Lumikai Leads Seed Funding In Social Gaming Studio Bombay Play

Lumikai has led a $1Mn investment in Bombay Play, a Bengaluru-based social gaming studio, joining existing investors PlayCo and Leo Capital to take the round's total to $2.5Mn. As part of the round, Zynga and PlayCo co-founder Justin Waldron joined the startup's board. Founded in 2016 by Oliver Jones, who worked at Glu Mobile and Zynga and co-founded Moonfrog Games, and Abhas Saroha, who led engineering at Zynga and Moonfrog, Bombay Play is building live, social and multiplayer card and strategy board games, alongside existing titles such as Card Party, downloaded more than 10Mn times.

Salone Sehgal, Founder and Managing Partner of Lumikai, described the founders as building creatively inclined, data-driven game teams in India, with combined expertise in game design, live operations and scaling companies.

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