Investments
2Latest Brett Wander News
Dec 9, 2011
Posted T-Mobile To YouMail: We Told You About This A Month Ago Pluto Games , a mobile ‘edutainment’ platform for kids, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from incubator YouWeb and angel investors including co-founder and chairman of Silver Lake Dave Roux; Brett Wander, Chief Investment Officer at Charles Schwab; and Praful Shah, former VP Marketing at WebEx. As part of the investment, Pluto Games is spinning off from YouWeb as an independent company. founded by Luis Sampedro, Pluto offers an educational game and iPad app, called Pluto Leans Piano that combines scrolling gameplay dynamics with musical notes to get children interested in learning music. The game follows the main character, Pluto, a penguin on a quest to master a variety of songs on the Piano. Children can learn basic songs like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star as well as more classical pieces like The Magic Flute by Mozart, Ode to Joy by Beethoven, Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky. Pluto Plays Piano is free to download and play with stars awarded based on performance in completing levels. As the player collects stars, Pluto unlocks new songs to learn. The company plans to launch music and education tablet games in other verticals soon. 0
Brett Wander Investments
2 Investments
Brett Wander has made 2 investments. Their latest investment was in Studio 9+ as part of their Angel - II on September 9, 2013.
Brett Wander Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9/4/2013 | Angel - II | Studio 9+ | $2.5M | Yes | 1 | |
12/12/2011 | Seed |
Date | 9/4/2013 | 12/12/2011 |
|---|---|---|
Round | Angel - II | Seed |
Company | Studio 9+ | |
Amount | $2.5M | |
New? | Yes | |
Co-Investors | ||
Sources | 1 |
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