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Article updated as of 3:45 p.m., June 1, 2011.
Social games startup Play140 has had the backers in its seed funding identified.
The Cambridge company founded by former TechStars Boston executive director and Mass High Tech All-Star Shawn Broderick took in funding from Ojas Venture Partners of Bangalore, India, China’s SOS Ventures and angel Ty Danco, according to a report in the The Economic Times of India, that has been confirmed by Broderick.
In October of 2010, Play140 first announced the round, which at that time was speculated to be about $500,000, from five angel investors in a seed round that was “pretty much mostly spoken for,” Broderick said at the time. In an email today, he said that the amount of the seed round has never really been disclosed and “I personally don’t see any big win to that sort of chest-beating.”
Broderick co-founded Play140 in July of that year with Andrea Shubert and Techstars Boston 2009 alum Tom Monaghan. The company is developing building text-based social games on Twitter and SMS.
Shubert and Broderick had worked together on an Internet game startup Broderick founded in 1996 called Genetic Anomalies, which was sold to California game software maker THQ Inc. for about $8 million in stock in 1999.
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