{"id":98376,"date":"2019-08-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/348595"},"modified":"2019-08-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:00:00","slug":"singularity-6-secures-16-5-million-to-fund-tech-and-game-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/13\/singularity-6-secures-16-5-million-to-fund-tech-and-game-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Singularity 6 secures $16.5 million to fund tech and game development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong> Singularity 6, the fledgling LA studio founded by a group of former Riot staffers, has secured $16.5 million in Series A funding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from seed investor London Venture Partners as well as FunPlus Ventures, and will give Singularity 6 the financial clout it needs to ramp up its technology and game development efforts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest cash injection&nbsp;comes less than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/326453\/ExRiot_devs_net_25M_to_help_launch_new_LA_studio_Singularity_6.php\">12 months after the company netted&nbsp;$2.5 million<\/a> to begin building &#8220;genre-defining&#8221; online games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Singularity 6 co-founders Aidan Karabaich and Anthony Leung, the studio&#8217;s debut game will &#8220;reinvigorate classic community simulation design by emphasizing multilayer and virtual community building in a stylized, high-fantasy world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Singularity 6, the fledgling LA studio founded by a group of former Riot staffers, has secured $16.5 million in Series A funding.&nbsp; The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from seed investor London Venture Partners as well as FunPlus Ventures, and will give Singularity 6 the financial clout it needs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98376","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\/98376","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=98376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}