Pizza Club Games — the American developer of games founded in San Francisco in 2020 by Daniel Hannikat, Liza Hicks, Todd Gunter and Benjamin Gross who worked in such companies as SEGA, Electronic Arts, NCSoft Glu, Playdom earlier. The game Raid Boss in the genre of hero collection RPG combining management of characters with tactical fights in real time became the first project of studio. By February 9, 2021 the project is in a stage of early access to Google Play.
History
2021: Attraction of $1.5 million from My.Games
On February 9, 2021 it became known of involvement of Pizza Club Games of investments in the amount of $1.5 million from the developer of the games My.Games who is a part of Mail.ru Group. Under the terms of the agreement, the division of My.Games Venture Capital (MGVC) not only will provide money to a startup, but also will provide support in a part of scaling of its business, including marketing, the analysis of metrics and improvement of key indicators of a product and also recruiting of new employees. As a result of the transaction the division purchased a minority share of studio with the option for control, says Mail.ru Group.
It is noted that Pizza Club Games thanks to cooperation with MGVC will be able to increase staff and to get necessary marketing support. By February 9, 2021 the closest plans of studio are a release of the IOS-VERSION of the game Raid Boss and adding of new mechanics.
 | At a certain stage of development of studio before us there was a difficult task — to find the profile investor with deep examination in the industry of mobile games, capable to help us with scaling of the project. On behalf of MGVC we found professionals who well understand not only specifics of a product and the market, but also requirement of studio for the resources necessary for further successful growth — the founder of Pizza Club Games studio Daniel Hunnicutt noted.[1] |  |
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