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Venture Capital - Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Sir Jackie Stewart: Motoring Legend/Tech Angel Investor

Silverstone Investment Network, an angel network for Northamptonshire in Englad that has a unique focus on motorsport companies, has been launched with fanfare thanks to the help of racing great Jackie Stewart. Motoring Legend Sir Jackie Stewart The angel fund is currently looking to fund the following companies: Company A: £1m Company A creates and sells additional media value in motor racing and other fast-moving sports through the use of patented, robot-controlled TV camera-pointing technology ("Navicam"). The system allows close-ups of racing vehicles at speed to be sustained over several seconds. This provides a better show for TV viewers and significantly increases the brand visibility, and thus the media value, for on-car sponsors. The company's revenue model is primarily based on capturing a portion of the additional media value that its Navicam technology delivers. Company B: £550K Company B works with the major business TV channels, such as CNBC, Bloomberg, Sky News and n-tv (Germany) to provide reprint licences and video services to a variety of content buyers. As the channels' official "aftercare service provider", it claims access to around 150K interviews per year, which we sells to the channels' guests, financial institutions and PR agencies. The company claims... Continue...