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Voldex introduced right this moment that it’s holding a brand new spherical of funding. The developer, which creates content material for Minecraft and Roblox, plans to make use of the cash to work on new video games and help their present ones.
Andreesen Horowitz (a16z) led the brand new Collection A spherical, with earlier buyers Dune Ventures, Makers Fund and POW Interactive additionally collaborating. The spherical additionally attracted new funding from Lalotte Ventures. As well as, a16z’s normal accomplice Andrew Chen joined the Voldex board of administrators.
The studio at the moment holds prime honors with a few of Roblox’s hottest user-generated content material. These embrace Driving Empire, ZO Samurai, Base Battles, Encounters and Cursed Islands. Voldex additionally operates the Minecraft server OneBlockMC. In line with Voldex, its video games have over 1 million day by day lively customers.
Alexandre Singer, Voldex’s CEO, mentioned in an announcement, “The funding will enable us to proceed to construct out our crew. As well as, the funding will help our present video games and permit us to accumulate spectacular UGC video games from right this moment’s greatest and brightest sport creators, serving to to unlock each’s potential by creating superior new options and updates which are natural to the IP.”
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