On 20 Oct, ViKi announced that it had raised US$20 million from strategic partners SK Planet, BBC Worldwide and existing investors, Neoteny included. To date, the company has raised a total of US$24.3 million. Joi blogged about our investment in ViKi almost a year ago and have been actively involved on its board since. All of us chipped in, but in the end, the ultimate kudos goes to Razmig and his team for growing the international video site to more than 10 million viewers and translators, with shows translated into more than 150 languages; can’t wait to see how much further ViKi can go with the new content they have licensed from BBC Worldwide, NBC Universal, A+E Networks International, HISTORY and BIO.

On 15 Nov, Animoca raised an undisclosed amount from Intel Capital and IDG-Accel. It is always an honor to work with seasoned entrepreneurs like Yat. We’re happy to have participated in their first round of financing, and would like to congratulate Yat and his team for this latest round, and for working hard to release over 150 apps for the Apple iOS and Google Android platforms which have garnered in excess of 40 million downloads, all in the span of 10 months.

Both companies are growing at a blistering pace. ViKi represents the sort of disruption we love in our investments. Animoca embodies the dogged execution of seasoned entrepreneurs we respect. We wish both teams all the best in the months ahead.

Formlabs is developing a high quality, low cost 3D printer that works out of the box. It enables designers and makers to create 3D forms by simply hitting the print button. Formlabs products fuses a novel additive manufacturing technology with a unique design-centric approach to achieve an incredible user experience yet to be seen in 3D printing.

All logic and circuitry is pre-engineered, so you can play with electronics without knowing electronics. Tiny magnets act as connectors and enforce polarity, so you can’t put things in the wrong way. And all the schematics will be shared under an opensource license so you can download, upload, suggest new bits and hopefully see them come to life.

www.littlebits.cc

Building cutting-edge Web and mobile software using Ruby on Rails, jQuery Mobile, and Backbone.js

www.2bkco.com

“Everything We Know About Caterina Fake’s New Startup, 2kbco” – The Atlantic

Based in San Francisco, SeatMe is a venture-backed technology startup working to revolutionize the restaurant industry with an innovative suite of software solutions.

www.seatme.com

Lanyrd is a directory of conferences, events and speakers. Visitors can sign in with Twitter to see events their friends are attending or speaking at, submit new events, add talks that they have given and build up their speaker profile.

www.lanyrd.com

It is believed to be in the video chatting space. Originally codenamed Supyo, it will launch as Airtime.

www.airtime.com

Game Closure offers an HTML5-based multiplayer game development kit.

Game Closure, which is essentially the gaming version of Heroku and Appcelerator, allows game developers to write a game in pure JavaScript and use standard HTML5 APIs. The startup’s SDK then compiles, deploys, and accelerates the game. No plug-ins are required, just a Web browser, and any old browser will do. When your game runs on non-browser platforms like mobile devices and tablets, the SDK creates an actual native app using APIs like OpenGL. Like their competitors, Game Closure offers developers everything they need to build, host, and deploy their games at warp speed.

TechCrunch, 17 Feb 2011 – “Game Closure makes it a Breeze to Build Multiplayer, Cross-Platform Games“

www.gameclosure.com

Description to be added soon.

www.hellofax.com

www.insynchq.com

“If Google Docs and Dropbox had a love child, Insync would be it.“