Plain Vanilla Games, the San Francisco, CA- and Reykjavik, Iceland-based creator of the iPhone game QuizUp, raised $22m in funding.
Backers included existing investors Tencent Holdings and Sequoia Capital.
The company, which has now raised more than $27m, intends to use the funds for continued growth and expansion.
Led by Thor Fridriksson, founder and CEO, Plain Vanilla Games released QuizUp, a trivia game, in November 2013.
Available for free on the iTunes App Store, QuizUp has been used by more than 5 million people with over 11 million messages exchanged and 2.3m posts on the discussion boards.
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