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Reasons for Shutdown

Talent Shortage

There was a decline in Flash developers as they were moving into mobile

Most flash game developers have moved on to developed games in HTML5, Unity, and Corona for platforms like Android, iOS and Steam.
Mochi Media was acquired by Shanda Games for $80 million in 2010, is closing down, with all services ceasing March 31.
With the decline of Flash, Mochi’s shut-down was also a message to those businesses built on it to diversify or perish.

Direct Competitors and Similar Companies

Note: Direct competitors are defined by similarity score of more than 40%, while similar companies are defined by similarity score of less than 40%

No.	Name	Similarity score	Description	Industry	Categories	Location	Ownership status	Entity type	Stage of development	Transactional model type	Defensibility moats	Last financing round	Total raised	Post-money valuation	Last financing date	No. of funding round(s)	No. of investors	Investors	Total revenue	Market capitalization	No. of investments	No. of acquisitions	No. of board seats taken	Competition	Management	No. of employees	Company reputation	Contact info	Operational status	Operational duration	Shutdown date	Founded date	Legal name	Former legal name(s)	Ticker
1.	Defy Media	32.3%	A digital media company that produced original online content.	Interactive Media & Services	Advertising, Digital Entertainment, Internet, Media & Entertainment	United States	-	-	-	-	-	Early Stage	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	250-500	-	-	Inactive	-	-	2013	-	-	-
2.	Diffle	16.6%	Social network based on simple 2D flash games.	Interactive Media & Services	Online Games, Social Network, Gaming	United States	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Inactive	-	-	2007	-	-	-
3.	KotaGames	10.1%	Browser-based games.	Interactive Media & Services	Gaming	Singapore	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10-50	-	-	Inactive	-	-	-	-	-	-

Investors

No.	Image	Name	Investor type	Description	Location	Preferred investment stage(s)	Stages invested in	Assets under management (AUM)	Investment range	Investment sweet spot	Preferred investment focus	Preferred investment geography	No. of investments	No. of lead investments	No. of follow-on investments	No. of co-investments	Portfolio companies	No. of exits	Total exit value	No. of failed investments	Loss on investments	No. of acquisitions	No. of board seats taken	No. of funds	Limited partners	Co-investors	No. of partners	Partners	No. of employees	Management	Board members	Founders	Investor reputation	Contact info	Entity type	Legal name	Former legal name(s)	Founded date	Ticker
1.		Accel	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Leadership

No.	Image	Name	Previous designation	Previous company	Previous biography	Previous profile type	Previous location	Experience	Education	Reputation	Current company	Current designation	Current biography	Current profile type	Current location	No. of investments	No. of exits	Total exit value	No. of board seats taken	Contact info
1.		Jameson Hsu	Co-founder and Chief Mochi	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Mochi Media	-	Jameson is a three time entrepreneur and avid world traveler. Most recently Mr. Hsu was CEO and co-founder of Pieceable Software, a company that enabled iOS app virtualization in the cloud so that any app could be consumed in a web browser. Pieceable was acquired by Facebook in 2012. Prior to that Mr. Hsu was CEO and co-founder of Mochi Media, an ad network and distribution platform for Flash games that reached over 180M monthly uniques. In 2010 Mochi Media was acquired by Shanda Games. Jameson’s first company was a design and advertising agency in New York called WDDG. The company started with advertising and eventually forayed into game development and publishing as Fun Tank (which was later acquired by Publishers Clearing House in 2011).	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2.		Bob Ippolito	Founder and CTO	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Mochi Media	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Funding

No.	Financing date	Financing round	Total amount raised	Post-money valuation	Financial viability	Fundraising target amount	Remaining target amount	Financing type	No. of investors	Board seats	Lead investors	Entity type	Financing status
1.	18 Jun 2008	Series B	USD 10M	-	-			-	3	-	-	-	Completed
2.	12 Mar 2008	Series A	USD 4M	-	-			-	3	-	-	-	Completed
3.	19 Jul 2007	Series A	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
4.	28 Feb 2005	Seed Round	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-