: SlingShot Gets Funding; To Develop Online/Mobile Talent Agency

Four former Yahoo execs have formed an online talent agency called SlingShot Media, and have received first round of funding. Peter Guber and Paul Schaeffer, co-founders and current chairman and vice chairman of the Mandalay Entertainment Group, have invested in the round.

The company will “package products and talent for distribution online and through other digital devices.” It has signed on clients including: “Icebox 2.0″; “Sunday Morning Shootout,” the weekly talk show focused on the entertainment industry and hosted by Peter Guber and Peter Bart; Dr. Drew Pinsky; among others.

The founders are former Yahoo execs: Joel Wright, C.J. Bowden, David Fisch and Lori Macias.

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