Morgan leads $2.5M funding boost for Auckland social gaming firm
Trade Me founder Sam Morgan has put in the lion’s share of a $2.5 million investment round in Auckland-based social gaming provider SmallWorlds.
Trade Me founder Sam Morgan has put in the lion’s share of a $2.5 million investment round in Auckland-based social gaming provider SmallWorlds.
Anti-spam and anti-virus company SMX has tapped Sam Morgan, Stephen Tindall and venture investor Endeavour Capital to raise $1.67 million in new capital.
Trade Me CEO Jon MacDonald has a new baby son, so he’s after a camera. CEO or not, he’s out there bidding on Trade Me like any other Kiwi. He joined Trade Me in 2003 to manage the technical team. In June 2007 he graduated to general manager, when CEO and founder Sam Morgan took a step back from the company, bought by Fairfax in 2006.
TradeMe founder Sam Morgan, and his fellow early investors in the internet auction site, have received a further $45.2 million for the business from Fairfax Media.
Trade Me founder Sam Morgan insists he is still steering the company and not its Australian-based owner since 2006, John Fairfax Holdings (also publisher of Computerworld).