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:  F231109-314
 
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

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:  F231109-281
 
Acquirer:  The Walt Disney Company
ACQ Web:  http://www.disney.com
Location:  USA, Burbank, CA
Region:  North America
Description:  International family entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, interactive media and consumer products. Revenues of approximately $36 billion in its most recent fiscal year.
Category:  Media, Entertainment
Contact:  Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer  
 
Vendor:  Marvel Entertainment
Vendor Web:  http://www.marvel.com
Location:  USA, New York, NY
Region:  North America
Description:  A global character-based entertainment and licensing company founded in 1939.
Category: Media, Entertainment
Contact:  Isaac Perlmutter, Vice Chairman and CEO
 
Aprox. Value:  Marvel shareholders will receive a total of $30 a share in cash plus approximately 0.7452 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own. Based on the closing price of Disney’s common stock on December 30, 2009, the estimated value is approximately $4.3 billion
 
Details:  Disney has completed its acquisition of character franchise company, Marvel Entertainment Inc
 
Link: Marvel release    Disney 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
 
ACQUISITION 
FDN Database Reference:  F231109-279
 
Acquirer:  Twitter
ACQ Web:  http://www.twitter.com
Location:  San Francisco, CA.
Region:  North America
Description:  Free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets
Category:  Social Network, Blog
Contact 1:  Jack Dorsey, Chairman
Contact 2:  Evan Williams, CEO 
 
Vendor:  Mixer Labs
Vendor Web:  http://www.geoapi.com  
Region:  North America
Description:  Creators of GeoAPI a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications.
Category: Twitter API
Contact 1:  Elad Gil, co-founder and CEO of GeoAPI.com / Mixer Labs / TownMe  Twitter
Contact 2:  Othman Laraki, co-founder and President of GeoAPI.com / Mixer Labs / TownMe

Aprox. Value:  Undisclosed
 
Details:  From the Twitter Blog, “We will be looking at how to integrate the work Mixer Labs has done with the Twitter API in useful ways that give developers behind geo-enabled apps like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, Twittelator Pro and others powerful new possibilities”.
 
Link: Twitter 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:  F231109-308
 
Business:  WePay
Web:  https://www.wepay.com
Location:  USA, San Jose, CA
Region:  North America
Business description:  “WePay is a payment tool for clubs, organizations, and associations to instantly create accounts for anything. These accounts provide electronic billing and collection through echecks, credit cards, and paper checks, and enable transparent spending through WePay debit cards, online bill pay, and electronic transfers.
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Category: Online payments
Contact 1:  Bill Clerico, CEO and co founder
Contact 2:  Rich Aberman, co founder
 
Investors:  August Capital and angel investors, including former Intuit CTO Eric Dunn, contributed to the round
  
Amount raised:  $1,600,000
 
Details:  Online payments company raises $1,600,000
Link:  Scott Kirsner’s blog on Boston.com   Recent Regulatory Filing