Mediatheme™ are the UK’s leading provider of touch screen entertainment systems for pubs, clubs and leisure venues. Their innovative Entertainer product suite provides a one-stop shop for venue entertainment (featuring Background Music & Video, Jukebox & DJ player facilities, Karaoke, Games, and Advertising), attracting customers, increasing dwell times and reducing costs.With over 800 current stockists, including national pub groups (Greene King, Enterprise, Punch, S&N and Marstons), independent publicans, and holiday parks (Pontins and Park Holidays), the business revenue model combines sale of systems (£6,500 - £12,000), rental and ongoing service/support income.The business generated net profit of £89,000 on £2.5m sales in 2008 and is now seeking funding to build the customer base from 800 to 1,800 outlets by 2011, achieving target sales of £8m and £3m EBIT.The company is led by Ian Aldred, Chairman, a Chartered Accountant who jointly founded Sodastream and in 1983 created Kingsgrange plc, which successfully floated in 1987. Ian is supported by Richard Horne, Managing Director, who has a commercial background with Allied Bakeries, L’Oreal, Cow & Gate and Quaker Oats (Sales Director) and then Sodastream UK (Managing Director). www.mediathmeme.com

An experienced property entrepreneur is looking for co –investors to join his £300,000 of investment in a 6.8 acre Commercial/Industrial Estate property. Whilst offering similar returns to angel deals, there is substantial asset backing and yields of up to 13.2% per annum on equity. Potential IRR is forecast to be 20% over 5 years.The site is located in the Midlands and comprises modern industrial units already let to quality tenants such as Travis Perkins and Personal Hygiene Services (PHS) on long leases. Purchase price is £2, 680,000 with initial rental of £299,000 per annum, rising in year one to £355,000 per annum. Purchase yield: 11% to 13.2%The acquisition will be financed by a 60% repayment mortgage and equity of £1,300,000. The founder will provide £300,000 himself with the acquiring company being a single asset vehicle. A potential to sell to existing tenants would create capital gains of up to 28%. The Managing Director of the company is a Chartered Surveyor of 40 years experience, a past partner of Savills, a surveyor to two City Livery Companies and property investor and developer with over 25 years experience. The Director’s current property portfolio comprises six other industrial estates.

CyberSports Limited has blended two of the most powerful internet trends in recent years to develop Football Superstars - a ground-breaking and compelling football game. The game is already in soft launch, and has attracted over 350,000 registrations in just a few months with 10,000 active players. Using proprietary technology, it aims to be the first truly mainstream Massively Multi-player Online Game (MMOG), appealing to casual as well as hardened gamers, by recreating the game of football and its associated lifestyle. On the pitch, each player controls one footballer. Off the pitch, thousands of characters will enjoy an aspirational utopian football-based virtual world. The model can also be expanded into other sports. Significant player, media, industry, advertising and sponsorship commitment is already established. Brands such as Puma, Reebok, Nokia and Virgin Media have already signed deals and many others are keen to participate. Managed by an experienced entrepreneurial team comprising business and technical skills, the game is free to play, but attracts premium subscriptions. The majority of revenue is expected to come from in-game transactions, advertising, and brand integration. World-wide interest is significant and assures huge participation.

The World Health Organisation estimates there are 500,000 cases of cervical cancer worldwide, claiming 300,000 lives every year. The current practice in cervical screening (i.e. smears and referrals to colposcopy) involves a significant measure of subjectivity and has many shortcomings including: poor diagnostic performance (false results) resulting in missed positives and over-treatment; time delay in reporting results to patients; & significant costs.Zilico Ltd has developed the next generation of cervical cancer diagnostics, using technology which examines the structure of tissues through electrical impedance (resistance) measurement, providing a real-time and objective scientifically-proven method to differentiate between normal, pre cancerous and cancerous cells. The first product has been trialed on over 500 patients and presented in peer reviewed journals.The company’s board includes; an ex-Medical Director (Boots Healthcare); a NHS Trust Director; CEO with 15 years commercial experience including a VC backed life-sciences company which he saw through to a successful exit.Since incorporation in 2006, Zilico has focused on developing a commercial device aimed at the colposcopy market. Institutional investors include Exomedica Ltd, Fusion IP plc, and Viking Fund. The company is now seeking funding to launch the first product.

With online banking and e-commerce fraud spiraling, Palm Tree Technology has formulated a revolution in online security. The company creates paradigm-shifting technologies that disrupt and target the multimedia, security and e-commerce market segments. The company was conceived in 2004 with founders from Netscape, MP3.com, Computer Associates, Intel, Sun Microsystems and MTN who have a track record of successfully bringing technology businesses to market. The last few years have been spent developing, testing and productising a radical new solution for the problems of online fraud and ID theft. The ID InsureTM product suite represents a major step shift in the approach to online security away from the traditional, expensive, cumbersome and top heavy solutions that prevail in the market place. ID InsureTM has been tested and endorsed by a number of financial and technical institutions (Lloyds TSB, EDS, Munich Re and others) and it comes with a bespoke insurance policy which will cover losses incurred while in use.Further investment is now sought will be used to fund business development, marketing, technical development and ongoing product support.

MoBank has developed a set of convenient services that allow consumers to make day-to-day transactions and administer their personal finances any time, any place and from any Internet-connected device (mobile or fixed), creating a “Banking Alternative”. MoBank has developed what it believes to be amongst the fastest, easiest to use, and most secure systems for mobile commerce and money management. MoBank is integrated with twenty major UK online banks and a similar number of top-tier e-commerce retailers. The product was launched on the Apple iPhone in April 2009 and a PR campaign is planned for May 2009. MoBank has also incorporated a company in the US where they are looking to replicate / launch the business model.The key members of the team are Steve Townend (CEO & Founder, Founder of First Direct and Egg. Previously COO of Barclays Private Clients), Dominic Keen (COO & Founder, ex Egg) and Ben Carswell (CFO, chartered accountant, PwC and RBS)MoBank expects to crystallise the value in this group either via a public offering or through a sale to a bank or telecoms company. www.mobank.co.uk

TheTravelEditor.com is pioneering the use of travel writers to create insightful travel reviews that can double up as travel itineraries for discerning travellers. Typical customers are intelligent, tech-savvy, higher disposable income individuals who hate to follow the crowd, but are short of time to create their own travel plans. The online site publishes the authoritative travel information, including hotel and restaurant reviews, and readers have the option to purchase a trip based on the itinerary described in the article. TheTravelEditor.com is the complete opposite of mass market user review sites like TripAdvisor. Instead it has hand-selected 40 of the best travel writers from print, broadcast and digital media to give personal recommendations on the best places to stay, eat and go. The Travel Editor is a passionate, stylish, expertly written and media rich experience available online and on mobile. Using marketing partnerships with major brands, the company drives traffic to its site where it is monetised from advertising, affiliate click-throughs and sales of premium content and services.

Slingshot, an experienced film producer with a verifiable track record and strong industry relationships, is offering investors the opportunity to participate in its secondEIS film vehicle.The company will invest in a slate of 5-7 films, focusing on low cost commercial genre movies, with a structure that combines EIS tax benefits withhedging investments against statutory film tax credits to allow significant capital protection (112% for investors able to re-invest previous Capital Gains Tax liabilities)whilst offering upside on a slate of films.Investments are only made, alongside industry co-financiers, once a UK distributor or international sales agent is attached,thus ensuring market validation.With clear commercial decision-making criteria, overseen by an independent board, including investor representation, Slingshot offersexposure to an historically recession-resistant, “hit” driven business, with significantly limited downside.The Infidel, Slingshot’s latest film, written by David Baddieland starring Omid Djalili and Matt Lucas, has just started production.Its previous film, Tormented, is being released by Pathé/Warner Bros on over 250 screenson May 22. A presentation and screening event is being organised in May for interested investors www.slingshot-studios.com

DIY Kyoto create beautifully designed products to help people understand and control their personal impact on the environment, reducing electricity costs by up to 20%. Founded in 2005 by three leading designers from the Royal College of Art, the company’s innovative and award-winning products “wattson” and “holmes” combine Apple styling with serious energy saving functionality, and are aimed at the growing number of eco-conscious consumers and also for utility companies. With over 7,000 units already sold, distribution has extended to Ireland, Australia and SE Asia, with an imminent order for 5,000 expected from South Africa and strong interest from the USA. A paid R&D project is reaching conclusion with a European utility company with an expected opening order of 3,000 units for September and the commercial rights to sell this advanced new product worldwide.DIY Kyoto is about more than monitoring electricity usage – in the medium and long-term, the brand will be extended to include a wide range of energy saving products to enable existing and new consumers to take further steps to reduce energy bills and their environmental impact. www.diykyoto.com

Adande has developed innovative, patent protected and award winning disruptive technology for sustainable refrigeration. With an energy cost saving of up to 57%, over 500 Adande units have been sold to date to customers including Michelin starred restaurants, fast food chains (including McDonalds, KFC and Burger King), regional pub chains, institutional & retail caterers. The key fast food sector is growing strongly. The business offers genuine scalability with product benefits also applying to refrigeration in the retail, pharmaceutical, medical and household markets. A major player within the global household market (worth c.£15bn annually) is evaluating the technology. Further energy saving technology for retail display is in development.The company founders Ian Wood, MD and George Young, Ops Director have strong engineering pedigrees and are supported by Nigel Bell, Executive Chair, a senior general manager ex Shell who has invested in and chaired other expansion businesses and Jeff Archer, Sales Director who founded and sold M&J Seafoods (catering distributor) with revenues of £80m.Funding is required to invest in sales and marketing, increase manufacturing capacity and efficiency to ensure demand is met. A viable trade exit exists e.g. Enodis sold for 16x earnings. www.adande.co.uk

fd unlimited provides high calibre Finance Director services to fast growth angel and venture backed SME’s. Particularly in the current economic climate, their clients can’t always afford full time financial expertise or they have financial challenges which cannot be overcome with the existing team. fd unlimited provides a flexible retainer based service that adapts to clients’ changing needs over time. The Management Team comprises a 20 year experienced commercial international CFO in media, technology, and retail and a 15 year experienced Search Consultant in board and executive level recruitment in technology, communications, and clean tech for global public and private companies. With an expanding client base, a strong prospect list, and multiple channels to market, funding is required to expand the head office support team, recruit full time Finance Directors and market the business. Goal is to grow a £7m t/o business with £1m EBITDA within 5 years. Exit via trade sale to a professional services conglomerate within 5 years. www.fdunlimited.com

Whatafind.com offers a discounted online channel for branded high street names to clear surplus inventory and stock without diminishing current store offerings,brand or existing price points. Returns and overstocks are a growing problem for retailers due to increased internet ordering and the merging of the seasons.Whatafind.com currently focuses on the furniture and homeware sector and has already signed up brands such as Conran, The Cotswold Company and Feather and Black. For the consumer, the company delivers high style at low prices, offering high quality brands that are truly discounted (reduced by 40% to 70%). The site is sophisticated, yet easy to use, with only 4 clicks to a sale. All products have detailed descriptions and clear pictures, ensuring transparency. The opportunity is substantial with surplus stocks in UK homewares & furniture market amounting to approx. £5 billion pa. Furthermore, Whatafind.com is one of the few companies benefiting from the worsening economic climate. Whatafind.com was launched in Oct 2008 and with a proven concept, the management is now looking for funds to grow the business.

Surface Generation was founded in 2002 as the first spin-out from Pera with Cambridge University to become a world leading Composites tooling company. It’s key advantage compared to conventional pattern and mould tool manufacturing is time saving and increased flexibility. The company’s technology, which reduces customers’ mould costs by up to 90% and time to market by up to 40%, is simply more efficient than alternative methodologies. With increasing emphasis on fuel efficiency, manufacturers of ground and air transportation are increasingly looking for light weight materials to meet performance, cost and emissions targets. The world-wide composites industry is valued at £32 billion and the company has targeted the Automotive and Aerospace segments with a blue-chip partner base. The strong Management team anticipate significant growth to £2.1m PBIT over the next four years and now seek to raise an additional £450,000 under EIS to complete the current fundraising of £750,000 needed to formalise board appointments, further strengthen the executive team, build larger test facilities and put in place the resources to generate sales. www.surface-generation.com

Fusion Events specialize in event mobile concession catering and have 12 fully-liveried mobile catering units which operate at sporting venues e.g. Twickenham Rugby Ground and events e.g. Reading Festival. Many catering businesses have spent significant amounts in buying a smart-looking mobile catering unit, only to discover that operating the unit, as well as dealing with event organizers and venues, is significantly tougher than it looks. As such, a number of caterers have given their mobile units to Fusion Events to run, in return for supplying stock. Fusion Events have developed good relationships with a number of event organisers and venues around the country and have a contract with Sodexo and Compass, the two largest corporate caterers, to provide mobile catering units. The venues prefer dealing with Fusions Events, over an individual operator, as they only have to deal with one operator who can supply up to 12 branded mobile catering units e.g. The Italian Café and The Organic Farmhouse Grill. Fusion Events has doubled turnover each year for the last three years, to £1.1m, and is now looking for finance as well as skills to help build the business.

Arcanum is a technology business specialising in the extraction of location data for mobile telcos such as Telefonica O2 Ireland. Mobile networks produce quantities of valuable data from their customers and base stations. This can be extracted by Arcanum in real time for applications such as Road Traffic, Missing Persons and Origination / Destination services. Mobile Telcos are experiencing diminishing voice minute revenues and see the growth of value-added data services as vital for the future of these companies. Arcanum systems have been deployed in several major mobile operator networks, such as Telefonica O2 Ireland, and Proximus Belgium, all of which continue to deliver on-going high margin revenues with significant possibility for further revenue generation. The opportunity is to expand the company rapidly within Europe and the Middle East with their proven products supported by key partnerships. Arcanum has an experienced management team with extensive experience of the mobile market. Funding is required to expand the team and product range. Exit in 2-3 years is likely to be a trade sale to a larger OEM supplier (such as Nokia or Ericsson).

Founded by two successful UK entrepreneurs in the hospitality sector , Key Club Dubai(now Scuderia 250) is a subscription based club allowing access and use of ‘supercars’ to its members. There are differing levels of membership enabling top end luxury cars to be available to members up to a fixed number of days per year.Similar clubs have operated in London and other major cities but as yet none operate in the Middle East. The founders have recruited an experienced executive from this sector in the UK to the management team to launch the product in the UAE and gain "first mover advantage".The UAE has seen unprecedented growth in recent years and even though the global slowdown could have an impact, the club membership plans are conservative in a region where the proportionate wealth of the indigenous and expatriate population is far higher than most major developed economies. The plan is to start in Dubai but by year 2 to have grown into Abu Dhabi and then later into other Gulf States.

Lockwood Spacesaver machines compact drinks cans, food tins, plastic containers and glass bottles, reducing waste volume by up to 90% and the requirement forlandfill. Waste will be reduced by crushing the recyclable materials at source before collections by the local authority, which will reduce collection periods, transportcosts/usage and CO2 gas emissions. Apart from the environmental benefits and sheer spacesaving, there are significant cost savings for commercial customers. TheSpacesaver machine is believed to be the only portable compacting machine of its kind in the world, which crushes multiple items. Lockwood needs investment tobecome production ready and launch in the UK later this year, before exporting internationally. The company has an experienced management team with specialistknowledge of the sector and Directors believe sales will grow quickly to £0.5m per annum within the next 3 years

Flying Aces Limited is the creator and manager of global IP media rights to top level aviation sport. The four primary projects that Flying Aces has developed are: 1. Aero GP air racing series, which was successfully launched in 2005 and has since held five major grands prix which were televised around the world. In January 2009, Flying Aces are in Abu Dhabi organising the Al AIN airshow, which is a £500k project paid for by the Abu Dhabi Tourist Authority. 2. Television partner for the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the only recognised international federation in aviation sport. In 2007, Flying Aces launched a new global TV series covering all major air sports championships called “Breitling Airsports World” (sponsored by watch-maker Breitling). 3 The next World Aerobatic Championships, which will be held at Silverstone racing circuit in August 2009, is owned and organised by Flying Aces (in partnership with the FAI and The Royal Aero Club). 4. airsports.tv, an Internet TV and social networking site, launched in June 2008, is the first Internet site dedicated to air sports television and videos.

The dominance eBay has enjoyed in recent years is giving way to web 2.0 specialist auction sites with strong community elements. Over the last three years ToyCollector.com has built specialist software to target large communities of collectors allowing it to pick off from eBay a number of their markets. Its first community ToyCollector.com serves the £2.5bn vintage and collectible toy market with a range of functionality that collectors find invaluable. These include blogging capabilities,directories of suppliers, competitions, details of toy events, forums for queries, photo galleries and product videos. The site also produces a catalogue of every toy ever produced and allows members to select which areas interest them - for example only Batman collectables, Steiff bears made before the 1940s or toy soldiers from the Napoleonic wars. Content is provided by the users. The company also provides a collection management capability that links press releases and buy/sell events to track the current value of a collectors’ entire portfolio. Revenues come from P2P sales, insurance commissions and advertising.

The Business Phone (TBP) is the international distributor of Mobile Transaction Terminals (MTT) and the only mobile Chip and PIN device that doubles as a fully functional phone. To begin with TBP is focusing its sales efforts in Africa which now represents the fastest growing mobile payments market of all regions; it has entered into a business services agreement with Kenya Commercial Bank, which has the largest branch network in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and has started trading with Citi Hoppa, the largest operator of buses in Nairobi. Revenue is earned from product sales, service fees and regular transaction commissions, which are growing monthly towards £1m+ turnover in Year 1. Longer term it is planned to market MTT technology and software worldwide, concentrating particularly on those countries which have poor fixed line telecommunications services. The company has an experienced management teamwith specialist knowledge of the payment sector and a number of strategic partnerships which facilitate operations. Directors are now in the process ofseeking admission to Plus Markets in order to increase the company’s profile and provide marketability for its shares.

meet the real me brings top employers and the best graduates face-to-face, without anyone having to leave their desk, by producing a structured video interview.  Being able to view short videos of applicants enables employers to conduct more affective screening by demonstrating the candidate’s communication skills, personality and passion and brings their written CV to life!  The business has been financed to date with £150,000 from the director. This enabled meet the real me to research the market, conduct ‘real world’ tests and pilots at three major UK universities and launch a phase one website.  Following a soft launch in June 2008, meet the real me has signed terms with 11 clients including Centaur Communications, IPC Media, Bloomberg, Admedia, Jack Morton Worldwide and begun generating sales of £5,000 to £10,000 per month through placement fees. In November 2008 Beverly Fleming also agreed to input up to £50,000 as a convertible loan for use as working capital and the development of the User Generated service.

Fuzzy Flights and Holidays is a travel agency dedicated to delivering ‘fun value’ to the student market niche. The irreverent branding is combined with aprofessional administration structure and is supported by a valuable reward program and carbon offset foundation. FFH will be focusing on the 300 UKuniversities and 2 million students plus their friends and families, many of whom are international and travel three to four times a year. Management have astrong track record in the travel industry and have contracted with Hays Travel to provide ATOL and ABTA protection and Traveltek which currently provide over20 million holiday offers daily access to 350 global airlines and is widely recognized as the best content provider in the industry. In addition, management arealready contracted to UK universities' 'corporate' travel, which will provide access to the university 'retail' travel sector. Marketing will springboard off thesuccessful Fuzzy (Brush) brand and the high growth travel market. Sales and profits are forecast to increase rapidly because of the low overhead coststructure. Directors will be looking to realise the value of their market share through exit in a few years time.

MDTi brings uncomplicated medical devices to a growing global market and is already a trusted partnerof the NHS for turning its innovation into commercial reality. The company's proven shared revenue model fulfils a comprehensive service not otherwise provided, in effect a one-stop shop for commercialising 'hidden' IP for the benefit of all. Although the target market is global (particularly North America) and not confined to the NHS, sales of one or more products have already been achieved into 10% of the nearly 2000 English NHS hospitals. Manufacturing and Distribution is low cost and the first mover advantage with the NHS is a barrier to others entering the market quickly. Management and the Medical Advisory Board have the skills and experience to scale-up the business, with existing eleven exclusive world-wide license agreements and 10 new products in the pipeline. High margins and low overheads offer the chance of strong profits once sales volume increases. www.mdti.co.uk

Green Cone is a provider of economic, effective and environmentally friendly solutions for the disposal of all food waste, including meat and bones, in householders’ gardens. The company sells two complementary, patented products the Green Cone and Green Johanna. With a market of over 100 million units and more onerous landfill regulations, an increasing number of local authorities are adopting the Company’s products. Sales last year exceeded £1 million and are expected to increase rapidly. Green Cone Ltd has a well established UK trading base and is beginning to build a platform in the USA. The Company owns the moulds to manufacture the Green Cones and has comprehensive distribution rights to the Green Johanna. New investment is required primarily to increase working capital and exploit the potential of the US market. Once maintainable profitability is achieved the experienced and well qualified Management team will seek a London Listing.

NRC Group was established in 1998 to develop and exploit intellectual property rights owned by the Group for roulette products used within the gamingindustry. They have since developed a reliable electronic platform which supports automated roulette and other popular games, such as Blackjack andPunto Banco. An advantageous selling point is the unique adaptability of NRC software which allows operators to install in their existing hardware withoutcapital outlay. Whilst a high market penetration for automated roulette has been established in the UK this has not been achieved so far in other parts ofthe world, thus providing a potentially new growth area. Current customers include the three major casino operators in the UK, Stanley, Rank and Gala,which either license software or purchase/lease equipment. NRC has a top quality management team with specialist knowledge of the gaming sector anda number of strategic partnerships which facilitate operations. Directors expect EBITDA will be over £2m in three years, £4m in four years and that exitwill be achieved through trade sale or Plus Markets flotation.