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VC Sponsor
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm with over $2 billion of committed capital under management. Lightspeed's investment professionals and advisors are located in Silicon Valley, China, India and Israel. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed more than 150 companies, many of which have become leaders in their respective markets, including Blue Nile, Brocade, Calista, Ciena, DoubleClick, eHealth, Galileo Technology, Growth Networks, Informatica, Kiva Software, LightLogic, Maker Communications, Metasolv, Openwave, Quantum Effect Devices, Riverbed, Sirocco, Virsa Systems and Waveset. http://www.lightspeedvp.com
Platinum Sponsors
Offerpal Media
Offerpal Media is the first "Managed Offer Platform" for social networks and applications, online games, virtual worlds and mobile developers. The company's turnkey platform allows publishers to monetize their traffic through targeted and relevant advertising offers, generating publisher revenues at a network-wide average of $75 per day for every 1,000 Daily Active Users. Advertisers can tap into Offerpal Media's expansive network to reach more than 50 million highly engaged and targeted consumers. Based in Fremont, CA, and backed by top-tier venture capital firms, Offerpal Media features an experienced management team with deep roots in online advertising, personalization, and optimization technologies. http://www.offerpalmedia.com.
Super Rewards
Super Rewards is the leading virtual currency monetization platform for websites, games and social network applications. Our turnkey, simple to integrate solution delivers highly targeted advertising offers to millions of website and social networks users across the globe. Super Rewards' proprietary cost-per-action advertising technology is proven to maximize revenues while increasing engagement of users to any gaming site or application through additional points, credits, tokens, coins or chips etc. This allows developers and game designers to do what they to do best: build killer apps, games or sites... and now extremely profitable ones too! http://www.srpoints.com
Zynga
Zynga is the #1 social gaming company on the web. Zynga was founded specifically to add a social element to casual online games because we love games, and we love them most when we’re playing with friends! Social games provide a more fun, competitive and contagious experience. Zynga delivers on the promise of social networks, making it easy to connect with old friends and make new ones (no download required!). Zynga has something for everyone: casino games, word games, board games, role playing games and party games which can be found on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and hi5. http://www.zynga.com
Additional Sponsors
Allopass
Allopass is Europe’s #1 micropayments provider and a global micropayments leader. With coverage in nearly 50 countries, immediate payments and over 8 years of experience, Allopass processes nearly 7 million transactions monthly for over 300,000 merchant customers. Allopass aggregates multiple payment methods, including mobile payments, premium rate phone billing, prepaid cards, cash payments, ISP billing, and e-wallets, to help publishers optimize revenues. Allopass is a division of Groupe Hi-Media, a diversified internet company that operates one of Europe's largest online advertising networks, is a publisher of online properties receiving over 50 million unique visitors monthly, and provides direct publisher monetization through Allopass. http://www.allopass.com
daopay
daopay provides secure online payments that are charged to the buyer's phone bill. Available on any landline and mobile phone in over 200 countries, daopay connects web site publishers with more than 3 billion consumers worldwide. With only a simple phone call or SMS message, consumers anywhere can instantly pay for premium online content without a credit card, bank account or online registration. daopay integrates easily into any web site or application. http://daopay.com.
GlobalCollect
GlobalCollect is the world’s premier Payment Service Provider of local e-payment solutions for international Customer Not-Present (CNP) businesses such as internet, mail and telephone orders. Through a single-interface online payment platform, we offer access to an unrivalled portfolio of local and international payment methods in over 200 countries and for 170 currencies. http://www.globalcollect.com.
Peanut Labs Media
Peanut Labs Media is a social monetization company focusing on monetizing the new digital economy around virtual goods and currencies through Market Research and Advertising. We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices in Seattle and New York. With partners like Acclaim Games, NHN, Zynga, Meez and others, Peanut Labs helps monetize more than 200 million visitors each month. The company has received multiple industry awards including the Fast 50, OnHollywood Top 100 and the ARF Silver Innovation Awards. Talk to us if you have virtual currencies, digital economies or premium content anywhere in your game. http://www.peanutlabsmedia.com.
Social Gold
Social Gold is a virtual economy platform operated by Jambool, Inc. The platform enables social game and application developers to process in-app payments, to create and manage their own virtual currencies and to merchandise their virtual goods effectively, using robust analytics — all through a very simple but powerful API. Social Gold also delivers a seamless experience for users, who never have to leave the game in order to buy currency or goods and can store their billing information for future purchases. Jambool, Inc. is a small but talented team of former Amazon and Yahoo! veterans. http://www.jambool.com.
ThreatMetrix
Stop online fraud and instantly identify customers in real time with ThreatMetrix. Profile your website visitor's computer the instant they connect to manage risk of credit card fraud and new account/account login fraud. ThreatMetrix does a deep forensic "dive" into your website visitor's computer and mines TCP/IP packets to assign a unique identifier to the device -- all in just a few seconds. Use our console or APIs to access 150+ device attributes including true IP address and geolocation, botnet risk and customizable rules-driven score. SaaS or on-premise, ThreatMetrix offers the social gaming and networking industry effective, affordable real time fraud control. http://www.threatmetrix.com.
Vivox
Based in Natick, MA and founded in 2005, Vivox is the leading provider of community-building voice services for online games and virtual worlds. Supporting over 10 million users in more than 180 countries and delivering over 2 billion minutes of voice chat a month, the Vivox Network is the world's largest voice network for gamers. The Vivox voice chat solution is available on multiple platforms -- PC, web based and for the PlayStation3® console. Vivox customers include online game and virtual world developers and publishers such as CCP Games, Icarus Studios, Linden Lab, NCsoft, Sony Online Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast. For more information on Vivox and the power of voice, visit http://www.vivox.com.
Media Partners
GigaOM
The GigaOM Network of sites provide one of the leading daily online news reads for the key influencers in the emerging technology market place. We deliver technology news, analysis and opinions on topics ranging from broadband and online games to Web 2.0. Founded in 2006, we now serve a monthly global audience of 1.75 million consumers and professionals interested in the latest news in the world of high-tech. For more information, please visit http://www.gigaom.com.
Girls In Tech
Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector. http://www.girlsintech.net.
Inside Social Games
Inside Social Games is the first blog dedicated to tracking the convergence of games and social platforms. Inside Social Games was started by Justin Smith in April 2008 and is based in Palo Alto, California. Lead game reviewer Christopher Mack has been writing since late 2008. Social games are bringing together family and friends like games never before have. We're looking forward to tracking not only the games but also the people and companies behind them that are leading the charge into this new and exciting space. We believe some interesting new companies will be created as the worlds of gaming and social networks collide. It should be a fun ride. Please drop us a line any time! For more information, please visit http://www.insidesocialgames.com.
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a leading technology media empire dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. Founded in 2005, TechCrunch and its network of websites reach 5.5 million unique visitors and have more than 15 million page views per month. TechCrunch operates a global network of websites including TechCrunch Europe, TechCrunch France, and TechCrunch Japan as well as specialized industry websites including MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, and TechCrunchIT. TechCrunch is also home to CrunchBase, a leading data resource about start-up companies, people and investors, as well as industry events including TechCrunch 50 and The Crunchies, and various meet-ups worldwide serving as community platforms for industry conversation and collaboration. TechCrunch is a privately held company located in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.techcrunch.com.
VentureBeat
VentureBeat provides news and analysis of technology innovation and the venture capital that fuels it. VentureBeat is written by Matt Marshall, and a team experienced journalists including the well-known writer Dean Takahashi. The site provides in-depth coverage of Gaming, Digital Media, Mobile, CleanTech and Venture. VentureBeat offers insights into the most relevant emerging technologies, trends and companies and the business opportunities they create. Readers include entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and other business technology executives who follow technology innovation.
VentureBeat brings the community together several times per year through it’s executive conferences and custom networking events: GamesBeat, MobileBeat and GreenBeat. For more information, please visit http://www.venturebeat.com.
