Ze Frank Games is a stealth-stage social gaming company led by video blogger and performance artist Ze Frank. The startup plans to build social gaming products influenced by Frank’s decade of work on play and participation, but specific products remain undisclosed. Frank’s prior projects include the video podcast The Show, contributions to Time.com, the Memory game (also released as the iPhone game Memari), and social experiments like Twitter Color Wars. The company has raised $500,000 in seed funding from a group of angels and venture firms to support early development while remaining in stealth with no public website. Job postings cited in the article show the company is hiring front-end developers and graphic designers with unconventional, creativity-focused requirements, suggesting a product emphasis on inventive design and playful mechanics. Investors named in the article lend early-stage credibility and signal confidence in Frank’s creative track record.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jul 2010