Anton Backman

Principal

Kenrick Drijkoningen

General Partner

Phylicia Koh

VP

Harri Manninen

Founding Partner

Henric Suuronen

Founding Partner

Past deals in Gaming

Mobile Premier League is a skill-based eSports platform where users can play their favorite mobile games and win real cash. Its application offers an arcade, sports, and adventure games, that enable game enthusiasts to showcase their talent, win prizes, and enjoy with their friends. Mobile Premier League was established in 2018 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Odeeo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
IN-GAME AUDIO ADS THAT GAMERS LOVE, we offer Innovative ad formats, Incremental ad revenue, user centric experience. Our solution is scalable and keep brands top-of-mind to drive exceptional engagement and response rates.

So Couch Studios

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bright Star Studios is a passionate team of Award Winning Venture Founders, former Pro-Players, World Champions, Game Industry Veterans and MMO fanatics carving a new path forward for MMORPGs across PC, Browser, and Mobile through a modern rewrite of the games industry business models in favor of the user, exciting competitive gameplay, and instant playability. Ember Sword is our love-letter to MMORPG gamers across the world. Bright Star Studios was founded in 2018 by Mark Laursen, Joris Huijbregts, Sage Durain, Sune Thorsen and Founding Investor Lars Henriksen & Co-Founder Loren Roosendaal. The studio is working on their flagship title, Ember Sword, a modern rewrite of the games industry business model in favor of the user, and a love letter to MMORPG (Massively Online Role Playing Game) gamers. Ember Sword has the fast-paced combat of aRPGs, combined with the isometric view and skill-based abilities of MOBAs, set in a persistent MMORPG fantasy universe. Nominated as "Best Company to Internship at in 2021" in Denmark Ember Sword: Free2Play Platform-Agnostic MMORPG ✔ Player-driven economy ✔ Classless combat system ✔ Scarce, tradable cosmetics (NFTs) ✔ No Pay2win, LootBoxes or Predatory Monetization ✔ Become a landowner, mold the gameworld ✔ Artist Workshop for community NFTs, create your own dances, hats and skins ✔ AI endures an epic player experience ✔ Proprietary custom built engine ✔ Would you like to know more? www.EmberSword.com www.BrightStar.Studio

unrd

Venture Round in 2020
unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.

Burnt Finance

Series A in 2022
Burnt Finance is a decentralized auction protocol to enable fast and seamless auctions for a diverse array of assets. It provides an intuitive interface for minting new assets. These assets can be synthetics, NFTs, and even new digital assets. In less than a few minutes a user can mint a new asset and set up an entirely decentralized auction. Burnt allows users to customize their auctions which allows asset minting and trading to take place in a completely permissionless ecosystem. It is based in Solana Beach, California.

mod.io Pty Ltd

Seed Round in 2020
mod.io Pty Ltd develops and offers cross-platform and store-agnostic modding solution that allow game developers to enable user-generated content and modifications. The company offers software development kits (SDK) and documentation. It offers a clientless application programming interface (API) for developers to create and share content and modifications. mod.io Pty Ltd was founded in 2018 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Original Games

Seed Round in 2021
Original Games develops various mobile games with different themes. It works with developers from different countries for engaging games. Original Games was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

99math OÜ

Venture Round in 2022
99math OÜ develops learning platform for teaching mathematics by provides eSports style competitions. The platform offers Math Game Days, a real time math battles with live viewers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Sizzle

Seed Round in 2022
Sizzle is a new web service that leverages AI to automatically create gaming highlights from Twitch and YouTube videos. For instance, Sizzle can automatically convert a full 20 minute Fortnite gameplay video into a "sizzle", or a 5 minute condensed game, with all of the highlights in chronological order. Today, many of the 700 million gaming fans find 8 hour livestreams on Twitch too much, and a mish-mash of highlights on YouTube too limiting. Sizzle offers a clear third choice: these fans can watch condensed versions of full streams from top streamers such as Ninja or Daequan, getting the full arc of the story. Sizzle is available at www.sizzle.gg.

Odeeo

Seed Round in 2022
IN-GAME AUDIO ADS THAT GAMERS LOVE, we offer Innovative ad formats, Incremental ad revenue, user centric experience. Our solution is scalable and keep brands top-of-mind to drive exceptional engagement and response rates.

Facemoji

Seed Round in 2021
We're committed to making the internet more expressive, and to build a digital identity layer that is accessible to all.

Facemoji

Seed Round in 2021
We're committed to making the internet more expressive, and to build a digital identity layer that is accessible to all.

Kek Entertainment

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kek Entertainment makes multiplayer mobile games.

Loupedeck Ltd

Funding Round in 2021
Loupedeck Ltd designs and manufactures photo and video editing consoles. It markets and sells its products through retailers and distributors worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

mod.io Pty Ltd

Series A in 2021
mod.io Pty Ltd develops and offers cross-platform and store-agnostic modding solution that allow game developers to enable user-generated content and modifications. The company offers software development kits (SDK) and documentation. It offers a clientless application programming interface (API) for developers to create and share content and modifications. mod.io Pty Ltd was founded in 2018 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Loupedeck Ltd

Series A in 2021
Loupedeck Ltd designs and manufactures photo and video editing consoles. It markets and sells its products through retailers and distributors worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Order of Meta

Seed Round in 2021
Order of Meta is a gaming studio brought to professional game creators, unique specialists who have created more than one project in the mid-core and hardcore genres.

Community Gaming

Seed Round in 2021
Community Gaming brings gamers together wherever they are. Our online platform combines game data, match automation, and blockchain technology to make it easy for anyone to organize and compete in esports competitions. It removes friction for tournament organizers to host tournaments and for gamers to enter, compete, and automatically get paid when they win. Our event platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.

Potato Play

Seed Round in 2022
Potato Play is a Singapore-based publisher turning mobile games from Asia into worldwide hits through data-driven publishing. Founded by a leadership team with 50 years of collective experience at gaming companies like Microsoft Game Studios, Digital Chocolate, Cartoon Network, Ubisoft, Gameloft, King and Non-Stop.

Deftouch

Seed Round in 2021
Deftouch is a game development company that currently focuses on winning the Cricket gaming market, by providing a billion cricket-mad followers with a platform to engage & interact with their daydreams with a social, Realtime multiplayer game.

Potato Play

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Potato Play is a Singapore-based publisher turning mobile games from Asia into worldwide hits through data-driven publishing. Founded by a leadership team with 50 years of collective experience at gaming companies like Microsoft Game Studios, Digital Chocolate, Cartoon Network, Ubisoft, Gameloft, King and Non-Stop.

Redhill Games

Venture Round in 2019
Former Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne has collaborated with Wargaming and Remedy technical director Mikko Uromo and Wargaming development director Milos Jerabek to form a new Helsinki game studio, Redhill Games.

Potato Play

Seed Round in 2020
Potato Play is a Singapore-based publisher turning mobile games from Asia into worldwide hits through data-driven publishing. Founded by a leadership team with 50 years of collective experience at gaming companies like Microsoft Game Studios, Digital Chocolate, Cartoon Network, Ubisoft, Gameloft, King and Non-Stop.

Traplight Oy

Venture Round in 2020
Traplight Oy develops mobile game communities where players can create and share their own games with their friends. Traplight Oy was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Tampere, Finland.

Mainframe Industries

Series A in 2020
Mainframe Industries is a Reykjavik, Iceland and Helsinki, Finland-based startup working on the development of an open world, social sandbox MMO for cloud gaming.The company will will work on an open-world, social sandbox MMO specifically designed for cloud gaming, with cross-platform play across mobile, PC, and TV. Mainframe believes that the promise of friction-free access from social networks and streaming platforms on the device of your choice will greatly expand the creative canvas for game developers.

Reworks

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Next Generation Mobile Lifestyle Games

mod.io Pty Ltd

Seed Round in 2020
mod.io Pty Ltd develops and offers cross-platform and store-agnostic modding solution that allow game developers to enable user-generated content and modifications. The company offers software development kits (SDK) and documentation. It offers a clientless application programming interface (API) for developers to create and share content and modifications. mod.io Pty Ltd was founded in 2018 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Bigger Games

Seed Round in 2020
Bigger Games is a mobile gaming company that started in 2019 with a passion for creating games that millions of people play every day.

Starform

Seed Round in 2019
Starform was started by industry veterans with the goal of changing the way people play games together. It puts together small, autonomous teams of talented game developers and provides them with the tools, infrastructure, and support to design and build games in partnership with players, enabling gamers to get state of the art graphics and quality entertainment. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Reworks

Venture Round in 2020
Next Generation Mobile Lifestyle Games

Flowstate Games

Seed Round in 2020
Flowstate Games is a mobile game studio based in Helsinki, Finland.

FunCraft

Seed Round in 2020
FunCraft Inc. develops mobile games. FunCraft Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mainframe Industries

Seed Round in 2019
Mainframe Industries is a Reykjavik, Iceland and Helsinki, Finland-based startup working on the development of an open world, social sandbox MMO for cloud gaming.The company will will work on an open-world, social sandbox MMO specifically designed for cloud gaming, with cross-platform play across mobile, PC, and TV. Mainframe believes that the promise of friction-free access from social networks and streaming platforms on the device of your choice will greatly expand the creative canvas for game developers.

Savage Game Studios

Seed Round in 2021
Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay.

Dataseat Ltd

Seed Round in 2020
The biggest cause of App download and attribution fraud is the CPI buying metric. By taking control of your programmatic media buying you stop your campaigns being re-brokered and bad actors are no-longer incentivised to spoof and steal downloads.The era of black box performance networks is over. Brands need complete control and transparency of who their user data is shared with and where their campaigns are running.

Colossi Games

Seed Round in 2021
Colossi Games is a new mobile games developer based in Cyprus founded by a team of industry veterans from premier Russia-based game companies like Nexters, Game Insight, Nival and mail.ru. Colossi Games strives to create genre-defining games by combining socially engaging elements with familiar mechanics to create enticing and unique gameplay experiences daily for a midcore audience.
StarBerry Games is a mobile game developer and publisher of crafting outstanding games. It aims to craft genre-leading games by combining new with familiar to create unique gameplay experiences for broad audiences. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Mobile Premier League is a skill-based eSports platform where users can play their favorite mobile games and win real cash. Its application offers an arcade, sports, and adventure games, that enable game enthusiasts to showcase their talent, win prizes, and enjoy with their friends. Mobile Premier League was established in 2018 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.