Startup Entrepreneurs who did not make it to the recent Under the Radar event, here’s your second chance: join us at Launch: Silicon Valley 2007, co-presented by SVASE and Garage Technology Ventures.
In fact it will be more than a second chance: while the UtR event focused specifically on the Office 2.0 space, Launch 2007 is designed to uncover and showcase products and services from the most exciting of the newest startups in information technology, mobility, security, digital media next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy. The inaugural Launch event was in 2006, combined with Guy Kawasaki’s Art of the Start conference.
Are these events worth attending? The startup CEO’s who got their “breakthrough” at last year’s Launch certainly think so:
Faraz Hoodbhoy, CEO, PixSense, Inc:
”Since L:SV (November 8, 2006) we closed series A with Innovacom and ATA and have gone on to win large customer deals across the Telco and mobile social networking world. We’re growing significantly and are now looking at closing a new round of funding as well that we will announce sometime early next month.
On the team side, we’re up to well over 50 people and are looking to be over 120 by end of this year across the globe. We currently have people on the ground in Santa Clara, Beijing, Karachi, Tokyo and soon to expand to Hong Kong, Paris, London, Dubai and Bombay.
So things are going quite well so far. Thanks much for giving us the opportunity to present at L:SV; it was indeed a very good show for us.
Sincerely, Faraz”
Vajid Jafri, Founder & CEO, cFares:
“Launch: Silicon Valley was an extremely valuable event for cFares, as it was there that we met the firm that subsequently became the lead investor in our latest round of finance. We would not have achieved as much progress as we have without Launch: Silicon Valley.”
So if you are building the Next Great Business in the areas mentioned above, are (almost) ready for launch, meaning that by June 5, 2007 you will have a product or service available, but have not been out in the marketplace for more than a few months, then by all means send an Executive Summary of no more than 2 pages to Launchsv@svase.org. Submission deadline: May 3, 2007. Last year over 150 companies from New York, Colorado, Finland, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, and the UK, as well as from the West Coast of the USA applied, so clearly the presentation spots are in high demand. (Garage Technology offers a useful Writing a Compelling Executive Summary guide)
Every Executive Summary will be evaluated by at least 2 members of the Advisory Board, composed of leading members of the Silicon Valley investment community. Following these evaluations, up to 30 companies will be invited to present at the Launch: Silicon Valley 2007 event on June 5 at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, California. Presentations slots are 10 minutes, running in 6 sessions of 5 companies each. Each presenting team will also be assigned a cocktail table in the Networking Room where they can meet with interested audience members one-on-one to answer questions and explore possibilities.
CEOs of the companies voted “most promising new company” in each of the six sessions at the event will also receive invitations (for two) to attend the prestigious Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” Gala Dinner on June 29 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
On the evening on June 4, the presenting companies, registered audience and selected bloggers and media will be invited to a Pre-Event Party at a prestigious location in Palo Alto, providing a further opportunity for networking with Silicon Valley’s movers and shakers.
Guy Kawasaki calls Launch: Silicon Valley “the poor man’s Demo” and recommends you get in. SVASE proudly wears that badge, since we’re bringing this event at a price that won’t keep any startup away. It’s your turn now: send in the Executive Summary and launch with us in June.
Update (4/12): AlwaysOn: If you launch your product and no-one notices…
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Thanks for the mention of Under the Radar, we just did another Call for Companies (see our blog) for our Entertainment and Media conference coming up on June 28th. We’ll also be doing a Mobility conference in November. Our event schedule is up on our site – we are looking forward to a stellar year of killer events: http://www.dealmakermedia.com/event_calendar.html Good luck to Launch 2007, should be a great event.