Casual games site gets $1.5m funding

The round also includes an increase in cash from current investors Baseline Ventures, Betaworks, and veteran investor Ron Conway, as well as an investment from Netscape and Ning founder Marc Andreessen.

According to CNET, it's the first funding the site has received since its debut last year, when it launched to ‘a brief flurry of press’ as a social networking destination.

CNET reports: ‘This year, the started rebranded itself as a hub for social games but would clearly need more funding (or a corporate parent) to do so.

‘Founder Charles Forman, a fixture on the New York digital-media social circuit known for handing out giant business cards and owning a seemingly endless supply of pink T-shirts, was introduced to Spark's Bijan Sabet through other local young entrepreneurs late last year.’

The site features multi-user casual games like Blockles, Gemmers and Draw My Thing.