| Website | scvngr.com |
| Category | Mobile/Wireless |
| Phone | 617.308.0095 |
| Employees | 25 |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Description | mobile-based scavenger hunts |
| Total | $785k |
| Seed, 6/08 DreamIt Ventures | $35k |
| Series A, 8/09 Highland Capital Partners | $750k |
SCVNGR is a location based mobile gaming platform that lets anyone, individual or institution build awesome location-based interactive mobile games that can be played from any cell phone.
They call this new type of interactive mobile game a scvngr. (It helps to think of it initially like a high-tech scavenger hunt on your phone, but with options to build far more sophisticated and interactive mobile experiences.)
Scvngrs take many forms, ranging from high-tech scavenger hunts run by universities to introduce students to campus-life, to fully interactive mobile tours through museums and cities, and even large-scale promotions that have thousands of people competing for a brand-sponsored prize.
Scvngrs can be played from any phone via SMS (text message), mobile web or their free iPhone and Android applications. SCVNGR’s platform elegantly scales every scvngr up and down to be playable from any phone but also to take advantage of the existing features in any phone. So phones that can handle audio, streaming video, images, interactive maps etc… get all of those in the course of their game but more basic phones that can only handle SMS can still play and have the same high-quality SCVNGR experience.
You can see more detail on SCVNGR’s free consumer product SCVNGR XPLR and their enterprise level product SCVNGR Builder.
Product Description
Added: 8/24/09
