D.C. Based Mpowerplayer Raises $2.5 Million

Posted by Nick O'Neill on September 10th, 2008 1:54 PM

Less than a month after the launch of Launchbox Digital Demo Day, Mpowerplayer, has announced their Series A funding round from New Atlantic Ventures, the Center for Innovative Technology GAP Fund, and LaunchBox Digital. The company enables mobile gamers to try games before they buy them, something Apple has been criticized of with their new iPhone applications.

Users of Mpowerplayer can access the games via the Mpowerplayer destination site as well as via a Facebook application. This is the first success story to come out of LaunchBox Digital and hopefully it is only the first of many. You can check out their Mobile Arcade Facebook application for a quick demo of the service. The company is still in the early stages but this first round of funding will hopefully give them the resources they need to make it to the next phase of development.

The company is at CTIA in San Francisco to let visitors demo the application. Stop by their booth if you are at CTIA. This is great news for the D.C. area to have yet another internet startup with a great team of advisors behind them.

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