Arts Alliance

Arts Alliance, founded in 1996 and based in London, is a venture capital organization that supports entrepreneurs in the technology and services, and communications sectors in Western Europe. With a hands-on approach to investment, they offer creative talent and strategic advice to their Portfolio Companies, fostering a network of growth and innovation.

Thomas Hoegh

Founder and CEO

Gavin Roberts

Investment Director

41 past transactions

YCD Multimedia

Series C in 2009
YCD Multimedia is an industry leader providing corporations and organizations worldwide with advanced digital media solutions and applications within the retail environment, as well as other industries. YCD’s flexible platforms help businesses attract clients, reinforce branding and ensure a measurable impact on their business. YCD’s end-to-end offering combines strategy, professional services and technology to increase profits, optimize product mix and enhance the customer experience. To date, the company has partnered with over 2,000 customers, including Fortune 500 corporations and some of the world’s most recognized brands, such as Burger King, Coca-Cola, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Ferrari, Cartier, and Diesel. Founded in 1999, YCD Multimedia is headquartered in the United States with offices in the United Kingdom and Israel, and has an international network of resellers serving clients around the globe. In October 2011 YCD acquired C-nario, a global provider of digital signage software solutions. For more information, visit www.ycdmultimedia.com

Tails.com

Seed Round in 2014
Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs. As a bespoke pet food, online retailer they're providing dogs with their own unique, freshly-blended food. Founded from backgrounds at innocent drinks, graze.com, LoveFilm & Amazon - tails.com launched in July 2014 with the ambition to change the world of pet food for good. Their customers (or most importantly their dogs) love their products. See what they have to say on their Trustpilot site https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/tails.com The key to their success is their people and they have been widely recognised as an exciting high growth company, scooping several awards including 4th place in the 2017 Startup 100 awards

people.io

Seed Round in 2016
Our mission is to give people ownership of their data by creating a ‘firewall for people’ that will give individuals control over the access, use and value of their decentralised personal data. people.io is a mobile app which helps people realise the true value of their data, by rewarding users for taking actions such as answering questions, connecting online accounts and engaging with relevant brands. Importantly, though, this data is never sold to anyone and if the user deletes their account, all their data is deleted too. For now, we’re paying people to care about their data. But we are building towards a future when there will be inherent value in having ownership and control of our personal data. Since the company was founded in 2015, we've been a part of Startup Next (the #1 pre-accelerator run by Techstars), completed two investment rounds and are now also a part of Wayra Deutschland (Telefonica's global accelerator). We are now focussed on product development and a number of major announcements throughout 2017 that will see people.io introduced to other European markets. people.io is an operating subsidiary of C8 Management Ltd.

Growth Street

Venture Round in 2019
Growth Street offers UK businesses a faster alternative to bank overdrafts. They see that many growing businesses need flexibility to manage their cashflow. Whether it’s managing the seasonal cycle of business or balancing invoice payments against outgoings, managing cashflow can take a lot of time, focus and energy. Often balancing the books means delaying payments, leaning on suppliers or juggling costs, which can suck up your time, put pressure on your supplier relationships and generally make businesses less efficient.

Daylife

Series B in 2007
Daylife is a platform for curating, discovering, and combining high-quality content. Its platform serves some of the world's best-known media brands and consumer destination websites, including USA Today, Turner Sports, Sky News, and the Washington Post. The Daylife Platform also powers its own popular news and information website at www.daylife.com.

eStyle

Series C in 2000
eStyle operates BabyStyle, a platform that provides online and offline retail locations for baby products.

MyTutor

Series A in 2017
MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally. Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessions with young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after. They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard. The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed. MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.

Upoc

Series C in 2004
Allows users to tell their friends what they are up to from their phone. Users can also follow their friends and see what they are up to. Upoc uses SMS and shortcodes, allowing users to text in what they are doing. Users can also view their message history and create groups of friends to text to. Upoc users can access the service through the web, WAP, voice messaging ($4.99 / month), SMS or BREW (Verizon).

Kibu

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

SwiftComply

Venture Round in 2017
SwiftComply helps over 450 water authorities protect human health and the environment by providing an online platform that streamlines their compliance programs

Teads.tv

Seed Round in 2010
Teads.tv outstreams video advertising and the leading native video advertising marketplace.owth companies. Publishers work with Teads to create brand new outstream video inventory, monetizing it through programmatic buying, their own sales force, or third parties including Teads Demand. Teads pioneers advertising experiences that respect the user, creating unprecedented levels of premium inventory which previously didn’t exist. Brands, agencies and trading desks can access this top-tier, premium inventory, available on the web and on mobile, in the Teads Marketplace. Through our managed services capabilities, the Teads team execute on their client’s behalf using its platform.

Skai

Series F in 2014
Kenshoo, Ltd. provides agile marketing services. The company’s solutions include management and optimization, personas and audiences, measurement and reporting, and forecasting and attribution. It serves organizations, advertisers, enterprise agencies, and SMB agencies in automotive, consumer app, education, financial service, gaming, local, retail, and travel industries. The company offers its solutions through mobile, search, social, and display channels. Kenshoo, Ltd. has a strategic partnership with Profitero. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Tel-Aviv, Israel with additional offices worldwide. It also has locations in San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; East Lansing, Michigan; Plano, Texas; México; Sydney, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Singapore; and São Paulo, Brazil.

UBUBU, Inc.

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.

RollUp Media

Venture Round in 2012
Content creation platform connecting independent publishers, advertisers and writers

YCD Multimedia

Series A in 2006
YCD Multimedia is an industry leader providing corporations and organizations worldwide with advanced digital media solutions and applications within the retail environment, as well as other industries. YCD’s flexible platforms help businesses attract clients, reinforce branding and ensure a measurable impact on their business. YCD’s end-to-end offering combines strategy, professional services and technology to increase profits, optimize product mix and enhance the customer experience. To date, the company has partnered with over 2,000 customers, including Fortune 500 corporations and some of the world’s most recognized brands, such as Burger King, Coca-Cola, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Ferrari, Cartier, and Diesel. Founded in 1999, YCD Multimedia is headquartered in the United States with offices in the United Kingdom and Israel, and has an international network of resellers serving clients around the globe. In October 2011 YCD acquired C-nario, a global provider of digital signage software solutions. For more information, visit www.ycdmultimedia.com

Aperto Networks

Series E in 2007
Aperto Networks is a manufacturer of highly versatile and cost-effective carrier-grade WiMAX Forum Certified infrastructure equipment. Through their award-winning PacketMAXÂ technology, they enable service providers and enterprises worldwide to profitably deliver affordable wireless voice and broadband data services to businesses, residential customers, and government organizations of all kinds. No company offers more solutions for Fixed and Mobile WiMAX applications than Aperto. Or more support for more frequencies”both licensed and unlicensed- anywhere in the world.

YCD Multimedia

Series B in 2008
YCD Multimedia is an industry leader providing corporations and organizations worldwide with advanced digital media solutions and applications within the retail environment, as well as other industries. YCD’s flexible platforms help businesses attract clients, reinforce branding and ensure a measurable impact on their business. YCD’s end-to-end offering combines strategy, professional services and technology to increase profits, optimize product mix and enhance the customer experience. To date, the company has partnered with over 2,000 customers, including Fortune 500 corporations and some of the world’s most recognized brands, such as Burger King, Coca-Cola, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Ferrari, Cartier, and Diesel. Founded in 1999, YCD Multimedia is headquartered in the United States with offices in the United Kingdom and Israel, and has an international network of resellers serving clients around the globe. In October 2011 YCD acquired C-nario, a global provider of digital signage software solutions. For more information, visit www.ycdmultimedia.com

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.

HauteDecor

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

Growth Street

Venture Round in 2015
Growth Street offers UK businesses a faster alternative to bank overdrafts. They see that many growing businesses need flexibility to manage their cashflow. Whether it’s managing the seasonal cycle of business or balancing invoice payments against outgoings, managing cashflow can take a lot of time, focus and energy. Often balancing the books means delaying payments, leaning on suppliers or juggling costs, which can suck up your time, put pressure on your supplier relationships and generally make businesses less efficient.

Skai

Series A in 2008
Kenshoo, Ltd. provides agile marketing services. The company’s solutions include management and optimization, personas and audiences, measurement and reporting, and forecasting and attribution. It serves organizations, advertisers, enterprise agencies, and SMB agencies in automotive, consumer app, education, financial service, gaming, local, retail, and travel industries. The company offers its solutions through mobile, search, social, and display channels. Kenshoo, Ltd. has a strategic partnership with Profitero. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Tel-Aviv, Israel with additional offices worldwide. It also has locations in San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; East Lansing, Michigan; Plano, Texas; México; Sydney, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Singapore; and São Paulo, Brazil.

Upoc

Series A in 2000
Allows users to tell their friends what they are up to from their phone. Users can also follow their friends and see what they are up to. Upoc uses SMS and shortcodes, allowing users to text in what they are doing. Users can also view their message history and create groups of friends to text to. Upoc users can access the service through the web, WAP, voice messaging ($4.99 / month), SMS or BREW (Verizon).

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.

Kiala

Series C in 2005
Kiala is a provider of collection points network in Europe. The company offers technological platform, which automates all transportation and delivery activities and helps provide collection points network for the delivery of parcels to end-consumers.

Tails.com

Seed Round in 2014
Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs. As a bespoke pet food, online retailer they're providing dogs with their own unique, freshly-blended food. Founded from backgrounds at innocent drinks, graze.com, LoveFilm & Amazon - tails.com launched in July 2014 with the ambition to change the world of pet food for good. Their customers (or most importantly their dogs) love their products. See what they have to say on their Trustpilot site https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/tails.com The key to their success is their people and they have been widely recognised as an exciting high growth company, scooping several awards including 4th place in the 2017 Startup 100 awards

Atom Entertainment

Series A in 2001
Atom Entertainment aggregates and distributes the casual games, short films, and animations on the web. Atom Entertainment works with creative independent content developers to find and publish casual games, short films, video and more to meet the new consumer demand for fun, short, accessible and unusual digital entertainment. Its five brands reach a broad spectrum of highly-desirable audiences. Atom Entertainment was acquired by Viacom's MTV Networks in August 06.

Skai

Series C in 2010
Kenshoo, Ltd. provides agile marketing services. The company’s solutions include management and optimization, personas and audiences, measurement and reporting, and forecasting and attribution. It serves organizations, advertisers, enterprise agencies, and SMB agencies in automotive, consumer app, education, financial service, gaming, local, retail, and travel industries. The company offers its solutions through mobile, search, social, and display channels. Kenshoo, Ltd. has a strategic partnership with Profitero. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Tel-Aviv, Israel with additional offices worldwide. It also has locations in San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; East Lansing, Michigan; Plano, Texas; México; Sydney, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Singapore; and São Paulo, Brazil.

We Are Pop Up

Seed Round in 2014
We Are Pop Up operates a platform for short-term commercial property leasing in the United Kingdom. Its platform enables brands and businesses to connect to commercial property owners and managers for the purpose of transacting on short-term leases. The company’s marketplace helps businesses to find short-term commercial space for retail, art, design, dining, social, cinema, fashion, night life, music, events, and technology projects. We Are Pop Up was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of April 26, 2016, We Are Pop Up operates as a subsidiary of Brandspots.

Povo

Seed Round in 2007
Povo is an expanding wiki-based encyclopedia of knowledge on everything local. The content is generated and entirely editable by site visitors, and licensed under Creative Commons. Currently they operate in Massachusetts and New York City. Povo is different than a typical local wiki because the platform exposes a programming language to end users, allowing development of advanced templates and very specific search techniques (among other things).

Growth Street Exchange Limited

Private Placement in 2019
Growth Street Exchange Limited operates as a intermediary between borrowers and lenders of working capital finance. The company also develops a platform which helps small and medium-sized enterprises in forecasting and improving their cash flows. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Player X

Series B in 2007
Player X, Ltd. operates as a mobile media company. The company offers casino games, and mobile television and video games. The company develops, publishes, and distributes mobile entertainment content through operators, portals, and handset manufacturers. Player X, Ltd. also offers content management solutions; and portal management solutions, including content sourcing and integration, partner management, QA and testing, deployment, promotion management, and reporting and invoicing. The company operates in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Player X, Ltd. was incorporated in 2003 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of May 6, 2009, Player X, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Zed Worldwide, S.A.

Dishq Tech Private Limited

Private Placement in 2018
Dishq Tech Private Limited develops and operates artificial intelligence (AI) based food science and customer behavior analytics platform. The company's platform offers food recommendations such as menu and product development, recipe selection, and customer reviews to food and beverage industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

We Are Pop Up

Seed Round in 2013
We Are Pop Up operates a platform for short-term commercial property leasing in the United Kingdom. Its platform enables brands and businesses to connect to commercial property owners and managers for the purpose of transacting on short-term leases. The company’s marketplace helps businesses to find short-term commercial space for retail, art, design, dining, social, cinema, fashion, night life, music, events, and technology projects. We Are Pop Up was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of April 26, 2016, We Are Pop Up operates as a subsidiary of Brandspots.

We Are Pop Up

Seed Round in 2013
We Are Pop Up operates a platform for short-term commercial property leasing in the United Kingdom. Its platform enables brands and businesses to connect to commercial property owners and managers for the purpose of transacting on short-term leases. The company’s marketplace helps businesses to find short-term commercial space for retail, art, design, dining, social, cinema, fashion, night life, music, events, and technology projects. We Are Pop Up was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of April 26, 2016, We Are Pop Up operates as a subsidiary of Brandspots.

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.

AtomFilms

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

Aprila Bank

Venture Round in 2017
Aprila Bank ASA provides various commercial banking services in Norway. It also develops digital and automated financing solution for small and medium-sized enterprises, including Aprila Invoice Sales that is integrated with cloud-based accounting systems for spot sale of invoices in the Norwegian market. The company was formerly known as Langler AS. Aprila Bank ASA was founded in 2018 and is based in Oslo, Norway.

Skai

Series E in 2012
Kenshoo, Ltd. provides agile marketing services. The company’s solutions include management and optimization, personas and audiences, measurement and reporting, and forecasting and attribution. It serves organizations, advertisers, enterprise agencies, and SMB agencies in automotive, consumer app, education, financial service, gaming, local, retail, and travel industries. The company offers its solutions through mobile, search, social, and display channels. Kenshoo, Ltd. has a strategic partnership with Profitero. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Tel-Aviv, Israel with additional offices worldwide. It also has locations in San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; East Lansing, Michigan; Plano, Texas; México; Sydney, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Singapore; and São Paulo, Brazil.

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.

Skai

Series B in 2009
Kenshoo, Ltd. provides agile marketing services. The company’s solutions include management and optimization, personas and audiences, measurement and reporting, and forecasting and attribution. It serves organizations, advertisers, enterprise agencies, and SMB agencies in automotive, consumer app, education, financial service, gaming, local, retail, and travel industries. The company offers its solutions through mobile, search, social, and display channels. Kenshoo, Ltd. has a strategic partnership with Profitero. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Tel-Aviv, Israel with additional offices worldwide. It also has locations in San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; East Lansing, Michigan; Plano, Texas; México; Sydney, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Singapore; and São Paulo, Brazil.

Spoonshot

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Spoonshot is a developer of a personal discovery platform used to replicate human cognition in the food domain. It delivers food and beverage innovation intelligence by leveraging AI and food science. The company's insights reveal the future of food through a deep understanding of emerging and evolving consumer and market needs, enabling Spoonshot to accurately predict trends and uncover innovation opportunities.