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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
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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
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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.
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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".
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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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partners include:
firsttuesday,
silicon city,
ecommerce forum
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