SCALING IDEAS INTO SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Leveraging our experience, connections, and access to capital
SCALING IDEAS INTO SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Leveraging our experience, connections, and access to capital
Leveraging our experience, connections, and access to capital
Leveraging our experience, connections, and access to capital
When it comes to fly fishing, nothing beats the adrenaline rush of sight-casting. It’s the same with new ideas and business opportunities. We love the challenge and excitement of helping our partners set their sights on something and landing it. That’s why we leverage our experience, connections, and access to capital to work with innovative entrepreneurs and organizations to scale ideas into successful business opportunities.
SightCast offers a range of strategic, management, advisory, and consulting capabilities - targeted at both start-up companies and innovative organizations - to assist with creating winning strategies and translating them into successful objectives & tactical plans:
Whether you are a startup with a new idea looking for guidance and experience to get your concept off the ground, or an established organization looking to expand or develop into a new market or product area, we enjoy taking an active role with our partners. We engage in a variety of ways, ranging from advisory and consulting roles, to interim and part-time positions. Depending on the specific opportunity and people, we will also consider working on equity and/or success + contingency basis.
Having started several products and organizations from scratch ourselves, we know how hard it can be to get something off the ground and achieve profitability. Our goal is to leverage our historical experiences and depth of industry connections to help our partners overcome potential obstacles and achieve faster success.
Over-the-top video (OTT) services for TVOD, SVOD, AVOD, Live/linear, DVR, Catch-up; TV Everywhere (TVE) services for cable, telco, DST providers; multi-device support; digital rights management (DRM); content delivery and analytics strategy.
Filmed and TV entertainment workflows; content supply chain; MPAA workflows and security guidelines; digital transformation and cloud-based automation.
Multi-cloud deployment including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud; hybrid on-prem/colocation cloud deployments; cloud migration strategies; storage caching strategies especially for large media-centric files.
Applications of virtual, mixed and augmented reality for new types of immersive experiences spanning entertainment, business and government.
Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning especially applied to video and advertising.
Public and private distributed ledger uses for entertainment, business, and security applications.
SightCast is led by industry veteran Todd Collart with over 25 years of experience as a leader, business builder, fundraiser, entrepreneur, and mentor/advisor in the software, technology, and entertainment industries. The products and technologies of the businesses he has founded and/or led power some of the world's largest digital OTT, TVE and MVPD properties across millions of connected devices worldwide by market leaders such as Amazon, AT&T, Apple, Charter/Time Warner Cable, Cineplex, Comcast, Disney, NBCU, Netflix, Redbox, Starz, HBO, Rogers, Shaw, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., and Viacom/Paramount. Todd was most recently President of Global Delivery at Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, the largest entertainment services provider in the world, where he incubated and managed several divisions. Prior to Deluxe, he was an executive at Sonic Solutions (now TiVo) following the sale of InterActual to Sonic in 2004, which he co-founded as CEO in 1995.
In addition to focusing his time at SightCast, Todd is a member/investor of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization to new, cutting edge, startup companies, and an advisor to several companies and startups. Todd has been recognized as one of the Top Movers & Shakers of Home Entertainment, one of the Most Innovative People in Multiscreen/OTT, and one of the 21 Most Influential Executives in the DVD Industry. He has spoken at numerous conferences over the last 20 years, is a named inventor on 30 issued patents, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California San Diego. Todd is an avid fly fisherman and long-time Chelsea FC fan.
SightCast Advisors:
This patent portfolio addresses the need for governance of Extended Reality (xR) experiences. Technology and rules for protecting our virtual spaces — as is currently done in the physical domain — is going to become extremely important with the proliferation of AR and VR experiences across mobile devices, glasses, vehicles, and more.
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