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Kidlandia
Virtual playground on mobile & online, with branded "rides" to reduce IP & discovery risk.
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Kidlandia lets kids play on branded "rides" in a virtual theme park, with marketing from partners like Toys R Us. The model is virtual goods, following a "collect and complete" meta-game pattern.

Founders
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  • Brian Backus
    Brian Backus
    Founder & CEO. Founded UBUBU (ATV), then Qi Spirits. Award-winning game producer at Disney Interactive. MBA & BA, Harvard; MFA, USC
  • Adrienne Peterson
    Adrienne Peterson
    Director Operations, 12 years global supply chain management & financial analysis; Gump’s; MacPherson’s
  • Michael Chanover
    Michael Chanover
    Global Creative Director, Web & Brand, Leap Frog General Manager & Executive Producer, frogdesign; Assoc Producer, Disney Interactive
  • Sean M Jones
    Sean M Jones
    Art Director 14 years designing for games: Globworld, SparkTop, Knowledge Adventure, Microsoft
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    Valerie Williamson
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    VP Business Development, was Co-founder of E3, EVP at Electric Sheep; President of FunXS and Key3Media
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    Duncan Meech
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    CTO, was Sr Engineer at Electronic Arts & Broderbund
Previous Investors
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  • Ariel Poler
    Ariel Poler
    Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
  • Josh Felser
    Josh Felser
    Seed investor and serial entrepreneur. Co-founded Freestyle (early stage VC). Co-founded Spinner (sold to AOL), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) & FYILiving.com
  • Dave Samuel
    Dave Samuel
    serial entrepreneur: co-founder of Spinner, Brondell, Grouper. 4 kids. and now Freestyle Capital.
  • Lane Becker
    Lane Becker
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    Advisor, Freestyle.vc; founder, Get Satisfaction; founder, Adaptive Path; Author, "Get Lucky"; enjoys semicolons.
  • Jai Choi
    Jai Choi
    Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
  • Lorenzo Thione
    Lorenzo Thione
    Entrepreneur, Advisor, Investor, Producer
Advisors
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  • Kent Lindstrom
    Kent Lindstrom
    CEO of Kleiner/Benchmark/Battery backed Friendster for turnaround. Founder of Spot (backed by Currier/Chunovsky/Michel/Birch). Co-founder of NetRead.
  • Barthelemy Menayas
    Barthelemy Menayas
    Founder & CEO, Drgnfly, Inc Entusiastic creative leader and Jack of all trades Formerly Lead Producer/Designer at EA (8 games, The Sims, SimCity, Tiger Woods)
  • David Saxton
    David Saxton
    Start up veteran - Real Media (sold to 24/7), Ebates, Snapfish (sold to HP), Yola, and advisor to Autonomy Entertainment and Kidlandia. UC Berkeley.
  • Bernie Tenenbaum
    Bernie Tenenbaum
    Advisory Board member ToysRUs.com, Kidlandia,Yowie.com, Fan Stamp; Audit Committee Chair Syms (NASDAQ); former Associate Director Wharton Entrepreneurial Center
  • Jim Gray
    Jim Gray
    Education Lead for startup (iPads in Preschools) Director of Learning, LeapFrog Scholar, Center for Innovative Learning Technology Harvard Ed.D.
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    Paul Levine
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    EVP Platforms, National Geographic, ED Bus Dev AOL
Referrer
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  • Josh Felser
    Josh Felser
    Seed investor and serial entrepreneur. Co-founded Freestyle (early stage VC). Co-founded Spinner (sold to AOL), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) & FYILiving.com