Foxborough, MA-based Quick Hit, a maker of online football role-playing games, has closed $2.5 million in equity financing, according to a regulatory filing. The investors weren’t disclosed, but the company raised an $8 million Series B round in early 2009 from Valhalla Partners, TriplePoint Capital, and New Enterprise Associates. Xconomy first profiled Quick Hit in May 2009, when the startup was in beta-testing mode. Since then, it has struck a deal with the National Football League to use official team names, logos, and uniforms (cracking EA’s exclusive license), and has added a number of other features (including virtual currency) to its football strategy game.
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003.
Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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