{"id":6020,"date":"2009-10-16T20:58:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=6020"},"modified":"2009-10-16T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:58:40","slug":"japans-biggest-social-network-mixi-buys-20-of-foreigner-led-social-gaming-company-pikkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/japans-biggest-social-network-mixi-buys-20-of-foreigner-led-social-gaming-company-pikkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Biggest Social Network Mixi Buys 20% Of Foreigner-Led Social Gaming Company Pikkle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMixi<\/a> [JP], Japan’s largest social network (17.4 million members at the end of June), yesterday announced<\/a> [JP, PDF] they acquired a 20% stake in Pikkle<\/a>, a Tokyo-based social gaming company that was founded in 2005. What’s particularly interesting about this deal is that Pikkle was founded by David “DC” Collier, a veteran in the videogaming sector and a British national.
\nMixi bought 385 Pikkle shares and paid 144 million Yen (1.58 million USD\/1.06 million Euro), which means Pikkle’s valuation currently stands at 7.9 million USD. Not bad for a 7-man start-up.
\nThe money comes from the so-called “Mixi fund” the company started back in April<\/a> and which is supposed to support Mixi application developers (background on Mixi’s application platform<\/a>). Pikkle is the third company getting money from that fund.
\nPikkle’s first Mixi app is called Dance Unit<\/a> [JP] and was started on the platform<\/a> [Mixi membership required] August 25. Here are some screenshots. I tried the app, it’s pretty hard but fun.
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Mixi [JP], Japan’s largest social network (17.4 million members at the end of June), yesterday announced [JP, PDF] they acquired a 20% stake in Pikkle, a Tokyo-based social gaming company that was founded in 2005. What’s particularly interesting about this deal is that Pikkle was founded by David “DC” Collier, a veteran in the videogaming… Continue reading Japan’s Biggest Social Network Mixi Buys 20% Of Foreigner-Led Social Gaming Company Pikkle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[1723,2342,2343,2349,2880],"class_list":["post-6020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-investment","tag-mixi","tag-mixi-appli","tag-mixi-fund","tag-pikkle","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}