Gamerji, an Ahmedabad-based eSports tournament company where users can play tournaments of their favorite games, host matches, communicate, share content & win prizes, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Lead Angels Network. The funding is a part of the ongoing seed funding round.
Most recently, Unicorn Ventures invested an undisclosed sum in the startup as part of the same round. In 2020, the company raised $400,000 from Gujarati firm, La Gajjar Group, as part of a “friends and family round”.
“With online gaming coming of age in India and 190 million gamers in India, we see a tremendous opportunity ahead as the company scales up its reach,” Sushanto Mitra, CEO of Lead Angels Network, in a statement.
Founded in 2019 by Soham Thacker, Gamerji is an eSports tournament platform that conducts daily matches for multiple games, including Clash Royale, Call of Duty and Free Fire. The platform also works with private organisers, influencers and hosts its own tournaments.
“Small organisers can choose our standardised packages to host tournaments, while with larger influencers, we work on a revenue share basis,” Thacker said. The platform also has a subscriber base that can play any of the free ongoing tournaments, he said.
“There is very little knowledge for amateur and semi-professional gamers in India to grow. This is how the idea of conducting daily tournaments came into focus, for people who might want to participate in small money games,” he said.
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