The Tornante Company

The Tornante Company, LLC

Type	Private
Industry	Private equity, Venture capital
Founded	2005
Founder	Michael Eisner
Headquarters	Beverly Hills, California, United States
Key people	Michael Eisner
Owner	Michael Eisner
Website	www.tornante.com

The Tornante Company, LLC is an American privately held investment firm founded and owned by former The Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner in 2005. Tornante invests in, acquires and operate media and entertainment companies.

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]

Holdings

Current investment holdings 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.
• 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]
• Clique Media
• Judge Faith
• Littlstar - Virtual Reality Network
• Mysticons - an animated series co-produced by Nelvana
• Portsmouth F.C. - English football club.

References

External links

• The Tornante Company (company website)