Gamercraft raises $5 Million for AI-powered skill- gaming platform
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Gamercraft has raised $5 million in funding for its AI-competitive gaming platform for skill-based console and PC gaming.
The Miami-based company said it will use the money to expand its engineering and platform capabilities, develop new games and genres for 2024, and also grow its marketing arm, said CEO Jose Javier Garcia Rovira, in an interview with GamesBeat.
The cofounders of Alienware led the round, with participation from Le Fonds, Mistral Ventures, Quantic Fund, Stellaria Capital and others.
Gamercraft’s mission is to integrate skill-based gaming — where players can wager on whether they can win matches or not — into the heart of future gaming economies. The company aims to offer challenges, competitions, and robust anti-cheat detection to enhance gaming experiences and trust for all players.
The company has attracted a user base of more than 300,000 gamers across North America, Latin America, and Europe.
Positioned at the intersection of blockchain and AI, Gamercraft wants to be a gaming infrastructure player. The platform leverages the AWS Quantum Ledger to provide a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log, the company said.
Gamercraft’s proprietary scoring and player-tracking system analyzes hundreds of data points per game for each player and translates them into performance assessments and insights using AI. This blend of AI and blockchain technology sets Gamercraft apart in its focus on high-value competitive gaming experiences and analytics for players at all skill levels, the company said.
For anti-cheat, Gamercraft uses an adaptive learning-based model to analyze
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