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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

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Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. SEE ALSO Comcast, Samsung, and HTC Join $6 Million Investment in VR Animation Studio 'Baobab'.

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Baobab’s ‘Invasion’ Has Reportedly Been Downloaded ‘Well Over 1 Million’ Times

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Fan was most recently the vice president of games at Zynga before starting Baobab with Madagascar and Antz director Eric Darnell. Invasion is available for free on just about every VR platform available to date including Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, PlayStation VR and HTC Vive.

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Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

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Above: VR Funhouse is a series of mini games for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. Bringing health care into a more immersive environment and affecting behavioral change, we think, is very interesting. To me, that seems like an investment in one particular person, the guy who made Madagascar. Image Credit: Nvidia.

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