Platinum Sponsors
Redpoint Ventures
Redpoint Ventures focuses on partnering with and funding innovative companies that have the potential to define, lead, and change industries. Redpoint partners have many decades of experience and success in technology investing; combined with this foundation, the firm is able to leverage a thriving network of entrepreneurs, partners, and industry experts to accelerate building market-leading companies. Redpoint (www.redpoint.com) was founded in 1999 by partners from two of the top firms in the venture capital industry and currently has over $2 billion under management. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, China. http://www.redpoint.com
Viximo
Viximo is the only complete digital goods platform connecting the creators, publishers, and brands across the Internet. Viximo enables publishers with an innovative digital goods solution that monetizes and engages their audience, while giving premium content creators and world class brands access to millions of users. Viximo has initially launched with a suite of publishers including top Facebook applications, social networks, gaming sites, and iPhone applications representing over 10 million monthly users. http://www.viximo.com
Gold Sponsors
Offerpal Media
Offerpal Media is the first “Managed Offer Network” for social applications and communities. Our turnkey platform of uniquely engineered CPA offers monetizes application developer’s traffic while generating high quality leads for advertisers. The platform is based on an innovative engagement-marketing model in which users can earn points, rewards or other forms of virtual currency by participating in free trials, surveys, big-brand discounts and other relevant offers. Behind the platform sits a powerful optimization engine that targets precisely the right offers to an individual based on their profile, their relevance to the social graph and other proprietary algorithms. http://www.offerpalmedia.com
Super Rewards
Super Rewards is the leading virtual currency monetization platform for websites, games and social network applications. Our turnkey, simple to integrate solution delivers highly targeted advertising offers to millions of website and social networks users across the globe. Super Rewards’ proprietary cost-per-action advertising technology is proven to maximize revenues while increasing engagement of users to any gaming site or application through additional points, credits, tokens, coins or chips etc. This allows developers and game designers to do what they to do best: build killer apps, games or sites… and now extremely profitable ones too! http://www.srpoints.com
Networking Sponsors
Goodwin Procter LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation’s leading law firms, with a team of 900 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm’s Technology Companies Group is a highly focused team of 160 lawyers who provide dedicated representation to over 500 emerging companies and entrepreneurs and 200 venture capital and private equity firms with a focus on industries including software, digital media, cleantech, life sciences, telecommunications and networking, among others. http://www.goodwinprocter.com
Twofish
Twofish is the world’s premier provider of economic infrastructure for online entertainment properties. The company’s flagship product, Twofish Elements, simplifies the management of banking accounts, inventory systems, and business analytics for partners spanning gaming, virtual worlds, social networking, and retail toys. http://www.twofish.com
Additional Sponsors
fatfoogoo
fatfoogoo is the leading in-game commerce ecosystem for monetizing online games and virtual worlds. Fatfoogoo’s solutions allow both publisher-to-player and player-to-player financial interaction, as well as traditional user and subscription management. Publishers can choose white label turnkey solutions or individually configured modules. Founded in 2006 by Daniel Petri and Martin Herdina, fatfoogoo is headquartered in Austria and also has offices in the US and the UK. For more information, please visit http://www.fatfoogoo.com
SocialMedia
Socialmedia.com is the largest independent social advertising network, enabling 5,000+ apps running on Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, Orkut and Friendster to monetize their traffic. Developers can now make money from Social Currency, incentivizing users to earn points used in apps use while generating money for the developer. http://www.socialmedia.com
Sometrics
Sometrics delivers social intelligence with a one-two punch – combining deep, relevant social analytics with precision-targeted ad serving and social branding capabilities – creating a way to monetize the social web. Sometrics aims to unlock the potential of the social web for publishers, app developers, and brands both big and small – providing the most relevant and effective audience analysis available, to help them better understand who’s doing what within social networks and niche community sites. The result is precision-targeted advertising within the massive playground that is the social web – a world that’s been frustratingly hard to quantify and monetize until now. http://www.sometrics.com
Zong
Zong is the first mobile payment solution enabling Web publishers to bill over 95% of the U.S. and European mobile subscribers. Zong’s frictionless payment system is fast becoming the mainstream method of payment for purchasing virtual goods and currency. Integration with web apps takes less than a day. Zong converts up to 7 to 10 times better than credit cards for virtual goods/currency-related transactions. Zong is a service of Echovox, Inc., the leading mobile monetization company, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA. http://www.zong.com
