Creandum et al. back PlayRaven
Creandum and London Venture Partners (LVP) have taken part in a $2.3m (тЌ1.7m) funding round for Finnish game developer PlayRaven alongside angel investor Jari Ovaskainen.
The seed funding round will allow PlayRaven to hire a second development team, which will start producing a new game for the company sometime in the first quarter of this year.
Both LVP and Ovaskainen are early investors in Supercell, another venture capital-backed Finnish game developer that was recently valued at $3bn.
Company
Founded in 2013 and based in Helsinki, PlayRaven has developed iPad game Spymaster, which is due for release in Q2 this year. Spymaster is a spy network strategy game, set in several cities across Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941. The premise of the game is to manage a network of spies across Europe by establishing bases and recruiting spies in several cities.
People
Lasse Seppänen is the CEO of PlayRaven. Daniel Blomquist is on the investment team at Creandum, while David Gardner is a partner at LVP.
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