{"id":117101,"date":"2020-08-21T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/368681"},"modified":"2020-08-21T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:35:00","slug":"march-capital-establishes-60-million-game-investment-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/21\/march-capital-establishes-60-million-game-investment-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"March Capital establishes $60 million game investment fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. investment company March Capital has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20200820005278\/en\/March-Capital-Announces-60M-March-Gaming-Fund\">launched the March Gaming Fund<\/a>, a $60 million fund that will invest in companies developing &#8220;gaming content, technology, and infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>March has already invested in sports game developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/361245\/Nifty_Games_secures_over_12_million_to_develop_sports_titles_for_mobile.php\">Nifty Games<\/a> and mobile studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/349682\/Investors_sink_4_million_into_instant_game_developer_Knock_Knock.php\">Knock Knock<\/a>, and will use its new Gaming Fund to make a further 12 to 15 investments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company said the Fund will offer &#8220;capital, connections, and guidance&#8221; to entrepreneurs in the video game market. March managing partner Gregory Milken will lead the Gaming Fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While March Capital has long invested in gaming, we realized that we had a subset of investors and constituents who were very interested in gaming,&#8221; said Milken. &#8220;We decided to dedicate a fund just for gaming investments and use our unique expertise and evaluation capabilities to fully capitalize on this opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. investment company March Capital has launched the March Gaming Fund, a $60 million fund that will invest in companies developing &#8220;gaming content, technology, and infrastructure.&#8221; March has already invested in sports game developer Nifty Games and mobile studio Knock Knock, and will use its new Gaming Fund to make a further 12 to 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117101","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\/117101","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=117101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}