FanAI is an AI-driven Audience Monetization platform focusing on esports, and their sponsor ecosystems, increasing franchise and sponsorship revenues by making their audience data actionable.
Location: United States, California, Santa Monica
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $2.5M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | ChinaRock ... | crcmventur... |
| - | CourtsideV... | courtsidev... |
| - | Commerce.I... | commercein... |
| - | BITKRAFT E... | bitkraft.v... |
| - | GFR Fund | gfrfund.co... |
| - | Rosecliff ... | rosecliff.... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 22.02.2018 | - | $2.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 17
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.11.2019 | Daily funding roundup - November 14th, 2019 | Hype and Vice raised $1.5M; JetPack Aviation landed $2M; Peanut closed $5M Hype and Vice: Hype and Vice partners with universities to create fashionable college-wear. Hype and Vice just raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by Founders Fu... |
| 11.10.2019 | How Smite esports helps keep 30 million players engaged with the game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Building up the esports infrastructure for Smite’s esports community has been a lot of work. Over six years, the community of players h... |
| 11.10.2019 | How Smite esports helps keep 30 million players engaged with the game | Building up the esports infrastructure for Smite’s esports community has been a lot of work. Over six years, the community of players has grown to nearly 30 million. Todd Harris, cofounder of Hi-Rez Studios in Atlanta, said in a fireside ch... |
| 29.01.2019 | FanAI buys esports data startup Waypoint Media | FanAI, an esports audience analytics company, announced it has acquired esports data startup, Waypoint Media. It’s one more sign that esports is heating up, as market researcher Newzoo forecasts esports will become a $1.7 billion market by ... |
| 29.01.2019 | FanAI buys esports data startup Waypoint Media | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. FanAI, an esports audience analytics company, announced it has acquired esports data startup, Waypoint Media. It’s one more sign that e... |
| 29.01.2019 | FanAI buys Waypoint Media to better track fan engagement for streaming monetization | FanAI, an audience analysis platform for esports and streaming, is buying New York-based Waypoint Media to improve its analytics tools for esports players and streamers. The deal means that Waypoint’s Twitch Middleware API and the “Raven” t... |
| 13.12.2018 | FanAI and Hi-Rez to gather audience analytics for Smite, Paladins, and Realm Royale | FanAI, Hi-Rez Studios and Skillshot Media are partnering to gather audience data for potential sponsors of Hi-Rez’s esports games such as Smite, Paladins, and Realm Royale. Those games have more than 70 million players. FanAI, an esports au... |
| 13.12.2018 | FanAI and Hi-Rez to gather audience analytics for Smite, Paladins, and Realm Royale | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. FanAI, Hi-Rez Studios and Skillshot Media are partnering to gather audience data for potential sponsors of Hi-Rez’s esports games such ... |
| 22.02.2018 | Esports teams need more data about their fans, and FanAI wants to give it to them | It turns out that while e-sports may be growing in popularity, the fans of different video games don’t spend the same way as fans for traditional sports. To try and figure out ways to part fans from their hard earned money, teams are beginn... |
| 22.02.2018 | Esports teams need more data about their fans, and FanAI wants to give it to them | It turns out that while esports may be growing in popularity, the fans of different video games don’t spend the same way as fans for traditional sports. To try and figure out ways to part fans from their hard earned money, teams are beginni... |
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