# Players' Lounge funding: rounds and investors

> Players' Lounge has raised $3.8M across 3 rounds since 2015. Investors include Y Combinator, Canaan and RRE Ventures. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/player-s-lounge (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Who invested in *Players' Lounge*

3 rounds we have observed, with the 13 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

Esports Gaming

Y Combinator: W18

Funding summary Updated 26 Oct 2026

**$3.8M** raised across 3 rounds since 2015, from 3 sources

**$3.0M** Round **$750K** Venture

- **Latest round:** Venture, $750K Oct 2023
- **Biggest round:** $3.0M Round · Mar 2019
- **Investors:** 13

See who backed them

## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2015 2017 2019 2021 2023

**?** Seed

**$3.0M** Round

**$750K** Venture

- **First round:** Seed
- **Biggest round:** $3.0M
- **Usual gap between rounds:** 4.5 years

## The rounds

- **Oct 2023** Venture **$750K** *4 new* [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) [Samsung Next](https://millionrounds.com/fund/samsung-next) [WndrCo](https://millionrounds.com/fund/wndrco) [Griffin Gaming Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/griffin-gaming-partners) Source recorded SEC filing: $750K sold, first sale Oct 2023
- **Mar 2019** Round **$3.0M** *8 new* [Canaan](https://millionrounds.com/fund/canaan-partners) [RRE Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/rre-ventures) [Comcast Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/comcast-ventures) [Courtside Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/courtside-ventures) [Marissa Mayer](https://millionrounds.com/fund/marissa-mayer) [MacroVentures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/macro-ventures) Drake Strauss Zelnick Reported by VentureBeat
- **Mar 2015** Seed **Amount undisclosed** *1 new* Found Academy From a historical funding record

## Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

**Seed** 2015 **Round** 2019 **Venture** 2023 [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) [Canaan](https://millionrounds.com/fund/canaan-partners) [RRE Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/rre-ventures) [Samsung Next](https://millionrounds.com/fund/samsung-next) [Comcast Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/comcast-ventures) [WndrCo](https://millionrounds.com/fund/wndrco) [Courtside Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/courtside-ventures) [Griffin Gaming Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/griffin-gaming-partners) [Marissa Mayer](https://millionrounds.com/fund/marissa-mayer) [MacroVentures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/macro-ventures)

## Everyone who backed them

[Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Accelerator **1** round

[Canaan](https://millionrounds.com/fund/canaan-partners) VC firm **1** round

[RRE Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/rre-ventures) VC firm **1** round

[Samsung Next](https://millionrounds.com/fund/samsung-next) Corporate VC **1** round

[Comcast Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/comcast-ventures) Corporate VC **1** round

[WndrCo](https://millionrounds.com/fund/wndrco) Private equity **1** round

[Courtside Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/courtside-ventures) VC firm **1** round

[Griffin Gaming Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/griffin-gaming-partners) VC firm **1** round

[Marissa Mayer](https://millionrounds.com/fund/marissa-mayer) Angel **1** round

[MacroVentures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/macro-ventures) VC firm **1** round

Drake no record of our own yet **1** round

Found Academy no record of our own yet **1** round

Strauss Zelnick no record of our own yet **1** round

Missing a round, or an investor who was in one? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=player-s-lounge).

## Also claim to have backed them

These 7 firms list Players' Lounge as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[MaC Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mac-venture-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[AlleyCorp](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alleycorp) Venture studio Per its own site

[Sinai Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sinai-ventures) VC firm Per its own site

[Sharp Alpha Advisors](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sharp-alpha-advisors) VC firm Per its own site

[Prospeq](https://millionrounds.com/fund/prospeq) Venture debt Per its own site

[Goal Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/goal-ventures) VC firm Per its own site

[Sinai Capital Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sinai-capital-partners) VC firm Per its own site

## Quick answers about Players' Lounge

### Who invested in Players' Lounge?

Players' Lounge's investors include Y Combinator, Canaan, RRE Ventures, Samsung Next and Comcast Ventures, and 8 more on record.

### How much has Players' Lounge raised?

Players' Lounge has raised $3.8M across 3 rounds since 2015. One round did not disclose an amount, so the total is a floor.

### When did Players' Lounge last raise?

Players' Lounge's most recent round was a Venture of $750K in Oct 2023.

### What was Players' Lounge's biggest round?

Players' Lounge's largest round on record is $3.0M (Undisclosed round), in Mar 2019.

### Who backed Players' Lounge first?

Players' Lounge's first round on record, in Mar 2015, was backed by Found Academy.

### What stage is Players' Lounge at?

Players' Lounge's latest named round is a Venture, in Oct 2023.

### Where is Players' Lounge based?

Players' Lounge is based in the United States.

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