Drinktank London

I attended the Drinktank Event at the Firehouse Bar and Club in Kensington last night as part our new 'networking' initiative we've recently embarked on.

I managed to catch up with Danvers Ballieu (pictured on the left below) from Winston and Strawn who's looking to handle our series A funding round, so to have a beer with him was a pleasure - along with the guys from Huddle (middle and right of photo) who organised the event.


Being a club, the drinks were fairly pricey but that was alleviated somewhat by drink vouchers kindly sponsored by Skywrite Communications.

In terms of new contacts, Victoria McEvedy of McEvedy and Associates was interesting to talk to and it looks like she may help us protect our IP as she has worked with Winston and Strawn previously, and is a Digital Media specialist who knows what she's talking about.

David Roberts explained to me a little of what The Filter are up to and that looks intriguing and well backed. Think Last.fm + musicovery.com extended into additional media than just audio.

Simos Kitiris from PeoplePerHour.com has around 6,000 people now globally contracting their services through his short term employment site.

Then later when the event wound down I met up in Covent Garden with Jonty Bankes (bass player with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain) and Franca (hope I've spelt that right :-), his new partner from Germany and whom it was a pleasure to meet. By the way, the Ukes are certainly worth a search on YouTube.