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Venture capital fund Hiro Capital is leading investment into three growing studios. The fund today announced its investment into Snowprint Studios, Double Loop Games, and Happy Volcano. The three studios collectively raised $15 million in order to help them expand. Snowprint Studios -- led by veterans of King, Paradox Interactive, and Wooga -- is currently running mobile game Legend of Solgard, and is also working on three new mobile projects including Rivengard and an undisclosed AAA mobile IP. Double Loop Games is currently working on its debut social mobile game. It's led by Kongregate co-...

Venture Capital fund Hiro Capital has made investments in three international game studios. The three mobile and cross-platform studios – Snowprint in Stockholm/Berlin, Double Loop Games in San Francisco, and Happy Volcano in Belgium – will use Hiro’s investment to expand their development pipelines and accelerate global growth. They join UK and US Games studios Flavourworks, Polyarc and Lightfox in the Hiro Capital portfolio, alongside pioneers in the gamification of Games Streaming and Digital Fitness LIV.tv, Edgegap, Fix XR and Nurvv. “We are excited to begin 2021 by announcing Hir...

Ian Livingstone, co-founding partner at Hiro Capital, said, “We are excited to begin 2021 by announcing Hiro’s investment in three amazing games studios, Snowprint, Double Loop and Happy Volcano. Each studio has demonstrated innovation and expertise in developing fun to play games which resonate with today’s audiences. I’m especially pleased that one of the studios came through our first Dark Star™ event for emerging indies looking to scale their businesses. If only venture capital had been interested in the games sector back in the 1970s, I might not have had to sleep in a van dur...

Team17 CEO Debbie Bestwick, UKIE boss Dr Jo Twist and NDreams' Nadine Oehmcke also set for April show

Two major roundtables and a new speaker have been added to the GI Live: Online schedule. GI Live: Online is the new indie developer business event from the teams behind GamesIndustry.biz and EGX Rezzed. It takes place via Discord and MeetToMatch over Wednesday, April 14th and Friday, April 16th between 9:30am - 8pm UK time. Valve will be speaking with a group of indie devs at the event to offer advice on how to make the most of Steam. Meanwhile, industry legend Ian Livingstone CBE has joined the line-up with Hiro Capital, and will offer guidance and information for studios on investment.