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Manticore Games
Game development & social game-playing platform
- 101-200 employees
- B2C
- Gaming
- Deep Tech
- Web 3.0
- East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Company mission
Manticore Games' mission is to create gameplay worth sharing, and enable others to do the same.
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Founded in 2016 by a pair of former Zynga and EA game developers, Manticore Games is best known for being the developer of Core, a heavily funded and increasingly popular game creation and discovery platform for iOS and the Metaverse.
In theory, Core is fairly similar to the likes of Roblox and RecRoom, but is geared much more towards “older” users aged fourteen and above. Despite only launching in 2021, Core’s numbers thus far have been extremely impressive, with three million players in the first year alone as well as tens of thousands of games and creators.
Considering that the Metaverse gaming market is expanding, it’s easy to see why investors are pouring money into the space. Manticore Games has benefited greatly from this, and having already expanded its headcount to triple figures, is showing no signs of slowing down while the market is this lucrative.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Commuter Benefits
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Sep 2020
$15m
LATE VC
Total funding: $163m
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Leadership
Frederic Descamps
(CEO)Co-founded and was CEO of game developer A Bit Lucky, which was acquired by Zynga in 2012. Went on to become General Manager, then Vice President & Head of Corporate Development at Zynga before co-founding Manticore Games.
Jordan Maynard
(Chief Creative Officer)Former Software Engineer at EA and Senior Technical Design Director at Trion World Network. Co-founded A Bit Lucky and was the company's Chief Creative Officer until Zynga's 2012 acquisition, then became a Creative Director at Zynga.