Dreamscape Global is a publisher and media producer focused on VR storytelling. It has provided market research, customer validation, business plans, and product/service breakthrough strategies to over 100 companies in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Asia since 1989. Sheridan has co-founded 10 startups since 2000, helping raise $10M in angel/VC funding. He is writing a VR novel series: dreamscapeglobal.com Dreamscape is promoting the San Francisco Renaissance to integrate Silicon Valley technologies and investors (the IT platform or "stage") with SF Bay Area media creators, including filmmakers, animators and online gamers (the "play"). We have co-founded and advised several Bay Area media groups: 1990 - SF Multimedia Development Group promoting South of Market (SOMA) as Multimedia Capital of the World 2003-2011 - International Institute for Film Financing (www.filmfinancing.org) to teach filmmakers the "biz" in "showbiz" 2005-2011 - Film Angels (www.filmangels.org), mostly Silicon Valley investors from tech and real estate fields who want to invest in films 2011 - San Francisco Renaissance Salon to break down barriers between various artists and media industries (film, TV, fashion, dance, literature, photography, online gaming, social media, theater, environment, etc.)