Launch: Silicon Valley 2012, co-presented by SVForum, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft, provides an effective and cost efficient platform for the next generation of emerging technology companies to launch their products to the world, in front of an audience of Silicon Valley’s top VCs, Angels, corporate business development executives, prospective customers and partners, bloggers and media.
Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 is designed to showcase products and services from the most exciting of the newest startups in information technology, mobility, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy.
Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 will feature new companies that are ready for launch, but are not yet well known. These are companies that have a product or service available (as of June 5, 2012), but have not been out in the marketplace for more than a few months.
Companies that are interested in presenting their products at Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 should send an Executive Summary of no more than 2 pages to LaunchSV@svforum.org by latest Friday April 27, 2012.
Up to 30 of the most interesting companies will be invited to leverage Launch: Silicon valley 2012 as the springboard to launch their product or service, and to network with the audience of Silicon Valley’s top movers and shakers at the Pre-LSV Event Party on the evening of June 4, as well as at the event itself on June 5.
At Launch: Silicon Valley 2011, over 400 companies submitted executive summaries for presentation spots. Based on evaluations by the event’s prestigious board of venture advisors, 30 of those companies were invited to leverage Launch: Silicon Valley 2011 as their product launch platform. Each presenting company made a 6 minute onstage presentation to a voting audience of over 400 of Silicon Valley’s top movers and shakers.
During the past 6 years, appbackr, BLADE, Data Robotics, Dayak, d.light.design, fix8, Industrial Origami, Intelen, Jaxtr, JungleCents, Kongregate (acquired by GameStop), Mobisant, MyShape, Skyline Solar, Smaato, tenCube (acquired by McAfee), Steelhouse, Triggit, Trooval, Truemors (acquired by NowPublic), uTest, Vizibility, Yodio, Zuora, and over 180 other startups leveraged SVASE’s annual Launch: Silicon Valley event, to launch their products, raising over $136MM in venture capital, securing customers and partners along the way.
