Occupation Entrepreneur | ||
Jaz Banga, also known as Jasminder Banga (born August 5, 1973) is an entrepreneur who lives and works in San Francisco, California. Banga's most high-profile work was a project that intended to deliver Google WiFi for free to the city of San Francisco during Gavin Newsom's tenure as mayor. In 2011 Banga co-founded Connected Patents, a firm focused on patent portfolio development.
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Career
Banga's first company, UnWire Now, was awarded the first Wi-Fi contracts in the city of San Francisco. In April 2005, a billboard was spotted advertising free Wi-Fi in Union Square offered by UnwireNow and Google.
By October 2005, Banga’s company Feeva, was handling the San Francisco Wi-Fi project. He was working under the guidance of John Freeman, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Incubator, when Freeman unexpectedly died. Banga served as CTO and President of Feeva Technology. In 2008, Feeva was named as a runner-up for a Spiffy Award by the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley. In 2010 he resigned from Feeva.
As of January 2011, Banga was working on a new company, ProximityWare, Inc. at the Founders Den in San Francisco.
Banga founded Connected Patents, a Silicon Valley consulting firm aimed at helping entrepreneurs protect their intellectual property. The company brainstorms with clients, lawyers and writers to develop defensible patent portfolios for inventors who want to protect their ideas from patent trolls.
Patents
Banga is listed as co-inventor on patents and patent applications including: