Celebrate Startups!
Technology startups have been the birthplace of some of the biggest changes in our
way of life this century, from how we buy houses to how we manage our family photos,
from how we entertain ourselves on the web to how we run our businesses.
Seattle 2.0 Awards recognizes the best of the best from the tech startup scene in
Seattle as judged by the people who know best, their peers, on a
unique and remarkable event.
Voting Timeline
Guest Speakers: Mark Suster
Mark Suster is a partner at GRP Partners. He joined the firm in 2007 after having previously worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Most recently Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was Founder and CEO. Prior to Koral, Mark was Founder and CEO of BuildOnline, the largest independent global content collaboration company focused on the engineering and construction sectors, which was acquired by SWORD Group (PARIS: SWP). Earlier in his career, Mark spent nearly ten years working for Accenture in Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Mark received a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He grew up in the U.S. and is also a citizen of the UK.
Mark led the investment in Factual and currently sits on the Boards of the following companies in GRP's portfolio: Ad.ly, Awe.sm, Burstly, Factual, GumGum, Pose and Ring Revenue.
Follow Mark on Twitter: @msuster and his blog Both Sides of the Table.
Selection Committee
Rebecca Lovell
NWEN | 
Andy Liu
BuddyTV | 
Scott Warner
Garvey Schubert Barer | 
Bill Bryant
Draper Fisher Jurvetson | 
Marcelo Calbucci
Seattle 2.0 & TBA |
Danielle Morrill
Twilio | 
Geoff Entress
Voyager Capital | 
Brier Dudley
Seattle Times | 
T.A. McCann
Gist/RIM | 
Rand Fishkin
SEOmoz |
John Cook
GeekWire | 
Chris Pirillo
Lockergnome & Gnomedex | 
Hadi Partovi
| 
Jennifer Cabala
Startup Weekend | 
Ben Elowitz
Wetpaint |
Ken Glass
Angel Investor | 
Dave Schappell
TeachStreet | 
Russell Benaroya
Angel Investor | 
Jonathan Sposato
Google | 
Ken Myer
UW |
Chris DeVore
Founders Co-Op | 
David Aronchick
Entertonement | 
Greg Gottesman
Madrona Venture Partners | 
Brady Forrest
O'Reilly | 
Bob Crimmins
Dealometry / Poker 2.0 |
Mike Mathieu
Investor | 
Tony Wright
Cubeduel | 
Josh Maher
TechCafe | 
Dan Rosen
Alliance of Angels | |