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and FreeBSD in April. Shortly after that, NeoGeo was taken over by another company in parts. This was when Ton
Roosendaal and Frank van Beek decided to found a company called Not a Number (NaN) to further market and develop Blender. NaN's business model involved providing commercial products and services around Blender. In 2000 the company secured growth financing by several investment companies. The target of this was to create a free creation tool for interactive 3D (online) content, and commercial versions of the software for distribution and publishing. Roosendaal moved to Amsterdam in 2002.
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maintain. Instead of funding the project directly by bringing together software developers, the
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