SuperSecret Gets $10 Million for Online Social Games for Kids

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 11, 2009 - 7:11am.

San Francisco - SuperSecret, a start-up developing online social games for kids, announced on Wednesday that it has secured $10 million in its first round of funding, led by Opus Capital.

San Francisco-based SuperSecret, which plans to launch its flagship site in the spring, bills its offering as an "online social game for tweens who are ready to move on from Club Penguin or Webkinz, but are too young for "World of Warcraft" or Facebook."

The company added that it "actively involves tweens in product design."

The company's founders, Ted Barnett and Tony Espinoza, previously founded Web calendar service When.com, which they sold to AOL. Barnett also helped develop Dogz, a virtual life PC game.

SuperSecret will use the funds for ongoing product development, and to build a distribution network for its products.

http://www.supersecret.com