FoundersCard is a members-only community made up of leading entrepreneurs and innovators. The community’s mission is to support these risk-takers, who are doing the real leg work in rebuilding the economy, by offering unparalleled rates and benefit from the world’s top brands. Members can also take advantage of regular invitation-only networking events as well as online networking opportunities.

1ring.com is an unconventional and innovative marketing service for storing information about the things you’re interested in. Using any mobile phone, without Internet connection requested, 1ring.com is the new webgate for real world: it’s easy, available 24/7, in every language, and it’s free!

1ring.com allows companies to have a profiled demand analysis at an affordable price.

We’re proud to welcome in ZeroCater as our newest sponsor. ZeroCater manages meal-catering services, with a particular focus on serving Bay Area startups. They manage all the tedious aspects of catering an office: paying the bills, scheduling delivery, accommodating Bob’s gluten-free allergy, and so on.

ZeroCater is the brainchild of Arram Sabeti. While working at Justin.tv, he was responsible for managing the catering for the office. The process took up so much of his time that he knew there had to be a better way. Thus, ZeroCater was born, and now counts Justin.tv among their fast-growing list of clients.

ZeroCater will be providing us with food for our next event, in what is decidedly the tastiest sponsorship in our four-year history.

As you may have seen on TechCrunch, we will be hosting the launch party of Powerset co-founder Steve Newcomb’s new company, Virgance.

A brief summary from the article:
“Virgance focuses on fostering and promoting benevolent, wide-reaching and important campaigns that also stand a good chance to make money. The Virgance engineering team, headed by VP of Engineering Naseem Hakim (who helped build the very popular Facebook app Circle of Friends), is building a platform designed to help promote these campaigns across a number of social platforms. Newcomb describes the platform as “the next iteration of what President Obama did” – leveraging the power of social media to reach the masses. But these campaigns are not simply about raising awareness – they have to let the community somehow interact, and they have to have a solid business model. Depending on the campaign, Virgance gets a portion of the incoming revenues.” 

At our next SF Beta, we’ll be featuring the ventures and adventures of Virgance, with tons of bloggers, press, and investors in attendance.  This is definitely NOT the beta to miss this year.

A big congratulations to our major sponsor, ServePath! LinuxWorld just named them the winner for Best Grid Computing Solution.

Their grid computing solution, GoGrid, is the first ever Web-based system for purchasing, deploying, and load balancing complex, multi-server Internet architectures with a RAM-based utility computing billing model.

Read more about the award on ServePath’s website. Congrats again!