Summary

  • Pragma, a LA-based firm that offers backend services to game developers, has raised $12.75m in funding, including an investment from gaming giant Square Enix.
  • The company’s Engine powers numerous live service components of the gaming experience, such as matchmaking, analytics, and monetisation.
  • Pragma’s services are used by prominent developers including Gardens Interactive, People Can Fly, and Frost Giant Studios.
  • CEO Eden Chen started the company after working with his co-founder at Riot Games, where they had built the matchmaking system for League of Legends.
  • Chen claimed that the company is the only developer to offer a “fully customisable backend game engine with a suite of tools” to developers.
  • The investment from Square Enix will allow Pragma to make further acquisitions and deepen its range of tools and services for game developers.

By Dean Takahashi

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