Ex-Goldman Banker’s Film Website Gets Funds, Samsung Deal
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MUBI, an online-movie service catering to independent and art-house film enthusiasts, said it’s closing a $7.5 million fundraising this week after hooking up with Samsung Electronics Co. to offer its service worldwide.
Joe Osnoss and Simon Patterson, co-heads of Silver Lake Management LLC’s Europe investment business, film producer Eric Fellner, and Pascal Cagni, who oversaw Apple Inc.’s Europe, Middle East, India and Africa operations as vice president until 2012, are among MUBI’s investors, Chief Executive Officer Efe Cakarel said in a London interview. Samsung, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and televisions, agreed to offer the service on its smart televisions and BluRay devices, he said.