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Springpod is a specialist careers platform enabling young people to experience the world of work and university in order to make informed decisions about their futures. Created to democratise access to opportunity for young people, their mission is to transform young people's futures by providing life-changing career experiences and opportunities, by creating a world where every young person has access to life-changing career experiences and opportunities. It was founded in 2016 and has offices in London and Liverpool, England.

Mojo Vision is focused on developing and commercializing high-performance micro-LED display technology for consumer, enterprise, and government applications. The company combines breakthrough technology, leading display and semiconductor expertise, and an advanced 300mm manufacturing process to deliver on the promise of micro-LED displays. Mojo’s proprietary quantum-dot technology brings full-color capability to its display platform and meets the superior performance demands for all form factors. Mojo Vision developed the world’s smallest, densest dynamic display for the first AR smart contact lens and is now applying this innovation and expertise to lead the disruption of the $160 billion display industry. Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.

Newsflare is an online video news community and marketplace for user generated video content. Newsflare specialises in covering news that is too breaking, too remote or too local for traditional news organisations. They are all about news. Unlike many other online video sharing sites Newsflare is dedicated to user-generated news content and encourages an ethos of journalistic values. They believe in the power of video to communicate a message and their service is built to make the most of this medium. Their goal is to ensure that all their members get the rewards they deserve. They actively broker your content to news organisations and when your content is sold they share the revenue with you. Their member reward programme ensures that the more you contribute and participate, the more recognition, privileges and financial rewards you are entitled to.

Mojo Vision is focused on developing and commercializing high-performance micro-LED display technology for consumer, enterprise, and government applications. The company combines breakthrough technology, leading display and semiconductor expertise, and an advanced 300mm manufacturing process to deliver on the promise of micro-LED displays. Mojo’s proprietary quantum-dot technology brings full-color capability to its display platform and meets the superior performance demands for all form factors. Mojo Vision developed the world’s smallest, densest dynamic display for the first AR smart contact lens and is now applying this innovation and expertise to lead the disruption of the $160 billion display industry. Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.

Step into your immersion pod and we'll transport you to a Luxury Virtual Resort in the cloud, home to a growing collection of VR’s greatest social experiences — from multisensory DJ sets, to science fiction adventures, to cutting-edge art shows. Feel the sun on your face, the wind in your hair, and the quake of a new world to explore. Already the UK’s most popular location-based virtual reality experience, we have transported over 250,000 people to another dimension, including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. Now expanding across the UK and US.

BLAST Premier is an esports entertainment company that specializes in broadcast studio shows, arena events, and online content.

Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews.

Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation and travel packages.

Jungle Creations is a media company for the social age. It is home to an award-winning in-house creative and production agency ‘Treehouse’, which works with clients including McDonald's, Sky and Virgin to create some of the most viewed branded campaigns on social media. The company owns and operates a number of media brands that create and publish content across a variety of interest areas including news and entertainment, food, travel and beauty, that together have amassed over 82 million followers across social media.

Smarter Creative Any source of contextual and audience-level data combine to dynamically serve the most relevant and actionable ad to each listener. From purchase history and loyalty status to music preferences, location or listening device – the AMA studio turns data into signals that determine every aspect of the ad – voice over, music & sound effects. For our managed service clients, the in-house AMA creative team produces campaigns for leading Fortune 500 advertisers including American Express, Target, Starbucks & Under Armour. At Scale Fully automated decisioning engine with unlimited versions trafficked via a single tag. With over 10 billion ad impressions served to date, our platform automates the delivery of ‘platform-intelligent’ ads across all audio formats including streaming, podcast, and broadcast radio. Made to Measure Set campaigns live with the measurement vendor of your choice. Independent third party studies have demonstrated lift against all key metrics from recall and brand lift to foot traffic, site visits and sales.

Hoop's mission is to help families discover experiences that will help their children laugh, learn and make new friends. Their award winning app is used by over one million families across the UK and our marketplace tools by over 5,000 businesses. For two years running Hoop has been chosen by Apple as one of the Best Apps of the Year.

Airbeem is an end-to-end platform allowing you to create an OTT (Over The Top) online video service for your business. Front end delivery to all devices.

The RightsXchange (TRX) is the global B2B marketplace and enterprise solution for TV & Movie rights licensing

Antidote Productions is a TV production company with an ethos for smart, populist and distinctive programming. They specialise in talent-based and access-driven programmes working with established names, new up and coming faces and major corporations and institutions. International series and factual formats are a core focus, leveraging our knowledge of what sells alongside our experience to co-produce for the major UK broadcasters and internationally with the USA, Canada, Australia and Pan Asia.

Audioboom Group operates as a spoken‐word audio platform for hosting, distributing and monetising content.

Newsflare is an online video news community and marketplace for user generated video content. Newsflare specialises in covering news that is too breaking, too remote or too local for traditional news organisations. They are all about news. Unlike many other online video sharing sites Newsflare is dedicated to user-generated news content and encourages an ethos of journalistic values. They believe in the power of video to communicate a message and their service is built to make the most of this medium. Their goal is to ensure that all their members get the rewards they deserve. They actively broker your content to news organisations and when your content is sold they share the revenue with you. Their member reward programme ensures that the more you contribute and participate, the more recognition, privileges and financial rewards you are entitled to.

Player Relationship Management for F2P Games, Social Casino and Real Money Gambling deltaDNA puts the power of data in your hands providing flexible Player Relationship Management (PRM) technology to maximize player engagement for Free-2-Play Games, Social Casino and Real Money Gambling. Launched in 2010, the co-founders of deltaDNA combine games industry heritage and marketing analytics expertise to launch the games industry’s first dedicated real-time personalization and player insight platform. With cross-platform capability, the end-to-end solution enables publishers and developers to better understand different player behaviors and create personalized experiences by targeting individual players in real time. Access to rich event data in high performance database tools allows users to go beyond dashboards and generate key insights by using powerful data mining, A/B testing and 3D segmentation tools. deltaDNA gives users the ability to identify, predict and better understand their players in order to drive player engagement and optimize acquisition spend. Our real-time targeting platform personalizes the playing experience through a variety of in-game and external messaging channels. Not all players are the same. Understanding your players and personalizing the player experience significantly increases engagement to improve retention & monetization. deltaDNA tools & technology • Performance Dashboards • Analytics Tools including Funnels, Slice & Dice & Data Mining • 3D Segmentation including data visualization • Real-time targeting • A/B Testing

Intent HQ looks at the people behind the data to assist businesses to move from ‘customer centric’ to ‘human centric’ view; enabling to know who to market to, creating more helpful service interactions, shaping strategy and predicting customer behaviour.

Player Relationship Management for F2P Games, Social Casino and Real Money Gambling deltaDNA puts the power of data in your hands providing flexible Player Relationship Management (PRM) technology to maximize player engagement for Free-2-Play Games, Social Casino and Real Money Gambling. Launched in 2010, the co-founders of deltaDNA combine games industry heritage and marketing analytics expertise to launch the games industry’s first dedicated real-time personalization and player insight platform. With cross-platform capability, the end-to-end solution enables publishers and developers to better understand different player behaviors and create personalized experiences by targeting individual players in real time. Access to rich event data in high performance database tools allows users to go beyond dashboards and generate key insights by using powerful data mining, A/B testing and 3D segmentation tools. deltaDNA gives users the ability to identify, predict and better understand their players in order to drive player engagement and optimize acquisition spend. Our real-time targeting platform personalizes the playing experience through a variety of in-game and external messaging channels. Not all players are the same. Understanding your players and personalizing the player experience significantly increases engagement to improve retention & monetization. deltaDNA tools & technology • Performance Dashboards • Analytics Tools including Funnels, Slice & Dice & Data Mining • 3D Segmentation including data visualization • Real-time targeting • A/B Testing

Intent HQ looks at the people behind the data to assist businesses to move from ‘customer centric’ to ‘human centric’ view; enabling to know who to market to, creating more helpful service interactions, shaping strategy and predicting customer behaviour.

Mirriad’s award-winning solution unleashes new revenue for content producers and distributors by creating new advertising inventory in content. Our patented, AI and computer vision technology dynamically inserts products and innovative signage formats after content is produced. Mirriad’s market-first solution seamlessly integrates with existing subscription and advertising models, and dramatically improves the viewer experience by limiting commercial interruptions. Mirriad currently operates in the US, Europe and China.

Coolabi Group is a independent international media group and rights owner specialising in the creation, development and brand management of children’s and family intellectual property rights. The group, made up of Coolabi and Working Partners, has particular expertise in television, digital and books. The group also creates original series fiction for publishers and has created some 100 published series, consisting of over 1,000 books, sold in more than 40 languages. Four of these series, Warriors, Beast Quest, Animal Ark and Rainbow Magic have sold over ten million copies each. Coolabi Group has reached an agreement with Alibaba Pictures Group Limited for the film rights for Warriors. Alibaba Pictures intends to develop Warriors into a world-class fantasy movie which has David Heyman (Harry Potter) as producer. The Warriors book series has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The group also includes Rights People, the world’s number one licensor of children’s fiction, and The Greenhouse Literary Agency, a specialist transatlantic children’s literary agency.

Coolabi Group is a independent international media group and rights owner specialising in the creation, development and brand management of children’s and family intellectual property rights. The group, made up of Coolabi and Working Partners, has particular expertise in television, digital and books. The group also creates original series fiction for publishers and has created some 100 published series, consisting of over 1,000 books, sold in more than 40 languages. Four of these series, Warriors, Beast Quest, Animal Ark and Rainbow Magic have sold over ten million copies each. Coolabi Group has reached an agreement with Alibaba Pictures Group Limited for the film rights for Warriors. Alibaba Pictures intends to develop Warriors into a world-class fantasy movie which has David Heyman (Harry Potter) as producer. The Warriors book series has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The group also includes Rights People, the world’s number one licensor of children’s fiction, and The Greenhouse Literary Agency, a specialist transatlantic children’s literary agency.

ESP specialises in creating and distributing multiplatform media formats in the area of Entertainment, Music, Sport and Social Responsibility and the proceeds from the financing will be used to provide the company with the means to drive innovation and thrive in the industry.