Flashy Finance Acquires Funny Till U Die

Flashy Finance Acquires StoryFire to Launch Flashy Social

May 8, 2025

Media & Entertainment

San Francisco-based Flashy Finance has acquired social video and streaming platform StoryFire and will fold the platform into a new product vertical called Flashy Social. The deal brings StoryFire’s ~2.5 million users into Flashy’s cultural finance ecosystem to enable creator monetization, token incentives, and next‑generation streaming mechanics.

Flashy Finance Acquires BeeMee.Buzz

April 22, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Flashy Finance has acquired BeeMee, a music-first social platform focused on karaoke, remixing, and creator-driven music distribution, and will integrate it into a new music division called Flashy Buzz. The acquisition expands Flashy’s financial protocol stack into the audio/sound layer to enable sing-to-earn mechanics, tokenized fandom, and audio-based creator monetization.

Tiny Acquires HappyFunCorp for $30M

July 3, 2023

IT Services

Canadian acquirer Tiny has purchased Brooklyn-based product engineering firm HappyFunCorp for $30 million in a deal combining cash and shares. HappyFunCorp — a profitable, bootstrapped app and product engineering shop (2022 revenue ~$12M) — will remain independently operated in Brooklyn with its leadership team staying on post-close.

FACTZ, LLC Acquires HollywoodLife.com

August 3, 2023

Media & Entertainment

FACTZ, a digital media company focused on Gen-Z and millennial audiences, has acquired celebrity entertainment news site HollywoodLife.com from owner Bonnie Fuller. The acquisition brings HollywoodLife’s audience and social reach into FACTZ’s portfolio as the buyer looks to expand its footprint in celebrity/pop-culture news.

The TIFIN Group Acquires Assets of Totum Risk and myFinancialAnswers

March 24, 2021

Financial Services

The TIFIN Group acquired the assets of risk-profiling firm Totum Risk and personal financial planning provider myFinancialAnswers to accelerate the launch of its risk and financial planning solutions. The CEOs of both businesses, Larry Shumbres and Ben Pitts, will join TIFIN; Totum's brand will be retained while the financial planning offering will launch under a new, unannounced brand. Terms were not disclosed.

GoFundMe Acquires Classy

January 13, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

GoFundMe has completed its all-equity acquisition of Classy, the San Diego–based nonprofit fundraising SaaS platform, with Classy continuing to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. The combined company aims to create a global leader in modern giving across B2C and B2B, expanding product capabilities (including workplace giving) and leveraging scale to better connect donors and nonprofit organizations.