Recurious

01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Recurious was a Sunnyvale, California-based game development platform founded by James Miao, the co-founder of the game-inspired music site thesixtyone. It set out to make better educational games for children through thoughtful game design rather than dressing up lessons as games. Its first title, Dinorama, was an iOS simulation game for ages 7–12 in which kids built and managed a dinosaur theme park — learning to earn, spend and save money by building amusements, caring for dinosaurs and weathering events like rainstorms that raised costs and cut ticket sales. The company raised $1.5 million from Greylock Partners in April 2013.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

1. 2013
   Funding

   Recurious secured $1.5 million in venture funding from Greylock Partners; its debut game Dinorama launched on iOS.

2. Pending
   Status

   Crunchbase lists Recurious's operating status as Closed.