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MADMONQ Raises $600K Seed Round

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Czech esports supplement startup MADMONQ announced that it has raised a €500K EUR ($598K USD) seed financing round from investors, including poker player and esports professional Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Twitch streamer Lex Veldhuis; content creator Radek “sterakdary” Starý, Lukáš “lastgameblitz” Křítek, Vojta Roček, and AdRock Ventures.  MADMONQ revealed that it intends to use the funding “to raise awareness around the need to prioritize health in gaming, new product development, scaling the team, and paving the way for Series A round, planned for late 2021.”  The company, which was founded in 2017, reported that it has achieved seven-figure revenue in 2020 and has been

CSL Esports partners with the Singleton Foundation

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North American collegiate esports firm CSL Esports has announced a partnership with the Singleton Foundation For Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship to expand its scholastic curriculum. Image credit: CSL Esports/ THE Singleton Foundation RELATED:  Banco do Brasil partners with Visa to launch BB Game Series As a result of the partnership, the collegiate esports firm and the Singleton Foundation will debut Venture Valley, a new multiplayer business-building game where players put their business savvy against each other, at CSL Esports’ virtual esports summer camp programme. “Education is a core component of CSL

FrontSight Capital Fund invests $1m into Singaporean organisation RSG

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FrontSight Capital Fund, an esports private equity fund managed by Singaporean firm Tembusu Partners, has announced an investment of $1m (∼£725,415) into Singaporean esports organisation RSG. The funding will be used to continue RSG’s investment in local talent cultivation, along with a new focus to establish brand-new training facilities for its teams. The organisation currently fields teams across a number of titles including Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and Street Fighter. Photo credit: RSG RELATED: RSG delivers Pizza Hut partnership According to the release, FrontSight Capital

Generation Esports closes $10.8m Series A funding round

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North American esports organisation and competitive platform Generation Esports has announced it has closed its latest Series A funding round with a total of $10.8m (∼£7.83m) secured. The funding raised will be used to support the organisation’s community and student esports initiatives. Image credit: Generation Esports RELATED: High School Esports League launches Generation Esports The funding round was led by early-stage technology company investor Altos Ventures, with FJ Labs also taking part alongside other unnamed entities.  Mason Mullenioux, Co-Founder and CEO of Generation Esports, commented on the funding round: “We are thankful to

ESL Open Week #66: Stats, Clem, Solar win

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The second week of the ESL Open Cups for the 2021-22 ESL Pro Tour (and 66th overall) have come and gone: On Sunday, Stats marked his first win of the second season in Korea, while Clem defended his title in the European showdown on Monday. In the American cup, Solar celebrated his first successful overseas campaign of the season.The top echelon of Korean Protoss players seem to have thing for EPT points. Their participation in these cups has been steady week after week, while their colleague's spirits seem lacking in

Powder Raises $14M Series A Led by Serena 

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French tech startup Unique Entertainment Expérience, which is doing business as Powder, announced that it has secured a $14M USD Series A financing round led by Paris-based venture capital firm Serena. Further investors include General Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Alven Capital, Banque publique d’investissement (Bpifrance) through its fund Digital Venture, Secocha Ventures, Turner Novak, and Kevin Hartz.  The startup, which was co-founded in 2018 by Stanislas Coppin (CEO), Barthélémy Kiss (Chief Growth Officer), Yannis Mangematin (Chief Content Officer), and Christian Navelot (CTO), revealed that it intends to use its Series A proceeds to “increase the pace at which we are building the video infrastructure of social gaming.”  This

CouRage and Valkyrae become 100 Thieves co-owners, BMW announces esports manga | ESI Digest #37

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Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest is available on all major podcast platforms and is also available in written form below. On this week’s ESI Digest we cover, Valkyrae and CouRage being announced as 100 Thieves co-owners, Astralis Group looking to trade in the US market, BMW Esports launching a manga series, Jackson’s LCS and PENTAKILL partnership, plus GRID’s $10m investment.  This edition of the ESI Digest is in

Esports data platform GRID announces $10m funding round

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Esports data platform GRID has announced a $10m (~£7.28m) Series A funding round, with NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster investing in the firm.  Alongside Smith-Schuster, ‘industry leaders’ behind Alinea Capital, Bumble Ventures, and Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder took part in the firm’s funding round, as well as ‘leading investors in the gaming, iGaming and tech industry’. Image credit: GRID Esports RELATED: GRID announces data partnership with Epic Esports Events According to the release, GRID’s investment will be used to strengthen its US expansion plans. The data platform first expanded its services

LoL: LCS Mid-Season Showdown Finals Weekend Preview

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We finally have our last three teams poised to take the main stage in the Greek Theater for the Mid-Season Showdown Finals Weekend. With three weeks of the Mid-Season Showdown (MSS) in the books, we get to see which of our last three teams will represent the LCS in the upcoming MSI, being held in Iceland. The past week might have given us more questions to get answered about our Lower Bracket Finalists, but it has also given us a clearer picture of who is most likely to be representing

40 Best PlayStation Now Games To Play In 2021

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The PlayStation Now service may not be as stacked as Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass, especially with Microsoft bringing out all first-party releases onto the service at launch, but that doesn’t mean it’s no slouch either. There are some great video game titles here to play and if you’re wanting a big catalog of games to enjoy without paying for every game then this could be a viable option. As mentioned, there are a ton of games on the service, and it continues to add games while also rotating some video