Ubisoft, Take-Two Back Ethereum NFT Game Maker Horizon in $40M Round
Sa madaling sabi Horizon, the Web3 startup behind NFT game Skyweaver, just raised a $40 million Series A funding round. Video game publishers Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive are among the notable backers. Major video game publishers Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive are digging deeper into the Mga NFT gaming space with todays anouncement of a $40 million Series A round raised by Horizon, the developer behind NFT-driven competitive card game, Skyweaver. The two firms are among those that participated in the funding round, which was led by Brevan Howard Digital and Morgan Creek Digital. Other backers include poligon, gaming-centric VC firm Bitkraft, metaverse investor Everyrealm, payments firm Xsolla, and Initialized Capital. Horizon also attracted some notable individual investors with the round, including Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Lolli co-founder and CEO Alex Adelman, and a pair of co-creators from notable NFT games: Ang Sandbox co-founder and COO Sebastien Borget and Walang Hanggan sa Axie co-founder and Sky Mavis COO Aleksander Larsen. Skyweaver is a digital trading card game akin to Blizzards popular Hearthstone, albeit with the cards represented as Ethereum NFT assets that can be sold and traded—similar to rival NFT game Mga Diyos na Hindi Mawawala. An NFT is a blockchain tokenthat represents ownership in a unique