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Print Edition StoriesThursday, March 12, 2009
Bessemer, Spark flirt with $5M funding in OMGPOP
By Mass High Tech Staff
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Massachusetts venture capital firms Bessemer Venture Partners and Spark Capital have participated in a $5 million second funding round for iminlikewithyou Inc. -- operating as OMGPOP -- according to online reports.
Bessemer Venture Partners, with an office in Wellesley led the round, according to website PE Hub and was joined by return backers Baseline Ventures of California and Boston-based Spark.
Launched in 2006 as iminlikewithyou, OMGPOP is a New York-based game development company that specials in online multiplayer games specifically aimed at social interaction, specifically flirting. The company was launched with seed funding from Y Combinator, a California micro-financing tech incubator that until recently also had operations in Cambridge.
According to its website, OMGPOP’s other investors include Betaworks, and some angel investors including Ron Conway, founder of Altos Computer Systems; Kevin Rose, founder of Digg Inc.; and Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape Inc. The company was founded by Charles Forman and led by CEO Dan Porter.
Earlier this month, Spark participated in the $12 million funding of San Francisco mobile media platform developer Send Me Inc. And last month Spark was part of the $35 million funding for Twitter Inc.
In February, Bessemer reported closing on a $350 million annex fund for its seventh fund, a $1 billion fund that closed in June 2007. Officials stated that the firm will target the new fund at “innovative, high-growth companies around the world.”
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