Expansion Warchest
Chinese mobile games developer ShineZone raises $58 million
May acquire new studios overseas
Bearing Fruit
Crowdfunding platform Fig establishes $500,000 fund to help developers finish their games
Fig Finishing Fund to offer $20,000 to campaigns with 1,000 backers or more
Institutionalised
The "golden rules" for games developers looking to raise funding from institutional investors
Shum Singh goes after the big money
Just Deserts
Brazilian developer Cupcake Entertainment secures $1 million deal with Southeast Asia publisher Playlab
Revenues for the company have tripled since September 2016
Break The Ice
$14 million Finnish investment fund Icebreaker wants to help established developers create startups
Bringing people together to create exciting new software
Make It So
Star Trek Timelines developer Disruptor Beam raises $8.5 million
Studio plots renewed growth after record year
Funding Play
PlayFund promises 250% returns for UK investors starting at £20,000 minimum investments
Targets mobile games specifically
Funding Uk Games
UK games industry leaders back call for new British Games Institute
Organisation would support funding, culture and education
South Korea Vr
YJM Games becomes first South Korea developer to invest in Venture Reality Fund
Hopes to expand further into AR and VR
Fig Funding
Crowdfunding platform Fig raises $7.84 million to boost number of campaigns
Funding platform gets additional funding
Gumi Euvr Partnership
Gumi partners with EUVR to bring VR investment to European developers
Spreading the wealth
Flying High
AppsFlyer raises $56 million for better mobile marketing data and AI-driven insights
global marketing spend to breach $1 trillion in 2017
Getting Paid
The keys to surviving as a mobile indie game developer
Sean Megaw talks funding and work for hire
Show Me The Money
Discover how to get funding for your games at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017
Learn who to approach and get tips on investment
Find Funding
Sign up for the first-ever Investor SpeedMatch at PG Connects London 2017
Looking for funding or developers to invest in? Look no further
Watch This
VR eSports streaming platform Boom.tv raises $3.5 million in seed funding
Bringing VR eSports streaming to all headsets
Find Funding
PG Connects London's new Investor SpeedMatch brings together investors and developers
Looking for funding or developers to invest in? Look no further
High Noon
Industrial Toys spin-off Gunslinger Studios raises $1.4 million
Closing down on a Summer 2017 release for Exiles of Embermark
F Is For Funding
Children's AR games dev Osmo raises $24 million funding round from Mattel and Sesame Street
Moving beyond the iPad
Underdogs Come Good
The Indian indie game developer's road to funding
UnderDOGS CEO Vaibhav Chavan chats at NGDC
Taking Flight
Creative England and Barclays launch £25,000 Eagle Lab Flight accelerator for VR, AR and mobile apps
Eight teams to be taken on a three month mentoring program
Instant Vikings
Big Viking Games opens $10 million publishing fund for HTML5 messenger platforms like Facebook's Instant Games
Offering development tools and analytics for interested parties
Game Alliance
Tilting Point establishes $12 million Game Alliance fund for indie UA campaigns
Helping developers grow while retaining their independence
'ow Much?
Creative England launches £300,000 fund for Yorkshire-based developers
Grants of up to £30,000 offered for prototype development
Funding News
Mobile market intelligence firm Apptopia raises $2.7 million in funding round led by Ashton Kutcher's VC firm
US firm aims to make app economy more transparent
Simple Funding
Ex-Zynga devs raise $4 million for new Indian studio PlaySimple Games
Mobile studio aims to double number of staff by the end of 2017
Clash Of Wangs
Adult gaming platform Nutaku opens $10 million fund to add mature content to existing mobile games
Offers a new platform for those willing to embrace smut
Big Funding Deal
HTML5 developer Big Viking Games seeks further $60 million funding after raising $21.75 million
"We truly believe that HTML5 is the future"
Games Fund
UK Games Fund offering £25,000 to developers to make new games
£1.3 million in grants handed out to date
Start-up Funding
Mobile and VR start-up Playsnak raises $1.3 million funding from South Korean investor
Former Crytek, NCSoft, EA and Nintendo staff open new studio
Crushing It
Mobile game streaming service Mobcrush raises $20 million
Platform has over one million monthly active users
Hollywood, Baby
Koukoi Games raises $1 million to work on licensed Hollywood IP games
Funding from IPR.VC and TEKES
Big Money
Oculus takes virtual reality developer funding up to $500 million as it searches for the killer app
A quarter of what Facebook spent to buy Oculus
Moomin On Up
Finnish start-up Snowfall raises €1 million to bring Moomin mobile games to Asia
Turku-based studio eyes up niche market
Strong Tactics
Israeli hardcore strategy developer Tacticsoft raises $1 million to work on ambitious new game
London Venture Partners and Gigi Levy-Weiss invest
Optimal Funds
Customer marketing cloud Optimove closes $20 million growth funding round
Looks to hire aggressively in New York
A Cut Above
Razer establishes $30 million investment arm zVentures for VR, Android games and other tech ventures
$5 million set aside for VR alone
Critical Funding
Critical Force raises $4.5 million to push FPS eSports title Critical Ops out to Asia market
Partnering with NHN Entertainment to do so
Gtr Accelerator
Global Top Round incubator awards 10 studios $50,000 each to develop their games
Mentorship and publisher access on offer for the selected studios
Futureplay Funding
View-to-play pioneer Futureplay Games raises $2.5 million to boost its business
Increasing its team and production capabilities
Dig Deep
Despite huge funding rounds, most VR developers are funding projects out of their own pockets
Not so lucrative after all
Mo-mo-motorious
Helsinki start-up Motorious Entertainment secures $566,000 to work on Top Gear mobile games
First game a match-3 puzzler
Casting Investment
Tencent-led Series C round pushes total investment in Chinese gamecasting platform Douyu TV to over $2 billion
Had previously helped investment push over $1 billion
Firefly Funding
Firefly Games closes $10 million funding round to work on Hollywood IPs
Also looking into VR and eSports
Bossa Investment
Bossa Studios raises $1.35 million for new multiplayer and VR games
London Venture Partners fronts the cash
Make It Huuuge
Huuuge Games raises $4.6 million to grow social casino games business globally
Investment led by Woori Technology Investment
Funding Stimulator
Job Simulator dev Owlchemy Labs raises $5 million for VR games
Studio believes VR will be as big as mobile
Tricking The Eye
Chinese Global VR Challenge runner-up Mirage Interactive raises $1.5 million
Investment led by SongHe Capital and Wistone
New Blood
Ambitious Spanish dev Codigames raises $1 million
Dungeon Legends and beyond
Indian Mavens
Indian Mavens discuss the value of Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal's new early stage game investment fund
And is Vishal Gondal the one to provide it?