CSE Industry Affiliate Members Recruiting at the 2013 Fall Start-up Recruiting Fair
TUESDAY, October 22, 2013, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Microsoft Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
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Restricted to students and Industry Affiliates of UW Computer Science & Engineering.
Last updated 21 October 2013.
Company Company Description
1Energy Systems 1Energy Systems advises electric utility customers on grid-connected energy storage.
a16z Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm that provides seed, venture and growth--‐stage funding to the best new technology companies. Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz helps entrepreneurs become successful CEOs and build important and enduring companies. Its general partners are Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, John O'Farrell, Scott Weiss, Jeff Jordan and Peter Levine, all widely recognized experts in the creation, scaling and operation of high growth technology companies.
AI2 Our mission is to achieve scientific breakthroughs by constructing AI systems with reasoning, learning, and reading capabilities. We will generate valuable scientific resources, and create prototype AI applications to demonstrate the practical and social benefits of our advances. Our plan is to rapidly recruit world-class researchers and engineers in order to build a high-impact research institute modeled after the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Our corner stone project builds and extends recent work at Vulcan on the Halo Project. AI2’s plan includes the following key, interlinked elements:
  • World-class research and development;
  • Open source projects to create of data and resources for the community;
  • A startup incubator for AI technologies.
Analytics Media Group Companies and campaigns spend hundreds of millions of dollars on television and online advertising based on approximation and intuition, with little data to drive decisions or measure efficacy. Standard viewership and ratings data is limited to broad age-gender categories. Smaller segments and local markets often suffer from small sample sizes. We can do better. Analytics Media Group (AMG) introduces science to the art of media buying. We use models to identify targets for your product, service or cause. We use data from tens of millions of TV set-top boxes and online ad networks to anonymously match your most promising targets with their actual viewing habits to find the best ways to reach them. And we are constantly improving our data, models, matching, and targeting to ensure you always have the best plan.
Apptio, Inc. Apptio is a high growth software company pioneering a new market segment called Technology Business Management. We're focused on helping our customers solve the big problems of running the business of IT. We're fast moving, results oriented and passionate about our work. We're looking for sharp, successful people who want to be part of the team building the next big thing. We work hard and play hard too. We take care of our employees, enjoy a fun work culture and reward success. Above all, we're passionate about what we do. We're always looking for people who share our values of openness, collaboration, innovation and focus on customers.
Ario Lighting
Be Labs Be Labs LLC (“Be Labs”) creates, operates, and invests in wholly-owned businesses and intellectual property portfolios in consumer markets. We identify trends that are at or near a tipping point and use our process engineering and brand building acumen to create disruptive businesses that quickly cross the chasm from startup to growth company. We eschew building new markets in favor of building brands in existing markets that lack clear leaders or loyal consumers. We are industry agonistic and feel equally adept at venturing into the natural food space as we do mobile software. We win by meshing left and right brain thinking to create, protect, productize, validate, and market innovative products and services towards the ultimate goal of creating venture-scale business spinoffs.
BitTitan BitTitan provides cloud solutions that simplify and improve IT activities for businesses, governments, healthcare providers, and telecoms in over 80 countries.
BloomReach BloomReach's big data marketing applications use your content, web-wide data and demand to optimize customer acquisition and experience. BloomReach is a small, fast-growing startup with offices in Mountain View, CA and Bangalore, India, and we’re tackling one of the Internet’s most fundamental problems: helping leading online businesses get their high quality and relevant content found by their consumers, when and where they want it.
Cheezburger Cheezburger is one of the largest humor destinations on the Web, reaching more than 25 million people every month. Why you should work with 65 other talented people at Cheezburger:
  • We're flexible, nimble, and believe in giving each other the room to fail and the support to succeed.
  • We want to solve challenging problems and invent new things.
  • Our mission is to make the world happy for 5 minutes a day.
  • We'll be open and honest with you.
Cookbrite LLC Cookbrite is using data analytics to change how food is used worldwide. Founded and run by former execs of DocuSign, Cisco, HP, Netscape, Kraft, McDonalds, Frito Lay, and Nielsen, Cookbrite has been in stealth development for over 2 years and is now preparing the final push to launch. Our front end mobile consumer application suite has been broadly tested with consumers to rave reviews, while the back end systems have been architected for rapid global expansion.

We are seeking a small number of highly skilled developers to help develop our tightly integrated ecosystem of HW and SW. Developers will have the opportunity to work on a new breed of search known as an ‘inference engine’, mine terabytes of data from sources never accessed before, and deploy a global micro-transaction marketplace. Challenges include distribution of on-demand audio and video streaming to mobile endpoints, sub 1-second mobile response times, and developing totally new methods of data acquisition.

We offer the opportunity to work with a highly successful veteran team in the third largest industry in the world (food). Benefits include flexible working conditions, paid public transport or city parking, regular interactions with end users, and a system that is ACTUALLY changing the world.

Context Relevant The explosion of enterprise Big Data has created an unparalleled opportunity for businesses to improve operations, predict needs, and deepen customer relationships. But for most companies, the volume and velocity of Big Data is turning this opportunity into paralysis. While a handful of search engine companies have the capability to extract value from Big Data, most organizations simply can’t afford the hardware or data science teams required to accomplish this. At Context Relevant, we’ve developed a radically different approach that enables enterprise analysts to deliver the types of results that require high priced consultants, sizable data science teams, and expensive infrastructures with other methods.
Counsyl Counsyl is a medical genomics startup in South San Francisco, California. Our goal is to make the human genome practically useful for life-altering decisions. The cost of sequencing human genomes is plunging - over 5x faster than the cost of computing; the potential impact on preventive healthcare and the medical landscape is boundless. The science is there but the scale isn't. That's where Counsyl comes in. We are building the technology platform to make genomics useful and accessible to everyone. The vast majority of our operations are powered by our own custom-built infrastructure on a Python/Django/Postgres stack, from ordering to lab processing to billing. We’re building new tools, new workflows, and new infrastructure to solve the challenging problems of a technology startup involved with not just bits, but also interconnected physical components like lab robotics and patient samples.
Déjà vu Security Do you enjoy coding? Do you want to learn how to break things and put them back together? Are you curious about security and privacy? Déjà vu Security is looking for individuals who have the ability to deal with complex problems and develop software solutions for them. Déjà vu Security is a Seattle based firm that provides information security advisory services and secure development services to some of the largest organizations in the world. Our consultants find unknown bugs, innovative ways to circumvent the protection mechanisms, and help secure applications and devices. Déjà helps customers understand how to design, build, and deploy solutions securely. Our team has created products such as Peach Fuzzer, Peach Enterprise, and Peach Farm. At Déjà vu Security, developers and security experts work together to ship secure software to clients.
Delphix Delphix enables agile data, transforming the economics of database and application management. Delphix software addresses the single largest source of inefficiency and inflexibility in the modern datacenter — provisioning, managing, and refreshing databases for business-critical applications. Leading global organizations use Delphix to dramatically reduce the time, cost, and risk of application rollouts, simplifying database operations by 100x, while consolidating redundant hardware by 10x. Delphix is located in Menlo Park, California.
EnergySavvy There is one simple idea underlying everything we do: we make energy efficiency easier and more accessible for homeowners. Energy efficiency upgrades can be daunting, so we create software-driven solutions with great user experiences to streamline the process. EnergySavvy's software powers utility and government energy efficiency programs. Our products, Online Audit and Program Optix, accelerate uptake and guide homeowners through the energy efficiency upgrade process. They enable administrators to create, manage and optimize web-enabled residential energy efficiency programs.
Hive 6 Hive 6's mission is to give people the power to collaborate, share, communicate, and organize content from anywhere using any device.
Igneous Systems Igneous Systems is a seed-stage start-up working on next generation data center infrastructure, founded in October 2013 by a team of veteran enterprise software entrepreneurs.
Julep At Julep, our innovation process and company culture are built on the belief that collaboration is the best way to get the best answers. That’s why we’ve developed a unique “social” way of innovating that draws on our passionate customer communities—both online and in our parlors.
JW Secure JW Secure offers a range of services. Our custom software development engagements — for independent software vendors and major IT projects — enable clients to leverage our first-hand knowledge of the security features of Microsoft’s operating systems and applications so that they may deliver secure, dependable software of their own.
LearnSprout At LearnSprout our mission is to make education data universally accessible yet secure. Open, transparent, and accessible data increases the pace of innovation and brings accountability to any industry. Having witnessed the revolution that data transparency has brought and continues to bring to the consumer software industry, we are driven to do the same for education.
LiquidPlanner LiquidPlanner is a growing Seattle-area startup that makes groundbreaking online project management software. Working at LiquidPlanner offers tons of learning opportunities: marketing / search engine optimization, content development, community management, program management, software development, small business operations, and more.
Luckysteps Luckysteps uses simple mobile games to motivate, track, and reward physical activity in corporate employees and save their employers money.
Okta Okta is an enterprise grade identity management service, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta, IT can manage access across any application, person or device. Whether the people are employees, partners or customers or the applications are in the cloud, on-premises or on a mobile device, Okta helps IT become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance.
PEAK6 Investments PEAK6 Investments, L.P. is a leading financial institution headquartered in Chicago with an office in Seattle. Established in 1997, PEAK6 manages a portfolio of businesses including proprietary trading (Capital Management), online brokerage (OptionsHouse), and asset management (Advisors). With a genre-bending fusion of finance and technology, PEAK6 employs sophisticated, leading-edge technology and proprietary tools, and is committed to inventing, innovating, and executing the next generation of automated trading systems and businesses. PEAK6 offers a dynamic, collaborative, and entrepreneurial culture where every employee is given the tools, leadership, and opportunities to make an immediate impact on our business and future success. At PEAK6, those with passion, dedication and ambition thrive and succeed. PEAK6 also offers competitive salaries and performance bonuses along with generous benefits that include robust health insurance and wellness services, 401(k) matching programs, and a full calendar of social events and philanthropic efforts. All are reasons why PEAK6 has been named “Chicago's Best and Brightest Employers to Work For” and the Chicago Tribune’s Top 100 Workplaces for 2012.
Qumulo Qumulo is a Seattle based, venture funded, stealth-mode startup founded by Peter Godman, Neal Fachan, and Aaron Passey, the architects of the Isilon OneFS filesystem. No further information is available at this time but this field does have a 250 character minimum.
Sift Science Sift Science helps sites protect themselves from malicious users, such as fraudsters, spammers, or scammers, by using machine learning to predict when a user will result in a ban or chargeback. Sift Science is a tight-knit team of hackers with a passion for data. In past lives, we've worked on payments, anti-spam, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, search quality, topic modeling, text recognition, and more, and we're looking for great people to join the team.
SlideShare SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With over 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million page views, it is one of the top 200 websites in the world. And growing rapidly. SlideShare started in 2006 with presentations, but has since gone beyond and supports documents, podcasts, webinars, professional videos, webmeetings. It helps content be shared with the world, so you can discover people through content and content through people. SlideShare's vibrant community consists of professionals, educationists, businesses, non profits, governments etc. And it has popular applications on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Socrata, Inc. At Socrata is the leading developer and provider of Open Data Services, a category of cloud-based Web 2.0 solutions that enable federal, state, and local governments to dramatically improve the reach, usability and social utility of their public information assets.
Splunk Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most pervasive segments of "big data"—generated by websites, applications, servers, networks, mobile devices and all the sensors and RFID assets that produce data every second of every day. By monitoring and analyzing everything from customer clickstreams and transactions to network activity and call records—and more—Splunk turns machine data into valuable insights no matter what business you're in. It's what we call Operational Intelligence.
the Backplane Backplane is a platform that allows like-minded people to connect across their shared interests. Our first community was around Lady Gaga's LittleMonsters.com, and is almost a million strong. We believe that consumers and brands want more meaningful ways to connect and engage with each other online. We are partnering with the world's best brands to create authentic community.
Usermind
Vamo Vamo is a funded startup based in Seattle. Our goal is to help people plan better vacations. We’re an experienced team with a love for building great products and exploring the world.
Vannevar
Weebly Weebly gives millions of people a surprisingly easy and affordable way to create a site that is as unique as they are. With a Weebly site, people can start their own business, communicate with their clients, showcase their achievements, and be an authority on personal and professional interests. Weebly gives everyone the freedom to start a site, blog or online store that works brilliantly across computers, phones and tablets.
Wibidata WibiData is the next-generation platform for large-scale data storage, serving and analysis. And it’s the product of the hard work and collaboration of a talented staff, world-class investors, and amazing customers and partners. There’s a revolution occurring in how companies make business decisions and interact with their customers, and data is at the heart of it. We’re energized to be a part of this fundamental shift.
XKL, LLC XKL was launched by Cisco Systems founder Len Bosack. The company has set itself an aggressive mission: to identify problems in emerging network infrastructure even before these obstacles become evident to the Internet community. With this forward-looking approach, XKL provides the solutions necessary for the future growth and development of the communications industry. XKL’s product development programs emphasize architecture, not component technology. The company focuses on engineering for the most complex networks ever deployed. The goal is to provide more automated, more dynamically responsive approaches for network traffic management than current techniques.