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London-based GameAnalytics raises $5.5 million Series A funding and brings in former AOL MD

GameAnalytics, which has its UK base in London, has announced it has closed its Series A funding round worth $5.5 million.

The free gaming analytics platform, which also has offices in Copenhagen and Berlin, has close to 14,000 registered game developers with their games reaching over 500 million unique players.

The latest funding takes GameAnalytics’ total to $8 million, having previously raised $2.5 million from Sunstone Capital, CrunchFund, Jimmy Maymann (CEO, Huffington Post) and René Rechmann (President, Maker Studio), who are all participating in the current round together with new investor Beta Angels and the new management team.

As part of the funding round, GameAnalytics welcomes Luke Aviet (former Managing Director, AOL) as new CEO, Nick Roveta (former Head of Product and Partnerships, AOL) as VP of Strategic Partnerships and Claus Moseholm (founder, GoViral) as CCO.

Aviet, Roveta and Moseholm previously worked together very successfully at the video platform GoViral, which was sold to AOL in January 2011 for $96.7 million.

CEO Luke Aviet said: “GameAnalytics’s growth has been incredible so far and we are well positioned to make an even greater contribution to the games industry

“The company is in a unique position to help with some of the games industry’s biggest challenges.

“Ultimately we are focused on providing game developers with clear insight and effective tools that maximise their games life cycle, enabling games developers to do what they do best - create great games.

“I’m really excited to join the GameAnalytics team at such an important stage in the company’s growth.”

“Since I founded GameAnalytics It’s been incredible to see the size, scale and increasing sophistication of the industry and with this new investment our focus will be on solving some of the biggest challenges facing the indie gaming community. We want to help indie developers compete with the big guys and allow them to focus on creativity” states Morten Wulff, founder of GameAnalytics.

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