Blacklight Studio Works Pvt. Ltd., guardian firm of gaming begin up Blacklight Video games, has raised an undisclosed quantity in its maiden funding spherical, which was led by funding agency Udyat Ventures. The spherical included the participation of Kratos Studios, Dexter Ventures, and Polygon Ventures.
Blacklight goals to make use of the brand new funds to broaden into new markets, broaden its crew, and spend money on synthetic intelligence and machine studying to boost the participant expertise via higher personalisation. The corporate was based in 2011 by Shruti Sarraf and Anupam Srivastava, and went on to create titles equivalent to Ludo Celebrity and Zen Solitaire.
“From the very begin, our intention has been to ascertain a world model for traditional video games,” mentioned Sarraf. “The worldwide stage holds potential as billions of smartphone customers are every potential avid gamers.”
“By way of the utilisation of AI and ML in gaming, we’re crafting an unparalleled gaming expertise,” added Srivastava.
“With no single rupee of exterior capital, Shruti and Anupam have constructed Blacklight to be among the many high 10 gaming publishers in India with cumulative downloads of 200 million plus and three of their video games – Ludo Celebrity, Callbreak Celebrity, and Carrom Studios are among the many high 5 ranked video games of their respective classes,” mentioned Dexter Capital’s Devendra Agrawal.
India’s cellular scene
India is more and more one of many world’s most dynamic cellular gaming markets, with the nation’s residents flocking to their telephones. As such cellular stays the chief curiosity for the nation’s gaming business and one that pulls vital funding. Blacklight Studios efficiency up to now has made the corporate an inarguable success and one which’s primed for future development.
“Anupam and Shruti have constructed Blacklight from the bottom up and we’re trying ahead to constructing a global gaming studio model from India,” mentioned Udyat BVentures managing associate Rahul Gupta.
Blacklight investor Kratos Studios just lately launched Kratos Video games Community to spend money on the gaming business.
