Original sentence: Amanat founded the now-defunct Tradescape, a day-trading and related technology firm brokerage that in 2002 was acquired by E*Trade.He subsequently got involved in film industry financing
Edited sentence: Amanat is a businessman and entrepreneur who founded several film and financial technology companies including Tradescape, a brokerage and technology firm that is reported to have processed 7% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume and was named one of the "Top 50 Private Companies in the United States" with annual revenues of $250 million.He began his entrepreneurial career at Datek Online, which was sold to Ameritrade for $1.3 Billion.He subsequently founded several film companies and became an Executive Producer of socially responsible films including the Academy Award nominated The Visitor, Darfur Now, Smart People, and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.He went on to co-design the trading platform Cybertrader with Philip Berber which was sold to Charles Schwab for $488 million.In 2002, E*Trade acquired Tradescape for $276.2 million in total consideration including $96.2 million in initial consideration, plus $180 million in contingent consideration