SUBOTRON/WKW pro games: Financing Options for Emerging European Games Businesses

Location: Raum D / quartier21
Admission free

Shum Singh
Managing Director & Founder agnitio capital, London

Given the incredible growth of the mobile gaming industry as well as success of European based mobile gaming studios such as Supercell, King, and Rovio a wide range of investors are actively pursuing and conducting investments in the games industry. However, the key attributes or criteria these investors are looking for continue to rise and become increasingly difficult to acquire. This presentation will focus various funding sources from crowd funding to angel investor groups, strategic investment from global publishers to traditional venture capital firms.

Mag. Martin Watzka, CIIA
Initiator and founder dasErtragReich

Moderation: Robert Glashüttner (ORF/FM4)
 

Short Biographies:
Shum Singh founded agnitio capital in 2003 and is an investor and non executive director of SocialSpiel Entertainment GmbH, Fragment Productions Oy and Ocean View Games Oy. Shum is incredibly passionate about the games industry and has spoken at various games conferences including Mobile Games Forum, Casual Connect Europe, Develop UK, Nordic Game Conference, Pocket Gamer (Helsinki) and G-Star in Busan, Korea. Shum is also an early stage investor in Hutch Games Limited. Prior to establishing agnitio capital, Shum was employed in the venture capital division of Durlacher plc, where he was responsible for sourcing and managing Durlacher’s mobile entertainment and consumer internet investments. Prior to Durlacher, Shum worked for the Investment Banking division of CIBC Oppenheimer in New York in the Technology group where he executed a wide range of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, public equity offerings and strategic advisory transactions.

Martin Watzka is initiator and founder of dasErtragReich.

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