The Chinese corporation Tencent is the largest gaming investor in the world. From April 2017 to the end of March this year, Tencent invested in gaming companies 40% of all funds that developers and startups of the video game industry managed to attract in 12 months.
This is reported by the analytical company Digi-Capital.
The company’s largest investment was the purchase of shares of the French developer and publisher Ubisoft. It cost the Chinese side $2 billion dollars.
Among other significant investments by Tencent over the past year, it is worth noting $ 630 million to the Douyu streaming platform, $474 million to the publisher of MMO games Shanda Games and $130 million to the Korean mobile developer Kakao Games.
Tencent also participated in more than 75% of all mergers and acquisitions in the video game industry during the same period.
Tencent’s participation in gaming investments and mergers and acquisitions in 2017, Digi-Capital
Gaming Investment market in 2017
According to the company, in total, about $22 billion was invested in the gaming sector last year.
Digi-Capital notes that over the past 3 months, investments in the gaming industry have reached a record $2.1 billion, and the quarterly volume of mergers and acquisitions amounted to $14.4 billion.
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