{"id":1807,"date":"2020-07-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2020-08-10T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T23:58:40","slug":"darewise-entertainment-closes-3-4m-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/darewise-entertainment-closes-3-4m-funding-round","title":{"rendered":"Darewise Entertainment closes $3.4m funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Paris-based studio behind the survival MMO Life Beyond has announced the funding from Serena, a European venture capital firm, as well as Lakestar.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Darewise was founded in 2015 and specializes in &#8220;social online games,&#8221; with Life Beyond positioned as an MMO that&#8217;s less focused on destruction and more on creativity and a &#8220;positive social framework.&#8221; <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investment led by Serena, a European venture capital firm, and joined by Lakestar, also a VC, will be used for the further development of the game. Darewise Entertainment previously raised $1 million, bringing its fundraising to over \u20ac4 million to date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The company has already recruited former staff members from Ubisoft, Rockstar Games, CD Projekt Red and has previously hired Half-Life 2 creative director and Dishonored developer Viktor Antonov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris-based studio behind the survival MMO Life Beyond has announced the funding from Serena, a European venture capital firm, as well as Lakestar. Darewise was founded in 2015 and specializes in &#8220;social online games,&#8221; with Life Beyond positioned as an MMO that&#8217;s less focused on destruction and more on creativity and a &#8220;positive social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}