GameOn Technologies, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a conversational chat platform, raised $35M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mighty Capital, and B3 Capital with participation from Jim Davidson, Mark Attanasio, Quest Venture Partners, the Wilf family, and Great Point Ventures.
Founded by proven entrepreneurs Alex Beckman, Kalin Stanojev and Nate Simmons, GameOn provides an intelligent chat platform that powers authentic conversational experiences for some of popular brands, teams and content properties. Its platform powers a wide variety of major league sports team chat technology — across the NBA, NFL, NHL, PGA Tour, FIFA, ATP and more — that enhances brand-to-fan experiences through personalized content like live scores, highlights and videos. GameOn is used by teams like Arsenal F.C., the Milwaukee Bucks and the Las Vegas Raiders; and is backed by dozens of athlete investors including names like NFL legend Joe Montana, NBA Hall of Famer Gary Payton, NBA players Andre Iguodalaand Mo Bamba, and more.
The company, which has raised $54m to date, intends to use the funds to deepen its presence in sports and scale a range of technical, business development and marketing efforts to expand into more diversified verticals like retail.