Speed Venture Summit™ Scores Gold Sponsorship with Comcast Business Class

Comcast Business Class, a leading provider of communications services for small and medium-sized businesses, has signed on as the Gold Sponsor of the Speed Venture Summit™ (SVS) 2009. SVS is the premier speed-dating-style event for fast-growth businesses and investors in New England, and will be held on Wednesday October 28, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Nashua, NH, October 04, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Comcast Business Class, a leading provider of communications services for small and medium-sized businesses, has signed on as the Gold Sponsor of the Speed Venture Summit™ (SVS) 2009. SVS is the premier speed-dating-style event for fast-growth businesses and investors in New England, and will be held on Wednesday October 28, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza in Nashua, New Hampshire.

“We’re proud to support The Speed Venture Summit™ because of its focus on emerging businesses,” said Peter Marsh, Vice President of Business Services for Comcast’s Greater Boston Region. “Comcast Business Class is ready to deliver these deserving companies an array of smart, efficient, scalable Internet, Voice and TV offerings to meet their needs as they grow.”

“Comcast has developed compelling communications solutions for small business,” Summit producer Tim Platt noted. “Entrepreneurs and busy executives want versatile, next-generation broadband capacity to communicate with their customers, vendors and investors while receiving first-class business service.”

“Comcast’s sponsorship underscores the mission-critical role that the Summit plays in helping companies grow,” Platt continued. “The Speed Venture Summit has rapidly become the one event in New England that CEOs and CFOs of the region’s hottest companies must attend.”

At the October Summit, participating businesses will represent all sectors and development stages, from start-up to later-stage and will “speed pitch” to the region’s savviest and shrewdest investors, ranging from individuals and Angels to venture capital firms and private equity and mezzanine financers. Organizers expect that a total of approximately 50 companies will speed-pitch to 25 different investor groups in private 1:1 sessions throughout the afternoon.

The “speed-pitching” segment of the Summit will be held from 2:00 to 5:00pm, and will be followed by a two-hour business networking session open to the public that will provide an excellent opportunity for young companies to gain exposure and knowledge around seeking investment capital. The event will end with a pitch-off from among the day’s top companies.
For more information about the Summit, or to register for the networking segment, visit www.speedventuresummit.org

About the NH Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC): The NH SBDC provides confidential business management consulting and educational programs to New Hampshire’s small businesses. NH SBDC is an outreach program of the UNH Whittemore School of Business & Economics, and a cooperative venture with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the State of New Hampshire (DRED), the University System of New Hampshire, and the private sector. For more info on the NH SBDC, visit www.nhsbdc.org.

About the New Hampshire High Technology Council (NHHTC): The NHHTC’s purpose is to bring together representatives from the private and public sectors to establish and maintain financial, technical, management, legislative and educational support programs that encourage innovative research and technology-based industrial development in NH. www.nhhtc.org

About Comcast: Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 23.9 million cable customers, 15.3 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.0 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.

Comcast’s content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten sports networks operated by Comcast Sports Group and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.

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