Amit Chowdhry | August 25, 2011 | 385 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Brett Wander, Dave Roux, Dave Whorton, Michelle Yee Sangster, Peter Relan, Praful Shah, Winston Cho, YouWeb

YouWeb is the social incubator that was behind OpenFeint, Sibblingz, CrowdStar, and iSwifter. YouWeb has raised $2 million in funding from several angel investors including Dave Roux, Dave Whorton, Praful Shah, Brett Wander, Winston Cho and Peter Relan. YouWeb previously raised $700,000.

Amit Chowdhry | May 23, 2011 | 708 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Crowdstar, Intel Capital, Peter Relan, Suren Markosian, Time Warner Investments

CrowdStar is a social gaming company that has just raised $23 million in a first round of funding led by Intel Capital and Time Warner Investments. CrowdStar will be using the funding to hire additional talent and globally expand.

Amit Chowdhry | October 21, 2010 | 555 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Aurora Feint, OpenFeint, Peter Relan

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has invested $3 million into social gaming platform company Aurora Feint. Aurora is best known for creating OpenFeint, a game score platform commonly used on Apple iPhone and Google Android games. OpenFeint also gives gamers access to leaderboards, virtual currencies, and achievements.
