Play Ventures raises $135 million for second fund to put money into sport startups
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Play Ventures has raised $135 million for second fund to put money into sport startups. The Play Ventures Fund II could have $135 million to speculate on the earth’s greatest sport makers an entrepreneurs, mentioned Harri Manninen, head of the fund, in an e-mail to GamesBeat.
The fund is far bigger than the corporate’s earlier $40 million fund, and altogether the corporate could have $175 million to put money into sport firms.
The corporate has been busy. Since December 2018, Play Ventures has invested in 24 sport firms in 10 international locations.
“These firms, although nonetheless very early of their collective journeys, are already making big waves,” Manninen mentioned. “We’re assured that there’ll be extra nice issues to come back from these firms and the great founders from our portfolio.”
With Fund II, the corporate nonetheless believes gaming would be the most impactful and dominant type of leisure within the twenty first century. There are dozens of sport enterprise capital funds now with the identical desires, and so they’re name investing in sport firms.
Above: Harri Manninen (left) and Henric Suuronen of Play Ventures.
Picture Credit score: Play Ventures
“We now have sturdy conviction that one of the best gaming groups might be based and constructed anyplace on the earth. We plan to proceed investing in early stage sport builders and gaming service startups globally, and to develop into ecosystems that we’re extremely enthusiastic about, like India and Latin America,” Manninen mentioned.
The corporate invested in India’s All-Star Video games’s $1.5 million pre-Collection A spherical.
“We’re additionally within the strategy of closing a number of new offers internationally that we are going to share about sooner or later,” Manninen mentioned.
Moreover Manninen, the agency was cofounded by Henric Suuronen.
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