Hangout Industries

Based in Boston, MA and founded in 2007, Hangout Industries is developing Hangout.net, the world's first casual and immersive 3D social networking experience that leverages cross-platform, browser-based and Web 2.0 technologies while being seamlessly integrated into Facebook and MySpace. Allowing teens and young adults to create and customize their own virtual rooms featuring real brand-name products, Hangout.net provides a safe, secure, immersive and entertaining online environment for friends to hang out and have fun together. Hangout won "Best Use of Technology" from the MITX Interactive 2008 Annual Awards and was a 2008 TechCrunch50 finalist. Hangout is backed by funding from digital media-savvy venture capital firms Highland Capital Partners and Polaris Ventures.