Matrix e-Ventures Fund VCT PLC
30 May 2001
Notification of Results and Investment Update
The Company announces that its preliminary results for
the year ended 30 April 2001 are expected to be announced
in early July 2001.
The Company has also today written to shareholders with
an update of its investment portfolio the contents of
which are reproduced below:
'We wrote to you in early December to keep you informed
as to the progress of your company and further expanded
upon this in the Interim Report, which was published in
January.
We have made three further new investments, and one
follow-on investment since that date, which are detailed
below: -
Magicalia Limited Investment of £400,000 (12.7% of
company - completed 30.3.01)
Magicalia has established a network of six community
websites focussed on enthusiast-based participation
sports such as cycling, golf, fishing and sailing. There
are 14 employees. It has partnerships with a number of
off-line publishers and generates revenues from e-
commerce, advertising and trade deals.
Flightstore Inflight Retailing Limited Investment of
£750,000 (11.1% - 30.3.01)
Flightstore creates electronic airline branded shopping
malls containing branded retailers with international
delivery capabilities. The proprietary software developed
by Flightstore uses existing seatback hardware to deliver
a quasi-internet shopping experience on long haul
flights. The service will be launched in the second half
of this year.
Xpert Client Systems Limited Investment of £500,000
(11.9% - 30.3.01)
XCS is a leading provider of software asset management
tools, with over 100 customers to date. The company has
developed products based on innovative technology
including automatic recognition, and a client-based,
rather than server-based approach (i.e. using software
installed on PCs) to monitor software usage and copyright
compliance.
Sit-up.com Further Investment of £150,000 - Total
£650,000 (1.7%)
The company provides interactive broadcasting material,
and aims to create a suite of programming concepts for
digital TV and the internet. The first service is Bid-
up.TV, the UK's first interactive TV based auction site.
Bid-up.TV auctions create an opportunity for
manufacturers and distributors to sell a wide range of
products across Sky, Telewest and BT Openworld platforms.
The company also owns Screenshop, an infomercial channel
broadcast on Sky. We invested a further £150,000 in this
investee company as part of its £6,500,000 further
fundraising round in March. Telewest have invested
alongside us as a strategic investor.
These investments take the total invested to date to
£5,200,000 and we have a further £7,200,000 in cash,
awaiting investment.
The Board has decided to provide in full against one of
its investments (value £350,000), representing 2.8% of the
net asset value of Matrix e-Ventures VCT Fund plc.
Despite the turbulent market for quoted stocks, the
investment team has remained busy, evaluating over 300
investment proposals so far in this calendar year.
Dealflow continues to be good however, we continue to be
cautious with our investment approach and conservative
with investment valuations.
I hope you continue to agree with us that, despite the
problems of investor sentiment and stock market vagaries
there are still good investment opportunities in the
unquoted arena.'
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