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• with an interest in opportunities to seed and/or finance individual social mission media companies, click here
• with an interest in funding media that matters via a pooled entity, click here
with ideas and/or opportunities to share, click here
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The Spartacus Media Enterprisessm Deal Flow
One of the conference's central goals was to help this professional community define "media that matters". We addressed two significant questions as part of this definition:
(1) What investment vehicles are best suited for financing — and thereby helping to grow — social mission media?
(2) What deals actually represent this niche field for professionals and investors alike?
We set up an interactive Deal Flow Room as an integral part of the "Investing in Media that Matters" conference to address these core educational questions with actual market-proven and promising examples. Two Selection Committees chose the following two finalist groups from nearly 100 applicants:
• Seven (7) for-profit companies representing stand-alone TV and film projects, established production companies, and several other innovative businesses, including novel models for syndicating local news and privately/publicly financing emerging projects.
• Seven (7) non-profit organizations representing an independent production company, a script development program, a media training organization, a TV series, a media literacy program, a community-based documentary organization, and a fund for independent films.
We hope that these descriptions will illustrate the depth and range of high quality investment and grant-worthy companies and organizations that are emerging in the field. You may discover an effort that you want to support in some way.
This initiative, including the selection committee process, was Co-Chaired by Jim Pitofsky, Partner of the Social Enterprise Alliance (for the non-profit applicants) and Dominic C. Kulik, CEO of Dakai Enterprises and IC Board Member (for the for-profit applicants).
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