The 9th Founder Showcase & Investor Awards

For the first time the event will feature TheFunded.com’s Entrepreneur Investor Awards, where we will celebrate the top startup investors of 2011, and discuss the prospects of 2012 through a series of on-stage discussions with renowned angels and VCs: including Mark Suster, General Partner at GRP Ventures, Mike Maples, Jr., Managing Partner at FLOODGATE, and Dave McClure, Founding Partner at 500 Startups. Guests will also see an entertaining Pitch Competition featuring 8 promising seed-stage companies, and enjoy appetizers and drinks in a networking hall full of other hot startups demoing their wares in a Demo Table Competition. We are expecting over 150 startup investors in attendance, so purchase your tickets today.

Investors are currently confirmed to attend from Andreesen Horowitz, ATA Ventures, Atlas Venture Partners, Azure Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital, Charles River Ventures, Darwin Venture Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, FLOODGATE, GRP Partners, Halo Fund, Ignition Partners, Leapfrog Ventures, North Bridge, Opus Capital, Rincon Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, SK Telecom Ventures, Southern Capitol Ventures, Wellington Partners, XF Ventures, 500 Startups, and many more.

Keynote Speakers

Mark Suster, General Partner at GRP Partners and Writer at Both Sides of the Table

Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Most recently he was a VP at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was the Founder & CEO. Prior to Koral, Mark was Founder & CEO of BuildOnline. Mark currently sits on the Boards of many companies, and writes the influential blog “Both Sides of the Table.”

Mike Maples, Jr., Managing Partner at FLOODGATE

Mike Maples, Jr. is the managing partner of FLOODGATE, and was recently named as one of “8 Rising VC Stars” by Fortune Magazine. His early investments include Twitter, Digg, Chegg, ng:moco, IMVU, Formspring.me, Gowalla, Kno, YuMe Networks, TaskRabbit, Kongregate, BranchOut, and many more.

Dave McClure, Founding Partner at 500 Startups

Dave McClure is a greedy venture capitalist & founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, CA. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Twilio, Simply Hired, O’Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft.

Judges

Scott Hartley, Venture Investor, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Scott is a venture capitalist at Mohr Davidow Ventures focused on mobile and consumer Internet. He has worked at Google, Facebook, and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is interested in disruptive platforms that can address issues he has observed working on five continents, and at the White House and United Nations.

Bruce Taragin, Managing Director, Blumberg Capital

Bruce has 20 years experience as a VC investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney. Prior to Blumberg, he co-founded and held several senior management positions within technology companies, including Charles River Computers. His past investments include ZipZapPlay, eVoice, PureSight, Vista Research, IP Infusion, GO Networks, and Siperian – all of which were acquired.

Matthew B. McCall, Partner, New World Ventures

Matthew McCall is a Partner at NWV and co-founder of DFJ Portage Venture Partners. His investments include Apptera, BrightTag, Cognitive Concepts, Eved, EverDream, Facebook, Feedburner, Imago Scientific, Lefthand Networks, Performics, Playdom, Siimpel and TicketsNow. He has been named to the AlwaysOn Top 100 VC’s in the US list, and writes the popular venture blog, VCConfidential.

George Zachary, General Partner, Charles River Ventures

George Zachary joined Charles River Ventures in 2004, bringing more than 17 years of operating and investing experience in computing and consumer technology. Zachary focuses on building services and software technology companies, and he’s led CRV’s investments in Twitter, Yammer, Millennial Media, Cloudshare, Geni, SocialMedia, Metaplace, and Scribd (co-led with Bill Tai).

Interviewers

Evelyn Rusli, Reporter, New York Times

Evelyn Rusli is a reporter at The New York Times. Previously she was an Anchor Reporter at TechCrunch and the Forbes Video Network, with nearly 200 television appearances, including on BBC, CNN and MSNBC. At Forbes, she interviewed top business leaders, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim, and filed reporting from the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland.

Ina Fried, Senior Editor, All Things Digital

Ina Fried is the Senior Editor for All Things Digital, where she authors the blog Mobilized. Prior to that, she was a senior staff writer for News.com. She is a frequent commenter on technology news on NPR and other print and broadcast outlets. In April of 2011, Ina scored an exclusive interview with CEO Steve Jobs and other Apple executives about the iPhone location tracking controversy.

Alexia Tsotsis, Writer, TechCrunch

Alexia Tsotsis is a writer for TechCrunch. Before TechCrunch, she ran the SFweekly.com website while covering the tech scene, and human behavior in the digital age. At TechCrunch, she covers early stage startups, and has interviewed everyone from Groupon’s Andrew Mason to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Most recently she made the Forbes “30 Under 30: Rising Stars of Media List.”

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