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Industry
  
Learning Solutions

Products
  
Fuse

Founded
  
2008

Founder
  
Steve Dineen

Brands
  
Fuse

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Headquarters
  
1 Curtain Road, EC2A3LT, London, UK

Services
  
Fuse Create Fuse Consult

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Fuse Universal Ltd. is a Learning Solutions Company based in Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom.

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The company was founded in 2008 by Steve Dineen, the Chief Storyteller and CEO. The team's collective experience includes designing online learning and knowledge solutions for a wide variety of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies.

The company has been through a recent round of funding and the team is growing rapidly. Currently, the organisation is made up of 55 employees. The main product is the Fuse platform, entirely cloud-based using Amazon Web Services build on Ruby on Rails and available on all devices supporting iOS and Android systems.

As well as the platform, Fuse Universal offers professional services such as Fuse Create and Fuse Consult. Fuse Universal runs its own foundation called Fuse School, which is a non-profit arm of the organisation offering educational videos to children and adults across the world via You Tube and the Fuse School platform.

History

Founder of Fuse, Steve Dineen, begun work at Ingram Micro in pre-sales consultancy until given the opportunity to pursue training and teaching via high-end systems. Afterwards he founded elearning company Fuel which was subsequently sold 10 years later to a US compliance and ethics company in 2007.

The main product, which is the Fuse platform, evolved from the Fuse School. This is a foundation and charity, established in 2008, helping to share free of charge Maths, English and ICT secondary school curricula all over the world.

Two years later in 2010 the platform sold on licenses, was brought to the world and called Fusion Universal. After two and half years of operating in the market, the company was renamed to Fuse Universal.

Fuse

Fuse is a cloud based platform that allows individuals to capture and share knowledge, questions and ideas in video, audio or text format. The purpose of the software is to increase information accessibility within a company by recording and sharing examples of best practice or discussions from experts in the same industry.

The Fuse platform can be accessed from any internet enabled device, such as a smartphone, tablet, computer or laptop.

Awards and distinctions

In 2010, Fuse won the Gold award for outstanding achievement for a corporate at the E-learning Awards.

In 2011, Fuse won the Bronze award for Most innovative new Learning hardware or software product at the E-learning Awards.

In 2015, Fuse with its clients' entries won the Silver award in all of the following categories:

  • Best use of Mobile learning - Vodafone and the Fuse app
  • Best online Distance Learning Programme - MyLifetime - Lifetime training's online personal training diploma
  • Best LMS implementation - The Future is Here - How Rentokil Initial moved to the future in 12 weeks
  • References

    Fuse Universal Wikipedia