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