Deal Trends - Opportunities in New Media
At the Software and Information Industry Association’s first annual Previews event, leading media industry investors share their insights on the past year of deal making and the future of the content industry. Where are the opportunities? Where is the money going? The panel includes early stage venture investors, private equity and late stage venture investors, and public market investors.
Moderator
Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief, Red Herring
Panelists
Rene Benedetto, Principal, Halyard Capital
Steve Fadem, President, Relegence
Lex Miron, Executive Director, Interactive Media, CIBC World Markets
Will Porteus, General Partner, RRE Ventures
Justin Sadrian, Managing Director, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Warburg Pincus
The Software and Information Industry Association added a start-up focus to the annual Information Industry Summit. Previews is an opportunity for start-ups to get in front of investors.
Early-stage, innovative content companies and companies that enable content creation, distribution and commerce solutions were invited to present before an audience of industry leaders and corporate development executives, bankers, technologists and other influencers at SIIA Previews.
Each start-up company was given five minutes to present and five minutes to answer questions from the audience.
Watch company presentations from all invited start-ups.
Company Previews: Content Creators
Decision Tree Media creates private-label web guides that drive qualified leads to sales channels.
Eurekster empowers communities to own and refine site-based web search.
Generate, Inc. provides real-time vertical search (from 41 million domains), directories, and social networking services for media and publishing companies interested in generating incremental page views, subscriptions, and user value.
Near-Time integrates a group weblog with wiki pages, team events and shared files in a hosted and secure collaborative environment.
Company Previews: Content Delivery Companies
Dragonfly provides a world-class multi-media content delivery network that builds revenue through engagement, retention and advanced metrics.
Inform Technologies LLC metatags publisher’s existing content and editorial assets to deliver an enriched, personalized online experience, dramatically increasing page views, visitor loyalty and revenues.
Pando Networks offers a free, simple to use application with an unprecedented underlying network architecture for rich-media content delivery.
RealTimeMatrix has pioneered break-through technology that enables anyone to get relevant content from the Web the instant it is published.
Company Previews: Content Protectors
Attributor is creating a platform that provides transparency and accountability in online content use and licensing for the rapidly growing content economy.
Cranium Softworks, Inc. helps streamline the publishing and content delivery process and protects online intellectual property.
iCopyright, Inc. specializes in developing technology for digital content marketing and licensing.
Register now for the fourth annual SIIA Content Forum & Codie Awards conference in San Francisco, April 15-17, 2007.
The Content Forum delivers the tools, tactics, and best practices necessary to build, enable and sell content. And you’ll network with the people making things happen in the industry.
Content Forum attendees represent the people responsible for digital content product conception, strategy and development; sales, distribution and licensing; marketing; and intellectual property. These are the people who make deals and oversee strategic partnerships, alliances, channels, and business development. Analysts, investors, bankers and press also attend.
At the conclusion of the Content Forum, you’ll meet the companies selected by the industry as having the year’s best products and services at the SIIA Codie Awards Reception and Gala.
To increase your business opportunities, the Content Forum conference is co-located with the SIIA’s other leading conferences, the Software Strategy Summit and the Ed Tech Industry Summit.
Register now to attend the SIIA Content Forum & Codie Awards, San Francisco, CA.
This article was created by the editors and producers at ScribeMedia.Org.
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