Judges

Andrew Chung, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Andrew is a Principal at Lightspeed and has helped lead the firm's entry into new areas of investment that include cleantech, education, genomics, and healthcare IT.

Prior to Lightspeed, Andrew worked at Bain Capital and TL Ventures, where he supported leveraged buyout and venture...Know more

Anu Nigam, Sand Hill Angels

Anurag Nigam is a past President of Sand Hill Angels.  He is the Co-Chair of the Social Membership Committee with Andrea Zurek and he also manages the overall Sand Hill Angels membership process.  He is an Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate from Carnegie Mellon University...Know more

Ben Choi, Maveron

Ben has a wide-angle view of the world. And it’s not just because he’s a published amateur photographer. Born in Peoria, raised in San Francisco, and educated in Cambridge, Ben looks at everything in life from multiple angles.

Ben joined Maveron as a principal in 2009 and...Know more

Bipul Sinha, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Bipul Sinha is a Principal at Lightspeed and focuses primarily on Internet and software sectors, with a particular interest in advertising technology, social media, digital media and software infrastructure. He has over fourteen years of operations and technology investment experience.

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Deepak Kamra, Canaan Partners

Deepak Kamra has been a venture capitalist for nearly 20 years – identifying innovative companies that disrupt the status quo to become leaders in their fields. After an 11-year career growing technology startups into successful global leaders, Deepak joined Canaan Partners in 1991 and...Know more

Eileen Tanghal, Applied Ventures

Eileen Tanghal joined Applied Ventures in July 2008, where she is responsible for identifying, recommending and managing venture capital investments in nanotechnology, display, software automation and materials.

Ms. Tanghal is currently board of directors observer at BT Imaging,...Know more

Evgeny Zaytsev, Helix Ventures

Evgeny Zaytsev co-founded Helix Ventures in 2008 and brings eight years of venture capital and nine years of operations and research experience to the firm. Since 2001 together with Graham Crooke he managed the life sciences portfolio in two venture capital partnerships at Asset Management...Know more

Howard Hartenbaum, August Capital

Howard Hartenbaum joined August Capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as a General Partner at Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype and a former member of the board of directors where his achievement resulted in his joining the Forbes Midas List of top venture...Know more

Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC

Based in Palo Alto, California, Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in close to 100 consumer internet startups (Fund I, Fund II, Fund III)...Know more

John Balen, Canaan Partners


John Balen understands entrepreneurs. Since joining Canaan in 1995, John has worked with some of the smartest people in the technology industry to build high-performance companies such as Commerce One, which brought B2B ecommerce to the masses, eStamp, the pioneer of Internet postage,...Know more

Winners

Clean Tech
TBA
Life Science
TBA
Mobile & Media
TBA
Next Generation Internet 1
TBA
Next Generation Internet 2
TBA
Technology
TBA

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