Benchmark Capital joins Vivox in 7.8 million USD deal
According to Wagner James Au at GigaOm, Benchmark Capital has joined the board of Vivox. We're not sure how much Benchmark Capital invested directly. The total was $7.8 million US dollars in Series B financing, some of which also came from Canaan Partners and GrandBanks Capital.
The man behind the deal was Mitch Lasky, formerly with Eletronic Arts' mobile division, now general partner at Benchmark Capital.
Benchmark Capital is a key investor in Linden Lab, with Benchmark's Bill Gurley sitting on the Linden Lab Board of Directors. Now, it appears, Mitch Lasky will be sitting on the Board at Vivox - Linden Lab's chosen voice-services provider.
Vivox's partners presently include Wizards of the Coast (for Dungeons and Dragons Insider - [no relation]), IBM, Monumental Games, Metaverse Developers Electric Sheep Company, 1PGN Inc (Ragnesis Online), CCP Games (Eve Online/White Wolf), Second Life based languages school Language Lab, Pixel Mine, Illusion Factory and others.
[via GigaOm]
