Dorian, a San Francisco, CA-based women-first game platform for creators, streamers and players, raised $14M in Series A funding.
The round was led by The Raine Group, with participation from March Gaming, London Venture Partners, VGames, Gaingels and Graham & Walker. After this round, The Raine Group’s Partner, Todd Rosoff, will join Dorian’s Board of Directors and Vice President Kenny Lee will become a Board Observer.
The funding will be used to expand its cloud-based creation tools and livestreaming support to ensure that making, sharing and collaborating on Dorian is accessible for creators working together remotely.
Led by native Ukrainian founder Julia Palatovska, Dorian is a game platform which already has more than 3,500 interactive games produced by a nearly all-female creator community. The platform gives authors control over monetization and facilitates collaboration with other creators. The company recently announced a new feature that allows authors of the games to determine and collect a revenue share when their games are streamed by someone else on the platform. Next, Dorian will launch an art marketplace, and enable artists to collect royalties from the games using their art.
To expand the platform further, Dorian is signing partnerships with owners of established IP to broaden the diversity of content on the platform while allowing IP partners to enter the massive market for fan fiction. Recently, the company partnered with Lionsgate to launch The Blair Witch franchise on Dorian, enabling fans to build their own interactive games based on the bestselling IP. In the near future, the team will reveal partnerships with other entertainment brands, artists and creators to enable fans to produce games based on their favorite IPs and grow their audiences through these collaborations.
FinSMEs
17/03/2022