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WHAT IS VITAMINIC? Vitaminic is Europe's leading online music community, with a network of local language web sites in Italy, France, UK, Spain, Germany, Holland and Sweden, and now the USA. Vitaminic is the first and largest pan-European digital distributor of music, and boasts the largest database of legal MP3 files in all of Europe. Vitaminic is getting ready for an IPO to be launched later this year, thanks to Hambrecht & Quist and Chase Capital's recent infusion of $US 20 million.

WHAT IS VITAMINIC'S VALUE PROPOSITION? Vitaminic's commitment to quality: q Providing a secure way online for record labels and featured artists to sell their music digitally in Europe and worldwide. q Providing the most versatile promotional platforms online for all genres of music across Europe. Vitaminic works with the traditional music distribution and retail players in each territory, selling and promoting music on the World Wide Web in each country's local language, and celebrating the recognized Vitaminic brand Europe-wide.

HOW DOES THIS WORK? Vitaminic works with independent artists and more than 50 major and independent labels across Europe. Each label or artist has access to their own Vitaminic homepage, where they individually set their price for each track and monitor all streaming activity and sales information in real time, via the World Wide Web. Their personalized page on the Vitaminic site can be used for a variety of promotional activities, independently of or in conjunction with the Vitaminic site. From the Vitaminic homepage, surfers can search by genre, artist, or label to find the tracks they want to listen to or buy from more than 20,000 tracks covering more than 250 genres of music � from ambient to reggae, classical to zombie rock.

WHAT DOES THE VITAMINIC PLAN PROVIDE? Musicians and record labels have ready access to all of the tools they'll need - thanks to the Vitaminic network in Europe -- to quickly and securely promote and sell their own music online. In just a few minutes' time, record labels and artists can register online at Vitaminic's Backstage, create their own homepages, and begin to distribute and sell their own music throughout the entire world � directly from their own computers. The Vitaminic Plan is both innovative and simple: the artist can take advantage of a free promotional channel, without any restrictions, as the distribution contract with Vitaminic is not exclusive. The revenues generated by the sales of tracks are always split 50/50 between the artist or record label and Vitaminic. They can also take advantage of the Vitaminic international presence by developing virtual focus groups online. For more information on Vitaminic USA, please contact Gianluca Grechi at www.vitaminic.com


3i operates through a rapidly expanding network of over 30 offices in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the USA. This allows 3i US to leverage the group's understanding of a broad number of markets as well as the issues concerning competitive developments globally.

Internationally 3i has over 600 investments across the Technology space, to which it seeks to provide added value. Many of our current investments are in the Telecommunications and Business to Business E-commerce, in the spaces, however, 3i's breadth and depth of experience means that we invest in a wide range of different technology companies, for example those in healthcare information technology.

3i US is interested in both early stage and later stage deals. It will invest amounts in excess of $1m, and prefers to build up stakes of $5m, often in partnership with other VCs. From its offices in Palo Alto and Boston, 3i's initial focus is on high quality opportunities to which it can add real value as an 'Involved Investor'. 3i is looking to support high quality teams in the realisation of their business concepts.

3i US seeks out entrepreneurs and companies who want to be market leaders in the market niche they have clearly defined. 3i US often works with other VCs to leverage its proprietary deal flow and access to international management teams. 3i has commited an initial allocation of $300m for investment in North American technology companies. 3i US currently has a team of 9 in two offices in Palo Alto and Boston.


Event SPONSORS
Today IVC Venture Capital AG is one of the top three venture capitalist for start-up financing in Germany. The main reason for the success is the clear difference of our company culture, our philosophy and our speed. Therefore we were able to win major enterprises and organisations as our partners and investors. In addition to that, top-entrepreneurs like John Tu, founder of Kingston Technologies, Robert Schneider, founder of SCM Microsystems and the "Samwers", founders of ebay-Germany, build the strong backbone of IVC. Our business incubator VentureLab is sponsored by well-known partners like Cisco, Oracle, Arthur Andersen, Apax, Kingston, etc. VentureLab provides the best start-up companies with a perfect infrastructure free of charge.
e-start.com, Europe's e-hub, connects entrepreneurs to top tier venture capital and talent. At e-start.com we assist thousands of entrepreneurs across Europe to build their e-businesses. Our on-line community provides a unique environment where ideas develop and teams come together. For the very best entrepreneurs the e-start.com launch team provides hands-on advice and support and rapid access to the best funding available. Teams are immediately plugged in to our partner network of top tier service providers and internet venture capitalists, who include Amadeus Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Earlybird, Gilde, Vest@, and Viventures.
 
Set up in January 1999, Mars Capital is an international private venture capital fund, with investments in Internet start-ups in Europe and the US. Mars Capital invested $15 million in 1999. As a "VC-Entrepreneur", Alexandre Mars assists emerging companies in the high technology sector in both financial and managerial terms, sharing his strategic expertise with them. Mars Capital's portfolio of young up-and-coming companies include Audiosoft, BuyCentral, EZlogin, LookThatup, Phonevalley, Ukibi...
McKinsey's e-commerce practice, @McKinsey, helps clients create sustainable, high-growth e-businesses. @McKinsey consultants have worked on more than 400 e-commerce engagements during the past three years, and the practice is the fastest growing area within the firm. McKinsey & Company is a leading management consulting firm, with 79 offices in 42 countries and nearly 5,000 professionals worldwide. @McKinsey is distributed in six geographic centers-London, Madrid, Munich, New York, Toronto, and Silicon Valley-and serves McKinsey & Company clients in 42 countries around the world.
Bertelsmann Valley is an Incubator. We offer seed capital for startups in the areas of multimedia with focus on e-commerce, communities, content generation and integration of new technologies and devices. Besides capital, we provide infrastructure such as office space, know-how and access to other Bertelsmann companies to the incubated start-ups. Bertelsmann Valley seeks out highly motivated people who are really enthusiastic in their concept and have the confidence to convince us of the same. Just send an Email to Valley@bertelsmann.de

The Palmer & Dodge Internet/E-Commerce Group synthesizes our intellectual property expertise with the firm's extensive corporate transactional capacity to deliver strategic advice and creative solutions to some of the fastest growing and most well-known Internet businesses. We also represent traditional businesses deploying Internet strategies and tactics. In addition to integrating our corporate and intellectual property capabilities, we draw upon Palmer & Dodge's extensive taxation, employment, litigation, estate planning, and insurance practices to advise our clients in all facets of their businesses and during all stages of development.

Econa AG is an Internet Venture Capital firm based in Berlin, Germany, investing in carefully selected Internet startups who have demonstrated high potential in becoming tomorrows leading brands.

Founded by four successful new media entrepreneurs, Econa not only provides early stage venture capital, but also offers access to its own reliable network of leading new media executives and decision makers. Econa's core competency is to develop strong market entry strategies. These are then quickly and precisely implemented through efficient collaboration between Econa and the start up company.

Econa`s services including consultation in: PR, advertising, headhunting, legal and tax issues, accounting, housing and infrastructure guarantee a reduced "time to market".

GorillaPark is the 1st pan-European Internet business accelerator and idea generator for high tech entrepreneurs who want to create Internet companies and grow them quickly into world-class organizations.

GorillaPark complements and strengthens early-stage companies by providing an exclusive team of experienced entrepreneurial executives who are committed to accelerating these companies along their path "From IDEA to IPO."

Gorilla Park provides entrepreneurs with mentoring by experienced executives and access to their personal networks; state-of-the-art facilities and information infrastructure; access to ready-for-action business recourses; and 'seed level' equity capital.

By removing many of the headaches faced by high-tech start-ups, GorillaPark allows entrepreneurs to focus their intellectual and capital assets on their own unique value proposition and capturing "first-mover advantage."

Unlike traditional incubators, which are regionally focused and provide limited resources to nurture young firms, GorillaPark is pan-European, with a bridge to a launch pad in the Silicon Valley, and provides the full complement of resources and experience necessary to succeed as a public company in the global marketplace.

 

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