Business of Games: studios that raised funds in April, investment round-up
Investment round-up, with a list of studios that got funded in the April 1st week:
1st week:
- Elixir Games raises $14 Million from seed funding round
- Laton Ventures, a new gaming venture capital fund, is launching today with $35 million in money to invest in game companies
- Lil Snack raises $3.1M for snackable games built by devs with AI tools
- Thunderful is selling Headup for €500,000
- Voldex scores big with acquisition of Ultimate Football on Roblox
- VoxPop Games acquires Celebrity Games to boost talent integration for indie devs
- Today, a web3 social simulation game has raised a $5 million seed funding round to further develop its generative AI-powered intelligent NPCs and no-code creator tools
2nd week:
- New studio: Cave Bear Games
- PowerWash Simulator dev FuturLab acquired by Miniclip
- OKX Ventures announces pre-seed round investment in Cellula
3rd week:
- Ninja Kiwi acquires Legion TD 2 developer AutoAttack Games
- PUBG maker Krafton leads $15M investment into UK studio Red Rover Interactive
- Infinite Reality acquires Stakes for $8M in stock to build immersive experiences
- Avalon raises $10M to launch hybrid Web3 MMO
- Ex-Unacademy CXO-founded gaming startup LightFury raises $8.5M
- Circle of Games raises $1 Mn from Nazara and The Hashgraph Association
- Ex-Blizzard Artist’s Studio (Imagendary Studios) announces new Sci-Fi TPS RPG
- Today raises $5 million for AI-powered social sim gaming
- A16Z closed $7.2 billion for new funds, it raised $600 million for its second gaming fund, which was targeted as 10% of the fund.
- Auctus Capital Partners and Remote Control to invest in European games companies
- Goliath acquired Lucky Duck Games
4th week:
- Krafton acquires minority stake in Forever Skies developer Far From Home
- Infinite Reality buys Drone Racing League for $250M
- Psygnosis vets found a new studio Starlight Games
- Carv raises $10M series A to simplify data monetization for gamers
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