{"id":649365,"date":"2013-03-28T12:52:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=787518"},"modified":"2013-03-28T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:52:21","slug":"playdek-closes-3-8m-series-a-to-build-a-digital-community-where-tabletop-gamers-can-feel-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649365","title":{"rendered":"Playdek Closes $3.8M Series A To Build A Digital Community Where Tabletop Gamers Can Feel At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fresh from putting smiles on the faces of tabletop gaming geeks everywhere, with yesterday’s news that it would be helping to bring Dungeons & Dragons to iOS devices later this year<\/a>,\u00a0mobile game publisher\u00a0Playdek<\/a>\u00a0has closed a\u00a0$3.8 million Series A funding round.<\/p>\n

The round was led by Qualcomm Incorporated, via its venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures<\/a>, with IDG Ventures<\/a> and ff Venture Capital<\/a> also participating.\u00a0Existing investors Deep Fork Capital<\/a>, Greycroft Partners<\/a>, Jarl Mohn<\/a> and unnamed angel investors also joined in.\u00a0The company had previously raised $1.56 million in funding from its seed and Angel rounds — taking its total funding post-Series A to $5.36 million.<\/p>\n

Playdek said the new funding will allow it to expand its digital hobby games portfolio with new launches, including its forthcoming app,\u00a0Agricola, based on the strategy board game of the same name. Flagship existing titles from Playdek include its Ascension series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company’s other big plan for the funding is to build a hobby gamer community and online platform for players to meet and hang out, due to launch later this year. It\u00a0said this platform will “provide the services that hobby gamers value” — so presumably stuff like leaderboards ranking players by score and forums to discuss the merits of different gaming strategies. In a press statement,\u00a0Joel Goodman, CEO, said it would be about “giving gamers that \u2018around the table\u2019 feeling in the digital realm\u201d. The platform will also offer events and tournaments.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the funding in a statement, Phil Sanderson, Managing Director, IDG Ventures said: \u201cThe market category is poised for growth, and\u00a0Playdek\u00a0has proven that it is the expert when it comes to bringing this dedicated audience what they want in mobile gameplay.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Playdek\u00a0gives gamers what they want — compelling online games based on the franchises they know and love. \u00a0Playdek\u00a0allows people to explore these worlds and stories in a compelling new way,\u201d added John Frankel, ff Venture Capital, also in a statement. \u201cWe love the team, the strategy, and what they have done to date; we expect great things from them in the future.”<\/p>\n

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Fresh from putting smiles on the faces of tabletop gaming geeks everywhere, with yesterday’s news that it would be helping to bring Dungeons & Dragons to iOS devices later this year,\u00a0mobile game publisher\u00a0Playdek\u00a0has closed a\u00a0$3.8 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Qualcomm Incorporated, via its venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}