Mobile Gaming Platform Heyzap Confirms $4.3M Round From ...

Heyzap, which built a social platform for mobile games, has raised $4.3 million in Series B funding.

The round was revealed in a regulatory filing (first spotted by The Next Web). Co-founder Jude Gomila confirmed the news over email and said the funding comes from existing investor Union Square Ventures and Qualcomm.

Heyzap was incubated by Y Combinator and started out as a platform for Flash games before refocusing on mobile. It has been rolling out a number of new features over the past few months, including player leaderboards and achievements, and the company says it now has 9 million registered users.

Gomila said the new funding will be used to hire engineers and salespeople: ?Our leaderboards, achievements and ads SDKs are taking off and we want to fuel the growth there.?

Heyzap has now raised more than $8 million total.

Heyzap is a social discovery platform for mobile and the largest social network for Android/iPhone mobile gamers. Heyzap is based on San Francisco and was founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund. Heyzap provides users with a way to check-in to their favorite games, discover games and join a massive community of mobile gamers. Heyzap allows users to let other gamers know what they are playing, leave or browse tips for their favorite games, and earn badges. For mobile...

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?Union Square Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. We invest in young companies that use information technology in innovative ways to create high growth business opportunities in the Media, Marketing, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Healthcare industries. Our venture capital firm was conceived as a place where a small number of very experienced investment professionals, working collaboratively from a single office, could build a portfolio of promising startup companies and then put our experience...

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In July 1985, seven industry veterans came together in the den of Dr. Irwin Jacobs??? San Diego home to discuss an idea. Those visionaries???Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Harvey White???decided they wanted to build ???QUALity COMMunications??? and outlined a plan that has evolved into one of the telecommunications industry???s greatest start-up success stories: Qualcomm Incorporated. Qualcomm started out providing contract research and development services, with limited product manufacturing, for the wireless telecommunications...

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/heyzap-series-b/

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