{"id":5287,"date":"2021-12-26T22:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T05:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2021-12-26T22:12:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T05:12:04","slug":"fintech-outfit-mana-interactive-closes-7m-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/fintech-outfit-mana-interactive-closes-7m-funding-round","title":{"rendered":"Fintech Outfit Mana Interactive Closes $7m Funding Round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mana Interactive revealed that it had secured over $7 million in a seed funding round from several high-profile individual and institutional investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;Mana was developed by creatives who have been part of the gaming industry for decades and wanted to introduce a product that delivers the type of financial experience that reflects who its users are and what they care about,&#8221; said Joe Zhou, CEO of Mana Interactive. &#8220;The video game sector is currently untapped by financial applications companies and with its expansive market share and broad audience brings a major opportunity to offer an all-new service and rewards system that is currently unavailable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Formed in 2021, the Boston-based fintech firm provides mobile gamers with gift cards, coupons, and virtual currency by completing challenges while playing popular games such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/supercell-invests-2-8m-in-2up-games\" title=\"Supercell invests $2.8m in 2UP Games\">Clash Royale<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/riot-games-acquires-kanga-to-develop-digital-fandom-features\" title=\"Riot Games Acquires Kanga To Develop Digital Fandom Features\">League of Legends<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding round was attended by One Way Ventures, Quasar Holding Co., Pillar, BlockDream Ventures, Sundance DiGiovanni, and Sandeep Nailwal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cash will help Mana achieve its objective of establishing a full rewards-based financial ecosystem that provides everything gamers want in one place. In addition, it will cover all current and future gaming platforms, giving a one-stop shop for everything gamers need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Send your news to <a href=\"mailto:news@gamesround.com\">news@gamesround.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mana Interactive revealed that it had secured over $7 million in a seed funding round from several high-profile individual and institutional investors. &#8220;Mana was developed by creatives who have been part of the gaming industry for decades and wanted to introduce a product that delivers the type of financial experience that reflects who its users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[630,435,1178,128,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287"}],"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=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}