AdultVest — investment community for adult industry

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Figures this group, called AdultVest, would be based in Southern California. Sand Hill Road, the main drag here in Silicon Valley for venture capital firms, is a bit too chaste for this sort of thing.

As Jeff says, the statistic, if it is accurate, that 25% of all searches are for porn, is staggering.

Accounting for approximately 25% of all search engine requests, on a planet that has a population exceeding 6 billion people, the adult industry clearly has a global demand. You would think that there would be a large population of people who are begging to invest in the companies that create some of their favorite adult products, services, and content. However, there has never been resource available to the investment community that would enable investors to look at adult industry investment deals; and because approximately 98% of the estimated $57 Billion Dollar Adult Industry consists of privately held companies, there is no easy way for investors to even find these companies. That is where AdultVest.com comes in…

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.

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