Viximo Network

http://www.viximo.com/

Last activity: 13.02.2016

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Categories: EconomyFinTechGamingGoodsNetworksOnlineOptimizeProductSocialVirtual

Viximo is a virtual goods suite for social networks, online dating sites and casual games. Viximo's products optimize both the supply of content for purchase and the demand for currency within these online sites. Virtual merchandise for purchase online deepens user engagement and provides web publishers with a new revenue stream. Viximo is the only complete suite for fast, scalable, and optimized growth of your online economy.

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Location

United States, California, Los Angeles

Employees

51-200

Total raised

$5M

Founded date

2007

Funding Rounds 1

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Feb 11, 2016	Pocket Games Buys Viximo	Cedarhurst, NY-based Pocket Games (OTC PINK: PKGM) completed the acquisition of Viximo, a Boston, Massachusetts-based social games platform, for $3.5 million in preferred stock. The deal will allow Pocket Games to add a distribution channel...
Jul 30, 2012	Tapjoy + Viximo = New Boston Social Mobile Studio	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints In an interesting deal today, San Francisco mobile firm Tapjoy has acquired the core team from Viximo, a social gaming tools startup in Cambridge, MA. Terms weren’t disclosed,...
Mar 1, 2012	Viximo Goes After Mobile Game Developers With Launch Of Social Zone	Viximo, originally a virtual goods marketplace until moving into web-based social game distribution a couple of years back, is shifting yet again. This time, Viximo is moving to mobile. Today, the company is introducing a platform for mobil...
Mar 1, 2012	Viximo launches Social Zone platform for mobile games	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Viximo, a platform for cross-platform social games, is broadening its distribution reach today with the launch of its Social Zone platf...
Oct 11, 2011	Facebook isn't going to dominate social gaming	SuperData Research claims non-Facebook social gaming will dominate the market into 2014 Facebook may dominate our online social lives, and may appear to be the be-all end-all, but it likely won't take the lion's share of the money generated...
Oct 10, 2011	Non-Facebook social games to hit $5.6B in revenue by 2014	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Facebook isn’t the only platform where social games are booming. Revenue from non-Facebook social games is expected to grow from the cu...
Feb 5, 2011	Viximo Founder Brian Balfour Steps Back from Full-Time Role; Company Doing “Extremely Well”	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints It’s usually noteworthy when a founder leaves a startup. I heard this week that Brian Balfour, the founder of Cambridge, MA-based Viximo, has stepped back from his full-time r...
Dec 16, 2010	Viximo’s game service reaches 100M users on dozens of small social networks	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Facebook may dominate the social game market, but it isn’t the only show in town. Viximo has made a good business out of providing game...
Dec 16, 2010	Viximo’s game service reaches 100M users on dozens of small social networks	Facebook may dominate the social game market, but it isn’t the only show in town. Viximo has made a good business out of providing games to dozens of smaller social networks. The company is announcing today that it reaches more than 100 mil...
Nov 29, 2010	MyYearbook Introduces Realtime Social Gaming With Video Chat	In general, the key driver of social networking so far is games on Facebook. But most of those games aren’t social in the way that playing Monopoly or cards with your friends and family over the holidays is social. MyYearbook, which is a sm...
Aug 13, 2010	Are Casual Games Dead? Viximo and Z2Live Founders Weigh In Coast-to-Coast on Social Gaming Movement	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints There’s a little East Coast-West Coast brouhaha going on in the world of video games. I just spent a couple years in one of the casual gaming (and core gaming) epicenters of t...
Jun 9, 2010	Viximo launches social gaming platform for smaller social networks	Viximo is announcing today that it has created a social gaming platform to help distribute games beyond Facebook to smaller social networks. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company has quietly established links to social networks that collective...
Jun 9, 2010	Viximo launches social gaming platform for smaller social networks	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Viximo is announcing today that it has created a social gaming platform to help distribute games beyond Facebook to smaller social netw...
Apr 19, 2010	Massachusetts is the Unsung Hotbed for Video Games, MIT Conference Panelists Say	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints When it comes to the video game industry in Massachusetts, “we have a major brand problem,” says Jason Schupbach, the creative economy industry director of the Massachusetts D...
Feb 11, 2010	A third of people may send virtual flowers or chocolate this Valentine’s Day	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Valentine’s Day is going virtual. More people are planning to send virtual gifts to their sweethearts than ever before. An online surve...
Feb 11, 2010	A third of people may send virtual flowers or chocolate this Valentine’s Day	Valentine’s Day is going virtual. More people are planning to send virtual gifts to their sweethearts than ever before. An online survey by Viximo, which provides virtual goods to various sites, found that 35 percent of the 1,000 social net...
Jan 6, 2010	Viximo reaches 60M users with virtual goods platform, appoints new CEO	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Hoping to be a major player in virtual goods, Viximo Network is announcing today it has appointed game media veteran Dale Strang as its...
Jan 6, 2010	Viximo reaches 60M users with virtual goods platform, appoints new CEO	Hoping to be a major player in virtual goods, Viximo Network is announcing today it has appointed game media veteran Dale Strang as its chief executive. The company also says that its virtual goods solutions are now used on web sites with m...
Jan 6, 2010	Incoming Viximo CEO Sees a Burgeoning Economy of Virtual Goods	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Online publishers who want to let their users exchange virtual gifts—think singing Santa e-cards at Christmas or animated hearts for Valentine’s Day—can turn to Viximo, a two-...
May 4, 2009	Viximo gets 'gifted' with funding	Virtual goods solutions platform raises $5 million in VC funding Free social networking and casual gaming applications are finding alternative business models to survive through the ad recession. One of these models is ‘virtual gifting,’ wh...
Apr 30, 2009	Viximo Lands $5 Million For Virtual Goods Platform	Viximo, which provides a platform for the creation, distribution, and monetization of virtual goods for social networks and mobile devices, has secured $5 million in a round of funding from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. ...
Jan 5, 2009	VixML: A Revolutionary New iPhone Development Platform For The Masses	The iPhone is the hottest platform around, leading some small-time developers to overnight riches and spawning over ten thousand apps in only a few months. But without knowledge of Objective-C or the intricacies of the iPhone SDK, many tale...
Dec 18, 2008	Giftd: The Portable Virtual Gift Store	Virtual gifts have been fairly popular on social networks like Facebook, which offers a library of hundreds of gifts, most of which sell for a dollar (a few of them are free). But these gifts are generally all tied to the network they were ...
Oct 29, 2008	Viximo Launches Its Turn-Key Virtual Goods System	Virtual goods have massive monetization potential, but many sites simply don’t have the resources to build a virtual goods engine or to produce assets that its users would be willing to pay money for. Boston startup Viximo, launched earlier...
Oct 21, 2008	Virtual goods company Viximo offers online communities an alternative to advertising	With a recession looming, many online entertainment sites who currently depend on ad revenue are exploring a new source of revenue: Virtual goods. Boston-based Viximo wants to make it as easy for publishers to earn money from selling virtua...

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FAQ about Viximo Network

When was Viximo Network founded?

Viximo Network was founded in 2007.

How much funding has Viximo Network raised?

Viximo Network has raised $5M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Viximo Network?

Parsers VC has collected 26 articles mentioning Viximo Network, among them “Pocket Games Buys Viximo” (Feb 11, 2016) and “Tapjoy + Viximo = New Boston Social Mobile Studio” (Jul 30, 2012).

Is Viximo Network still active?

Viximo Network is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 13, 2016.