Keynote by Tim Draper, Managing Partner, DFJ

Panel on Entrepreneurship
Mike Cassidy, built and sold 4 companies – Stylus Innovations, Direct Hit (built in 500 days and sold for $532M), Xfire, and Ruba (sold to Google)
Stan Chudnovsky, sold 2 companies, one for over $100M
Alex Miroshnichenko, serial entrepreneur, CTO, Virsto, the “hottest” startup in the Valley

Moderator: Ilya Strebulaev, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Siri equivalent for Android and other platforms.
Magnifis Virtual Personal Assistance technology combines natural language understanding, speech recognition and personalized user knowledge. Our Assistant can answer questions and help with calendar management, reminders, messaging, local search, reservations, navigation and more, through a voice interface.

AlphaFares is a disruptive travel company that offers deeply discounted airfare to leisure travelers. We have developed a patented technology that allows a seller of airline tickets to easily and precisely differentiate between business and leisure customers, enabling targeted airfare pricing. This technology does not have any drawbacks associated with the opaque distribution channels, such as Priceline or Hotwire, and has been very well received by the airlines. We are launching in March ‘12.

OpenSignalMaps is the largest wireless signal crowdsourcing project in the world. Over a million users of OpenSignalMaps for Android have contributed data to help create global maps of cell phone and WiFi coverage. The data collected is being used to build a recommendation engine that allows users to find out exactly which network offers the best service for them at home, at work, and during their commute."

AppsGeyser - convert web content into native mobile apps in 2 easy steps, distribute and monetize.

MoWaiter is a single mobile and social network platform allowing restaurants and customers to interact more efficiently. Instead of a jungle of apps for each unique restaurant or chain, MoWaiter will be the unified solution from which users can order, pay, and receive suggestions and incentives tailored to their own preferences.

Internet Polyglot is dedicated to helping our members learn foreign languages by providing them a way to memorize words and their meanings. This helps your memory to grasp more information and retain it for longer time.

WikiSeer is the world's first semantic ad platform for mobile display ads. WikiSeer increases display ad revenues by 300%. Our technology uses a combination of Summarization, Natural Language Processing, Linguistics and Machine Learning to improve ad revenues. WikiSeer is live with a select customers and producing revenues."

Oomnitza products help companies run better by changing the way their people work. Companies are reducing costs and increasing user engagement by deploying our easy-to-use, customizable and intuitive enterprise applications that work stand alone or integrated with existing solutions.

SoundOfMotion is a revolutionary venture specializing in high-precision sports performance monitoring technology for road and track cycling, mountain biking, alpine and cross-country skiing, snowboarding and running.

Russian3DScanner is an affordable software that allows 3D-specialists all over the world to scan real-world objects in 3D using ordinary camera and a projector. You can make the model in several hours as precise as you would make it manually in several days.

Pixowl makes Mobile Family Games. Our first game Doodle Grub has been installed 4m times in 6 months.

SAEX is abbreviated from SAles EXchange. It is a perfect place to buy, sell, or exchange business contact information. We provide 100% accuracy of the business contact information and dramatically reduce cost for seeking this king of data.

Ambiq Technology is a globally operating service provider and enabler of transportation, payment, and other services based on the Near Field Communication technology. Ambiq operates its TSM (Trusted Service Manager) and manufactures devices that enable NFC on legacy phones. Ambiq partnered with VimpelCom (Beeline) to provide transportation and payment applications in Russia.

yaM is a web-based notepad for business meetings that takes the pain out of the process. Our tools for preparing, structuring and visualising the discussion will save hundreds of thousands of hours for business people every day.

LUXIHOME is reinventing the definition of Home Automation bringing to market Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS). LUXIHOME SHaaS is a cloud-based software platform that enables users to remotely monitor home inhabitants (children, seniors and pets), well-being, and control home appliances.

Noca has built a payment system that allows Merchants to start accepting payments online without having to get a Merchant account or getting PCI certification for their site. Additionally by offering an integrated low cost "Secure Check" system Noca is able to offer processing rates lower than other processors. On the Consumer side Noca is building a system where Users will be able to pay with a "PIN" as opposed to typing in full Credit Card information.

trint.me is a software platform where users can express their true intentions (friendly, professional or romantic) for specific people in their Facebook network without fear of rejection or risking their current relationship. If there is a match of intentions, both people know about it privately. If there is no match, neither one knows about others’ intentions.