I will be following (and rooting for) Virginia-based companies over at the Richmond Good Life’s Tech News section.  There are two Virginia companies represented at Demo: (1) Paidinterviews (Blog) of McLean, VA and (2) SitScape of Vienna, VA.

As for TC50, they just released the companies, and from my initial research (clicking on the crunchbases), I don’t see any Virginia-based start-ups.  :(  There are lots of California, but I guess that should be expected.  I haven’t even looked at the Demo Pit companies (Too much work…Sure wish they’d publish a list of origin city/countries like Demo).  Once I figure out who’s Virginia, I will start covering them (UPDATE! I clicked on all of em.  I only saw Samepage of Falls Church, but there were tons of companies without location data).   In addition, the Commonwealth is being represented at TC50 by the folks at Mixx (McLean, VA) who’ve created the official TechCrunch Mixx (a mashup that aggregates all the “Diggs, Feeds, Tweets, and Blog Posts” onto one page).  Mixx was recently profiled by Somewhat Frank (Video: Visiting The Mixx HQ Mixxing Bowl) who is covering the TC50 event in person. 

If I see any good, working search engine type products, I will create a special limited search channel for ButtonALL later this week!