Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Nigel Eccles and Rob Jones, two of the founders of Scottish tech 'unicorn' FanDuel have raised $4 million in funding for their new esports venture, Flick, which is expected to launch in the near future. The funding has been secured from exclusively US-based institutional investors. Mobile Screen Sharing Details of the new company's technology are …
The global eSports market was worth $696 million in 2017 and is forecast to break $1.5 billion by 2020.
Edinburgh's FanDuel, the fantasy sports betting company has raised $11M of investment from a variety of venture capital funds including Scotland's Pentech and Comcast Ventures, the VC affiliate of Comcast Corporation). Other participants were existing investors , including Piton Capital, Bullpen Capital and Richard Koch. The company plans to use the new funding to increase …