Fusion Corporate Partners

FUND RAISING

Business: 1020 Placecast
Web: http://www.placecast.net
Location: USA, Seattle, WA
Region: North America
Description: Location-based mobile marketing solution

Amount raised: $5,000,000

Link: Mobile Marketing Watch 

Details: 1020 Placecast has raised $5 million in a second round of funding. New investor Quatrex Capital joined for this round, with participation from previous backers Onset Ventures and Voyagers Capital.
   
Database Fund Raising – November 2009

FUND RAISING

ShoeDazzle.com has raised $7 million in equity funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm.

Business: ShoeDazzle
Web: http://www.shoedazzle.com
Location: USA, Los Angeles, CA
Region: North America
Description: Online shopping assistant for shoes

Contacts: MJ Eng President and Chief Operating Officer
Amount raised: $7,000,000

Links:

• socialTech.com 
• Regulatory  Filing 

   
Database Fund Raising – November 2009

Division: eRetail

FUND RAISING

Business: DocuSign
Web: http://www.docusign.com
Location: USA, Seattle, WA
Region: North America
Description: E-signature service

Contacts: Matthew J. Schiltz, CEO and President
Amount raised: $2,000,000

Press Release  

Details
DocuSign® today announced Second Century Ventures (SCV) has made a strategic investment in the company. As part of the investment, the president of Second Century Ventures and chief executive officer of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), Dale A. Stinton will join the DocuSign Board of Directors. This brings DocuSign’s total funding up to $30 million.

   
Database Fund Raising – November 2009

ACQUISITION

Acquirer: Paltalk
Web: http://blog.paltalk.com
Location: USA, New York, NY
Region: North America
Description: Free Video Chat Rooms and Voice Chat
Contact: Joel Smernoff, CEO

Target: Vumber
Web: http://www.vumber.com
Location: USA, New York, NY
Region: North America
Description:  Mobile Virtual Telephony

Contact:

Mark Brooks, President and CEO

Approximate value: Undisclosed

Details

Paltalk has acquired Vumber  in an effort to capture additional revenues by offering virtual phone numbers to existing subscribers.

Story Link – Paid Content  

Database Acquisitions – November 2009

FUND RAISING

Business: Superfeedr
Web: http://superfeedr.com
Location: USA, New York, NY
Region: North America
Description: Transforms a wide variety of feeds into normalized XMPP or Pubsubhubbub format

Contacts:

• Julien Genestoux , founder Superfeedr
• John Borthwick, Betaworks CEO
• Mark Cuban, owner Dallas Mavericks

Amount raised: Undisclosed

Story Link – Read Write Web 

Details

Superfeedr has raised a seed round from real-time incubator and investment firm Betaworks, along with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban;

   
Database Fund Raising – November 2009

ACQUISITION

Acquirer: Thomson Reuters
Web: http://www.thomsonreuters.com
Location: USA, New York, NY
Region: North America
Description: Information for financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets Contact:

Target: Sabrix, Inc
Web: http://www.sabrix.com
Location: USA, San Ramon, CA
Region: North America
Description: Transaction tax management software applications and related services
Contacts:

• Steve Adams, president and CEO of Sabrix
• Roy M. Martin, Jr., President and CEO of Tax & Accounting

Approximate value: Undisclosed

Details Thomson Reuters announces that its Tax & Accounting business has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sabrix, Inc. Headquartered in San Ramon, CA, with additional operations in Oregon and London, all 160 Sabrix employees will transfer into Tax & Accounting upon the close of the transaction, which is expected in December 2009.

Press Release

Database Acquisitions – November 2009

FUND RAISING

Business: Rockyou
Web: http://rockyou.com
Location: USA, Redwood City, CA
Region: North America
Description: Developer and ad network built around Facebook’s platform

Contact:

• Lisa Marino, vice president of sales
• Lance Tokuda, co founder
• Jia Shen co founder

Amount raised: $50,000,000

Story Link – VentureBeat 

Details

RockYou has  raised $50 million in venture funding from  Softbank. That brings total funding to $119 million. Previous investors include Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International and DCM.

   
Database Fund Raising – November 2009

FUND RAISING

Business: Evernote
Web: http://www.evernote.com
Location: USA, Mountain View, CA
Description: web based multimedia note-taking service
Contact: Stepan Pachikov, founder of Evernote

Amount raised: $10,000,000

Story Link – Everview CEO’s Blog 

Details

Evernote raises $10 million investment Evernote, which lets you record almost any type of data and recall it when you need it, just raised $10 million in a second round of venture-backed financing. It was led by Morgenthaler Ventures, with more funding from earlier investors including  Troika Dialog.

Database: Funding November 2009

FUND RAISING

Business: Expensify
Web: https://www.expensify.com
Location: USA, San Francisco, CA
Description: Online expense report management
Contact: CEO David Barrett

Amount raised: $1,000,000

Story Link – Paid Content 
Details

Expensify has raised a first round of approximately $1 million from Hillsven Capital, Baseline Capital Ventures and Red Swoosh and Scour investor Travis Kalanick.The investment will be used for for new hires and tech development, including the launch of mobile apps for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm.

Database: Funding November 2009