The team from Novosibirsk 7tons studio has attracted $ 200 thousand of investments from the GS Venture venture fund. This is reported in the press release of the GS Group holding, which includes GS Venture.
7tons studio is the author of the Exowar game. The creators of the project themselves describe it as a “session cooperative shooter about robots”. The game started in the social networks VKontakte and My World (Mail.ru ) in the spring of 2015, and since then has gained 200 thousand users.
The studio will invest in supporting the game, launching new projects and expanding the development team, as well as porting to new platforms. Including a game console developed by the investor himself, GS Group holding.
Exowar’s good starting performance prompted GS Venture to invest in a team from Novosibirsk. According to Sergey Filimonov, head of GS Venture, the fund is “ready to invest in gaming projects that have growth potential and can be ported to the GS Group development game console.”
GS Venture is a venture fund. It was created in the structure of GS Group holding in 2013. GS Group, in turn, is a Russian investment and industrial holding. It operates on the basis of its own high technologies in the field of telecommunications and innovation. The headquarters of the holding is located in St. Petersburg.
Source: GS Group press release
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