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Ze Frank Gets $500K To Get Creative

Creative video blogger and Web entrepreneur Ze Frank just received $500,000 to build up his company Ze Frank Games. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Chris Dixon's Founder Collective, Ron Conway's SV Angel, betaworks, Lerer Ventures, First Round Capital, CrossCut Ventures, Joshua Schachter, and Gary Vaynerchuck. Along with the successful run of his grass-roots video podcast, The Show, and occasional contributions to Time.com, Frank apparently designs games such as Memory, and social games like Twitter Color Wars.

"The company is still in stealth mode -- but it will involve social gaming and will be influenced heavily by what I've learned about play and participation over the last ten years with projects like The Show and Color Wars," Frank wrote in an email to TechCrunch. Still, "Don't expect another Foursquare," writes TechCrunch. "Ze Frank is way more conceptual than that." For his part, fellow video blogger and Web entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk says he invested because, "As someone who was there when he started Color Wars on Twitter and watching him from afar build his show and brand through gaming mechanics this became a no brainer for me."

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  1. Dean Collins from Cognation Inc, July 19, 2010 at 8:17 a.m.

    hmmm time for mediapost to implement a self policing spam comment post tool :)

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