The Finnish mobile developer – Grand Cru, the developers behind the award-winning Supernauts, have been busy in recent months getting investments from several different firms; this including three recent partners: Nokia Growth Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Idinvest Partners, who together invested €8.5 MM ($11 MM). This morning Grand Cru’s closing total, for their investments, came to a whopping €12.5 MM (more than $16 MM)! The final three investors, Nokia Growth Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Idinvest Partners, all invested recently because they think that Grand Cru is poised to be the next mobile hit-maker from Helsinki.
All of the investors are right behind Grand Cru, supporting them in every way they can; Guillaume Lautour, Partner at Idinvest, had this to say,
“Like many of the other gaming studios we fund, we have been supporting Grand Cru since seed stage. The exceptional quality of the team led us to confirm our long-term commitment to help Markus Pasula build a world-class studio”
Walter Masalin of Nokia Growth Partners was just as supportive saying,
“We are impressed with Grand Cru’s team of mobile gaming veterans. They have created a great title and combined it with unique in-house developed technology. Growth in mobile gaming is accelerating and we are excited to be part of it.”
Markus Pasula, co-founder and CEO at Grand Cru, is very impressed with his studio and had this to say,
“At Grand Cru, our name derives from our ultimate goal of delivering outstanding products that raise the bar on quality, and our commitment has been recognized and bolstered by these investments from partners such as Idinvest, Qualcomm Ventures and Nokia Growth Partners. Our soon-to-be-released first title, Supernauts, is a mass-market world-building game for iOS that is truly social, allowing players to solve puzzles and create shareable worlds, brick-by-brick.”
Supernauts was inspired by the hit-Indie game – Minecraft. Supernauts is similar to Minecraft in a few ways, such as being able to create your own world and share it with friends and people all around the globe. However, there is also a story element to Supernauts, whilst creating your own unique worlds, you can explore and travel to places such as the flooded Earth to rescue humans.
For more information on Grand Cru and Supernauts, please visit their website GrandCruGames.com
