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Rémi Pellerin, CEO and Co-Founder of Unagi Revealed New Raise of €4.7 million in funding

admin — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 01:08:52 +0000

Unagi, the Paris-based blockchain gaming studio, raises €4.7 million in funding. The round was led by games early-stage VC Sisu Game Ventures with participation from Sfermion, UOB Ventures, Signum Capital, 2B Ventures, Machame, and angel investors Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Sebastien Borget (The Sandbox), and Mario Götze. The studio is directed by Remi Pellerin and Charlie Guillemot, both previously worked at Ubisoft.

Unagi’s first web3 release is a fantasy sports game called Ultimate Champions which is currently in open beta. The Free-to-play Ultimate Champions platform lets gamers accumulate virtual playing cards representing football players, allowing them to choose their dream squad and change players by adding new cards to their selection. Unagi is now preparing to launch a basketball variant of its game.

Rémi Pellerin, CEO and co-founder of Unagi, commented:

“Web3 gaming is on the rise. For Unagi, Ultimate Champions is a pilot with which we’re creating, testing, and improving the gaming web3 tools we’re developing in our studio.

Jorge Schnura’s Company Unlockd Has Announced $4.4 Million Seed Funding Round

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:38:18 +0000

Unlockd is described as a protocol that allows users to borrow against their NFTs. They have just announced a $4.4 million seed funding round led by Blockchain Capital. The funding will apparently be used for product and development, cross-chain expansion, and a tier 1 auditor to ensure protocol security and marketing.

Sfermion, Spartan Group, and Play Ventures were also among those that participated in the round. Other investors included IDEO CoLab, Bitscale, Sanctor Capital, Eden Ventures, Caballeros Capital, Emfarsis, Crypto Plaza, Yield Guild Games (YGG), YGG SEA, BreederDAO, BlockchainSPACE, and angel investors such as YGG founder Gabby Dizon.

Unlockd’s pooled liquidity model allows NFT holders to borrow against their NFTs while still being able to use them. Founded earlier this year by the esports club MAD Lions founder Jorge Schnura. The eight-strong team at Unlockd already has a beta version on a testnet and its protocol is undergoing auditing. It will launch the UI for the testnet in September and launch on the mainnet in October, 2022.