eAmoreNYC Innovation Summit Brochure 02/29/2012

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Letter from the Organizers

Welcome to the eAmore NYC Innovation Sum-mit 2012!

eAmore organizes small-format high-impact confer-ences in the online dating industry, bringing togeth-er entrepreneurs, investors, and service provid-

ers. The organization was founded in 2010 in New York City, and its inaugural event was held in February 2011, followed by a se-cond event in June 2011, drawing over 150 attendees each.

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Agenda Registration & Networking 6:30-7:00PM Fireside Chat: Aaron Schildkrout, HowAboutWe 7:00-7:20PM Panel One: User growth and content—leveraging platforms & APIs 7:20-7:45PM 1. Michael Geer, Formerly of Badoo, now Founder at CauseCart 2. Brett Martin, Founder at Sonar.me 3. Chris Mirabile, Co-Founder and CEO at Hotlist Q&A — moderated by Andrew Weinreich, Chairman at MeetMoi & Xtify Panel Two: Financing your idea—seed to exit 7:45-8:10PM 1. Lance Barton, Vice President of M&A at IAC (Personals) 2. Brett Topche, Principal at MentorTech Ventures 3. Michael Wolf, Principal at Blazer Ventures Q&A — moderated by Andrew Weinreich, Chairman at MeetMoi & Xtify Networking Break 8:10-8:20PM Demos 8:20-9:10PM 1. Amusemi 2. Friendlylook 3. LoCreep 4. LoveEssence 5. Mini Dates Q&A and Feedback 1. Project Four 2. RAVN Events 3. Sparkology 4. Stray Boots 5. Tokii 6. UPlanMe Q&A and Feedback

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Aaron Schildkrout, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of HowAboutWe. Aaron oversees product development and spends his days leading a team of engineers and designers to create a fundamentally new way for people to use the internet to find love. Before HowAboutWe, Aaron was a high school educator at Codman Academy Char-ter Public School in Boston, MA. Aaron's work was featured in, among others, the Gates’ Foundation “High Schools of the Future” curriculum and conferences, Massa-chusetts Charter School Association publica-tions, the Boston Globe, and the Maury Povich Show. Aaron received his B.A. from Harvard, Phi Beta Kappa. ***HowAboutWe—online dating site revolv-ing around proposing/accepting specific dates, e.g. “How about we..[fill in the blank]?” HowAboutWe raised $3.1M in Se-ries A in Nov’10 led by RRE Ventures; it raised $15M in Series B in Nov’11 led by Khosla Ventures with participation from RRE, FF ventures and some angels. www.howaboutwe.com

Michael Geer, Founder of CauseCart. He has traveled the world and learned the Internet industry from the ground up, help-ing build badoo.com in Moscow and then setting up their London office, constructing Badoo piece by piece from 0 to 70 million users. He left Badoo in 2010, moved to New York and now advises and mentors early stage tech startups, promotes the New York tech scene with his company NYC Bubble Proof and works full time on CauseCart, his passion project dealing with building ways to raise money for causes without asking for donations from end users. In his free time, he fights his ever growing addiction to the Social Network and Love Actually. *** CauseCart—a new technology that allows you to raise money for your chosen

cause without ever donating any money yourself. http://www.causecart.com

Brett Martin, Co-Founder and CEO of Sonar. Prior to Sonar, Brett helped found K2 Media Labs, a New York-based seed stage mobile incubator, and AppFund, K2’s Investment arm. Before K2, he studies strategic resource allocation in early stage startups as a Fulbright Scholar in Milan. He also helped launch Vice Magazine’s web presence, VBS.tv, and worked as an equity research associate. Some other things Brett is proud of include: teaching himself Ruby, going to Dartmouth, getting published by Harvard Business, founding a non-profit, and sailing 6,000 miles in a 30ft ketch. ***Sonar—an award-winning mobile app that reveals hidden connections users share with other people nearby, through existing contacts and preferences on social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare; LTD funding ~ $1M. http://www.sonar.me

Chris Mirabile, Co-Founder and CEO of Hotlist. As CEO, Chris focuses on Hotlist's overall strategy, financing, business devel-opment, strategic partnerships, and is the product evangelist. Intrigued by and work-ing in technology as a developer at age 15, Chris has always had a particular inter-est in entrepreneurship. Establishing two tech companies prior, one that was launched in India and acquired by a publicly listed corporation, Hotlist is Chris’ third and most recent project. In 2011, Chris was selected as a Top Five Finalist for the cate-gory of Entrepreneur of The Year at the Mashable Awards / Consumer Electronics Show. Chris' experience also includes con-sulting & delivering customized technology solutions to algorithmic hedge funds and Chris studied Finance, Economics and Inter-

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Speakers national Business at NYU Stern School of Business, where he became the youngest winner of their business plan competition; he is now a guest lecturer here. ***Hotlist is what you check before you go out. With more than 110 million people's social plans, Hotlist can make intelligent recommendations of places and events for users to attend based on their location, Facebook friends, explicit preferences & interests, and location history. Users can then view the expected crowds, guy-to-girl ratios, upcoming event details and more, and coordinate plans with their friends. Hotlist was a Top 5 Finalist in the categories of Best Location-based Service and Best Use of an API at the Mashable Awards / 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, and selected as a Top 100 Website by PC Magazine. LTD funding of $2MM+ www.hotlist.com

Lance Barton, Vice President of Mer-gers and Acquisitions for IAC In this role, he oversees the strategy and M&A activity of IAC’s Personals division. Mr. Barton has held various positions within IAC’s M&A department since joining in 2008 and has worked on a number of transac-tions for IAC including the acquisitions of Meetic, OkCupid, Singlesnet, PeopleMedia, and DailyBurn as well as Match.com’s in-vestment in Zhenai. Prior to joining IAC, Mr. Barton was an Associate in the Invest-ment Banking Division of Citigroup Global markets from 2005-2008. Before Citigroup, Mr. Barton held various roles as a System Engineer and Program Manager for Cisco Systems from 2000-2004. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.B.A in Finance from Wichita State Univer-sity. ***IAC operates more than 50 diversified Internet businesses across 30 countries. IAC’s Match segment includes Match.com,

Chemistry.com, PeopleMedia, OkCupid, Singlesnet, and Meetic, which generated $518M in revenue and $156M (30% mar-gin) in operating income before amortiza-tion (OIBA) in 2011 representing 25% and 51% of IAC’s aggregate revenues and OI-BA, respectively. In 2011, IAC further ex-panded their reach in the online personals category through the acquisitions of OkCupid and Meetic, as well as a minority investment in Zhenai. http://www.iac.com

Brett Topche, Principal at MentorTech Ventures. Mr. Topche joined MentorTech Ventures in 2007; he was previously a member of the Fund Investments Team at Hamilton Lane Advisors, a fund-of-funds manager and private equity investment consultant. During his time at Hamilton Lane, Brett reviewed more than 100 funds, including venture capital, mezzanine, buy-out and real estate funds. Based in part on reports he drafted, more than $1 billion was invested into these funds. Prior to working for Hamilton Lane, Mr. Topche was an Asso-ciate with NJTC Venture Fund, where he focused on investments in early stage com-panies in the software, Internet and com-munications sectors. He previously worked for MRA International in real estate devel-opment consulting firm Frankel and Topche. Mr. Topche is a magna cum laude graduate of the Wharton School, with a B.S. in Eco-nomics, with concentrations in Finance and Legal Studies and a Political Science minor from the College of Arts and Sciences. ***MentorTech Ventures—seed– and early-stage venture capital fund that invests in companies from the University of Pennsyl-vania ecosystem. These companies typically have key founders or managers who are students, faculty members or alumni of the university. Sometimes, the companies are based on intellectual property that originat-ed at Penn.

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MentorTech invests in both IT and medical technology companies with a primary focus on companies in the greater Philadelphia and New York areas. Several of the current investments include: SeniorHomes.com, Kembrel, TicketLeap, Wanderfly, Warby Parker. http://www.mentortechventures.com

Michael Wolf, Co-Founder and Principal at Blazer Ventures. Prior to founding Blazer Ventures, Michael spent nearly ten years in a variety of operating, consulting, and investing roles with startups. Most recently, he worked at DFJ Gotham. Michael began his career at Bain & Company, work-ing with clients across the media, retail, and private equity verticals. He then transi-tioned to Visible World where he helped launch the first ever household-level target-ed television advertising campaign. Michael also spent a year directing operations for the 2008 Barack Obama President Cam-paign across seven states. Michael contin-ues to independently consult for a range of early & late stage fashion, media and con-sumer technology companies. Michael holds a BA cum laude from Columbia University and an MBA with honors from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. ***Blazer Ventures - angel investment fund focused on the fashion and consumer tech-nology verticals. Representative invest-ments include Clothia, Kembrel, Fondu, Lovely, and Classtivity. www.blazerventures.com

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Andrew Weinreich, Chairman and Founder of MeetMoi. Andrew has spent more than the past 15 years starting and building businesses. In February 2006, Mr. Weinreich started MeetMoi, the first location-based mobile dating startup in the United States. In 2008. he spun off the persistent tracking technologies of MeetMoi into a separate company called Xtify, the first platform for geo-targeted mobile messag-ing. In January 2004, Andrew founded I Stand For, a full service technology solu-tions provider to political campaigns and non-profit organizations. In 2001, Andrew founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of WiFi hotspots. In 1996, Andrew launched the social networking space with sixdegrees.com, which over a period of five years grew to become one of the largest community sites on the on the World Wide Web. Prior to founding Six Degrees, he served as Vice President/General Counsel of Hertz Technology Group. Before attending law school, he was a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. Andrew graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 and earned a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law in 1994. www.meetmoi.com


Amusemi—started out with the idea of group dating done the right way by com-bining speed dating with online pre-selection. It has evolved more broadly into an alternative to the event rsvp list. Rather than motivating users by showing them who's already registered, it lets people focus on who they want to meet. The end result is a small group event where every-one attending is there to talk to at least one more person: http://amusemi.com/. Presenter: Alex Shapiro, Founder of Amusemi, is a long term entrepreneur and founder of TouchGraph. Alex has a back-ground in social network data analysis and algorithm design. He is also the business lead for his company, and is passionate about creating simple and engaging prod-ucts.

Friendlylook is an innovative, standalone platform designed to casually connect sin-gle friends with one another, as well as with other small groups of single friends. It establishes a trust network to explore for potential partners, an approach which re-places the usual strangers with friends of friends. It’s online dating made comforta-bly social, where friends are able have fun while sharing, supporting, and dating "together". Friendlylook models normative social behavior and communication, it feels natural to users and is designed to appeal to the broader market of singles not active-ly online dating and hopes to disrupt the online dating industry in the pro-cess. Friendlylook is “soft beta launched” in the DC market, 100% bootstrapped and HQ’d in Old Town Alexandria, VA. http://www.friendlylook.com Presenter: Trevor Chidester, Co founder and CEO of Friendlylook. Most recently a stockbroker with Wells Fargo, Trevor is experienced serial entrepreneur and inno-vator, having previously founded several

companies in enterprise software and pay-ments which were widely recognized for innovation and thought leadership. With 15 years of online dating experience behind him and frustrated by the absurdity of existing options, Trevor built Friendlylook to finally realize the actual promise of online dating.

LoCreep - a suite of creep-mitigation tools, providing users with special phone numbers that may be handed to undesirables in place of their own. Since its launch at the November 2011 New York Tech Meetup, LoCreep has been featured in several publi-cations, and been heralded genius by wom-en, and genius by men who don't under-stand what it's for. Sadly, the underfunded LoCreep has since been placed in cryogenic freeze, but seeks to make an unexpected return to seize its rightful place as the vanquisher of douches, defeater of tools, and conqueror of creeps. Check out a video of the legendary pitch at http://locreep.com/video Presenters: Misha Ponizil and Andres Cam-panella are students at NYU. They built LoCreep with assistance from many friends at HackNY's Fall 2011 student hackathon, held at NYU's Courant Institute. They are currently working on a platform to revolutionize the way human beings give each other romantic advice.

Loveessence, a new romantic networking website for black women and all men, offi-cially launched in November of 2011. Unlike traditional dating sites, Loveessence.com promotes romantic networking based on core values and shared love visions regard-less of ethnicity, occupation or other demo-graphic characteristics. http://loveessence.com/ Presenter: Ama Yawson, Co-Founder of loveessence.com, is a former banking regu-lator, telecom investment banking analyst

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and movie business-manager. Ms. Yawson was inspired to create Loveessence.com because of her own experiences in discover-ing romantic love. She earned a BA from Harvard University, an MBA from the Whar-ton School and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and toddler.

MiniDates.com is an all-new form of per-sonalized matchmaking that arranges Real In-Person Dates for you based on exactly WHO you're looking for, plus WHERE and WHEN you're free. MiniDates.com is the first service to propose casual get-togethers with your target matches at convenient times and places- all you have to do is accept! We do all the work, you stay in complete control- it can't get any easier. MiniDates is in private beta in NYC- get FREE early access at www.MiniDates.com and Just Meet! Presenter: Beverly May, Founder and CEO of MiniDates.com, founded her first company when she was 20 and is also a 15-year tech and Internet veteran. As the creator of the User Experience Awards and the founder and CEO of Oxford Technology Ventures, a boutique user experience and product strat-egy consulting company, Beverly has helped her clients launch dozens of successful, useful, effective, and engaging digital prod-ucts and services-- skills which are now being applied to MiniDates.com. Beverly has a technology Master's degree from the In-teractive Telecommunications Program at NYU and an MBA from Oxford University.

Project Four is a revolutionary social game that places your surroundings at your fin-gertips. It's "Hot or Not" meets Foursquare. By allowing users to rank other checked in nearby, the service is able to recommend venues where you can meet people you'd like. http://tryfourplay.com/ Presenter: Matt Newberg is a social technol-ogist based in NYC. He recently graduated from Wharton at the University of Pennsyl-

vania, where he gained digital experience through internships at small and large firms including IPG, Fox Interactive Media, and Sincerely. He is currently working on his second mobile dating concept, Project Four, which is trying to create new interpersonal interactions over the mediums we use on a daily basis.

RAVN Events is the "Pandora of Event Discovery", offering personalized recom-mendations of local events based on your interests. The app provides an easy way for users to browse, search and book local events and activities in their city. It is the fastest and simplest way to find unique and creative date ideas that go beyond dinner and a movie, perfect for first dates or cou-ples. http://ravn.com/beta/splash Presenter: Jonathan Wu is one of the found-ers of RAVN, a discovery engine for events. Previously a consultant with Oliver Wyman Consulting, Jonathan specialized in their media, technology, and strategy prac-tice groups. He has extensive experience with value driven business designs, disrup-tive product launches and B2B2C strate-gy. In his free time, Jonathan enjoys travel-ing around the world, meeting new people and cooking.

Sparkology is a luxury dating site for young professionals. We embrace quality, courtship, and meaningful interactions by having an invite-only community and requir-ing men to be verified grads of top universi-ties. Men pay for per initial message, allevi-ating the spam shotgun approach plaguing many existing platforms. A team of VIP Concierges monitors the site and offers one-on-one support with profile creation and date planning. http://ww.sparkology.com Presenter: Alex Furmansky, Founder & Pres-ident of Sparkology, has been working full time on it since April 2011 and enjoys men-toring other entrepreneurs to further grow NYC's startup scene. Past experience in-

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cludes being Director of Biz Dev @ Open-Peak and investment banking @ Evercore Partners & UBS. Alex holds degrees from Penn's School of Engineering and Wharton. Only thing better than sailing and wine is startups! http://about.me/alexfurmansky

Stray Boots turns the city into an urban adventure that makes exploring fun, easy, and engaging. Like your “own private Amazing Race,” our games take you to the coolest, most interesting spots in town, using your own cell phone as your guide. The perfect ice-breaker for early daters, Stray Boots avoids the pain of Dinner-and-a-Movie by eliminating the awkward silenc-es, face-stuffing, and challenge of picking the perfect place. For dating sites, Stray Boots can offer their clientele a dating ex-perience that’s fun, casual, unique, and unintimidating. The sites can co-brand dating-oriented games that we help create, extending their user-engagement offline into the real world. http://strayboots.com. Presenter: Avi Millman, Co-Founder & CEO of Stray Boots, has spent his professional career rapidly growing businesses. After graduating cum laude from Princeton, he joined national apparel retailer Steve and Barry’s in its internal consulting group. Rising to Director of Logistics, he grew the company’s supply chain systems from han-dling 60 stores to over 200 in two years, supporting annual sales of $1 Billion. He then went on to head up Regional Sales at beverage startup Q Tonic, where he grew top line sales by 600% in one year. An avid traveler, he started Stray Boots after a trip to Rome, where he realized the guidebook experience was far too passive for the digi-tal era.

Tokii is a free relationship management platform designed to help couples improve their relationships in a playful, easy way. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Tokii’s Beta launched on March 11, 2011. Tokii is

the world’s first relationship management platform that improves relationships through interactive tools and games of play and discovery. It’s easy to use, free and fun unlike most sites on the market, which are more clinical and discussion-oriented. With Tokii, members can trade, discover, uncov-er and better connect with each other any time, anywhere: https://tokii.com/tokii/SignIn.aspx. Presenter: Paul Chung, Content and Social Media Specialist for Tokii, is also heading up some of their PR efforts. Prior to Tokii, he worked with fellow University of Arizona graduates on several startups including Mosoto, which was a featured partner at Facebook's first F8 conference in 2007.

UPlanMe is the “Pandora for your social life” providing personalized event and activ-ity suggestions based on your interests in sports, music, TV, shopping, dining, night-life and more, direct to your UPlanMe calen-dar. For brands and businesses, UPlanMe provides a suite of tools and capabilities to manage and promote their events, specials, sales and incentives to existing and poten-tial customers. For dating sites, UPlanMe can provide the ability to embed its Discover Tab directly into their websites to let daters browse the calendar of upcoming events in their city for suggested date ide-as. http://www.uplanme.com/. Presenter: Sean Barkulis, Co-Founder & CEO of UPlanMe, began his career at Citigroup in the Corporate & Investment Bank where he advised financial institutions on debt, equity and M&A offerings. He then spent several years on the buy-side where he invested over $500MM into distressed debt of internet, media and technology companies, first at Citigroup then at Solar Capital. Prior to UPlanMe, Sean was the Founder & CEO of BL TradeXchange, an online trading platform for institutional investors to the leveraged loan market.

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Sponsors Vindicia is a leading provider of SaaS billing solutions that help digital leaders optimize customer retention and acquisi-tion through integrated marketing best practices. Over the past twelve months, Vindicia clients sent $2.5 billion through its CashBox solution, billed in every global region, and generated $75 million in annu-al incremental revenue to its customers’ top line. Its clients include SNAP Interac-tive, Online Buddies, SpeedDate, eMusic, MOG, LeapFrog, NBA.com, Symantec, TransUnion Interactive, Intuit, Activision Blizzard, Bloomberg, and Next Issue Me-dia. Visit at: www.vindicia.com.

MUNDO Media is a performance–based ad network that provides advertisers and publishers world class expertise and the most up-to-date proprietary technology to create ROI-driven solutions. The company develops specific revenue generating pro-grams for online marketers, businesses and media agencies. MUNDO Media’s breadth of knowledge includes program-ming experience from both affiliate and advertiser perspective. It prides itself on the complete mastery of all online tools, verticals and metrics so MUNDO clients receive maximum return. MUNDO also provides start-to-finish consultation to achieve the client goals stated from day one—and to push the boundaries of online advertising. To learn more, please vis-it www.mundomedia.com/.

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that affect all stakeholders in the industry. If you want an insight on “best practices” for the future then the Online Dating Sum-mit is an even you do not want to miss. Listen to experts from performance mar-keting networks, top-flight SEO’s, leading advertising distributors and many more. Make your business fire on all its cylinders! The latest trends, topics and misconcep-tions will be addressed, the mobile para-digm will be brought into focus and get ready to meet the top affiliates in the industry. Make more money, optimize your traffic, monetize your exit traffic, make the smartest link exchanges...just have a look at the schedule. We’re keeping our finger on the pulse of the internet dating indus-try! For more information visit our website at www.onlinedatingsummit.com/en; Download the list of participants right here.

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