WeGame is a video site aimed exclusively at gamers, offering a niche for them to show off clips taken of gaming sessions alongside previews from publishers.
The site also offers a desktop application used to record games, which supports 31 games at the time of writing. Once clips are recorded they can be automatically uploaded to the site.
Niche sites like WeGame appear to be working pretty well because larger sites like YouTube often don’t serve smaller audiences particularly well; most of the top clips on WeGame would be lost in the flood of content on YouTube.
The $3 million funding was provided by True Seed Ventures and The Hit Forge, as well as SoftTechVC and some angel investors (those last two via TechCrunch, which also has more info on WeGame’s 19 year old founder). The site is based in San Francisco, CA.
Tags: co:wegame, deal, inv:softtechvc, inv:the-hit-forge, inv:true seed ventures3 Comments
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steveking said:
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JT said:
Geez I guess pays to have solid connections to get funding these days as a 19 year old kid. Maybe I should tell my sister to marry a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur with a ton of good VC friends. Also, the site doesn’t seem to get legit organic traffic since they are on Digg almost every other submission here: http://digg.com/videos/gaming with the same influential users (haxr, gikko, etc) submitting their videos. It’s obvious that the money raised goes to paying influential Digg user to promote their content. They probably game StumbleUpon, Reddit, and other social bookmarking websites as well. This is a not a real business people!
-JT
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