Digital Media

Funding Pitch: 10:30 am 12:00 pm (Sound Room)

Panelists:
Brian Goffman, Venture Partner, Madrona Venture Group
Mike Slade, Partner, Second Avenue Partners
Gus Tai, General Partner, Trinity Ventures

Presenting Companies:
Alphabet Lane, Inc.
Alphabet Lane is the premiere online information center that saves you time and money on home remodeling projects. We are a one-stop resource built by homeowners with searchable directories, advice, stories & pictures from peoples projects, and tools for planning your own remodel.

FlowPlay, Inc.
FlowPlay is a technology company which develops online entertainment products. The companys first product combines aspects of virtual worlds, social networking and online games into a next generation social entertainment platform.

Smilebox Inc.
Smilebox is dedicated to helping people keep in touch with family and friends through multimedia expressions that tell a story about special moments in their lives. The Smilebox service offers consumers a creative way to share their personal photos, videos and music by combining them with hundreds of professionally designed templates. Smilebox was founded by Toronto native Andrew Wright, former VP of Games at RealNetworks, when he and his wife realized they needed a more creative and personal way to stay in touch with their loved ones in Canada.


Funding Pitch: 2:00 pm 3:30 pm (Sound Room)

Panelists:
Paul Bialek, Managing Director, Frazier Technology Ventures
Bill McAleer, Managing Director, Voyager Capital
Larry Orr, Managing General Partner, Trinity Ventures

Presenting Companies:
Mixpo
Mixpo is developing the next generation multimedia marketing solution for businesses. Our solution solves the problem local and small businesses have in todays competitive online market - the inability to leverage the power of multimedia to better communicate, connect and engage with their customers and drive sales.

RIPL Corp.
RIPL Corp. is an early-stage consumer internet startup thats changing the shape of social interaction over the Web. Its software platform leverages each users personal network to distribute user-generated content automatically. By compiling a continuous stream of super-relevant content for each user, RIPL creates a new advertising vehicle capable of generating compelling preference and response data for brand advertisers.

Yodio
Yodio is creating content for todays (and tomorrows) channels of distributed digital distribution iPODs, MP3 players, and cell phones. Yodio offers integrated, one-stop audio publishing for an eBay-like Web community where any expert can record, produce, and post graphically-enriched audio content. Yodio uses proprietary sound processing technologies to enable nearly anyone (with access to a phone and the internet) to record marketable audio content. Additional proprietary technology is used to add photos to create the graphically enriched MP3 files.