Fund backs student Survival guide publisher

A NEW publishing company targeting the student sector, has won backing from the North West Fund for Digital & Creative.

Liverpool-based start-up Survival Media, which launched earlier this year with the Student Survival Guide and Student Property Guide, plans to expand its media services and roll out the brand to other university cities after selling a minority stake to the Fund.
 
Survival Media was founded earlier this year by experienced Liverpool-based magazine editor Mike Clarke and 18-year-old Jonathan Saunders.
 
Mr Saunders, from Manchester, started his first business venture at school – a successful website selling revision guides to students.
 
Mike Clarke, managing director of Survival Media, said: “The North West Fund for Digital & Creative really helped us develop the business and we look forward to working with them over the next few years to grow the company.

“Survival Media is passionate about adding value to student’s lives and this investment will help us to achieve this.”

Survival works with universities and local authorities to produce the guides, containing useful information which are handed out to first-year students.

Including freelancers, Survival has around eight staff and will produce its first Manchester guide this year.
 
Joanne Evans, Investment Manager of fund manager AXM Venture Capital, added: “We are excited by a team whose dynamic combination of experience and youth enables them successfully to communicate with students the essential information they need to enjoy life in a new city.”
 
Survival Media has moved into Liverpool creative hub Elevator Studios.