Tech Company Financing Transactions
HQ Trivia Funding Round
Founders Fund and Lightspeed Venture Partners participated in a $15 million funding round for HQ Trivia. This venture round closed on 3/7/2018.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
3/7/2018
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$15,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors
Founders Fund (Lead Investor) (Cyan Banister)
Proceeds Purpose
Yusupov and Kroll say HQ will use the proceeds to grow out its engineering team, which has occasionally been bedeviled by the technical challenge of having so many concurrent players (something that seemed on Sunday night to have been solved, at least temporarily, after many phone calls with Amazon Web Services).
Company Information
Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Entertainment
Mailing Address
Undisclosed
New York, NY 10001
USA
New York, NY 10001
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
Email Address
Not Recorded
Overview
HQ Trivia is a live trivia game played through an iOS app. Users can tune in twice a day at 3PM and 9PM ET to answer questions for the chance to win cash prizes -- prizes that have ballooned from a couple of hundred dollars, to thousands.
Profile
Social Media
Company News
Facebook
YouTube
Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Rus Yusupov
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