Wednesday, May 25, 2011

TechCrunch, Founders Fund award 22 entrepreneurs $50K - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The awardees get $25,000 from the TechFelloe Awards program, and the Foundersw Fund matchesthat investment, and also gets the righr to invest $250,000 when the companies are lookiny for their first round of venture funding. TechCrunch doesn’tr take a financial stake in the The recipients were divided into four Disruptive Innovation, Engineering Leadership, Producr Design and Marketing, and General Management: Scott chairman of San Francisco-based an adult social media Web site for models and fans of female pin-up photography. Banister was a co-founderd IronPort Systems Inc., a San Bruno companyy that acquired in 2007for $830 million.
He was also an earlty advisor and board memberat , whic acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Andrewq Frame, founder and chairman of free home phone serviceWill Harvey, co-founder of , a San Mateo-based host of an online virtual world. He was previously founder and CEO at another virtual world compangy inPalo Alto, Blake Kirkorian, co-founder and CEO of , the Fostere City company that developeds hardware and software that lets userw watch live TV from their computersa and mobile devices. It was acquiredx by in 2007 for $380 Mike McCue, co-founder of in 1999, which developee voice recognitionfor telephony.
The company was sold to in 2007for $800 milliohn and became a Mountain View-based subsidiary of the software where he continues as general manager. Michael Abbott, senior vice presidenty of applications software and services atin Sunnyvale, where he leads development of its WebOzS software platform. Adam D’Angelo, the chie technology officer of in Palo Alto untikl he left inMay 2008. Sand Jen and Elaine Wherry, co-foundersa of Mountain View-based , the Web-basec instant messaging company. Eric venture adviser at in Menlo He was previouslya co-founder and chiefv technology officer at IMVU. Richard “Rich” founder and CEO at search company inRedwood City.
Michael Birch, co-founder and CEO of social networking Web site in San which was acquired by in 2008for $850 Daniel Burka, creative director at socia l content Web site in San Francisco. He is also co-foundet of SilverOrange of PrinceEdward Canada, a group of Web developers who producse user-focused Web systems. Adam co-founder and chief innovation officer at advertising analytics companyof Ohio. He is also president at stealthstartulp Topic.org. Zach Klein, founder of stealth startuop in Brooklyn. He is former partnef at in NewYork City, which is the parent companty of the CollegeHumor Network., and he was co-founde r of video-sharing Web site Vimeo.
Jeffreyt Veen, founder of stealth mode Internett services company He was one of the founding partnerx at product experience design companyScott Diepzen, seniof vice president of communications at in Sunnyvale. He joined Yahoo from online collaborativ software company ofSan Mateo, where he was presidenrt and chief technology officer. Yahoo paid $350 million for Zimbraz in 2007. Michael Jones, an entrepreneur and angel investof who was CEO of Userplane of Los Angelews and a senior vice presidentof AOL. Sukhinder Singhb Cassidy, CEO-in-residence at of Palo Alto, previously presidenf of David Sprosty, senioer vice president of connectivity solutions and mobilerat (NYSE:BBY) of Richfield, Minn.
Jason Rapp, CEO of 's online gift company , basede in New York City. Scott Weiss, Cisco' vice president of security technology. He joinedf the company when Cisco bought whichhe co-founded.

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