Kirkland North

Kirkland North, a startup out of Yale, recently landed $225,000 in seed funding from Harrison Metal Capital to continue their expansion and domination on college campuses. The "Risk" like game pins college students and schools against one another on an online landscape that requires strategic maneuvers to take over territories, forge allies, and conquer enemies. From what I hear, the game is pretty addicting.

The war game, called Turf, was originally started by Gabe Smedresman as a fun experiment. It quickly caught on and attracted over 3,300 students, or about 25% of the Yale student body. Soon after, it got picked up by Y Combinator and joined its incubator program. Rivals from Yale and Harvard not only battled on the online war field, but also on the startup front, as several Harvard students started their own game called GoCrossCampus. They have been battling ever since over who was the real founder. TechCrunch has covered the rivalry in more detail. Continue Reading...