Diversion, a Los Angeles-based social gaming studio backed by Shawn Fanning and Michael Eisner – who are billed as ‘founding advisors’ – has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, Hearst Corporation and Eisner’s The Tornante Company. → Read More
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner is now greenlighting social games. His personal investment company, Tornante, is backing an LA startup, Diversion, which is about to launch a new social game on Facebook called FameTown. According to an SEC filing, the amount of the seed round was $300,000.
FameTown is modeled after Zynga’s FarmVille or Mafia Wars, except that you try to become a Hollywood… → Read More
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