Event Sponsors

OPOWER is an industry-leading software-as-a-service energy efficiency company. Our goal is to help ordinary people find easy ways to save energy on their utility bills. Our passion is making an unprecedented impact on the health of our planet. With our innovative software platform that combines sophisticated data analytics and cutting-edge behavioral science, we empower utility customers to save massive amounts of energy and money while significantly reducing global carbon emissions.

We partnered with our first utility client in 2007 from a rented desk in San Francisco. Since then, we've grown into a well-capitalized business with over 200 employees and a product platform that now reaches more than 10 million homes in North America. Our all-star team of software engineers, product specialists, behavioral scientists, statisticians, marketing experts, infographic designers, and efficiency advocates are directly responsible for the enormous positive impact we've had to date: we've cumulatively saved Americans more than $35 million and enough energy to power nearly 50,000 homes in perpetuity—equivalent to one-third of the entire US solar industry.

Heroku (pronounced her-OH-koo) is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Developers can focus 100% on code and never think about servers, instances, or VMs again. Heroku lets you run any application from simple to complex, from Ruby to Node.JS.

Heroku takes full responsibility for your app's health, keeping it up and running through thick and thin, while you manage and command your app with a full set of control surface APIs.

Tens of thousands of developers have deployed hundreds of thousands of apps to Heroku already.

Square was founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey with the goal of reinventing everyday transactions into something magical. Square removes the complexity of payments with its free software and free card reader, which empower individuals and businesses to accept payments from anyone, anywhere on their mobile device. In May 2011, Square introduced the Square register and Square card case to transform payments into a simple and seamless experience that brings back the humanness to daily exchanges.

Square is headquartered in San Francisco and currently available in the U.S.

Yammer is the leader in enterprise social networking, providing a secure way for employees to communicate, collaborate, and share information. The basic version of Yammer is free, and customers can pay to upgrade their network to receive additional administrative and security controls, priority customer service and a dedicated customer success manager. More than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 are using our award-winning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to improve employee productivity and engagement. Visit our blog to see how our customers are benefiting from Yammer.

Pivotal Labs is a recognized leader in Agile, Rails, and mobile development. We've been building high reliability systems for clients for over 20 years, and our Rails practice has delivered more than 100 client products since its launch less than five years ago. Long a leader in the Agile development world, we’ve been applying agile techniques to accelerate development, reduce risk, and increase responsiveness to market trends for startups and enterprises alike. And Pivotal doesn't just deliver a great product, we also equip our clients to execute on their own, giving them the tools and techniques they need to continue to excel.

Our Jolt award winning project management tool, Pivotal Tracker, has become the industry standard in the Rails development world, and we invite you to use it, if you’re not already.

We're always looking for brilliant Rails developers to join our talented team in San Francisco, New York, and Boulder campuses. If you want to share your knowledge while learning from others, work sustainably, and work on some serious projects, come work for us or with us! Apply now at jobs@pivotallabs.com

We’re excited to again sponsor GoGaRuCo, and we look forward to all the great stuff that will come out of it!

Change.org Change.org is the world’s fastest-growing online platform for social change.Growing by more than 400,000 new members a month, Change.org empowers millions of people to start, join, and win campaigns for social change in their community. We’re a profitable social enterprise based in San Francisco with a small team of outstanding Rails hackers, and we’re looking for more great people to join us. Do you like hacking on things like Ruby, Rails, and MongoDB? Have you been looking for an agile environment, doing TDD every day in a continuous integration environment? Looking to make money through meaningful work? Check out our job listings: http://www.change.org/hiring.

New Relic is a software-as-a-service provider of web application performance management solutions. More than 10,000 organizations around the world use New Relic to monitor, troubleshoot, and tune their business-critical Ruby, PHP, Java and .NET web apps in production. Fully implemented in just minutes, New Relic and provides 24x7 visibility into end-user experiences and front-end performance in addition to real-time monitoring and code-level diagnostics for your web apps. New Relic was built for the cloud and can be deployed on traditional, dedicated infrastructures, private and public clouds, or any combination thereof. New Relic's real-time metrics enable developers and application deployment teams to quickly and cost effectively eliminate bottlenecks and ensure superior service delivery.

Recently selected as one of the “Best Places to Work," Wildfire is a rapidly expanding, VC-funded tech startup positioned squarely on top of the social media marketing revolution. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Wildfire is the leader in social media marketing software and the only social media marketing company to have received an investment from Facebook’s fbFund. Our patent-pending technology allows large brands, small businesses and agencies to easily create their own attractive, branded social promotions (including sweepstakes, contests, giveaways, coupons and more), build and manage social pages, monitor and communicate with their social audience and measure the performance of their own and their competitors’ social media marketing. Intuitive, streamlined and affordable, our software is simple enough for even the least tech-savvy business manager to use and powerful enough to suit the needs of the most creative marketer or advertising agency. Wildfire serves tens of thousands of companies, including Facebook, Amazon, Ogilvy and Target, and has offices in Redwood City, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Singapore, Brazil and London.

AT&T Interactive, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc, is an industry leader in creating local search products that encourage consumers to discover and engage with local businesses across three screens - online, mobile, and TV. YP.com attracts millions of online users per month, and is accessed by millions more via the mobile web. AT&T Interactive products are supported by more than 5,000 media consultants from AT&T Advertising Solutions.

Think it's impossible for a company to grow 10,000% in 3 years? Well then, you haven't met ModCloth. Proudly holding the title of 2nd fastest-growing company in the US (as named by Inc Magazine), we're a young, fun group of people, from photographers to engineers, who are out to change the face of social commerce. Our culture centers on innovation, entrepreneurship, fun, and the occasional game of ping pong.

We're always on the lookout for awesome Ruby engineers, so be sure to check out our Careers page.

Carbon Five builds web and mobile products for startups, institutional companies and non-profit organizations using a finely tuned agile process with cutting edge tools and technology. We've been creating compelling products, building teams, and establishing effective and sustainable practices for more than 10 years. We currently specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and iOS.

We're hiring in San Francisco and Los Angeles. This is an opportunity for excited designers and developers with web application and mobile experience to contribute to and learn from a team of experienced peers in an integrated environment. Learn more at carbonfive.com.

Blue Box Group provides solutions for complex applications. We approach things differently by partnering with you to grow your infrastructure and build scalable, reliable configurations.

Our unique blend of services allows us to provide for the full lifecycle of customer applications, from development through production. From 40 users to 40 million, we can help you take your business idea and turn it into a success.

Kabam is leading the next wave of gaming – hardcore social games. The company’s studios focus on combining the best elements of traditional and social gaming to appeal to a growing audience of gamers looking for highly immersive social games. The first wave of Kabam’s new games for Facebook and leading media sites, including IGN Reader’s Choice Facebook Game of 2010 Kingdoms of Camelot®, have been widely recognized for their depth of play and social interaction. Founded in 2006, Kabam has offices in San Francisco and Redwood City, Calif., Beijing, China and Luxembourg. More information about Kabam can be found at www.kabam.com.

Zendesk is the fastest way to great customer service. Our product is used worldwide by thousands of companies to support millions of customers. We're thrilled to cater to customers ranging from early stage start-ups to industry giants. Take a real-time look at the action we're seeing on http://zendesk.com/map and chill out at http://zendesk.com/wall.

We're looking for amazing UX people, Rubyists, and infrastructure engineers to join our growing team. You’ll be working with brilliant engineers who are having a great time building a sleek and snappy product. And you’ll get to do all this from our awesome office space on Market. Help us fulfill our ambition of a better tomorrow by pushing the envelope on infrastructure, product innovation and feature refinement.

We're building a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world. Guests can stay at a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month in over 17,000 cities and 185 countries.

We currently have 17 engineers and building an engineering team that can produce what teams 10 times our size do. We love what we’re building and talk about product daily, you’ll have a voice in everything from enriching the user experience to tackling challenging problems at scale.

Mixbook is a venture-backed, fast growing, profitable startup that develops rich, intuitive interfaces to foster creative expression on the internet and in print! Our amazing engineers use cool technologies to solve complex architecture and scalability challenges. At Mixbook, we are driven by passion for our customers, products, and creating a fantastic user experience. You will make an impact while working with like-minded, passionate engineers at the top of their game. Mixbook is a fun, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where your contribution is not defined by your title but by the amazing work and passion that you bring to the table.

JetBrains is a creator of intelligent development tools that automate routine tasks and help developers effectively solve the challenging ones. RubyMine is considered the best Rails IDE by many developers. Smart editor, powerful refactorings, debugger, test runner and out-of-the-box VCS support are only some of the reasons to try RubyMine.

WyeWorks is a team of web developers and design experts who build extreme high quality and reliable software using agile practices and Ruby on Rails technology. All work is carried out through an amazing experience of close collaboration, hard work, transparency and effective communication, building successful relations with our customers.

Engine Yard is the leading development and deployment platform for the cloud. With a unique combination of Ruby on Rails expertise, operations automation, open source community involvement, and world-class service, Engine Yard empowers businesses to build and run cloud-based applications easily and cost-effectively.

When it’s hard to make ends meet, BillFloat can help. We are an easy, affordable online payment service that pays bills, like your cell phone or cable bill, and gives you 30 days to repay us. Avoid high interest rates, overdraft charges, late fees, or service interruptions while getting peace of mind.

ngmoco:) sees a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a Social Entertainment Network. We provide Mobage, a powerful social framework for developers to build & amplify social in their games. We make the best social games, powered by ngCore, a technology framework to publish on multiple platforms from a single codebase.

Tapjoy is the success engine for mobile application distribution, engagement and revenue. Tapjoy’s platform helps developers acquire cost-effective, high-value new users, drive engagement within their applications, and create incremental income by providing an ad-funded payment method. Their network spans over 9,000 applications and 200 million global, delivering 1.5 million advertising completions per day.

Marketron is building the most advanced media and advertising business software on the planet.

Relied on by more than 7,000 media organizations; with over 70% market share, our solutions are the most widely-used media solutions in the world.

Join us and help push the boundaries of user experience, scalability and media innovations.

The Hybrid Group are Los Angeles software developers and designers that are passionate about making useful things with technology. We specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems.

We've also created Kanban Pad, the happiest project management tool on Earth, and Clutch, which helps track all your projects in one place.

DotCloud makes it easy to run, scale and manage Ruby applications… and everything else. Native support for your favorite languages (Ruby, Python, and PHP to name a few) and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and more) means that you can focus on coding and leave infrastructure to us. Try it for free at www.dotcloud.com/accounts/register.

140 Proof is an intelligent content-recommender and ad service for the social stream. Our flagship product and primary revenue generator is a high-volume REST API serving hundreds of requests per second to apps on iOS, Android, OS X, Firefox, Chrome, and Windows. 140 Proof is proud that our APIs form the core revenue stream for popular social stream apps like UberTwitter, Echofon, and TweetCaster. We work with Redis, Resque, MySQL, Airbrake / Hoptoad, and Twitter on a daily basis.