Cool Japan Fund invested $9.2m in the Line-backed mobile game developer, increasing its funding to more than $27m to date.
WonderPlanet, a Japan-based smartphone game developer backed by messaging platform Line and advertising agency United, has raised ¥1bn ($9.2m) of funding from public-private partnership Cool Japan Fund.
Founded in 2012, WonderPlanet makes and markets apps and mobile games for smart devices. Its titles include a role-playing puzzle game dubbed Crash Fever which has been downloaded in excess of 10 million times.
The company will utilise the capital to increase its product line and enter additional markets. Cool Japan Fund’s managing…
