Today, the project he created, Fantasy Chess, is moving from an experiment to a venture-funded startup. Led by CEO Mats André Kristiansen, former co-founder of an online grocery startup, Oslo-based Fantasy Chess has raised $3 million in initial pre-seed funding led by local venture capital firm SNÖ Ventures and Coatue, joined by billionaire investors Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Initiatives and Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital fund.
>After testing fantasy play with Norwegian Chess during its tournament last May, Fantasy Chess now hopes to open the game beyond that genre, in which fans typically select players to fill out a team and receive points based on of their performance in real life. matches. (In this case, participants selected specific competitor pieces to follow, earning points if they captured other pieces and losing points if they were removed.)
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