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StatusPrivately Held
Websitekongregate.com
CategoryWeb
Emailinquiries@kongreg...
Address 660 Mission St
Suite 400
San Francisco, CA, 94105
USA
Employees16
Founded10/06

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CEO
Angel Investor

Funding

Total$9M
Series A, 3/07 1
$1M
Series B, 8/07 2
Greylock
Reid Hoffman
Joe Kraus
Jeff Clavier
Richard Wolpert
$5M
Series B, 4/08 3
Bezos Expeditions
$3M

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Kongregate

Kongregate is a casual gaming social network where gamers can gain ranking and earn awards. The site allows developers to upload their games and share in revenues (25-50%) from the ads displayed around the games. Kongregate promotes developers to upload new games by having “game of the week” contests.

Kongregate pays skilled developers between $20,000-80,000 to create premium games to provide their community with quality games. Each premium game comes with a free version that can be upgraded to paid premium version.

Competitors include Miniclip.

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Kongregate

Websitekongregate.com
StageLive
Launch DateOctober 19, 2006
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Kongregate is a casual gaming site where visitors can play from a library of user generated flash games. After joining, users can gain ranking, awards, and playing cards for another site wide collectible card game.

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Above: Kongregate Screenshot -- #1

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