Specifically, Sony Electronics is interested in connecting with New York media and technology startups focused on the areas presented below, and will select a handful of companies to come to Sony’s U.S. headquarters in New York to present their products to its business development team in front of a live audience, including select members of the VC community.

Areas of interest include:

MEDIA
• Recommendation/Personalization tools to navigate large content libraries
• Cross-device advertising
• CRM/Customer behavior analytics
• Video streaming/”one-to-many” upload broadcast technologies
• Socialization/Game-ification engines

TECHNOLOGY
• Cross-device data synchronization (cloud synch)
• Voice/facial recognition
• Text-input and on-screen UI navigation
• Consumer-oriented mobile and Home Health/Wellness/Fitness-related technologies
• Smart Home (A/V control, Home Security, Home Control, Home Energy, Home Health)

Applications are being accepted through October 31 at http://insiteny.org/SonyABC

The 2011 New York Venture Summit
- Where Innovation Meets Capital -

July 20th – 21st, 2011 | Digital Sandbox |New York City

Friends,

Whether you’re a startup seeking capital and exposure or an investor seeking new deals, The New York Venture Summit™ presented by youngStartup Ventures – is one event you won’t want to miss.

A highly productive venture conference, the New York Venture Summit is dedicated to showcasing early stage VCs, Corporate Investors and Angel Investors committed to funding early stage and emerging companies.

This exclusive summit will feature a distinguished line up of more than 40 VCs on interactive panels, presentations from more than 50 Top Innovators seeking funding and high-level networking opportunities.

Partial List of Venture Capitalists confirmed to Speak:

John Albright, Co-Managing Partner, BlackBerry Partners Fund | Managing Partner, JLA Ventures
Omar Amirana, MD, Partner, Oxford Bioscience Partners
Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, GSA Venture Partners
Don Butler, Managing Director, Thomvest Ventures
Bill Coleman, Partner, Alsop Louie Partners
Richard Dale, Principal, Sigma Partners
Dixon R. Doll, Co-founder and General Partner, DCM
Jon Edelson, M.D., Venture Partner, Ascent Biomedical Ventures
Scott English, Senior Vice President – Strategic Investments, Hearst Interactive Media
J. Skyler Fernandes, Associate, Centripetal Capital Partners
Tony Florence, Partner, NEA
Teo Forcht Dagi, Partner, HLM Venture Partners
Nikhil Garg, Vice President, Black Coral Capital
Matthew Garratt, Vice President, Battery Ventures
Jay N. Goldberg, Senior Managing Director, Hudson Ventures
Wally Hunter, Managing Director, EnerTech Capital
Jay Jamison, Venture Partner, BlueRun Ventures
Michael Katz, Partner, Greener Capital
Stephen Knight, M.D., Managing Partner, Fidelity BioSciences
David Lane, Partner, Onset Ventures
Albert A. Lauritano, MSc, CLP, Director / Business Development, BD Technologies
Charles R. Lax, Managing General Partner, GrandBanks Capital
Mary Lincoln Campbell, Managing Director, EDF Ventures
Mark MacLeod, Partner, Real Ventures
Douglas Lind, Managing Partner, GBP Capital
Brad McManus, Director, Panasonic Venture Group
Lucy McQuilken, Investment Manager, Intel Capital
Jeffrey B. Moore, DPhil, MBA, Vice President, MP Healthcare Venture Management
Diana Propper de Callejon, General Partner, Expansion Capital Partners
David Rubin, Director, Merck Global Health Innovation Group
Gary Rubinoff, Managing Director, Summerhill Venture Partners
Reese Schroeder, Managing Director, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
Jim Sledzik, Partner & President, Energy Ventures US
David J. Sorin, Co-Managing Partner, SorinRoyerCooper LLC
Miles Spencer, Founder and Chairman, Vaux les Ventures
Alexander B. Suh, Founding Managing Director, California Technology Ventures
Jeanne M. Sullivan, Co-Chair and Founder, StarVest Partners
Eileen M. Tanghal, Investment Director, Applied Ventures
Ralph E. Taylor-Smith, General Partner, Battelle Ventures
Dr. Markus Thill, Managing Director, Robert Bosch Venture Capital
Wal van Lierop, President & CEO, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital
Medha Vedaprakash, Principal, Rho Capital Partners
Daniel Wagner, Director, Investments, Connecticut Innovations
Tom Whiteaker, AVP, Hartford Ventures
Ryan Ziegler, Principal, Edison Ventures

InSITE has made special arrangement for startups and investors in our network to receive a special discount of 25% off the current registration rates.

To inquire about group rates, register by phone or for more information contact:
Rivka of youngStartup Ventures at 718-447-0009

This exclusive Venture Summit brings together over 400 Top-tier venture Capitalists, Private Investors, Corporate VCs, CEOs of early stage and emerging growth companies and strategic service firms; features more than 40 leading VCs on interactive panel discussions; presentations from more than 50 Top Innovators; and high-level networking opportunities.

A partial list of VCs confirmed to speak includes:
John Albright, Co-Managing Partner, BlackBerry Partners Fund | Managing Partner, JLA Ventures | Omar Amirana, MD, Partner, Oxford Bioscience Partners | Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, GSA Venture Partners | Don Butler, Managing Director, Thomvest Ventures | Bill Coleman, Partner, Alsop Louie Partners | Dixon R. Doll, Co-founder and General Partner, DCM | Scott English, Senior Vice President – Strategic Investments, Hearst Interactive Media | Wally Hunter, Managing Director, EnerTech Capital | David Lane, Partner, Onset Ventures | Charles R. Lax, Managing General Partner, GrandBanks Capital | Mary Lincoln Campbell, Managing Director, EDF Ventures | Douglas Lind, Managing Partner, GBP Capital | Lucy McQuilken, Investment Manager, Intel Capital | Jeffrey B. Moore, DPhil, MBA, Vice President, MP Healthcare Venture Management | Diana Propper de Callejon, General Partner, Expansion Capital Partners | Gary Rubinoff, Managing Director, Summerhill Venture Partners | Reese Schroeder, Managing Director, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital | Alexander B. Suh, Founding Managing Director, California Technology Ventures | Jeanne M. Sullivan, Co-Chair and Founder, StarVest Partners | Eileen M. Tanghal, Investment Director, Applied Ventures | Gaurav Tewari, Principal, Highland Capital Partners | Dr. Markus Thill, Managing Director, Robert Bosch Venture Capital | Ryan Ziegler, Principal, Edison Venture Fund.

President – Abe Geiger, CBS ’12
VP Partnerships – Ted Rosenwasser, CBS ’12
VP Sourcing – Brian Malkerson, Stern ’12
VP Operations – Victoria Cheng, CBS ’12
VP Events – Matt Puzio, CBS ’12
VP Alumni – Alessandro Presti, Col JD/MBA ’12
VP Communications – Nistha Tripathi, Stern ’12
VP Special Ops – Joe Rizk, CBS ’12
VP NYU Recruiting – Steve Mayne, Stern ’12
VP Columbia Recruiting – Rebecca Allen, CBS ’12

And the New 2011-12 Young Alumni Board Members

Shirley Xu, CBS ’11
Alex Shellhammer, Stern ’11

Thank you to our two outgoing 2010-11 Young Alumni Board Members Rich Powell and Jeff Hui.

Since Spring of 2001, InSITE’s companies have raised a total of more than $215 million of disclosed funding and have enjoyed at least 6 successful exits. With 96 companies completing our program to date, that’s an average of $2.2 million raised per company – an impressive number, particularly considering the majority of start-ups do not receive funding.

The biggest raise by far was by RecycleBank, totaling $71.1 million dollars over 3 rounds. Even without RecycleBank’s funding success, each InSITE company raised $1.5M on average. That’s a tremendous amount of Angel/VC funding for startups based in the New York City area.

Filling out the top five raises are Silicon Alley Telecom (which became Eureka Broadband and is now part of Broadview Networks) ($44 million), Hycrete ($25 million), Vindigo ($22 million), and ON Networks ($16 million). Our most recent large success has been Organic Motion ($8.28 million), a 2006 and 2009 InSITE Company.

Top Angel/VC investors have been involved in these ventures, including RRE Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield, Rose Tech Ventures, NGEN Partners, First Round Capital, Accel Partners, Kodiak Ventures, PKS Capital, SJF Ventures, Robin Hood Ventures, Foundry Group, Betaworks, and New York Angels.

To date, have been at least 6 successful exits including Klipmart, which is now Doubleclick’s Rich Media Ad serving tool, Motif. Others include:

Design2Launch, acquired by Kodak
EATS Media, acquired by Delivery.com
ASPEED Software, acquired by Simtone
PreClick, acquired by Smilebox
Mycrocept, acquired by Healthpoint

More information on InSITE’s companies is available here.

These numbers do not take into account undisclosed funding amounts. We know of at least 6 companies that have received seed funding, but the sizes were not publicly disclosed, including HopStop, MediaMerx, Frogtek and Catchafire.

Although InSITE doesn’t take full credit for the success of these companies, no one can dispute that the company selection teams each semester have successfully picked the best and brightest entrepreneurs in NYC.

InSITE teams work hard each semester with these companies to refine their pitches and presentations and put them in front of our Venture Capital Advisory Program Sponsors (VCAPS). InSITE congratulates 10 years of InSITE companies on terrific success in raising funding and building successful enterprises!

– Shirley Xu, 2009-2010 Special VP for Alumni Companies

Alex Cohen, InSITE Founder and GC and CCO for On Deck Capital
Andrew Moss, InSITE Alumni and Founder of BuyWithMe
Ben Lilienthal, InSITE Alumni and Founder of Vapps
Bronson Lingamfelter, InSITE Alumni and Associate at Rose Tech Ventures
Dan Lifton, InSITE Board and COO at Quality of Life Labs
David Pashman, Legal Team Leader at Meetup
Dawn Barber, InSITE Board and Founder of NY Tech Meetup
Josh Spodek, InSITE Alumni and Founder of Submedia
Karl Alomar, InSITE Past President and CEO at China Export Finance
Mac Lipscomb, InSITE Board and Operating Partner at InSITE Sponsor RRE Ventures
Mark Davis, InSITE Alumni and Associate at DJF Gotham Ventures
Matt McCooe, InSITE Alumni and Managing Partner at Chart Venture Partners
Molly Siems, InSITE Alumni and Account Manager at Fly Communications
Pete Karlen, InSITE Board and VP at EarthWater Global
Robyn Soto, InSITE Board and Director at Tishman Speyer
Sacha Ross, Associate at InSITE Sponsor Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Vic Singh, InSITE Alumni and Co-Founder of NearVerse
Vinay Jain, InSITE Board and Associate at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Zubin Canteenwalla, InSITE Alumni and Associate at NGEN Partners

InSITE presented several special awards:

Fellow Achievement Award: Shirley Xu
For special service as a first year InSITE Fellow, including leading our first VCAP Special Project Team and volunteering to serve as Special VP for Alumni Companies to survey their funding success, which showed that InSITE Companies had raised more than $215M in venture financing since 2000.

Alumni Achievement Award: Andrew Moss
For extraordinary accomplishments in entrepreneurship since graduating from InSITE (and NYU Law in 2001), particularly founding BuyWithMe in 2009 and raising a $5.5M Series A round.

First Annual Inductee into the InSITE Hall of Fame: Paul Tumpowsky
For guiding InSITE through 10 highly successful years as Chairman of the Board including developing the organization’s core program and relationships with sponsors, startups and supporters throughout the NYC venture community.

A full list of InSITE honors is available here.

Current InSITE Fellows and Board Members elected ten new executives to run the organization in 2010 – 2011 and two out-going Fellows to serve as Young Alumni Board Members:

Lastly, InSITE thanks the outgoing Class of 2010:

Christian DiCarlo, Columbia MBA
Duncan Welstead, Columbia MBA
Geetika Agrawal, NYU MBA
Godfrey Powell, Jr., NYU MBA
Haley Boruszak, NYU MBA
Jane Kang, NYU JD
Jeff Hui, Columbia MBA (who will stay on with InSITE as a Young Alumni Board Member)
Jennifer Gootman, NYU MBA
Justin Heyman, Columbia MBA
Kesha Cash, Columbia MBA
Max Eckstein, Columbia JD
Jane Kang, NYU JD
Ricky Opaterny, NYU MBA
Rob Schneider, Columbia MBA
Roy Simkhay, Columbia MBA
Ryan Orton, Columbia MBA
Shawn Khazzam, NYU MBA
Tony Leotti, NYU JD/MBA
Vinay Ganti, NYU JD/MBA

– Rich Powell, NYU JD ’10, signing off as 2009-2010 President; thanking all the past Execs, Team Leaders, Alumni and Supporters for another great year; and wishing the best of luck to the stellar 2010-2011 Execs

On Tuesday, April 13th, InSITE (Investments from Student Interaction with Technology and Entrepreneurs) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary, hosting its current Fellows and alumni.

With its first class graduating in 2000 and always comprised of MBA and JD students from Columbia and NYU Business and Law Schools, the program has grown significantly in size and scope over the past decade. InSITE Fellows are selected each academic year though a competitive application process, and only a fraction of those who apply are accepted based on their interests and demonstrated experiences in an entrepreneurial or venture oriented career. This year, the organization received more than 150 applications for 24 new Fellow positions.

Led by Chairman Paul Tumpowsky (CBS/InSITE ’00), each semester InSITE Fellows source a group of early stage New York startups for its advisory program. Over the past decade, teams of Fellows have worked with more than 100 New York startups to help them better articulate their businesses, refine their strategy and sharpen their value proposition. InSITE also hosts a variety of programs, including term sheet negotiations and a speaker series which has included prominent venture capitalists Alan Patricof and Fred Wilson, and supports New York Angels through their Future Angels initiative.

The program has been enormously successful for both the student Fellows and the companies that have completed the process. Since 2000, InSITE companies have raised more than $170 million in venture funding. Notable InSITE alumni companies include Vindigo, Broadview Networks, ON Networks, Hycrete, Recycle Bank, Hopstop, FlavorPill and Organic Motion.

InSITE Fellows have pursued careers in a variety of industries, including investment professionals at venture funds including Bessemer Venture Partners and DFJ Gotham, attorneys from in-house counsel at Amazon’s Lab126 to Wilson Sonsini and Skadden Arps, management consultants at McKinsey & Company, investment bankers and, of course, entrepreneurs.

Recently, Alex Ferrara (CBS/InSITE ’04) was promoted to Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, and Andrew Moss (NYU JD/InSITE ’01) the Founder and CEO of BuyWithMe.com, raised a $5.5 million Series A Round from Matrix Partners.

InSITE Fellows, Alumni, its Board of Directors and invited guests will gather on the 13th to celebrate the organization’s successes over the past decade and elect the next group of student leaders to manage the organization though another successful year.

InSITE is sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, the preeminent law firm focused on early stage technology businesses, as well as a number of top venture capital firms: Canaan Partners, Contour Venture Partners, DFJ Gotham, Greenhill SAVP, Investor Growth Capital, Kodiak Venture Partners, Milestone Venture Partners, and RRE Ventures.

For more information on InSITE Contact:

Paul Tumpowsky
212.999.6200
Paul.Tumpowsky@InSITEny.org

RRE is re-aligning to reemphasize their efforts here in NYC. Mac gives InSITE a great shout-out in the press release.

Mac has given a great deal of time and energy to InSITE since our founding 10 years ago, and recently retired as a leader of the Communications Industry Practice at Accenture and formally joined the InSITE Board. The InSITE community congratulates him on this major move.

– Rich Powell, President 2009-2010

• Bandvest is an online music marketplace where artists raise money to record a professional EP by pre-selling their EP to fans at a discounted price and giving them meaningful incentives including equity in the EP in the form of ‘Bandvest Bucks.’
• EcoSystems offers hardware systems that allow users to easily create or customize furniture under comprehensive, environmentally-friendly frameworks.
• Klickable is an easy-to-use online video platform that allows users to create interactive Klickable videos.
• ProtEquity offers a Home Equity Protection (HEP) product for homeowners that allows them to protect the value of their home against regional housing market declines.
• Active Locations develops location-aware mobile applications that allow organizers and owners of events and venues to place branded information and content at their visitors’ fingertips.

Teams of Fellows have been paired with each company; they will work to improve their pitches over the next two months in preparation for InSITE’s Spring 2010 Final Pitch Event on Friday, April 9th.