Heroic Story raises $6 million in their latest round led by Upfront Ventures with participation from Multicoin Capital and Polygon Technology. This apparently brings the company’s total financing to date to $7.4 million. Jay Rosenkrantz is currently the CEO having started Heroic Story in the summer of 2019 with his brother Scott.
The round also saw contributions from strategic angels including Jonathan Lai (a16z Games Fund One), Steve Arhancet (CEO of Team Liquid), Richard Ma (CEO of Quantstamp), Orange DAO, George Strompolos (founder Fullscreen), and more. Previous investors include Transcend Fund, Kevin Lin (co-founder of Twitch), Holly Liu (co-founder of Kabam), and Furqan Rydhan (CEO of Thirdweb).
The funds will apparently be used to hire talent, market the live beta, and build on-chain technology to support a massively multiplayer world governed by professional game masters and directed by millions of players.
Heroic Story says it is trying to reimagine the traditional gameplay of pen-and-paper role-playing games into a new gaming platform that combines matchmaking services with the world’s best game masters, and story-led digital collectibles that allow players to direct their shared adventures together.
