GameGround Gets $4.1 Million for Social Network for Gamers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 3, 2009 - 8:02am.

Tel Aviv, Israel - GameGround, the developer of a social network for gamers, has raised $4.1 million in new funding from Sequoia Capital, VentureBeat reported.

Founded in 2007 by former MTV executive Shaul Olmert -- son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert -- and executives from Blizzard and 888.com, Tel Aviv-based GameGround is currently in a private beta test of its service.

VentureBeat reports that the stealth-mode service will let users subscribe to feeds that provide updates "when friends get high scores in games or when they get destroyed in a game."

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/jd9ac (VentureBeat)

http://www.gameground.com

Published in DMW Daily, June 3, 2009

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gamers rule

Submitted by MattA (not verified) on August 21, 2009 - 6:51pm.

GameGround sounds like a great service. Let's not forget one of the original social networks for gamers, formerly known as CharacterPlanet came out within the same month as guildcafe, which is now gamerdna. http://gamefriends.com

Bleh

Submitted by Mmo (not verified) on November 21, 2009 - 1:16am.

There seems to be a big market glut of these gaming social networks.... There are already 7+ of them out there - and that's 7+ big ones... and none of them are really big.