{"id":833,"date":"2019-11-20T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:15:02","slug":"mythical-games-closes-19m-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/mythical-games-closes-19m-funding-round","title":{"rendered":"Mythical Games closes $19m funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Game technology outfit <strong>Mythical Games<\/strong> has closed a funding round worth $19 million, bringing total funding to $35 million to date. <br>    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em> &#8220;Since investing in Mythical&#8217;s Series A round last year, we have been incredibly impressed by the team&#8217;s execution on the build out of Blankos Block Party and the Mythical Platform.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><cite>                                                                                       Alex Gurevich of Javelin Venture Partners.     <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> The round was led by <strong>Javelin Venture Partners<\/strong>, joined by new and existing investors <strong>Avon Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Hashed, Galaxy Digital and Struck Capital. <\/strong><br>    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Founded by <strong>Activision Blizzard<\/strong> veterans in 2018, <strong>Mythical Games <\/strong>specializes in digital ecosystems around player-owned economies; it&#8217;s flagship software<strong> Blankos Block Party<\/strong> is a game creator and <strong>MMO<\/strong>. Along with the investment, <strong>Mythical <\/strong>has made four major hires to its leadership team with <strong>Jeff Poffenbarger, Pete Hawley, Nicole Yang, and Greg Deutsch. <\/strong><br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Poffenbarger <\/strong>joins as COO from his previous position of studio head at <strong>Oculus VR; former Telltale Games CEO Hawley<\/strong> joins as CPO; Yang joins as vice president of marketing, coming over from her role as vice president of marketing at <strong>Telltale Games<\/strong>; and Deutsch joins as <strong>Mythical&#8217;s <\/strong>general counsel, from his previous position of general counsel and senior vice president of business and legal affairs at <strong>Activision<\/strong>. <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Additionally, <strong>Mythical <\/strong>has appointed to its board of directors London <strong>Venture Partners&#8217; Alex Gurevich<\/strong>, and independent board member <strong>Rehito Hatoyama<\/strong>, formerly global <strong>COO of Sanrio, Hello Kitty. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game technology outfit Mythical Games has closed a funding round worth $19 million, bringing total funding to $35 million to date. &#8220;Since investing in Mythical&#8217;s Series A round last year, we have been incredibly impressed by the team&#8217;s execution on the build out of Blankos Block Party and the Mythical Platform.&#8221; Alex Gurevich of Javelin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[137,134,133,136,135,131,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}