A venture capital house has been established which promises to help web entrepreneurs with bright ideas develop them into businesses.

A venture capital house has been established which promises to help web entrepreneurs with bright ideas develop them into businesses.

Hanse Ventures, which is based in Germany but welcomes approaches from across Europe, already has shares in eight businesses and has the resources to support another six to eight internet start-ups over the next three years.

Entrepreneurs partnering with Hanse will be offered ‘a full-service infrastructure’ including design, marketing and administrative support.

Hanse’s founders are publishing industry veteran Bernd Kundrun, Sony Music Entertainment CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, search engine optimisation specialist Jochen Maaß and social networking expert Sarik Weber.

Says Weber, ‘With our help, entrepreneurs can have the kind of success that would be extremely difficult to achieve as a lone wolf.’

Rather than financing existing web ventures, Hanse will focus on ‘realising its own ideas in cooperation with entrepreneurs looking to found their own business’.

It is interested in applications from ‘people with several years of work experience who may already have a few ideas for a new start-up’.