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The Paley Center for Media and Springboard Enterprises Announce The Companies To Be Showcased at the ALLTHINGSMEDIA Venture Capital Forum
at The Paley Center for Media in New York on October 30

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

New York, NY—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 Springboards eighteenth venture forum as well as an extension of the Paley Centers 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 whove 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 todays 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. Weve 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 years venture program represent a wide range of opportunities across the expanding media category, including a highly personalized interactive advertising channel for mobile devices; a cross-media audio platform enabling user-generated content; an online story book publishing platform; a leading provider of real-time and predictive traffic data; a novel mechanism for monetizing social media communities and revolutionizing product launches; and a consumer qualified movie production and promotion platform. A complete list of Presenting Companies is below.

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