David Glick is a former entertainment lawyer, whose clients included Nick Cave, Norman Cook, Alexander McQueen and Giles Deacon. He co-founded entertainment law firm Eatons in 1990 and became head of entertainment and media at Mischcon de Reya when it acquired Eatons in 2000. He founded Edge in 2007 to invest in innovators in the creative industries.
Edge is a VC which invests in creativity, backing exceptional entrepreneurs building category-leading businesses within the creative economy. Edge invests in high-growth companies operating in the creative industries and enabling technologies, from marketplaces to adtech and AI.
Edge launched its £40m Creative Enterprise Fund in 2015, backed by British Business Bank, and its £75m Create The Future fund in 2021, also backed by BBB. Investments include music festival community and ticketing platform Festicket, children’s activity marketplace Hoop, interactive video content delivery platform Airbeem, and audio content creation/broadcast/syndication platform Audioboom.
This event will cover:
how the pandemic has accelerated/changed trends in the creative economy and the challenges and opportunities these present;
how innovators and investors are responding to the changing environment.
This is the fourth virtual roundtable interview in the Something Ventured series. In partnership with FieldHouse Associates, we are interviewing leading VCs via Zoom about the key issues around investment. After the opening 15 minutes of questions from Philip Salter, founder of The Entrepreneurs Network, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.
FieldHouse Associates helps organisations across the fast-growth technology, innovation, and investment ecosystem achieve their strategic and commercial objectives, creating impact for them through bespoke integrated communications campaigns.
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