Sponsors

We would like to thank our sponsors for their generosity in supporting Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford, as well for their general support of entrepreneurs, particularly in Silicon Valley. We encourage you to visit their websites to learn more.

Deloitte LLP is one of the largest professional services organizations in the world. Deloitte has approximately 165,000 staff at work in 140 countries, delivering audit, accounting, tax, consulting and financial advisory services through its member firms. Its Silicon Valley practice, located in San Jose, currently includes 900 people serving Silicon Valley’s technology, clean tech and life sciences companies. This office is also home base to Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, which helps senior executives make sense of and profit from emerging opportunities on the edge of business and technology. www.deloitte.com
DN Capital is a media and technology growth capital and early stage investor with offices in London and Palo Alto. DN Capital’s objective is to identify, invest in and actively support media and technology companies with the potential to be global leaders. Portfolio companies include Shazam Entertainment, Endeca Technologies, Datanomic, OLX, Digital Chocolate and Tbricks. The professionals at DN Capital bring over 50 years of private equity experience to their investments, and actively work with portfolio companies to steward their growth through the various stages of development. www.dncapital.com
Dogpatch Labs connects entrepreneurs and helps founders conceive and launch startups. With locations in San Francisco, New York City, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, it offers desk space, bandwidth, coffee, lunch and social events to aspiring entrepreneurs. Its locations are wide-open, fun spaces shared with local startups. More than a physical space, each location is a community of like-minded entrepreneurs who share a spirit of “open-source entrepreneurship.” The idea is that, by working side by side, networking or just hanging out, everyone will benefit from the flow of ideas, people and relationships. www.dogpatchlabs.com
The Founders Fund is a collection of investors who share something basic—the desire to build great companies from the ground up. Its partners are all entrepreneurs who have founded, operated, and scaled companies, and who want to lend their experience to the next generation of founders. Started by co-founders of PayPal, the fund actively seeks entrepreneurs with groundbreaking ideas to which it can provide capital, experience, and the commitment to help build companies. www.foundersfund.com
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax®, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries and Lacerte are Intuit’s leading tax preparation software suites for accountants. The company’s financial institutions division, anchored by Digital Insight, provides on-demand banking services. Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $3.2 billion in its fiscal year 2009 and has approximately 7,800 employees. www.intuit.com
With over $3 billion under management and current investments in more than 100 companies, Polaris Venture Partners is composed of experienced venture capital investors and technology executives. Its mission is to identify and invest in seed, first round, and early stage technology and life science businesses with exceptional promise and help them grow into sustainable, market-leading companies. In addition, Polaris provides growth equity and shareholder liquidity to established companies in the technology, healthcare, manufacturing, media, communications, and business services sectors. www.polarisventures.com