Kongregate

Social Games Publisher Kongregate Gets $3 Million from Bezos

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 30, 2008 - 8:27am.

San Francisco - Kongregate, a publisher of free social online games, has received a $3 million investment from Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, SiliconValley.com reported.

Online Games Community Site Kongregate Raises $5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 16, 2007 - 11:11am.

San Francisco - Kongregate, a community site for online games, announced on Thursday that it has raised over $5 million in a new round of financing, led by Greylock Partners.

Social Web Games Site Kongregate Announces Launch, Seed Funding

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 22, 2007 - 4:13pm.

San Francisco - Kongregate on Thursday announced the beta launch of its social Web games site, which it is billing as the "YouTube of games." The company also announced that it has raised an undisclosed sum of seed funding, from investors including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman; Excite co-founder Joe Kraus; Jeff Clavier and Richard Wolpert. San Francisco-based Kongregate offers over 300 free online games, with integrated social network elements like profiles, friend lists, chat, comments and ratings.