Tech Company Financing Transactions
Gizmoz.com Funding Round
Gizmoz.com, based in Draper, scored $6.5 million in funding from DoCoMo Capital, Benchmark Capital and Columbia Capital.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
3/17/2008
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$6,500,000
Round
Series B
Investors
DoCoMo Capital (Lead Investor) (Nobuyuki Akimoto)
Benchmark Capital (Eli Wurtman)
Columbia Capital (Arun Gupta)
Proceeds Purpose
Gizmoz will use its strategic round to fund expansion into Asia starting with Japan, a market that leads the world in mobile Internet adoption.
Company Information
Company Status
Out of Business
Industry
Internet & IoT
Mailing Address
South 265 West 300
Draper, UT 84020
USA
Draper, UT 84020
USA
Phone
Website
Email Address
Overview
Gizmoz offers consumers a new generation of character-based visual expression for use across their digital lives. The Gizmoz service makes it easy and fun to create, customize, animate and share lifelike, 3D talking characters that enable consumers to put a unique face and voice to their digital communications.
Profile
Social Media
Company News
Facebook
YouTube
Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Eyal Gever
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