Here’s your last week curated look at the deals that moved the needle in gaming:
Funding & M&A:
$10M → Matiks raises a pre-Series A led by General Catalyst to take its math and puzzle platform global.
~$3.4M → Lets Game Now raises Rs 30 Cr, led by Anand Mahindra and Bestvantage Investments.
$1.3M → dubdub lands a seed round to build a short-form entertainment platform around its trivia app.
Xsolla acquires GamePix to build a platform for web and AI-created games. Undisclosed.
Sony Pictures acquires the feature film rights to Mouthwashing from Wrong Organ and Critical Reflex. Undisclosed.
Debt Financing:
$31.9M → CI Games signs a syndicated term loan with Erste Bank Polska and BOS Bank (EUR 28.6M).
Adjacent Capital:
$14.9M → AIZ Entertainment raises a Series A from Kakao Games and Krafton for an AI chatbot messenger. Founded by former Kakao CEO Namkoong Hoon (KRW 20bn).
Grants:
$1M → Google Play selects 10 African studios for its Indie Games Fund, across Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Kenya.
Developing Story:
Private equity firms explored an Xbox buyout at up to $150bn. Talks were short-lived and Microsoft says Xbox is not for sale.
Love to see XSolla taking over GamePix as a strategy.
tCARe, CARtic P
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