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Booyah公司获得Accel Partners2000万美元的风险投资

发布时间:2010-05-17 07:37:30 Tags:,,,

iphone游戏应用MyTown开发者Booyah日前宣布获得了Accel Partners2000万美元的风险投资,Accel Partners同时也是团购鼻祖groupon的投资者,同时后者的合伙人Jim Breyer也将进入Booyah的管理团队。

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Booyah公司之前也曾获得过900万美元的资金支持。

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mytown

目前MyTown有接近200万的注册用户。与MyTown功能相似的网站还有超过100万用户数的Foursquare和25万用户数的Gowalla。

A mobile social game company called Booyah, best known for its MyTown iPhone app, announced that it has raised $20 million, mostly from Accel Partners.

The giant round is one of many doled out recently for social start-ups, such as Groupon, in which Accel also invested.

Accel’s Jim Breyer will also join Booyah’s board.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has raised $9 million in venture funding until now, mostly from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ $100 million iFund, as well as DAG Ventures.

Both are participating in the new round.

Made up of a team of gaming industry veterans, especially from Blizzard Entertainment, which is now part of Activision Blizzard, Booyah has been on a roll, reaching two million users for MyTown.

MyTown, which is about to come out with a new version, is one of the most popular location-based social games on the Apple (AAPL) mobile devices.

That compares with other social check-in services, such as Foursquare (just over one million) and Gowalla (250,000).

MyTown is slightly different than these services, though, focusing on gaming in its check-ins and virtual goods versus a more discovery element.


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