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Join Us at Springboard!

On Wednesday, January 30, 2008, the UW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will host SPRINGBOARD, an annual evening networking event designed to bring the founders/CEOs of Seattle’s dynamic early-stage companies together with entrepreneurial students at the University of Washington to talk about internships and recruiting.

Companies Attending Springboard 2008

Alerts.com Be in control of the information that matters most to you. Alerts.com is your central destination to access, manage and orchestrate how to receive updated news, headlines, sports scores, birthday reminders, fare updates, weather alerts, price watch and much much more.
All Star Directories All Star Directories is the Internet's fastest growing publisher of school directories, matching millions of highly qualified prospective students with the schools that best meet their education needs. Whether it's powerhouse research institutions like Yale, Columbia, or Johns Hopkins, or leading for-profit schools like the University of Phoenix or DeVry, more than 5,000 featured schools already use All Star Directories to meet their recruiting objectives.
Altus Alliance

Altus is a venture catalyst that has helped seed companies with business plan development, capitalization, formation strategy, and angel/venture funding.

appature Appature is a fast-growing Seattle-area startup that is bringing "Web 2.0" to the enterprise software market. Our team solves a number of interesting problems for the broader healthcare market.
Athleon Athleon, launched out of the UW Business School, helps coaches keep their athletes engaged off the field. We give competitive team's a private place on the web, helping them communicate and prepare for games.
Atlas Accelerator Atlas is the leading accelerator in the Northwest. We help get high-tech companies started and have helped launch over 100 companies.
Automated Industries Automated Industries, Inc. is a middleware Artificial Intelligence tool developer for the Video Game Industry.
Badge Magic Badge Magic is a manufacturer of specialty adhesive products sold primarily to organizations like Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scout, American Legion. Also launching a new product category in 2008 for cell phones and MP3 players.
Benevia Benevia simplifies transitions for older adults and their families by coordinating relocations including moves to retirement communities and downsizing, care needs like in-home care and home modifications, and other professional services. We are able to provide this coordination at no charge to our clients because we have built a network of companies, who want to work with seniors, that reimburse us for our services.
Blue Rain Marketing Blue Rain Marketing is a premiere Northwest business and marketing strategy consulting firm, offering project based services to help enable business success. Specific services include strategy, planning and business analysis, and product launch programs.
Braincandy Braincandy produces award winning children's early learning DVDs and CDs. Our products help facilitate learning for young children (ages 6 months to 4 years) in a fun and experiential way.
Buerk Dale Victor Buerk Dale Victor (BDV) is a leading growth equity firm dedicated to delivering superior returns for our investors by partnering with private companies that have exceptional growth potential. BDV currently manages approximately $100 million from high net worth and institutional investors, and invests in growth companies across diversified stages and sectors.
CarbonContest CarbonContest is building the next generation of interactive, environmental websites connecting people with like-minded individuals to support their own personal efforts.
Condo Compare Condo Compare is a Real Estate Brokerage that specializes in in the condominium market on the West Coast.
CultureMob CultureMob helps you find great local events, including music, movies, theater, sports and more. We deliver personalized recommendations based on your interests and rich content. Don't miss out on a great event again!
Exuberant Animal Exuberant Animal is a health-promotion company specializing in movement education, vitality and physical happiness. We offer training, seminars and partnerships for physical trainers, educators, team-builders and innovators.
Eyejot Eyejot makes creating and sending video mail simple. Through a platform that's completely web-based, Eyejot users can use their own webcams or pre-recorded video (with the PRO version) to send video mail to friends, family and business colleagues and prospects. Widgets let the platform be used on social networks.
Greenwood Greenwood is the leader in clean, renewable heating solutions for home and business. By replacing fossil fuels with local, carbon-neutral fuels, our customers save money and minimize their impact on the environment.
Healia Healia is a innovative consumer eHealth company that develops tools that help people find health information to make the best health decisions. Healia is known for its health-optimized search engine that generates high quality and personalized results.
iCultur iCultur was started to take advantage of one of the greatest opportunities of our time. We are not just another "Web 2.0" startup. iCultur is giving you options of how you communicate with your friends, family and colleagues unlike most companies who only provide you what they want you to have.
Junxion Junxion is the early market leader in the emerging market for cellular routers. Junxion's solution leverages the high-speed cellular networks from our carrier partners to deliver connectivity where landline options are unavailable or inconvenient. Our enterprise customers use the Junxion Box as primary connectivity for field locations, backup connectivity for mission critical operations, and fleet connectivity in vehicles.
Knouen Knouen delivers a new standard in productivity software, managing team-based activities to optimize efficiency, and effectiveness. Applied to the organization, Knouen's solutions allows users to work the way they do and in the application of their choice.
Konnects Konnects, Inc. has developed an online business networking platform designed to give the power of online social networking to traditional businesses and professionals.
Light Doctor Light Doctor is the Northwest's leading provider of lighting and energy management services. Our Service group offers a complete array of lighting maintenance services for internal and exterior lighting including pole and parking lot lights. Our Project group specializes in energy efficient lighting retrofits including energy audits, new lighting design and project installation.
Likewise Likewise enterprise solutions improve management and interoperability of Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac systems with easy-to-use software for administration and centralized cross-platform authentication.
Lilipip Lilipip is a publisher of mobile-media for children. We discover, develop and deliver premium content to educate, entertain and inspire kids, and their parents – at home or on the go!
MBS Source MBS Source is a financial software company, which has developed a unique product line that helps traders and investors mitigate risk and generate higher profits when buying or selling mortgage backed securities.
My Day Office My Day Office is the workplace of the future! Located in Belltown, My Day Office is a modern drop in business center with full staff, where work happens!
Ontela Ontela, Inc. was founded in 2005 by Dan Shapiro, Charles Zapata, and Brian Schultz. When the first working prototype was built and they watched their camera phone pictures arriving on the PC, they saw the potential to help wireless and image services companies come together and make millions of people a bit happier, better connected and more productive with better mobile experiences.
Others Online Others Online has developed patent-pending technology that shows you real people, online now, relevant to your browsing, searching, shopping, etc. -- however their path on the Web crosses with yours. Use Others Online to discover pertinent people and blogs as you browse, or to increase traffic to your own blog.
Overcast Media Overcast Media allows anyone to add their own DVD-style commentary to TV shows, sporting events and movies and share their thoughts online. We call this Overcasting and can do this in a way that is respectful of other peoples copyrights.
Passage Events Passage Events ia a rapidly growing, established national leader in experiential marketing. We create relevant human connections that motivate consumers to purchase, promote and pay attention to the brands we represent.
Positive Motion Prepping for the GREs, LSAT, or French but stuck on line at Trader Joe's? Positive Motion's Mobile Prep allows you to study on your cell phone in an anytime, anywhere manner so you can turn frustrating downtime into productive time!.
PriTest PriTest has created a powerful biodetection tool to help find and facilitate infectious disease elimination. PriTest is launching its first products focused on testing for tuberculosis (TB) infection in people and animals. This platform has the potential to radically improve the diagnosis of TB, including an updated screening test, with a worldwide market sales potential of over $1 billion.
RIPL RIPL is a startup in the social networking space. We are in the process of creating products that do not exist in this area. RIPL is revolutionizing the way young people connect, communicate, and share their content and media over the internet, capitalizing on powerful trends in infrastructure and consumer behavior to deliver an engaging, highly personalized, and media-rich experience with little precedent and unlimited potential to scale.
Sampa Sampa is an organization that empowers consumers to build and manage their own personal private networks. These networks let people define the audience of friends and family with whom they want to share their lives on the internet via photos, blogs, profiles, videos, and more.
Sensaria Sensaria is a locally owned and operated spa-based natural skin care company, selling in the direct sales channel.
Shiftboard Shiftboard is the collaborative scheduling hub. From healthcare to retail, business services, broadcasting, events management, and non-profit volunteerism, Shiftboard is quickly revolutionizing the way that thousands of contract and flexible workers schedule availability and communicate with employers.
Shoestring Ventures At Shoestring Ventures, we believe a couple geeks in a garage can change the world. We're looking for people who share our passion for delivering remarkable web experiences that improve people's lives.
Spring Creek Group Spring Creek Group is a boutique Web marketing agency which helps its clients improve brand awareness online via innovative direct-response and social media marketing services.
Symform Symform is founded by two ex-Microsoft veterans with a vision to create a game-changing technology that provides a seamless, green and significantly more economical way of running internet services. Symform is still in stealth mode, so come to talk to use for more details.
Widemile Since 2000, Widemile has pioneered leading edge digital marketing solutions and served industry leaders in software, hardware, financial services, retail, Internet services and more. Our expertise is optimizing the performance of key Web pages, especially landing pages and other customer conversion points, targeted direct marketing campaigns, rich media creative and other high-return customer conversion methods.
Yodio Yodio is a free recording service for non-professionals to add commentaries in their own voice to photos. Using Yodio these narrated photo albums or presentations can be easily shared via postings on blogs, embedding player in social network pages, or sharing with general public.
YourSports YourSports is SportsCenter + YouTube for amateur sports.
   

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Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Michael G. Foster School of Business
Lewis Hall 320, Box 353200

P: 206-616-3691
Email: uwcie@u.washington.edu

Join us at Springboard! Wednesday, January 30, 2008
5:30 to 8 pm

Balmer Undergraduate Commons on UW’s Seattle Campus

Contact Sarah Massey for more information at 206.685.9868 or masses@u.washington.edu.

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