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Tribal Nova raises $2.5 million for kids’ online games

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Canadian firm Tribal Nova said today it has raised $2.5 million to help develop kids’ games and virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Management reported.

Tribal Nova has worked with partners such as PBS to create Kids Play games on the nonprofit organization’s web site. The company has also launched its own virtual world for kids, Kidstudio, which combines games with content from a bunch of TV partners.

The company is also working with the Canadian Broadcast Co. for the upcoming Kids’ CBC Wonder World, and with Bayard Jeunesse, a French publisher whose publications reach 36 million children.

Investors include iNovia Capital and ID Capital.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.