Investment News – digest from March 30 to April 5

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

The material was prepared specifically for App2Top.ru Sergey Evdokimov, Investment Manager Mail.Ru Games Ventures and the author of the telegram channel Gaming – M&As and Investments.

Sergey Evdokimov1. Developer of SaaS solutions Anybrain raised $1.1 million from Trust Esport

The Portuguese developer of security and anti-fraud services for video game studio Anybrain received € 1 million ($ 1.1 million) from the French venture fund Trust Esport, which prefers to invest in esports technologies.

Anybrain offers solutions for player identification, fraud prevention, age control and other services. The investment will be used to finance the development of a patented technology that uses user behavior data and artificial intelligence to make online games more honest.

2. Mobile game developer StarBerry Games “raised” €1.1 million during the seed round of financing
Berlin-based mobile game developer StarBerry Games has raised €1.1 million to develop and publish casual mobile games.

The lead investor in the transaction was the byFounders fund with the participation of Play Ventures and business angel Morten Wolff, the founder of GameAnalytics.

The flagship product of the StarBerry Games studio is the Idle Coffee Corp idler with 7 million downloads. StarBerry Games plans to release its next game in the second half of 2020.

3. Colopl acquired visual novel developer MAGES for $15 million

The Japanese publisher Colopl has announced the acquisition of the Tokyo-based game company MAGES., which mainly develops visual novels, and is also a music label.

4. Lightheart Entertainment raised $1.4 million for the global release of indie action
Finnish developers “raised” a little more than a million for the global release of a mobile PVP game.

The money was invested by Galaxy Interactive.

5. Niantic bought the team 6D.ai , which specialize in the correct formation of digital surfaces based on real

The authors of Pokémon GO have acquired a startup 6D.ai for an undisclosed amount.

The company bought by Niantic works in the field of augmented reality. She is developing a technology that forms a digital “impression” of the surface in real time from the image.

6. Cloud Imperium Studio attracted an additional $17.25 million investment for development
The second tranche from professional investors was attracted to create Star Citizen.

In total, $340 million has been collected through various investment channels for the development of Kosmosim to date.