$184 MILLION INVESTED IN 23 VIRTUAL WORLDS-RELATED COMPANIES IN Q1 2008

Company Segment Amount Named Investors News Story
9You Virtual World/Casual Games $100,000,000 Temasek Holdings http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/9you-gets-100m.html
C3L3B Digital Stealth $3,000,000 (may have totalled $4m) BlueRun Ventures http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/01/c3l3b-digital-g.html
Chapatiz Youth World $530,000 Angel Investors http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/french-virtual.html
Dizzywood Youth World $1,000,000 Shelby Bonnie and Charles Rivers Ventures http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/02/dizzywood-gets.html
EveryScape Mirror World $7,000,000 Dace Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Fisher New England, Draper Atlantic and LaunchPad Venture Group http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/interview-every.html
Fix8 Avatar Content $2,000,000 SK Telecom http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/fix8-announces.html
FlowPlay Youth World $3,700,000 Intel Capital and Ambient Sound Investments http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/02/casual-game-wor.html
Fluid Entertainment Youth World $3,200,000 Trinity Ventures http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/fluid-entertain.html
Gaia Online Youth World Undisclosed, part of a $12M round Time Warner http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/01/time-warner-inv.html
Gizmoz Avatar Creation $6,500,000 DoCoMo Capital, Inc., and ngi group, inc. http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/avatar-company.html
Handipoints Youth World 800,000 Charles Rivers Ventures and Angel Investors http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/handipoints-rec.html
IGA Worldwide Advertising Network Almost $5,000,000 Translink Capital, Presidio STX, LLC (a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation), and ITOCHU Corporation http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/01/iga-gets-5m-fro.html
IGG, Inc. MMORPG Provider $4,500,000 IDG Technology Venture Investment http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/01/igg-gets-45mm-i.html#more
iOpener Mixed Reality $6,000,000 Triangle Venture Capital http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/02/iopener-gets-6m.html
Kadoink Middleware $7,000,000 Sutter Hill Ventures http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/01/telephony-and-w.html
Metaversum Mirror World "a significant multi-million-Euro investment" Balderton Capital http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/metaversum-take.html
Numedeon Portfolio of Virtual Worlds Approximately $1,000,000 BankInter's Venture Capitol Group and Angel Investors http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/numedeon-closin.html
Outspark Publisher and Operator $11,000,000 Tencent Holdings, DCM, and Altos Ventures http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/01/outspark-raises.html
ROCKETON Youth World $5,800,000 D. E. Shaw Group http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/02/rocketon-draws.html
Simmersion Holdings Platform 1,900,000 Blue Cove Ventures http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/simmersion-hold.html
Sparkplay Media Casual MMO/World with Games $4,250,000 Redpoint Ventures and Prism Ventureworks http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/02/sparkplay-gets.html
Unisfair Virtual Events Platform $10,000,000 Norwest Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/01/unisfair-gets-1.html
YOOWALK Adult World Undisclosed CITA Gestion and Angel Investors http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/02/cita-gestion-in.html

TOTAL: $184,180,000

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