With $100M in financing, Playco is already a mobile gaming unicorn

by RJ Shara | Sep 21, 2020 | Fundings and Exit, Startups

Playco is a new mobile gaming start-up created by Video game Closure co-founder Michael Carter and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron, along with video game manufacturers Takeshi Otsuka and Teddy Cross. The Tokyo-headquartered company is just revealing its existence today, it’s currently a unicorn– it states it’s raised $100 million in Series A financing, at [ …] Carter (Playco’s CEO) stated the startup will be exposing its very first games later this year.”We’re going to bring that back,” Carter said– with Playco’s titles, sharing and playing a mobile game with your good friend ought to be as basic as texting or calling them.”If you think about FarmVille, there were no farm video games being marketed being in local console video games shop,” Waldron said.”Eventually, as we construct up the portfolio, we think about what makes the video game accessible to anybody on the planet, any ethnicity, any language,” he said. …