Notification of Results

Matrix e-Ventures Fund VCT PLC 30 May 2001 Notification of Results and Investment Update The Company announces that its preliminary results for the year ended 30 April 2001 are expected to be announced in early July 2001. The Company has also today written to shareholders with an update of its investment portfolio the contents of which are reproduced below: 'We wrote to you in early December to keep you informed as to the progress of your company and further expanded upon this in the Interim Report, which was published in January. We have made three further new investments, and one follow-on investment since that date, which are detailed below: - Magicalia Limited Investment of £400,000 (12.7% of company - completed 30.3.01) Magicalia has established a network of six community websites focussed on enthusiast-based participation sports such as cycling, golf, fishing and sailing. There are 14 employees. It has partnerships with a number of off-line publishers and generates revenues from e- commerce, advertising and trade deals. Flightstore Inflight Retailing Limited Investment of £750,000 (11.1% - 30.3.01) Flightstore creates electronic airline branded shopping malls containing branded retailers with international delivery capabilities. The proprietary software developed by Flightstore uses existing seatback hardware to deliver a quasi-internet shopping experience on long haul flights. The service will be launched in the second half of this year. Xpert Client Systems Limited Investment of £500,000 (11.9% - 30.3.01) XCS is a leading provider of software asset management tools, with over 100 customers to date. The company has developed products based on innovative technology including automatic recognition, and a client-based, rather than server-based approach (i.e. using software installed on PCs) to monitor software usage and copyright compliance. Sit-up.com Further Investment of £150,000 - Total £650,000 (1.7%) The company provides interactive broadcasting material, and aims to create a suite of programming concepts for digital TV and the internet. The first service is Bid- up.TV, the UK's first interactive TV based auction site. Bid-up.TV auctions create an opportunity for manufacturers and distributors to sell a wide range of products across Sky, Telewest and BT Openworld platforms. The company also owns Screenshop, an infomercial channel broadcast on Sky. We invested a further £150,000 in this investee company as part of its £6,500,000 further fundraising round in March. Telewest have invested alongside us as a strategic investor. These investments take the total invested to date to £5,200,000 and we have a further £7,200,000 in cash, awaiting investment. The Board has decided to provide in full against one of its investments (value £350,000), representing 2.8% of the net asset value of Matrix e-Ventures VCT Fund plc. Despite the turbulent market for quoted stocks, the investment team has remained busy, evaluating over 300 investment proposals so far in this calendar year. Dealflow continues to be good however, we continue to be cautious with our investment approach and conservative with investment valuations. I hope you continue to agree with us that, despite the problems of investor sentiment and stock market vagaries there are still good investment opportunities in the unquoted arena.'
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