Silicon Valley Innovation: Mountain View

Google’s plans for a  new sustainable campus in Mountain Vies, CA have attracted attention.

Start-up Ventures with offices in Mountain View show an impressive focus on the potential of crowd-sourcing Gigwalk, Gigya, Skybox Imaging, the young ChatX with their Tool Gather, and Upwork, a new company formed in 2015 with the merger of elance and oDesk. Planet Labs spun out of NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View but is now based in San Francisco.

Start-up Incubators in Mountain View include 500 Start-ups, Hacker Dojo and Y Combinator. On September 21, 2015, Y Combinator announced three new partners.

Corporate Leaders with offices in Mountain View include Fenwick & West, Google, Intuit, LinkedIn, Microsoft. Co-founder of Fenwick and West Bill Fenwick was honored with The American Lawyer’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Institutions in Mountain View include the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum, and the Khan Academy.