Our Sponsors
The following companies have generously helped us in previous Launch48 events.
Paypal
PayPal is the leading online payments provider in the world. PayPal works closely with startup businesses over 190 countries to enable payments and generate revenue on their web sites.
PayPal is the first global payments solution provider to open their API allowing developers the opportunity to monetise their applications across social media, web and mobile platforms.
PayPal is launching a number of systems to improve payment systems for online businesses and it is hoped the Launch48 teams will benefit from these new features and PayPal’s broad experience in online payment handling.
PayPal are supplying the venue, refreshments, and equipment during the event.
http://www.paypal-business.co.uk
Dennis Publishing
Dennis Publishing is happy to sponsor Launch48. We have always found that the best companies throw open their doors and share ideas and experiences to improve their own businesses as well as supporting entrepreneurship. Dennis Publishing, as you may know, is an independent company, a great place to work and a Times 100 company. We hope that on the weekend you’ll have a great time and you will pick up a little bit of Felix Dennis entrepreneurial spirit and that we can learn things too. As the next best web business is always only a weekend away!
Dennis are supplying supplying catering and design assistance.
Sun Microsystems
Sun Startup Essentials – Sun’s fee-free, no obligation Startup Essentials programme. Helping Startups get off the ground running.. They help offer many benefits, a few of which include –
- Discounted Hosting offers
- Global PR and outreach
- Networking, community collaboration – connect with investors
- Startups Ask Sun – Free technical support services
- Aggressively discounted hardware, storage and MySQL licenses
- Free Training
- Discounted Event Tickets
- Listed in the Startup Directory – Global exposure on Sun.com
Sun Startup Essentials are supplying the catering on the Sunday evening and assistance with signage.
Google
Google’s mission is to organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. To achieve this Google is rapidly deploying new technologies for use by individuals and businesses across the world to help fulfill this mission. Through providing tools to facilitate web development and supporting events such as Launch 48, Google aims to help progress the web into an even more richer, social and ultimately useful environment.
Google is really excited about working with such a dynamic and ambitious startup event as Launch48 and will be supporting Launch48 by speaking and offering assistance in a range of disciplines to assist new web businesses.
Google will be supplying refreshments during Launch48.
Amazon Web Services
Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them.
With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com’s global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s $15 billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over 13 years.
We are proud to support Launch48 and are provided service credits to help you get the business off and running. Work hard, have fun and make a bit of history along the way!
Strawberryway
Strawberryway’s mission is to enable Business 2.0. We work with organisations on delivering real time, social and collaboration tools. For Launch48, Strawberryway are sponsoring free Box.net Business accounts for the teams taking part throughout their journey as well as providing ongoing free service and support. Box.net facilitates the way we work today; sharing and managing content; project collaboration and workflow; content search and discovery; mobile access; and extensibility and third party apps. Strawberryway are excited to be involved with Launch48 and ensuring the teams have the tools in place to produce fantastic results.
Strawberryway will be sponsoring 8 weeks of Box.net Business for the teams taking part in Launch48, with full support at the event and before the follow up event.
Viadeo
Viadeo is an online professional network. Viadeo is designed around you and what you do. It’s about widening the circle of contacts that you have and making you more visible to other professionals in your industry or field of expertise.
Viadeo are sponsoring video production during Launch48 Weekend.
Newspepper
Newspepper is an innovative broadcast production company, socially benefiting the media movers and shakers of tomorrow.
Newspepper is a media partner and will be assisting with promotion.
justFDI
justFDI produces bespoke web apps, with JournoTwit as a flagship service – a web based Twitter application targeting the needs of journalists, bloggers and media professionals. justFDI has helped the community for UK technology journalists and PRs to overhaul their website (UKTJPR.com) and aggregate member activity, complimenting and promoting JournoTwit. Armed with a community aggregation and engagement platform, justFDI looks to help businesses visualise and understand information on the real-time web.
Check out the Twitter platform built by justFDI especially for Launch48 at twitter.launch48.com
Techcrunch Europe
TechCrunch Europe is part of the TechCrunch Network and is edited by Mike Butcher. TechCrunch Europe is a blog covering Web 2.0 and Mobile start-ups. TechCrunch Europe is part of the TechCrunch Network, which includes country-specific blogs for France and Japan. In 2009 it was named as one of the Top 10 blogs out of the UK. Also in 2009 Mike was named one of the Top 10 bloggers on Twitter in the UK. In October 2009 Mike was named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. Mike is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg. Mike’s personal blog is mbites, while he Twitters as @mikebutcher.
Techcrunch Europe is a media partner and Mike Butcher has offered informal advice on the media to Launch48 groups.
Creativepool
Creativepool is the UK’s largest jobs, portfolios and freelance resource for the creative industries with over 54,000 members and more than 4,000 businesses using their services including the likes of Electronic Arts, the BBC, LBi, Sapient, Fox and TBWA. Upload your portfolio for free, apply for for jobs and find work as a freelancer. Their members are made up of Account Managers to Web Designers and everything in between. Register for free at Creativepool.co.uk
Carsonified is a media partner and will be assisting with promotion.
Carsonified
At Carsonified, we’re hugely passionate about the web. It’s in our blood. We believe it’s our duty to bring the web community together to learn, converse and connect. We do this at The Future of Web Apps and The Future of Web Design
Carsonified is a media partner and will be assisting with promotion.
Sponsorship Information
Please see the following document for more information about Launch48.
- Launch48 presentation (2.8 Mb PDF file) – a brief overview of Launch48
- Launch48 sponsorship information (0.2 Mb PDF file)- a detailed description of Launch48, its events, and its sponsorship opportunities.
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