Donnerwood is an online entertainment company based in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco. The company is backed by Battery Ventures, Transcosmos Partners, Allen & Co. and other individual investors.
Donnerwood recently launched the beta version of Meez. Offering advanced avatar-building technology and a huge selection of content options, Meez enables consumers to create highly-customized 3D avatars in minutes. Meez avatars can then be used all over the Internet as personal identifiers.
Financials
| Date | Type | Amount | Investors | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/30/07 | Series C | 5.4M | Unknown |
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News
Donnorwood Media raises $5M for online games
September 20, 2007 4:13 pm
[PEWeek has since corrected the amount of the funding. It is $5M, not $500,000. We've updated below.] Donnorwood Media, a… Continue reading ⟩
Meez — port your virtual self
April 4, 2006 11:02 am
We thought this item about Meez was April Fool’s joke when we first saw it on Om Malik’s site, but… Continue reading ⟩