Kek Leisure raises $3 million to make cell motion video games

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Kek Leisure has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to make cell motion video games. Former executives at Pixonic and My.Video games based the Cyprus and Moscow firm.
Whereas there, the founders created the favored Struggle Robots title, a multiplayer cell shooter recreation with greater than $500 million in revenues. The funding reveals that Jap Europe continues to be a hotbed for brand new recreation studios. General, the area has greater than 5,000 recreation studios, in line with The Video games Fund, which participated within the spherical.
Now CEO Georgy Egorov and chief working officer Oleg Poroshin are main a brand new studio that can make multiplayer cell video games. The primary title is a aggressive cell motion recreation with deep tactical components. They began the corporate in September and are hiring.
The funding got here from The Video games Fund (TGF) and Play Ventures. Maria Kochmola, the cofounder of The Video games Fund, can be talking at our GamesBeat Summit Subsequent occasion on November 9-10.

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Each Egorov and Poroshin labored collectively as CEO and COO of Pixonic from 2019, main the expansion of Struggle Robots to greater than 200% income progress. Now they’re main a distributed workforce.
Above: Georgy Egorov is CEO of Kek Leisure.Picture Credit score: Kek Leisure
“We had numerous enjoyable working at Pixonic, achieved large outcomes, and we’re grateful to our workforce and My.Video games for all of the expertise and help,” stated Egorov, in a press release. “Now we’re able to launch our personal firm in essentially the most thrilling and fastest-growing  leisure area of interest — aggressive multiplayer video games.”
He added, ““Our targets are to construct a dream workforce and create a breakthrough recreation using all our expertise and insights. We consider that teaming up with TGF and Play Ventures — founder-friendly traders who perceive video video games as builders — is an ideal match for us.”
Kochmala stated in a press release, “We’ve seen Georgy and Oleg in motion, main a top-notch workforce of Struggle Robots, some of the profitable multiplayer cell video games available on the market, and making it a world success. They’re among the finest founding groups within the area, and we’re honored that, amongst many choices, Kek selected TGF as their associate for this journey.”
Harri Manninen, founding associate at Play Ventures, added “We have been blown away by Georgy, Oleg, and the KEK workforce from the very starting. Their insights from Pixonic and their expertise with Struggle Robots, their takes on innovating within the area, and their capacity to execute as world-class gaming operators impressed us. We’re excited to be supporting Kek of their quest.”GamesBeat
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