San Francisco, CA | September 8 - 12, 2012
Ford Motor Company knows that Smartphones are becoming the connected device of choice, and growing numbers of owners use their devices while in the car. Therefore, Ford is embracing this union between the app-loaded smartphone and car with SYNC AppLink, the voice-activated software application that makes controlling apps easier and safer by simply using your voice.
Sequoia Capital is the trusted business partner of founders who would like to turn imaginative ideas into enduring companies. As the “Entrepreneurs Behind Entrepreneurs,” the Sequoia Capital team has worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner of Cisco, David Filo and Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, Max Levchin, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel of PayPal, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley of YouTube, and Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn.
AT&T, a premier communications company, delivers a comprehensive and globally consistent portfolio of business services which includes advanced network management and network-based security tools, enterprise mobility solutions and applications, content management and delivery services, web hosting and application services.
NewBlue is the innovator’s program from Best Buy Exclusive Brands. Our mission is to drive innovation in the consumer electronics space by combining our capabilities in product development, sourcing, logistics, marketing, and distribution with innovative new product concepts from start-ups and entrepreneurs. We have the people, skills, partners, and infrastructure to significantly accelerate speed-to-market and provide a direct path to retail.
One of the nation’s most successful early-stage venture capital firms as original and/or lead investors in Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Millennial Media (NYSE: MM), Twitter, Zendesk, Performable (HubSpot), Udacity, Rethink Robotics, Vlingo (Nuance), SMS GupShup, RPX (Nasdaq: RPXC), Fiksu and Scribd. Previous big winners include EqualLogic, BigBand, Ciena, Cascade, Flarion, FlyCast, Netezza, Parametric, Sonus and Vignette.
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere, and share them easily. Any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your phone or iPad, and the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it easy to share with others. And if your computer melts down, you can restore all your files from the Dropbox website with a couple clicks.
Connect is Getty Images’ industry-leading API that provides direct access to Getty Images’ content, metadata and search technologies for integration directly within publishing tools, products and services.
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.
Ireland: The perfect place for any business – established, new, or just you. Ireland offers a world-class location where businesses can locate, grow and realize global ambitions. US companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Twitter, Engine Yard, Gilt and Zynga all call Ireland home. Alongside a thriving start up scene, home to companies like Skillpages, Storyful, Datahug, Digit Gaming, Ireland is one of the most attractive locations in the world to do business with and in!
Fostering the growth of the creative content industries in Korea under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, KOCCA actively promotes Korean companies involved in animation, broadcasting, character licensing, game, music, mobile and digital technologies by serving as a global bridge between Korean creative content providers and international partners.
Locu’s APIs give developers access to the world’s largest real-time, structured repository of local business offerings data, such as restaurant menus. The data comes directly from merchants and Locu’s platform that digitizes and structures real-world content. Locu is backed by General Catalyst, Lowercase, Lightbank, SV Angel and angel investors and has offices in San Francisco and Cambridge.
Microsoft® BizSpark® is a global program helping software startups succeed, with access to software development tools and a network of 2,500 partners – comprising leading incubators, accelerators, investors, advisors, industry events, and more. Over 50,000 startups joined BizSpark, which offers technical support, business training and marketing visibility. The program includes access to Windows Azure, a flexible, comprehensive, and powerful cloud platform.
Innovative? Entrepreneurial? You need to be here! Stop by the .net booth, take the Innovator Quiz and share your big idea. Millions of businesses thrive with a .net behind them, and more start here every day. Whether you’re a tech visionary or a crafty entrepreneur, the brightest minds are brainstorming, launching and getting noticed with a .net domain.
New Relic is on a mission to create a better web and mobile experience for everyone by making apps faster and more reliable. With over 35,000 customers and 90 billion metrics captured each day, they help make the web a faster place.
Nokia will present a sponsored Disruptor Award for Innovation in Mobile Technology. Eligibility for the award will include all Battlefield Contestants and Startup Alley exhibitors alike. The AppCampus program is a joint venture between Nokia and Microsoft that has each company investing up to nine million euros over the next three years to foster the creation of innovative mobile applications for the Windows Phone ecosystem.
PCH International creates, develops, and delivers the world’s best technology products for the world’s best brands. We offer transparent, sustainable product development and supply chain management services to a diverse range of clients, from Fortune 500s to innovative start-ups though our PCH Accelerator program. Headquartered in Ireland since 1996, with a significant presence in San Francisco and operations in China, we believe geography is history.
AllJoyn™ is an open-source software framework developed by Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc that makes it easy to add ad-hoc, proximity -based P2P into your apps without the need to connect to cellular networks. New classes of connected apps including multi-player gaming, social media sharing and multi-user productivity tools can be created. The Snapdragon Developer Program gives developers next-generation technologies to optimize apps and create extraordinary experiences.
The Gimbal™ Solution is a context awareness Solution developed by Qualcomm Labs for Android and iOS that enables application providers to deliver timely, personalized, and relevant content to mobile audiences. Developers can choose to include software libraries from the Solution in their apps. This Solution includes: Gimbal Geofence, Gimbal Interest Sensing, Gimbal Image Recognition, Gimbal Communicate, Gimbal Manager, Gimbal Privacy.
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 190,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. For more information, visit http://www.rackspace.com.
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 176,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.
Seamless is the easiest way to feed the office. We link companies and their employees to hundreds of local restaurants and caterers, offer fast and convenient online ordering and send just one invoice for all orders placed. From individual meals and late-night group orders, to catered meetings and blowout parties, Seamless makes it easy to keep your hungry offices happy.
SkyDrive is cloud storage that lets you have all your personal stuff available anywhere no matter what apps or devices you’re using. Windows comes with a free SkyDrive, and the new Office is cloud-first with SkyDrive as the default storage location. SkyDrive is also open to developers, with SDKs available for Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and web.
Spanning 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a global footprint of network points of presence, SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. SoftLayer is the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider in the world with a diverse customer portfolio from Web startups to global enterprises.
Founded in 2011, Taptera makes fast, beautiful and scalable social sales applications for the growing mobile workforce. With over five years of iOS and Android experience, Taptera offers a suite of innovative mobile business products that marry public social data with enterprise systems, including CRM, ERP, SAP, LDAP, Exchange, Gmail and other enterprise, cloud-based solutions and platforms.
Uber is an on-demand car service. Request a ride through the iPhone and Android apps, or by visiting m.uber.com. Within minutes, a black car will be curbside. Rides are billed directly to your credit card so there’s no need to carry cash. Plus, your receipt is automatically emailed to you at the end of your ride.
Ustream is the leader in live video. The interactive platform connects broadcasters and viewers of unlimited size through real-time video players, chat, Facebook, and Twitter. Users can embed these features on external websites, broadcast/view from mobile devices, tablets, smart TVs, and more.
Vonage Mobile, the Official Communication Sponsor for TechCrunch Disrupt, is a free mobile VoIP app that lets you make free high-quality international calls and send free texts to other app users. Vonage Mobile also offers low-cost international calls to any phone number worldwide, as well as free calls to the U.S. and Canada for a limited time.
Yahoo! is focused on making the world’s daily habits more inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has offices located throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC) and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the company blog (yodel.yahoo.com).
Zoomph software runs & analyzes social content from Facebook, Twitter & Instagram in real time. It maximizes social engagements for brands by tracking trends, the competition, and the market @ large with up-to-the-minute analytics and streams. It provides clients customized, data-rich visual displays and social mashups to present on websites or at events. Its social collaborative modeling capabilities are available for organizations of all sizes.
Pioneer® Corporation has developed Zypr™: a new voice-powered, unified Web API that bridges the disparate worlds of iOS & Android mobile devices, HTML 5 Web apps, consumer electronics and automotive telematics. Zypr enables normalized Web service mashups for all of these platforms, with the added functionality of unique, conversational voice-control and a business model that pays developers to integrate the API into their applications.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies of all sizes with a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services, as your business demands them. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments.
With more than 100 million global visitors a month, Ask.com has spent the last 15 years committed to its mission of helping people find the answers to their questions.
Assets.me is a leading bitmap to vector file conversion startup aimed at offering high-quality, affordable vector file conversion entirely by humans. They consider themselves partners of the startup community and all professional artists.
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to high quality, free, multi-modal K-12 educational content for students & teachers globally. They pioneered the generation and distribution of high quality STEM content through Common Core & NSES aligned digital textbooks called “FlexBooks”.
CODE2040 brings high performing Black and Latino/a computer engineering students to Silicon Valley for a comprehensive summer fellowship program consisting of internships with top startups plus mentoring, speakers, company visits, interactive workshops, executive coaching, and more.
Digital Realty is a leader in design, development and operations of data centers worldwide. We offer innovative solutions driven by customers who see data centers not just as technical investments, but as a strategic platform for success.
DocuSign® is the global standard for eSignature. DocuSign accelerates transactions to increase speed to results, reduce costs, and delight customers with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud. DocuSign helps companies securely collect information, automate data workflows, and sign anything, anywhere, anytime.
Domain.com is the go-to site for affordable, reliable domain name registration and web hosting. Our mission is to power the next generation of great startups. When you think domain names, think Domain.com.
Whether it is about launching a web start-up, or simply re-branding your online business, .ME domains are ideal for personalization of the user’s online experience. In addition, highly valuable premium domains are offered for registration through their development program.
ArcGIS Online for Organizations is designed to empower you to build geospatial services into your products. Create responsive mapping applications consuming basemaps, geosearch, feature storage, routing, geocoding and geometry services. Get started with your own account at https://www.arcgis.com/about/trial.html.
Google Cloud Platform allows you to build applications and websites, do large-scale computing, and store and analyze data on Google’s infrastructure. Google Cloud Platform consists of Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery and various other Google APIs and services.
GREE is a mobile social gaming company that recently launched GREE Platform, a global platform that brings together developers and players. In 2011 GREE opened a social games studio in San Francisco, and in May 2012, acquired Funzio, a mid-core mobile game developer.
Greenstart is an investor and design studio for digital cleantech startups – companies using software to reduce dirty energy or expand clean energy. Greenstart runs a 3-month Startup Design™ accelerator that helps startups in business model, UX, brand and capital design.
iCIMS is a leading provider of talent acquisition software for growing businesses. Supporting companies
of all industries and sizes, iCIMS has all the tools you need to connect with, recruit, and onboard quality
talent while saving time and money.
Kerio Workspace is your cloud-based collaboration point, keeping projects, files and teams in sync across platforms and devices. It brings file sharing, transparent communication, and enterprise-level security together, making organizations and project teams more productive. Visit us for an exclusive preview of the new Kerio Workspace private cloud.
As the leader in contingent and permanent staffing and workforce solutions, Manpower works with companies of all sizes to increase agility, productivity and competitiveness.
MOGL is the first restaurant loyalty program to rely on psychology, technology and game mechanics rather than punch cards, coupons or QR codes. The seamless, fun and engaging platform celebrates MOGL’s simple philosophy: reward your customers and they’ll reward you.
NEC BIGLOBE is a member of the NEC group, one of Japan’s leading IT companies. The company makes its debut at TechCrunch Disrupt, gathering input on their recently developed facial recognition app set to launch October 2012.
Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that help human experts perform powerful, collaborative analysis of data at scale. Palantir’s software is deployed at public institutions, private enterprises, and in the non-profit sector to address the challenges of responsibly making sense of complex, diverse data.
Rock Health is a non-profit focused on innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. We support the next generation of health entrepreneurs through a startup accelerator program, open-source research and public events. Fall applications now open through September 17th.
San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation leverages our technology community around civic action, supporting innovative policies collaboratively with government, finding new solutions to historic problems facing San Francisco, making a more productive place to live and do business.
Smith and Keats Music is proud to provide original music for TechCrunch Disrupt. Hear us on SoundCloud. Talk to us on twitter: @stevekeats. Meet us on Instagram: stevekeats
StartupPrints.com is a premier site committed to providing high quality printing and marketing resources. Main goal is to offer exceptional and personalized service to startups. They offer goods and services to help companies build their brand offline and foster their business growth.
Storm8, the creator of the #1 RPG and the parent company of the #1 Mobile Social Game Developer, TeamLava on the iOS/Android platforms. Our network of Games makes us one of the most popular game developers on the mobile platform.
Talenthouse is the most influential online community of artists and creators, bringing aspiring talent and industry icons together to cultivate conversations and campaigns across the web. Artists always keep ownership of their own work using Talenthouse as a platform to make connections that drive their careers forward.
Creators of Google Corp’s great lawn sculptures including Android. Creators of themed environments, 3D signage, and oversized sculptures for media events, advertising, branding and trade shows. Promoting a new item or a startup venture? Let Themendous help create the buzz!
My Epic Gear is the world’s first site to show off your own epic gear. Create an 8-bit style avatar on the web and equip it with your favorite gear!
Winner of Disrupt NY, ÜberConference is audio-conferencing done right. Launched by Firespotter Labs and backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, ÜberConference radically changes audio conferencing with its visual interface, recording capabilities, social caller information, full-feature set, and integration with Evernote.
Zendesk is the official sponsor of the TechCrunch Disrupt Help Desk. For growing organizations, Zendesk is the fastest way to enable great customer service. More than 20,000 Zendesk customers, including Adobe, OpenTable and Groupon, trust Zendesk with their most valuable assets: customers, partners, and employees.
4sync (beta) is a secure, storage, synchronization, streaming and collaboration cloud solution without limits. Sign up and get 15GB of storage space for FREE! Easily access your media on all your favorite devices with 4sync.
Korean Spirit introduces essences of Korean culture including(or through) life, work stories, and masterpieces of five Korean masters. Korean paint is an oriental paint-style effect application.
ASA Computers specializes in designing and building servers and data storage solutions to meet unique requirements. ASA Computers’ products power some of the most trafficked web and mobile services in the world.
Audioair is a new technology that permits Smartphone and tablet users to selectively listen to muted televisions in private and public locations.
ChatWork is a business communication platform designed for companies and teams. Simplify your business communications with group/private chats, and take advantage of the task management feature to make faster decisions.
A new generation of NoSQL database. Scalability, fault tolerance, and true multi-key ACID transactions. Build on a better foundation.
Freshdesk is the helpdesk platform trusted by thousands of support agents to give customers a refreshing experience across traditional and social channels every day.
FuzeBox, the global leader in real time visual collaboration applications, allows people to communicate, collaborate and share content from any device, across any network, anywhere.
Glocal makes it easy to find, watch, and share news videos. From New York to Los Angeles and everywhere in between, Glocal has it covered.
Peripherals for the Mobile World.
kuyam is an online marketplace dedicated to empowering busy women, working moms, and their families to discover and schedule appointments with local lifestyle businesses.
Mashery’s API management technology and strategic services help companies connect with customers and partners in a changing digital world by extending reach across devices, industries and the Web.
At Medallia, the technology allows them to collect, analyze, and visualize massive amounts of structured and unstructured data in real-time.
The Ninja Blocks API makes it trivial to create Internet of Things products, apps and services. Ninja Blocks: connecting things – enabling awesome.
OpenTok by TokBox is a flexible cloud-based API that makes it easy to add face-to-face video communications to your web or mobile application.
Pearson, the world’s leading education company, and the company behind Penguin Books and the Financial Times, also has a developer platform where you can build your own applications. Head over to our site to explore our exciting content and test our APIs.
Totally.Me provides a visualized stream of all your social updates, news, bookmarks and widgets on your desktop(s), laptop(s) and mobile device(s).
TouchTunes is an interactive, social entertainment platform for bars, restaurants, retail and hospitality with 55,000 locations with millions of monthly users.
Tweather reveals the emerging headlines from Twitter’s streaming content. Tweather is all about the movement of what is happening across tweets by revealing their relevance, and bringing discovery and awareness.
Twilio is powering the future of communications software by enabling voice, VoIP, and messaging to be easily embedded into applications whether existing or built new on Twilio.
Domain.com is the go-to site for affordable, reliable domain name registration and web hosting. Our mission is to power the next generation of great startups. When you think domain names, think Domain.com.
iCIMS is a leading provider of talent acquisition software for growing businesses. Supporting companies
of all industries and sizes, iCIMS has all the tools you need to connect with, recruit, and onboard quality
talent while saving time and money.
As the leader in contingent and permanent staffing and workforce solutions, Manpower works with companies of all sizes to increase agility, productivity and competitiveness.
My Epic Gear is the world’s first site to show off your own epic gear. Create an 8-bit style avatar on the web and equip it with your favorite gear!
Winner of Disrupt NY, ÜberConference is audio-conferencing done right. Launched by Firespotter Labs and backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, ÜberConference radically changes audio conferencing with its visual interface, recording capabilities, social caller information, full-feature set, and integration with Evernote.
