GEM Capital investment company announced new investments in Eastern Europe. She carried out a pre-sowing round to the Cyprus Skich, part of whose team works from Poland.
The size of the transaction was $0.4 million. The management of Skich plans to use the raised funds for the development, development and promotion of the application already published in the App Store and Google Play.
Skich is a recommendation gaming platform that works on the principle of dating apps. The player, swiping a screenshot of the game to the right or to the left, expresses his attitude to it.
All “liked” games are placed in the vishlist, from which you can go to the project profile. In the profile, in addition to information about the game, there is a link to the store (on the App Store or Google Play).
The user can also note that he played a particular project, leave feedback on the games and see what other people write about the game that interests him.
The authors of Skich plan to create personal collections of mobile games based on the interests of the user and the interests of his friends.
“The audience of mobile games exceeds 2.8 billion people and they are increasingly faced with the problem of finding content suitable for them among the huge number of games released every day. The recommendation services of the App Store and Google Play do not cope with this task well enough and are rightly criticized for their lack of flexibility. We see great potential in Skich and his team,” Kirill Gursky, the leader of the gaming direction of GEM Capital, said in connection with the deal.
The project was founded by Sergey Budkovsky and Ivan Zenkovich, who previously worked at the 69pixels UX/UI agency. Among the team members are Alexey Bavdey, former art director of R&D at Wargaming, and Ilya Lesun, co–founder of Vochi, acquired by Pinterest. The team works from Cyprus and Poland.