SVASE Announces the Companies Selected for the ‘Most Promising New Company’ Award at Launch: Silicon Valley 2008
Mountain View, CA – June 11, 2008— The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) today announced its selections for the “Most Promising New Company” at Launch: Silicon Valley 2008, which was held yesterday at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. Thirty companies were chosen to present at the annual event, which had a record 266 applicants this year.
The winners in each of the presenting categories included:
Next generation internet: Dayak
Semiconductor/Industrial: Loadstar Sensors
Next Gen Internet: Triggit
Life Science & Acoustics: Sensear (from Australia)
Computing: uTest
Media & Mobility: Dial2Do
Dayak, is the world’s first online recruiting marketplace that links employers with a nationwide network of professionally trained recruiters in order to fill jobs faster and save employers money. www.dayak.com.
Triggit dramatically simplifies the process of monetizing Websites. Using Triggit’s unique technology, web publishers can start running ads across their entire site with just the click of a mouse and one simple line of code. www.triggit.com.
Loadstar Sensors Inc. is a leader in the design and manufacture of capacitive load sensors for automotive, aerospace, medical device and industrial applications. www.loadstarsensors.com.
Sensear has developed the Patent Pending SENS (Speech Enhancing Noise Suppressing) Technology, the world’s first speech enhancement device that enables clear communication in high noise environments. Sensear has a first mover advantage in the industrial sector and is uniquely positioned to create and dominate a new speech enhancement device market targeting consumers with hearing loss. www.sensear.com.
uTest is the first ever, on-demand global marketplace for software application testing-providing companies with testing services by a global community of professional software testers. www.uTest.com.
Dial2Do is a phone service that gives users a phone number to call to get things done, hands-free. It lets them make use of driving time to send emails/texts, create reminders, listen to selected content and use a range of other hands-free services, safely and easily. Users just dial the number and say what they want to do. www.dial2do.com.
“Yesterday’s event was a smashing success, with well over 300 people attending. We think the audience had a chance to preview some of the most innovative and compelling startups in the marketplace today,” said Chris Gill, President and CEO of SVASE. “We look forward to monitoring the future successes of these companies.”
Some blog and press comments regarding Launch: Silicon Valley 2008 can be found at the following:
What Makes Silicon Valley VC’s Different? They are riskmasters…
Nicolai Wadstrom
http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/06/12/what-makes-silicon-valley-vcs-
different-they-are-riskmasters/
June 12, 2008
Voice. An Opinion
Dial2Do wins “hands-free” at SVASE Launch: Silicon Valley 2008
http://blog.dial2do.com/2008/06/12/dial2do-wins-hands-free-at-svase-
launch-silicon-valley-2008/
June 12, 2008
Webware
VaultStreet files finances: Useful, but overpriced
Rafe Needleman
http://www.webware.com/8300-1_109-2.html?keyword=Launch+Silicon+Valley
June 12, 2008
The Deal
Startups debuting at Launch tweak older business models
Andrea Orr
http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/vc-ratings/vc-blogs/no-
such-thing-as-an-original-i.php
June 11, 2008
Andrea also covered Dayak here:
http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/vc-ratings/vc-ratings/
unemployment-soaring-but-hope.php
The Software Abstractions Blog
Founders' Quotes from Launch:Silicon Valley 2008
Nitin Karandikar
http://blog.softwareabstractions.com/the_software_abstractions/2008/06/
founders-quotes.html
June 11, 2008
The Xcavator Blog
CogniSign's xcavator technology featured at Launch Silicon Valley
http://xcavator.net/Blog/2008/06/cognisigns-xcavator-technology-featured.html
June 11, 2008
Zoli’s Blog
House Burns While I Attend Launch: Silicon Valley
http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/06/11/house-burns-while-i-attend-launch-silicon-valley/
June 12, 2008
Webware
Top 7 Web 2.0 start-ups at Launch Silicon Valley
Rafe Needleman
http://www.webware.com/8300-1_109-2.html?keyword=Launch+Silicon+Valley
June 11, 2008
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080611/20080611006296.html?.v=1
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/svase-announces-companies-selected-
most/story.aspx?guid=%7B8334D2BC%2D5E6E%2D4351%2D8298%2DB5
B1E8778DB4%7D&dist=msr_6
http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2008/06/11/businesswire
20080611006296r1.html
For more information about the event, and overview of all the companies that presented at Launch: Silicon Valley 2008, please visit the following URL:
http://launchsiliconvalley.org/agenda.html.
