Meez, a 3D avatar community site / virtual world, has announced its merger with Pulse Entertainment, a provider of user-generated mobile multimedia messaging and entertainment services, and has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from LA-based VC firm Anthem Venture Partners to help with the transition.
Details are scarce for the time being, but Meez plans to integrate Pulse’s messaging services into its portal to offer its 8 million registered users web and mobile messaging capabilities. Meez says it will continue to support the customers of Pulse’s existing avatar messaging services, Veepers, and offer expanded new products based on its own social entertainment community platform.
Both companies are based in San Francisco, but Pulse Entertainment has been around for much longer, having been established in 1994, while Meez was launched about 3 years ago. Pulse Entertainment has raised a total of over $60 million in venture capital funding since its existence, while Meez took $5.4 million in a third round funding from Battery Ventures and Transcosmos in 2007, after raising a second round of $4 million in 2006 (we’re still digging for the total amount of financing that Meez raised).
We’ll update this post with more information as soon as it comes in.
Congratulations to Sean Ryan.. I’m a big fan of Sean’s. Smart and humble with a great intuition of what’s happening on the web.
Yes, Sean is a great guy
As far as flash virtual worlds and communities go, Meez is my favorite. Unlike most VW’s there are a good number of users always running around and they seem to constantly put out great content. Keep up the good work!
Trutoon creates better avatars than meez by using your own face on your avatar for social networks, blogs and instant messengers. http://www.trutoon.com
Are you serious?
that stuff looks cheap and creepy. Meez has artful characters with way more items and a virtual economy. You can’t even compare that site with what Meez offers. Go flog somewhere else…
i agree. trutoons is not the same thing as meez.
and yeah trutoons look very cheap. meez seems to have a plan and they are executing on it…
do u think cats are fun?
Good, this is the right move for this timeframe
i need a hair glitch
I can’t lie, I enjoy Meez quite a bit from the fact that they do have an economy. It seems that this is translating to quite the RL economy too. Way to go on the funding! Will be interesting to see how Meez can be taken into the mobile market.
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