Secret plan start-up Akoha has lifted USD 1.9 000 000 from angel investors to get line social plots.
The Montreal, Canada-based company has a gang of 14 citizenry that admits enterpriser Capital of Texas Mound and his workfellow from a former company, Alex Eberts. The company brocaded the round in two tranches, one in early 2007 and some other earliest this twelvemonth. It is unveiling itself for the first time today.
Mound was antecedently the founder of Zero Cognition Schemes, an Cyberspace protection and privacy company that brocaded USD 70 000 000 and changed its name to Radialpoint in 2002. He as well was a founder of the Net divine service supplier Total.Net in 1994. After he went forth Zero Cognition, he got mired in a serial of grounds seeing privacy and engineerings for social change.
Mound states that Akoha is evolving a fresh character of social game elysian by his experience in social entrepreneurship. It will as well tap object lessons from massively multiplayer line secret plans as good as reality-based plot.
“It is a game for the residual of us, not hard gamers,” he emphasised. “We are moving for a wide demographic and want to bring forth an excited experience.”
And patch the game will focus on social change, it will mainly be about having merriment.
The investors let in Saint David Chamandy of Lavalife; film manufacturer Jake Eberts; John Meeks, pulling off partner of TA Associates; and Montreal Start Up, an angel investing fund. Early investors are named here. Alan Gershenfeld, an investor and carrying off partner of E-Line Ventures, is a manager of the nonprofit Secret plan for Change.
Akoha is not letting on its game until it is near to its availableness in the autumn of 2008. Mound told he acquired the thought for it part from treatments at the Teddy boy league in Monterey where the topic was “Thoughts Big Enough to Modify the Creation.” Mound holds a web log, where he said the tale of his last company.
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