{"id":42547,"date":"2014-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/crece-la-inversion-en-empresas-de-videojuegos\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:26:10","slug":"crece-la-inversion-en-empresas-de-videojuegos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/crece-la-inversion-en-empresas-de-videojuegos\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment in video game companies is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the last five years, the number of rounds of investment in video game companies has grown steadily, reaching 49 rounds of investment last year for a total of \u20ac177,797,781 worldwide. Although Spanish companies have traditionally received little investment, they are gradually getting investors and universities to provide them with the help they need to develop video games.<\/span><\/span><\/address>\n

\"Slide<\/a><\/p>\n

Most active investors: technology venture capital\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Among the investors<\/strong> most active we find Benchmark<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<\/span>this American investor specialising in technology companies has participated in 7 rounds of funding in the video games sector, including in Gaikai, <\/span>company of video games<\/strong> which has received 3 financing rounds<\/strong> by $45M and which was acquired by Sony Corp in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Tech Americans MK capital<\/a><\/span>, Intel Capital<\/a> and New Enterprise Associates <\/a><\/span>have received 5 rounds of funding.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Spanish companies that have received rounds<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the well-known Akamon<\/span>,<\/a> which has received its third round of funding, there are several companies in Spain that have received support from investors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Social Point<\/span>earlier this year closed its third $30M round, led by\u00a0Highland Capital<\/span><\/a>. The company's objective is to investment<\/strong> \u00a0continue its mobile development from which it currently derives 90% of its revenues and enter the Asian market, mainly Japan, Korea and China where the mobile phone market is video games<\/strong> is very large.<\/span><\/p>\n

the Bilbao-based company Iron belt studios, specialises in board games, especially the so-called\u00a0War Games<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>although they also make games for\u00a0<\/strong>The company has already received two rounds of funding in which Microwave Ventures has participated.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Microwave venture<\/a> is betting on the sector, this year 2014 it has made an investment in Wimi5, a software company that has created a powerful development platform for video games in HTML5 technology\" says Diego Guti\u00e9rrez of Abra-invest<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

First steps for the development of video games in Spain<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Numerous universities are beginning to offer training in video game development, and accelerators specialising in the sector are also emerging, such as Gamebcn<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Gamebcn<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u00a0aims to give continuity to the projects in the world of the\u00a0video games<\/strong>\u00a0with the greatest potential that emerge from the specialised university programmes, and to accompany them so that they can become new start-ups. The programme consists of a 4-month incubation period in which different milestones in the creation and acceleration of companies will be worked on: setting up the company, fundraising and time to market,\u00a0monetisation<\/strong>\u00a0and marketing procedures.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you would like to obtain a complete study of investment in video games, please fill in the following form.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Other posts that may interest you<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Investments in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence Presents an Opportunity for Investors<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last five years, the number of rounds of investment in video game companies has grown steadily, reaching 49 rounds of investment last year for a total of \u20ac177,797,781 worldwide. Although Spanish companies have traditionally received little investment, they are gradually getting investors and universities to provide them with the help they need to develop video games.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2277],"tags":[225],"sectores":[],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-42547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiplos-de-empresas-cotizadas","tag-inversion-en-videojuegos","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42547"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=42547"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=42547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}