Virtual Worlds News: Bessemer Venture Partners Invests in Sparter Trader of Virtual Currencies

February 18, 2007

Bessemer Venture Partners Invests in Sparter Trader of Virtual Currencies

Sparter is a new entry in the real money trading industry that uses an eBay-like “peer-to-peer” approach for the buying and selling of game gold for World of Warcraft and other MMORPG online games. The company has received venture capital funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and its management includes executives with experience at THQ, Walt Disney, Expedia, Ariba and IGN. Sparter describes itself as “the world’s first company devoted to enabling global Gamer2Gamer trading of virtual currencies.”

http://www.virtualeconomies.net/blog/2007/02/14/new-peer-to-peer-system-for-rmt-trading-debuts/
http://sparter.com/web/index.jsp

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