RockYou Raises $35 Million to Keep Up in Widget Arms Race
RockYou Raises $35 Million to Keep Up in Widget Arms Race.
Last month’s news that RockYou had raised $1M from DCM in “interim funding” seemed a bit odd in light of some of the other huge financings we’ve seen of late in the widget and social networking application space. Today, the picture becomes a whole lot clearer, as we’ve learned that RockYou has in fact closed its own massive funding deal: a $35 million Series C round, led by DCM.
RockYou is using the funding as an opportunity to share some numbers from its network, which ranges from Facebook applications like Super Wall to MySpace apps like Graffiti. In total, RockYou says its network now reaches 87.5 million people each month, who in turn generate 2.7 billion page views. The company also points out that it’s not just a Facebook app developer: more than 10 million applications have now been installed on the relatively new MySpace, hi5, and Orkut platforms.
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