{"id":2062,"date":"2020-09-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2020-09-20T08:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T15:34:25","slug":"bunch-closes-20m-series-a-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/bunch-closes-20m-series-a-funding-round","title":{"rendered":"Bunch Closes $20M Series A Funding Round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The company will use the funding to grow its user base and accelerate integrations with popular multiplayer games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> Multiplayer games are the new social networks. And in these trying times  where we are isolated from each other, games are how people are  choosing to spend time with friends.<\/p><cite> Sel\u00e7uk Atl\u0131, Bunch CEO <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Bunch &#8211; is a NYC-based party app for multiplayer games, co-founded by Selcuk Atli, Jason Liang, and Jordan Howlett. It allows players to connect over video chat and play multiplayer titles together and includes a feature for developers to integrate the platform directly into their games. Now the start-up announces it raises  $20m in Series A funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Electronic  Arts, Krafton (PUBG), mixi, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.,  Ubisoft, Supercell, Riot Games, Miniclip and COLOPL, as well as LVP,  Northzone, Streamlined Ventures, Konvoy Ventures, OneTeam Ventures, Velo  Partners, Golden Venture Partners and Alven Capital Partners. General Catalyst&#8217;s Niko Bonatsos will join the board of directors at Bunch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, Bunch raised $3.8 million back in 2018, and another $3.85 million in November of 2019. Since March, the app has seen its growth over 50 times in monthly active users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company will use the funding to grow its user base and accelerate integrations with popular multiplayer games. Multiplayer games are the new social networks. And in these trying times where we are isolated from each other, games are how people are choosing to spend time with friends. Sel\u00e7uk Atl\u0131, Bunch CEO Bunch &#8211; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2064,"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\/2062"}],"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=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}