StartPlaying Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding

StartPlaying

StartPlaying, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an online platform to find tabletop role-playing games, raised $6.5M in Seed funding.

The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz.

The company intends to use the funds to scale marketing to reach new players, broaden its network of industry partnerships, and hire talent.

Led by CEO Nate Tucker, StartPlaying is an online platform for players to find tabletop role-playing games and Game Masters for any game system. Players can find games that suit their schedule, fit their preferences, and inspire their play style, and Game Masters can monetize their craft by selling seats to sessions of their own ideation.

Since it was founded in September 2020, StartPlaying has seen over 100,000 games hosted by more than 1,000 professional Game Masters on the platform to earn $2.5M and counting.

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16/05/2022