HeyZap Lands Another $3 Million In Funding
Summary
HeyZap, a startup that distributes casual and social games across the web through a set of APIs, applications, and widgets, has closed another $3 million in funding from Union Square Ventures, with participation from Naval Ravikant (Hitforge) and Chris Dixon (Founder Collective). HeyZap previously received funding from Y Combinator, followed by a $650K seed round from Union Square Ventures, Joshua Schachter, and other angels in May 2009. HeyZap distributes 30,000 games across 220,000 websites, and has 4,000 developers signed up for its platform. Since then it has added quite a few features that developers can tap into, including an achievement system, micropayments, and analytics. The company says it will be using the money to add to its team of engineers and to expand its business development efforts.