TastemakerX, a US-based social gaming platform based around new music, has raised $1.25m from a consortium including AOL Ventures, the corporate venturing fund for internet and media corporation AOL.
Marc Ruxin, founder and chief executive of TastemakerX, said: “Games inspire people to search harder and accumulate more knowledge, and therefore force discovery in new ways. By enhancing the discovery elements of TastemakerX, along with the playback experience, we’re coming out of Beta with a product our users can really dig into and expand their music enjoyment.”
In February last year, TastemakerX secured $1.8m in its series A round from AOL Ventures, financial services firm Guggenheim Partners, venture capital firm True Ventures, seed investors Baseline Ventures and Tekton Ventures, and angel investors John Battelle, Marc Geiger, Andrew Anker, Mich Mathews, Michael Kassan, Ian Rogers, Paul Bricault, Ted Rheingold and Mike Lazerow.