James, I think you may have misunderstood.  We're looking for sponsors to DONATE money.  Venture Capitalists [1] _do not_ give away money, they invest it in promising start ups.  They are all about making more money, sort of the antithesis of what we're doing.

-Jon

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capitalist


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:57, James Salsman <jsalsman@gmail.com> wrote:
> * determining sponsorship levels and potential sponsors

These are the lists of potential sponsors for the Stanford Wikimania bid:

http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/mng-ba.mercurynews/quote/components/dashboard/largest?Symbol=%24SV150

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13840964 (way out of date now; they
publish these every quarter)

http://trends.techcrunch.com/2009/10/19/techcrunch-dealmaker-rankings-the-top-25-most-active-vcs-in-the-third-quarter/
(likewise)

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