Interested in sponsoring? Contact David Sachs at david@vgsummit2008.com for available opportunities.
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
Viximo
Viximo provides Virtual Economy Solutions driven by unlimited, targeted, and premium content for consumers on social networks, online dating sites, and casual games. Coupled with their suite of analytics, currency, and payments providers, Viximo can have your virtual economy up and running in less than a week, and Viximo will work with you over time to maximize the revenue and customer engagement generated by that economy. Viximo can be found at http://viximo.com and you can access Viximo's virtual goods strategy blog at http://blog.viximo.com/corporate.
VC Sponsors
Norwest Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global, multi-stage investment firm that manages more than $2.5 billion in capital. It has offices in Palo Alto, California, Mumbai and Bangalore, India and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early to late stage venture and growth equity investments in U.S. and global companies across a wide range of sectors including: information technology, business services, financial services and consumer. NVP has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 48 years and has funded over 450 companies since inception. http://www.nvp.com
Globespan Capital Partners
Globespan Capital Partners is a leading global venture capital firm with over $1 Billion under active management. Globespan takes a balanced approach to investing with multi-stage investments in information technology and cleantech companies. Our investment team has a proven track record based on partnering with management teams to build strong, successful companies. We have significant experience and relationships in Asia which allows us to provide our portfolio companies access to global markets. With offices in Boston, Palo Alto and Tokyo, we invest in companies all across the U.S. and in Japan on behalf of a global base of limited partners. For more information on Globespan, please visit our website at http://www.globespancapital.com.
Silver Sponsors
PayPal
PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or personal financing. With more than 75 million active accounts in 190 markets and 19 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. PayPal is an eBay company and is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payments platform, the Payflow Gateway, and Bill Me Later. More information about the company can be found at https://www.paypal.com. Located in San Jose, California, PayPal was founded in 1998 and was acquired by eBay in 2002.
ThreatMetrix
Stop fraud in games that monetize through sales of virtual currency and instantly identify customers in real time with ThreatMetrix device identification. Profile your website visitor's computer the instant they connect to manage risk of fraud and new account/account login fraud. ThreatMetrix profiles 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 web console or APIs to access 150+ device attributes including true IP address and geolocation, botnet risk, customizable rules-driven score and more. ThreatMetrix offers the social gaming and networking industry effective, affordable real time fraud control. http://www.threatmetrix.com
Additional Sponsors
BlueRun Ventures
BlueRun Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital fund focused on Internet & Media, Mobile, Enterprise Software, and Semiconductors and Components. For the last 10 years, BlueRun Ventures has worked with early stage companies to build lasting businesses and successful exits in the crossroads of technology, ideas, and global markets. The firm has offices in Menlo Park, Beijing, Shanghai, Helsinki, Seoul, and Mumbai. http://www.brv.com
Cactus Media
Cactus Media is the leader in performance based marketing, helping publishers maximize revenue and profits. We specialize in providing exclusive offers for social media virtual currency platforms. We offer the highest payouts and best payout terms in the industry. To learn more about Cactus Media please visit us at http://www.cactusmedia.com
AdParlor
AdParlor helps game and social media application developers make money. We do this through our extensive international banner network and our virtual currency monetization platform. Our banner network delivers millions of ad impressions daily on the leading social networking sites. Our virtual currency platform provides numerous payment options, simple offers, and dynamic optimization. All this allows developers to focus on building great applications – while we take care of monetization. http://www.adparlor.com
BOKU
BOKU is creating the standard for online payments using your mobile phone, making it easy to pay for digital goods and social experiences across the web. With a strong focus on reliability and security, BOKU’s goal is to bring bank-grade payments technology and mobile users together on the web, creating a trusted, viable and accessible market for consumers, publishers and carriers alike. Based in San Francisco with offices in Europe, Asia and Latin America, BOKU reaches over 1.8 billion consumers worldwide, and is funded by leading Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. For more information, please visit http://www.boku.com.
CCBill
CCBill offers global payment solutions for virtual goods, social media and games. Featuring state-of-the-art online credit card, ACH, European and Latin American debit processing, subscription, affiliate and membership services, CCBill has solutions to drive results, and the consumer reputation to improve conversions and retention. CCBill offers:
• Geo-Targeted, Multilingual Payment Forms
• International Currencies
• Global Regional Pricing
• Cascade to URL or Processor
• 1-Click Transactions
• LIVE 24/7 Chat Support
• NEW Web Marketing System (WMS) for Sponsors & Affiliates
Visit our table at the Virtual Goods Summit or contact us at sales@ccbill.com, 888.736.6474, or http://www.ccbill.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://www.daopay.com
fatfoogoo
fatfoogoo is the leading in-game commerce provider for monetizing online video games, casual games, virtual worlds and social networks. fatfoogoo provides developers, publishers, and operators with world class, end-to-end monetization solutions that allow both publisher-to-player and player-to-player financial interaction, in-game economies, currency management, as well as traditional user and subscription management. Developers can utilize pre-built white label solutions, or opt for individually customized monetization modules. fatfoogoo is headquartered in Vienna, Austria with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. http://www.fatfoogoo.com
Gambit Payments
Gambit Payments enables developers to monetize online communities on Facebook, MySpace, and beyond. Gambit offers users a full suite of payment options, including major credit cards, PayPal, mobile, promotional offers, and cloud labor Tasks.
When Gambit's founders set out to build online games in 2007, they had the same problem all developers have, making money. They decided to build out the system they needed to help users pay for their games. Their users loved it, their developer friends were asking to use it, and soon Gambit Payments was born.
Gambit Payments was founded by industry veterans from Facebook, Mint, Ning and Amazon and is a profitable company powering payments for over 500 of the social web's most popular applications, helping their 200 developer partners generate millions of dollars each month. http://www.getgambit.com
Goodwin Procter LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation's leading law firms, with a team of 850 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm's Technology Companies Group is a highly focused team of 160 lawyers who provide dedicated representation to over 500 emerging companies and entrepreneurs and 200 venture capital and private equity firms with a focus on industries including software, digital media, cleantech, life sciences, telecommunications and networking, among others. http://www.goodwinprocter.com
Incomm
InComm is the industry leading marketer, distributor and technology innovator of stored-value gift and prepaid products using its state-of-the-art point-of-sale transaction technology and payment solutions to revolutionize retail product sales and customer experiences. With almost $8 billion in retail sales transactions processed at more than 150,000 retail locations, InComm's Fastcard® Technology enables retailers to offer popular music, online entertainment gaming, gift and other card-based products with the ability to activate quickly and easily at the point of purchase. InComm's patented and patent-pending stored-value technology solutions include innovative applications for product activation and redemption, packaging, in-store displays, data management and more. To learn more about InComm, visit http://www.incomm.com
The ORCA platform is a free and open source payments processing alternative managed by OneTXT, Inc. ORCA (Optimized Real-Time Currency Application) provides payments processing for social networks, online games, participation TV shows, and other social media. The platform enables social media and entertainment companies to accept payments, create loyalty programs, and send marketing messages without a third party owning the transaction, information or the relationship. OneTXT is based in New York City, with additional offices in San Francisco. http://www.orcaone.com Founded in July 2000, PaymentOne has pioneered advanced “No Credit Card Required” payment and marketing services that accelerate the adoption of digital services and premium content. As the foundation of its services, the company manages the PaymentOne Carrier Network ™ (PCN) which provides digital merchants a single integration point and direct access to over 150 million billable consumers across over 1000 network operators. Rixty is a cash-based online payment platform that makes it easy for youth and adults who lack credit cards to make online entertainment purchases. Rixty provides payment services to publishers of more than 80 MMO's and virtual worlds and hundreds of online and social network games. Rixty users average more than $40 a month in spending on online games through their Rixty accounts. Users convert their cash into online credits at Rixty's nationwide network of 15,000 Coinstar coin-counting kiosks and convenience store prepaid card locations, which will grow to 25,000 locations by year-end. By enabling previously non-paying gamers to make online purchases, Rixty significantly increases publishers' revenues without cannibalizing credit card sales. Rixty supports a variety of monetization models including microtransactions for virtual goods, online subscriptions, and game download purchases. http://www.rixty.com RockYou is the largest distribution and monetization platform for social network applications, casual games, and virtual worlds across social media. RockYou helps thousands of Facebook and MySpace application developers, social gaming companies, and virtual worlds grow and monetize their user base with high performing display ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPI basis. The RockYou Ad network delivers over 15 billion impressions per month and has the capacity to deliver a high volume of quality installs to Facebook applications and high volumes of new users to casual games and virtual worlds across the web. If you are looking for ways to grow your user base and increase monetization, see http://www.rockyouads.com to sign up as a publisher and/or advertiser. Social Gold is a leading virtual currency and payments platform for social games and applications. Operated by Jambool, Inc., the platform enables developers to create and manage their own white-labeled virtual currency, to provide an unparalleled, in-app payments experience to their users, and to optimize their virtual economy using robust analytics. Some of the largest social applications use Social Gold, but its easy-to-integrate APIs allow even the smallest applications to launch a virtual economy in a matter of hours. Jambool, Inc. was founded by Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein, both Amazon.com veterans, and has offices in San Francisco and Seattle. For more information, please visit http://www.jambool.com. Sometrics helps publishers monetize free-to-play games, virtual worlds and social applications with the industry’s most advanced offer platform and payment manager. Publishers gain a new revenue source that enhances existing payment methods, and increases conversions among paying users. Uniquely, the platform gives publishers full control, total transparency and comprehensive customer support. Sometrics is the first recipient of capital from The Mail Room Fund, an investment consortium that combines big Hollywood (the William Morris Talent Agency) with Silicon Valley (Accel and Venrock) along with Greycroft Partners and Big Sky Ventures. http://www.sometrics.com TMPSocial is an advertising and virtual currency platform for social media that brings advertisers and app developers together. Our Next Generation platform helps advertisers creatively leverage social media and application developers maximize the value of their social traffic. A division of comScore Top Ten ad network Traffic Marketplace, TMPSocial was developed to fully service the burgeoning social media marketplace, creating the first behaviorally-targeted social media monetization solution. The TMPSocial platform includes a banner network, custom widget and application development and virtual currency solutions. http://www.tmpsocial.com TrialPay is the industry leader in innovative payment and promotion solutions. TrialPay converts browsers into buyers for thousands of premier merchants, social app developers and game publishers. Since 2006, more than 40 million users have completed offers from more than 2,000 blue-chip advertisers like FTD, Gap and Netflix. TrialPay provides the most extensive platform for virtual currency monetization, including offer-based, credit card and mobile payments. TrialPay is backed by Atomico, Index Ventures, Battery Ventures and several individual investors. http://www.trialpay.com TriplePoint is the leading agency serving the interactive entertainment and digital lifestyle industries. We have offices in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and collaborate with partner agencies around the world to provide international service. Founded in 2002 as Kohnke Communications by Erica Kohnke Kain, the agency has grown to be the market leader in public relations, marketing, business development, and product consulting within the games and digital media market. TriplePoint is the partner for those committed to success within the growing interactive entertainment and connected lifestyle segments. http://www.triplepointpr.com ZONG is the leading mobile payment service used by online gaming and social networking web sites. Noted for its frictionless user experience, ZONG converts “shoppers” into “buyers” at rates up to 10 times greater than traditional payment methods, like credit cards. ZONG leverages direct connections with leading mobile network operators around the world to provide unrivaled connectivity and service quality. ZONG is featured in hundreds of top applications on popular social networks like Facebook and MySpace as well as leading virtual worlds and other online gaming sites, such as Gaia Online, IMVU and Outspark. In 2009 alone ZONG has processed mobile payments for over 10 million unique users worldwide. http://www.zong.com 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. 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. ReadWriteWeb is a blog that provides Web technology news, reviews, and analysis. It began publishing on April 20, 2003 and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. It has around 275,000 RSS and email subscribers. ReadWriteWeb was founded by Richard MacManus and is written by a team of Web enthusiasts. http://www.readwriteweb.com VentureBeat provides news and analysis of technology, innovation and the venture capital that fuels it. Written by Matt Marshall and a team of experienced journalists, VentureBeat provides in-depth coverage of Web 2.0, Clean Tech, Mobile, Gaming and Venture. VentureBeat offers influential leaders insights into the most relevant emerging technologies, trends and companies and the business opportunities they create. Visit http://www.venturebeat.com. Women 2.0 is committed to increasing the number of women entrepreneurs starting high growth ventures by providing the resources, network, and knowledge for the launch and growth of their company. Our vision is to be a catalyst for innovation, mobilizing a global community of women entrepreneurs seeking to advance the world through technology. Women 2.0 is headquartered in San Francisco. http://www.women2.orgORCA
PaymentOne
PaymentOne’s turnkey payment platforms, hosted commerce management and content syndication services help clients attract, convert and retain more consumers. The company’s services and best practice expertise have proven to lift client revenue and subscriber acquisition rates by 25% or more. http://www.paymentone.comRixty
RockYou
SocialGold
Sometrics
TMPSocial
TrialPay
TriplePoint PR
ZONG
Media Sponsors
Girls In Tech
Created in February of 2007, 'Girls in Tech' (GIT) was founded by Adriana Gascoigne. GIT and was born out of a need to provide a place for women to cultivate ideas around their careers and business concepts involving technology.
Girls in Tech aims to offer a variety of resources and tools for women to supplement and further enhance their professional careers and aspirations in technology. Some of these resources include, educational workshops and lectures, networking functions, round table discussions, conferences, social engagements, and recruitment events. http://www.girlsintech.net.Inside Social Games
ReadWriteWeb
VentureBeat
Women 2.0
