invest in the creative industries

Workshop and pitching session at Futur en Seine

 Early-stage creative entrepreneurs are invited to participate at the workshop and pitching sessions that Media Deals and the Ace-Creative project are organizing at Futur en Seine on the 9th and 10th of June.

VR & Games Investment-Booster, Berlin Games Week 2016

 10 early stage companies in video games and VR content will be invited to present their investment opportunity to a panel of European equity investors at Berlin Games Week 2016 on April 20.

Investment Pitch for Games, Gaming Istanbul 2016

 10 games companies will pitch to a panel of European equity investors during our investment session at Gaming Istanbul 2016 on February 4th, 2016.

E-publishing Investment Forum, NEM Summit 2015

10 e-publishing startups will pitch during our investment forum at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 15.

The investor panel will be composed by half of European female investors. The event is supported by the Wehubs project.

Investment Pitch for Games, GameCo Paris 2015

 15 European companies will pitch to a panel of European equity investors during our investment session at the GameCO Europe in Paris on October 29.

Cannes Creative Investment Forum, 15 September

 10 European early stage companies in the creative industries and digital media sector have until August 17 to apply and get a chance to be part of the Cannes Creative Investment Forum taking place on September 15 at the famous cultural centre Villa Domergue in the heart of Cannes.

FIWARE Investment Forum | 3 May in Berlin

 The FIWARE Investment Forum invites 20 of the best startups out of the 16 European FIWARE accelerators to present their investment opportunity to a panel of international and local investors. FIWARE is the leading European accelerator programme for technology startups in the sectors of the future internet

Media Deals selected and prepared the pitching companies and invited international investors to the event.

Investment Forum Augmented and Virtual Reality

 Early stage companies have until February 15 to submit their application and get the chance to pitch in front of 10-12 high level international equity investors (business angels, family offices, venture capital funds) with track records in the ICT and digital media content industry.

Connect Investor Club, Flagey, Brussels 30th September 2014

 Application opened for high-growth, promising early-stage companies in the creative or digital media sector. Startups selected had the chance to pitch in front of experienced investors in the sectors and participate in the unmissable NEM Summit, this year hosted in the charming Flagey, Brussels. Read below the official description of the event:

Tuesday 30th September / 2pm-6pm at Flagey, Brussels (Belgium).

Creative Investment Forum in Cannes on 03 July 2014

 Our CREATIVE INVESTMENT FORUM took place in the Villa Noalles in Cannes, Cote d’Azur, at 3 July 2014.

The Cannes Creative Investment Forum brought together startups from the cultural and creative industries and business angels from the Cannes region as well as cross-border investors from Europe. This pitching was focused on companies and startup ideas from the creative and cultural field that make innovative use of modern communication technology. Read the press release below:

Please download here the agenda of the Investment Forum.

Game Paris Investment Pitch on 30th October 2014

 peacefulfish in collaboration with Media Deals and Game Paris, selected 15 European game companies to pitch in front of Equity investors on October 30th during Game Connection in Paris.

The pitch took place in the context of the Finance Panel, supported by Creative Europe.
Check the full programme here http://www.game-connection.com/european-games-booster-finance-panel

11th Investment Forum at 2013 NEM Summit in Nantes, October 2013

 Our 11th INVESTMENT FORUM was hosted by the 2013 NEM Summit on October 29 and 30, 2013, the “not-to-be-missed” annual event for all those interested in Future Internet developments and in the fast-paced evolution of the networked and electronic media industry.

Media Deals brought 11 international companies to pitch in front of 8 high-level investors.

12th Investment Forum at ICT 2013 in Vilnius

 Our 12th INVESTMENT FORUM took place during the ICT 2013 one of Europe’s biggest digital technology event in Vilnius on 6-7 November 2013.
Media Deals brought 12 companies from all over Europe together for an intensive pitching preparation workshop with Umberto de Foe (Meta Group) and Alexander Berlin (peacefulfish) and a final pitch in front of 15 international investors including VCs and Business Angels.

CAST partners bring together extensive experience in working with creative and tourism enterprises across Europe and stimulating their creation, growth and internationalisation. Co-funded by the European Commission’s COSME programme, CASTaims to provide incubation & acceleration support to sustainable tourism start-ups and SMEs to grow and scale. We will help them generate new products, services and business models, facilitate access to finance and new markets, while also helping them build new skills and resilience.

DeFINE is a collaborative project co-funded by the European Commission’s COSME programme which aims to support the fusion of cutting-edge technologies and innovation with the European fashion and design industries. Throughout the three years of the project (2018-2021), we will develop a network of incubators & accelerators, start-ups & SMEs, and financiers to form a European fashion-technology community where cross-sectoral knowledge will be shared, ideas will grow and transnational collaboration will be nurtured.

Green Screen aims to reduce the carbon footprint of European film and TV production. The film and TV industries are a successful driver for growth across Europe, but they are also a major source of carbon emissions. Productions move between locations and affect the environment through their use of transport, construction, lighting, catering and water. Green Screen will share best practice in sustainable production across Europe to encourage film and TV production companies and their suppliers to adopt green measures, train staff and create new jobs linked to sustainable working. Our partners will also develop regional policies to support sustainable practice.

TWIST connects four existing local web entrepreneurship startup ecosystems and hubs (Rome, Lille, Warsaw, Stockholm) providing new services for web entrepreneurs aiming at scaling up and competing in the global market. Through the application of the “lean startup model”, TWIST will help the accelerated companies to establish several valuable contacts to mentors and potential clients.

ACE Creative is the next generation of the ACE Acceleration Programme. Building up on its founding father, ACE Creative is aimed only at start-ups and SMEs mixing the latest technologies with creativity (e.g. 3D printing). ACE Creative will leverage a European network of expertise in training, investment and business coaching, ensuring these companies rapidly gain entry and grow into international markets.

WeHubs is a 2-year European project which aimed at providing a strong support to women web entrepreneurs in Europe and coordinating existing web entrepreneurs’ ecosystems to provide dedicated services to women.

FI Business provides complementary support actions such as boot camps, investment forums, e-pitches, one-on-one online training, webinars and workshops to the FIWARE accelerators and their startups.

The European Investor Gate (EIG) aims to stimulate investors’ interaction with innovative SMEs and to facilitate the investment readiness of innovative SMEs or entrepreneurs in ICT participating in EU RTD programs.

The CI Network of Entrepreneurs is a Leonard da Vinci project aimed at transfering best entrepreneurial practices in Cultural and Creative Industries from the UK to Portugal, Spain and Greece.

Recently launched in Brussels by the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN), DigiBIC will take the best practices, tools, and results from EU research projects in cultural heritage, digital libraries, and preservation, and disseminate them to the wider Creative Industry (CI) sector and in particular to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

ImMediaTe is a €3m/3 year collaborative project co-financed by the EUROPE INNOVA initiative of the DG Enterprise of the European Commission. It is aimed at developing tools and services to assist the growth of digital media SMEs.

EBAN is the European Business Angel Network with a focus on the early stage investment market. The network also aims to increase the visibility of the added value brought by BAs, BANs and early stage funds in the equity market.

“Where Founders grow together” is the motto of this leading startup community and online network. Thousands of F6S’ers a day apply to accelerators, pitch investment funds, post or apply for jobs, get free deals and grow.

http://www.f6s.com/

EuroQuity is the web service created by Bpifrance (merger of OSEO, CDC Enterprises, FSI and FSI Régions) in order to match-make developing companies and potential partners for their growth, in particular investors.

Formerly only available to organisations based in either France or Germany, the EuroQuity match making service is now available to companies, investors, project managers and advisors from other European Countries, via the European Investor Gate community (www.euroquity.fr/eu)

www.euroquity.com/eu

She has been responsible of several research and policy studies to support the development of regional clusters and financial incentives dedicated to the creative industries.

French born, Dorothée worked for a decade as a print journalist for french-speaking newspapers and publications. She then joined the film industry where she worked as a creative producer for several film production companies in Berlin.

Dorothée hold a MA in Comparative Literature from University of Lille Charles-de-Gaulle and a MA in European Journalism from IHECS, journalism school in Brussels.

Thierry has 20+ years of experience in the communications and entertainment industries. After graduating in Paris he worked in London as a business consultant for entertainment companies and telecom operators, then in France and Germany in business development for Vivendi, and then for ARTE – the Franco-German TV station – in Strasbourg. Thierry then completed an MBA at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and at UCLA in Los Angeles, where he specialized in film financing and e-commerce. In 2012, he graduated from the European Executive Programme of the Ecole National d’Administration (ENA) in France.

For Media Deals, Thierry is in charge of developing the investment network across Europe and managing the network’s Investment Forums, which regularly bring mediatech companies and investors together for pitching sessions. With regard to this, he supports the network’s investors in identifying investment opportunities and in carrying out due diligence with a focus on cross-border transactions and exit strategies.

He was also the project director of Media Deals’ EU project ImMediaTe, which examined financial mechanisms for digital media between five European clusters (Barcelona, Rome, Malta, Paris, and Amsterdam) and is now the director of the new DG Connect project European Investor Gate (EIG). Thierry has also been developing different creative industries funds for the film, music, and video games sectors. He is a regular speaker at conferences and summits on content and technology as well as an expert for the European Commission on regulations for investment in the digital sector.

She is a strategic advisor for European funding institutions and development agencies and is a veteran project director of several EU-projects focusing on accelerating creative and digital businesses through innovation programmes. She developed media positioning strategies for countries and regions e.g. in Asia, across Europe and in the UAE, and feasibility studies for national and international clients.

As Executive Advisor with 30 years of experience in the creative industries, Juliane holds an extensive cross-industrial knowledge, specialising in financing and business consulting of technology driven entrepreneurs in the creative industries. As coach and mentor, she supports SMEs in business planning and in investment readiness. As trainer and moderator, she holds workshops on access to finance and entrepreneurship at investment and innovation forums, at business training events, as well as at leading business incubators.

Juliane is guest lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin, Director of Investors Lab Berlin, and chairs EBN’S ‘Cultural, Creative and Digital Special Interest Group’. Previously she headed the Multi-Platform Business School, lectured at the Media Business School and teaches at various international audio-visual labs, markets and business summits like Arts+ at the Frankfurt Book Fair, ArtLab Milano or at Laval Virtual. Juliane is Fellow at the Competence Center Cultural and Creative Industries of the Federal Republic of Germany.