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Meet PITCH 2012 Startup Competition Live Judge Jalak Jobanputra

Jalak Jobanputra will be judging the Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Startup Competition on November 14, 2012 – apply now – submissions due FRIDAY NIGHT (11:59:59PM EST) on August 31, 2012.

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Vying for top prize, PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition finalists will be competing for $25,000 in cash, a prized investor meetings with prominent VC Marc Andreessen and angel investor Joanne Wilson and a host of startup-friendly services.

Meet our live judge for PITCH 2012 Startup Competition on November 14, 2012 – Jalak Jobanputra of RTP Ventures.

Jalak is a Founding Partner of RTP Ventures, a $120M venture capital fund in NYC. Previously, she was the Director of Mobile Investments at Omidyar Network, a philanthrocapitalist fund started by Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay. While there, she created a mobile investment strategy, invested in an East African mobile tech incubator, invested in an Indian mobile classifieds site, and closed Omidyar’s largest for profit investment ($5M) to date in Latin America. She has over 18 years experience in venture capital, media and technology.

She was previously Senior Vice President at the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF), a private economic development fund founded by Henry Kravis, where she managed the fund’s technology and digital media venture investments. While there, Jalak spearheaded the formation NYCSeed in 2008, a seed fund dedicated to funding early stage tech entrepreneurs in NYC. She also was on the selection committee and served as a mentor and speaker for NYCSeedStart, NYC’s first summer accelerator program.

Jalak worked closely with the Bloomberg administration and NYCEDC to implement initiatives to help diversify the NYC economy through NYC’s growing tech/digital sectors and served on Governor Paterson’s Small Business Taskforce. Her portfolio at NYCIF included outside.in (acquired by AOL), Imagespan, Thumbplay and TXVia (acquired by Google) in addition to seed investments Magnetic, Ticketfly, Enterproid and SeatGeek.

Good luck to startups globally – submit your application to PITCH by August 31, 2012 (11:59:59PM Eastern Standard Time).

Angie Chang co-founded Women 2.0 in 2006. She currently serves as Editor-In-Chief of Women 2.0 and is working to mainstream women in high-growth, high-tech entrepreneurship. Previously, Angie held roles in product management and web UI design. In 2008, Angie launched Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners, asking that guys come as the “+1” for once. Angie holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. Follow her on Twitter at @thisgirlangie.

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