{"id":2556,"date":"2020-11-19T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2020-11-19T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:53:34","slug":"lila-games-raises-2-8m-in-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/lila-games-raises-2-8m-in-seed-funding","title":{"rendered":"Lila Games raises $2.8m in seed funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The funding will be used to open an office in Bangalore and hire more staff across all disciplines, including game design, art, development and product management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India-based mobile game studio Lila Games was founded by: Joseph Kim, a former chief product officer at Sega; alongside former FunPlus lead game designer Paul Leydon, and Y Combinator alum Avinash Pandey. The company is creating a free-to-play mobile shooters and currently working on a mobile free-to-play shooter game codenamed <em>Project B.L.A.C.K.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now an India-based mobile developer announces it has secured $2.8 million during its seed financing round led by Bitkraft Ventures with participation from Galaxy Interactive and game industry angel investors including Mike Sherrill, cofounder of Machine Zone; Kristian Segerstrale, the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp; and Ludovic Bodin, a former CEO of early mobile shooter maker Cmune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funding will be used to open an office in Bangalore and hire more staff across all disciplines, including game design, art, development and product management. India-based mobile game studio Lila Games was founded by: Joseph Kim, a former chief product officer at Sega; alongside former FunPlus lead game designer Paul Leydon, and Y Combinator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2557,"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\/2556"}],"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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}