Public to decide Pitch ICE winner as voting commences

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 (London, UK) – Voting has opened at www.GamCrowd.com/PitchICE  to determine the inaugural winner of Pitch ICE.

Presented by GamCrowd and Clarion Events, the competition saw start-ups showcase their ideas in front of attendees during 15-minute slots at ICE 2015.

Videos of the pitches have been published and the concept which attracts the most votes before the deadline on Friday, February 20, will gain entry to the GamCrowd Incubator service. The program is designed to help start-ups secure investment, fill skills and expertise gaps, and provide valuable introductions to operators in the industry for testing and distribution.

“From journalists to investors to suppliers to operators, the feedback from Pitch ICE has been extremely positive. It has given priceless exposure across the industry to everyone who took part,” said GamCrowd CEO Chris North.

“The competition demonstrated that our sector is a hotbed of fantastic ideas – the level of innovation guarantees that deciding on the Pitch ICE proposition with the greatest potential is going to be tough,” North added.

Pitch ICE entries cover a wide range of real-money and social gambling products across verticals including sports betting, casino, poker and lottery.

“Every idea in Pitch ICE is a strong one and whoever is crowned winner will be deserving of the prize,” Wendy Collins of Sporting Savvy said. “No matter what happens, Pitch ICE has been an opportunity like no other for our business. On the back of the show, we have already had lots of interest from potential partners and hope to use this platform to kick-start our activities at Sporting Savvy.”

To coincide with Pitch ICE, GamCrowd has published the latest instalment from its white paper series, which advises on funding options for gambling start-ups. Click here to download free of charge.

Investing in start-ups and early stage businesses involves significant risks, including illiquidity (inability to sell assets quickly or without substantial loss in value or inability to sell them at all), it also may involve lack of dividends, loss of your entire investment and dilution i.e. when new investment by others reduces your share of the company. Any investment should be done only as part of a diversified portfolio. There is no secondary market available meaning that these securities are highly illiquid and you will not be able to sell them until there is some material change such as a sale of all or part of the company and there is no certainty whatsoever that this may happen. As a result, you may lose all of your capital.  GamCrowd is targeted exclusively at investors who are sufficiently sophisticated to understand these risks and make their own investment decisions. You will only be able to invest with GamCrowd once you are registered as sufficiently sophisticated. For the full risk warning please see gamcrowd.com/help/risk-warning.

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About ICE
ICE is the world’s largest b2b gaming event and the only exhibition which brings together the online and offline gaming sectors. Featuring over 500 world-leading innovators drawn from the betting, bingo, casino, lottery, mobile, online, social and street sectors, ICE provides a unique international perspective on gaming. Visitors to ICE can also discover the hottest growth areas in land-based, online and mobile gaming courtesy of the ICE Conferences programme, which delivers targeted learning and networking opportunities. For the latest information on ICE 2015 and to register for free entry visit www.icetotallygaming.com