Sponsors

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Venmo lets people make and share transactions. The Venmo iPhone and Android apps connect your phone with your bank, debit or credit card, and you can instantly send money to anyone for free. When you receive money, you can withdraw it to your bank account overnight. People all over the United States use Venmo to pay friends for rent, dinner, drinks, movies, concerts, birthdays, ice cream, laughs, and anything else. To learn more about Venmo, visit venmo.com. venmo.com/api
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. The firm has $2.7 billion under management across three funds. Among its 150 investments are Airbnb, Apptio, Box, Fab, Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Jawbone, Lytro, Pinterest, Silver Tail Systems, Twitter and Zynga. The firm was established in June 2009 and is located in Menlo Park, California.
Dropbox wants to simplify your life. Helping you access your data from anywhere, share it, and restore accidentally deleted files are just a few of the ways we've done this. We're proud of what we've done (with only 50 engineers!), but we've got a long way to go to make it so people can use whatever devices/apps/services without sweating the details. With our API, universal camera roll, and more projects on the way, we really are just getting started =) dropbox.com/developers
Windows Azure is an open cloud platform that enables developers to build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Mobile Services allows developers to add a scalable and secure backend hosted in Windows Azure to an iOS, Windows Store, or Windows Phone 8 app. Learn more at www.windowsazure.com/mobile. windowsazure.com/mobile
Modis is a global provider of IT staffing services, connecting the very best IT professionals to great job opportunities at leading companies. As the most dynamic IT recruitment specialists in the world, Modis connects leading companies in virtually every industry with top IT professionals for both temporary and permanent assignments. With keen industry insight, tenacity and unmatched depth of expertise, Modis understands the world of IT and the people who practice it. It is this understanding that empowers Modis to help both clients and candidates make exceptional connections in today’s complex world of technology. Modis is a true powerhouse in the field of IT staffing, offering the most expansive talent base, branch network and global reach available in today’s workforce. For additional information, please visit www.modis.com
Optimizely is the world's leading website optimization platform that enables our customers to run automated A/B tests, multivariate tests and personalized web and mobile campaigns. We have an amazingly engineered visual website editor, a solidly crafted backend system serving 16B monthly & a bleeding edge statistical analysis engine. We care about the craft of engineering and value a sense of fearlessness and adventure in our work. optimizely.com/developers
Sears Holdings Corp. is a leading integrated retailer with over 2,600 full-line and specialty retail stores in the U.S. and Canada and the home of SHOP YOUR WAY, a social shopping experience where members have the ability to earn points and receive benefits across a wide variety of physical and digital formats, including a mobile app and ShopYourWay.com. developers.shopyourway.com
The Bain Capital Ventures StartUp Academy is looking for you, world-class technical talent who aspire to be startup leaders of the future! This initiative will give students invaluable exposure to entrepreneurship, to building a business, and to creating and working with innovative technologies. As part of StartUp Academy, individuals will join a full-time or intern level position at a Bain Capital Ventures portfolio company. In addition, members of StartUp Academy will get invited to exclusive entrepreneurial events hosted and sponsored by BCV in Boston, New York, and the SF Bay Area. If you want to create an impact now, and aspire to be a technical leader then we want you.
10gen is the company behind MongoDB, the leading NOSQL database. 10gen leads development, builds community, and provides commercial services for MongoDB. MongoDB is an open source document-oriented database helping tens of thousands of companies quickly and easily deliver, scale, and operate applications. Founded by DoubleClick’s Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz and led by seasoned technologists, 10gen is funded by Flybridge Capital Partners, NEA, Sequoia Capital and Union Square Ventures.10gen global customers include O2, Craigslist, Disney, eBay, Forbes, foursquare, Intuit, Shutterfly, Telefonica, UK Government Digital Services, and over 500 others. 10gen has dual headquarters in New York and Palo Alto with offices worldwide. mongodb.org
eBay is the world’s leading online marketplace, bringing together a family of brands that connects communities. Built on commerce, trust, and opportunity, the unique companies that form eBay, Inc. create opportunities for people around the world—often in life-changing ways. We measure success not just on a financial scale, but on our proven ability to support social purpose and instill pride and respect amongst those who interact with us. We believe in serving community members, not customers. And our community begins here—with our people. We invite you to learn more, explore opportunities, and discover a place for you. developer.ebay.com
Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. We are actively recruiting bachelors, masters and PhD students for full time and internship opportunities to join our fast growing teams. developers.facebook.com
Filepicker.io provides everything you need for dealing with photos, documents, videos, code or any other content. From connecting to cloud sources like Facebook, GitHub, Dropbox and Instagram, to image and document conversion, to just dead-simple uploading, we have you covered on web and mobile. developers.filepicker.io
First Round Capital is a modern seed-stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. As seed-stage investors, we often provide a company's first outside capital – and are not afraid of funding pre-revenue companies. First Round Capital’s portfolio is a community of web-­enabled businesses led by entrepreneurs, guided by an active partnership and connected through a technology platform designed to support companies throughout their growth. The firm's current portfolio includes companies like Path, StumbleUpon, One Kings Lane, Fab, Modcloth, RockMelt, Uber and Square.
KAYAK is what happens when a bunch of crazy people who hate bad travel experiences come together in a fit of caffeinated efficiency. If you haven’t used KAYAK to find the best travel deals, go to KAYAK.com or download the app before you get eaten by a velociraptor.
Our office is 80% cowboys and 20% master-craftsmen.
We like to be super fast, super productive, and super fun.
We. hate. meetings. We. love. lunch.
We believe that happy teams make happy products.
Our vision is to be the best place to plan and book travel. We would love for you to join us in taking it to the next level. Drop us a note at talent@kayak.com.
OpenShift is Red Hat's free Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS). OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications. Just upload your code using Git and leaving the hosting and scaling headaches to us. OpenShift takes a no-lock-in approach to PaaS by providing built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java. OpenShift also supports many of the popular frameworks that make a developer's life easier including frameworks ranging from Spring, to Rails, to Play. Signing up only requires an email address and best of all, it's free to use. openshift.redhat.com
Twilio (www.twilio.com), the cloud communications company, is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services and telecommunications. Twilio provides a telephony infrastructure web service in the cloud, allowing web developers to integrate phone calls, text messages, and IP voice communications into their web, mobile, and traditional phone applications. twilio.com/docs
Yahoo! is on the move! Building new mobile experiences and products to keep you on the go, connecting you with the information and people who matter the most to you throughout your busy day. Making it easier to get stuff done. Come hack – er, work – with us! www.careers.yahoo.com/students developer.yahoo.com
AppNexus is a technology company building today’s most powerful, open, customizable online advertising platform. Our large-scale, globally distributed technology is able to determine the right ad for a user at the right price in the milliseconds it takes a page to load. And this happens billions of times a day with 99.96% uptime. We’re currently serving over 800k requests per second with a latency time of less than 100 milliseconds, and generating over 22 TB of data daily. wiki.appnexus.com
APT is a rapidly growing Software-as-a-Service company with offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, London, and Taipei. With a powerful Big Data predictive analytics software platform at its heart, APT is revolutionizing the way Fortune 500 companies develop their business strategy. APT’s software is used by many of the world’s best known companies including Walmart, Starbucks, Kraft, CVS, Abercrombie & Fitch, SUBWAY, Victoria’s Secret and Hilton. APT creates a variety of Software-as-a-Service tools that blend analytics and computer science to solve multi-million-dollar business questions. As APT partners with more of the Fortune 500, new business challenges and varied datasets continue to present unique analytical problems.
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GS Collections is a collections framework for Java. It has JDK-compatible List, Set and Map implementations with a rich API and set of utility classes that work with any JDK compatible Collections, Arrays, Maps or Strings. The iteration protocol was inspired by the Smalltalk collection framework. GS Collections puts iteration methods on the container types, simulating lambdas using anonymous inner classes. It improves readability and reduces duplication of iteration code, as well as provides replacements for ArrayList, HashSet, and HashMap optimized for performance and memory usage. github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections
As founders, operators and investors, we strive to be the best partners for entrepreneurs building disruptive consumer and enterprise software companies. We create partnerships with tech entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of creation and support them as their companies grow and evolve. Greylock was founded in 1965 and has $2 billion under management. Our headquarters are in Silicon Valley and we have offices in Cambridge, Beijing and Bangalore. Greylock Israel, a partner firm, has offices in Tel Aviv and London.
Jane Street is a quantitative proprietary trading firm operating around the clock and around the globe with offices in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Trading is an intensely technological business, so writing good software is a critical part of Jane Street's operation. We are one of the world's biggest industrial users of functional programming, and we use it in every area of the firm: trading, research, risk management, system administration, accounting, and beyond. We bring a deep understanding of markets, a scientific approach, and innovative technology to bear on the problem of trading on the world's highly competitive financial markets.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm with over $2B under management and a focus on early and expansion stage investments in the consumer, enterprise and cleantech markets. Lightspeed has backed more than 200 companies, helping them think big and move fast to become leaders in their respective industries http://www.lsvp.com
Navigate dozens of APIs, including ESPN, Crunchbase, Hotwire, Edmunds.com, Klout, Rotten Tomatoes, with a single sign-in using the Mashery API Explorer. Hacks built using any API listed in our API Explorer will be eligible for our Mashery prize of an iPad mini! Get started building: http://dev.mashery.com/iodocs dev.mashery.com
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a leading global, multimedia news and information company with 2011 revenues of $2.3 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, NYTimes.com , BostonGlobe.com , Boston.com, and related properties. The Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information. developer.nytimes.com
At NextDocs, we adapt the best features of modern web platforms, social networking tools and mobile experiences to help get medicine and medical devices to patients sooner and safer. Our platform connects thousands of doctors around the world through a complex web of reviews and digital signature approvals, processes millions of documents, with security controls because one wrong click could impact lives and an experience as simple as clicking a "like" button! NextDocs' compliance platform serves over 100 top life sciences firms whose products serve hundreds of millions of patients daily, making us one of the top 10 fastest growing software firms in the nation (INC500). We're looking for passionate software developers who want to build highly scalable platforms, elegantly designed business applications and delightful to use software for the web.
Quotidian Ventures is a seed stage angel fund in NYC that invests in passionate, highly-skilled teams that are using technology to create simple, elegant solutions to complex problems. Our roster of companies has founding teams with unusually strong technical and design talent, a deep knowledge of the market in which they operate, and the creativity and flexibility to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. We mainly pursue investments based in New York City or Latin America, but are open to working with the right founders anywhere in the world.
SendGrid is an API company that makes it super simple to send and receive emails from your application. There are client libraries for most major languages and tutorials for integrating with almost any framework and language you could imagine. sendgrid.com/docs
SoundCloud, launched in 2008 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, is a social sound platform that lets anyone create, record, promote and share their sounds on the web in a simple, accessible and feature-rich way. SoundCloud allows sound creators to instantly record or upload original audio content, embed sound across websites and blogs, share publicly and privately, receive detailed analytics, plus get feedback from the community directly onto the waveform. developers.soundcloud.com
Street Solutions Inc (SSI) develops, markets and supports technology platforms for secondary loan businesses. Our systems address the full matrix of mortgage products, from the acquisition stage, through to the financing stage, and finally to the eventual exit strategy.
TokBox, a Telefónica Digital company, develops and operates the OpenTok Video Platform, enabling the addition of live group video communications into online and mobile websites, apps and services. The scalable, customizable platform enables high quality video sessions with up to 20 live participants and unlimited viewers. OpenTok offers support for WebRTC. tokbox.com/opentok/api
Wharton Entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania supports all students with its robust entrepreneurial research, teaching & co-curricular programs. Wharton Entrepreneurship encompasses the Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center, the Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Program, and a robust suite of co-curricular programs that engages students across Penn’s campus, including the Venture Initiation Program (educational business incubator), Business Plan Competition, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Program, and more.
Do you want to define what PLAY means on mobile and the web? Zynga is the world’s leader in social gaming and we are currently searching for Full Time and Intern software engineers who can bring Zynga’s games to the forefront of the industry. Our software engineers are blazing trails in all facets of game design, web technologies, and massive scalability - and having a lot of fun while they do it. Come help us build play!
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