Garena Of Africa
Carry1st raises $20 million to create the "Garena of Africa"
Will expand into the co-development of mobile games
Royally Funded
Royal Match sees Dream Games raise $255 million
Valued at $2.75 billion
Built To Win
CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu on Spyke Games' massive $55 million seed round
UA is a bloody competition
Ua Ok
Pollen VC launches the definitive guide to selecting a UA financing partner
Everything you ever wanted to know about paying for UA – but didn’t know to ask
Metaverse Making Together
Yahaha Studios secures $50 million to build "no-code" UGC metaverse
Aimed at users with all levels of skill to create games
Gamer's Guerdon
StageZero raises $1.8 million to reward mobile gamers for training AI
Will include labelling tasks which can help train virtual assistants
Voluminous Valuation
Rec Room raises $145 million at $3.5 billion valuation
Mobile users increase tenfold
Raising For Rewards
Mana Interactive raises $7 million for mobile game rewards platform
Rewards include gift cards, vouchers, and cryptocurrency
Axie Altruism
Yield Guild Games raises $250,000 for typhoon victims
Primarily raised in cryptocurrency, including Axie Infinity's AXS
On The Edge
Edge Gaming raises $10 million for user-generated content platform
Backed by Playtika
Cyball Scores
Cyball raises $1.8 million for football-themed P2E NFT mobile game
Focused on reaching new audiences for blockchain gaming
Strategic Simplification
Donut Labs raises a further $2.3 million for Kids vs Zombies
"It’s a completely different game from what it was a year ago."
Millions For Medal
Medal.tv has raised $60 million across its Series B and Series C funding rounds
Platform grows to almost one million daily users
Doubling Down
Vgames raises $141 million for second games investment fund
Firm to invest in game studios at various stages
Blockchain In Brazil
Bayz raises $4 million for NFT gaming
Starting with play-to-earn in Brazil
Blockchain Bridge
Affyn raises $7 million for F2P P2E AR metaverse mobile game
All in-game characters will be represented as NFTs
Non-disruptive Ads
Frameplay raises $8 million for seamless, non-disruptive ads
Backed by Hiro Capital and Razer
Strengthening Studios
Tiplay Studio raises $500,000 at $25 million valuation
Funding to scale team and advance development
Mobile In Mena
Tamatem Games raises $11 million for MENA expansion, backed by Krafton
Brings total funding to $17 million
Esports Expansion
Esports group 100 Thieves raises $60 million at $460 million valuation
Yearly revenue increases 111%
Breezy
Talewind raises $3.4 million for casual Roblox experience Breezy Bay
Animal Crossing meets Runescape in Roblox
Gotiva’s Got It
Sarajevo startup Gotiva Games raises $250,000 for NFT social puzzle games
Debut title scheduled for Q2 2022
Create To Dominate
Sneaky Panda raises $6 million for novel 'luck-puzzler' mobile games
Debut title scheduled to release next year
Lucky Ducky
Homa Games acquires Ducky Games
Acquisition will strengthen the publisher's position as a leader in idle arcade games
Master Of Coins
Coin Master creator Moon Active raises $300 million on $5 billion valuation
Quadrupled valuation in less than two years
Plugged In
Plug In Digital raises $75 million for indie games publishing
Over 30 titles in the publishing pipeline
Big World
Niantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse
Pokemon Go developer now valued at $9 billion
Icelandic Expansion
Icelandic studio 1939 Games has opened a mobile games unit in Helsinki
Making the mobile version of KARDS
The Secret Sauce
UK-based indie studio Pocket Burger Games raises $1 million for casual mobile games
Founded by former Rovio, Space Ape, and Gram Games alumni
Diy
Solo game development platform DreamCraft raises $10 million
March Capital leads the round
Funding The Future
Overwolf raises $75 million in Series D funding round
Will scale its user-generated content platform CurseForge
A Few Million Victory
French startup Million Victories raises $3 million to scale Million Lords
Will invest in stronger marketing and UA
Metasports
Dubit raises $8 million for esports in Roblox
Metaventures’ Jean-Charles Capelli leads the round
Block On
Mobile game devs part of blockchain gaming platform Forte's $725 million raise
Sea Capital co-led the round
Creating Casual Titles
Turkish dev studio Hadi raises $5.2 million for casual mobile games
Currently working on several unannounced titles
News
Playtertainment announces $5 million funding round
Previous seed funding round raised £3 million
Mark-up
AudioMob raises $14 million at $110 million valuation
Will scale recently opened offices in London and Abu Dhabi
Millions For Mods
User-generated content platform Mod.io raises $26 million
Forecasts user-generated content will increase by 400% by 2025
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