Pitch Day
See the 2012 startups and judges below!
25 selected applicants will be invited to the April 2 Data 2.0 Pitch Day to present to a group of peers and investors. If selected, you will receive a 75% discount on your Data 2.0 Conference tickets.
The top 5 pitches from the Data 2.0 Pitch Day will be invited to pitch on stage to 800+ attendees, alongside speakers from Google, Microsoft, Factual, SimpleGeo and Palantir at the Data 2.0 Conference.
Place: Address: 169 11th Street between Natoma and Howard (Only startups, judges, and sponsors are invited)
Data Startup Pitch Day Applications are now Closed.
Application Requirements
- Applicant must be one of the owners or founders of the project or startup.
- Applicant projects must identify or solve a problem facing business or society in a way that can be explained to non-technical judges.
- The core innovation must involve the sourcing, organizing, analyzing, distributing or visualizing of data.
- Projects must be owned by a for-profit company with under $10 million in funding AND under $10 million in 2010 revenue. Non-profits do not qualify.
Venture Capitalist Judges
We’ve added over 6 venture capitalist judges to the Pitch Day and the April 4th Data 2.0 Conference on-stage startup pitches. They include True Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Accel Partners, Shasta Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Sierra Ventures. VC profiles and additional investment firms will be updated in March.
Pitch Day Venture Capitalist Judges:
- Deepak Jeevankumar
- General Catalyst Partners
- Daniel Levine
- Accel Partners
- Tom Drummond
- Reed Elsevier Ventures
- Adam D’Augelli
- True Ventures
Data 2.0 Conference Judges:
- Tim Guleri
- Sierra Ventures
- Robert Scoble
- Rackspace/ Building43
- Bipul Sinha
- LightSpeed Ventures
- Andrew Janks
- EMC Ventures
