SuperDuperSecret Co. raises over $1M to re-create classic chess with 10-player battle royale
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SuperDuperSecret Co. has successfully raised over $1 million to remake classic games such as chess with the modern element of a ten-player battle royale.
For the oversubscribed pre-seed funding round, investors included Round 13 Digital Asset Fund, Merit Circle, Polygon, Solana, Overwolf, Big Brain Holdings, LD Capital and angels such as Sebastien Borget, Gabby Dizon, and Cristian Manea, among several others.
The company’s launch title, Royale Chess—a ten-player, battle royale chess game—marks the first of many games across their underlying meta-game platform, focusing on multiplayer, evergreen games.
The raise makes co-founder and CEO Jazzlyn O’Reilly the first Latina founder to raise $1 million in venture capital funding in the gaming industry.
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“It’s astonishing that the number of funded female and minority founders in the gaming space is still so small in 2023, especially considering how diverse the consumers of games are; 48% percent of gamers identify as female, for example,” she said. “I can only hope that news like this can help encourage others who don’t as often see people like themselves represented in this space, to take the leap and build companies of their own, and to not be afraid to pursue funding to achieve their vision. It’s not just a matter of numbers; the industry needs diverse founders in order to create truly innovative content for the world’s 3 billion gamers.”
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