Mino Games is a games development studio obsessed with delighting our players. We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA and our key development studio is in Montreal. We created the hit mobile game Mino Monsters with over 15 million downloads. We are backed by the best angel, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world. (Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Sybo Games). For more information, visit http://www.mino-games.com/
Location: Canada, Quebec, Montreal
Total raised: $1M
Investors 4
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| 21.07.2020 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Luminari C... | luminarica... |
| - | Waverley C... | waverleyca... |
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Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 10.11.2011 | - | $1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.04.2013 | Andreessen-Backed MinoMonsters Follows Rovio’s Lead, Signs Book Deal, Releases Trailer As It Plans Move Into TV, Film, Toys | MinoMonsters launched in early 2011 on a mission to become the Pokémon of social games, allowing gamers to explore a world inhabited by bite-sized, furry monsters, taking them on quests and battling their friends. For this reason — and beca... |
| 11.04.2013 | 21 year-old CEO aims to be the ‘next Disney,’ starting with an iPhone game | What’s cute, furry, and iOS all over? MinoMonsters! MinoMonsters is a mobile gaming startup that released major updates to its game today and shared some news surrounding the company’s progress. MinoMonsters is a Pokémon-inspired game in wh... |
| 11.04.2013 | 21 year-old CEO aims to be the ‘next Disney,’ starting with an iPhone game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. What’s cute, furry, and iOS all over? MinoMonsters! MinoMonsters is a mobile gaming startup that released major updates to its game tod... |
| 21.06.2012 | Pokemon-Inspired MinoMonsters Hits 600,000 Downloads, Reinvents Itself With Version 2.0 | MinoMonsters, the Pokemon-inspired social game from Y Combinator’s two youngest founders, has just shipped a major new release. With MinoMonsters 2.0, the game hasn’t been so much updated, as it has been reinvented. Whereas before, gameplay... |
| 26.04.2012 | “In the Studio,” MinoMonsters’ Josh Buckley Chronicles His Quest to Constantly Create | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil “In the Studio” marches on this week with yet another entrepreneur who on the surface seems too young ... |
| 15.11.2011 | Facecash, Vyatta, Ginzametrics: Bay Area Biztech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Time for our irregularly scheduled, data-driven roundup of news from the Bay Area technology world, starting with three separate $25 million items: $25 million—The amount rais... |
| 10.11.2011 | Ignition scares up another deal in San Fran, backs 19-year-old’s MinoMonsters | MinoMonsters will be arriving on December 6th For the third time this week, Ignition Partners has pumped cash into a San Francisco Bay Area startup. This time, the Bellevue venture capital firm is bankrolling MinoMonsters, which is developi... |
| 10.11.2011 | MinoMonsters Raises $1M in Funding | MinoMonsters Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based videogames startup, has raised $1m in funding. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Yuri Milner, General Catalyst, Ignition Partners, Raymond Tonsing, and Alexis Ohanian... |
| 10.11.2011 | MinoMonsters Nabs $1 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, And More For Mobile Monster Battles | At the beginning of the year, Josh Buckley and Tyler Diaz were busy building their new Pokemon-inspired social game, MinoMonsters, among Y Combinator’s spring class of startups. At 18 and 17 years of age, respectively, Buckley and Diaz were... |
| 10.11.2011 | MinoMonsters Grabs $1M | Led by 19-year old, videogame startup announced it has raised $1 million in total investment from an all-star group of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Yuri Milner, General Catalyst, Ignition Partners, Raym... |
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