Gaming, esports, and interactive media-focused venture capital firm BITKRAFT Ventures announced the recent hiring of Carlos Pereira as principal, Piers Kicks and Faye Maidment as associates, and Sebastian Park as venture partner. BITKRAFT Ventures, which currently operates five venture funds with a total of over $500M USD in assets under management, has more than doubled its headcount in the past year. Carlos Pereira previously […]
BITKRAFT Ventures appoints four individuals to investment team – Esports Insider
Esports venture capital company BITKRAFT Ventures has expanded its investment team with the appointment of four new individuals. Houston Rockets’s former VP of Esports, Sebastian Park, VENN’s Head Of Strategy, Carlos Pereira, Delphi Digital Founding Partner Piers Kicks, and High Tea Co-founder Faye Maidment have all joined the company. RELATED: BITKRAFT Ventures Partners with Delphi […]
Esports Is Proven to Help Students Achieve Better Academic Performance
People of all ages have been falling in love with video games since the 80s. At that time, they were first entering the market. And nowadays they are more attractive than ever. Competitive video game playing is known as Esports, and it is an emerging concept within many schools and colleges. Despite the fact that […]
Challengermode teams up with Opera GX, creates grassroots esports fund – Esports Insider
Swedish esports platform Challengermode has announced a partnership with web browser Opera GX. The partnership will see both parties create a ‘grassroots esports fund’, which aims to accelerate the growth of small emerging esports organisers in the UK, US, and Germany. RELATED: Challengermode announces North American expansion A total of $30,000 (~£21,150) will be distributed […]
Making esports data beautiful — GRID – Esports Insider
To a data company, ‘esports’ is about as useful a category as ‘European’ or ‘African’ is a nationality. Esports titles share some likenesses — they are all digital, chiefly — but they differ enormously, especially from a data analyst’s perspective. It’s like saying tennis is similar to football because both use a round ball; true […]
Sony Reveals First Evo Community Tournaments – The Esports Observer
Sony announced via its PlayStation blog the Evo Community Series, three Evo-branded community tournaments played exclusively on PlayStation 4. The annual fighting game tournament brand was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment and RTS through a joint venture partnership in March. The three competitions will run from June 10 – Aug. 3, will feature a total […]
Apex Legends Global Series Championship Prize Pool Reaches $2.58M – The Esports Observer
Electronic Arts announced Tuesday that the total prize pool for the Apex Legends Global Series Championship is $2.58M USD. EA contributed an initial $1M to the prize pool, with the rest coming from sales of limited edition in-game skins. EA did not disclose precisely how many bundles it sold to reach this number. EA announced […]
Top LATAM and Brazilian esports business developments in May 2021 – Esports Insider
Each month, Esports Insider collates the key esports business stories from Latin America — particularly Brazil — into a single article. Here are the region’s biggest stories from May. Top LATAM esports business developments, May 2021 Brazilian’s Free Fire Independent League NFA announced NFA LATAM, the first international expansion of the brand. The championship will be held […]
Free Fire World Series Breaks Audience Record, Peaks Over 5M Simultaneous Viewers – The Esports Observer
The Free Fire World Series (FFWS) 2021, organized by Garena in Singapore, peaked at 5.4M concurrent viewers worldwide during the first round of its finals on May 30, breaking the all-time record of peak viewers for an esports event (excluding Chinese platforms). Data from Esports Charts also show that the Average Minutes Audience (AMA) rested […]
Team Liquid, Garena Unite to Bring First Free Fire Community Tournament to U.S. – The Esports Observer
Team Liquid, the North American esports organization, along with Garena, the online game developer and publisher, have partnered up to bring the United States the first community Free Fire tournament titled, The Liquid Free Fire Series. This event will be the first time that players and followers of Free Fire in the U.S. will have […]