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The Tornante Company

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Website
  
www.tornante.com

Founded
  
2005

Headquarters
  
Beverly Hills

Type of business
  
Private

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Industry
  
Private equity, Venture capital

The Tornante Company, LLC is a privately held investment firm founded and owned by former The Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner in 2005. Tornante invests in and creates media and entertainment.

At Webby Connect, Michael Eisner said that the name came from a bike trip he took in Italy; he found out that Tornante means hairpin turn in Italian.

Tornante is based in Beverly Hills, California.

Eisner's company signed a worldwide distribution deal with Universal Pictures to release the firm's slate of films.

Investments

Current ventures for the firm include:

  • Vuguru - online video production company responsible for web series Prom Queen, which made its debut on MySpace and has been the first major hit from Tornante.
  • Veoh - online video sharing site, rival to YouTube. Sold to Qlipso in Spring 2010.
  • Team Baby Entertainment - Children's sports DVD and production company.
  • Topps Company - Sports trading card and bubble gum maker.
  • Glenn Martin, DDS - stop-motion animation series which premiered in August 2009 on Nick at Nite.
  • BoJack Horseman - an animated comedy series which premiered in August 2014 on Netflix.
  • Judge Faith

    • Andy Redman is responsible for sourcing transactions for Tornante.

    References

    The Tornante Company Wikipedia
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