or, 10% off if you’ve already been Uberized. Visit https://www.uber.com/go/sfntmacworld
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HELP!
Lastly, one of you beautiful women went home with an coat that wasn’t yours! From the inbox: “Crazy odds but someone had the exact same coat as me (even the same size) — and I took theirs instead of mine. It is a Via Spiga coat, size 8, it has leather trim, and a silk black and white liner. Is it possible you could post it or send an email to yesterday’s attendees? Mine had gloves in my pockets, and this one, although a bit newer, did not.” Ring a bell? Get in touch!
Hey gang! Here’s the Nerd Stalker‘s 60s Spots they shot at our Old Tech / New Tech holiday party…Maybe you’ll see some familiar faces. Check it out!Continue Reading
Thanks to everyone who attended our event on 12.11. The SF New Tech twitterverse pics from the event are here. Enjoy!
Meet Felix Puetsch and Markus Kuhnt co-founders of Go Fetch It. Felix and Markus will be pitching at our 12.11 event. Go Fetch It lets you define what you need and from whom–go fetch it makes sure you get it. Listen to the interview as Felix and Markus talk about the why they created Go Fetch It. Continue Reading
Meet Devrim Yasar, CEO of Koding who will be pitching at our 12.11 event. Koding is a developer community and cloud development environment where developers come together and code in the browser – with a real development server to run their code. Check out some background on Devrim Yasar and the Koding community in the interview below.Continue Reading
Meet Neel Murthy, Founder of Swapbox who will be pitching at our 12.11 event. Swapbox is a convenient way to receive all your packages without having to wait for the delivery at home. We talk with Neel to discuss Swapbox and its concept. Check it out!Continue Reading
Hey, checkout the latest in wearable technology. We interviewed Shariq Hamed, CEO of ever-popular Hot SmartWatch. Shariq will be pitching at our 12.11 event. Check out his video and Don’t miss the live demo.Continue Reading
Season’s Greetings! It’s that time of the year again!
We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that on December 18th (save the date!) we’ve partnered with Macworld/iWorld and will be taking over Mayes Oyster House, San Francisco’s oldest seafood restaurant and cocktail joint (est 1867), to celebrate the holidays and give back to some amazing causes in high style. See below for how our fundraising efforts in the past have changed lives around the world forever!We’ve got a few tabletop demo opportunities available for kick-ass startups knee-deep in new tech ($500) as well as a few sponsorship opportunities for more established companies ($1000-$2500).
We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that on December 18th (save the date!) we’ve partnered with Macworld/iWorld and will be taking over Mayes Oyster House, San Francisco’s oldest seafood restaurant and cocktail joint (est 1867), to celebrate the holidays and give back to some amazing causes in high style. See below for how our fundraising efforts in the past have changed lives around the world forever!We’ve got a few tabletop demo opportunities available for kick-ass startups knee-deep in new tech ($500) as well as a few sponsorship opportunities for more established companies ($1000-$2500).
We’ll be sending out invitations to our amazing community soon. Please reply to this email ASAP if you want to join the fun as a demo company or sponsor. Thank you!
SF NEW TECH HOLIDAY-TIME FUNDRAISING HAS….
* Helped rebuild classrooms that were destroyed by tropical storm Isaac in Haiti (via the Hands Together to Defend the Children Orphanage)
*Â Provided dinner to 500 families in NY & NJ that were dislocated due to super-storm Sandy (via The River Fund Mobile Pantry);
* Provided 1 child in India with quality education for 1 year (via Non Formal Education Centres);
* Provided enough needles and syringes to vaccinate over 625 Somalian children (via Merlin USA).
* Trained one woman as a community health worker in Afghanistan, who will assist 9,000 women annually, in turn, saving thousands of women who would have lost their lives or the lives of their babies during pregnancy and delivery (via Creating Hope International).
* Helped provide a health worker with enough needles and syringes to provide over 1,000 vaccinations to children in clinics in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia (via Merlin’s emergency response in East Africa).
* Purchased a water treatment system for 2 families in earthquake and Cholera ravaged Haiti (via Haiti Hospital Appeal).
* Paid for books and a uniform for 1 war-torn and impoverished South Sudanese child for 1 year (via Omdurman Family Project).
* Supported civil society movements in Egypt, and protect citizen media and other independent news sources, as well as circumvent internet censorship in Egypt, Syria, and Iran by helping Access keep its servers running on the Tor Network (via Access).
* Conserved 5 acres of the Tanzanian rainforest (about the size of 4 football fields) for one year (via Tanzania Forest Conservation Group).
*Â Saved the life of a newborn by providing an Embrace Infant Warmer, an innovative low-cost warmer designed to provide thermal support to preterm newborns, in India this winter. (Via Embrace)
* Provided a complete 2 month treatment of the revolutionary, nutrient-rich Plumpy’nut® food to 1 child in Niger who is suffering from the worst form of malnutrition. (Via Edesia)
*Â Payed for supplies for job training and support (stationary, books, training curriculum and pens) for one young woman who has been exposed to the foster care and the juvenile justice system in San Francisco. (Via Spark)
* Bought a Guatemalan family a goat to help and improve their children’s potential in life. (Via Save The Children)
* Provided 2 Rocket stoves plus hands-on training to 2 Haitian women who’s families were displaced by the devastating 7.1 earthquake so they may cook their family’s food safely. (Via Trees, Water & People)
* Provided a loan for 1 impoverished woman in rural East Africa to start a business to help support her family. (Via Women’s Microfinance Initiative)
* Purchased 2,000 water purification tablets to treat 10,000 liters of water for at-risk communities in need of clean water. (Via UNICEF Tap Project)
* Provided 3 emergency clean birthing kits, including a bar of soap, clear plastic sheet, razor blade, an umbilical cord tie, cloth and latex gloves to help deliver safe babies in crisis situations and locales. (Via UNFPA)
* Helped to fight & end child sex slavery in the U.S by helping 3 Generations redesign & enhance their current website to fully utilize the latest social media tools & broaden their reach. (Via 3 Generations)
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Before you turn off for the long weekend, grab your calendar and save these important SF New Tech event dates to close out the year!
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Another great night of SF New Tech demos!
Including:
* HOT SmartWatch – The only SmartWatch that allows you to use the palm of your hand as a speaker, plus gesture controls and more!
* Swapbox – Where packages wait for you!
* Ribbon – A payments app that lets you send money, without requiring either party to download an app or the sender to have an account!
* go fetch it – Effective data gathering and communication!
* … and much, much, more!
We’ll officially announce this event next week but act NOW and you can score a Super Bird $10 ticket with the code “superbird” @ https://1211sfnt.eventbrite.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
SF New Tech & Macworld’s Holiday Party!
We’ll be celebrating the holidays in classic San Francisco style at this party-of-the-year! Â Juicy details to be released soon. Â Join us for the fun — sponsorship and tabletop demo inquiries are encouraged! Get in touch – email myles at sfnewtech.com.
Until then, enjoy the long weekend and don’t eat too much!
SF New Tech is proud to present an opportunity to anyone who has the next big idea in sustainability. Presidio Graduate School, based in San Francisco, is asking for submissions to its Big Idea Prize. The prize – a full ride scholarship to its sustainability graduate program and a potential of receiving some seed money. Get your idea in by December 1. Get more information by checking out the video from our media partners at Nerd Stalker.
Hey, Check out the Twitterverse pics from the 11.20 event. Hope you like them!
We held our very first (but certainly not last!) #NewTechCrawl last week to celebrate Innovation Month in SF and got to visit innovation where it lives in San Francisco.  It was AMAZING!  Over 400 people participated throughout the day to crawl the city’s best hotspots for innovation.  Needless to say, we had a TON of fun and got to see and meet some amazing people and companies along the way.
See all the amazing photos here!
Check out the #NewTechCrawl on ABC News!
 “Entrepreneurs, techies gather for SF Tech Crawlâ€
Also, check out the Twitpictorial of the #NewTechCrawl via Storify!
BIG THANKS TO:
NewTechCrawl Sponsors & partners who helped this become a reality!
The Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation (InnovateSF), Scoop.it!, Aruba Networks, Sigma West, Rackspace, Runway, Propeller Labs, Dice, PandoDaily, Uber, Nerd Stalker, TeacherBus, Mosey.
Participating companies who opened their doors!
1-Page, AppDirect, FlexScore, Foundersuite, geekdom, Globant, grio, justinmind, Mashery, Mosey, NextSpace, Parisoma, RocketSpace, Tame, SET, Startup Product Academy, SpiderOak, FreeSpace, Prezi, Startup Basecamp, darkforeigner.
SHOUT OUTS:
Mayor Ed Lee and the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation!
For sparking this in the first place! Â Thanks!
Propeller Labs!
For helping us with our site @ http://www.newtechcrawl.com.  We highly recommend you dial them up for your iOS dev needs as they’re truly experts in conceiving, optimizing, iterating, and delivering amazing results. Visit http://www.propellerlabs.co and ask for George!
Scoop.it!
For investing in us! Â Scoop.it wants to help startups to cure their blogging blues! Check out this video with a hidden offer just for startups inside! Â http://unbouncepages.com/
Uber!
Uber has extended the SFNT community of first-time Uber riders a great discount. Â To enjoy $20 off your first Uber ride, new users can text promo code NewTechCrawlSF to 827222 OR simply visit http://www.uber.com/go/
Aruba Networks!
Check out what Cloud Wifi is all about @ http://cloud.arubanetworks.com – let ‘em hook you up!
Runway!
For hosting our happy hour and keynotes! Â http://www.runway.is
Dice!
For hosting our After Party! Â http://www.dice.com
Sigma West!
For supporting us, and for moving our firm and more venture money from Sand Hill to SF… and not being ashamed to boast about it ! http://www.sigmawest.com
Rackspace!
For fanatical customer service and for the free lunch! Â http://www.rackspace.com
TeacherBus!
For busing us around the city in your very, very cool biodiesel and solar powered bus, complete with a DJ booth! Â http://www.teacherbus.com
Mosey!
For mapping out and making sense of our multi-stop crawls! Â http://www.mosey.com
ThatTechGirl!
For keeping us on schedule and corralling our volunteers! Â http://www.libertymadison.com
What an awesome day!
If you’d like to help us get the first #NewTechCrawl of 2014 off the ground via sponsorship — get in touch!
What are you doing on November 6th?
How about joining us and Fast Company for Innovation Uncensored SF, a amazing full-day event featuring talented speakers, groundbreaking ideas, and the extraordinary innovations they report on daily.
Spend a day with the founders of Pinterest, Instagram, Yelp, Path, Paypal & many others, all under one roof (see below!)
Special code SFNT saves you $200 on your ticket.
Registration and information @ http://sf.innovationuncensored.com/
Here’s the agenda — as you can see this event is a no-brainer! Hope to see you there!
San Francisco: Innovation City
Mayor Ed Lee instituted San Francisco Innovation Month in 2012 to highlight and appreciate the entrepreneurs and startups driving job growth in the Bay Area. A welcome, and a window on what keeps San Francisco on the cutting edge.
Session I
Pinterest’S Next Push
What does Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann have in store for his wildly passionate pinners? An uncensored conversation about creativity, community, and new directions.
Session II
Are Brands The New VCs?
You no longer have to work on Sand Hill Road to make a bet on a startup. Big brands are investing in entrepreneurs – at a heated pace – and spawning new micro-industries.
Session III
Exclusive: How The Sandy Hook Tragedy Sparked Silicon Valley
After a school shooting devastated their community, a group of parents vowed to find a new way to decrease gun violence. Here’s what happened when they crossed paths with like-minded entrepreneurs, tech execs, and VCs.
Break
Session IV
Seeing Around Corners
What does it take to reimagine an industry? Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp, and Max Levchin, co-founder of Paypal, share their hard-won insights.
Session V
Backstage Pass: “The Secret Life Of Walter Mittyâ€
Acclaimed production designer Jeff Mann (“Terminator 3†“Transformersâ€) shares his secrets for capturing an audience’s visual imagination.
Session VI
Inside The Apple Design Lab
An unprecedented live oral history from the men and women behind the products that changed your world. FEATURING: Abigail Sarah Brody, Robert Brunner, Hartmut Esslinger, Nitin Ganatra, Andy Grignon, Tim Kobe, Dave Morin, and Jeff Zwerner.
Session VII
Inspiration In Unlikely Places
Roman Mars is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2013, and the creator of 99% Invisible, the award-winning, Kickstarter-funded podcast about places, spaces, and design. Here he presents a multimedia masterclass about the creative sources of innovation.
Session VIII
The World’S Most Difficult Start-Up: The Afghan Army
You feel like your startup is under siege? As it prepares to leave Afghanistan, the U.S. military takes stock of what it’s learned about leadership, organization, and teamwork – and tries to impart these lessons to its Afghan replacements.
Session IX
Analog’S Awesome Power
A talk about breaking technology down into its tiniest elements, and bringing the inventive power of basic analog electronics into everyone’s hands.
Session X
Your Dna Is Her Business
23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki is upending the medical world—and changing lives. An intimate chat with the boldest of CEOs.
Session XI
Pictures Of Success
An unfiltered conversation with Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and trail-blazing chef April Bloomfield on how to manage explosive growth while staying true to your creative vision.
Session XII
How To Survive The Great Disruption
MIT Media Lab guru Joi Ito on unlocking the Golden Rule for making innovation happen.
Session XIII
Lessons From Co-Creation Nation
What do the customers of tomorrow really want? The relationship between brands and consumers has never been more complex—or more fluid. A candid feedback loop is both an asset and a peril. Opportunities are entwined with risks. Managing this ecosystem is art and data-backed science. Our closing panel of innovators reveals their secrets—and takes open-mic questions—about inventing the future while collaborating with the crowd. FEATURING: Airbnb, Quirky, Polyvore, OUYA, and Kleiner Perkins.
Check ’em out!  Track down that lead!
Here is the pics from the twitterverse from last night’s Aruba Networks Cloud / Mobile event by SF New Tech. Thanks all and enjoy.
Meet Hugh Geiger and Ken Macken, founders of ollo mobile. Why are they smiling? They are just excited about pitching at our 10.30 event. The CloudPhone by ollo mobile is a voice controlled wearable 3G cell phone & smart care system that constantly monitors your loved one’s health. Designed for seniors and children, they’re bringing the quantified self to family care.  Check out what Hugh has in mind for ollo mobile:Continue Reading
Meet Sylvia Hooks from Aruba Networks, our sponsor of our 10.30 event. She will be introducing a new cloud management service from Aruba Networks. Check out what Sylvia says about their new service:Continue Reading
Meet Xavier Renom, CEO and Co-Founder of Justinmind, who will be demo’ing at our 10.30 event. Justinmind is the most advanced and easy platform to use that allows you to define and validate mobile and web apps with rich interactive wireframes. Xavier will be launching a new release, the 5.5 version with: Responsive and adaptive design simulation with liquid layouts, Emulators for iPhone, iPad and a custom emulator for any other device, and widgets for iOS7. Check out what Xavier has to say about Justinmind:Continue Reading
Meet Arnaud Saint-Paul, CEO of Smartsy. Arnaud will be pitching at our 10.30 event. Smartsy is an award-winning mobile marketing platform that connects brands, publishers and other content providers with their communities. Read what Arnaud says about Smartsy.Continue Reading
Meet Eric Bieller, the co-founder of Sqwiggle. He will be pitching at our 10.30 event. Sqwiggle is a tool which helps remote teams work more efficiently together by facilitating real presence and frictionless discussions. Here’s what Eric has to say about Sqwiggle’s uniqueness:Continue Reading
Hey, what a crawl today…Here’s what the twitterverse said about it. Enjoy!
Check out what Liberty aka #ThatTechGirl and Greg aka Nerd Stalker says about the pitches on our 10.16 event.
Check Out the 10.16 event pics from the twitterverse. Enjoy and share!
Meet Sriram Subramanian of ShoppinPal. Sriram will be pitching at our 10.16 event. ShoppinPal is a mobile platform for brick & mortar retailers that combines the best elements of the Starbucks rewards and checkout experience along with Amazon-like product recommendations and analytics. Check out what Sriram thinks how ShoppinPal helps people:Continue Reading
 Meet Mick Twomey, the co-founder at PointBurst who will be pitching at our 10.16 event. PointBurst is a social media platform that syndicates messages through partners, fans and other company advocates, keeps the messages consistent, and provides analytics to help companies measure the reach and effectiveness of their social media activity. Also, in 2012, our Johnny Mota wrote a small article about PointBurst, check it out! Here’s what Mick thinks is PointBurst’s value in the market:Continue Reading
Meet Christian Beegen, co-founder and CTO of SumoLogic. He will be pitching at our 10.16 event. SumoLogic, as the name says, works on Big Data and finds data anomalies. Think of it as a smart threat detector. Here’s what Christian says about their inspiration and uniqueness:Continue Reading
Meet Carlo Capello and Andrea Motto of ProxToMe.  They will be pitching at our 10.16 event. ProxToMe is said to be the FASTEST way to chat and share Dropbox files from your smartphone with your Facebook friends and people nearby. They’ve got some good press this year from the likes of Mashable, Gizmodo and VentureBeat. Here’s what Carlo and Andrea have to say about their phone app.Continue Reading
Meet Julien Hodara of Libon. He will be pitching at our 10.16 event. Julien and Libon is no stranger to SF New Tech. Libon sponsored our popular Mad Scientist event at the end of last year. Libon is a free all-in-one communication app: free HD calls, Text messages and a smart personalized visual voicemail. Julien will introduce Libon’s recently released Android app and some other announcements . Check out below why Julien thinks Libon is the app for you.Continue Reading
In celebration of Innovation Month in SF, we’ve partnered with The Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation to produce “SF’s Innovation Month Startup Crawl” to visit with some of our city’s coolest startups.
On Friday, October 25th, a few hundred geeks (and wanna-be-geeks) will be roaming the streets checking out startups in their natural habitats — and if you’re a SF-based startup with a great space, we want to visit you!
The crawl will officially start at Scoop.it HQ on 2nd/Market the morning, stop for lunch @ Rackspace’s Geekdom space and will culminate in the late afternoon at Runway in the “Twitter Building” for a few keynote addresses and cold cocktails — with multiple crawl tracks along the way.
It’s going to be a *really* fun day.
We’re building out our parade routes now and will open up public registration soon.
Why should local startups participate?
– Align with the Mayor’s office to celebrate Innovation Month
– Generate exposure as a company that values doing business in San Francisco
– Meet the tech community and those who are invested in it in your space
– Receive possible press coverage
– Help SF be all it can be
– More!
If you’d like your startup to be considered as one of the official or unofficial stops, simply visit https://www.sfnewtech.com/crawl before MONDAY 10/7 @ 5pm to tell us who are & where you are at and we’ll see if we can plug you in!
Crawl with us!
Cheers!
– Myles
Check out the Post Show with Nerd Stalker’s Greg Viloria and #ThatTechGirl Liberty Madison as they break down the Korean Style Tech Event.
Hey check out the twitterverse pics from Korean Style Tech Event. Enjoy!
…And The (Tech) Party Never Ends!  (Great honky tonk song, by the way!)
Lots to report!
1) In celebration of Innovation Month in October, we’re thrilled to announce we’ve partnered with the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation to produce a very special “Startup Crawl” on Friday 10/25 to visit and showcase amazing SF-based startups in their spaces!  The crawl will start at Scoop.it HQ on 2nd/Mission in the morning and will culminate in the late afternoon at Runway in the “Twitter Building” for a few keynotes and, of course, cocktails. It’s going to be a *really* fun day.   We’re building out our parade route now and want to hear from you if you’d like your startup to be considered as one of the official stops. We’re also looking for sponsors, volunteers, and organizers!  Tell us who you are and how you’d like to participate @ https://www.sfnewtech.com/crawl2) We’re also excited to report, in late November we will be producing the Fusion Tech Summit, a private, exclusive event with Marc Lewis of Fusion Analytics to showcase up-and-coming startups who are poised to disrupt the impact of public companies. Check out some of Marc’s reporting from the intersection of tech and Wall Street. Are you the CEO of a startup that’s disrupting and want an exclusive audience of top hedge fund and Wall Street types? Let us know.
3) Next week we’ll be celebrating the wonders of Korean Style Tech! Join us on Wednesday, Sept 25th at Mighty and you won’t be disappointed as twelve of Korea’s best, up-and-coming startups will hit the stage to show off their latest — just for you! Details and registration @ http://koreanstyletech.
4) We’ve got discounts to our favorite tech events in town, including LOGIN, Glazed, SF Music Tech, Failcon, GMIC, Future of Money, and maybe more! Click here.
5) Here’s the video of our last event, which I must say, goes down in my book as one of the best SFNTs we’ve ever had! Check it out @ http://youtu.be/crL7E2c8_TU
6) We’re lining up demos through the end of the year. For spotlight consideration, apply now!
Pitch Videos from the August 21st SF New Tech Event. Join us with pitches from
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Check out pics straight from the SF New Tech event twitterverse. Enjoy!
[Editor: Disclosure: Mark Evans is a co-founder of BrandGarage, a new platform for connecting brands with startups. He is also Managing Director of Converge Labs which puts on industry thought leadership events Mobile-Loco and Social-Loco.]
Meet an alumni from the New Tech Tour in Salt Lake City. Austen and Garrett have a way to make your Social Media more relevant, easy and in real-time. They  will be pitching 
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