{"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

Game technology outfit Mythical Games<\/strong> has closed a funding round worth $19 million, bringing total funding to $35 million to date.
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“Since investing in Mythical’s Series A round last year, we have been incredibly impressed by the team’s execution on the build out of Blankos Block Party and the Mythical Platform.”<\/em><\/p> Alex Gurevich of Javelin Venture Partners. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners<\/strong>, joined by new and existing investors Avon Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Hashed, Galaxy Digital and Struck Capital. <\/strong>
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Founded by Activision Blizzard<\/strong> veterans in 2018, Mythical Games <\/strong>specializes in digital ecosystems around player-owned economies; it’s flagship software Blankos Block Party<\/strong> is a game creator and MMO<\/strong>. Along with the investment, Mythical <\/strong>has made four major hires to its leadership team with Jeff Poffenbarger, Pete Hawley, Nicole Yang, and Greg Deutsch. <\/strong>
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Poffenbarger <\/strong>joins as COO from his previous position of studio head at 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 Telltale Games<\/strong>; and Deutsch joins as Mythical’s <\/strong>general counsel, from his previous position of general counsel and senior vice president of business and legal affairs at Activision<\/strong>.
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Additionally, Mythical <\/strong>has appointed to its board of directors London Venture Partners’ Alex Gurevich<\/strong>, and independent board member Rehito Hatoyama<\/strong>, formerly global COO of Sanrio, Hello Kitty. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Game technology outfit Mythical Games has closed a funding round worth $19 million, bringing total funding to $35 million to date. “Since investing in Mythical’s Series A round last year, we have been incredibly impressed by the team’s execution on the build out of Blankos Block Party and the Mythical Platform.” Alex Gurevich of Javelin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[137,134,133,136,135,131,132],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-activision-blizzard","tag-alumni-ventures","tag-avon-ventures","tag-galaxy-digital-and-struck-capital","tag-hashed","tag-mythical","tag-mythical-games"],"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