Arts Alliance

Arts Alliance Media Ltd., established in 2003 and headquartered in London, specializes in digital cinema software and services globally. The company offers a suite of solutions, including Screenwriter (theatre management), Producer (centralized scheduling and content management), Auditor (VPF digital cinema deployment), Locksmith (automated KDM process), AdFuser (ad campaign management), and Lifeguard (intelligent system monitoring). Additionally, they provide installation, maintenance, and operational support for digital cinema equipment. Arts Alliance Media's software and services enhance cinema operations, improve efficiency, and touch over 20,000 screens worldwide.

Brad Carroll

Managing Director

Joshua Green

Investment Director

40 past transactions

Spoonshot

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Spoonshot Inc. is a developer of an artificial intelligence-based platform that provides insights and analytics tailored for the food and beverage industry. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with additional offices in London and Bengaluru, Spoonshot's technology aims to replicate human cognition in the food domain. The platform harnesses food science and advanced algorithms to analyze and connect diverse data sets, delivering personalized recommendations for menu and product development, recipe selection, and customer insights. By understanding emerging consumer trends and market needs, Spoonshot empowers its clients to innovate and adapt to the evolving landscape of food consumption. The company, originally known as Dishq, rebranded to Spoonshot Inc. in October 2018.

Growth Street

Venture Round in 2019
Growth Street is a UK-based business lending platform that provides a faster and more flexible alternative to traditional bank overdrafts for small and medium-sized enterprises. Recognizing the challenges that growing businesses face in managing cash flow, particularly during seasonal fluctuations or when balancing invoice payments against outgoing expenses, Growth Street aims to simplify this process. By unlocking tied-up funds, the platform enables businesses to access working capital efficiently, allowing them to maintain supplier relationships and improve overall operational efficiency. Through its innovative approach, Growth Street supports businesses in managing their financial needs more effectively, facilitating growth and stability in a competitive market.

Spoonshot

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Spoonshot Inc. is a developer of an artificial intelligence-based platform that provides insights and analytics tailored for the food and beverage industry. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with additional offices in London and Bengaluru, Spoonshot's technology aims to replicate human cognition in the food domain. The platform harnesses food science and advanced algorithms to analyze and connect diverse data sets, delivering personalized recommendations for menu and product development, recipe selection, and customer insights. By understanding emerging consumer trends and market needs, Spoonshot empowers its clients to innovate and adapt to the evolving landscape of food consumption. The company, originally known as Dishq, rebranded to Spoonshot Inc. in October 2018.

Aprila Bank

Venture Round in 2017
Aprila Bank is a product and technology company that specializes in providing innovative financial solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It offers automated lending services through its API-based technology platform, which connects to approximately 130,000 SMEs via partnerships with leading online accounting systems and other relevant service providers. Utilizing in-house developed machine learning models, Aprila Bank predicts credit outcomes and assesses risk by analyzing real-time data alongside traditional credit information. This approach allows the company to offer credit lines that facilitate a seamless customer experience for SMEs seeking financial support.

SwiftComply

Venture Round in 2017
SwiftComply is a technology company that serves over 450 water authorities. It offers an online platform designed to streamline and enhance compliance programs, thereby protecting human health and the environment. The platform assists water utilities in managing their compliance requirements, offering features such as risk assessment, policy management, and training. This helps utilities improve their compliance posture and mitigate risk.

MyTutor

Series A in 2017
MyTutor is an online tutoring platform that connects secondary school students with over 7,000 university students from prestigious Russell Group institutions. The platform offers live, one-to-one tutoring sessions in a unique online lesson space, allowing students to benefit from personalized instruction without the need for in-person visits. Each session is recorded, enabling students to review lessons as needed. MyTutor also partners with schools and universities to offer tutoring support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, ensuring wider access to educational resources. With a strong focus on quality, the company has achieved over 200,000 bookings and received more than 70,000 five-star reviews, with each tutor personally interviewed. MyTutor has experienced significant growth, tripling its operations year-over-year for the past three years. Founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard, and James Grant, MyTutor aims to improve educational outcomes by making tutoring more accessible and affordable for students.

People.io

Seed Round in 2016
People.io is a mobile app that empowers individuals to take ownership of their personal data. Launched in 2015, the company rewards users for various actions such as answering questions or connecting online accounts within the app. Users can earn credits by sharing information and engaging with content from relevant brands, but crucially, their data is never sold to third parties. If a user deletes their account, all their data is permanently removed. People.io aims to foster a future where individuals recognize the inherent value of controlling their personal data. After participating in Startup Next and Wayra Deutschland accelerator programs, and securing two investment rounds, people.io is now focused on product development and expansion into other European markets.

Growth Street

Venture Round in 2015
Growth Street is a UK-based business lending platform that provides a faster and more flexible alternative to traditional bank overdrafts for small and medium-sized enterprises. Recognizing the challenges that growing businesses face in managing cash flow, particularly during seasonal fluctuations or when balancing invoice payments against outgoing expenses, Growth Street aims to simplify this process. By unlocking tied-up funds, the platform enables businesses to access working capital efficiently, allowing them to maintain supplier relationships and improve overall operational efficiency. Through its innovative approach, Growth Street supports businesses in managing their financial needs more effectively, facilitating growth and stability in a competitive market.

Skai

Series F in 2014
Skai is an AI-powered platform that provides businesses with consumer and market insights, strategic planning, and omnichannel media activation services. The company focuses on empowering brands and retailers by offering a suite of machine learning technologies designed to enhance decision-making and improve outcomes through actionable intelligence. Skai's offerings include tools for market intelligence, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make informed predictions and optimize their strategic planning. By facilitating better connections with customers, Skai serves as a comprehensive solution for driving growth across key customer channels.

We Are Pop Up

Seed Round in 2014
We Are Pop Up, established in 2012, operates a platform in the United Kingdom that facilitates short-term commercial property leasing. The company connects businesses and brands with commercial property owners and managers, enabling transactions for short-term leases. Its platform caters to various project types, including retail, art, design, dining, social, and technology, helping businesses find suitable commercial spaces for their needs. As of 2016, We Are Pop Up operates as a subsidiary of Brandspots.

Tails.com

Seed Round in 2014
Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that specializes in providing tailor-made dog food designed to meet the unique dietary needs of individual dogs. Launched in July 2014, the company aims to transform the pet food industry by offering freshly-blended, bespoke food that caters to specific health issues such as joint disease, skin conditions, and weight management. Founded by professionals with backgrounds in companies like innocent drinks and Amazon, Tails.com has garnered recognition as a high-growth business, receiving several awards, including 4th place in the 2017 Startup 100 awards. The company's commitment to optimizing nutrition for dogs has resulted in strong customer loyalty and positive feedback from pet owners.

We Are Pop Up

Seed Round in 2013
We Are Pop Up, established in 2012, operates a platform in the United Kingdom that facilitates short-term commercial property leasing. The company connects businesses and brands with commercial property owners and managers, enabling transactions for short-term leases. Its platform caters to various project types, including retail, art, design, dining, social, and technology, helping businesses find suitable commercial spaces for their needs. As of 2016, We Are Pop Up operates as a subsidiary of Brandspots.

We Are Pop Up

Seed Round in 2013
We Are Pop Up, established in 2012, operates a platform in the United Kingdom that facilitates short-term commercial property leasing. The company connects businesses and brands with commercial property owners and managers, enabling transactions for short-term leases. Its platform caters to various project types, including retail, art, design, dining, social, and technology, helping businesses find suitable commercial spaces for their needs. As of 2016, We Are Pop Up operates as a subsidiary of Brandspots.

Skai

Series E in 2012
Skai is an AI-powered platform that provides businesses with consumer and market insights, strategic planning, and omnichannel media activation services. The company focuses on empowering brands and retailers by offering a suite of machine learning technologies designed to enhance decision-making and improve outcomes through actionable intelligence. Skai's offerings include tools for market intelligence, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make informed predictions and optimize their strategic planning. By facilitating better connections with customers, Skai serves as a comprehensive solution for driving growth across key customer channels.

RollUp Media

Venture Round in 2012
RollUp Media is a media company established in May 2011 that focuses on enhancing the content experience for publishers, advertisers, writers, and consumers. The company develops a content production platform designed to assist publishers with content management, search engine optimization, social media optimization, multi-channel distribution, and revenue generation. By partnering with publishers, RollUp Media aims to help them scale content production and increase advertising revenue. Additionally, the company collaborates with advertisers to create content-driven ad experiences that generate higher brand engagement. RollUp Media also seeks to support writers by providing them with rewarding paid opportunities, steering clear of low-quality content production. Overall, the company is committed to fostering authentic content that resonates with audiences while enabling all stakeholders in the digital publishing ecosystem to thrive.

Teads.tv

Seed Round in 2010
Teads.tv specializes in outstream video advertising and operates a leading native video advertising marketplace. The company enables publishers to generate new outstream video inventory, which can be monetized through programmatic buying, direct sales, or third-party partnerships, including those with Teads Demand. Teads.tv focuses on creating advertising experiences that prioritize user respect, thereby offering premium inventory that was previously unavailable. Brands, agencies, and trading desks can access this high-quality inventory through the Teads Marketplace, which serves both web and mobile platforms. Additionally, Teads.tv provides managed services, where its team executes advertising strategies on behalf of clients using the company's platform. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in London, Teads.tv has expanded its operations internationally with offices in Moscow, Paris, and Bucharest.

Skai

Series C in 2010
Skai is an AI-powered platform that provides businesses with consumer and market insights, strategic planning, and omnichannel media activation services. The company focuses on empowering brands and retailers by offering a suite of machine learning technologies designed to enhance decision-making and improve outcomes through actionable intelligence. Skai's offerings include tools for market intelligence, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make informed predictions and optimize their strategic planning. By facilitating better connections with customers, Skai serves as a comprehensive solution for driving growth across key customer channels.

YCD Multimedia

Series C in 2009
YCD Multimedia, now known as YCD Atmosphere, is a leading provider of digital media solutions and applications aimed at enhancing customer engagement across various industries, including retail, automotive, banking, and entertainment. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products, including YCD|CMS for content management, C-nario Messenger for digital signage, and YCD|RAMP for retail advertising. Their technology facilitates high-quality playback on single screens or large displays, alongside interactive solutions like YCD|Interact and digital menu boards for food services. YCD Atmosphere combines technology with professional services such as strategy, design, and content creation to optimize customer experiences and drive measurable business outcomes. With a global presence and a network of resellers, the company has partnered with over 2,000 clients, including many Fortune 500 companies, to deploy effective digital media strategies that reinforce branding and enhance consumer awareness.

Skai

Series B in 2009
Skai is an AI-powered platform that provides businesses with consumer and market insights, strategic planning, and omnichannel media activation services. The company focuses on empowering brands and retailers by offering a suite of machine learning technologies designed to enhance decision-making and improve outcomes through actionable intelligence. Skai's offerings include tools for market intelligence, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make informed predictions and optimize their strategic planning. By facilitating better connections with customers, Skai serves as a comprehensive solution for driving growth across key customer channels.

Monte Cristo

Venture Round in 2008
Created in Paris in 1995, Monte Cristo is a European PC and console game producer. They have released over 30 titles. In 2005 Monte Cristo set up an office in Kiev, Ukraine, in order to deploy the team sizes required for future production with greater ease. They are in development of a city-building MMO entitled Cities XL.

Skai

Series A in 2008
Skai is an AI-powered platform that provides businesses with consumer and market insights, strategic planning, and omnichannel media activation services. The company focuses on empowering brands and retailers by offering a suite of machine learning technologies designed to enhance decision-making and improve outcomes through actionable intelligence. Skai's offerings include tools for market intelligence, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make informed predictions and optimize their strategic planning. By facilitating better connections with customers, Skai serves as a comprehensive solution for driving growth across key customer channels.

YCD Multimedia

Series B in 2008
YCD Multimedia, now known as YCD Atmosphere, is a leading provider of digital media solutions and applications aimed at enhancing customer engagement across various industries, including retail, automotive, banking, and entertainment. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products, including YCD|CMS for content management, C-nario Messenger for digital signage, and YCD|RAMP for retail advertising. Their technology facilitates high-quality playback on single screens or large displays, alongside interactive solutions like YCD|Interact and digital menu boards for food services. YCD Atmosphere combines technology with professional services such as strategy, design, and content creation to optimize customer experiences and drive measurable business outcomes. With a global presence and a network of resellers, the company has partnered with over 2,000 clients, including many Fortune 500 companies, to deploy effective digital media strategies that reinforce branding and enhance consumer awareness.

Cinelan

Venture Round in 2008
CINELAN is filmmaker-driven, video publisher dedicated to delivering new audiences and ongoing revenues to documentary filmmakers through the worldwide syndication of professionally-produced, three-minute films. Meeting the content needs of syndication partners and brands for high quality and engaging content, CINELAN is building the worldâ€:tm:s largest premium library of “must see” three-minute stories (all non-fiction) on a range of topics that include world affairs, environmental issues, entertainment, technology, and humor. Mainstream audiences will access CINELAN films through content-rich websites, digital cinemas, TV, and mobile devices. Our syndication process offers filmmakers painless access to quality distribution, immediate funding and a reliable revenue stream.

Daylife

Series B in 2007
Daylife is a content curation platform that enables the discovery and combination of high-quality material. It serves prominent media brands and popular consumer websites, including USA Today, Turner Sports, Sky News, and the Washington Post. In addition to providing services to these established entities, Daylife operates its own news and information website, further showcasing its capabilities in content management and distribution.

Povo

Seed Round in 2007
Povo, Inc. is an online platform based in Boston, Massachusetts, that serves as a comprehensive repository of local information. Established in 2007, Povo enables local businesses to promote their products and services while enhancing their visibility on search engines and social media. The platform features a wiki-style encyclopedia that allows users to generate and edit content collaboratively, and it is licensed under Creative Commons. Operating primarily in Massachusetts and New York City, Povo distinguishes itself by offering a programming language that empowers users to create advanced templates and implement specific search techniques, enhancing the overall usability and functionality of the platform.

Aperto Networks

Series E in 2007
Aperto Networks is a manufacturer of versatile and cost-effective carrier-grade WiMAX infrastructure equipment, serving service providers and enterprises globally. The company specializes in producing wireless broadband base stations, subscriber units, and element management systems, with a focus on 802.16d, 802.16e, and 802.11n broadband standards. Their flagship product, the PacketMAX Family, offers voice, data, and video services for fixed WiMAX applications. Additionally, Aperto Networks provides the WaveCenter EMS Pro system for managing wireless broadband networks. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Pitt Meadows, Canada, the company is known for its award-winning technology that supports a wide range of frequencies and applications, both licensed and unlicensed.

Player X

Series B in 2007
Player X, Ltd. is a mobile media company based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2003. The company specializes in the development, publishing, and distribution of mobile entertainment content, including casino games and mobile television and video games. Player X collaborates with mobile operators, portals, and handset manufacturers to deliver its content across key global markets, including Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In addition to content creation, the company provides content and portal management solutions, which encompass content sourcing, partner management, quality assurance, testing, deployment, promotion management, and reporting. As of 2009, Player X operates as a subsidiary of Zed Worldwide, S.A.

InLive Interactive

Series C in 2006
InLive Interactive, Ltd. provides interactive television solutions. It offers a technology software that allows television viewers to join television programs via mobile or landline telephones. The company's Real time player Solution enables broadcasters a technical platform to create and manage real interaction with viewers. It also offers interactive formats to international television stations and designs interactive content for existing programs. The company has strategic partnerships with T-Com, Telecom Italia, Citec, and Pelephone. InLive Interactive, Ltd. was formerly known as MiSE Interactive Systems, Ltd. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Hod Hasharon, Israel with additional offices in Germany and London.

YCD Multimedia

Series A in 2006
YCD Multimedia, now known as YCD Atmosphere, is a leading provider of digital media solutions and applications aimed at enhancing customer engagement across various industries, including retail, automotive, banking, and entertainment. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products, including YCD|CMS for content management, C-nario Messenger for digital signage, and YCD|RAMP for retail advertising. Their technology facilitates high-quality playback on single screens or large displays, alongside interactive solutions like YCD|Interact and digital menu boards for food services. YCD Atmosphere combines technology with professional services such as strategy, design, and content creation to optimize customer experiences and drive measurable business outcomes. With a global presence and a network of resellers, the company has partnered with over 2,000 clients, including many Fortune 500 companies, to deploy effective digital media strategies that reinforce branding and enhance consumer awareness.

Player X

Series A in 2005
Player X, Ltd. is a mobile media company based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2003. The company specializes in the development, publishing, and distribution of mobile entertainment content, including casino games and mobile television and video games. Player X collaborates with mobile operators, portals, and handset manufacturers to deliver its content across key global markets, including Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In addition to content creation, the company provides content and portal management solutions, which encompass content sourcing, partner management, quality assurance, testing, deployment, promotion management, and reporting. As of 2009, Player X operates as a subsidiary of Zed Worldwide, S.A.

Kiala

Series C in 2005
Kiala is a provider of a network of collection points in Europe, specializing in parcel delivery and returns. The company offers a technological platform that automates transportation and delivery processes, facilitating an efficient system for delivering parcels to end consumers. By integrating a network of delivery service points, Kiala enhances the convenience of receiving and returning packages, catering to the evolving needs of consumers in the logistics sector.

Upoc

Series C in 2004
Upoc is a company that offers mobile messaging community services, enabling users to share their activities with friends through various platforms. Users can update their status and follow friends' updates using SMS, shortcodes, web, WAP, voice messaging, or BREW. The service allows for group messaging and viewing message history, facilitating communication among users. Upoc caters to carriers, consumers, media companies, and marketers, providing a versatile platform for social networking via text messaging, wireless internet, voice, and multimedia messaging.

Atom Entertainment

Series A in 2001
Atom Entertainment is a company that specializes in aggregating and distributing casual games, short films, and animations online. It collaborates with independent content creators to identify and publish engaging digital entertainment that caters to the growing consumer appetite for accessible and unique experiences. Through its diverse portfolio of five brands, Atom Entertainment effectively reaches a wide range of target audiences. The company was acquired by Viacom's MTV Networks in August 2006, enhancing its capacity to deliver innovative content in the digital entertainment landscape.

HauteDecor

Venture Round in 2000
HauteDecor is creating an online destination for the interior design industry.

UBUBU

Series B in 2000
UBUBU is a venture-backed new media company located in San Francisco. The UBUBU team is a fusion of creative, technical and business expertise with backgrounds that include Electronic Arts, Disney, Sega, Silicon Graphics, Apple, AutoDesk, Sony, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Bain, Boston Consulting Group, and Charles Schwab. We have kites, paper lanterns, and a mosquito puppet hanging from our ceiling.

Upoc

Series A in 2000
Upoc is a company that offers mobile messaging community services, enabling users to share their activities with friends through various platforms. Users can update their status and follow friends' updates using SMS, shortcodes, web, WAP, voice messaging, or BREW. The service allows for group messaging and viewing message history, facilitating communication among users. Upoc caters to carriers, consumers, media companies, and marketers, providing a versatile platform for social networking via text messaging, wireless internet, voice, and multimedia messaging.

Kibu

Series A in 2000
Kibu is a digital lifestyle brand for teen girls.

eStyle

Series C in 2000
eStyle provides retailer solutions, manufacturer solutions, and e-style connect services. They also provide estyle central database, order writing app, and estyle central program to update websites.

Mascot Network

Venture Round in 2000
Mascot Network is a higher education-based portal that provides information services for educational institutions. The portal offers a communication platform from which people associated with institutions could access web-based resources. It is used by colleges, universities, liberal arts colleges, and large public institutions throughout the United States.

AtomFilms

Series B in 1999
A leading film production company, based in Dublin. We create viral, corporate and TV adverts. Telling stories through film.
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