Sponsors
Interested in sponsoring the Social Gaming Summit?
Contact Charles Hudson by email at charles@socialgamingsummit.com or (650) 249-0905.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed is a leading venture capital firm focusing on early-stage information technology and energy-related investments in the U.S., China, India and Israel. The firm also invests selectively in expansion and growth-stage opportunities. Lightspeed manages $1.3B of committed capital, including Lightspeed VII, a $480M fund closed in late 2005. Our investment team has helped create successful companies in a variety of industries over the past two decades, including Blue Nile, Brocade, Calista, Ciena, DoubleClick, eHealth, Galileo Technology, Growth Networks, Informatica, Kiva Software, LightLogic, Maker Communications, Metasolv, Phone.com, Quantum Effect Devices, Riverbed Technology, Sirocco, Virsa and Waveset. The firm maintains offices in Menlo Park, California; Shanghai, China; Bangalore, India; and Herzliya, Israel. http://www.lightspeedvp.com
Super Rewards
Super Rewards is a leader in social network monetization. Super Rewards allows applications and online games to turn their virtual currencies into real dollars by offering users an opportunity to earn extra points or virtual dollars by participating in surveys, free trials and online purchases. This turn-key solution delivers highly targeted offers to millions of local and international social network users across multiple platforms. Super Reward's simple to implement yet powerful solution maximizes monetization while minimizing work load on developers and increasing user engagement. This allows developers and game designers to do what they to do best: build killer apps...and now extremely profitable ones too! http://www.srpoints.com
Social Gaming Network
Social Gaming Network (SGN) is the leading global development platform for social game distribution. SGN has created a complete ecosystem for social game developers to easily distribute and monetize their games across the social web. These games transcend traditional game play, by giving players a highly personalized, engaging, competitive, and portable user experience. Since its inception, SGN's games have attracted over 1 billion page views, 54 million installs and nearly 1.1 million daily active users across Facebook, Bebo, hi5, and MySpace. Popular titles include, Warbook, FightClub, StreetRace, Jetman, and Free Gifts. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, SGN is funded by Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Columbia Capital and Novak Biddle Venture Partners. For a complete list of available tiles, developer and publisher information, please visit http://www.sgn.com.
Panther Express
Panther Express is the premier, global provider of CDN services and leads the way in delivering rich experiences for the Gaming industry. Panther Express provides the industry's best combination of attractive pricing and high performance, including flexible business terms. Our highly scalable, robust and redundant infrastructure allows gaming firms to effectively monetize their sites. We understand our gaming client's needs and challenges, as well as the importance of your users' experience. Sign-up today and see the difference: http://www.pantherexpress.net
Offerpal Media
Offerpal Media is the first "Managed Offer Network" for social applications and communities. Our turnkey platform of uniquely engineered CPA offers monetizes application developer's traffic while generating high quality leads for advertisers. The platform is based on an innovative engagement-marketing model in which users can earn points, rewards or other forms of virtual currency by participating in free trials, surveys, big-brand discounts and other relevant offers. Behind the platform sits a powerful optimization engine that targets precisely the right offers to an individual based on their profile, their relevance to the social graph and other proprietary algorithms. http://www.offerpalmedia.com
Goodwin Procter LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation's leading law firms, with a team of 850 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm's Technology Companies Group is a highly focused team of 160 lawyers who provide dedicated representation to over 500 emerging companies and entrepreneurs and 200 venture capital and private equity firms with a focus on industries including software, digital media, cleantech, life sciences, telecommunications and networking, among others. http://www.goodwinprocter.com
Zynga Game Network
Zynga Game Network is one of the premier social gaming companies on the web. Zynga was founded specifically to add a social element to casual online games because we love games, and we love them most when we're playing with friends! Zynga delivers on the promise of social networks, making it easy to connect with old friends and make new ones. Zynga has something for everyone: casino games, word games, board games, role playing games and party games which can be found on Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Friendster and Hi5. http://www.zynga.com
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide is an international communications firm and part of the WPP group. Our proven ability to design and deliver successful campaigns, find creative solutions to challenging communications assignments and exceed client expectations has earned us a reputation as a valued partner and industry leader. Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide is headquartered in New York, with more than 60 offices located around the world. The expertise of our staff allows us to offer a full range of communications services within seven global practices: Consumer Marketing, Corporate, Healthcare, Social Marketing, Public Affairs, Technology and Entertainment. http://www.ogilvypr.com
Ustream.TV
Ustream is the leading internet broadcasting platform. Ustream's proprietary technology powers an easy-to-use, web-based interface, allowing anyone with a camera, computer and Internet connection to broadcast live to the world. Integrated with a host of interactive tools including chatrooms, co-host, and shout meter, Ustream's platform delivers real-time, social experiences on the web. Since its beta launch in March 2007, Ustream has grown to 360,000 registered users broadcasting 8,000 - 10,000 live shows a day. Ustream.TV is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, please visit: http://www.ustream.tv.
