Horizon Blockchain Games Closes $40 Million in Series A Funding in Round Led by Brevan Howard Digital and Morgan Creek Digital
Horizon Blockchain Games, best known for its popular title Skyweaver, has raised $40 million in Series A funding to grow products and scale operations. Horizon will grow Sequence, the company’s fast-growing all-in-one developer platform and smart wallet that makes building web3 games and applications easy; expand Skyweaver’s content and reach; and introduce Niftyswap, a semi-fungible token (SFT) marketplace
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 4, 2022--
Horizon Blockchain Games, best known for its popular title Skyweaver, has raised $40 million in Series A funding to grow products and scale operations. Horizon will grow Sequence, the company’s fast-growing all-in-one developer platform and smart wallet that makes building web3 games and applications easy; expand Skyweaver’s content and reach; and introduce Niftyswap, a semi-fungible token (SFT) marketplace.
“At Horizon, we have a long-term vision for the future of web3, and are carefully building complementary products to support the ecosystem,” said Peter Kieltyka, Horizon Co-Founder and CEO. “Our Series A allows us to grow the Sequence ecosystem by attracting more builders to our platform via marketing, community, and partnership initiatives. We also have big plans to expand the content and community features for our game Skyweaver and launch Niftyswap, a decentralized marketplace that makes exchanging SFTs easy and secure.”
The investment round was led by Brevan Howard Digital and Morgan Creek Digital with participation from industry-leading traditional game publishers, tech-focused venture capital firms and pioneering companies in the web3 space including Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., Polygon, Ubisoft, Xsolla, Initialized Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, CMT Digital, Quantstamp, Round13 Capital, Xchange, and Everyrealm, plus key individual investors such as Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke, The Sandbox’s co-founder Sebastien Borget, Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity co-founder Aleks Larsen, Lolli’s co-founder Alex Adelman, and leading Ethereum educator and The Daily Gwei’s founder Anthony Sassano.
