The Tornante Company

The Tornante Company, LLC

Type	Private
Industry	Private equity, Venture capital
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Beverly Hills, California, United States
Website	www.tornante.com

The Tornante Company, LLC is a privately held investment firm founded 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.^[1]

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.^[2]
• Judge Faith

Andy Redman, is responsible for sourcing transactions for Tornante.^[3]

References

2. http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/netflix-adds-bojack-horseman-animated-comedy-to-originals-stable-1200944280/
3. After Disney, Eisner Finds a Home Online. New York Times, November 22, 2008

External links

• The Tornante Company (company website)