Amit Chowdhry | December 10, 2010 | 587 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under 8D World, Alex Wang, Gobi Partners, Mizuho Venture Capital, Spark Capital
8D World is a Shanghai based educational massively multiplayer player online game platform that has raised $5.25 million in Series B. 8D World’s flagship product is called Wiz World Online. The founder and CEO of 8D World is Alex Wang. Wang learned English when he was a kid in China. The investors in this round were Mizuho Capital of Japan, Spark Capital, and Gobi Partners. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | April 7, 2009 | 676 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Glam Media, Hubert Burda Media, Mizuho Venture Capital
Glam Media has raised another $10 million in funding as announced today. The funding came from overseas. Mizuho Venture Capital (Japan) and Hubert Burda Media (Germany) led the investment. Thus far, Glam has raised a total of $124 million.
In addition to the funding, Glam has also formed a joint venture to create Glam Media Japan KK. Through the joint venture, ad agencies Dentsu and ADK invested in Glam’s Japan unit. Magazine publishers Shogagukan and Syueisya also invested in Glam Japan.
Glam receives about 3 million unique visitors of local women per month in Germany.
[via CenterNetworks]
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