Casual Games Market Hot – 2-4M USD Invested Per Week
Jussi Laakkonen of Everyplay has compiled a very extensive list of investments to casual gaming startups in the US and Europe.
Laakkonen has compiled the list from public resources such as VentureBeat, TechCrunch, GigaOm, etc. He admits that there are possibly a lot of investments missing as they based on PR, which naturally works best in the US.
From the Nordics and Baltics, in the list are investments to Apaja Online Entertainment and Sulake, so I’m guessing there are many more smaller seed investments made to smaller Nordic and Baltic companies which aren’t present in the list.
What’s your take – is the casual gaming market the hottest corner of the internet industry at the moment?
November 21st, 2008 at 8:19 am
[...] research in terms of investments to the gaming industry in the recent years. We also covered Jussi’s previous findings in ArcticStartup close to two months ago when he reported that approximately 2 to 4 million USD are [...]