Amit Chowdhry | November 18, 2010 | 625 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under GameGround, Novel TMT, Novel TMT Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Capital, Vodafone Ventures

GameGround has raised $5.3 million in Series B funding from several VC firms. Based in New York, GameGround was founded by former MTV, Blizzard, and 888.com executives.

Amit Chowdhry | June 4, 2009 | 826 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under GameGround, Guy Margolin, Itzik Ben-Bassat, Sequoia Capital, Shaul Olmert

GameGround is a game expansion development company based in Israel. Currently they do not have any published products and they are labeling themselves as being in alpha phase. Despite the lack of a product to showcase, the company has raised $6.1 million already. The latest round is $4.1 million from Sequoia.
GameGround was started in 2007 and was founded by Shaul Olmert, Guy Margolin, and Itzik Ben-Bassat. The three of them have some sort previous history in game development. Ben-Bassat used to work at Blizzard and Margolin worked at 888.com. Olmert is a former MTV VP in their Digital Products division.
The basic idea behind GameGround’s product is that will serve as a “special agent for Mac and PC that can work with existing games to expand their online functionality, even after they’re released,” according to TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid.