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Startups in Silicon Valley

Please add your suggestions for interesting start-ups in Silicon Valley here!

Suggestions by Dorian Selz

• Klout, San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/klout
• Mashery, San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mashery
• Cloud-based OS, like Google's Chrome OS

Suggestions by Moritz Meenen

• One Block of the Grid, San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/1bog

Suggestions by Lukas Kahwe Smith

• Smule, Menlo Park, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smule

Suggestions by Hannes Gassert

• Palm, Sunnyvale, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/palm

Suggestions by Philipp Schroeder

Various

• Yahoo! Labs, http://labs.yahoo.com
• Yahoo! Research, http://research.yahoo.com/

By topic

• Mobile / Geolocation / "Augmented Reality"
  • Appcelerator - Mountain View, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/appcelerator
  • Aloqa - Palo Alto (HQ in Munich), (acquired by Motorola, Sep 2010), http://www.crunchbase.com/company/aloqa
  • Bump - Mountain View, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/bump-technologies
  • Neer - San Diego, http://www.crunchbase.com/product/neer
  • Redbeacon - San Mateo, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/redbeacon
  • Twilio - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twilio
  • Waze - Palo Alto, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/waze
• Semantic Web / Search & Discovery Technologies
  • Trapit - Palo Alto, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/chattertrap
• SaaS / Cloud Computing / Network as a platform
  • Facebook - Palo Alto
  • Salesforce - San Francisco
• Social Software / Social Networks
  • Flixster - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/flixster
  • Instructables - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instructables
  • Kiva - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/kiva
  • SwipeGood - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/swipegood
  • Netflix, Los Gatos, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/netflix
  • Ning - Palo Alto, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ning
  • Twitter - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter
  • Typekit - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/typekit
  • Yammer - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yammer
  • Yelp - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yelp
  • Zendesk - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zendesk
• Video / Streaming
  • Hulu - Los Angeles :-(
  • TiVo - Alviso, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tivo
• Open Data
  • Blippy / Philip Kaplan - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/blippy
• Ubicomp / Wearable Computing
  • Fitbit - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/fitbit
• Green & Clean Tech
  • Bloom Energy - San Jose, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/bloom-energy
  • Opower - San Francisco, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/opower
• Design Thinking & Agile Development
  • Hot Studio - San Francisco, http://www.hotstudio.com/
  • Luxr - San Francisco, http://luxr.posterous.com/
  • Institute for the future, http://www.iftf.org/
• Interesting Work Spaces (Incubators, Coworking)
  • SwissNex - San Francisco, http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/
  • Citizen Space - San Francisco, http://citizenspace.us/
  • Cubes and Crayons - Mountain View, http://www.cubesandcrayons.com/, http://gigaom.com/collaboration/coworking-childcare-cubes-crayons/

Suggestions by Wolfgang

By topic

• Cloud Service Provider
  • http://cloud.com/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cloud-com
• Mobile / Geolocation / "Augmented Reality"
  • JAJAH - Mountain View (AUSTRIAN!!! Startup), http://www.jajah.com/
  • Turbine Massive online games operator - Redwood City http://www.turbine.com/
  • Electronic Arts - Redwood City, http://www.ea.com/
• Semantic Web / Search Technologies
  • Bing
• Social Software / Social Networks
  • Lithium (new partner CRM of Swisscom) - Oakland http://www.lithium.com/
• Green & Clean Tech
  • Bridgelux A Solid-State Lighting Company - Sunnyvale http://www.bridgelux.com/
  • Project Better Place - Palo Alto, http://www.projectbetterplace.com

Suggestions by Nancy Frishberg

By topic

• Reputation Systems
  • Randy Farmer, author http://buildingreputationsystems.com
• Product Management
  • Rich Mironov, author http://www.mironov.com
• Games
  • XODesign

• Green Tech

• Co-working and collaborating

  • The Hub (SF & Berkeley) http://bayarea.the-hub.net/public/
  • TechShop (SF, Menlo Park, San Jose...) http://techshop.ws

(more coming)

Suggestions by Bruce Cahan

• Social Entrepreneurship
  • Samasource - San Francisco, http://www.samasource.org/
  • Cutting Edge Capital - Berkeley (?), http://cuttingedgecapital.com/
  • Investigate Companies from Future of Money Conference, http://futureofmoney.com/moneyconference/speakers
  • Kiva - San Francisco - http://www.crunchbase.com/company/kiva
  • Kickstarter - New York, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/kickstarter
  • Lending Club - Redwood City, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/lendingclub
• Mobile
  • Pageonce - Palo Alto, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/pageonce
• Interesting Space
  • Autodesk Gallery - San Francisco, http://usa.autodesk.com/gallery/