GERMANY - Wellington invests in Eastbeam

Wellington Partners has invested in the Eastbeam Group in connection with an initial round of financing totaling EUR 3m. This German-Japanese company operates Wazap!, a vertical, i.e. subject-specific, search engine that users can employ to inform themselves about online, PC and console games. In addition to gaming-related websites, the search engine also checks its own database, which has already been filled with information by more than 70,000 users in Japan.