Beta Ltd is pleased to welcome SendGrid as a sponsor!

SendGrid‘s cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability and real-time analytics along with flexible API’s that make custom integration a breeze. SendGrid helps you focus on your business without the cost and complexity of owning and maintaining an email infrastructure. SendGrid manages all of the technical details from scaling the infrastructure to ISP outreach and reputation monitoring to whitelist services and real time analytics. Save time, resources, and money by focusing your engineering resources on your business and leave the technical work to SendGrid. On average 20% of legitimate emails never reach the inbox. For your business, that means lotheyr customer satisfaction, lost customers and less revenue. SendGrid offers world class deliverability expertise to make sure your emails get delivered.

Beta Ltd is pleased to welcome TuneUP.fm as a sponsor!

TuneUP.fm is global music consciousness, a better way to share and discover music you love.

Beta Ltd is pleased to welcome HPM Networks as a sponsor!

HPM Networks is a leading Business Solution Provider for Enterprise IT Solutions and Professional Services based in Northern California / Bay Area. They supply, and integrate, industry standard Information Technology solutions for companies that require true technical expertise to meet their goals. Their Solution Architects, Certified Engineers and experienced Sales Personnel understand your challenges and how proven IT solutions can help address them. Their portfolio of systems and services provide their customers with cost effective and resilient business computing solutions with extended technical support from a single supplier. They are a source of advice you can trust! Specialties HP, Blades, BladeSystem, ProLiant, Networking, ProCurve, H3C, 3COM, Storage, VMware, Virtualization, Services, Symantec, APC, LeftHand, Theyb 2.0, Cloud Computing

Have you ever secretly played air guitar to your favorite song? With the Air Guitar Move you finally can play air guitar for real. All you need is an iPhone or iPod Touch and you will instantly feel like a rock star (hangovers not included).

The unique Air Guitar Move motion sensing guitar pick allows you to strum in the air, and your iPhone becomes a guitar. Imagine how much fun it is to really move instead of just tapping and shaking.

Head to the Air Guitar Move website to learn more about this awesome project.

Congratulations to this amazing team and company. Rock on!

Our first set of recipients consist of three startups who are making bold new inroads into mobile gaming.

JoyPad turns your iPhone into a game controller. Game developers add Joypad support to their games using the Joypad SDK. The app has received more than 50,000 downloads, and 15 companies using the SDK.

Code Hero is edutainment (remember that?) at its finest — a game that teaches you how to make games with a code gun that copies, edits and shoots Javascript in Unity3D. I’m pretty sure I met Alex Peake, the company’s founder, at a flash mob in the Mission district several years ago, proving that San Francisco really is the smallest town in the world.

Illuminatus: Eye For an Eye turns the iPad into a board game platform, played against a friend, in person, with the iPad sitting between you. Illuminatus is built by and for board game geeks, in the tradition of Stratego and Settlers of Catan. I’ve played a number of rounds myself, and can testify first hand to its awesomeness.

We’re pleased to welcome IndieGoGo as our latest sponsor!

Have something you are passionate about? On IndieGoGo you can create a funding campaign to raise money quickly and securely. Our trusted platform has helped to raise millions of dollars for over 40,000 campaigns, across 201 countries.

Anyone can start raising money right now on IndieGoGo! You can create a funding pitch, offer unique perks or tax deductions to your contributors in lieu of offering profit (you always keep 100% ownership), and get the word out! Each campaign has the opportunity to be featured on their homepage, placed in the press, or exposed via social media.

Not ready to raise money yet, but want to see what’s out there? IndieGoGo makes it easy to browse through thousands of campaigns, and to contribute quickly and safely. Looking to get involved or support something new – now’s your chance!

SF Beta is pleased to announce Yesware as our latest sponsor!

Yesware is an email productivity service that helps salespeople close more business. Integrated into Gmail and coming soon to mobile devices, Yesware provides email analytics, customizable templates and more to help salespeople respond to customers more effectively. For sales managers, Yesware makes training, ramp-up and activity-based reporting more effective, and gives them better insight into their team’s performance.

SF Beta is happy to welcome appssavvy as our latest sponsor!

appssavvy is a social activity advertising company. Through the adtivity by appssavvy platform, appssavvy enables leading web, social and mobile publishers to unlock and create new, display advertising opportunities reaching people as they perform social activities. adtivity by appssavvy delivers scalable, high-impact, center-of-the-page display advertising one of the most effective ways for brands to positively engage with online audiences.

SF Beta is pleased to welcome Getty Images as a sponsor once again!

Getty Images is one of the world’s leading creators and distributors of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites.

The Getty Images expanding family also includes iStock photo, the web’s original source of royalty-free stock images; Thinkstock.com and Photos.com, Getty’s royalty free subscription service sites; a curated Flickr collection and more.

Additionally to producing high-quality visual and audio content, Getty Images is a proud innovator in distributing that content. Through Getty Images Connect, Getty Images’ API (application programming interface), clients gain the benefits of seamlessly integrating Getty content directly with their own internal technology systems.

Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.

We’re proud to announce a partnership with UC Berkeley’s FounderSchool, an innovative startup incubator founded by visionary entrepreneur Steve Newcomb.

FounderSchool is a highly selective UC Berkeley program that incubates up to five startups over a rigorous, 10-week period each summer. It’s co-sponsored by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. Investor partners include Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, and Sequoia, along with AngelList founder Naval Ravikan.