Kek Entertainment secures $8M to drive cross-platform gaming
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Kek Entertainment has raised $8 million in funding to foster cross-platform gaming experiences across mobile devices, consoles and PCs.
This financial infusion will fuel the development of their flagship title, an unannounced vehicle shooter game merging mobile and PC/Console gamers onto a unified platform.
The startup is headed by a team from Pixonics who helped create the War Robots mech fighting game on mobile devices. Now they’re making something brand new in the mecha space.
Korea Investment Partners, a South Korean gaming venture capital fund, led the round. Other investors included Woori Technology Investment Co., Kona Venture Partners, and KEK’s pre-seed investors — The Games Fund and Play Ventures.
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Michael K. Lee, director at Korea Investment Partners, in a statement that a fair number of players want more immersive gameplay and want to play with their friends who are on other platforms.
“KEK Entertainment’s vision aligns perfectly with the changing landscape of gaming preferences. Our belief in the potential for a well-designed cross-platform game to resonate with diverse gaming communities is unwavering. We’re thrilled to support KEK on this path,” said Lee.
Georgy Egorov and Oleg Poroshin, veterans from Pixonics, started the new company a couple of years ago. War Robots has generated $750 million in revenues and has been downloaded more than 250 million times since it came out in 2014. The most common
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