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Braveheart Investment Group plc 13 August 2007 13 August 2007 Braveheart Investment Group plc ('Braveheart', the 'Group' or the 'Company') Investment of £600,000 in Inxstor Braveheart (AIM: BRH), a technology commercialisation and investment management company, announces that it has made an investment in Inxstor Limited, a business involved in developing technology for the place-shifting market. The £600,000 investment from Braveheart, its clients and the Scottish Co-investment Fund, follows a seed funding round of c£400,000, in 2006 which Braveheart also participated in. Inxstor was formed last year as a spin-out from Infinite Data Storage ('IDS'), another Braveheart portfolio company. IDS designs portable data storage devices for the consumer electronics market. Place-shifting allows the user to watch TV shows they usually receive at home, whilst in any location on devices other than TV sets (such as mobile phones). It is an advanced form of time-shifting, where a programme can be recorded and viewed at a time more convenient to the user (such as the service offered by Sky Plus). With place-shifting, images and sound from home video equipment are processed into digital signals and transmitted to the new viewing location over the home internet connection. Place-shifting is an emerging market and is likely to be attractive to people who spend time away from their primary place of residence. Inxstor's technology is believed to be the only place-shifting solution that allows digital content to be accessed from a remote location in a secure way. The company's products include software to access and transfer the audio and video content from the home, and software to access this content on a mobile device. The company will target key market areas in the value chain to offer a complete 'end-to-end' solution. The proceeds of the fundraising will provide working capital for Inxstor for the next 12 months, supporting the expansion of its technical team and product development process. Commenting on the investment, Geoffrey Thomson, Chief Executive of Braveheart, said, 'Mobile technologies are becoming very much more sophisticated. In an increasingly mobile world, we see the demand for place-shifting technology as growing significantly in the future. Inxstor's technology, the only secure product of its kind in the market, offers users the 'next step' on from universally popular applications such as TiVO and Sky Plus.' Tony Combe, CEO at Inxstor, added, 'Since spinning out from IDS, we have made good progress in the development of our technology. Content providers need to know that their data is secure and that distribution can be controlled - our technology addresses these key issues. We now have working prototypes and we are in discussions with a number of multi-nationals about rolling out the product.' For further information, contact: Braveheart Investment Group Tavistock Communications Inxstor Geoffrey Thomson Rachel Drysdale Tony Combe Chief Executive Simon Hudson CEO Tel: 01738 587555 Tel: 020 7920 3150 Tel: 0131 225 5132 rdrysdale@tavistock.co.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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