Jambool, Inc. operates Social Gold™, an industry-leading virtual goods monetization platform. Social Gold enables developers to create and manage their own white-labeled virtual currency, to provide an unparalleled, in-app payments experience to their users, and to optimize their virtual economy using robust analytics. Social Gold powers the virtual currency and payment solutions for thousands of online games and virtual worlds.
Jambool, Inc. was co-founded by Amazon.com veterans Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein, and has offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Singapore.
For more information, please visit www.socialgold.net.
Jambool was acquired by Google on August 13, 2010.
Financials
| Date | Type | Amount | Investors | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/01/08 | Series A | 1M | Hit Forge, Charles River Ventures and Bay Partners., Bay Partners, Hit Forge, Charles River Ventures | Unknown |
| 08/17/09 | Series B | 5M | Madrona Venture Group, Bay Partners | Unknown |
People
Mike Quigley (CMO)
Mike Haswell (VP, Business and Legal Affairs)
Reza Hussein (Co-founder, CTO)
Vikas Gupta (Board member)
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