{"id":23122,"date":"2011-05-10T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23122"},"modified":"2011-05-10T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:41:00","slug":"skateboard-trading-card-company-gets-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23122","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard Trading Card Company Gets Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pro_cards.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pro_cards.jpg','popup','width=218,height=284,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pro_cards-tm.jpg\" height=\"260\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pro Cards\" \/><\/a>Encinitas, California based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superheatgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Heat Games<\/a><\/strong>, makers of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superheatgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Superheat Skateboard trading card game<\/a><\/strong> which is set to launch on May 24, 2011 has just received  $1.6 million in a first round of VC funding from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/diamondridgeventures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diamond Ridge Ventures<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfjfrontier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DFJ Frontier<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2011\/may\/10\/encinitas-trading-card-firm-gets-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The funding comes after Super Heat said in February that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Japanese trading card giant Konami Digital Entertainment, which distributes the popular Yu-Gi-Oh collectible cards. Konami will be the sole distributor of Super Heat cards in North America and South America. . . \u201cThe action sports industry is one of the fastest growing youth segments in the U.S. We feel our Super Heat Skateboard Trading Card Game will appeal to a rapidly emerging audience of action sports enthusiasts,\u201d said Robert Reynolds, the company&#8217;s chief executive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trading cards feature is solid line-up of pros including <strong>Bucky Lasek<\/strong>, <strong>Erik Elliington<\/strong>, <strong>Mark Appleyard<\/strong>, <strong>Geoff Rowley<\/strong>, <strong>Bob Burnquist<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Caballero<\/strong>, <strong>Christian Hosoi<\/strong>, and more. If kids are still playing card games, and not fiddling with their iPod touches, then this could be good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2011\/may\/10\/encinitas-trading-card-firm-gets-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Triubne<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encinitas, California based Super Heat Games, makers of the Superheat Skateboard trading card game which is set to launch on May 24, 2011 has just received $1.6 million in a first round of VC funding from Diamond Ridge Ventures and DFJ Frontier, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. The funding comes after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23123,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions\/23123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}