UK company record
Fnatic
Esports team/organisation
VerifiedCore UK
Snapshot
- UK location
- London · London
- Sector
- Gaming / media / creator
- Latest recorded round
- Strategic/Web3 round (not a traditionally priced VC round)
- Latest recorded amount
- undisclosed
- Date
- 2022-12-01
Legal-identity layer
Verified identity.
- Selected legal name
- FNATIC LTD
- Company number
- 07805670
- Companies House status
- active
- Incorporated
- 2011-10-11
Investors
- unconfirmedLead
- unconfirmedParticipant
- LVL1 Group / Lev Leviev (per Fnatic's own press release) — NOTE: a Beringea-linked trade body (UKBAA) instead credits Beringea as leading this roundLead
- conflicting attribution not resolvedLead
- BlackPineParticipant
- UnboundParticipant
- Raptor GroupParticipant
- Joi ItoParticipant
- BeringeaLead
- UnboundParticipant
- LVL1 GroupParticipant
- JHDParticipant
- key managementParticipant
- Marubeni CorporationLead
- International family officesParticipant
- institutional investorsParticipant
- plus venture debt from BootstrapParticipant
- Hivemind CapitalLead
- GuildFiParticipant
- WW VenturesParticipant
Current directors and active controllers
- MATHEWS, Samuel Michael DavidCurrent director
- MH SECRETARIES LIMITEDCurrent director
- Sannpa LimitedActive controller
- MATHEWS, Annedirector
- OHS SECRETARIES LIMITEDcorporate-secretary
Funding rows
- Seedundisclosed · 2015-11-18
- Series A$19M · 2019-05-01
- Venture round (unlettered — Crunchbase's own structured dataset tags this 'Venture Round', NOT 'Series B', despite some secondary press using that label; see notes)$10M · 2020-11-11
- Series B (Crunchbase's canonical tag for this round)$17M · 2021-05-25
- Strategic/Web3 round (not a traditionally priced VC round)undisclosed · 2022-12-01
Sources
- Referenced only in Crunchbase/Tracxn aggregator data — round's existence noted but amount/investors could not be independently verified from a primary source
- low confidence.
- https://fnatic.com/news/fnatic-secures-19m-in-series-a-funding
- https://www.ukbaa.org.uk/beringea-lead-a-19m-series-a-investment-in-fnatic-a-powerhouse-of-the-global-e-sports-industry/
- https://globalventuring.com/corporate/fnatic-cheers-19m-series-a-investment/
- https://fnatic.com/news/fnatic-raises-10-million-and-launches-crowdfunding-to-accelerate-high-performance-esports
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestubbs/2020/11/11/esports-team-fnatic-secures-10-million-in-investment-and-opens-up-crowdfunding/
- https://www.uktech.news/news/london-based-fnatic-bags-7-5m-launches-crowdfunding-to-spurt-further-growth-20201111
- https://tech.eu/2020/11/11/fnatic-funding/
- https://fnatic.com/news/announcing-a-17m-fundraise-round-led-by-marubeni
- https://esportsinsider.com/2021/05/fnatic-17m-funding-marubeni
- https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/fnatic-raises-17m-in-funding-round-led-by-marubeni/
- https://www.beringea.com/news/in-the-news/fnatic-secures-usd17m-led-by-marubeni-to-drive-further-global-growth
- https://esportsinsider.com/2022/11/fnatic-investment-and-partnership-hivemind-capital
- https://esports-news.co.uk/2022/12/01/fnatic-hivemind-capital-web3/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fnatic-announces-strategic-partnership-with-hivemind-capital-to-further-web3-ambitions-301691465.html
- low confidence.
- https://www.ukbaa.org.uk/beringea-lead-a-19m-series-a-investment-in-fnatic-a-powerhouse-of-the-global-e-sports-industry/
- https://globalventuring.com/corporate/fnatic-cheers-19m-series-a-investment/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestubbs/2020/11/11/esports-team-fnatic-secures-10-million-in-investment-and-opens-up-crowdfunding/
- https://www.uktech.news/news/london-based-fnatic-bags-7-5m-launches-crowdfunding-to-spurt-further-growth-20201111
- https://tech.eu/2020/11/11/fnatic-funding/
- https://esportsinsider.com/2021/05/fnatic-17m-funding-marubeni
- https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/fnatic-raises-17m-in-funding-round-led-by-marubeni/
- https://www.beringea.com/news/in-the-news/fnatic-secures-usd17m-led-by-marubeni-to-drive-further-global-growth
- https://esports-news.co.uk/2022/12/01/fnatic-hivemind-capital-web3/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fnatic-announces-strategic-partnership-with-hivemind-capital-to-further-web3-ambitions-301691465.html