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Victoria-based Battlesnake Raises $1.5 Million to Build eSports for Developers
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Vancouver, BC, September 21, 2021--(T-Net)--Battlesnake announced today $1.5 million in funding to build gaming and eSports for developers.
The $1.5M financing round was led by Madrona Venture Group, a firm that has supported tech in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years, and also included Liquid 2, Ascend, members of 200 OK, and many veteran angel investors in the developer and gaming space.
The company began working on Battlesnake in 2019 full-time, launching play.battlesnake.com, an "always-on" version of Battlesnake that could be played by any developer, anywhere, at any time. In 2020, the company launched the Global Battlesnake Arena and their Seasonal Competitive Leagues.
Since then over 10,000 developers have played 10 million games of Battlesnake, both in person and online. Beyond that, more than 50,000 friends, kids, parents, and colleagues have watched public competitions.
Elite Division Finals, Summer League 2021
The company says its mission is "We believe programming should be fun for everyone, and that even the most experienced programmers deserve a platform for self-directed learning and exploration that is entertaining, playful, and naturally collaborative", and that it will now have an opportunity to bring Battlesnake to hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide.
About Battlesnake
We created Battlesnake as a way to have fun programming with friends, learn new skills and technologies, and build the communities around us. We firmly believe that encouraging more people to experience and enjoy programming at all levels will make the world a better place.
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Battlesnake is a multi-player programming game played by developers all over the world. All you need to play is a live web server that implements the Battlesnake API.