Judges

Ken Elefant, Elefant Ventures


Ken Elefant is a founding partner of Elefant Ventures and was a founding general partner for Opus Capital’s 2006 Fund. Ken focuses primarily on internet infrastructure, software and security investments. Ken was involved with several prior investments including Virsa Systems (...Know more

Mike Jackson

Mr. Jackson is an analyst at The Westly Group. Prior to joining, he was founder and CEO of Village Green Energy, a retailer of renewable electricity production to households and businesses. Previously, he managed research in India and China at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development...Know more

Noah Doyle, Javelin Ventures

Noah has founded, launched and grown dozens of high technology products and companies in 20 years of entrepreneurship and management of innovation. Noah most recently directed the enterprise product line for Google's geospatial products, Google Earth and Google Maps. Prior to Google, Noah...Know more

Rob Hayes, First Round Capital

Rob joined First Round Capital in 2006.  Rob came to First Round Capital from Omidyar Network where he was their first venture investor.  He led most of Omidyar Network's initial venture capital deals and later built and ran the technology investing group.
 
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Saad Khan, CMEA Ventures

Saad has spent his career innovating. From R&D to entrepreneurship, from Hollywood to Silicon Valley, Saad has always sought the bleeding edge of technology and creativity. “I’m happiest when I am surrounded by whiteboards and thought provoking people.”

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Steve Bernardez, Onset Ventures

Steve Bernardez joined ONSET Ventures in 2006, bringing more than a decade of experience in the IT industry. He has had director-level management responsibility in business development and market strategy at both large technology companies and startups. Steve came to ONSET from Microsoft,...Know more

Steve Blank

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Ted Driscoll, Claremont Creek Ventures

Ted Driscoll is a Technology Partner at Claremont Creek Ventures. He is also an active angel investor in the Life Science Angels and a founding director of the Sand Hill Angels.
 
Prior to his venture capital experience, Ted helped found five successful companies in imaging-...Know more

Winners

Technology 1
Kiverdi
Life Science
Evena
Mobile & Media
KlickEx
Next Generation Internet 1
Noodle
Next Generation Internet 2
Social IQ
Technology 2
ZipZap

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