Social-Meets-Pokémon MinoMonsters Headed to iOS With $1M in Seed Funding

San Francisco-based MinoMonsters has received $1 million in seed funding to develop its eponymous iOS game. The funding was lead by Andreessen Horowitz, the same firm that invested in TinyCoBoku and Tiny Speck.

The mobile and social gaming startup was co-founded by 19-year-old Josh Buckley and 25-year-old Zynga veteran TJ Murphy. MinoMonsters will make its official debut on December 6th. According to an interview with Forbes, co-founder Murphy is calling MinoMosters not a game, but a “brand and entertainment experience,” which means that the company has ambitions that are not too dissimilar to what Outfit7 and Rovio Mobile are doing in branching out to merchandise, books and film.

In MinoMonsters, players must collect, tame and train a variety of magical monsters, and then lead them into battle against both in-game foes and other players.

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