Dan Beasley and Ben Cusack, Co-Founders of VIKER Games, reveal The Grapes & NFT NYC.
Mobile games studio VIKER successfully closed a round of investments last November bringing the total raised to $4.1 million. Investments were led by Animoca Brands and saw participation from Initial Capital and IVC.
London-based studio VIKER is known for its mobile Play-and-Earn titles such as Solitaire and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. VIKER’s portfolio of games has seen over 80 million transactions across 100 countries, “enabling players to earn Bitcoin by playing classic mobile games”.
Animoca Brands co-founder and executive chairman, Yat Siu commented on the investment saying: “VIKER is making Play-and-Earn mobile games genuinely consumer friendly, which improves adoption and will help to transform the market. We are proud to lead this investment and support VIKER’s vision to help onboard the next one billion casual mobile gamers to blockchain”.
