{"id":557,"date":"2019-10-21T23:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2019-10-21T23:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:17:52","slug":"alven-invests-in-madbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/alven-invests-in-madbox","title":{"rendered":"Alven invests $16.5 million in MadBox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The French game studio MadBox<\/strong><\/em> has raised $16.5 million for improving the work process. The company is developing mobile games from creating to publishing and distribution. MadBox<\/em> has been founded in July 2018 as a startup of two Paris-based game studios. It currently counts around 35 employees and several games, including Dash Valley, Zoo Tycoon, Stickman Hook, Sausage Flip<\/em>, and others, with a total number of 100 million downloads.

The funding was led by Alven<\/em><\/strong> – a European independent venture investment firm with a successful track record of backing more than 100 startups over 20 years (Crunchbase<\/a>).
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\u201cWe are a generation of friends who have worked for well-known casual game studios. And we all think that big game productions will have to become simpler so that people can play them like casual games \u2014 and vice versa<\/em>.\u201d <\/p> MadBox co-founder and CEO Jean-Nicolas Vernin <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


The company is very meticulous in terms of hiring and production, but with new financial help, MadBox<\/em> plans to open a second office in Barcelona. Also, the team sees the good opportunity in experimenting with new other game genres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The French game studio MadBox has raised $16.5 million for improving the work process. The company is developing mobile games from creating to publishing and distribution. MadBox has been founded in July 2018 as a startup of two Paris-based game studios. It currently counts around 35 employees and several games, including Dash Valley, Zoo Tycoon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,16,19,17],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alven","tag-funding","tag-mobile","tag-round"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t