Sunday, January 15, 2006

BaseCamp Fund Invests in Montana Real Estate Venture

BaseCamp Clayton Investors, LLC ("The Fund") announced today that it has made a substantial investment in JWT Capital, LLC of Bozeman, Montana.

JWT was founded in 2004 to build on the regional real estate strengths of its core team, and take advantage of the strong market demand for commercial and retail real estate in Montana.

The company plans on developing and operating a chain of nationally-branded franchise restaurant and hospitality chains in the rapidly developing markets of the Northwest United States. These operations will form the core anchor tenants in a number of planned commercial and retail plazas throughout the region.

The company has achieved its first milestone of becoming the exclusive regional franchisee of Old Chicago Restaurants in Montana, Idaho (excluding the Boise MSA), and Washington state. Currently the company owns and operates the Bozeman, Montana, Old Chicago restaurant and is currently under development of a Billings, Montana, Old Chicago Restaurant. Additionally the company holds the development and franchise rights for a Hilton Garden Inn in Billings, Montana.

The company is currently seeking additional restaurant and hospitality franchisee acquisitions throughout Montana with future plans to expand to Idaho and Washington.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

BaseCamp Fund Invests in Collective Intellect

Today BaseCamp Clayton Investors, LLC ("The Fund") announced its participation in the Series A financing of technology startup Collective Intellect, Inc.

Collective Intellect, Inc. specializes in comprehensively tracking, filtering and ranking media content for the Fortune 500. The founders have worked in Business Intelligence for years, creating tools to solve the problem of filtering unstructured information.

Working with investors helped the company to fine-tune their approach to new media research, with the goal of finding just those nuggets of information that are most valuable and most relevant to business decisions, whether they be trading strategies or business-related strategies.

Building customized technology tools lets Collective Intellect help their customers gain a competitive business advantage using New Media throughout their organization. Across blogs, discussion boards and social networking websites, Collective Intellect uses a combination of advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and old-fashioned human ingenuity to identify emerging New Media and traditional media content. This approach produces more comprehensive, timely and relevant results than what one may pull using traditional web search tools. Collective Intellect also builds topic-based community platforms which foster corporate interaction with the millions of New Media denizens.

Customers use Collective Intellect's technology to:

* track information related to stocks and investing
* support public relations and investor relations activities
* facilitate customer support outreach programs
* create product management market research feedback programs
* develop interactive forums where customer relationships can be nurtured

Customers include some of the largest trading desks on Wall Street, Fortune 100 consumer goods manufacturers and Fortune 100 pharmaceutical companies. From simple monitoring solutions to fully interactive corporate blog communities, Collective Intellect provides the technology required to manage the total media landscape.