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:  F231109-278
 
Business:  SendGrid
Web:  http://sendgrid.com
Location:  USA, Colorado
Region:  North America
Business description:  SendGrid is an email service that solves the problems faced by companies delivering email. These problems include email deliverability, scalability, metrics, and the time consuming tasks to implement email features such as unsubscribe links, anti-spam regulations, and corporate branding.
Category: Technology
Contact 1:  Isaac Saldana, CEO & founder isaac@sendgrid.com
Contact 2:  Tim Jenkins, Co-founder & Backend Engineer tim@sendgrid.com
Contact 3:  Jose Lopez, Co-founder & Frontend Engineer jose@sendgrid.com
 
Investors:  Led by  Highway 12 Ventures, with  SoftTech VC,  FF Angel LLC, TechStars-founders  David Cohen and other angel investors participating. Incubated by TechStars,
 
Round:  Round A
Amount raised:  $750,000
 
Details:  SendGrid has raised $750,000 in Series A funding. SendGrid will use the funds to to expand its development, marketing and sales efforts.
 
Link:  Washington Post

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:  F231109-277
 
Business:  Gowella
Web:  http://gowalla.com/
Location:  USA, Austin, TX
Region:  North America
Business description:  Location-based social networking service. The Gowalla service is currently available on iPhone and Android.
Category: Social Network
Contact 1:  Josh Williams, co-founder and CEO of Gowalla
Contact 2:  David Thacker, Graylock Partners
Contact 3:  Reid Hoffman, Graylock Partners
 
Investors:  Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Greylock Partners led the round. New investors joining this round include: Shasta Ventures, Maples Investments, Ron Conway, Kevin Rose, Gary Vaynerchuk, Shervin Pishevar, Jason Calacanis and Chris Sacca. Existing investors Alsop-Louie Partners and Founders Fund also participated in the round.
  
Round:  Round B
Amount raised:  $8,400,000
 
Details:  Gowalla has completed a Series B funding round totaling $8.4 million. The capital infusion will be used to strengthen growth efforts and further enhance Gowalla’s development capability. Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Co-Founder and Executive Chairman and Partner at Greylock, will join Gowalla as a board observer. With this latest funding, Gowalla has now raised more than $10 million since it was founded in 2007.

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:  F231109-275
 
Business:  Mochila
Web:  http://www.mochila.com
Location:  USA, Delaware
Region:  North America
Business description:  Online marketplace for syndicated content from hundreds of the world’s leading content providers
Category: Syndication
Contact 1:  Benjamin Chen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Contact 2:  Carolyn Bekkedahl, President, Chief Revenue Officer
 
Investors:  The SEC filing shows that The Greenspun Group and Charles River Ventures have returned for this round of funding. Previous investors are Charles River Ventures, Greenspun Corporation, Jerry Colonna, Mission Ventures and A.H. Belo Corporation
  
Amount raised:  $1,005,118 of $2,010,237 offered
 
Details:  Content syndicator Mochila has raised $1 million. According to paidContent http://paidcontent.org/article/419-content-syndicator-mochila-raising-2-million-in-funding-/ the company has raised over $30 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:  F231109-274
 
Business:  Outside.in
Web:  http://www.outside.in
Location:  USA, Brooklyn, NY
Region:  North America
Business description:  Local media and advertising
Category: Media: Advertising
Contact:  Mark Josephson, CEO, Outside.in

 
Investors:  Led by Union Square Ventures and including CNN Worldwide as a strategic investor. The round includes all previous venture investors, including Village Ventures, Betaworks, the New York City Investment Fund and Milestone Venture Partners, as well as continued support from a strong group of angel investors.
Contact 1:  Said Fred Wilson, principal at Union Square Ventures
Contact 2:  KC Estenson, SVP and general manager, CNN.com 

Round:  Round B
Amount raised:  $7,000,000
 
Details:  Outside.in the hyperlocal content and advertising platform, has announced the close of a $7 million B round of financing. As part of its investment, CNN Worldwide entered into a concurrent multi-year deal to use the Outside.in for Publishers aggregation and curation platform to power hyperlocal news across all of CNN.com and its related properties. The first implementations are expected to be completed in Q1 of 2010.

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
 
ACQUISITION 
FDN Database Reference:  F231109-264
 
Acquirer:  Apple
ACQ Web:  http://www.apple.com
Location:  USA, Cupertino, CA
Region:  North America
Description:  American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and computer software products
Category:  consumer electronics: software
Contact:  Steve Jobs, CEO http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html
 
 Vendor:  Lala
Vendor Web:  http://www.lala.com/
Location:  USA, Palo Alto, CA
Region:  North America
Description:  Online music store allows members to buy, and share music on the web.
Category: Retail
Contact:  Bill Nguyen, founder
 
Aprox. Value:  Undisclosed ($17,000,000 according to TechCrunch)
 
Details:  Apple has acquired music retailer Lala.com. The company was started in 2006 with $35m in venture capital from Bain Capital, Ignition Partners and Warner Music.
 
Link: New York Times

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:  F231109-273
 
Business:  Ideeli
Web:  http://www.ideeli.com
Location:  USA, Paterson, NJ
Region:  North America
Business description:  Members only shopping community. Offers limited-time sale events – fashion, home and beauty.
Category: Retail
 
Investors:  StarVest Partners and Constellation Growth Capital plus previous investor Kodiak Venture Partners
  
Round:  Round B
Amount raised:  $20,000,000
Participants:  3
 
Details:  Ideeli Inc. has raised $20 million in Series B funding.

Link:  PE Hub

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:  F231109-272
 
Business:  Fotopedia
Web:  http://www.fotopedia.com
Location:  USA, Delaware
Region:  North America
Business description:  A photo encyclopedia that lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole world wide web. Provide an  avenue for photographers to promote their premium content
Category: Images: Database
Contact:  Jean-Marie Hullot, founder
 
Investors:  Ignition Partners, Banexi Ventures and Jean-Marie Hullot, one of the founders of Fotonauts.
  
Amount raised:  $1,100,000
 
Details:  Fotopedia has raised $1.1 million in 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:  F231109-271
 
Business:  Friends Around Me
Web:  http://friendsaround.me/
Location:  USA, Miami, FL
Region:  North America
Business description:  Mobile social networking service with added geo-awareness.
Category: Social Network: Mobile
Contact:  Egor Lavrov, founder
 
Investors:  Equintek Corporation,  with offices in Cyprus, Russia and the USA is an international social and mobile game and application development company established in late 2008 by a group of international investors and entrepreneurs. 
  
Amount raised:  $1,000,000
Participants:  
 
Details:  TechCrunch reports that Equintek has invested approximately $1 million in Friends Around Me.

Link:  TechCrunch