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August 15, 2007
GoalUnited Funded For Browser Games
Browser-based games are big with the kids, and some of them are mighty addictive, so it is not much of a surprise that investors are starting to put some money in that direction. Today we received the news that the High Tech Gründerfonds, along with ICS Holding, have invested an undisclosed amount in Hamburg-based Northworx Software, the startup behind GoalUnited, a browser-based football sports manager game.
The game's sites ( 8 languages on various int'l domains) host training sessions, matches, rankings, and tournaments which apparently keep users coming back for more.
You may recognize the ICS name, its principals Sven Schmidt and Daniel Grözinger, are experienced Web and online service entrepreneurs, and recently founded (and are managing) new-style ecommerce startup site Dealjaeger.de and the quickly popular verwandt.de, a family roots site, which just raised capital from business angels and Neuhaus Partners to go international. The verwandt.de board is actually going to be recruiting a new management team for that venture soon, Schmidt informed us today.
The Northworx/ GoalUnited.de is a minority holding of ICS (the majority is still owned by management and HTGF owns a minority stake).
Northworx Co-founder Sascha Kaddatz said in a statement issued by htgf that his sites are serving 100M impressions a month to a good 300K users.
What makes this venture particularly attractive to the moneymen, according to the same source, is that it has a software development platform, geekily dubbed njin, for 'rich media' browsers games -- in addition to a hot game.
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Posted on August 15, 2007 02:36 PM | Posted to Games (PC and other) | News And Updates | Permalink
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