{"id":116471,"date":"2020-08-07T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/367792"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:18:00","slug":"mobile-developer-big-run-studios-nets-5-25-million-to-expand-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/07\/mobile-developer-big-run-studios-nets-5-25-million-to-expand-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile developer Big Run Studios nets $5.25 million to expand operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile developer-publisher Big Run Studios has netted&nbsp;$5.25 million in seed funding, meaning it has raised a total of $6.6 million&nbsp;to date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The funding round was led by early stage venture capital company Transcend Fund and joined by Galaxy Interactive, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/359970\/Big_Run_Studios_nets_14_million_to_create_mobile_titles_for_underserved_audiences.php\">previously invested $1.4 million into Big Run back in March<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cash will allow Big Run to expand operations as it prepares to launch its next mobile title, <em>Big Cooking<\/em>, which will join a roster than includes other mobile games like<em> Farm Sweeper<\/em>, <em>Blackout Blitz<\/em>, <em>Big Hearts<\/em>, and <em>Big Run Solitaire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The additional investment expands our capabilities and accelerates the exciting games we\u2019re cooking up for players,&#8221; said company co-founder and CEO, Andrew Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile developer-publisher Big Run Studios has netted&nbsp;$5.25 million in seed funding, meaning it has raised a total of $6.6 million&nbsp;to date.&nbsp; The funding round was led by early stage venture capital company Transcend Fund and joined by Galaxy Interactive, which previously invested $1.4 million into Big Run back in March.&nbsp; The cash will allow Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116471","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\/116471","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=116471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}