VCNC, a South Korea-based app developer that gained backing from Japanese internet company DeNA earlier this year, has closed its series C round with an undisclosed amount of investment.
The round featured participation from incubator and early-stage seed fund investor 500 Startups and Japan-based venture capital firm Global Brain.
VCNC has developed a social app for couples that allows them to send and receive text messages, virtual “stickers”, photographs and voice messages and enables them to share their digital experiences with each other.
DeNA took a minority stake amount in VCNC for an undisclosed amount in March 2014. The money raised from this was used to monetise Between, VCNC’s social app for couples, to increase marketing in Japan, and possibly to expand into the US market.