SF Beta is San Francisco's best and biggest startup mixer, attracting founders, innovators, investors, and executives from Silicon Valley and beyond.

Our loosely structured event attracts over 500 people, and sometimes many more. We provide tasty gourmet appetizers and a full cash bar, along with live startup demos throughout the night.

Maximizing Mobile Apps  Our March theme, Maximizing Mobile Apps, highlights twelve great startups that help you get the most out of the apps you make. If you make apps or utilize apps, come and see what innovation is happening with platforms, analytics packages, and advertising services that bring more traffic, more use, and more efficiency.

Details:

• Free drink ticket for the first 200 attendees, thanks to QTS and Turnstone
• Free appetizers from 5-6pm. (Early birds get the worm -- or, in this case, the pizza.)
• 21+ venue; no minors admitted.
• Tickets are non-refundable, but can be transferred.
• There are no formal presentations or talks. Instead, startups give demos at tables across the venue, throughout the night.
• For more information, visit our website at www.sfbeta.com

SF Beta Sponsors

Turnstone, A Steelcase brand, provides office Furniture solutions designed for creative, technology focused, fast growing companies.  MyTurnstone.com is your source for everything you need to create space that supports collaborative and inspiring place to work.

GoGrid is a leading provider of cloud hosting and hybrid hosting, with a range of solutions serving everyone from small startups to large enterprises. GoGrid has been a sponsor of SF Beta for more than four years, and we're honored to have them with us once again.

Simplion is a technology consulting and outsourcing company with development centers in US and India. We work with start-ups and fast growth companies to bring their ideas to life swiftly at a lower cost without compromising on the quality. We provide software development services in Web 2.0., Mobile, and Salesforce.com technologies and offer comprehensive independent testing solutions.

QTS provides core data center infrastructure - Custom Data Center, Colocation, and Cloud Services - to meet the demands of customers of all sizes. Coupled with carrier-neutral connectivity and a full array of Managed Services, QTS offers complete solutions to your IT infrastructure hosting needs. QTS owns, operates, and maintains a dozen facilities encompassing over 3.1 million square feet, making us the third largest data center provider in the US.

DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service. It makes it incredibly simple for developers to deploy and scale their web and mobile applications, while at the same time delivering the flexibility and robustness required by critical business software. Developers can mix and match from a large choice of languages, databases, caching and messaging components, leaving them in full control of their technology stack.

Super Rewards is a leading monetization provider for games on social networks, MMOs, and mobile devices. Developers earn revenue, while users earn game currency by signing up for products or trials.

AisleBuyer is a mobile shopping platform that is revolutionizing the in-store shopping experience.  AisleBuyer leverages smartphone technology to unite the best features of both ‘bricks’ and ‘clicks’ retailing.  Its platform, which includes a virtual shopping assistant, ‘location aware’ digital circular and patent-pending, mobile self-checkout system provides retailers with an end-to-end solution designed to increase sales, reduce costs and offer unprecedented analytical insight into in-store shopping behavior. 

CosmiCube is the preferred white-label mobile application developer in the Bay Area. We deliver experienced teams of professionals to bring your ideas to life on the iPhone®, iPad™ and  Android platforms.

Interested in sponsoring SF Beta? Email cperry@sfbeta.com

SF Beta rocks! But don't just take our word for it...

“As networking events go, SF Beta is fast becoming an institution. In less than a year, it’s turned into a reliable, if predictable, venue for meeting and greeting entrepreneurs.”

"SF Beta has brought together thousands of people from hundreds of startups, creating innumerable connections along the way."

"We used SF Beta, a monthly showcase of tech startups in downtown San Francisco, as our official launch event last night. Over 500 people stopped by throughout the course of the night and the event was a great success."

“SF Beta is a healthy cross between a networking mixer and a night out at a packed bar where everyone knows everyone else (did that sound like the theme song to Cheers for a second?)”

“These events are great opportunities to meet like-minded counterparts, but they’re also great ways to check out your competition, meet collaborators and build up your courage.”

Startup Demo Theme: Maximizing Mobile Apps

Apsalar is the most comprehensive mobile behavioral targeting & analytics platform for iOS and Android developers. Our user-level analytics enable mobile developers and publishers to increase conversion rates, optimize retention & monetization, as well as enhance user experience within their apps.

BuzzBox is pivoting to do an FREE Android Notification SDK and soon adding a Smart Notification Engine. Developers, add the SDK and get notifications in your app in 10 minutes and get real time analytics based on cohort curves to see the value of notifications.  The Smart Notification Engine will throttle notification sent to the system based on a user's response to previous notifications to bring them back more often without overwhelming them. Add the FREE BuzzBox SDK http://hub.buzzbox.com with code 'buzzboxsdk' for the first 300 developers.

Funnel is the easiest way to collect data on smartphones and tablets. Instead of relying on app store reviews, developers can use Funnel to collect bug reports, requests for new features, and gather feedback from within their apps.

*Spark, created by HipLogic, is a modern mobile portal that streamlines content discovery and provides at a glance access to the media, content and functionality that matters most to consumers. From *Spark’s Real-time Home screen, consumers can see the latest updates from their social streams, breaking news stories, local deals, weather, and more.  *Spark enables immediacy, content discovery and sharing, all without having to open multiple applications.

Tapjoy is the leading platform company for the social gaming industry. We deliver cutting-edge monetization, distribution and publishing services to help social and mobile applications, virtual worlds, MMOs and other social publishers grow their businesses.

We are also featuring demos from Seesmic, Egnyte, Twilio, Tropo, and HipLogic. More info coming shortly!