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Gaming Website Investment Opportunity in Kerala, India

Gaming firm with an Epic MegaGrant seeking finance to expand its women targeted games.
This Business is on a Premium Plan
Established 5-10 year(s)
Employees 10 - 50
Legal Entity Private Limited Company
Reported Sales USD 17.3 thousand
Run Rate Sales USD 17.3 thousand
EBITDA Margin Operating at loss
Industries Gaming Websites
Locations  Kerala
Local Time 5:45 AM Asia / Kolkata
Listed By Advisor / Business Broker
Status Active
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Partial Stake Sale
USD 290 thousand for 18.0% stake (Native Currency: INR 25,000,000)
Reason: To build a female-focused gaming platform and become the market leader in the puzzle segment in the ... View More
Includes physical assets worth USD 18.4 thousand
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Business Overview
Gaming startup in Kerala started operations 7 years ago.
★ One of the games grabbed over $176,000 in organic net revenue till date.
★ The game got over 15 international awards (from Game Connection America, Indigo Europe, Casual Connect Asia), over 5 national awards, and over 5 state awards.
★ Selected for Google's PlayPass game club subscription library. Expects min $500,000 in the coming year.
Will be a cash cow for decades. Potential opportunity to cut into similar premium club libraries like Apple Arcade, and PC Gaming Pass.
★ Received Best Gaming Start-up award at World Leadership Summit.
★ Core members with decades of expertise in over 100mn downloaded games like Mystery Case File (MCF) game series.
★ Team working on game's sequel for which business got Epic Mega grant $15,000. (Epic is the developer of the Unreal game engine)
★ Epic Games further introduced us to their investor Sony.
★ Sony, as part of their India Hero Project provides a $1-$3mn debt fund for partner Indie IP studios - for developing IP games exclusively for its PlayStation console. We are working on Sophia's Adventures game demo for Sony these days.
★ The game is to be launched officially by Sony on PlayStation5 in the next 2 years.
★ Valuation will grow from current $2.5mn to minimal $10mn afterwards. Planning Series A raises at 4x valuations further.
★ Targets to be the world's leading storyteller IP game studio, minimal $20 MN revenue, 25x scale in the next 5 years.
★ Targets Episodic Cult IP game series such as Tomb Raider (Sold over 95mn copies/Grossed over $1.2bn revenue) and Life is Strange (Sold over 7.5mn copies/grossed over $144mn revenue)
Products & Services Overview
1. A game launched and 3 in pre-production.
2. New game which is a potential cash cow expects min $500k in a year post PlayPass launch and further potential to cut into Apple Arcade, PC Gaming pass - Net Asset value over $2mn - $5mn.
3. Adventures IP - Sony IP funding up to ~$3mn.
Competitor episodic game series had over $150mn - $1.2 bn gross revenue.
4. 6 other blockbuster IP games in the pipeline.
Assets Overview
1. Computer Core i5.
2. Computer i7 machine.
3. Graphic Tablets - Intuos PTH-651.
4. Graphic Tablets - Wacom CTL 671.
5. Epson EcoTank L3150 Printer cum Scanner.
6. Macbook Pro 13"
7. Samsung Galaxy Tab A.
8. Google Plixel 4 XL.
9. iPad Tablet 5.
Facilities Overview
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Capitalization Overview
Raised an INR 1.91 Cr round recently to develop the sequel as well as for operations. We will break even this financial year.
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