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Sanlo raises $3.5M to help apps and games gain access to financial insights and capital

Having a great idea for an app or game is one thing, but scaling it to become a successful business is quite another. A new fintech startup called Sanlo aims to help. The company, which is today announcing an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed round, offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth. To be clear, Sanlo is not an investor that’s taking an equity stake in the apps and games it finances. Instead, it’s offering businesses access

Gaming Giant Kinguin Taps Immutable X for NFT Offering

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Tony Hawk joins GameSquare Esports in special advisory role

GameSquare Esports is expanding its advisory team by bringing in skateboarding legend and entrepreneur Tony Hawk.  Hawk, who’s best known in the gaming space for his Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game franchise, will act as a special advisor to CEO Justin Kenna and the GameSquare group of companies while they work to further “bridge the gap” between global brands and the gaming and esports communities.  “We are humbled that Tony is willing to share his experiences in business, entertainment, sports, video games, and digital media with our leadership team

Mads Øland steps down as CSPPA CEO

Mads Øland is stepping down from his position as CEO of the Counter-Strike Professional Players' Association (CSPPA) to take up a role in HK, the biggest union for salaried employees in Denmark, it was announced on Friday. His successor has not yet been appointed. Øland has been with the CSPPA since its launch in June 2018. After leading the association for over a year on a part-time, voluntary basis, he took up a full-time role in January 2020, resigning from his position as director of the Danish Football Players’ Association

PortalOne raises $15M from Atari and more for a new hybrid gaming/TV show app

Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living. Today a startup that has created an app that brings those two entertainment formats together is announcing a notable seed round of funding as it prepares to come out of closed beta. PortalOne, a hybrid gaming startup, is announcing a $15 million seed round of funding as it prepares to come out of closed beta with an app that lets people play on-demand games and also watch live shows in which

Enjin Attracts Binance and Microsoft to NFT Project

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LoL: 100 Thieves Sign Reapered As LCS Head Coach

David Hollingsworth David has written for games media outlets for the last seven years. With his first major esports role being with Esports News UK covering mostly UK League of Legends. David is also a member of the British Esports Association and is an advisor to them on World of Warcraft Esports. More recently David has worked for Esports Insider and Red Bull as an esports journalist. Coinsmart. Beste Bitcoin-Börse in Europa Source: https://estnn.com/lol-100-thieves-sign-reapered-as-lcs-head-coach/

Dr. Lawson-Williams on How to Build an HBCU Esports Program

In this opinion piece, Johnson C. Smith University Professor of Sports Management Dr. BerNadette Lawson-Williams talks about the success of the first HBCU Esports and Gaming Trifecta program which she was integral in launching. After 24 years “in the game” of traditional sports, discovering the world of electronic sports has been nothing less than electrifying—pun intended. While it seemed like an epiphany to me, it has been no surprise to many of my colleagues that I have quickly become enamored with the esports and gaming ecosystem. After all, I was

LoL: LEC Reveals The Community All-Pro Team For Spring 2021

David Hollingsworth David has written for games media outlets for the last seven years. With his first major esports role being with Esports News UK covering mostly UK League of Legends. David is also a member of the British Esports Association and is an advisor to them on World of Warcraft Esports. More recently David has worked for Esports Insider and Red Bull as an esports journalist. Coinsmart. Beste Bitcoin-Börse in Europa Source: https://estnn.com/lol-lec-reveals-the-community-all-pro-team-for-spring-2021/

Tournament platform Epulze secures £4.7m investment

Swedish esports tournament platform Epulze has secured an investment of SEK 57m (∼£4,74m) from its latest funding round. According to the release, participants in the funding round included Swedish financial group Svea Ekonomi and Norwegian Carucel Finance. Credit: Epulze RELATED: Epulze announces long-term partnership with VPgame The funding is expected to help the company enter into a ‘new phase’, with the esports tournament platform looking to add new game titles and functions, whilst also expanding its ecosystem. Currently, the platform only supports Dota. Mattias Lövgren, CEO and Co-Founder at Epulze, commented on securing