VC at August Capital, Founder of The Lobby Conferences, Lecturer at Stanford and Harvard

About us

  August Capital was founded in 1995 by Dave Marquardt and John Johnston. Seasoned veterans of the venture capital industry, Marquardt and Johnston formed August Capital to invest in companies differentiated by technical innovation and entrepreneurial excellence. Today, August Capital's six partners -- Marquardt, Johnston, Andy Rappaport, David Hornik, Vivek Mehra and Howard Hartenbaum -- have more than a century of combined venture and operational experience. Together they manage $1.3 Billion and have invested in more than 75 companies across the technology spectrum.

From its inception, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. The companies that August Capital's partners have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion, generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue and employ a quarter of a billion people around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. We are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs and their companies as they have grown and prospered.


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Creator and Executive Producer of The Lobby Conferences (The Lobby and Lobby:Enterprise), an annual gathering of the thought leaders in the digital media and enterprise/SaaS ecosystems.


The Stanford Graduate School of Business empowers individuals to envision what is possible and make it happen through principled leadership and creative problem solving. The school has built a global reputation based on its management and leadership programs, including the two-year MBA; the one-year MSx Program; the PhD Program; Stanford Ignite, a part-time program in innovation and entrepreneurship; and Executive Education. Each program creates an experience that transforms people and prepares them to change lives, change organizations, and change the world. Programs engage the highest quality students with world-class faculty from across Stanford University’s seven schools, as well as alumni, Silicon Valley professionals, global executives, and the broader world community. The state-of-the-art Knight Management Center offers flexible classroom spaces for hands-on experiential learning, small-group leadership labs, and team-based learning. It also serves as a convening space for major forums and discussions.

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

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  GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project, helping developers collaborate on code to build great things and ship on time. We are an active participant in our global community of customers and contributors, trying to serve their needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write.

We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.


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Harvard Law School is one of the preeminent centers of legal education in the world.  Led by a diverse and dedicated group of faculty and legal scholars, HLS provides unmatched opportunities to study law and related disciplines in a rigorous and collaborative environment. The school's curriculum is unparalleled in its breadth and depth, with more than 400 courses, and nearly 30 clinics that make up the largest clinical department in the country.  Harvard Law School supports a wide array of research programs, and offers students and alumni resources supporting both public and private careers.  The school's network of distinguished alumni spans the globe, and its diverse student body is drawn from every U.S. state and more than 70 countries.

Harvard Law School

Media Res produit plus de 300 heures de programme audiovisuel chaque année.

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Media Res

About us

  Bill.com is the leading business payments company helping over 2M members process $36 billion in payments annually. Bill.com saves companies over 50% of the time typically spent on financial back-office operations by automating end-to-end processes. Bill.com helps businesses connect and do business by tying together finance and accounting programs, banks, customers, vendors, accounting professionals, and documents. The company is the choice of 3 of the top 10 U.S. banks; leading accounting software providers QuickBooks Online and Xero; and over 50 percent of the top 100 accounting firms. It is the only business payments solution endorsed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). The recipient of more than 70 awards, Bill.com proudly received multiple PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Awards and CEO René Lacerte was recently recognized as an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year.

Bill.com

We are bringing everyone closer to the game in ways never before imagined, with new forms of interaction, immersion, and personalization. From mobile apps, to giant touchscreens, to smart TVs, to VR/AR, we deliver exactly what each fan, commentator, coach, or player wants to see.  

We are pushing the boundaries of deep tech -- machine learning, computer vision, big data, augmented and virtual reality. Our passion for cutting-edge design and decades of experience playing college and professional sports is an equal part of the magic that brings unique and innovative products to life. These products have helped Second Spectrum partners to multiple NBA championships, to win matches on football pitches around the world, to entertain and educate millions of fans on TV and digital.  We're just getting started.

Please visit our website at https://www.secondspectrum.com/careers.html to view our available positions.

Second Spectrum, Inc.

For customers, we're a membership service that provides benefits like free 2-day shipping and returns and instant checkout at  100+ of the best online retailers. 

For merchants, we’re driving e-commerce business, producing insights with a growing data analytics practice. Plus, we help them compete in today’s marketplace. It’s the ultimate e-commerce win-win.

With people in offices in Chicago, New York, and Conshohocken, San Mateo and Krakow, we are all about creating great experiences for our customers, our merchants and each other.


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Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust the Fastly edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. Founded in 2011, Fastly powers online destinations including Airbnb, GitHub, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times and Ticketmaster. Learn more at Fastly.com and follow us on Twitter @fastly. 

Our global working community spans from San Francisco to Denver, New York, London, and Tokyo. We provide challenging work, opportunities to learn, high-quality teammates, and, most importantly, we have a lot of fun doing what we love. Our San Francisco headquarters is located in the heart of SOMA, close to MUNI, BART, and Caltrain.

We’re building a more trustworthy internet. Come join us.

For more information on Fastly, visit https://www.fastly.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fastly
Explore Fastly careers: https://www.fastly.com/about/careers


      Fastly
  

From lights, music, climate, security, and doorbells to whatever comes next, Brilliant makes interacting with all of your smart devices simple by building controls that are easy for everyone to access and use right in the walls of your home.

Our first product, the Brilliant Smart Home Control replaces any existing light switch to give you touch and voice control over smart home technology, including Sonos, Nest, Ring, Phillips Hue, and many others. Alexa is built in for voice control and there is a personalizable high-resolution display for touch control. Want to call the kids down for dinner? There is even a camera with a privacy shutter for room-to-room video chat.

Brilliant has received many awards for smart home products in 2018, including Best Smart Home Product (IHS), Best Home Automation (CTA, CEPro), Best IoT Consumer Hardware (IoT Innovator), Outstanding Innovation (CES), and more. Brilliant launched on September 6th and is available for purchase on www.brilliant.tech

Brilliant was founded by Aaron Emigh, Steven Stanek, and Jeremy Hiatt, all of whom are experienced technology entrepreneurs from the mobile industry. It all started when Aaron began remodeling his home and installed some smart home products. They were great as individual devices, but Aaron soon realized that the more he installed, the worse the experience got. Navigating between multiple apps just to adjust the lights, lock the door, or set the thermostat was complicated. To add to the frustration, controlling the home exclusively through his mobile phone felt unnatural and awkward.

Seeing an opportunity to elevate the smart home experience, Aaron, Steven, and Jeremy teamed up. As they saw it, controlling our home environments should be as simple as flipping a switch. There’s a light switch in every room, and it’s already the home control that we use most often, so it made sense to replace light switches with smart controls that make it easy and natural for you to interact directly with your home. Brilliant is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Mateo, CA. Our notable investors include August Capital, SV Tech Ventures, The Box Group, and Miramar Ventures.

Brilliant

About us

  Insight Engines’ software enables organizations to unlock the value of machine data so it becomes accessible and actionable to anyone in an organization, from an analyst to an executive. Its unique and powerful technology leverages natural language, or “plain English”, search queries against machine data, thus eliminating the need to learn and use complex search languages. 

Insight Engines’ flagship product is Insight Engines Cyber Security Investigator for Splunk, which allows cybersecurity professionals to use natural language search on data in Splunk to quickly detect, investigate, and visualize cyberthreats. 

Insight Engines is backed by August Capital, Splunk, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Data Collective, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.  Learn more at  https://www.insightengines.com

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Rocket Lawyer is the only integrated cloud legal service, making the law simple and affordable for everyone.

Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer strives to make the law affordable and simple for everyone. With financial backing and technical support from Google Ventures and its other partners, Rocket Lawyer has developed a cloud-based platform connecting millions of people with the legal help they need, at a fraction of the traditional cost. Using simple Q&A interviews, as well as live consultations with attorneys on their mobile phones, tablets and desktop computers, small business owners, self-employed individuals and consumers can now manage a wide variety of legal situations with relative ease. Follow the latest Rocket Lawyer news on Twitter @RocketLawyer.

Rocket Lawyer

Tophatter is the world’s most entertaining, mobile shopping marketplace.

Combining the engagement of a game with the economics of a marketplace, Tophatter is redefining ecommerce. Tophatter generates over $300 million of annual Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) and sells 100,000+ items every day.

Tophatter uses AI to tailor the shopping experience, delivering deep discounts on branded and unbranded items directly from factories and warehouses. Popular categories include: jewelry, electronics, fashion & beauty, and home & hobbies.

To date, Goodwater Capital, CRV, August Capital, and others have invested $35 million in the business. The company has offices in San Francisco and Shanghai, and is actively hiring.

See what is it's like to work at Tophatter: themuse.com/profiles/tophatter.

Tophatter

Nomis helps retail banks deliver win-win customer engagement through price optimization, customer-centric offers, and omni-channel sales enablement. More than 10,000 bankers worldwide leverage Nomis’ cutting-edge Silicon Valley approach to big data, advanced modeling, and deep analytics to understand and anticipate the demands of their customers, competitor actions, and dynamic market conditions. With experience in over 80 implementations, Nomis has a proven track record of increasing customer and stockholder value, returning more than $300 million to its partner banks every year. Banks currently use Nomis technology to manage more than 270 million accounts and optimize over $1 trillion in banking transactions annually.


We are headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Melbourne, Australia, and Toronto. Our customers include 20 of the top 100 banks globally and 10 of the top 40 retail banks in North America.

Nomis Solutions

PayNearMe is the industry’s only platform that facilitates cash, debit, credit and ACH payments for thousands of businesses and government agencies nationwide. With its great mobile experience, PayNearMe’s technology provides a simple way for lenders to collect payments through an intuitive, consistent experience for their customers. In addition, payment reminders and mobile wallet integration drive more on-time payments.

PayNearMe is the technology company that’s changing how payments are made
To make a cash payment in their own neighborhood, consumers visit any of our 27,000 trusted locations in the U.S., which include 7-Eleven®, Family Dollar®, Casey's General Stores® and ACE Cash Express stores. PayNearMe processes cash payments for the IRS, Comcast, Greyhound, Oportun and the California Department of Child Support Services, among others.

PayNearMe is offered by PayNearMe MT, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Handle Financial, Inc.

Follow PayNearMe on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Follow Handle Financial on Twitter @HandleFinancial.

© 2018 Handle Financial, Inc. All rights reserved. Handle Financial and PayNearMe are trademarks or registered trademarks of Handle Financial.

PayNearMe

DataTorrent enables&nbsp;organizations to&nbsp;accelerate business outcomes through&nbsp;rapid deployment of enterprise hardened, fast big data analytics applications&nbsp;using&nbsp;the latest innovations in&nbsp;operationalization, data&nbsp;science and machine learning.

Learn more: https://www.datatorrent.com

DataTorrent

About us

  WePay, a Chase company, helps online platforms increase revenue through integrated payments processing under their own name.

The company has uniquely enabled more than 1,000 platforms including Constant Contact, GoFundMe, and Meetup to incorporate payments without compromising on their user experience or taking on risk and regulatory exposure. In a mobile world, WePay’s integrations with Apple Pay and Android Pay for the Web help ensure high transaction conversions, while the company’s mobile point of sale (mPOS) solution allows platforms to seamlessly handle in-person payments in addition to online payments. WePay also offers a wide range of add-ons to support platforms’ specific needs.

WePay has earned Inc. 500 recognition as one of the fastest growing private US companies. It has also earned recognition on multiple Best Places to Work lists.

Learn more at wepay.com, or join us at wepay.com/careers.


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Townsquared is a free online network for local businesses and professionals within the same neighborhood to connect, communicate, and collaborate. From security and neighborhood safety to government engagement and regulation and even hiring, local businesses share many of the same challenges. While they may have a desire to find and share solutions with their neighbors, the demands of owning and running their business prevent many from reaching out. With Townsquared, neighboring businesses and professionals can easily and flexibly exchange the information that helps them prosper – strengthening themselves, their local economy, and their community.

Townsquared

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) helps organizations ask questions, get answers, take actions and achieve business outcomes from their data. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to monitor, investigate and act on all forms of business, IT, security, and Internet of Things data.

Splunk is the world’s first Data-to-Everything Platform. Now organizations no longer need to worry about where their data is coming from, and they are free to focus on the business outcomes that data can deliver. Innovators in IT, Security, IoT and business operations can now get a complete view of their business in real time, turn data into business outcomes, and embrace technologies that prepare them for a data-driven future.

With more than 5,000 employees in 27 offices worldwide, we’re focused on creating lasting data outcomes for our customers.


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About us

  TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.

TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. On TED.com, we're building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers — and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long.

In fact, everything we do — from our TED Talks videos to the projects sparked by the TED Prize, from the global TEDx community to the TED-Ed lesson series — is driven by this goal: How can we best spread great ideas?


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We educate leaders who make a difference in the world.

--MBA Program: An intensive, two-year residential program leading to an MBA degree.
--Doctoral Programs: Nine full-time programs leading to a PhD or DBA degree.
--Executive Education:  More than 80 programs preparing talented professionals from all over the world for new levels of leadership in their careers and within their organizations.
--HBX: Delivering case-based, active, and engaging online business education to learners around the world.
--Alumni Community: Nearly 70,000 business leaders in 150 countries.

Harvard Business School

At Say Media we build digital magazines, we develop state-of-the-art technology, and we partner with advertisers. Our unique ecosystem for brands engages audiences and provides exceptional reader experiences.

WE BUILD DIGITAL MAGAZINES
We own and partner with a portfolio of influential digital magazines, including xoJane, xoVain, Fashionista, Gear Patrol, Remodelista, Honestly...WTF, Not Impossible Now, ReadWrite, LifetimeMoms, and Bio. They each have compelling, quality content and readerships that were organically grown, making them real, devoted, and hyper-engaged.
 
WE PROVIDE AN AWARD-WINNING PUBLISHING PLATFORM CALLED TEMPEST
Tempest is our next-generation publishing platform that caters to the needs of storytellers, marketers, and readers. With features like editor-friendly smart layouts, premium advertising experiences like Adaptive Ads [link to Adaptive description], and device-agnostic article pages, Tempest creates quality editorial experiences focused on driving engagement rather than inflating pageviews. 

WE PARTNER WITH ADVERTISERS
We work with marketers to create authentic campaigns that are aligned with editorial and designed to captivate readers. Our accountable pricing models guarantee that advertisers are only charged for real consumer engagement. And we do this at scale—between our portfolio and our extended network of high-quality lifestyle sites, Say Media reaches 400 million people worldwide.
 
News: www.saydaily.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/saymedia
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/saymedia
Facebook: www.facebook.com/saymediainc


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Ebates is now Rakuten. Connect with us on the Rakuten Rewards page for job opportunities, news and company updates.

Ebates

シックス・アパート株式会社は、全国300以上の加盟を誇るパートナー制度「ProNet」加盟の企業や個人事業者を通じ、個人から法人まで幅広いCMSソリューションを提供しています。

個人のブログから大規模なコーポレートサイトまで、さまざまなシーンでのウェブサイト構築・運営・管理を支援するCMSプラットフォーム「Movable Type」、高機能CMSを低コストかつメンテナンスフリーなウェブサービス型で提供する「MovableType.net」、みんなで使えるブログサービス「Lekumo ブログ」を提供しています。

また、働く場所を問わない、テレワークを中心とした働き方「SAWS」を実践しています。この取り組みを評価いただき、東京都が主催する平成30年度「時差Biz推進賞　ワークスタイル部門」に選出されました。

詳しい情報は、https://www.sixapart.jp/ をご覧ください。


      Six Apart
  

About us

  PayCycle is the leader in on-demand payroll for small businesses and for the accounting professionals who serve them. Our company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with a second location in Schaumburg, Illinois.

PayCycle was founded in 1999 by René Lacerte and Martin Gates, who worked together at Intuit. After leading QuickBooks into the payroll services area, they decided to start their own company. They envisioned an easier, more affordable way to manage payroll for small businesses.

PayCycle's mission is to make paper-based payroll obsolete. Using our unique Do-It-With-You℠(DIWY℠) technology platform, PayCycle guides users through the entire payroll process online, from setup to paychecks to W-2s. There's no other service like it, whether you're comparing PayCycle to fully-outsourced payroll companies or in-house accounting software.

PayCycle

Jaxtr is a social communications startup in Menlo Park, CA. Jaxtr's mission is to enable new conversations worldwide by linking every phone to the Web. Over 10 million users have already linked their phone on jaxtr.com, so they can safely use their phone for social networking and make international calls cheaply and conveniently straight from their mobile phone. Jaxtr is backed by top-tier VCs, including August Capital, Lehman Brothers, Mayfield, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Founders Fund. The company earns revenue from advertising, international calling and premium services.

jaxtr

Evite is the world’s leading digital platform for bringing people together to celebrate their most important life moments. With over 32 million registered users, Evite has sent more than 2 billion event invitations in its history, enabling approximately 3 billion unique face-to-face connections across all types of gatherings. Through easy-to-use online and text invitations, a private sharing feed for event photos and conversations, and inspiring video content, Evite provides inspiration and tools to make your get-togethers effortless and even more memorable.


      Evite
  

About us

  Perkins Coie LLP offers legal advisory services. The firm’s practice areas include business law, bankruptcy and restructuring, environment and natural resources, estate planning and trust services, finance, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, product liability, real estate and land use, regulatory and government affairs, and taxation. The firm was founded in 1912 and is based in Seattle, Washington with additional offices in Anchorage, Beijing, Bellevue, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Madison, New York, Palo Alto, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Shanghai, Taipei and Washington, D.C.


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Corporate and Licensing practice.  Represented Internet companies, including Yahoo!, WhoWhere?, etc.


About us

  Cravath has been known as one of the premier U.S. law firms for nearly two centuries. Each of our practice areas is highly regarded, and our lawyers are recognized around the world for their commitment to the representation of our clients' interests.  Our primary areas of practice include: corporate, litigation, tax, executive compensation and benefits and trusts and estates.


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Stanford University is one of the world's leading research universities. Stanford is known for its entrepreneurial character, drawn from the legacy of its founders, Jane and Leland Stanford, and its relationship to Silicon Valley. Research and teaching stress interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. Areas of excellence range from the humanities to social sciences to engineering and the sciences. Stanford is located in California's Bay Area, one of the most intellectually dynamic and culturally diverse areas of the nation.

Stanford University

The University of Cambridge is one of the world's foremost research universities.

The University is made up of 31 Colleges and over 150 departments, faculties, schools and other institutions. Its mission is 'to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence'​.

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