Business of Games: studios that raised funds in Dec, investment round-up

Investment round-up, with a list of studios that got funded in the Dec 1st week:

1st week:
1. Smilegate invests in Absurd Ventures
2. Top App Games raises $10m in funding
3. Reforged Studios acquires Yellow Lab Games
4. Game Developer publisher Informa merges with TechTarget
5. Fortnite UGC studio Creators Corp receives $2m investment
6. Playgama lands $3 million to simplify HTML5 game distribution
7. NODWIN Gaming bags Rs 64 Cr funding from parent Nazara Technologies
8. Ex-Disco Elysium devs at Dark Math Games secure seven-figure investment
9. Nazara announces five investments totalling Rs 196 crore — Funky Monkeys and LearnTube investments
10. Reach Labs is a new Web3 game publisher formed by partnership of gaming startups Rough House Games and Overworld.
11. BITKRAFT Ventures secured a minority investment from a fund managed by Blue Owl Capital’s GP Strategic Capital platform.

2nd week:
1. LoopMe Acquires Chartboost from Zynga
2. MPL acquires Lumikai-backed CloudFeather Games
3. Nintendo acquires remaining shares of Monolith Soft
4. Build A Rocket Boy acquires UK developer PlayFusion
5. Sony Confirms Intent of Acquiring FromSoftware’s Owner
6. Moonray raises $10M to date for Web3 sci-fi arena multiplayer game
7. Former Gearbox, Id and Warner veterans form new publisher Cooldown Games
8. Beam Ventures launches in Abu Dhabi with $150m fund to support game studios

3rd week:
1. Nazara’s Nodwin Gaming acquires AFK Gaming
2. Vgames raises $142M for its third fund for gaming
3. Moon Beast Productions raises $4.5M for action RPG
4. Coplay raises $1.2M to build AI copilot for game devs
5. Former CD Projekt dev art Dark Passenger raises $3m
6. Ray Browser raises $6.5m to boost web-based gaming
7. Nazara Technologies increases stake in Next Wave Multimedia
8. Stillfront Group secures $227m credit facility to extend financial flexibility
9. BitCake Studio has closed its first VC investment round, led by Riot Games!
10. Agave Games secures $18 Million Series A led by Balderton and Felix Capital
11. Aonic raised €152 million investment from Metric Capital Partners and Active Ownership

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