News broke last week of our latest investment – a £2m Series A in mobile advertising startup StrikeAd. As the world’s leading mobile demand side platform (or DSP) StrikeAd enables agencies to plan, execute, and measure mobile advertising campaigns at scale and with high efficiency. We spoke with a number of agencies in [...]
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As revealed by Mike Butcher on Techcrunch last week DFJ Esprit will be offering a £50,000 convertible loan note to the Grand Prix winner of The Europas Tech Startup Awards. We are excited to be supporting Mike and the Europas and look forward to welcoming a new company into the portfolio. The loan [...] Yesterday morning I did an interview for Bloomberg TV. I’ve shared my thoughts on CNBC before, but this was my first time on TV with make up, and that somehow makes it more proper, don’t you think? The piece is very short but they referenced The Equity Kicker twice. Without doubt they were interested [...]
A couple of weeks back I recorded a Desert Island Discs style interview for UK radio station Jazz FM. It went out at 6pm last night as part of their Jazz in the City series and it is now available as a stream from their website. For those that haven’t listened to [...] Yesterday I did an interview with Aleks at the Guardian offices near Kings Cross which they put live here on the Guardian website last night. Aleks is a good interviewer and we had a lively chat covering a lot of the basics about how venture capital and startup financing work. My bit starts at [...]
Last night we announced the sale of Zeus Technology to Riverbed for $140m. This exit is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people over a long period of time. My involvement with the company dates back to 2004 when I led a recapitalisation of the business [...] Mark Littlewood, the organiser of Money in Mobile forum has kindly offered a free ticket to the reader who can come up with the best question to ask on the day. He put it like this: I thought it might be fun to offer a ticket as a prize for an Equity Kicker reader [...] I will be a judge at the Money in Mobile Forum on June 14th. Mark Littlewood of the BLN always puts on a good show and this one looks to be no different. The theme of making money out of mobile is an important one and Mark has got a decent line [...] |
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