Iddiction, a stealth start-up founded by Andrej Nabergoj (pictured) to help people find applications on mobile devices, has raised $3.5m in its seed round including two corporate venturing units.
Comcast Ventures, the $750m venturing unit of US-listed cable company Comcast, and IDG Ventures, the $6.8bn peer at US publisher International Data Group, were joined in the round by venture capital firms Highland Capital Partners, Felicis Ventures and Bayview Capital and angel investors Rick Thompson, co-founder of online games company Playdom before its sale to media group Disney, and Francisco Larrin, a director of engineering at discount coupon provider Groupon.
Nabergoj was the founding chief executive of Outfit7, the Slovenia-based maker of the Talking Tom Cat online application. Outfit7, which has yet to raise external funding, is ending the year with 270 million downloads (compared to 100 million in April, which was 10 months after launch,) and close to 80 million monthly active users.