Startup Spotlight Reception by JW Walthall

Networking - Mentoring - Funding

SXSW Startup Village brings together the startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and cutting-edge digital tastemakers within the SXSW Interactive Festival. Located primarily on the fourth floor of the Downtown Austin Hilton, this space showcases the various startup events at SXSW Interactive (including SXSW Accelerator, as well as startup-related panels, Meet Ups, lounges, pitch events and mentoring / coaching sessions).

SXSW Startup Village continues to consolidate much of what already happens at SXSW Interactive into one location. Current and future entrepreneurs will benefit from learning and networking with investors, technology trailblazers, media representatives, as well as digital creatives from the exciting industries that come to Austin for SXSW. Startups are an important part of the world economy as well as an important element of SXSW Interactive–we are very excited about all that Startup Village will bring to the event.

Where
Fourth Floor of the Austin Downtown Hilton, 500 East 4th Street with satellite events happening at various locations around downtown Austin.

When
Friday, March 8 to Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Friday 2pm to 6pm
Saturday to Tuesday 9:30am to 6pm
Please note that some days will include evening programming and/or events.

Programming
Browse the SXSW online schedule for a full list of 2013 panels, presentations and other programming at Startup Village.

Attend
SXSW Startup Village programming is open to all 2013 SXSW Interactive, Gold, and Platinum registrants from Friday, March 8 through Tuesday, March 12.

FAQ
For a listing of the Frequently Asked Questions about the SXSW Startup Village program please click here.

SXSW Accelerator
For more information about the SXSW Accelerator event please click here.

Startup Spotlight
Located in the heart of Startup Village, this special reception shines a spotlight on new and emerging startups. There will be complimentary drinks and demos from participating companies (listed below). Join us on Friday, March 8, from 4:00-6:00pm at the Hilton Downtown Austin 4th Floor Foyer (500 East 4th Street).

• Bloomfire
  A Knowledge sharing tool for the modern workforce. Bloomfire helps you capture, display, save, and share information, connecting people who have the knowledge with those who need it.
• CityBot
  Citybot is a mobile app that creates personalized itineraries for visitors both new and familiar to a city.
• Close.com
  Bringing true relationships together in a fun new way.
• CloudBees
  Build, run and manage your Java apps in the cloud with the CloudBees Platform as a Service (PaaS).
• Cogsy
  Taking the BS out of getting a custom site and managing it. We're going to make businesses better and save them time and money. We're not stopping until we're everything to everyone. $20 a month. Websites for the rest of us.
• Collaborizm
  A new approach to serendipitous discovery for collaboration. Collaborizm offers intelligent matchmaking for projects and collaborators, simplified project management and communication tools and a diverse community based on shared values.
• Crowd Act
  Crowd Act Inc is a Calgary, Canada based start-up and launching the beta version of crowdact.com, a subject-based social media and network in SXSW.
• eevzdrop
  eevzdrop is a fun, new way to share your day-to-day life experiences with the rest of the world through audio recordings.
• Glocal
  Glocal provides stories to the world's communities from the people who represent them.
• Guide
  Guide turns your favorite online news and social streams into video. Guide's TV news style format allows you to watch your favorite content instead of having to read it.
• Hater
  A mobile app that allows you to share the things you Hate. Hate on celebrities, politicians, bad service, too much traffic, and annoying Facebook “friends.” Simply, your random daily Hate.
• Jobhuk
  "Crowdsourced Hiring" Jobhuk helps leverage the human network to Hire and Get hired via Referrals. Pays referrer on successful hires.
• Light of Creativity
  Light of Creativity is a startup company that presents LIGHT, a Web System that helps record, organize and share your life.
• Not it Labs
  Not iT is a smartphone app that helps groups of people who live, work or play together to delegate real-world tasks from a gamified hub.
• Social ID
  Social I.D. presents ASKIE, your personal mobile “Ask the Audience”. Askie is an app that is all about advice, whether you're giving it or getting it.
• Speeker
  Speeker is a mobile social network where people can openly share pictures, news, and opinions based on proximity.
• Talentwire
  Talentwire powers talent acquisition for the #open era. Leverage your team's expertise and culture to attract and engage a higher level of better matched candidates.
• Transporter
  Transporter is an online, but off-cloud social storage solution for privately sharing, accessing and protecting all of your valuable files.
• Userify
  Userify is a mobile and agent-based platform for secure public cloud User Management and supports both SSH and API role-based authorization and authentication.

Press Credentials for SXSW Startup Village
For any press inquiries to SXSW Startup Village, SXSW Accelerator and the SXSW Interactive Festival, please contact Kelly Krause.

Comments
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