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| Apr 21, 2020 | Moshi Monsters Creator Mind Candy Raises $12 Million | Mind Candy Ltd., the company known for the popular Moshi Monsters franchise, announced it has raised $12 million
Mind Candy Ltd., the company known for the popular Moshi Monsters franchise, announced it has raised $12 million. Plus the comp... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | Moshi, a sleep and mindfulness app for kids, raises $12M Series B led by Accel | “If your kids aren’t sleeping, you aren’t sleeping,” says Moshi founder and CEO Ian Chambers.
As mindfulness apps grow increasingly popular among adults, Moshi is looking to bring mindfulness and meditative techniques to children. The app t... |
| Apr 27, 2015 | What comes after the family? | My love affair with the Index family began almost twenty years ago in 1995, when I struck up a friendship with my now partner, Danny, while in Boston, where I was helping to build Firefly, my first Internet startup. At the time, Danny was i... |
| Dec 28, 2014 | The fortunes of 4 British startups in 2014 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
2014 was a mixed bag for tech companies around the world, with the likes of Uber seemingly never out the headlines for all of the wrong... |
| Dec 28, 2014 | The fortunes of 4 British startups in 2014 | 2014 was a mixed bag for tech companies around the world, with the likes of Uber seemingly never out the headlines for all of the wrong reasons, while younger upstarts like Slack gained praise across the board.
A number of notable stories e... |
| Nov 13, 2014 | Mind Candy Reports Losses As Moshi Fades And It Pins Hopes On Warriors | As was widely predicted after Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters smash-hit game failed to make the shift from Web to mobile in any meaningful way — apart from a few cursory apps — its financial results looked dismal. The company has announced that... |
| Oct 2, 2014 | Mr. Moshi Goes To TechCrunch — Michael Acton Smith To Speak At Disrupt | The TechCrunch Disrupt Europe conference will take place from 18-21st October 2014 in London. You can grab an early bird ticket right here. Over the weekend we’ll have a free hackathon, which you can apply for here.
On Monday and Tuesday we... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | Mind Candy Slims Down Ahead Of Major New Mobile Push | Mind Candy, the company behind the Moshi Monsters web game for kids, has in the past been considered one of the breakout successes of the UK startup and gaming world. But while it continues to extend its life as a licensing gangbuster — wit... |
| Jul 11, 2014 | Michael Acton-Smith To Step Aside As CEO Of Mind Candy As Moshi Monsters Struggles | Mind Candy, led by star gaming property Moshi Monsters and founder Michael Acton-Smith, has been seen as one of the breakout successes of the UK startup and gaming world. But as many others in the space know all too well, game fads come and... |
| May 29, 2014 | Can One New Tablet Game Change The Game For Mind Candy? | Mind Candy, the company that came up with the hugely successful Moshi Monsters kids game, began back in 2003 as a back-bedroom project by the colourful entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith. It’s now approaching 100 million registered users. And... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Mind Candy Supports over 80 Million Moshi Monsters with Eptica | Enhancing the customer experience for children and parents online and offline across 150 territories around the globe.
Reading, 24 September 2013, Family entertainment company Mind Candy is deploying Eptica’s multichannel customer service p... |
| Sep 1, 2013 | Can spending on a Google-style office make employees happy (and more productive)? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There are egg-shaped meeting rooms lined with sha... |
| Jul 23, 2012 | Amazon Just Put A Rocket Under London’s Biggest Tech Startup Cluster | With the news that Amazon will open an R&D hub in London focused on developing services and APIs for TVs, games consoles, smartphones and PCs, we’ve reached a big inflection point in the development of London’s largest single cluster of... |
| Jul 9, 2012 | Mind Candy Acquires Origami Blue Games Studio To Become Its Labs Arm | Mind Candy, the company behind the successful Moshi Monsters online kids game and character franchise, has acquired a games studio, Origami Blue, to power a new initiative being dubbed ‘Candy Labs’. The move marks another twist to the Mind ... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Monsters Invade Nuclear Bunker | The Bunker, providers of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that Mind Candy, creators of the Moshi Monsters game has selected Th... |
| May 30, 2011 | Silicon Milkroundabout: How London startups took hiring back into their own hands | This is guest post by Ian Hogarth, co-founder of Songkick, relates how 45 startups in London’s East End got tired of being over-shadowed by the financial sector in London and created their own event to lure wanna-be startupers.
Sunday 15th ... |
| Apr 21, 2011 | Monstrous Sales For Moshi Monsters™ Magazine | Successful transition from web to print proves appetite for trans-media brands
The new Moshi Monsters Magazine has proved a monster hit pulling in sales of over 80,000 for issue # 1 alone – dwarfing that of competitor titles. The launch iss... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | TechCrunch Europe and The Telegraph release the Startup100 | TechCrunch Europe occasionally partners with other media outlets in Europe in order to support the European ecosystem. Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into... |
| Feb 18, 2011 | First Ever Moshi Monsters™ Magazine Out Now! | LONDON – February 18th 2011 – Global kids’ phenomenon moshimonsters.com today announced the launch of the much-anticipated Moshi Monsters Magazine, which hit UK retailers yesterday.
The magazine launch will be celebrated at the first ever M... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | Moshi Monsters Aims To Become The Facebook for Kids (TCTV) | Mind Candy CEO Michael Acton Smith came to my office today to tell me about Moshi Monsters, his company’s virtual world for kids that is signing up a new member every second. Moshi Monsters was his “last roll of the dice” to save his virtua... |
| Feb 11, 2011 | Moshi Monsters™ Unleashed In North America Following Monstrous UK Toy Launch | ~ Spin Master To Unveil Moshi Monsters Toy Range at New York Toy Fair ~
~ Early Indicators Reveal Vivid Toy Range Is A UK Hit ~
LONDON - February 11 2011 - Leading social online games developer Mind Candy, publisher of global kids phenomeno... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | With 32M kids online, Moshi Monsters invade toy market (video) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hybrid models of online games and toys are getting fashionable. Yesterday, Mind Candy announced that its Moshi Monsters online game cha... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | With 32M kids online, Moshi Monsters invade toy market (video) | Hybrid models of online games and toys are getting fashionable. Yesterday, Mind Candy announced that its Moshi Monsters online game characters are now moving into the real world in the form of toys.
Michael Smith, chief executive England-ba... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | First ever Moshi Monsters™ Toy Range Unleashed onto UK Shelves | - Master Toy Partner, Vivid to showcase Moshi product lines at London Toy Fair -
LONDON – January 24 2011 – Leading social online games developer Mind Candy, publisher of global kids phenomenon moshimonsters.com – which now has over 30 mill... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Moshi Monsters Merchandise On Target For $100m In 2011 | Mind Candy announces several major new licensing partners for the expansion of the Moshi brand into physical products.
LONDON, UK – 1 NOV 2010 - Mind Candy, the global developer and publisher of the popular children's online game, Moshi Mon... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | Calm Down, Angry Birds: Moshi Monsters Projecting $100 Million in Product Sales | A quick disclosure: readers of my last book will be familiar with the story (which you can read here) of London-based entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith.
Smith co-founded boy’s toys e-tailer Firebox.com straight out of university, before movi... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | Moshi Monsters: $100 Million in Projected Product Sales and You've Never Heard of Them | A quick disclosure: readers of my last book will be familiar with the story (which you can read here) of London-based entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith.
Smith co-founded boy’s toys e-tailer Firebox.com straight out of university, before movi... |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Moshi Monsters MouthOff Now Available On The App Store | Moshi Monsters MouthOff available now for iPhone and iPod touch
LONDON, UK – 13 October 2010 – Mind Candy, the global developer and publisher of the popular children’s online game, Moshi Monsters, today announced the launch of the Moshi Mon... |
| Oct 11, 2010 | Top Trumps Releases Moshi Monsters Top Trumps | LONDON, UK – October 11, 2010 – Top Trumps has joined forces with Moshi Monsters, one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing children’s online games, to launch a new set of Top Trump cards based on the hugely successful online world.
Wi... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Moshi Monsters' Reveals Moshi Bandz | Mind Candy unveils global launch plans for new children’s collectible craze
LONDON, UK – August 9th 2010 – Mind Candy, the global developer and publisher of the popular children’s online game Moshi Monsters, which has 24 million players wor... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | Moshi Monsters Ready To Invade Toy Shops | Kids online game migrates from virtual world to the real world!
LONDON, UK – June 24th 2010, 2:00pm BST – Mind Candy, the global developer and publisher of the popular children’s online game, Moshi Monsters (www.moshimonsters.com), has sign... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Mind Candy Partners With Penguin Group To Publish A Range Of Moshi Monsters Books | LONDON, UK – June 2nd, 2010 – Mind Candy, developer of the popular children’s online game, Moshi Monsters, today announced its first major licensing deal with Penguin Group to publish a series of books based on the Moshi Monsters property. ... |
| May 20, 2010 | Mind Candy Launches Moshi Monsters Membership Cards At Retail | Membership Cards Now Available at Major Retail Stores Across the United Kingdom and United States
LONDON, UK – May 20th, 2010 – Mind Candy, the UK-based developer of the children’s free-to-play online game Moshi Monsters, today announced th... |
| May 11, 2010 | Moshi Monsters Now Available As 'Larger Than Life' Wall Graphics | Philadelphia Startup LTL PRINTS Launches MOSHI MONSTERS Premium Wall Graphics -- Up to SEVEN FEET TALL!
PHILADELPHIA, PA – May 11, 2010 – LTL PRINTS, the premium wall graphics company, today launched an exclusive collection of Moshi Monster... |
| May 6, 2010 | Children Pick Nick As Next "Prime Monster" | More Than 30,000 Take Part In Moshi Monsters’ kids Poll
LONDON – May 6th – Nick Clegg was given a monster boost today by winning nearly half of the votes in the biggest children’s poll in the UK to choose their favourite leader online.
Mosh... |
| Mar 24, 2010 | Moshi Monsters Surpasses 15 Million Players | Mind Candy Reveals Game’s Ongoing Explosive Growth; More Than Two Million New Players Joining Every Month
LONDON – March 24, 2010 – Mind Candy, the UK-based developer of the children’s free-to-play social online game Moshi Monsters, has ann... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | Top 10 International Web Products of 2009 | Much of this blog’s coverage centers on technology and companies based in the U.S, particularly in Silicon Valley.
However, thriving tech communities exist around the globe, from Toronto to Tel Aviv, and the success of internationally-based... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | Moshi Monsters Hits Ten Million Players | Mind Candy Lifts Lid on Game’s Exponential Global Growth; More Than One Million New Players Joining Every Month
LONDON – Dec. 2, 2009 – Mind Candy, the UK-based developer of the children’s free-to-play social online game Moshi Monsters, tod... |
| Sep 2, 2009 | Popjam suffering while we share jokes on Twitter — not Popjam | Back in February we were excited to see a sort of “Humorous Twitter” appear in the form of Popjam. Except it wasn’t – it was more a microblogging-meets-Digg-meets-CollegeHumour. But as we said at the time, getting Twitter integration fast w... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | Games Gone Wild: social gaming just keeps getting hotter | Where commercial success leads, boozy networking events are sure to follow. And so it is with next Wednesday’s Games Gone Wild, a London event put together by Mind Candy‘s Michael Smith (@acton).
Actually, that’s not entirely fair. Games Go... |
| Aug 3, 2009 | Sparks fly as Spark Ventures disagrees with shareholder on future | Spark Ventures PLC, formerly NewMediaSpark, is an early-stage venture capital investor, operating in Europe for the last 12 years. That makes it an old timer on this nascent scene. But today its third-largest shareholder urged fellow stakeh... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | GeeknRolla – The Agenda for the day | Agenda: Geek’nRolla – Tech Startups Rock!
London – April 21, 2009
Geek’nRolla is sponsored by Viadeo one of the largest professional social networks in the world, and supported by UK Trade and Investment, as well as NESTA, the National Endo... |
| Mar 10, 2009 | Global Competition For Monstrous Young Artists! | Moshi Monsters offers young artists the chance to draw their own Monster and have it featured at the upcoming 'Monsters Inked' exhibition
LONDON, UK – Mind Candy (developers of the online game for kids, www.moshimonsters.com) today announce... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | Moshi Monsters Breaks 1.5 Million Players! | New features boost the unstoppable global growth of Moshi Monsters
LONDON, UK – Mind Candy (developers of the online game for kids, Moshi Monsters) today announced that over 1.5 million Monsters have now been adopted at www.moshimonsters.co... |
| Feb 20, 2009 | Mix Twitter and Digg, add jokes, get Popjam | Popjam is a new ‘social humour’ site which has launched using the Twitter ‘friend/follow’ model of social networking. In fact – but for the images of LOLcats and videos – it is so similar to Twitter in appearance and operation that it could... |
| Feb 4, 2009 | Moshi Monsters Gobbles Up Tutpup | Mind Candy announce acquisition of popular children’s gaming site
LONDON, UK – Mind Candy (developers of the online game for kids, Moshi Monsters) today announced that they have acquired Tutpup for an undisclosed sum.
Tutpup was developed b... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | MoshiMonsters secures further backing, acquires TutPup | Mindcandy, best known for its MoshiMonsters educational virtual world for kids has pulled off a number of moves in a short space of time, including raising a new round and acquiring content.
Firstly, it’s raised further amount of funding, a... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | MoshiMonsters Get More Backing And More Content | UK-based Mindcandy, best known for its MoshiMonsters educational virtual world for kids, has pulled off a number of moves in a short space of time. IN the last few months it’s raised a round of Convertible Loan Notes with existing VC invest... |
| May 3, 2008 | Moshi Monsters: Neopets Meets Social Networking | Moshi Monsters, from UK startup Mind Candy officially launched last week with a product that marries the ideas behind Neopets and Tamogotchi with a social network for kids.
Users adopt their own Monster and keep it happy by solving daily pu... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Mind Candy joins the online virtual pets fray | Virtual pets are a tried and true market for those targeting young kids. Mind Candy is joining the fray against larger rivals with a kids offering of its own this week: Moshi Monsters.
That’s a big right turn for London-based Mind Candy, wh... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Education-based Moshi Monsters preps beta launch | Serial UK entrepreneur Michael Smith took the wrapper off his new startup, Moshi Monsters at Virtual Worlds Forum today in London. The world goes into private beta in a couple of weeks.
Essentially, Moshi Monsters is Tamagotchi meets Facebo... |
| Dec 7, 2006 | An academic manifesto for Web 2.0? | In recent years, the School of Informatics at the University of Bradford has produced graduates that have gone on to staff the likes of AOL and Freeserve (now Orange’s broadband division). Indeed in the late-90s and the first era of the Bri... |
| Oct 27, 2006 | Alternate reality game maker, Mind Candy, raises $7M from Accel et al | Mind Candy, the UK based company behind the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) Perplex City, announced said it has raised $7 million from Accel Partners and existing investors Index Ventures and NewMedia Spark.
The funding comes in advance of a m... |
| Oct 25, 2006 | Mind Candy "finds" $7M in funding! | Of late there has been a lot of interest in virtual web worlds such as Habbo Hotel, WarCraft and Second Life, well now you can add a new name to this list Perplex City which combines the real world with the virtual world to create an Altern... |
