Hello billbryson-ga
I tried to pack in as much as I could for $5, and the below ‘possible’
finance sources are backed up by some useful links and resources.
http://www.lica.co.uk/
A UK -Based Special Situations Investment Advisor
Venture and Development Capital
specialising in Industrial and Media Innovation including High Tech
and New Media
Telephone
+44 207 958 9010
FAX
+44 207 958 9260
Postal address
42 Brook Street, London W1K 5DB
Electronic mail
General Information: enquiries@lica.co.uk or caraid@lica.co.uk
New Media Spark
http://www.newmediaspark.com/frameset.asp?url=%2Fportfolio%2Fmain%2Easp&navId=2
“DIGITAL MEDIA
The increasing penetration of the Internet as well as the roll out of
fixed and wireless broadband networks has created great opportunities
for digital media assets. The games, music, television and publishing
industries will be fundamentally impacted by technological change and
SPARK is focused on businesses that will develop and exploit
technology to establish leading positions in these markets.”
NewMedia SPARK plc
3rd Floor
33 Glasshouse Street
London
W1R 5RG
+44 (0)20 7851 7777
+44 (0)20 7851 7770
enquiries@newmediaspark.com
First Stage Capital
https://www.firststagecapital.com/servlet/FSCRegIntro?intro=entrepreneur&user=0
“FirstStage Capital is a corporate finance house that specializes in
securing funding for early stage technology companies.”
(they were sponsor for the “Funding Your New Media Venture” event
New Media Investors
NMK website
http://www.nmk.co.uk/nmk/events_diary/events.cfm?ItemID=3528
“Stephen Upstone, Director, FirstStage Capital
Stephen Upstone has responsibility for deal origination at FirstStage
Capital, a corporate finance house that specialises in securing
funding for early stage technology companies. Stephen focuses on
raising funding for technologies employed in the media and marketing
sectors. Prior to FirstStage Capital, Stephen worked for brand and
media consultancy Michaelides and Bednash, where he was involved in
developing brand strategy for beeb.com and beeb.net. Previously,
Stephen worked in advertising for McCann-Erickson and Lowe
Howard-Spink. www.firststagecapital.com”
IDG Ventures Europe
http://www.idgve.com/strategy/index.html
“IDGVE is a $100 million private venture capital fund founded in
September 2000 to invest in privately-held information-technology
start-up companies headquartered in Europe.
We look at a broad range of sectors including :
Internet Infrastructure
Internet content and e-commerce
Enterprise Software
Telecoms
Internet and Intranet enabling hardware and software”
2 Cavendish Square
London W1G 0PD
tel: +44-(0)-20-7299-7399
fax: +44-(0)-20-7299-7390
Capital Strategies
http://www.capitalstrategies.co.uk/finance/media.htm
“New Media remains the darling of the venture capital and business
angel world. With announcements of new Internet funds being raised on
an almost daily basis, and with the increasing presence of US funds in
the domestic UK market, there are currently record levels of funds
looking for good investments.
.....For further information on our corporate finance services to the
New Media sector please contact either Leon Boros or Matthew Owen”
Capital Strategies
Michael House
35 Chiswell Street
London EC1Y 4SE
Tel: 020 7256 8000
Fax: 020 7628 0094
Email: Shaunagh Chapman,
Marketing Executive
shaunagh.chapman@capitalstrategies.co.uk
3i Group
http://www.3igroup.com/sectorfocus/media/
“We split the media sector into six key segments, in order to
understand the unique challenges and opportunities they present:
-Broadcast: Providers of television and radio services, through
terrestrial, satellite & cable media.
- Production: Providers of television, film, music and radio
production and post-production facilities and/or programmes.
- Music, video and computer games: Music, video and computer game
publishers, labels, developers and related service providers.
- Marketing services: Providers of advertising, marketing and public
relations services.
- Publishing & information: Providers of information through print,
online, conference and exhibition media.
- Manufacturing & Distribution: Manufacture, duplication and
distribution of physical media.”
For investor relations enquiries, please contact 3i's Corporate
Affairs team below:
3i Group plc
Corporate Affairs Team
91 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8XP, UK
Fax: +44 (0)20 7975 3558
Or call us on:
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7928 3131
Durlacher
http://www.durlacher.com/bbus/private.asp
“Durlacher has a strong pedigree of raising finance for technology and
other growth companies and in 1998 it helped Autonomy Corporation
raise its first £10m. Since then, Durlacher has raised over £100m for
unquoted technology companies, including £8m for Demon Internet.“
Contact Us
http://www.durlacher.com/bbus/contactus.asp
EI Capital
http://www.eicapital.com/sectorfocus.htm
“Our investment approach is highly selective. We focus on investing in
European and U.S. technology companies who provide software and
services that exploit the Internet to facilitate improvement of
business productivity. This would include, for example, Internet
Infrastructure and Services, Enabling Technologies, Enterprise and
e-Commerce Solutions and Wireless Applications.”
Get in Touch
http://www.eicapital.com/getintouch.htm
One new media company off the top of my head (which I visited in 2000)
which secured a £10 million investment was Entranet.co.uk which is
'quite significant' for this type of company, with impressive
portfolio of corporate clients, large size offices in Central London
and in Europe, going places but seems to have 'disappeared' with about
150-200 staff.
Funding was from U.S. based General Atlantic.
http://www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk/bpoppo99.htm
The entranet website address does not appear to be working:
http://www.entranet.co.uk
(which is also the case for some of the venture capitalists I found)
However here is a news article from the Electronic Commerce News
by Robert Zarywacz April 04 2000 which outlines some of their
activities.
http://www.businessmag.co.uk/news/2000apr/e0400003.html
their public multimedia kiosk system was even shown on BBC’s
‘Tomorrow’s World’ programme.
Other resources:
BVCA - Source of information on venture capital and private equity.
http://www.bvca.co.uk/
Best match - National Business Angels Network site to match investors
and businesses.
http://www.bestmatch.co.uk/
Equity Link - business angel matching service
http://www.equitylink.co.uk/
Useful links:
Google Web Directory: Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Business
and Economy > Financial Services > Venture Capital
http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Financial_Services/Venture_Capital/
Yahoo! > Regional > Countries > United Kingdom > Business and Economy
> Business to Business > Financial Services > Finance and Receivables
> Financing > Corporate Finance > Venture Capital
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Financial_Services/Finance_and_Receivables/Financing/Corporate_Finance/Venture_Capital/
Yahoo! Regional > Countries > United Kingdom > Business and Economy >
Finance and Investment > Financing > Corporate Financing > Venture
Capital
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investment/Financing/Corporate_Financing/Venture_Capital/
Search strategy:
uk "venture capital" "new media"
://www.google.com/search?q=uk+%22venture+capital%22+%22new+media%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=40&sa=N
"entranet.co.uk"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22entranet.co.uk%22
I hope the leads and resources help you out,
kind regards
lot-ga |
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