VENTURE CAPITAL
Meet The Team
Gary Smith
Executive producer credits on over 40 films with budgets in excess of $250m.
Dayo Beverly
Arranged for over $3m in financing for projects and on track for much more.
Gary Smith
Gary Smith is an experienced entrepreneur who spent six years as a Corporate Investment Manager in the City of London after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with a Big 4 firm. He built two film companies in the United Kingdom raising over $50million after listing them on the London Stock Exchange and has helped raise over $300million for 40 feature films.
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Gary moved to California in 2013 and is currently a shareholder in Vumanity Content Ltd, a video technology company, Coastal International Inc, an online real estate company which operates the ItsCoastal app and Canvinia Inc, a cannabis and wine company based in Santa Barbara California.
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Dayo Beverly
Dayo Beverly, Executive Producer, has worked with some of the brightest and most successful producers and financiers in the film industry. She holds a Master of Arts in English/Screenwriting and an MBA degree.
For the past ten years Beverly has been engulfed in connecting and utilizing her banking and finance relationships to bridge the gap between Producers who are seeking developmental and production funding for projects and small to mid size investors seeking to put money into these projects. She decided to work in this fashion after noticing a lack of strong financial backing for independent projects by the top studio executives.
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Raising capital is her passion, working with management and structuring financing is where she thrives.
As well as being passionate about film financing, Dayo's expertize extends to real estate financing and structuring corporate finance deals for different types of organizations .
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She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc, Women in Film, and moderates a panel each year at the American Film Festival Miami.