Play Ventures

Play Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Singapore. The company specializes in investing globally in startups within the gaming and gaming services sectors, focusing on pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. Play Ventures emphasizes opportunities in free-to-play and web3 gaming, aiming to support innovative companies that shape the future of the gaming industry. Through its strategic investments, Play Ventures seeks to nurture a diverse portfolio of gaming-related ventures.

Anton Backman

Principal

Kenrick Drijkoningen

General Partner

Phylicia Koh

Vice President

Harri Manninen

Managing Partner

Henric Suuronen

Managing Partner

Past deals in eSports

Midnite

Series B in 2025
Midnite is a platform building the future of esports betting by offering sports betting and casino features that let users bet on football matches and players, compete with others, and win prizes. The platform supports online gaming and esports tournaments and enables participation in online fantasy football leagues, providing a convenient, secure, and hassle-free experience for gamers and multiplayer enthusiasts to engage with the expanding esports ecosystem.

Cypher Games

Seed Round in 2024
Cypher Games is a developer of casual mobile puzzle games, aiming to shape the future of mobile gaming.

Social First

Seed Round in 2024
Social First is a seasoned game development studio specializing in cross-platform social sandbox MMOs. With a proven track record and successful early market testing, their current title showcases significant advancements in user-generated content, digital asset trading, and social gameplay. Backed by Play Ventures, they aim to become a billion-dollar company.

Hypersonic Laboratories

Series A in 2024
Hypersonic Laboratories is developing HELIX, an open-world sandbox game designed to provide users with real player immersion in its metaverse gaming application. The platform offers a built-in marketplace for buying, selling, and renting items and real estate within the metaverse universe.

Tribo Games

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tribo Games is a mobile-first game studio focused on developing web3 games. The company specializes in creating mobile-based multiplayer games that allow players to engage with blockchain technology and earn rewards through their gameplay. By integrating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) into their games, Tribo Games enables players to have digital ownership of their in-game assets, providing a potential income source for gamers.

Hypersonic Laboratories

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hypersonic Laboratories is developing HELIX, an open-world sandbox game designed to provide users with real player immersion in its metaverse gaming application. The platform offers a built-in marketplace for buying, selling, and renting items and real estate within the metaverse universe.

99math

Venture Round in 2022
99math is an education technology company that delivers mathematics learning through esports-style competitions. Its platform hosts real-time math battles and global online tournaments for school-age students, with live viewers watching the sessions. The approach aims to engage kids, boost motivation, and improve math proficiency by combining competitive gameplay with structured math courses.

Cypher Games

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Cypher Games is a developer of casual mobile puzzle games, aiming to shape the future of mobile gaming.

Sizzle

Seed Round in 2022
Sizzle is an innovative web service that utilizes artificial intelligence to create condensed highlights from gaming videos on platforms like Twitch and YouTube. By transforming lengthy gameplay sessions, such as a 20-minute Fortnite video, into concise five-minute summaries, Sizzle addresses the needs of the 700 million gaming fans who often find long livestreams overwhelming and highlight compilations insufficient. The platform captures key moments in chronological order, allowing viewers to experience the full narrative of streams from popular figures like Ninja and Daequan. Sizzle provides a streamlined option for fans seeking engaging content without the extensive time commitment, enhancing the viewing experience for both casual and dedicated audiences. More information about Sizzle can be found at www.sizzle.gg.

Battlebound

Seed Round in 2022
Battlebound leverages blockchain technology to develop play-to-earn games, focusing on a multiplayer social platform that enhances the creature-collecting genre. The company's platform allows all players to share the value generated by engaging with video games they enjoy. Players can create servers, participate in mini-games, and interact with community members within a gaming environment.

Social First

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Social First is a seasoned game development studio specializing in cross-platform social sandbox MMOs. With a proven track record and successful early market testing, their current title showcases significant advancements in user-generated content, digital asset trading, and social gameplay. Backed by Play Ventures, they aim to become a billion-dollar company.

Cosmic Guild

Seed Round in 2021
Cosmic Guild is a gaming company that develops online games designed to entertain and generate earnings simultaneously. Its flagship product features battle modes for player engagement and minigames for exploration. Additionally, Cosmic Guild maintains a portfolio of high-quality NFT game assets from top-tier crypto games, which it lends to its members, allowing players worldwide to derive tangible income through gameplay. The company's mission is to harness the power of games to positively influence people's lives.

Mobile Premier League

Series E in 2021
Mobile Premier League is a skill-based eSports platform that enables users to play popular mobile games and compete for real cash prizes. Its app offers a diverse range of arcade, sports, adventure, pool, and cricket games, allowing enthusiasts to showcase their skills, win rewards, and enjoy gaming with friends.

Community Gaming

Seed Round in 2021
Community Gaming operates an all-in-one esports competition platform offering blockchain-based payments and scalable tournament management tools for players, guilds, organizers, and game developers; its software enables the creation, facilitation, and participation in automated esports tournaments, featuring built-in wallets and automated, no-fee cryptocurrency rewards; the platform supports Earnings for Everyone by decentralizing rewards through web3 technology; since 2020, it has paid more than 20,000 gamers and created 800,000 wallets, while handling over 50,000 monthly matches.

Mobile Premier League

Series D in 2021
Mobile Premier League is a skill-based eSports platform that enables users to play popular mobile games and compete for real cash prizes. Its app offers a diverse range of arcade, sports, adventure, pool, and cricket games, allowing enthusiasts to showcase their skills, win rewards, and enjoy gaming with friends.

Bright Star Studios

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bright Star Studios is an independent global game development studio based in Swatar, Malta. The company specializes in creating multiplayer online video games compatible with mobile devices, personal computers, and browsers. Their flagship title is Ember Sword, a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG offering competitive gameplay across platforms.
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