Fusion Corporate Partners

The Fusion Team have completed over 70 digital and media transactions for its private, corporate and private equity clients. For more information contact pkelly@fusioncorp.co.uk or visit our website
 
ACQUISITION 
FDN Database Reference:  F231109-308
 
Acquirer:  StockTwits
ACQ Web:  http://www.stocktwits.com  BLOG   TWITTER
Region:  North America
Description:  “StockTwits is an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Users can eavesdrop on traders and investors, or contribute to the conversation and build their reputation as savvy market wizards. The service takes financial related data and structures it by stock, user, reputation, etc.”
Category:  Finance
Contact 1:  Soren Macbeth, Co-Founder and CTO  Bio   TWITTER
Contact 2:  Howard Lindzon, Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits  Bio   TWITTER
Contact 3:  Phil Pearlman, Director of Community at StockTwits  Bio   TWITTER
 
Vendor:  Abnormal Returns
Vendor Web:  http://abnormalreturns.com  TWITTER
Region:  North America
Description:  Abnormal Returns brings the best of the finance web to its readers.
Category: Finance
Contact:  Tadas Viskanta, founder and editor-in-chief
 
Aprox. Value:  Undisclosed
 
Details:  StockTwits has acquired finance website Abnormal Returns. Founder and editor in chief of Abnormal Returns, Tadas Viskanta, is joining Stocktwits.  StockTwits has raised $4.6 million over three rounds of funding. StockTwits has also announced an entire revamp of its web platform for two weeks time.
 
Link: StockTwits Blog – January 25th, 2010 entry
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The Fusion Team have completed over 70 digital and media transactions for its private, corporate and private equity clients. For more information contact pkelly@fusioncorp.co.uk or visit our website
 
ACQUISITION 
FDN Database Reference:  F231109-307
 
Acquirer:  AOL
ACQ Web:  http://www.aol.com
Location:  USA, New York, NY
Region:  North America
Description:  AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is a leading global Web services company. AOL’s business spans online content, products and services that the company offers to consumers, publishers and advertisers. In addition, AOL operates one of the largest Internet subscription access services in the United States.
Category:  Online Media, Advertising
Contact:  Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO and chairman

Vendor:  StudioNow
Vendor Web:  http://www.studionow.com
Location:  USA, Nashville, TN
Region:  North America
Description:  StudioNow partners with blue chip, mid-sized and local companies to create, store, and manage content and syndicate it to online video channels and portals.
Category: Video
Contact 1:  David Mason, co-founder and CEO
Contact 2:  Adam Solesby, co-founder, CTO
Contact 3:  David Corts, COO
  
Aprox. Value:  $36,500,000 in cash and stock with a portion of the cash paid out over multiple years.
 
Details:  AOL Inc. has acquired StudioNow Inc., the online platform for video creation and distribution. The acquisition will allow AOL to integrate a fully functional video creation platform into its newly-launched content management system, Seed.com. StudioNow will also continue to develop its existing business as a provider of online video creation, management, storage and syndication services to commercial companies.
 
Link: Press Release

The Fusion Team have completed over 70 digital and media transactions for its private, corporate and private equity clients. For more information contact pkelly@fusioncorp.co.uk or visit our website
 
FUND RAISING 
Database Reference:  F231109-326
 
Business:  BuyWithMe.com
Web:  http://www.buywithme.com
Location:  USA, Boston, MA
Region:  North America
Business description:  The company is focused on providing  marketing solutions using group buying mechanisms and leveraging social media. By aggregating the purchasing power of its buyer network, the company enables special pricing to be made available only to the groups of users that band together on its site.  These deals deliver immediate customer interest and merchants get a very effective “pay-per-customer” marketing medium with great recognition and no risk.
Category: Social Network, Retail
Contact 1:  Andrew Moss, CEO and founder of BuyWithMe.com
Contact 2:  Nicholas Beim, General Partner at Matrix Partners
 
Investors:  Matrix Partners
  
Amount raised:  $5,500,000  
 
Details:  BuyWithMe.com has secured $5.5 million in growth capital from Matrix Partners.  The company intends to scale rapidly, benefiting from its loyal vendor relationships and tens of thousands of dedicated buyers from three initial markets of Boston, Washington DC and San Diego.  Under the terms of the agreement, Nicholas Beim, General Partner at Matrix Partners, will join BuyWithMe’s board of directors.

Link:  Press Release

The Fusion Team have completed over 70 digital and media transactions for its private, corporate and private equity clients. For more information contact pkelly@fusioncorp.co.uk or visit our website
  
FUND RAISING 
Database Reference:  F231109-327
 
Business:  Sway, Inc. (Shoutlet)
Web:  http://www.shoutlet.com
Location:  USA,  Middleton, WI
Region:  North America
Business description:  Sway, Inc. is a Middleton, Wisconsin-based social media company which licenses its social media marketing platform, Shoutlet. Founded in 2004, Sway, Inc. works with leading B2C and B2B companies to integrate Shoutlet into their overarching social media outreach efforts.
Category: Social Network, Marketing
Contact 1:  Jason Weaver, Sway, Inc. CEO
Contact 2:  Steve Miller, Managing Director at Origin Ventures
 
Investors:  Origin Ventures and Leo Capital Holdings   
Amount raised:  $2,000,000 
 
Details:  Sway, Inc. has secured a $2 million Series A funding round to support the growth of Shoutlet, its social media content distribution and communications platform. The financing was co-led by Origin Ventures and Leo Capital Holdings, both based in suburban Chicago. This funding follows a $1.2 million seed round raised in 2007.  Current Shoutlet customers include American Family Insurance, Solo, and Cannondale.

Link:  Press Release