INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
disclosing $9 million in funding, made up of seed and Series A rounds.Index Ventures led both, but have been joined by Atomico, the European
I understand this is the first time the two VC firms have done a Series A deal together in over a decade.Both VCs have a decent track record
Index counts King, Roblox and Supercell as previous gaming investments, whilst Atomico also backed Supercell, along with Rovio, and most
recently Bossa Studios.As part of the round, Guzman Diaz of Index Ventures, Mattias Ljungman of Atomico, and David Helgason, founder of
Unity, have joined the Teatime Games board of directors.Meanwhile, Teatime Games is keeping shtum publicly on exactly what the stealthy
startup is working on, except that it plays broadly in the social and mobile gaming space
it yet.What he was willing to describe publicly, however, is the general problem the company has set out to solve, which is how to make
mobile games more social and personalised
always been inherently social throughout different eras (e.g
However, in many respects this has been lost in the age of mobile gaming, which can feel like quite a solitary experience
newly-disclosed investment to double the size of its team in Iceland, with a particular focus on software engineers, and to further develop
its social gaming offering for third party developers
