PopCap Moves Deeper into Social Gaming with $22.5M Round

PopCap is a venerable casual gaming company. It bootstrapped itself up over the past decade without ever raising a round and it has an unbroken string of hits — titles like Bejeweled, Zuma and Plants vs. Zombies. And now, it’s making a big move into social gaming, raising $22.5 million from Meritech Capital Partners, along with investors Larry Bowman and John McCaw.

The Seattle company has recently been focusing on Facebook, and relatively successfully. It launched Bejeweled

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