MIPTV: Connected Creativity announces Ventures finalists

PARIS, FRANCE: CC Ventures, the new start-up competition for innovation in connected entertainment has announced the 11 finalists. They will pitch their projects to an expert jury during Connected Creativity at MIPTV, the new global forum uniting the world's dominant market forces and leading innovators in entertainment, mobile media and technology which runs from 4-7 April in Cannes.

The CC Ventures finalists, selected by an international committee headed by Guilhem Bertholet, director of the HEC Incubator, are: Camup, USA; Cognik, France; Fair Play Interactive, France; Futurecode, Finland; Hit Me Baby, UK; Hitlantis, Finland; Invideous, UK; Jakaa, France; Lorenzi TV, France; Mediabong, France and Stupeflix, France.

Highlighting innovative start-ups

"The first edition of CC Ventures is extremely encouraging. We are very excited about highlighting some of the most innovative start-ups in digital entertainment. It gives us great satisfaction to provide these new players with unique access to some of the major media investors and venture capitalists," says Laurine Garaude, director of the Television Division at Reed MIDEM.

On 6 April in the Hotel Majestic, Paris, the selected companies will present their activities to a panel of experts representing venture capital and corporate funds (Balderton, Comcast Interactive, Morgan Lewis, Ventech, VentureBeat). The winners will be announced shortly afterwards during the CC Ventures awards at the Connected Party.

For more information on CC Ventures finalists, click here.

For more information on Connected Creativity at MIPTV, go to http://connected-creativity.mipworld.com/

For more information on MIPTV, go to www.miptv.com.