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William Morris Involved in $500M SPAC For M&A In Entertainment Sector; Ashton Kutcher On Board

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

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In the weirdly complex world of blank-check IPOs and SPACs, this one is a bit of a puzzler: the talent agency William Morris (WMA), along with John Mass, EVP and head of corp dev and new ventures at the agency, and two other SPAC vets, have recently filed to raise about $500 million in [...]

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Tags: World Wide Web · business · venture capital · web series

WMA’s New Fund: The MailRoom Fund

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

So that’s the name, I found out: William Morris Agency, which announced its then un-named fund along with Accel Partners and Venrock, now has a name for it: The MailRoom Fund. The explanation: rising from the mailroom…David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Mike Ovitz did, as did others. Richard Wolpert, the former president of Disney Online [...]

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Tags: World Wide Web · venture capital

Talent agency helps launch venture fund

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Talent agency helps launch venture fund - The Los Angeles Times
The entity, backed by William Morris and others, will invest in tech and media firms.
Entrepreneurs seeking cash for new-media start-ups get a new door to knock on today.
William Morris Agency is teaming up with Silicon Valley venture capital firms Accel Partners and Venrock as well [...]

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Tags: business · new media