The time for easy money in cryptogaming for funds has come. The excitement around the industry is in full swing and while countless micro-startups rivet the soulless, and some are quite with a soul, Play-to-Earn pharmacies for withdrawing their tokens to IDO, which is an end in itself for them. The bigger uncles from the crypt took it seriously monetize revolutionize the gaming industry.
Mountaintop
The gaming studio that raised $ 30M in Serie A, in which A16Z led a round with industry pals including Spark Capital, Founders Fund and Detroit Venture Partners. And before Serie A, they managed to raise $ 5,5 million. in the seed round. Thus Mountaintop joins the cohort of the largest cryptogaming companies.
Important companies in the industry, ranked by attracted investments:
- Dapper Labs: $ 357M
- Strong: $ 185M
- Animoca Brands: $ 156M
- opensea: $ 123M
- Mythical Games: $ 120M
- sorare: $ 58M
- IMVU / Together Lab: $ 35M
- Mountaintop: $ 30M
- Engine: $ 23M
- thirdverse: $ 20m
- Immutable Games: $ 17M
Significant investors in the industry:
- Galaxy Digital (Immutable, Lucid Sight, Mythical Games).
- Animoca Brands (Dapper Labs, Lucid Sight, Axie Infinity and many others, offhand, half of the cryptogaming market).
- Hashed (Animoca Brands, Axie Infinity, Mythical Games, Enjin).
- Coinbase (Animoca Brands, Dapper, Immutable).
- Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (OpenSea, Dapper Labs, Mountaintop).
- coat (Dapper Labs, OpenSea).
- WestCap (Mythical Games).
Mountaintop has brought together over 20 industry veterans from companies such as Epic Games, Blizzard, Naughty Dog, Respawn, Infinity Ward, Ubisoft, Raven, Turtle Rock, Double Fine, PopCap, and Oculus.
For those not in the know, Nate Mitchell is one of the co-founders of Oculus. He left the company in 2019.
What experience does Mountaintop top management have?
Matt hansen - Executive Producer for Oculus.
Mark terrano - Game Designer in Age of Empires Series, CS: GO, Defense Grid, Brass Tactics.
Richard Lyons - animation, 18 years of experience, took part in Uncharted and Last of Us projects.
Lee horn - Head of Products at Apex Legends, also worked with projects Valorant, League of Legends.
Mountaintop mentioned that they intend to involve the community in the development of the game early on, so if you want to join the alpha tests, then sign up for them. Newsletter.
And if you want to work with them, you can leave your resume here: https://jobs.lever.co/mountaintop/
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