Investment Opportunities in Digital

29th September 2009, 6 - 9pm

BCS (First Floor) 5 Southampton St, London, WC2E 7HA

SOLD OUT !!!  Please contact the team if necessary: team@mashupevent.com

This event will explore what current growth areas in the digital arena are generating interest with active individual and institutional investors.

Specifically, it will promote discussion and debate amongst investors (Venture Capital & Angel investors), entrepreneurs, and corporates that are seeking to invest financial and other resources in rapidly growing business opportunities in the digital sector.

Attendees will benefit through shared learning from experienced investors, entrepreneurs, and corporations in this area and from the opportunity to interact with them during the group discussion and individually during the networking before and after the formal discussion & debate.

Some examples of high growth areas within the digital sector  that the discussion is likely to touch on include:

 

• Social media, marketing and monitoring
• Augmented reality
• Mobile applications
• Local and location enabled services
• Wireless devices
• Online content and digital media
  

 

As always, the event is open to everyone to attend and will be very interactive with discussion and debate involving everyone present. Our audience for the event will primarily be made up of the following groups:

 

• Angel investors
• Venture Capital firms
• Investment Banks
• Corporate decision makers
• Entrepreneurs
• Legal, accountancy, and consulting firms working in the digital arena

 

Date and Time:

September 29th, 2009 from 18:00 to 21:00.

Location:

BCS London Office

First Floor
The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA

Programme:

18:00 Networking and Demos

18:30 Presentations from key contributors:

• Investor (VC or Angel presenting what they are looking for)
• Start up (Successful company that has raised funding from investors in the sector)
  
• Corporate (Influential corporate sharing what they are looking at as key trends and what criteria they use to invest in smaller companies and in their internal product development in the digital arena)

19:15 Moderated panel discussion with audience interaction

20:00 Networking drinks and demos

21:00 Close

One minute pitches at the end of each presentation from demo companies in the digital arena.

SPEAKERS

Paul Fisher – Advent Venture Partners

Paul’s areas of focus are digital media & internet, convergence technologies, software and services. Paul was previously Associate Director and an early investor in First Capital, where he helped to build this European leader in technology investment banking and advisory services for the venture capital market.

He has also worked in a number of early stage technology companies, including Rawflow, Reevoo.com, OmniPerception and MintDigital and also on M&A for Cassium Technologies, Smart421 & Aim Software. Before First Capital, Paul worked in investment banking at Citibank and Salomon Smith Barney where he worked on the equity-backed derivative market. Paul is a graduate of Warwick University and a member of the Securities Institute where he studied corporate finance.

Paul’s Blog can be found here: www.thecoffeeshopsofmayfair.com .

Sean Seton-Rogers – PROfounders Capital

Sean is a General Partner at PROfoundersCapital, new venture capital fund FOR entrepreneurs, BY entrepreneurs.  Most recently, Sean was with Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe), where he worked closely with companies such as Bebo, Wonga.com. TouchLocal, and BetNow.  Prior to Balderton, Sean worked with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston. Also Sean worked as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company, in both the US and Europe.  Sean received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. In addition, Sean graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rice University.
 

Lori Murphree – Results International

Lori Murphree is currently working with Results International focusing on transactions in the digital media space.  She has 7 years of banking experience with a strong focus on technology M&A and private capital financings. Previously, Lori was part of the lead advisory technology team at Grant Thornton. Having also spent 5 years with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB Alliant) where she was on the Software and Services Team, working in mergers and acquisitions in both the Silicon Valley office as well as the London office.

Lori has participated on a number of domestic and cross-border transactions within various sub-sectors of software including security software, enterprise applications and utility computing. In addition, prior to receiving her MBA, she worked for five years in marketing and operations. During this time, she was responsible for the development and launch of new products in both the U.S. and internationally, budget management and promotional activities. She received a bachelor’s degree in business from California State University, Chico and a master’s degree in business administration and international management from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management.

 

Jay Bregman – eCourier

Jay is the Founder & CTO of eCourier.co.uk, the online courier company with the purple vans. eCourier was ranked 53 in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 this year, having grown 55% year on year since 2004 to £6M turnover.

In 2007, eCourier was voted London's Most Inspirational Business by the Evening Standard. Prior to starting eCourier, Jay worked at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Jay holds an MSc in Media and Communications Regulation & Policy from the LSE and a BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth College. In 2009, Jay was named an Enterprising Young Brit by Make Your Mark--despite hailing from New York City.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Philip Wilkinson Phil is best known as a founder of Shopgenie and later of internet heavyweight Kelkoo UK. He later worked as a commercial manager for Telewest's blueyonder broadband internet division, launching the UK's first wireless broadband product in the home.  After that he started a vertical search comparison business known as GenieVentures, now a multi-million pound business comparing broadband and mobile broadband services around the world.  Most recently he co-founded the e-commerce outdoor gear retailer Webtogs.co.uk and built their marketing strategy over a 1 year period, and launched a new style of comparison shopping engine known as Crowdstorm.co.uk.    Both an entrepreneur and an active angel investor, he enjoys advising young startups on their growth and strategy.  

Bill Morrow - Founder - Angels Den

Bill Morrow is founder of Angels Den, Europe’s largest equity funding facilitators bringing Business Angels and entrepreneurs, with, as Bill puts it “fantastic and groovy business ideas” together. Although anyone who meets the larger than life Bill will find this difficult to believe he started his career as an accountant working for Virgin.

Today Angels Den has almost 10,000 registered entrepreneurs vying for the financial attention of literally thousands of Business Angels. Never one to sit on his laurels Bill is planning the launch of an Angels magazine, a TV show to help struggling entrepreneurs, and the development of a mass public owned fund to help finance some of the best business ideas that they are approached with.

DEMOS

 

 

 

 

 

Shicon - the shining icon - is an online social media where creative users can provide unique designs elements. The best designs are selected by a combination of votes and comments from the community, Shicon's team and international advisors, and are used for manufacturing of high quality products (t-shirts and bags as of now, additional fashion, design and homeware goods later) to be sold on Shicon.com through ecommerce. Winning users are awarded money prizes, with a variable value based on their actual sales success. www.shicon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audioboo is a platform for the spoken word. Our objective is reinvent the spoken word as a medium that is spontaneously shareable at any time by anyone across all social medium. The initial launch of the Audioboo platform was via the hugely successful iPhone app of the same name, launched in March 2009 and subsequently taken up by the BBC, ITV, The Guardian, numerous radio stations Stephen Fry, Leo Laporte and many others. www.audioboo.fm

 

 

 

 

 

Schway provides an engaging and rewarding customer experience for online shoppers who demand more interactivity and fun whist browsing the online High Street.  Users see more items, leading to a higher propensity to buy and an increase in basket items and value.

Schway lets people create and coordinate fashion online. We retain shoppers by entertaining them with the perfect research tool and a new way to shop – available for womenswear, menswear, teen and childrenswear.

This sales and marketing tool gives fashion retailers, publishers and sponsors the opportunity to engage new audiences and gain maximum exposure for products and brands across social media. As every click and combination is measured, retailers can apply targeted, specific data to enhance their merchandising and promotional operations. www.schway.net

 

 

 

 

We often get asked why we built OOKL? The simple answer is that we wanted to help people have richer, more engaging, experiences in cultural spaces. In other words, we wanted people to learn more, to have more fun, to share their experiences with their friends and families. OOKL is now taking root in many cultural venues, having been used by hundreds of schools and thousands of visitors.

Many technologies get used in unexpected ways. True to form, teachers started to ask us if they could use OOKL in their school (often after using it at a venue). So, we developed solutions that help schools use OOKL to support activities right across the National Curriculum. www.ookl.org.uk

 

 

 

 

 

www.satsis.com

Getting quick and accurate GPS fixes in built-up areas or indoors is one of the key challenges faced by the location market today. The team at SATSIS is currently developing a range of effective and cost effective solutions in order address this.

Our first product, SATNet, is a dynamic, intelligent pure software solution for locating mobile devices in areas where GPS coverage is inadequate.

 

 

Mob4Hire.com is an online Web 2.0 community that connects mobile application developers with eager, global crowd-sourced techsavvy people and professional testing houses (“MobPro”) that bid on testing, product and market research projects. “Mob4Hire as a Platform” enables carriers, handset manufacturers and O/S’s to build white-label user communities for their developer networks in order to get better software to market faster. Mob4hire has over 20,000 testers in 105 countries on 330 carrier/network operators. www.mob4hire.com

 

 

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