The Paley Center for Media and Springboard Enterprises Announce the Companies to be Showcased at the ALLTHINGSMEDIA Venture Capital Forum

The Paley Center for Media and Springboard Enterprises Announce the Companies to be Showcased at the ALLTHINGSMEDIA Venture Capital Forum

First Venture Capital Forum to Showcase Women-Led Media Companies, Offering New Investment Opportunities in Today's Volatile Economy

NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) in partnership with venture-catalyst Springboard Enterprises has announced the companies to be showcased at ALLTHINGSMEDIA. This is the first venture capital forum where active angel, venture, and corporate investors get a preview of twenty-two women-led media companies who offer the most promising innovations in the media sector today. This unique forum will be held on October 30, 2008, at The Paley Center for Media in New York.

ALLTHINGSMEDIA is Springboard's eighteenth venture forum as well as an extension of the Paley Center's She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio initiative (shemadeit.org), which was launched in 2005 to identify and recognize women who have made an indelible mark on the world of media.

"Over the last three years, She Made It has recognized the contributions of 150 remarkable women who've broken boundaries in all aspects of the media, from the development of content to the launch of major businesses," said Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of The Paley Center for Media. "With ALLTHINGSMEDIA, we have connected some of today's most influential women in media to coach these twenty-two innovative women entrepreneurs. Despite the situation on Wall Street, we hope this forum will help these women gain access to the capital and contacts they need to fuel groundbreaking businesses in new media."

"Springboard has had a phenomenal record of recruiting and showcasing great companies that deliver positive returns to their investors," stated Kay Koplovitz, chairman of Springboard Enterprises. "We've come a long way from the days when cable was the new frontier and now ALLTHINGSMEDIA is the forum to discover the newest innovations in media."

Over one hundred companies applied to take part in ALLTHINGSMEDIA. The entrepreneurs selected for this year's venture program represent a wide range of opportunities across the expanding media category. A complete list of Presenting Companies is below.

The Presenting Companies for this year's inaugural ALLTHINGSMEDIA
Venture Capital Forum include:

ALUMRISE, Inc. MovieHatch.com
Amika Mobile Corporation Purple States
Click Communities, LLC QLD Learning, LLC
Collectors' Quest, Inc. SBTV.com, Inc
Crimson Hexagon SEN-CE, LLC
Daily Grommet SmartNow, Inc.
digital SIDEBAR, Inc. Spire
The Franklin Report Tikatok, Inc.
harQen, LLC TrafficCast
Information Development International, Inc.
Consultants, Inc. (iDC) wowOwow
Istari Technologies, LLC
Ladies Who Launch, Inc.

The selected companies were assigned a coaching team comprised of Springboard alumnae, venture capitalists, lawyers, top media executives with the Paley Center's Trustees, She Made It Honorees and committee members including Kay Koplovitz, Koplovitz & Co. LLC (Honoree 2006); Pat Mitchell, The Paley Center for Media (Honoree 2005); Loreen Arbus (Honoree 2006); Patricia Fili-Krushel, Time Warner Inc. (Honoree 2006); Bonnie Hammer, USA Networks and SciFi Channel (Honoree 2007); Scott Kurnit, Kurnit, Inc.; Geraldine Laybourne, formerly of Oxygen Media (Honoree 2005); Susan Lyne, Gilt Group; Alan Patricof, Greycroft Partners, LLC; Lucie Salhany (Honoree 2007); Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio (Honoree 2006); and Marlo Thomas (Honoree 2006).

Corporate and Venture Funds who have registered for this year's forum include Ascend Venture Group; The Carlyle Group, LLC; CBS, Inc.; Google, Inc.; Hachette Filipacchi Media; Hearst Interactive Media; NBC Universal, Inc.; Time Warner, Inc.; The Walt Disney Company; and WPP Group among others. Interested companies wishing to attend ALLTHINGSMEDIA can still register at www.springboardenterprises.org.

Previously known as The Museum of Television & Radio, The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. For more information, please visit www.paleycenter.org.

Venture-Catalyst Springboard Enterprises is the go-to organization for information about and support for emerging growth ventures led by women. For more information, visit www.springboardenterprises.org.

Source: The Paley Center for Media

CONTACT: Genevieve Villaflor, +1-212-621-6785,
gvillaflor@paleycenter.org, Terry Lynn Ebright +1-310-786-1042,
tebright@paleycenter.org, Cassin Donn, Dan Klores Communications,
+1-212-981-5144, Cassin_Donn@dkcnews.com

Web Site: http://www.paleycenter.org/

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