Team Heretics

Team Heretics is one of the leading organizations in professional Spanish videogame competitions.

<div><p>Team Heretics is a Spanish esports organization competing in Valorant, Counter-Strike, FIFA, and Fortnite. Heretics’s partners include a mix of endemic and non-endemic brand sponsors such as noblechairs, X Controllers, KFC and Adidas. As of July 2022, the team has accumulated total earnings of ~USD 350,000. </p></div>

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    Team Heretics is a Spanish esports organization competing in Valorant, Counter-Strike, FIFA, and Fortnite. Heretics’s partners include a mix of endemic and non-endemic brand sponsors such as noblechairs, X Controllers, KFC and Adidas. As of July 2022, the team has accumulated total earnings of ~USD 350,000. 
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    In July 2022, Heretics 
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     Misfits Gaming Group’s League of Legends European Championship (LEC) franchise slot to compete from 2023 onwards. The team also focuses on esports entertainment with a dedicated team of content creators.  Team Heretics had briefly participated in League of Legends from 2016 to 2017 and returned in 2022 with a spot in the LVP Superliga (a top-level Spanish League of Legends league).
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    Stakester is a platform for gamers to compete against one another for cash prizes. The platform was launched in May 2020 and is currently available in 38 US states, the UK, and Singapore. As of November 2020, the platform has more than 15,000 users. Stakester has also established partnerships with ESL (Electronic Sports League) and GameByte (competitive gaming community).
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    Stakester’s management includes Gary J. Foreman (co-founder of Rockstar Games) and Alan Patmore (former EVP and GM at Humble Bundle, GM of Mafia Wars and CityVille at Zynga), who joined as a strategic advisor and board member in June 2020. 
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    In November 2020, the company raised USD 2.7 million in seed funding led by RTP Global with participation from angel investors Jens Lapinski (CEO of Angel Invest and former MD of Techstars) and Chris Adelsbach (founding partner at Outrun Ventures and venture partner at Techstars). The funds will be used to grow its community by increasing the value of prizes on the platform. In addition, the company plans to expand its platform to Australia and Germany in the near future.
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Stakester

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    Peru-based ESGPlay operates an esports platform that creates competitive esports tournaments.
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ESGPlay

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    eMasters is a Brazilian esports platform that facilitates the creation of esports competitions with cash prizes. The platform supports games including League of Legends, Dota 2, and FIFA 19.
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eMasters

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    Gaming Frog is a console based  online esports tournament platform. The platform offers single player and multiplayer competitive matchups for cash prizes in FIFA.
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    The platform officially launched in August 2019 and since has seen over 1,500 matches being played on the platform.Since launch, the platform claims to have attracted 3,500 users. The company has raised USD 150,000 from friends and family and is in the process of raising a USD 400,000 seed round. The company outlined plans to launch on Android, expand its development team, integrate artificial intelligence (AI), introduce a membership model and bring in NBA and Madden games into the platform.
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Gaming Frog

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    NAG Studios is a Swedish startup focused on creating esports games and platforms. It was founded by esports and gaming industry veterans Peter Stahl (former head of development at Resolution Games, a game studio focused on augmented and virtual reality) and Johan Skott (former esports product owner at Tobii Tech, a unit of technology company Tobii AB). NAG’s vision entails building an esports game and platform which will incorporate the community (i.e., professional players, streamers, broadcasters, and viewers) from the beginning of the development process.
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    The company raised USD 1 million in an extended pre-seed funding round led by London Venture Partners in October 2020. The company aims to use the funds to build its development team.
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NAG Studios

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