GAMEE, the mobile gaming platform behind the WatBird game and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has received an undisclosed investment from Pantera Capital (Pantera).
The company will use the funds to expand its presence on The Open Network (TON) via WatBird, which connects and onboards Telegram users to Web3 through fun, meme-inspired gameplay.
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GAMEE was founded in 2015 and has been a subsidiary of Animoca Brands since 2020. It is a mobile gaming platform focused on onboarding a mass gaming audience to Web3.
It claims to have over 90 million registered users and has served over 10 billion gameplay sessions across multiple ecosystems.
GAMEE’s WatBird games and WatPoint mining have collectively onboarded 4 million user wallets into the TON ecosystem.
The company has partnered with over 40 major Web3 communities, including Mocaverse, TON, Notcoin, Decentraland, The Sandbox, and Cool Cats.
GAMEE recently raised funding from TON Ventures.
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Pantera Capital is the first institutional investment firm focused exclusively on bitcoins, other digital currencies, and companies in the blockchain tech ecosystem. Pantera launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the US in 2013. The firm subsequently launched the first exclusively blockchain venture fund.
In 2017, Pantera was the first firm to offer an early-stage token fund. Pantera manages over US$5 billion.
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