Fantom (company)
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| Founded | 2009 |
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| Founder | Paul Healy, Áine Maria Mizzoni |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Headquarters location | Dublin |
| Publication types | online sticker albums |
| No. of employees | 5 |
| Official website | fantom.tv |
Fantom is an online sticker album publisher and software developer founded in 2009. It is a privately owned company based in Dublin, Ireland. The company both sells the software platform to brands and licenses content onto its platform to create online sticker albums. The Fantom Online Sticker Album platform was launched in April 2012, using content from the US Impact Wrestling franchise. The company began life as a social media tool for politics, under the brand iCitizen. When this proved not to be a commercial idea the founders pivoted into the newly defined digital collectibles space. It won a place on the inaugural DCU Propeller Venture Accelerator in 2011,[1] securing a €30,000 investment in the company.[citation needed] Later that year a full Seed Fund round was completed bringing the total of outside investment in the company to €490,000.[2] Investors include the Irish government agency Enterprise Ireland, the AIB Seed Capital Fund[3] and a number of private investors: Kevin Neary, and Bloom Equity (Conor Stanley and Tadhg O'Toole).[4]
Clients
[edit]Several English soccer clubs use the Fantom platform as a digital engagement tool on their Facebook pages. These include Queens Park Rangers,[5] Derby County FC,[6] and Wolverhampton Wanderers.[7]
Licences
[edit]As of January 2018 Fantom held the following licences:[citation needed]
- Adote Abrolhos
- Fifth Harmony
- Guinness World Records
- King John's Castle
Software engine
[edit]The Fantom publishing platform is a suite of tools for creating online sticker albums, built in PHP and MySQL.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "About Propeller Venture Accelerator". ryanacademy.ie. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013.
- ^ "Start-up Fantom takes collectors' cards online". The Irish Times. December 2011. Archived from the original on 16 December 2011.
- ^ "AIB Seed Capital Fund Portfolio". aibseedcapitalfund.ie. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012.
- ^ "Bloom Equity Portfolio". bloomequity.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012.
- ^ "QPR – Online Sticker Album". qpr.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 March 2013.
- ^ "Facebook app firm Fantom wins deal with UK football club Derby County". siliconrepublic.com. 3 January 2013.
- ^ "Fantom – Funding, Valuation, Investors, News | Parsers VC". parsers.vc. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
