Leeuu Gets Funding from Redpoint Ventures, HiPiHi Closes VC Round

Leeuu, developer of Romantic Chateau Online, announced that it had received several million dollars in funding from Redpoint Ventures. This (badly translated) report from the Sina network makes it sound like a 2D virtual world that's compared to Second Life and discusses plans to build out a 3D version of the virtual world over the course of this year. We're checking with Redpoint to find out more. In the same post, we learn the Xu Hui of HiPiHi told Sina that the company closed its first round of venture funding yesterday for somewhere between $7 and $10 million dollars.