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
 
 
FUND RAISING 
Database Reference:  F231109-342
 
Business:  BrightRoll
Web:  http://www.brightroll.com
Other Web Links: Blog
Location:  USA, San Francisco, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Video advertising network, helps major brands and agencies execute “smart video ad campaigns” across the industry’s leading publishers, including three-fourths of the top 100 online media properties in the United States
Category: Advertising, Video
Contact 1:  Tod M. Sacerdoti Chief Executive Officer
Contact 2:  Dru Nelson Chief Technical Officer
Contact 3:  Rob Theis, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners (joins the board) 
 
Investors:  Led by Scale Venture Partners. Existing investors True Ventures, Adams Street Capital and KPG Ventures also participated in this funding round.
Amount raised:  $10,000,000 
 
Details:  BrightRoll has secured $10M in Series C financing bringing the company’s total venture funding to $16M since its launch in July 2006. The company, which also announced today that it has been profitable for nearly the entire last 12 months, will use this round of financing to expand its technology platform, worldwide advertiser and publisher operations, and increase its leadership position in the U.S. BrightRoll also announced today that Rob Theis, Managing Director with Scale Venture Partners, has joined the board.

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:  F231109-341
 
Business:  Glam Media
Web:  http://www.GlamMedia.com
Other Web Links: Twitter
Location:  USA, Brisbane, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Glam Media describes itself asa vertical media company that connects brand advertisers with targeted vertical audiences online.  It has has over 1,400 publishers organized in vertical networks: Glam.com for Women, Brash.com for Men and Tinker.com for real-time Social Media.
Category: Media, Advertising
Contact 1:  Samir Arora, Founder, Chairman and CEO
Contact 2:  Fernando Ruarte, Co-Founder, CTO and EVP Engineering
Contact 3:  Raj Narayan, Co-Founder, Architect and VP, Engineering
Contact 4:  Ernie Cicogna, Co-Founder, EVP Glam Global Partners
Contact 5:  Stephen Recht, CFO
Contact 6:  Dr. Marcel Reichart, Managing Director of DLD Ventures

Investors:  Led by Aeris CAPITAL with existing Glam Media Series D Investors Burda Digital Holding—the digital arm of Hubert Burda Media—and Mizuho Capital participating.
 
Round:  Series E round
Amount raised:  $50,000,000
 
Details:  Glam Media, Inc. has raised approximately $50 million in a private equity mezzanine funding. The new funding will be used to open a Digital Media Technology Center, invest in new International markets, launch new Audience-based Vertical Channels, do strategic M&A to build the Glam Media Platform and build an alternative to portals for top brand advertisers.It is thought by some commentators that the values the company at $750 million.

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:  F231109-341
 
Business:  BlueKai
Web:  http://www.bluekai.com
Other Web Links: 
Location:  USA, Seattle, WA
Region:  North America
Business description:  Online intent data exchange to better connect advertisers with their target consumers online. BlueKai aggregates shopping and research activities across the Internet, offering non-personally identifiable actionable data to marketers, ad networks, and publishers on over 200 million retail, travel, auto, education and financial product shoppers online.
Category: Marketing, Market Research
Contact 1:  Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai
Contact 2:  Jeff Richards, Partner at GGV Capital
 
Investors:  Led by GGV Capital www.ggvc.com  (formerly Granite Global Ventures). The round includes investments from existing investors Redpoint Ventures www.redpoint.com and Battery Ventures www.battery.com .

Amount raised:  $13,700,000
 
Details:  BlueKai has closed a C round of financing .  The company had previously raised a total of $13.7 million in two rounds of funding from Redpoint and Battery. As part of the current funding round, BlueKai added Jeff Richards, Partner at GGV Capital, to its 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
 

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Database Reference:  F231109-340
 
Business:  yodle
Web:  http://www.yodle.com
Other Web Links: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
Location:  USA, New York, NY
Region:  North America
Business description:  Provider of local online advertising and lead generation services
Category: Advertising
Contact:  Court Cunningham, Chief Executive Officer
 
Investors:  Led by JAFCO Ventures and joined by Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth 
 
Amount raised:  $10,000,000 
 
Details:  Yodle has completed a $10 million Series D funding round. The round brings Yodle’s total financing to $38 million. The investment will be used for increased investment in innovation and new product launches to be announced in the coming months.

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
 
 
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Database Reference:  F231109-339
 
Business:  iChange Networks
Web:  http://www.ichange.com
Other Web Links: Blog,  Twitter, Facebook
Location:  USA, Pasadena, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:   Online health and Weight-Loss Community Led by Professional Counselors
Category: Social Network, Health
Contact 1:  Stuart MacFarlane, CEO of iChange Twitter
Contact 2:  Andy Wilson, Managing Director of Momentum Venture Management

Investors:  Momentum Venture Management of Los Angeles

Amount raised:  Undisclosed 
 
Details:  iChange Networks  has announced that it closed a funding round with Momentum Venture Management () in a syndicate with angel investors. Stuart MacFarlane, a principal at Momentum, has been appointed as the company’s CEO.

Link:  Press Release