If you're interesting in becoming a sponsor of Clojure/West, please review the sponsorship prospectus.

Platinum Sponsors

Runa is a hot startup based in Mountain View, CA, disrupting the e-commerce space by harnessing big data, machine learning, predictive modeling, and real-time personalized deals. Instead of giving away discounts and promotions to everyone who comes to an e-commerce site, merchants use Runa to target Smart Deals at the right shoppers. The system automatically figures out who to make offers to, selects the right products for the offers, and optimizes the deal itself to maximize purchases and profit. Runa is nearly all Clojure, and employs 20 engineers across the bay area and Bangalore, including some well known Clojurians. 

Gold Sponsors

Relevance works with our partners to build value through software. We specialize in full-cycle development and bring excellence and experience to the roles we fill, from development and design to project management, architecture and operations. We work with your team to not only execute the project, but also to work and live with the results over the long term.

Silver Sponsors

Factual provides access to definitive global data for powering web and mobile apps, mobile advertising, and enterprise solutions. Using its sophisticated big data stack, Factual builds data products that leverage contributions from partners, user communities, and the web. Clojure is used extensively in developing this stack, not only because it's an expressive, pragmatic language for data analysis and systems engineering, but because people do their best work when they're passionate about their tools. Factual's data products are focused on Places (local businesses and other points of interest) and Products (consumer packaged goods). Factual is funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. For more information on Factual, go to www.factual.com.

8th Light, Inc. is a Chicago and Tampa based Agile software development company with expertise in a variety of programming languages that writes beautiful applications for your web, mobile, and embedded projects. 8th light also offers apprenticeships to push the limits of your knowledge in software development. 8th Light, Software is our craft (TM). www.8thlight.com

Spend your time building applications, not managing the servers that run them. Heroku is a Platform as a Service that adds simplicity to deploying, scaling and managing the infrastructure that run applications. It removes barriers that slow the software development process, freeing you to put 100 percent of your energy into creating quality software.

Founded in 2011, Ravello Systems is the industry’s first Cloud Application Hypervisor provider. With Ravello, enterprises can encapsulate their multi-VM applications and run them anywhere – on-premise or in any cloud – without making any changes whatsoever, and thereby implement a true hybrid cloud. Ravello is offered via an easy to use Software-as-a-Service and enables developers, devops and IT to use the unlimited resources of the public cloud to develop and test their applications. Ravello Systems is backed by top tier VCs including Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.

JBoss, by Red Hat, is the leader in enterprise-class open source middleware. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is comprised of certified, supported platform and framework distributions that are based on JBoss Community projects. A true alternative to pricey, monolithic proprietary software stacks, JBoss Enterprise Middleware is a comprehensive open source middleware portfolio that includes both integrated platforms and plug-and-play frameworks that give users more flexibility and technology choice.

Through a rigorous productization process, JBoss Enterprise Middleware teams continually harden and transform cutting-edge open source technology from the JBoss.org Community into well-tempered enterprise software products with unsurpassed quality, performance, and stability, then deliver it with top-notch support and mission-critical SLAs.

Enterprises can deploy any JBoss Enterprise product today and add to their IT infrastructure as needed in future. The JBoss Middleware portfolio includes JBoss Enterprise Application, Portal, SOA and Data Services Platforms, as well as JBoss Hibernate, Seam, jBPM and Rules Frameworks. Visit www.jboss.com for more information.

The Climate Corporation’s mission is to help all the world’s people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change. To achieve our mission, we have built a unique technology platform to enable, for the first time, the real-time pricing and purchasing of customizable weather insurance. Managing over 200 TB of data, including 34 trillion+ weather simulation data points, 150 billion soil type observations, and more than 3 million daily weather measurements, we are one of the largest users of Amazon Web Services.

At The Climate Corporation, leaving a mark on the world is in our DNA; we want to make a lasting and meaningful real-world impact. We relish big problems because they are the most interesting to tackle, the most rewarding, and typically, the most valuable to solve. We also thrive on finding the possible in the impossible.

Party Sponsor

We like to solve hard problems. What kinds of problems do you want to solve? At our core, we’re a technology company applying our talents to the domain of investment management. We’ve created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight – a system that’s constantly learning, improving, and advancing. We’re a destination for the intellectually curious who want to learn, invent, create and watch what they build make a difference. Start a conversation. Please contact Recruiting@twosigma.com.

Lanyard Sponsor

Basho Technologies is the commercial sponsor of Riak, the most powerful open-source, distributed database you'll ever put into production. Riak is used by companies like Yammer, Comcast, Voxer, and Bump to power applications that can't go down. Basho believes in the future of Clojure and its community and, as such, is a proud sponsor of Clojure/West.

Media Partners

O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.