Players' Lounge

Players’ Lounge is a real money gaming platform built for popular video games. Gamers can wager on their own performance or stake others.

GamingConsumer and socialMedia and contentY Combinator

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Players' Lounge | 2175 days from website to first raise on record

@_playerslounge·Raised $14M in 2 sourced rounds·2 signals before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

1. September 14, 2022
   Series A · $10.5M
   GGriffin Gaming Partners (lead), BBreanna Stewart, CComcast Ventures, JJosh Norman, MMyles Garrett, SSamsung Next, SSharp Alpha, TTrue Capital, VVice Ventures, WWndrCo
   Source: news.yahoo.com
2. March 28, 2019
   Seed · $3M
   AAubrey Graham (Drake) (lead), CCanaan Partners, CChetrit Ventures, CComcast, CCourtside Ventures, MMacroVentures, MMarissa Mayer, RRRE Ventures, SSinai Capital Partners, SStrauss Zelnick
   Source: gamesindustry.biz
3. Winter 2018
   YY Combinator · batch
   Source: ycombinator.com
4. October 22, 2014
   X account created
5. April 13, 2013
   Website created

Founders and team

• AW
  Austin Woolridge Co-Founder / CEO

  LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• DD
  Dan Delaney Co-Founder

  LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• MM
  Mark Murphy Founder
• ZD
  Zach Dixon Co-Founder

  LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• DL
  Duncan Lewis CTO

Investors

• AAubrey Graham (Drake)lead investor
• BBreanna Stewart
• CCanaan Partners
• CChetrit Ventures
• CComcast
• CComcast Ventures
• CCourtside Ventures
• GGriffin Gaming Partnerslead investor
• JJosh Norman
• MMacroVentures
• MMarissa Mayer
• MMyles Garrett
• RRRE Ventures
• SSamsung Next
• SSharp Alpha
• SSinai Capital Partners
• SStrauss Zelnick
• TTrue Capital
• TTrue Capital Management
• VVice Ventures
• WWndrCo
• YY Combinatoraccelerator

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