<article>Chinese games developer <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=NetDragon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NetDragon Websoft Holdings Ltd</a> has acquired <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=JumpStart" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">JumpStart</a>, a US-based provider of educational products specialising in creative and educational games for K-12 children.</article>

Chinese games developer <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=NetDragon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NetDragon Websoft Holdings Ltd</a> has acquired <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=JumpStart" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">JumpStart</a>, a US-based provider of educational products specialising in creative and educational games for K-12 children.
The China-based global internet community builder completed JumpStart&#8217;s acquisition on Tuesday (July 4) as part of its venture into the global online and mobile learning space with the goal of developing a game-changing learning ecosystem.
Financial details of the deal are not disclosed.
NetDragon vice chairman and executive director Dr Simon Leung said they plan to tap into JumpStart&#8217;s excellent relationship with DreamWorks and utilise their IPs to enhance NetDragon&#8217;s existing products.
&#8220;We believe this strategic acquisition will open up tremendous opportunities for both NetDragon and JumpStart to offer innovative and world-class learning products to our users,&#8221; Leung said.
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He noted the latest deal displays NetDragon&#8217;s expertise in combining and utilising both education and gaming businesses.
Founded in 1991, JumpStart has considerably set the standard in children&#8217;s educational games by making learning fun and easy.
Among JumpStart&#8217;s popular own-branded games are JumpStart, Math Blaster, and Neopets, which alone recorded over 75 million registered users.
JumpStart&#8217;s long-standing partnerships with DreamWorks Animation involved leveraging on the latter&#8217;s IPs including Madagascar and School of Dragons to produce creative educational mobile and multiplayer online games.
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The School of Dragons game is based on &#8220;How to Train Your Dragon&#8221; Movies and has registered over 30 million players globally.
JumpStart now boasts of an audience base of over five million monthly active users which spans across North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Oceania, along with over 90 million registered accounts.
Established in 1999, NetDragon developed flagship MMORPGs including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved (formerly known as Calibur of Spirit) and Conquer Online.
The company also established China&#8217;s number one online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China&#8217;s most influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless, which was sold to Baidu in 2013 in what was at the time the largest Internet M&amp;A transaction in China.
Being China&#8217;s pioneer in overseas expansion, NetDragon also directly operates a number of game titles in over 10 languages internationally since 2003.
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