{"id":8143,"date":"2011-02-08T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8143"},"modified":"2018-07-26T18:14:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:14:59","slug":"jagex-finds-vc-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/jagex-finds-vc-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagex Finds VC Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9928 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jagex-S-e1428554770652.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"400\" height=\"122\" \/>FEB. 8, 2011 \u2022 Independent U.K. studio Jagex, creator of the hit MMO Runescape, sealed new agreements with venture capital firms to help fund upcoming projects.\u00a0 Investments came in from\u00a0three VC groups: Insight Venture Partners, Spectrum Equity Investors and The Raine Group. Cash and equity terms were not announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Runescape was a huge hit for Jagex but the product is showing its age.\u00a0 The amazing thing Runescape accomplished was building a browser based free-to-play model and getting over one million customers to upgrade to a monthly subscription.\u00a0 That is clearly an impressive early market mover advantage that should make Jagex ripe for attracting funding.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB. 8, 2011 \u2022 Independent U.K. studio Jagex, creator of the hit MMO Runescape, sealed new agreements with venture capital firms to help fund upcoming projects.\u00a0 Investments came in from\u00a0three VC groups: Insight Venture Partners, Spectrum Equity Investors and The Raine Group. Cash and equity terms were not announced. Impact: Runescape was a huge hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123,78],"tags":[424,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16679,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions\/16679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}