Videogame Economics Forum 2013

Last but not least: Closing Keynote: How Google can help you build your game, process the data and monetize your business? By Christophe Baroux - Sales & Business Development Manager, Europe du Sud Google Enterprise

Investors and VCs who confirmed their participation in Videogame Economics Forum 2013!

New heavyweight investors and VCs just confirmed their participation in Videogame Economics Forum 2013!

Gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) has just announced a new $10 million fund targeting high quality game developers. Jim Ying – VP, Developer Relations & Publishing – Gree, Inc will disclose more details about the size of the fund, as well as their criteria for investment at Videogame Economics Forum 2013.

Tanu-Matti Tuominen – Partner & Co-Founder – Vision + Fund will explain more about Vision+ Fund's model. Vision+ invests in products on a revenue-share basis, which offers entrepreneurs access to investment without diluting their existing equity value, and returns capital to investors on a quarterly basis. Vision+ current investors include institutional investors, capital and pension funds, Nokia and Microsoft.

Guillaume Lautour – Partner – ID Invest will host a discussion on the theme: “How to convince an investor to say ‘Yes’.”
Guillaume Lautour is an enthusiastic supporter of young companies built on product innovation. He has invested in more than 30 early stage Internet, Gaming and Telecom startups for the last 13 years at Idinvest Partners, a European VC based in Paris. Guillaume invested in Dailymotion (video portal, sold to Orange) and Criteo (retargeting) and currently serves on the boards of Deezer (music on demand), TravelHorizon (online ski agent), IFeelGoods (vitual goods couponing), Wimo (unified communication), Mentum (network radio planning), Celsius (luxury mobile phones) and several game studios (eRepublik Labs, Kobojo, Pretty Simple, Plumbee, Grand Cru)

Alain Bénisty – General Manager - CM–CIC Capital Innovation – Crédit Mutuel CIC will speak at VEF 2013. CM-CIC Capital Innovation is specialized in investment and support for high-potential growth companies, with strong technology expertise, in the first stages of their development. It finances firms positioned on sectors such as life sciences, information technology, industrial innovations or environment.
CM-CIC Capital Innovation is a subsidiary of CM-CIC Capital Finance, the Crédit Mutuel - CIC group's investment and merchant bank division. With more than 2.6 billion Euros worth of equity under management and over 600 portfolio companies, CM-CIC Capital Finance is a key player in capital investment in France, backed by its own equity resources.

Videogame Economics Forum program is taking shape

Wonderful speakers already confirmed their participation.

Don’t miss your chance and pitch your project in front of investors!

Project bearers will have a chance to pitch their project in front of investors, bankers, VCs and Business Angels. Register as a participant and discover how and when.

SNJV supports Videogame Economics Forum

Julien Villedieu, General Manager of SNJV - National Syndicate of French Videogame Studios - declares: "SNJV supports Videogame Economics Forum second edition this year. Financing games and game studios or publishers became a major issue for all actors of videogame industry. Organizing meetings between financers, investors and videogame actors is a key factor to improve mutual understanding and convince financers to invest into the French Videogame Industry".

Videogame Economics Forum is the leading European event dedicated to funding and
financing Interactive Entertainment industries

Videogame Economics Forum brings together influential investors, ventures capitalists and business angels, bankers, analysts, and leaders from interactive entertainment industries for two days of speed dating, project presentations, intense panel discussions and hot case studies. From new business models to new distribution pipelines, from monetization to new trends and opportunities, Videogame Economics Forum is the perfect place to share knowledge and anticipate tectonic movements Interactive Entertainment industries are facing.

Last year, Videogame Economics Forum had the privilege to welcome John Taylor - President / Arcadia Research, Peter Warman - CEO / Newzoo, Glenn Entis - General Partner / Vanedge Capital, Guillaume Lautour - Partner / Idinvest Partners, Thibaut Revel - Partner / Capital Finance, Anita Frazier - Industry Analyst / NPD Group, Meredith Amdur - General Manager, Strategy and M&A - Microsoft Online Services Division / Microsoft Corp. and more...

Videogame Economics Forum 2013 will take place in Angoulême, South West of France from May 15th till May 17th. Angoulême is located close to Bordeaux and Cognac.

We look forward to seeing you there.