Glip raises $3M pre-series A, onboards 1M gamers in 3 months

  • | Monday | 11th April, 2022

BENGALURU, India, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glip, a creator tool suite for gamers to create and monetise, has raised $3 million in its pre-series A round led by Prime Venture Partners. The round also saw the participation of existing backers Better Capital and iSeed. Prominent angels include Paavan Nanda (WinZO), Nilay Arora (Tencent), Suhail Sameer (BharatPe), Ravish Naresh (Khatabook), Vivek Hallekere (Bounce), Kumar Aakash (Matrix) and Misbah Ashraf (Jar), among others. Gaming content economy is one of the fastest growing digital media categories with 100B watch hours on YouTube Gaming and 40M active YouTube Gaming channels in 2020 (Source: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-gaming-2020/) Founded in 2020 by Parth Choudhary and Ishan Shrivastava, Glip has built 3 tools for content creation - recording, streaming, montage editing, and is now experimenting with monetisation tools - live NFT auction, stream modifiers. Glip"s monetisation stack is being built using cutting-edge web3 tech. "Our focus is on making gamers earn on top of existing distribution platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Facebook," said Parth Choudhary, Co-founder and CEO of Glip. The capital from the current round has already helped Glip"s monthly active users grow 400X to 2 million users in 3 months. "We are setting the groundwork to onboard 10 million gamers by the end of the year," said Ishan Shrivastava, Co-founder of Glip. With Twitch taking a 50% platform cut and YouTube Live taking 30%, alternate monetisation opportunities generate immense interest from creators. "It"s [Glip] the best way to support me!", said Luvstruck, an LA-based streamer. The company currently has a strong foot in the door in India, Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, Eastern Europe and has begun entry in the USA market. Gaming companies in India and the world have seen record funding and acquisitions in the past year with Microsoft leading the board with its Activision Blizzard acquisition for $68.7 billion in cash. Media kit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10bjikmm7cqNWnYKcsI7C1Fgs0h2xShWY Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=glip.gg Website: https://glip.gg About Glip: Glip is a Creator Economy tool suite for gamers to publish and monetise on existing social media and content platforms. It was founded in 2020 by the co-founder duo of Parth Choudhary, CEO (Spinny Product Head, Zo Rooms CTO, Adobe Software Engineer) and Ishan Shrivastava (IIT Bombay, ex-Housing.com, P&G). Backed by Prime Venture Partners, Better Capital and iSeed, Glip is building cutting-edge infrastructure to make gaming creators successful. Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1783412/Glip.jpg PWR PWR


If You Like This Story, Support NYOOOZ

NYOOOZ SUPPORTER

NYOOOZ FRIEND

Your support to NYOOOZ will help us to continue create and publish news for and from smaller cities, which also need equal voice as much as citizens living in bigger cities have through mainstream media organizations.


Stay updated with all the Bangalore Latest News headlines here. For more exclusive & live news updates from all around India, stay connected with NYOOOZ.

Related Articles