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| Feb 2, 2022 | Esports betting platform Midnite secures $16m in funding as part of global expansion | UK Gambling Commission-licensed esports betting platform Midnite has announced the first closing of a $16m series A funding round. As part of the round, existing investors increased their investment in Midnite, including Makers Fund and Ven... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Alta closes $12.4M seed round led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz | Alta, a virtual reality metaverse studio, announced today it has raised a 12.4 million seed funding co-led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz. Founded in 2016 by Tima Anoshechkin, Joel van de Vorstenbosch and Boramy Unn, the Sydney and ... |
| Jan 18, 2022 | Dream Games raises $255M at a $2.75B valuation | Yet more funding is finding its way to Istanbul’s gaming startups. Today, Dream Games — the casual games developer behind the hit game Royal Match — is announcing a $255 million Series C that values the startup at $2.75 billion.
This Serie... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Medal.tv raises $60M as creators clip 2M game moments a day | Medal.tv has raised $60 million in funding for its platform for short-form videos for games. And the company is also launching Medal version 3.0. Creators are “clipping” more than two million gaming moments a day, and the company is evolvin... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | World Makers secures $3m investment from Makers Fund | Game developer World Makers (formerly Automation Games) announced today it has raised $3 million in a seed investment. The funding was provided by venture capital firm Makers Fund.
The company said that the investment will goes towards con... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | DreamCraft to enhance game creation platform with $10M fundraise | DreamCraft Entertainment announced today that it closed a $10 million round of fundraising that will go towards its game creation platform. DreamCraft is building a game development platform and editor that makes the process of creating a g... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | AudioMob, which serves audio ads inside mobile games, raises a $14M Series A | AudioMob is a startup that provides ‘non-intrusive’ audio ads within mobile games. It turns out that gamers don’t seem to mind little ads like this popping up, and somehow AudioMob seems to have cracked the mechanic.
It’s now raised a $14 ... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Mod.io raises $26m in Series A funding | Modding platform Mod.io has raised $26 million in a round of Series A funding. The round was led by Tencent, with participation from Lego Ventures, and returning investors Makers Fund, Play Ventures, Sequoia Capital India's Surge, GameTech ... |
| Oct 29, 2021 | Microsoft acquires AI-powered moderation platform Two Hat | Microsoft today announced that it acquired Two Hat, an AI-powered content moderation platform, for an undisclosed amount. According to Xbox product services CVP Dave McCarthy, the purchase will combine the technology, research capabilities,... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Piepacker raises $12m in funding round | Social gaming site Piepacker has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by LEGO Ventures with support from long-term investors Makers Fund and V13 Interest, among others.
"We created Piepacker to offer a soc... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | Captain.tv, creator of Stream Raiders, receives funding to make new games | Captain.tv raised $10 million from investors, including Makers Fund, Galaxy Digital, and Betaworks, which it plans to use to create more games specifically for streamers.
Captain designed Stream Raiders for content creators who livestream.... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Zenith VR MMO Team Raises $10 Million | Ramen VR, a small game studio based in the Bay Area, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Makers Fund, with participation from Dune Ventures and Anthos Capital. The funding round comes as the small (12 full-timers) studio prepa... |
| Aug 11, 2021 | AviaGames raises $40M to diversify mobile skill-based gaming | AviaGames has raised $40 million to diversify mobile skill-based gaming where players can compete against each other for cash prizes.
The funding is a pretty big win for the female founders of Mountain View, California-based AviaGames, and... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Unity to acquire Parsec in its biggest acquisition to date | Unity, the company behind the super popular 2D/3D engine of the same name, is today announcing plans to make its biggest acquisition to date. Unity says it will acquire Parsec, a remote desktop tool for developers and creatives, for $320 mi... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Fast Company's most creative people of 2021 - for delighting fans: The Game Band | Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business list features 72 individuals who’ve made strides this past year that no one has ever made before. Among this year's list are Stephen Bell, Joel Clark, and Sam Rosenthal from The Game Band, who... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Genvid Raises $113M to Build Out Massive Interactive Live Games | Genvid wants to bootstrap a new category of large-scale interactive games that unfold in real-time — based on well-known movie, comic book or gaming franchises. It’s banked a big $113 million round to form Genvid Entertainment, a new game p... |
| Jul 2, 2021 | WinZO raises $65M in Series C round led by Griffin Gaming Partners | WinZO, the gaming and entertainment platform, has raised $65 million in a Series C funding round, led by California-based Griffin Gaming Partners, taking the total tally of capital raised by the company to $90 million. Griffin is making its... |
| Jun 30, 2021 | Dream Games raises $155M at a $1B valuation as its Royal Match puzzle game hits a royal flush | Dream Games — a developer of mobile puzzle games — has raised $155 million in funding, a Series B that values the startup at $1 billion. This is a massive leap for the company, which raised $50 million (the largest Series A in Turkey’s star... |
| Jun 26, 2021 | VRChat Partners With Anthos Capital to Close $80M Series D | VRChat, a social VR platform that allows users to create, publish, and explore virtual worlds with other users around the globe, announced a Series D investment round of $80 million. The round was led by Anthos Capital, alongside participat... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | Piepacker raises $3m in seed funding round | Web browser-based gaming platform Piepacker has announced that it has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The funds will support the company's free-to-play, online social service dedicated to officially licensed retro games. Along wi... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | Welcome Unit 2 Games to Facebook Gaming | Unit 2 Games was formed with the vision of democratizing game creation, thanks to Crayta — a collaborative and accessible platform that they’ve built from the ground up. The team has also helped establish new gaming creators while building ... |
| May 18, 2021 | Blaseball developers score $3M seed funding to go mobile | Blaseball, the text-based fantasy fantasy league, has attracted hundreds of thousands of players and now $3 million in funding to build up the game and go mobile.
Rosenthal said they resisted seeking funding to begin with due to a desire f... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Gaggle Studios raises $2m, and their debut title, Goose Goose Duck, launches in Early Access today | Goose Goose Duck developer Gaggle Studios has closed a seed round of $2 million from early-stage VC firm Makers Fund. The funding will go towards enhancing the "speed and quality" of Gaggle's development pipeline as well as expand... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Multiverse Closes $17.5 Million Funding Round To Take Your Tabletop RPGs Online | Multiverse, Inc., has raised $17.5 million to create One More Multiverse, a platform that allows gamers and streamers to play tabletop role-playing titles online. Its latest Series A funding includes Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Crunchyroll... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Lightheart raises $6.8m in Series A funding | Lightheart Entertainment announced today that it has raised $6.8 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Makers Fund, along with existing investments from Galaxy Interactive, Sisu Game Ventures, and additional angel invest... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | Hello Neighbor indie publisher TinyBuild goes public with $474M valuation | Indie games publisher TinyBuild, known for its Hello Neighbor games, went public on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market, with a valuation of $474 million.
The Seattle-based company raised $49 million in the initial public offering (IPO)... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | Istanbul’s Dream Games snaps up $50M and launches its first game, the puzzle-based Royal Match | Istanbul-based, Peak alum-founded Dream Games, is announcing the GA launch of its first title, Royal Match (on both iOS and Android), along with $50 million in funding to double down on the opportunity ahead — the largest Series A raised by... |
| Jan 17, 2021 | Savage Game Studios raises $4.4 million for mobile shooter game | Savage Game Studios has raised $4.4 million to create two mobile game studios in Helsinki and Berlin. The company is at work on its first title, a mobile game shooter.
The team is headed by Michail Katkoff, the CEO and cofounder of Savage ... |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Parsec raises $25 million in Series B round | Streaming tech company Parsec has raised $25 million in a series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round also included previous investors Makers Fund, Notation Capital, NextView Ventures, and Lerer Hippeau.
The investment will go tow... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | Parsec raises $25 million from from a16z to power remote work and cloud gaming | Parsec, a startup that’s built streaming technology for both work and play, is announcing that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. This brings Parsec's total funding to $33 million. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with ... |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Mod.io raises $4 million to grow its cross-platform modding service | Cross-platform modding service mod.io has raised $4 million in funding, which it plans to use to both simplify its mod support capabilities and to build more advanced features surrounding metrics, moderation, persistence, branded integratio... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | End Game and VRChat portfolio founders featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2021 | This year's Forbes 30u30 includes End Game's Yang Liu and Luke Zbihlyj and VRChat's Graham Gaylor. We are proud of and excited for them!
With a unique ecosystem, the games industry allows a wide variety of creatives to thrive, from the esp... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | Genvid powers Rival Peak, a cloud-native streaming experience launched by Facebook | Just weeks into Facebook’s debut into the cloud gaming market, it has its first “exclusive” title that’s a perfect fit for Facebook users: a reality show that lives completely in the cloud. “Rival Peak" is a Facebook Watch program in w... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Asobu: Putting Japan's indies on the international map | Co-founder Mark MacDonald discusses why Japan didn't have an indie boom, and Asobu's plans to kickstart one anyway. Asobu was founded by MacDonald, Makers Fund's Zen Chao, documentary filmmaker Anne Ferrero, and a collective of Japan's more... |
| Sep 8, 2020 | Gameye closes $2.4m funding round | Multiplayer gaming specialist Gameye has closed a $2.4 million round of funding, its second in just over 18 months. The Dutch firm has raised $2.4 million in investment in a round led by Lakestar and Volta Ventures. |
| Sep 4, 2020 | WinZO raises $18 million in Series B round | Gaming platform WinZO said on Thursday that it had raised $18 million in a Series B funding round led by Makers Fund and Courtside Ventures. Singapore-based Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment fund, and Courtside Ventures is b... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Parsec partners with Ubisoft to deliver new game streaming experiences | Parsec’s excited to announce a long term partnership with game creator and publisher Ubisoft. The team at Ubisoft has entered into a multi-year partnership to use Parsec’s SDK to advance their game streaming efforts, embedding our tech to p... |
| Jul 2, 2020 | ControlZee raises $3 million for ‘massively interactive swarm games’ | ControlZee has raised $3 million to bring instantly playable multiplayer worlds to life. The company refers to its titles — which are controlled by masses of players at the same time — as “massively interactive swarm games.” |
| May 12, 2020 | Streaming startup Parsec raises $7m in funding | The streaming tech startup Parsec has raised $7 million in a series A round, led by Makers Fund.
Parsec For Teams launched in March this year, and uses the firm's technology to support remote interactive desktop applications. While it is r... |
| May 10, 2020 | Game creation platform Crayta coming to Google Stadia this summer | Today during Google's Stadia Connect presentation, it was announced that game creation platform Crayta (Unit 2 Games) will launch on the service this summer. |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Superplus Games raises $4.7 million to bring player-versus-player competition to casual gamers | Finland is still a hotbed for mobile games. The latest proof of that is Superplus Games, which has raised $4.7 million to bring more player-versus-player competition to casual gamers. |
| Mar 16, 2020 | Genvid raises $6 million more from investors, unveils 5 games using its streaming tech | Genvid Technologies has expanded its latest round of funding with additional funding from strategic investors NTT Docomo Ventures, Samsung Ventures, and Huya. Full told, the streaming company’s Series B funding has now reached $33 million, ... |
| Mar 1, 2020 | Rune founders selected in 30 under 30 in Europe | The two founders of Rune have been selected for 30 under 30 in EUROPE-SPORTS & GAMES category. |
| Feb 27, 2020 | End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M | End Game has just raised $3 million in seed funding from an impressive group of investors: The round was led by the game-focused firm Makers Fund, with participation from Clash of Clans developer Supercell, Unity CEO David Helgason, Twitch ... |
| Jan 8, 2020 | Midnite raises $2.5M for its esports betting platform | Midnite, the London-based esports betting startup from the same team behind daily fantasy football app Dribble, has raised just over $2.5 million in funding. The “strategic” investment is led by gaming-focussed venture firm Makers Fund. |
| Dec 20, 2019 | Google buys triple-A game dev Typhoon Studio to beef up Stadia | Google’s Stadia cloud gaming division has acquired Typhoon Studio, a Montreal-based triple-A game development house. The move is part of Stadia’s plan to double down on internally produced talent to create exclusive content for the Stadia p... |
| Dec 13, 2019 | Nine to Five Is a New Tactical FPS From Ex-Remedy and Wargaming Devs | Game-development veterans from studios like Wargaming (makers of World of Warships and more) and Remedy (whose most recent game, Control, just won IGN's 2019 Game of the Year award) have formed a new studio called Redhill Games. At The Game... |
| Nov 25, 2019 | Genvid Technologies raises $27 million for interactive streaming engine | Genvid Technologies has raised $27 million in funding for its interactive streaming engine. Galaxy Interactive, the division of merchant bank Galaxy Digital, led the round, bringing the startup’s total funding raised to $47 million. The New... |
| Nov 19, 2019 | Dream Games raises $7.5M seed to develop ‘high-quality’ puzzle games | Dream Games, a Turkish mobile gaming company founded by former Peak Games employees who worked together on hit puzzle games Toy Blast and Toon Blast, has raised $7.5 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Makers Fund, with co-investm... |
| Nov 12, 2019 | Two Hat raises $7.5 million to grow AI content moderation platform | Two Hat Security, a Canadian technology company that provides AI-powered content moderation solutions, today announced it has raised $7.5 million in a new funding round led by Tam Holdings, an investment firm based in San Francisco. Also pa... |
| Oct 16, 2019 | Unit 2 Games secures $5m investment from Makers Fund | Unit 2 Games has closed an investment deal that will see $5 million poured into the UK studio. The finance comes from Makers Fund, a venture capital firm that has already invested in multiple games companies, including Seed developer Klang ... |
| Oct 15, 2019 | Makers Fund leads $1.95M investment in Atomontage | Atomontage has raised $1.95 million in seed funding for its microvoxel technology, which you use with 3D simulation and graphics rendering. The investors included Makers Fund; Karl Magnus Troedsson, the former CEO of EA DICE; Tommy Palm, th... |
| Oct 2, 2019 | Rune raises $2M to help you find new friends in mobile games, starting with Brawl Stars | Rune, a company out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 class, wants to use AI to help you find the right people to play with, connecting you via voice chat. And they’ve just closed a $2 million seed round to get it done. The round was led by the... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Minion Masters developer BetaDwarf raises $6.6 million for ‘friendshipping’ games | BetaDwarf has raised $6.6 million in funding to make more “friendshipping games” that go beyond the bonds formed in its previous hit titles such Forced and Minion Masters. Makers Fund led the funding, with participation from seed investor L... |
| Sep 9, 2019 | Drivetime nabs $11M from Makers Fund, Amazon and Google to build voice-based games for drivers | Fully autonomous cars may (or may not) be just around the corner, but in the meantime, a startup that’s building in-car apps to help human drivers pass the time when behind the wheel has raised a round of funding. Drivetime — which makes vo... |
| Sep 7, 2019 | Looking to become the video-based social network of the gaming world, Medal.tv raises $9 million | When Medal.tv first launched on the scene, the company was an upstart trying to be the social network for the gaming generation. Since its debut in February, the clipping and messaging service for gamers has amassed 5 million total users wi... |
| Sep 6, 2019 | VRChat Partners with HTC and Makers Fund to Close $10m Series C | The VRChat team is excited to announce that we have closed a $10m Series C investment round. This latest financing includes new investor Makers Fund, alongside existing investors HTC, Brightstone VC and GFR Fund. We welcome Makers Fund and ... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | Klang raises $22.3 million for MMO space colony simulation Seed | Klang has raised $22.33 million in funding to develop a massively multiplayer online space colony simulation called Seed. The Berlin-based game studio is making a large-scale, persistent virtual world, hoping to redefine the MMO landscape. ... |
