Essential Phone?
Mobile start-up Essential confirms $300 million funding round
Tencent, Amazon and Foxconn invest in new company from Android co-creator
Something's Brewing
Singapore-based mobile developer BattleBrew closes angel investment round
Using the money to work on its first game
Even More Evil
Super Evil Megacorp raises $19 million to bring 5v5 battles and engine improvements to Vainglory
Looking for new staff to help bolster its mobile MOBA
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Viral Ua
Tech start-up Megacool raises $1.5 million to make viral GIFs for mobile games
Funds to be used to employ new staff and accelerate development of API
Funding Round
Web and app market intelligence firm SimilarWeb raises $47 million
Company plans to open new offices, develop new products and extend its data coverage
Funding Round
Medtech firm Highmark raises $2 million to make games that treat brain injuries
Company also recruits John Gardiner as new CFO
Financing Education
Games learning platform Kahoot raises extra $10 million in Series A funding round
Mobile app for teachers and students to launch during the new school year
Blasting Off
Hypernova Interactive raises seed funding from first-time games investor Kae Investments
Two-man developer has released two games so far
Leaps And Bounds
Motion tracking developer Leap Motion secures $50 million series C funding round
Pushing into Asia and broadening the scope of its product
Master Plan
British Games Institute unveils proposals for £8 million a year programme on funding, culture and skills
Could go up to £12 million after three years
Force Field Funding
Term1nal developer Force Field raises $1.14 million to finish its next six games
Working on "high-end location based VR"
Dreams To Reality
VR developer NDreams secures $3.5 million investment in second stage of funding round
Mercia Technologies continues to pour money into the studio
Games In Leeds
GamesLab Leeds grants $200,000 to nine Yorkshire devs in latest round of funding
40 jobs created or safeguarded by funding
Time To Experiment
Experimental games company Velan Studios secures $7 million series A funding round
Round led by Velan Ventures
Education Funds
Supercell grants over $280,000 to Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Studio wants to turn Finland into a "Hollywood for gaming"
Mighty Start-up
Ex-Nonstop Games devs open new studio Mighty Bear Games in Singapore
Start-up working on an MMORPG for mobile
Catch Of The Day
Steam founder Rick Ellis raises $1.25 million for new studio Sharkbite Games
Eight-person team's first casual mobile game to be released this year
Business Tips
10 reasons your game studio will never get funding
Execution Labs co-founder Jason Della Rocca shares some sage advice
Ua Simplified
New user acquisition tool Acquired.io launches with $2 million in funding
Aims to streamline UA management
Tranzfuser Round 2
UK Games Fund reveals 23 teams for second year of its Tranzfuser competition
Graduate teams given £5,000 to develop a prototype
War Chest
Walking Dead: Road to Survival publisher Scopely raises $60 million to fund acquisitions and partnerships
Comes a year after company raised $55 million in Series B financing round
Funding Paradise
"The timing is perfect": TreasureHunt on its $6 million investment and future plans
CEO Kyle Smith gearing up for Pet Paradise launch
Struck Gold
TreasureHunt closes $6 million series A funding round ahead of Pet Paradise launch
Total funding now sits at $8.4 million
Sow The Seeds
Discord reportedly valued at $725 million after quietly raising $50 million funding round
Also hires former Twitch veteran Andy Swanson as Head of Publisher Relations
Just The Essentials
Android creator raises further $300 million funding to disrupt smartphone space
Big cash injection following debut smartphone launch
Merge Funding
Mobile VR manufacturer Merge VR starts $1 million Merge Developer Fund
Free dev kits for its Merge Cube also available
Nest Egg
New early stage investment fund Rooks Nest Ventures launches with £28 million
Interested in mobile games industry start-ups
Attractable Attachables
Gamevice raises $12.5 million to bring Nintendo Switch-like controllers to regular smartphones and tablets
Gamevice CEO Phillip Hyun on the mass market potential for attachable gamepads
Mine, All Mine
Mobile game subscription service GameMine raises $20 million to expand its platform
Currently has 3.5 million users with access to 100 games
Unreal Money
Latest wave of Unreal Dev Grants gives two mobile developers a share of $275,000
One Dream and Playearth gain a cash boost for their games
Vision Fund
Softbank reportedly picks up $4 billion stake in Nvidia
Japanese firm acquires 4.9% of shares
Get Onboard
Full-game demo ad platform AppOnboard raises $4 million to expand operations
Lets players play a game's tutorial in an ad
Unity Investment
Unity scores $400 million investment from equity firm Silver Lake
Values developer at $2.6 billion
Revved Up
Top Gear mobile developer Motorious drives up extra $894,000 in funding
Debut game Top Gear Road Trip set for summer release
Finding Funding
TIGA releases funding guide for UK games developers
Sources of Finance for UK Games Companies report
Simplaex Funding
Mobile marketing platform Simplaex raises $2.6 million to expand beyond games
Now has 300 million users on its platform
Not Impossible
London's SpatialOS developer Improbable raises $502 million
SoftBank takes non-controlling stake in the company
Pocket Change
Tencent ploughs $90 million into Episode and War Dragons developer Pocket Gems
Studio to remain largely independent
Eye For Fashion
Ex-Rovio and Digital Chocolate staff score pre-seed funding round for new Finnish mobile studio Polka Dot
Developer's ambition to become the leader in fashion games
Influential Backers
GameInfluencer raises six-figure funding from European mobile game developers to grow platform
Klaas Kersting, Tung Nguyen-Khac and more join advisory board
Setting Sail
"Pokemon GO is a great opportunity for us": Shipyard talks Supercell funding and its location-based game ambitions
CEO Andreas Wedenberg talks Supercell, Pokemon GO and the potential of geo games
Fnatic Funding
ESports organisation Fnatic raises $7 million to grow operations
Just in time for it to host a Vainglory tournament
Food For Thought
Mind Candy averts bankruptcy with two-year loan extension and $1.5 million funding
Existing investors up their investments to help the ailing developer
Ship Comes In
Shipyard Games secures $2.9 million investment from Supercell to develop location-based game
Supercell continues to flash its cash
Appota Investment
Vietnam-based publisher Appota pushes towards $50 million valuation with series C funding round
Korea Invesment Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment throw some money in
Health Through Play
Therapeutic mobile game developer Tilak Healthcare raises $2.7 million
French digital healthcare startup get big investment
Uk Games Fund
UK Games Fund awards 15 developers up to £25,000 each in third round of funding
Dumpling Design, Stormcloud Games, Quite Fresh and Crash Lab all funded
Gumi Nordic Vr
Gumi and Nordisk Film partner for €100,000 incubation program Nordic VR Startups
Offering seed funding and advice to Nordic VR developers
Big Dreams
China's iDreamSky establishes $30 million fund to publish indie games globally
Wants to find the next Monument Valley