Overview
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$5M
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 10
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| Jul 10, 2013 | Mobile payments ‘tsunami’ is coming to wash away our wallets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. SAN FRANCISCO — Someday in the not-so-distant future, you won’t need to carry a wallet. Smartphones are transforming the way we pay for... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Pocket Change Brings Its Rewards-Focused Virtual Currency To iOS | Pocket Change says its mission is to “build the world’s first universal rewards currency,” but until now it has been limited to Android apps. Today, it’s announcing that it’s opening to iOS developers as well. The company was founded in 201... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | Pocket Change opens up its virtual loyalty currency for Android game devs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. In a bid to make its virtual currency platform more useful for Android game developers, Pocket Change has opened up its platform, allow... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | Pocket Change opens up its virtual loyalty currency for Android game devs | In a bid to make its virtual currency platform more useful for Android game developers, Pocket Change has opened up its platform, allowing devs to give players rewards for any actions they’d like. Previously, Pocket Change only rewarded pla... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Backed by Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners and others, Temple’s licensing revenue hits all-time high [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Jul 11, 2012 | Google Ventures Leads $5M Investment In Virtual Currency Startup Pocket Change | Pocket Change, a startup offering a virtual currency platform for Android games, has raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding. Creating a currency platform that works across Android games is already pretty ambitious, but the company... |
| Jul 11, 2012 | Pocket Change Finds More Funding | A virtual currently startup, Pocket Change, with links to Southern California has just raised $5M more in funding. The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founde... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Virtual Currency Is The Next Big Platform | Editor’s note: Ari Mir is the co-founder and CEO of virtual currency platform Pocket Change. He also co-founded GumGum.com, the world’s largest in-image ad-network. This week, Mir is attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco... |
| Nov 23, 2011 | Mobile Game Monetization Platform Lunch Money Raises $1M From Google Ventures; Rebrands As Pocket Change | Mobile app monetization platform Lunch Money, has raised $1 million in seed financing from Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Scott Banister, Baroda Ventures, David Sacks, Mike Jones, Kamran Pourzanjani and Alan Braverman. As part of the... |
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FAQ about PocketChange
How much funding has PocketChange raised?
PocketChange has raised $5M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about PocketChange?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning PocketChange, among them “Mobile payments ‘tsunami’ is coming to wash away our wallets” (Jul 10, 2013) and “Pocket Change Brings Its Rewards-Focused Virtual Currency To iOS” (Mar 21, 2013).
Is PocketChange still active?
PocketChange is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 10, 2013.