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Voldex introduced immediately 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 Series A spherical, with earlier buyers Dune Ventures, Makers Fund and POW Interactive additionally taking part. The spherical additionally attracted new funding from Lalotte Ventures. In addition, a16z’s common accomplice Andrew Chen joined the Voldex board of administrators.
The studio presently holds high honors with a few of Roblox’s hottest user-generated content material. These embody Driving Empire, ZO Samurai, Base Battles, Encounters and Cursed Islands. Voldex additionally operates the Minecraft server OneBlockMC. According to Voldex, its video games have over 1 million day by day lively customers.
Alexandre Singer, Voldex’s CEO, stated in a press release, “The funding will allow us to continue to build out our team. In addition, the funding will support our existing games and allow us to acquire impressive UGC games from today’s best and brightest game creators, helping to unlock each one’s potential by developing awesome new features and updates that are organic to the IP.”
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