UP485 Other People's Money: Venture Studios and a European Sports Investment Fund

 Other People's Money is our series on sport and finance, with regular co-host Matt Rogan. 

Today's guest is Danny Menken, who many people in the industry will remember as the managing director of Eurosport Television.

He was also chief exec of Infosrada Sports Group and held senior executive positions within Eleven Sports.

More recently though, Danny co-founded Ve2.Ventures, a sports focused venture studio, There's also talk about a European sports investment fund. 

If the finance conversation is interesting to you, then there's a whole load of previous episodes of Other People's Money in the Unofficial Partner archive. 

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