Live Op Support
Live ops platform Beamable raises $5 million to expand service
Brings total capital raised in 2021 to over $10 million
Turning Up The Volume
Splash raises $20 million for Roblox music game
Will improve virtual instruments and establish more partnerships
The New Meta
The Sandbox raises $93 million to grow open NFT Metaverse
Already over 500,000 connected wallets
Up And Coming
Ex-War Robots execs launch Kek Entertainment, raise $3 million for multiplayer mobile titles
Debut will be competitive mobile action game featuring deep tactical elements
New Ways
Admix raises $25 million to monetise the metaverse
Advertising tech is moving with the times
Buzzing
Garena leads $12 milllion round into Kazoo Games
It's building midcore casual games
Packing The Pie
Social gaming platform Piepacker raises $12 million for mobile expansion
Backed by Lego Ventures
Boosting Blockchain
Animoca Brands raises a further $65 million at +$2 billion valuation
Investors include Com2uS and Ubisoft
Seeded
Order of Meta raises $1.5 million in a round led by Play Ventures
Will release its first game in 2022
Spread The Load
Lucid Sight raises $2.6 million to bring Colyseus Arena multiplayer tech to the cloud
The service handles server management, infrastructure and scaling
Hypermoney
Homa Games raises $50 million to scale hypercasual
Series A was led by Northzone
Growth Initiative
Nazara raises $42 million to fund growth initiatives and acquisitions
Will issue 1,429,266 equity shares
Big Backing
Bitkraft Ventures launches $75 million fund for blockchain gaming
Will invest in cryptocurrency, NFTs and blockchain equity
Ballistic For Blockchain
OP Games raises $8.6 million to combine blockchain, NFTs and DAOs
Plans to support 500 games by end of 2022
New Entrant
MZ and Rovio vets launch Original Games with $6 million seed round
Investment led by Play Ventures
Deal Or Deal?
Game M&A and funding volume hits $71 billion in 2021 to-date
Volume is already more than double 2020
Boom Times
Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis raises $152 million on a $3 billion valuation
Andreessen Horowitz leads the round
Perfect Deal
Reliance partners with Simteractive to publish Eden Isle: Paradise Resort
Building from beta to global publishing
Kards On Mobile
1939 Games raises $5.3 million to bring Kards to mobile
Will land on iOS and Android in 2022
Funding Boom
Startup conglomerate Kepler Interactive raises $120 million from NetEase
Another roll-up player rolls up
Go With The Flow
Game blockchain outfit Dapper Labs raises $250 million on a $7.6 billion valuation
Over 600 projects building on Flow blockchain
Chasing The Indie Dream
FuzzyBot raises $3.5 million for co-op games starting with Switch
LA studio is up and funding
Sorare Support Soars
Sorare raises $680 million for NFT fantasy soccer game
Largest funding round in French tech history
Cross-play Crusade
Elodie Games raises $32.5 million for co-op, cross-platform titles
Unannounced title in pre-alpha testing phase
Miraculous
Toya raises $4 million following Miraculous Ladybug Roblox success
Exceeded 200 million plays on the platform
Finally Done
Jam City raises $350 million and acquires Ludia for $165 million
Recovers from failed SPAC
Adding Games
Multiscription secures $800,000 for F2P game subscription service Unleashd
Available on Android through Google Play
Hearing Ads
In-game audio ad platform Odeeo raise $1 million in seed funding
Suggests in-game audio ads accompany gameplay
Quackers
Swedish dev Gigantic Duck raises $1.2 million in seed funding
Currently developing two titles, including Bombergrounds: Battle Royale
Midcore Makers
Studio Sirah raises $830,000 for India-first midcore mobile games
Now developing Kurukshetra: Ascension
Pretty Nifty
Nifty Games gains $38 million in new funding for its mobile sports games
The larger opportunity
Leading The Way
Indian midcore dev SuperGaming raises $5.5 million Series A funding
Well-positioned to capture growth in India and globally
Checkmate
Kings of Games secures funding for Chess Universe
The studio was created by two chess Grand Masters
Hiring Now
XR Games secures $2 million in funding to open 20 new jobs in Leeds
"Immersive technology has huge potential in this industry…"
Over The Moon
Former King and Z2 developers raise $5 million for Starform studio
The funding round investment will be used to scale the company to work on upcoming and future projects
Smart Money
People, talent and teams - MGVC's winning formula for investment
My.Games Venture Capital discusses the company's approach to investment and the new $30M game drive campaign
It's Not Unusual
Spanish casual startup Unusuall raises $3.6 million, led by Garena
Free Fire outfit makes second investment
Next Level
Turkish indie studio Udo Games raises $420,000 to begin self-publishing
"We will take serious steps to raise qualified human resources…"
India Rising
Indian social mobile gaming platform Eloelo raises $2.1 million
The platform has one million users with over 50 per cent female
Network For Gamers
Former Pixonic CEO raises $500,000 for new games social network
The new platform will allow people to share information about the games they are playing
Great Guns
Tilting Point raises $235 million to accelerate studio acquisition strategy
General Atlantic leads first equity raise
Gen-erous
Genvid raises $113 million to launch Genvid Entertainment and more massive interactive live events
Netflix executive Cindy Holland joins firm as an advisor too
Pgc Digital #7
PGC Digital: 1Up Capital's Maximilian Seeburg on why you need to "know your numbers"
Seeburg discusses different options available to game developers seeking funding
A New Resolution
Resolution Games closes $25 million round of funding to expand IP
"We see vast potential in VR and that the market is maturing"
Voodoo Voice
Voodoo president and COO joins Homa Games as senior strategic advisor
The announcement follows Voodoo’s former CFO’s appointment as Homa Games’ new VP of
finance and legal.
Sky High
$60 billion worth of deals in the games industry have already taken place in 2021
Drake Star Partners adds up the activity
Extended Play
Animoca Brands raises $50 million from investors such as Scopely and Samsung
Blockchain game funding is booming
New Backers
Mobile UGC platform Hiber raises $15 million
EQT Ventures leads the investment
2022 Launch
Green Grey invests $4 million into Developers Unknown's third-person shooter Mercs
"We are sure that the results will turn heads..."
A Very Royal Match
Dream Games valued at $1 billion after closing $155 million funding round
Ex-Peak team accelerate business