Bunchball raises $2M for interactive "flash" games

November 6, 2006 | Matt Marshall

Bunchball, a Redwood City start-up that lets people create Flash-based interactive games for multiple players, and then insert them in blogs and other Web sites, has raised around $2 million in in a first round of funding.

Backers included Adobe Systems, which makes the Flash technology for these games and Granite Ventures, an SF venture firm that has been affiliated with Adobe in the past.

Bunchball was founded by Rajat Paharia and Sunil Singh. There’s more at the company’s blog, including a list of the games developed so far. They range from the classics like Asteroids to spicy but mindless “How hot?” (click on image at left).

The company had said it has raised money. But PE Week first reported the amount, citing a regulatory filing.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.