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:  F231109-283
 
Acquirer:  WebMediaBrands
ACQ Web:  http://www.webmediabrands.com
Location:  USA, New York, NY
Region:  North America
Description:   Global provider of events, education, jobs, and content for business, media, and creative professionals
Category:  Media
Contact:  Alan M. Meckler, Chairman and CEO  Twitter
 
Vendor:  Charles Edward Hudson/3rd Power LLC
Vendors Websites:  http://www.thirdpowerllc.com : http://www.socialgamingsummit2009.com : http://www.vgsummit.com : http://www.igsummit.com
Location:  
Region:  North America
Description:  3rd Power’s main assets are three social media tradeshows (Social Gaming Summit, Virtual Goods Summit and iGames Summit), as well as several new tradeshows to be launched in 2010.
Category: Events
Contact:  Charles Edward Hudson (now a consultant to WebMediaBrands)
 
Aprox. Value:  Undisclosed
 
Details:  WebMediaBrands Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM),has acquired all of the equity of 3rd Power LLC from Charles Edward Hudson
 
Link: Press Release
 
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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
 
FUND RAISING 
Database Reference:  F231109-314
 
Business:  viralheat
Web:  http://viralheat.com
Location:  USA, San Jose, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Social media measurement platform
Category: Media monitoring
Contact:  Raj Kadam, CEO  Twitter
 
Investors:  Undisclosed
  
Amount raised:  $75,000 
 
Details:  Social media monitoring firm viralheat raises $75,000 in debt funding

Link:  Regulatory Filing

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:  F231109-313
 
Business:  Twilio
Web:  http://www.twilio.com      Twitter
Location:  USA, San Francisco, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Provides a web-service API for businesses to build scalable communications apps that make and receive phone calls.
Category: Telecommunications, Technology
Contact 1:  Jeff Lawson, co-founder
Contact 2:  John Wolthuis, co-founder
Contact 3:  Evan Cooke, co-founder
 
Investors:  The round was lead by Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures who will become a board director.
  
Amount raised:  $3,700,000 
 
Details:  Twilio raise $3.7M to expand product development, sales, and marketing efforts. Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures will become a board director. Also joining the board is Dave McClure of original March 09 seed funder Founders Fund. David Cohen, Chris Sacca, Manu Kumar, Mitch Kapor, and other angel investors also participated in the seed round.

Link:  Twilio Blog (30 Dec 09)

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:  F231109-312
 
Business:  Whiskey Media
Web:  http://www.whiskeymedia.com
Location:  USA, Sausalito, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Web media company and parent company of Giant Bomb, Comic Vine, and Anime Vice
Category: Media, Social Network, Blog
Contact:  Shelby Bonnie, Founder Linkedin
 
Investors:  According to the Whiskey Media blog, “friends and family”

Amount raised:  $2,500,000
 
Details:  The funds will be used to launch more sites and hire more people.
Link:  Whiskey Media blog

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:  F231109-311
 
Business:  ChaCha Search
Web:  http://www.chacha.com
Location:  USA, Carmel, IN
Region:  North America
Business description:  Mobile answers text service
Category: Mobile
Contact:  Christopher Brown, President, Secretary, Treasurer & Chief Operating Officer
 
Investors:  Undisclosed
 
Amount raised:  $7,000,000
 
Details:  ChaCha has raised $7 million funding bringing ChaCha’s total funding to just under $70 million.
Link:  Regulatory Filing

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:  F231109-310
 
Business:  23andMe
Web:  https://www.23andme.com
Location:  USA, Mountain View, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Website offering genetic testing
Category: Health
Contact 1:  Linda Avey, Co-Founder
Contact 2:  Anne Wojcicki, Co-Founder  
 
Investors:  Undisclosed

Amount raised:  TechCrunch reports that this is another $14.2 million to close out its $27.8 million Series B round and is anamendment to the  previously reported $11 million raised in May, which was followed by another $2.6 million in June. 
 
Details:  Web based genetics testing business 23andMe closes out a $27.8M funding round
Link:  Regulatory Filing

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:  F231109-309
 
Business:  LOUD3R
Web:  http://www.loud3r.com
Location:  USA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Content aggregation platform that finds, filters and publishes the  news, blogs, photos, videos and social media about any topic using a combination of technology and people.
Category: Agregator, Technology
Contact:  Lowell Goss – founder, CEO  Linkedin
 
Investors:  News York Daily News, owned by Mort Zuckerman

Amount raised:  “multi-million” dollar – total undisclosed
 
Details:  NYDN has taken a “major” stake in the company, though not a majority.
Link:  paidContent