SCALING IDEAS INTO SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Leveraging our experience, connections, and access to capital

About US

When it comes to fly fishing, nothing beats the adrenaline rush of sight-casting. It’s the same with new ideas and business opportunities. We love the challenge and excitement of helping our partners set their sights on something and landing it. That’s why we leverage our experience, connections, and access to capital to work with innovative entrepreneurs and organizations to scale ideas into successful business opportunities.

SightCast offers a range of strategic, management, advisory, and consulting capabilities to help create winning strategies and translate them into successful objectives & tactical plans:

  • Roadmap development of multi-year product & business strategy, long-range planning & vision.
  • Ideation of innovative products & services including product, marketing, GTM strategy definition to drive growth and dramatic change.
  • Competitive and feasibility analysis to clearly identify tradeoffs and potential risks.
  • Requirements capture to ensure problem sets are well understood and solutions are using appropriate technologies.
  • Fund-raising, M&A and due diligence.
  • Assistance building amazing teams utilizing both part-time and full-time individuals.
  • Technology mentoring and implementation strategy support.
  • Intellectual property portfolio creation, harvesting, management, licensing, and enforcement.

Focus Areas

OTT / TVE / MULTI-SCREEN

Over-the-top video (OTT) services for TVOD, SVOD, AVOD, Live/linear, DVR, Catch-up; TV Everywhere (TVE) services for cable, telco, DST providers; multi-device support; digital rights management (DRM); content delivery and analytics strategy.

CONTENT SUPPLY/WORKFLOWS

Filmed and TV entertainment workflows; content supply chain; MPAA workflows and security guidelines; digital transformation and cloud-based automation.

CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS

Multi-cloud deployment including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud; hybrid on-prem/colocation cloud deployments; cloud migration strategies; storage caching strategies especially for large media-centric files.

EXTENDED REALITY

Applications of virtual, mixed and augmented reality for new types of immersive experiences spanning entertainment, business and government.

MACHINE LEARNING & AI

Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning especially applied to video and advertising.

Team

SightCast is led by industry veteran Todd Collart with over 25 years of experience as a leader, business builder, fundraiser, entrepreneur, and mentor/advisor in the software, technology, and entertainment industries. The products and technologies of the businesses he has founded and/or led power some of the world's largest digital OTT, TVE and MVPD properties across millions of connected devices worldwide by market leaders such as Amazon, AT&T, Apple, Charter/Time Warner Cable, Cineplex, Comcast, Disney, NBCU, Netflix, Redbox, Starz, HBO, Rogers, Shaw, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., and Viacom/Paramount. Todd was most recently President of Global Delivery at Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, the largest entertainment services provider in the world, where he incubated and managed several divisions.

In addition to focusing his time at SightCast, Todd is a member/investor of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization to new, cutting edge, startup companies, and an advisor to several companies and startups. Todd has been recognized as one of the Top Movers & Shakers of Home Entertainment, one of the Most Innovative People in Multiscreen/OTT, and one of the 21 Most Influential Executives in the DVD Industry.

SightCast Advisors:

  • Allan Lamkin advises several of SightCast's early-stage portfolio companies and is currently CIO of Paul Hastings LLP.
  • Greg Gewickey is a technology partner driving hands-on innovation by scoping the customer value proposition.

Intellectual Property

Extended Reality

This patent portfolio addresses the need for governance of Extended Reality (xR) experiences. Technology and rules for protecting our virtual spaces — as is currently done in the physical domain — is going to become extremely important with the proliferation of AR and VR experiences across mobile devices, glasses, vehicles, and more.