AlwaysOn tech leaders include Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Marc Benioff, Jonathan Schwartz, Niklas Zennstrom, and Jon Miller PRESS RELEASE For Immediate release Media Contact - Susan Fitzpatrick Palo Alto USA +1 650 798 5238 I New York +1 212 351 5054 I Sydney +61 2 9006 1614 Palo Alto, CA., August 14, 2007 – The BSI 1st Investor Forum in Silicon Valley last week was heralded a resounding success with the delegation of eight companies securing two AlwaysOn top 100 awards and national media coverage for their innovations. Ivan Kaye BSI CEO said the BSI 1st Investor Forum was the first of regular BSI delegations to the US now that the company had established its US office in California. "BSI’s award-winning success in Australia is well documented, and now we want to replicate this in the US - only on a much larger scale," Kaye said. "Our mission is to drive hundreds of millions of dollars in US investment and deals for our Australian BSI Investor Forum companies." "We are building our US team with proven business executive and working with Austrade and industry leaders in Silicon Valley to provide the best market entry and deal flow for our companies." "Our connections into the venture capital world and some of the larger technology firms are the secrets to our success," he said. "Getting the right investors and dealmakers in front of our companies is key. Our executives have access to real funds and are looking for real deals – this is a matchmaking service with high stakes." The BSI 1st Investor Forum was part of the prestigious AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. Australian companies Aditlast and Booking Angel were two winners of the AlwaysOn Top 100 awards, and the delegation attracted press coverage from CNET and ABC News San Francisco, among others, as leaders in innovation. The Stanford Summit features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases. The Stanford Summit's goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry. According to one US industry executive that attended the event, Ivan Gulas, President B2 TV – Global Broadcasting Network ™, "In many ways BSI has enabled opportunities far beyond those open to most US start-up companies! You have actually given them am "unfair competitive advantage." "Previous Stanford Summit executive speakers include Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Skype founder, Niklas Zennstrom, Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, Rob Glaser of RealNetworks, Verisign's Stratton Sclavos, Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems, Jon Miller of AOL, Marten Mickos of MySQL, and Trip Hawkins of Digital Chocolate," said Kaye. For images of the event go to:
BSI DELEGATION COMPANIES Ad It last - to sell distressed media to the SME market with a range of innovative tools. Buy Build Deliver system allows members to buy advertising, build the ad and deliver via our patented system. First stage of build system is for print and online media. (WINNER TOP 100)
Auship.com offers e-commerce merchants access to a national state of the art supply chain, greatly reducing the barriers of entry for them to compete. Booking Angel –Users of local search get a quick response to their online booking requests with small to medium size businesses. The businesses can accept, reject or amend bookings from the Internet without having to use their computer and the local search engines can earn revenue charging per booking. (winner top 100)
Digislide - This ingenious device delivers tremendous value to mobile professionals who make presentations and who know too well the hassles of mobile projectors. Digislide will do for mobile presentations what camera phones have done for digital photography. This company is a true innovator.
Freedomtel - Speak Freely. Glynx is the world's only P2P identity management system. Glynx runs on PCs and Phones keeping all Contact Identity information you have about others and others have about you automatically up-to-date. As P2P no third party observes your relationships or Identity information. Plugins to Skype and Outlook.
Hydrokinetics - Fully patented micro-channel copper heat exchangers designed to maximize all the available power within the thermoelectric module. Performance is measured through its thermal impedance and our heat exchanger has a reading of between 0.01 C/W0 C and 0.03 C/W0 C for the standard TEC module, by far the lowest in its class.
Rent Hire Buy - StreetHappy.com is an innovative and unprecedented type of internet community. It enables people to search for items they need, or promote their own spare or underutilized assets as being available for rent or hire to neighbors and friends and make a bit of extra cash on the side. www. streethappy.com
Terra Fuel Technology – Ethanol diesel infusion – Dynamically infuses vaporized ethanol into the intake cycle of a diesel engine matching ethanol to engine load.
About BSI
BSI assists innovative companies access capital, grants and international gateways. The BSI Investor Forum, which has become synonymous with early stage capital raising in Australia has launched in the USA. BSI manages 2 Incubation Funds, ADI and Information City, which currently has 30 Investments.