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Related Party Transactions related to S4S Ventures
Related Party Transactions related to S4S Ventures.
About this update from S4 Capital Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n 18 May 2022\n \n \n \n S4 Capital plc\n \n \n \n (\"S4Capital\", the \"Company\" or the \"Group\")\n \n \n \n Related Party Transactions related to S4S Ventures\n \n \n \n S4Capital plc (SFOR.L), the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising and marketing services company, announces the following details relating to transactions related to the first close of S4S Ventures (\"S4S Ventures\") which is structured as two new funds of up to, in aggregate, US$100 million. S4S Ventures aims to invest in companies across five principal areas: Martech, Adtech, Data Technology, Creative Technology, and Emerging Digital Media/Content. It will focus on investments which capture opportunities presented by the next wave of digital transformation in the marketing and advertising sectors, primarily at early funding stages.\n \n \n S4S Ventures is particularly interested in supporting companies providing solutions for: (a) acceleration of programmatic advertising across Connected TV, gaming and digital audio ecosystems, (b) data warehousing, ingestion and analysis for the purposes of identity resolution, (c) transformation of content development and underlying workflows, by leveraging cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure, (d) monetisation of metaverse opportunities, through development of software tools to facilitate/enable brand and creator participation, and (e) emerging digital media capturing the attention of Generation Z.\n \n \n S4S Ventures will invest globally, but with an emphasis on the US, Europe and the Middle-East.\n \n \n \n Structure\n \n \n \n ·\n S4S Ventures comprises two funds: a Luxemburg limited partnership, S4S Ventures SCSp-RAIF (the \"Fund\"), with S4S Ventures General Partner S.À R.L., a Luxembourg company, as its general partner, and a Delaware limited partnership, S4S Ventures LP (the \"Delaware Fund\"), with S4S Ventures General Partner LLC, incorporated in Delaware, as its general partner.\n \n \n ·\n S4S Ventures is led by Sanja Partalo, a highly experienced digital industry specialist and investor who was formerly Global Head of Strategic Development and Partnerships at WPP. S4Capital and Stanhope Capital (\"Stanhope Capital\") as founders of S4S Ventures act as part of the General Partner, which is a 50/50 joint venture between the S4Capital group and Stanhope Capital. Daniel Pint...