January 29th, 2009

Not Funny: MyToons Implodes Amidst Serious Drama

Some companies go out with a whisper, others with a bang. In the case of online animation community MyToons, we’d call it the latter.

Not only do we know the startup has laid off its entire staff except for the founders (which equals 20 to 27 people depending on who you ask) because the lead investor refused to pony up more cash, but we’re also hearing stories from multiple sources who claim that… → Read More

March 14th, 2007

User Generated Animation Site MyToons Launches

http://www.mytoons.com/flash/MyToons_RemotePlayer.swf It is our luck to have two excellent user generated animated video sites now live – Israel-based Aniboom and, starting today, MyToons, which just came out of private beta. MyToons certainly has the edge over Aniboom on design and overall usability, although I found site navigation to be slow this morning. With both sites, users upload… → Read More

February 14th, 2007

Aniboom Raises $4.5 Million For Cartoons

Israeli Startup Aniboom has raise $4.5 million in an initial round of financing. At least that’s what TechCrunch France writer Ouriel Ohayon tells me this page says. The round was led by Israeli venture firm Evergreen. The site has very good user generated animated videos presented in a Flash player and embeddable in other websites. My favorite Aniboom video is embedded at the end of the… → Read More