GameOn raises $2M

What does GameOn do?
GameOn, is a mobile engagement platform for sports fans. With this users can chat with their friends and enjoy real time scores, news and highlights. The company creates a single screen mobile sports experience for fans, combining chat with video highlights and live updates. The company delivers a direct channel for content providers, former and current professionals athletes to share the game with their audiences. The company’s first founders developed the platform for meeting the need for a single media destination for fans for connecting with what is happening in sports with scores, news, highlights, athelete interaction and chat. In this version, new users can choose instantly from many different huddles, internal groups where friends can get together in following sporting events in real time while the app brings up new content with video highlights. The landing experience has been redesigned for surrounding returning users favorite huddles with recommendations based on trends, real time events and app activity. Other new features in the app are a search and create systems and more user friendly interface.
How much GameOn was funded?
The company raised $2M on July 14, 2016 from DeBartolo family, Snoop HYPERLINK “https://www.crunchbase.com/person/snoop-dogg”Dogg, Gary Payton, Next News Ventures, Quest Venture Partners, Joe Montana and XG Ventures.
Previous funding
$1.5M on August 6, 2015 from Quest Venture Partners, Skystar Ventures, XG Ventures, Dwayne Bravo, Wei Hopeman, Liquid 2 and Joe Montana.
Undisclosed amount on January 16, 2016 from Snoop Dogg
What is next for GameOn?
GameOn plans to soon introduce features huddles which can be run by sponsors, creating even more opportunities for advertisers. The company has expanded the range of followable topics for being inclusive of content partners and publishers which brings an huge scope of content, like offseason commentary and lifestyle, all which can be discovered in the context of the messaging platform. The company plans to use the latest funding raised for developing its platform and expanding its team.
More about GameOn
GameOn was founded on February 1, 2014 by Kalin Stanojev and Alex Beckman. It has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.