The Appside » start-ups http://www.theappside.com Fri, 17 May 2013 15:21:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Big funding rounds for Path, Funzio and Zattikka http://www.theappside.com/2012/04/17/big-funding-rounds-for-path-funzio-and-zattikka/ http://www.theappside.com/2012/04/17/big-funding-rounds-for-path-funzio-and-zattikka/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:32:32 +0000 Admin http://www.theappside.com/?p=5827 Is the apps world in a financial bubble? Plenty of VC firms and investors continue to disagree. This week has seen a flurry of funding news from consumer-focused mobile app startups. Starting with the most high-profile: photo-sharing app Path, which has raised more than $30m of new funding in a round led by Redpoint. “In this case, we were struck by the combination of audacious vision, intellect, product sense, leadership, humor and modesty of Dave Morin and the design brilliance that Dustin Mierau brings to Path,” says Redpoint’s hyperbolic blog post. Elsewhere, European social and mobile games firm Zattikka has raised £12.6m by going public, and bought three development studios with more to come. Finally – albeit still speculation for now – mobile social games firm Funzio is reportedly raising $50m at a valuation of $350m. Although leaking this could be a canny way of smoking out potential acquirers… More (Path) - http://tinyurl.com/csu2gke More (Zattikka) - http://tinyurl.com/czee5wr More (Funzio) - http://tinyurl.com/7m5kuas

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]]> Is the apps world in a financial bubble? Plenty of VC firms and investors continue to disagree. This week has seen a flurry of funding news from consumer-focused mobile app startups. Starting with the most high-profile: photo-sharing app Path, which has raised more than $30m of new funding in a round led by Redpoint. “In this case, we were struck by the combination of audacious vision, intellect, product sense, leadership, humor and modesty of Dave Morin and the design brilliance that Dustin Mierau brings to Path,” says Redpoint’s hyperbolic blog post. Elsewhere, European social and mobile games firm Zattikka has raised £12.6m by going public, and bought three development studios with more to come. Finally – albeit still speculation for now – mobile social games firm Funzio is reportedly raising $50m at a valuation of $350m. Although leaking this could be a canny way of smoking out potential acquirers…

More (Path) - http://tinyurl.com/csu2gke
More (Zattikka) - http://tinyurl.com/czee5wr
More (Funzio) - http://tinyurl.com/7m5kuas

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