Limbo 41414

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Limbo
URL www.limbo.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Mobile Entertainment Company
Registration Required
Created by Jonathon Linner - CEO
Rob Lawson - President
Juho-Pekka Virolainen - CTO
Launched 2005
Current status Active

Limbo is a mobile entertainment company delivering text message-based game play. Limbo was founded in December 2005 by Rob Lawson, Jonathon Linner and Juho-Pekka Virolainen, co-founders of Enpocket. The Burlingame, Calif. company is backed by the venture capitalists Azure Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and New Enterprizes Associates. [1] [2]

The company offers consumers a community-driven gaming experience while providing an advertising method for brands and media companies through multiple platforms, including the Internet, SMS and WAP. The company’s premier product is Limbo Unique, in which the winner is the player who holds the lowest unique number for a prize when the game ends. Players who compete in Limbo Unique through text messaging or the mobile Internet also earn Limbo Loot, redeemable for free merchandise from the Limbo store.[3]

Among others, Limbo has partnered with Virgin Group, Lifetime Television, Procter & Gamble, Glam.com, The Walt Disney Company and Electronic Arts. [4][5][6]

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  1. ^ [1]. “Limbo 41414 Secures $9 Million to Accelerate Growth of Its Mobile Entertainment Community”. Yahoo.com. Accessed 19 July 2006.
  2. ^ [2]. "Limbo 41414 Secures $8 Million In Venture Capital To Expand Its Mobile Entertainment Services". Limbo.com. Accessed 27 April 2007
  3. ^ [3]. Limbo. Accessed 13 March 2007.
  4. ^ [4]. Petrecca, Laura. “In Limbo, bidders asked, 'How low can you go?’” USA Today. 25 October 2006. Accessed 13 March 2007.
  5. ^ [5]. Kinney, Aaron. “Yo, ho ho! Local company goes after 'Pirates' deal’” San Mateo County Times. 23 June 2007. Accessed 14 July 2007.
  6. ^ [6]. Brown, Erika. "Playing the Numbers" Forbes. Accessed 4 Sept, 2006.