Splash is a single-track evening event and startup competition. Splash gathers leading entrepreneurs, innovators, venture capitalists and angel investors across technology to inspire and energize the audience about entrepreneurship and innovation.

Splash brings together high-caliber speakers who talk about how to build and scale great successful companies, how their industries are changing and the opportunities those changes are creating.

Splash also allows the audience to mingle with top venture capitalists and angels who are funding tomorrow's next Google and Facebook. These influencers will give you insights into how they think when it comes to investments and they'll also talk about their changing investment strategies in light of the emergence of super angels, angels, micro-VCs and incubators.

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See Feb 2011 Competition, Sept 2010 Competition,

May 2010 Competition and Feb 2010 Competition.

    Keynote Speakers

Jim Lanzone, President CBS Interactive	Brian Sharples Co-founder/CEO HomeAway

Past Keynote Speakers

Keynote speakers bring experience to the stage, sharing lessons, failures and advice on how to build lasting companies, what it means to be a leader and to innovate.

Zynga CEO, Mark Pincus

Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh 

Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo

Founders Fund, Clarium Capital;
Peter Thiel

Smule CEO, Jeffrey Smith

Pandora Founder/CSO,
Tim Westergren

gWallet Chairman & CEO,
Gurbaksh Chahal

  Ngmoco:) CEO,
  Neil Young

Eventbrite Founder & CEO, Kevin Hartz

VC/Panelists

Venture capitalists and angel investors from top-notch firms bring insight, feedback and sometimes tough love to the entrepreneurs onstage.

Aydin Senkut from Felicis Ventures

Dave McClure from 500 Startups 

Charles Moldow from Foundation Capital and Howard Hartenbaum from August Capital

Jeff Clavier from SoftTech VC

Jed Katz from Javelin VP

Vibrant Demo Pit

The demo area is bustling with activity as 30 companies get space to promote their services and products and network with the hundreds of participants.

Startup Winner Highlighted

Rocking Afterparty with CoverFlow

By day they're serious venture capitalists and executives, by night they're jamming onstage at Splash. Top off the evening with dancing and mingling as venture capitalists and executives strip off their button-down shirts to sport their gold blazers, or whatever it is that makes them feel cool and hip to put on a stellar show.

An overall fun evening

The Café du Nord and Swedish American Hall make for a funky and edgy experience, filled with a lot of fun, wine, learning, absorbing, networking and dancing!