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Acquired byGoogle
Price$70M
Date8/10

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Websitejambool.com/site/...
Blogblog.jambool.com
CategoryConsumer Web
Phone415-237-0573
Email
Employees25
Founded8/06
DescriptionVirtual Economic Platform

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San Francisco, USA
501 Folsom St
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA, 94105
USA

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Co-Founder and CEO
Chief Marketing Officer
Co-Founder and CTO
VP, Business and Legal Affairs
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Jambool

Jambool, Inc. operates Social Goldâ„¢, an industry-leading virtual monetization platform.

Social Gold enables developers to create and manage their own white-labeled virtual currency, to provide a in-app payments experience to their users, and to optimize their virtual economy using analytics. Social Gold powers the virtual currency and payment solutions for thousands of online games and virtual worlds.

Jambool is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Seattle and Singapore. Investors include Hit Forge, Charles River Ventures, Bay Partners, and Madrona Venture Group.

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Above: Jambool Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 6/14/09

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Social Gold

Websitesocialgold.net
Blogblog.jambool.com
StageLive
Launch DateOctober, 2008
Tags virtual-economy, virtual-economy-platform, virtual-currency, analytics, flash-based-payments, online-payments, monetization, virtual-goods, online-games, social-networks

Social Goldâ„¢ is a virtual goods monetization platform.

Owned and operated by Jambool, Inc., the Social Gold platform enables developers to create and manage their own white-labeled virtual currency and optimize their virtual economy using analytics. Through their in-Flash payments solution and direct integrations with relevant payment methods in global markets, the Social Gold platform streamlines the purchasing experience and drives conversion.

Jambool, Inc. was co-founded by Amazon.com veterans Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein, and has offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Singapore.

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Uploaded: 5/12/10

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  1. Another Piece To Google’s Social Puzzle: To Acquire Jambool For $70 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Jambool Focused on Payments Platform for Virtual Goods, Launches Payments Widget for Facebook Applications (insidefacebook.com) [edit]
  3. Jambool Raises $5 Million For Its Social Gold Micropayments Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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