$3 Million Seed Funding Comes To Strafe From BITKRAFT Esports Ventures

Strafe announced raising $3 million in seed funding, led by BITKRAFT Esports Ventures. As one of the world’s leading companion app for esports fans, Strafe enables s to completely customize their in-app experience based on personal preferences.

The gathered funding, Strafe will use to focus on additional acquisition, as well to expand its development team in order to enhance product features and scale its platform to reach more esports fans.

This easily accessible central hub for esports enthusiasts allows s to:

• Stay up-to-date with their favorite teams and players through real-time updates
• View the widest tournament coverage while on the go
• Compete against other s in a social betting game
• Access deep statistics before, during and after matches

Einar Ahlström, CEO and Co-Founder of Strafe commented:

“We are extremely excited to welcome BITKRAFT Esports Ventures as an investor in Strafe.

BITKRAFT is the leading esports VC in the world and they bring much more than just capital to the table. They are deeply connected with all main entities within the esports community and will help propel our business as we execute on our game plan going forward.”

One of the World’s Biggest Esports Databases

Strafe has one of the most extensive esports databases in the world with live coverage of:

• 58,000 matches
• 12,000 professional players
• 2,600 teams
• Eight different esports titles
• s across 150 countries

The app aggregates and curates esports news and data…

… giving s the ability to customize the app according to their personal interests.

It also uses its own ranking system which enables odds setting for every esports match covered.

Strafe has also developed authentic entertaining social betting game…

… where s vote on the outcome of games, gain points, climb the leaderboards and compete with other fans.

“Strafe is unlike any app currently on the esports market with extremely high retention and organic growth and an impressive executive team including Marcus Jacobs, the former director of King’s popular mobile game Candy Crush, who is working to tap into the vast potential of social betting in esports.

We are excited to back an incredible entrepreneurial team from the developing esports and gaming ecosystem in the Nordics that provides more structure to the esports competitive landscape and additional entertainment value to the esports community,” commented BITKRAFT Founding Partner, Malte Barth about its coalition with Strafe.

Source:

“Strafe closes a $3 million seed round led by BITKRAFT Esports Ventures”, europeangaming.eu, July 25, 2019.