OnFarm Named Launch: Silicon Valley 2013 Top Award Winner for Technology

SVForum (www.svforum.org) today announced that Launch: Silicon Valley 2013, the annual high profile product launch platform for startups, has announced the selection of the Launch: Silicon Valley 2013 (www.launchsiliconvalley.org) startup companies awarded “Most Likely to Succeed” honors in categories including: information technology, mobility, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy.

The six winners were chosen from 30 new companies from Silicon Valley and around the world, and presented to the audience and a panel of Silicon Valley VCs and Angels, whose combined votes determined the winners. Over 300 companies applied to present at Launch: Silicon Valley 2013.

“At a time when everyone is asking ‘what next’, this year’s finalists and ‘most likely to proceed’ awardees from around the world demonstrated the innovation and promise that such great new startups bring to the market,” said Chris Gill, CEO of SVForum. “As SVForum’s Launch: Silicon Valley continues to expand its global reach, the incredible success of this year’s event once again demonstrates that the emerging technology companies view Silicon Valley as the place to pitch their products and network with the SVForum community of top VCs, Angels, corporate executives, prospective customers and partners to help launch their next stage of success.”

During the past 7 years, appbackr, BLADE, Data Robotics, Dayak, d.light.design, fix8, Industrial Origami, Intelen, Jaxtr, JungleCents, Kongregate (acquired by GameStop), Mobisant, MyShape, Skyline Solar, Smaato, Steelhouse, tenCube (acquired by McAfee), Triggit, Trooval, Truemors (acquired by NowPublic), uTest, Vizibility, Yodio, Zuora, and over 100 other startups leveraged SVForum’s annual Launch: Silicon Valley event, to launch their products, raising over $145MM in venture capital, securing customers and partners along the way.

Launch: Silicon Valley 2013 award recipients by presenting category are:

Technology category:
OnFarm, farm decision support, Fresno, CA, www.onfarmsystems.com
Integrates agriculture information in a cloud based decision and management system that enables farmers to increase yield and quality while reducing fertilizer, water, labor, and energy.

Next Generation Internet 1 category:
Algorithms.io, predictive analytics algorithms, Mountain View, CA, www.algorithms.io
A local Bay Area company, leveraging the latest in cloud computing and open source software along with proprietary technology to deliver predictive analytics as a service.

Next Generation Internet 2 category:
Bugcrowd, crowdsourced bug identification, Santa Clara, CA, www.bugcrowd.com
Crowdsourced security for web and mobile applications, matching the crowd of bad guys with a crowd of curated good guys.

Mobile category:
FLASHiZ, mobile payments, Luxembourg, www.flashiz.com
The first mobile payment solutions in Europe using both NFC and QR codes. It enables one to pay in shops, online, using paper invoices and even making peer-to-peer payments.

Life Science category:
WHILL, next generation personal mobility, Menlo Park, CA, http://whill.jp
Relocated from Japan this week, designs and creates new generation of personal mobility, sidewalk EV (Electric Vehicle), with unmatched design and functions.

Clean Tech category:
E3 Clean, Nox scrubber technology, Athens, OH, www.e3cleantechnologies.com
Provides devices that cost effectively clean up smog forming Nox emissions in diesel and power plant exhaust and contamination in wastewater while producing clean hydrogen fuel as a free by-product.

For more information about the event, and an overview of all the companies that presented at “Launch: Silicon Valley 2013,” please visit the following URL: http://launchsiliconvalley.org/

About Launch: Silicon Valley

In its 8th year, Launch: Silicon Valley is now firmly established as the premier product launch platform for Technology startups. The event, co-presented by SVForum, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft, provides the next generation of emerging technology companies with the opportunity to pitch their products to, and network with, an audience of Silicon Valley’s top VCs, Angels, corporate business development executives, prospective customers and partners, bloggers and media.

Launch: Silicon Valley is co-presented by SVForum, early stage venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft, which will host the event at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View. Additional sponsors include Accenture, Cooley LLP, Silicon Beat, IBM, Bridge Bank, Callidus Cloud, CitizenTekk, Deloitte, Global Media Strategy Communications LLC, Halosys Technologies, Hummer Winblad, Life Science Angels, the Band of Angels, NephoScale, Sand Hill Angels, The Angels Forum, The Kauffman Fellows Program, and VentureDeal.

About SVForum

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, SVForum is a leading Silicon Valley not-for-profit organization. SVForum provides an unbiased source of information and insight to the technology community. SVForum engages the community by creating connections and community, providing education and access to resource and linking the global business community to Silicon Valley. SVForum provides the latest insights on emerging technology trends and best business practices through events, specialized services and resources. SVForum reaches 15,000 technology professionals annually through more than 20 events each month. SVForum partners include global leaders Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Qualcomm and SAP, as well as leading venture capital firms, service providers and the Sobrato Family Foundation.

For further information, visit the SVForum website at https://svforum.org. Organizations interested in sponsorship opportunities should contact SVForum CEO Chris Gill at chris@svforum.org