Atom Tickets Completes Series B Financing
Summary
Atom Tickets, a Santa Monica, CA-based theatrical mobile ticketing platform and app, completed a Series B round of financing.The amount of the deal was not disclosed.Backers included The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), 20th Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA) and Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF).Co-founded by Matthew Bakal, Executive Chairman, and Ameesh Paleja, CEO, Atom Tickets is a social, mobile ticketing platform designed to allow movie fans to purchase tickets and concessions, coordinate and invite friends without having to pay for them, and skip the lines at the theater, where they scan their QR codes at tablet scanners.The app is currently available in both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in select test markets, with a full national rollout planned for later this year.