{"id":673383,"date":"2010-02-24T03:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T08:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-02-23:article\/419-mobile-gaming-firm-ngmoco-gets-25-million-buys-iphone-game-maker-freeve"},"modified":"2010-02-24T03:34:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T08:34:36","slug":"mobile-gaming-firm-ngmoco-gets-25-million-buys-iphone-game-maker-freeverse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673383","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Gaming Firm Ngmoco Gets $25 Million, Buys iPhone Game-Maker Freeverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Tis the season of games: Ngmoco<\/a>, the SF-based mobile phone games developer focused on iPhone platform, has raised a big $25 million round of funding on its third round. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, along with the company\u2019s previous investors, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners and Maples Investments. The two year-old company founded by former EAer Neil Young has has success in 2009 with games such as Rolando 2, Star Defense, Eliminate Pro and Touch Pets Dogs<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Along with this funding, it has also bought rival gaming firm Freeverse<\/a>, for an undisclosed amount. The NYC-based company was founded about 15 years, and hit iPhone titles such as Skee-Ball, Moto Chaser, Flick Fishing, SlotZ Racer, Flick Bowling and NBA Hotshot<\/em>, among many others. Freeverse will retain its own name, brand and management, under the Ngmoco umbrella. Details here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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‘Tis the season of games: Ngmoco, the SF-based mobile phone games developer focused on iPhone platform, has raised a big $25 million round of funding on its third round. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, along with the company\u2019s previous investors, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners and Maples Investments. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Pb1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}