Event Report | Cmune Pitch at Infinity Ventures Summit in Sapporo
+8* Event reportsPublished July 21, 2009 at 9:54 am No CommentsThe Infinity Venture Summit is Japan’s largest web & mobile conference, organized by the early-stage VC firm Infinity Venture Partners, which invests mostly in Japan and China. It takes place twice a year and gathering 300+ Japanese C-level execs, and a handful of foreign guests. The event is invitation-only and combines keynotes, panels, start-up pitches and hours of networking time over two days, alternatively in Sapporo and Miyazaki, Kyushu – a business retreat far from everyone’s home or office.
We have attended this event several times and for its 10th anniversary session in May, we got the chance to be invited to present Cmune – our partner company building the “Next Generation Social Game Platform“. In short: multiplayer 3D games in the browser, social networks and Apple Widgets. (Disclosure: +8* is an investor and partner of Cmune).
We learned there about Mixi’s plan for an open platform (Mixi is Japan’s largest PC-based SNS), met with the CEOs of both DeNA and GREE, two mobile gaming communities making hundreds of millions with a MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORK using the virtual goods business model. Both companies are worth over 1 billion USD on the Japanese stock exchange.
For your enjoyment, here is the 6-minutes pitch of Cmune in Japanese with English voice-over.
Most of the other sessions are here, including invited speakers from RockYou, AdMob, MochiMedia and Animoto.
The session on Next-Generation Interfaces is here, covering various aspects of augmented reality (AR) and more (English voice-over starts after 2 minutes).
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