{"id":493949,"date":"2010-03-31T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=71144"},"modified":"2010-03-31T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:00:41","slug":"hangout-hooks-another-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/493949","title":{"rendered":"Hangout Hooks Another $2M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/IT\/\">IT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/Virtual-Worlds\/\">Virtual Worlds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Wade Roush wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hangout Industries, the Boston-based creator of a software platform for teen-oriented social games such as <a href=\"http:\/\/fashioncity.hangout.net\/\">Fashion City<\/a>, has raised an additional $2 million in venture funding, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1396158\/000139615810000001\/xslFormDX01\/primary_doc.xml\">regulatory filing<\/a> published yesterday. Hangout CEO Pano Anthos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masshightech.com\/stories\/2010\/03\/29\/daily33-Social-gamer-Hangout-Industries-nets-2M.html\">told <em>Mass High Tech<\/em><\/a> that the money came from the company&#8217;s existing backers, who include Highland Capital Partners and Polaris Venture Partners, and that an additional $3 million may be on the way, which would bring the startup&#8217;s total funding to $15 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/03\/31\/hangout-hooks-another-2m\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20Hangout%20Hooks%20Another%20$2M%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=71144\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/03\/31\/hangout-hooks-another-2m\/&#038;t=Hangout%20Hooks%20Another%20$2M\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/03\/31\/hangout-hooks-another-2m\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=Hangout+Hooks+Another+%242M&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fboston%2F2010%2F03%2F31%2Fhangout-hooks-another-2m%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=84d01ce68ee6b4ab3b63bd015b511927&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=84d01ce68ee6b4ab3b63bd015b511927&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Cm9fSljHtUXMrxb4oDnC3eAyAfE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Cm9fSljHtUXMrxb4oDnC3eAyAfE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Cm9fSljHtUXMrxb4oDnC3eAyAfE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Cm9fSljHtUXMrxb4oDnC3eAyAfE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/vLqatfzxmm8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT, Virtual Worlds, deals Wade Roush wrote: Hangout Industries, the Boston-based creator of a software platform for teen-oriented social games such as Fashion City, has raised an additional $2 million in venture funding, according to a regulatory filing published yesterday. Hangout CEO Pano Anthos told Mass High Tech that the money came from the company&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}