• Inovisi Infracom Spends $30 Million On A Stake In Mobile Games Startup Ozura

    Robin Wauters

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

    Telecom infrastructure company Inovisi Infracom has acquired a stake in mobile internet social network game developer Ozura World for $30 million. In return, Inovisi will sell telecom infrastructure services for Ozura’s mobile social platform Fonwar.

    According to Ozura’s most recent report, its Fonwar IM software has over 16 million users as of June 2010 – and it anticipates this audience to double in the next 12 months thanks to further growth across developing countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India, South Africa and South Americas.

    Ozura, which publishes mobile games and other wireless entertainment products, says its games and apps have been downloaded over 30 million times over the past 2 years. Furthermore, the company claims to have seen 2 billion messages exchanged, and close to 1.2 billion SMSes delivered.

    Inovisi for its part says it is looking for more investment and acquisition opportunities in the telecommunication space. The company is targeting over $120 million sales from mobile Internet related business in next 2 years and expects this to double by 2013.

    Company: Ozura World
    Website: ozuraworld.com
    Launch Date: December 31, 2004
    Funding: $53M

    Ozura World is mobile Internet focused investment company specializing in commercial stage, high growth, private companies in the global Internet industry. Ozura Global Media operates mobile Internet social network platform which support mobile games, virtual commerce and Instant Messaging services. The Fonwar portal which operates on Funlogix engine is a mobile social community and a mobile Internet digital content platform, which consists of an online payment and billing system, a distribution network, and a marketing platform, as well as...

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