WeGame, stealthy online gaming site, raises $500k
WeGame, an online gaming company founded by Berkeley student Jared Kim, has raised $500,000 according to a recent filing.
The company — which is keeping its plans a secret — was founded last spring, while Kim was still a freshman. The funding came in August from True Ventures and The Hit Forge.
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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.