Vator.tv UK startup challenge: Vote Now!
Time to get your Web 2.0 hat on; help us to find the next big UK Web 2.0 Company
First, a foreword from Wellington Partners' Frank Boehnke, the VC that will be judging the competition alongside a panel of people - myself, Bambi Francisco and Maria Molland (head of Corp Dev at Thomson Reuters).
If you impress Frank enough, you might get some funding from the UK VC. We have nine companies involved in the competition right now. I know there are more companies out there who can step up to this competition and make a really great name for themselves. Not to mention that even if they don't win they would have had the opportunity to get exposure site across the Vator.tv network - a strongly-focused community of entrepreneurs and like-minded Web 2.0 enthusiasts. These people are the ones who will help drive innovation inside a company infrastructure to give its operation a larger platform to thrive on.
Vator.tv certainly wouldn't be anywhere without its companies, especially when VC's such as Wellington Partners are so kind to have such a great involvement in the competition. If this sounds like something your company should be involved in then firstly, you will need to register a profile at Vator.tv in order to participate: https://www.vator.tv/pitch/new
Here is a guide on how to register a profile at Vator.tv, courtesy of Product and Community Manager at Vator, Meliza Solan:
If you are just a passing web 2.0 enthuasist who wants to share their opinion on the companies involved with one simple click of the button you can help move a UK companies dreams one step closer!
Thanks for the continued interest and support in this competition, and I look forward to seeing your UK based Web 2.0 company soon!!
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Vator.tv
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Join this program by emailing marketing@vator.tv!
Guaranteed VC Access is a new program held by Vator.tv. In this program we are using our personal connections to guarantee that your business will be presented through PowerPoint and Vator company profile to 5 Venture Capitalists. In addition if the VC choose not to fund your company, they will fill out a survey where they will provide feedback to you in the areas that your PowerPoint and company need improvement.
We are building this program for the companies that we (Vator.tv) believe have the best chance of receiving funding through our personal connections. We will NOT accept all companies that are registering to this program. A Vator panel will review the companies we will let in this program.
Process
- March 29, 2008: register deadline. A valid registration should include a company profile on Vator.tv including a PowerPoint and a video. When you are ready, drop us an email at marketing@vator.tv
- March 31, 2008: Vator will contact the 3 companies selected to be part of this program based on their Vator profile and the submitted PowerPoint.
- April 18, 2008: VC will fund or provide feedback to companies they chose not to fund
Requirements
- Download and completed PowerPoint template provided in the public playlist of this page. Upload this PowerPoint file to your Vator company profile in your public or private playlist. (following the PPT format exactly is to your advantage)
- Fully completed company profile on Vator (With elevator pitch video of Founders)
- $1500 engagement fee (due by 10th of April, only if you're accepted)
The 5 VCs reviewing your proposal will be part of the following list
Battelle Ventures Bay Partners Benchmark Capital Bessemer Venture Partners Blueprint Ventures Canaan Partners Charles River Ventures CommonAngels Crosslink Capital DAG Ventures Dolphin Equity Partners Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Richards, LP First Round Capital Flagship Ventures Foundry Group Funk Ventures Gabriel Venture Parntners Garage Technology Ventures Grandbanks Capital Granite Global Ventures Greylock HIG Ventures Highway 12 Ventures Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Intersouth Partners Interwest Partners Kleiner Partners Caufield & Byers Lighthouse Capital Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners Matrix Partners Mayfield Fund Menlo Ventures | Milestone Venture Partners Mission Ventures Mohr, Davidow Venture New Enterprise Associates Norwest Venture Partners Nth Power ONSET Ventures Polaris Venture Partners RRE Ventures Rustic Canyon Partners Scale Venture Partners Sequoia Capital Sevin Rosan Funds Shasta Ventures Sierra Ventures Sigma Partners Sofinnova Ventures SOFTBANK Capital Steamboat Ventures Storm Ventures Summit Partners Thomas Weisal Venture Partners Trident Capital Trinity Ventures Tugboat Ventures U.S. Venture Partners Union Square Ventures, LLC VantagePoint Venture Parnters Venrock Associates Vesbridge Partners Village Ventures VSP Capital Vulcan Capital |
Wellington Partners
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Wellington Partners (www.wellington-partners.com) ranks among the most successful pan-European venture capital firms. With € 800 million under management and offices in London, Munich and Zurich, the firm invests into opportunities throughout Europe that have the potential to become global leaders, mainly in the areas of Information Technology, Media Convergence, Cleantech and Life Science. Since 1998, Wellington has established a worldwide network to aid its entrepreneurs in building companies on a global scale.
Wellington Partners has invested in more than 100 companies in Europe and Israel, including now publicly traded Actelion, SAF and XING, successful privately held companies like Alando (acquired by eBay) and ImmobilienScout24 (acquired by Deutsche Telekom) as well as current portfolio companies like Adconion Astaro, Questico and Truphone.
Bambi Francisco Roizen
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Founder and CEO of Vator, a media and research firm for entrepreneurs and investors; Managing Director of Vator Health Fund; Co-Founder of Invent Health; Author and award-winning journalist.
Frank Boehnke
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Josh Chandler
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maria molland
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