{"id":105174,"date":"2019-12-06T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/355307"},"modified":"2019-12-06T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:03:00","slug":"mobile-developer-wildlife-studios-nets-60-million-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/06\/mobile-developer-wildlife-studios-nets-60-million-in-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile developer Wildlife Studios nets $60 million in funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile game company Wildlife Studios has secured $60 million in Series A funding to bolster its dev team, continue supporting existing titles, and kickstart new projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The investment round was led by Benchmark Capital, and also included former Facebook VPs Hugo Barra and Javier Olivan, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Red Ventures co-founder and CEO Ric Elias.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife has launched over 60 titles since 2011, including popular titles like <em>Tennis Clash<\/em> and <em>Zooba<\/em>, and claims its roster is on course to reach 2 billion downloads by the end of 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It currently has 500 staffers working in offices throughout&nbsp;Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, and the United States, but wants to expand to 800 employees in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Benchmark&#8217;s partnership will help us further our mission of entertaining billions of players around the world,&#8221; said Wildlife&nbsp;co-founder and CEO Victor Lazarte.&nbsp;&#8220;We are increasing our investment in world-class talent and significantly growing our team as we scale our games globally.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile game company Wildlife Studios has secured $60 million in Series A funding to bolster its dev team, continue supporting existing titles, and kickstart new projects.&nbsp; The investment round was led by Benchmark Capital, and also included former Facebook VPs Hugo Barra and Javier Olivan, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Red Ventures co-founder and CEO Ric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}