Finnish gaming firm BIT ODD, based by among the key creatives behind video games reminiscent of Conflict of Clans and Conflict Royale, has raised €5 million in a financing spherical led by Index ventures.
The studio is trying to face out from different builders with a deal with “the surprise and weirdness of gaming”, which they really feel has been misplaced in recent times. To this finish, the corporate has joined forces with Eric Seufert, who’s investing by means of his Heracles Capital fund, and new angel investor Stephanie Kurgan.
Energy of youth, knowledge of the dinosaurs
BIT ODD CEO and co-founder Lasse Louhento said: “Just like the unimaginable creators we’ve assembled in BIT ODD’s workplace in Helsinki, all of our traders share our imaginative and prescient of hand-crafting video games from the bottom up. We consider our workforce combines the ability of the youth with the knowledge of the dinosaurs: we convey collectively ex-Supercellians together with a brand new cohort of contemporary designers who inject new views and concepts into the method.
“We’re all geeks and weirdos, for certain, however that generational dynamic and stability has been an unimaginable supply of vitality up to now.”
“BIT ODD have assembled a first-class workforce and possess a transparent imaginative and prescient that units them other than the pack. Their sense of quirkiness, enjoyable and creativity faucets into one thing that’s fallen out of focus in gaming. Together with their monitor document of constructing genre-defining, break-out hits, we consider their first launch shall be one thing extraordinary,” stated investor and spherical chief Sofia Dolfe.
Seufert’s $10 million funding fund, Heracles, was itself supported by Supercell, which has itself been supporting quite a few video games studios together with Trailmix and Channel37.
