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Thumbplay rakes in $18 million in Series E
Mobile multimedia content portal Thumbplay raised $18 million in its Series E funding round, according to a regulatory filing reported by peHUB. Listed shareholders include Softbank Capital, i-Hatch Ventures and Verizon Investments. Thumbplay previously raised in excess of $35 million, including an unannounced $17 million Series D round completed last summer. Thumbplay membership-based, community experience offers subscribers ringtones, wallpapers, games and text-based services--operator partners include AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint and Alltel.
For more on Thumbplay's windfall:
- read this peHUB article
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Posted by Chaim Haas | March 19, 2008 - 10:58am
Thumbplay announced on Monday, March 17th that it had closed an $18M Series E round of funding to accelerate growth, expand its direct-to-consumer product offerings and to expand internationally. The investors are Brookside Capital Partners, the public equity affiliate of Bain Capital, and Cross Creek Capital, a private equity affiliate of Wasatch Advisors.
Please update this post to reflect the correct list of investors in this round.
See http://www.thumbplay.com/news for full details.
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