{"id":925,"date":"2019-11-29T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2019-12-14T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T15:39:35","slug":"astralis-group-will-do-the-first-ever-ipo-for-an-esports-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/astralis-group-will-do-the-first-ever-ipo-for-an-esports-team","title":{"rendered":"Astralis Group will do the first ever IPO for an esports team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Astralis, a Danish&nbsp;esports organization owned by players of the former Danish&nbsp;Team SoloMid\/Questionmark lineup, seeks as much as \u20ac20 million from December 9 listing, on Nasdaq First North Growth Market.&nbsp;The rights to the Astralis  name were obtained from the original founders of the Finnish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Australis CEO Nikolaj Nyholm, Astralis has already secured $8M in pre-commitments from European and Asian investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> &#8220;We believe that the foundation of some of the most valuable and iconic brands in ten years&#8217; time is being set today&#8221;. <\/p><p> &#8220;We are pioneers already standing on solid ground&#8230; And through this IPO we seek to strengthen the foundation to invest further in the development of the world&#8217;s strongest esports team brands within competitive, digital live entertainment.&#8221; <\/p><cite>  Nikolaj Nyholm Astralis CEO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Astralis is well-known trhough Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and it claims to be &#8220;the best performing team of all time&#8221; in this esport, moving to the League of Legends with its Origen team and, most recently, EA Sports&#8217; FIFA with Future FC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astralis, a Danish&nbsp;esports organization owned by players of the former Danish&nbsp;Team SoloMid\/Questionmark lineup, seeks as much as \u20ac20 million from December 9 listing, on Nasdaq First North Growth Market.&nbsp;The rights to the Astralis name were obtained from the original founders of the Finnish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. According to Australis CEO Nikolaj Nyholm, Astralis has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[160,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}