Stealth Y Combinator Opzi Gets Serious Angel Attention

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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Palo Alto based Opzi, a stealth Y Combinator startup that will debut at TechCrunch Disrupt next week, has closed an impressive first round of financing – nearly $1 million from SV Angel, First Round Capital, Naval Ravikant, Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC, Hadi Partovi, Ali Partovi, Paul Buchheit, Fritz Lanman and Raymond Tonsing.

That’s quite a syndicate. And equally impressive is founder Euwyn Poon. Poon graduated from Cornell University at the age of 18 and subsequently received a J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2007. He then practiced law for two years. Now, all of 25 years old, he’s founded one of the hot startups of the year.

What is Opzi? You’ll have to wait until next week to see when they debut on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Company: Opzi
Website: opzi.com
Launch Date: May 2010
Funding: $1.02M

Opzi is a developer of social games for iOS and Android based in Vancouver, BC and San Francisco, CA. We build new ways for people to play. Our team consists of brilliant software engineers and creative artists who love building and shipping products and delighting users.

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