Google Ventures, the corporate venturing division of US-listed search engine group Google, has reportedly joined venture capital firms investing in online games company Ngmoco.
News provider Techcrunch said Ngmoco gained a further $3m to $5m in this funding round. The company, which makes games for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, closed its $25m series C round in February led by VC, Institutional Venture Partners, along with the company’s previous VC investors, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners and Maples Investments.
Ngmoco competitor SGN, which also provides games for the iPhone, has started offering some of its titles on Google’s mobile operating system Android and raised money from the search engine company’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt’s angel investment firm, Tomorrow Ventures, in June, according to Techcrunch.
Ngmoco, which has games including WeFarm (pictured) on its site, closed its series B round in March last year at $10m, having first been backed from launch in 2008 by Maples and Kleiner Perkins, which has a $200m fund specifically to back Apple’s products.