Gambitious Digital Entertainment
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | Paul M. Hanraets |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Number of locations
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2 offices (2014) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Number of employees
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9 (2016) |
| Website | www |
Gambitious BV, doing business as Gambitious Digital Entertainment, is a Dutch video game publisher based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The company was founded in 2011 by Paul M. Hanraets through online funding platform Symbid.
In early 2012, Devolver Digital founders Harry A. Miller IV and Mike Wilson joined Gambitious as founding partners, and in September 2012, Gambitious opened their crowdfunding platform, of which Gambitious boasts that it is the first global crowdfunding platform exclusively for video game development, as it utilizes funds raised from accredited investors worldwide to help independent developers to complete their game, and repays the investors with funds from the game's sales.
The company's publishing label was opened in 2014 to offer professional, developer-friendly production, marketing, and distribution services to ensure a timely return to both investors and developers involved in these projects.
Gambitious launched its equity-based crowdfunding platform in 2012. It is said to have been the first of its kind, enabling both large and small investors to invest in various different game projects in exchange for an equity stake in the project, thus netting their own share of the profits garnered from the venture, as opposed to acting solely as a donator. They did this, in part, as a reaction to the surge of crowdfunding services, stating that "[c]rowdfunding is causing a great seismic shift in how projects get funded, however, there are risks of crash-and-burn due to unfulfilled projects and unfinished games." They aimed to create a platform specifically for the gaming industry, offering their knowledge of publishing, marketing, and games production to help smaller creators fund their games, while also managing development.
On 20 March 2013, Gambitious successfully closed the world's first equity-based crowdfunding campaign for Train Fever, developed by Swiss independent developer Urban Games, which raised €250,000 from 640 international investors.
Gambitious also experimented by offering pledging as a funding option on their platform. This resulted in a successful funding for charity project Special Effect, which raised 113% of it target aimed towards purchasing specialized computers for severely disabled gamers that can be controlled using eye movement.
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