{"id":3008,"date":"2021-03-02T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2021-10-24T05:21:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T12:21:01","slug":"bebopbee-secures-2-million-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/bebopbee-secures-2-million-in-funding","title":{"rendered":"BebopBee Secures $2 Million In Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On February 24, Menlo Park, California-based BebopBee has revealed that it landed $2 million in a funding round to further its aim of developing the &#8220;next generation of match-3 puzzle games&#8221;. The studio is behind the mobile game, &#8216;What a Wonderful World.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BebopBee said it will use the investment to acquire more users to its game and improve its live ops. The funding round was participated by several VCs, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/pocket-worlds-raises-7m-in-funding-for-games-development\" title=\"Pocket Worlds Raises $7M in Funding For Games Development\">Bitkraft Ventures<\/a>, IGG Inc., 1Up Ventures, as well as Lei Ding, and Rohit Singal, founders of Dfinity and Machine.ai, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Scott Rupp, a founding partner of Bitkraft Ventures, showed confidence in BebopBee&#8217;s future ambitions. &#8220;BebopBee has perfected the art of creating immersive, emotive, and highly-shareable experiences with their What a Wonderful World mobile game, with players engaged for almost an hour a day,&#8221; said Scott Rupp. &#8220;We believe the team has created a game that has top-10 grossing potential with truly innovative marketability options.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8216;What a Wonderful World&#8217; is a match-three puzzle game, where the backdrops are from great major cities of the world such as New York, Tokyo, and Moscow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to BebopBee&#8217;s CEO, Rajeev Nagpal, &#8216;What A Wonderful World&#8217; is a fun game that brings people together and discovers the world around us. The game focuses on the joys of traveling and is unique and different from other match-3 puzzle games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BebopBee hopes to feature more new tourist destinations and residents of the cities. Furthermore, the studio is planning to collaborate with content creators and influencers to add more user-generated content to its gameplay as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 24, Menlo Park, California-based BebopBee has revealed that it landed $2 million in a funding round to further its aim of developing the &#8220;next generation of match-3 puzzle games&#8221;. The studio is behind the mobile game, &#8216;What a Wonderful World.&#8217; BebopBee said it will use the investment to acquire more users to its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[484,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}