About Company:
ROCKETON is a venture-funded startup that is developing a new type of massively multiplayer entertainment experience.
They are located in foggy South San Francisco. They're always looking for creative minds to join the ROCKETON community and their team. If you have ideas and want to contribute, that would be great. They believe in group collaboration and are looking for new ways to harness the creative energy of artists, programmers and designers all over the world.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has closed its Series B round of financing with a $5 million investment from the D. E. Shaw group’s venture capital unit. This funding brings total amount invested to $5.8 million. The company is building out a new type of virtual world that doesn't exist on a single website, but, instead, is spread across the entire Internet.
What VCs Says About Company:
What caught our attention about ROCKETON is the potential for a new, real-time social interaction between people online," says Michael Banks, a senior vice president of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. "We asked ourselves, what if you took the next logical step beyond Facebook or Second Life? How would that look? The result is a new way of experiencing the Web."
More at:http://www.rocketon.com/
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