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Japan's KLab raises $9.3M for mobile games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Japanese mobile firm KLab has raised $9.3 million in funding as it starts a marketing expansion.

The money came from two sources: Oak Capital Corp. and Hakuhodo, according to market analyst Serkan Toto. Hakuhodo is a big marketing and ad company in Japan. The company plans to promote games such as its card-battle mobile game, Lord of the Dragons. For the period from September 2012 to May, Klab lost $7.7 million. The company’s stock is trading up in Japan as a result of the announcement.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.