CrowdStar Backer Sees Early Profits

I had an interesting conversation this week with Peter Relan, the founder of YouWeb, the shoestring-budget Silicon Valley incubator that spawned social gaming hitmaker CrowdStar. Relan, YouWeb and CrowdStar are interesting for a number of reasons. One is that Crowdstar, a social gaming startup that launched by an Armenian physics major named Suren Markosian, has gained phenomenal traction in the last couple of months. The 17-person company’s biggest hit, Happy Aquarium, a virtual fish-raising game, now has 27.5 million monthly active users on Facebook, according to AllFacebook.com. Across all games, CrowdStar has just shy of 40 million monthly Facebook users.

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