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Investgame Q1-Q3 2020 Report Q1-Q3 2020 Recap of the investment activity in the Video Game market in 2020 1 Covering Multiple Sectors & Segments • Gaming – game development and publishing (mobile, PC&console, multiplatform) • Platform&Tech – platforms and tech-companies targeting gaming market • Esports – esports organizations, leagues, fantasy sport • Other – outsourcing, hardware, retail chains Total value of tracked deals* (Q1-Q3), $m Total number of tracked deals* (Q1-Q3) Gaming 15,347 Gaming 211 Platform&Tech 3,970 Platform&Tech 112 Esports 685 Esports 89 Other 504 Other 25 $- $5,000 $10,000 $15,000 - 100 200 Note: tracking only publicly announced and closed deals in the video game industry 2 Covering Various Deal Types • Private Investments – Early and later stage venture deals, corporate investments • M&A – Mergers and acquisitions, including controlling and minority transactions • Public offerings – IPOs, PIPEs, Fixed Income, other deals with publicly traded stocks Total value of tracked deals* (Q1-Q3), $m Total number of tracked deals* (Q1-Q3) Public offerings 9,234 Public offerings 51 M&A 6,609 M&A 132 Private Private 4,662 254 Investments Investments $- $5,000 $10,000 $15,000 - 100 200 Note: tracking only publicly announced and closed deals in the video game industry 3 Value of deals in the Gaming sector, in $m 4,500 4,136 4,000 3,500 3,164 3,000 2,548 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,217 1,147 1,094 1,006 1,000 450 586 500 0 Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 M&A Public offerings Private Investments Gaming Number of deals in the Gaming sector 18 16 14 COVID-19 12 impact 10 8 6 4 2 0 Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 M&A Public offerings Private Investments 4 Gaming – Private Investments Early stage VC activity in the Gaming sector, in $m § Private investment activity has significantly dropped in the wake of 120 18 COVID-19 outbreak in May 2020, but started gradually recovering afterward, both in terms of the number of deals and in terms of the 100 11 12 13 combined value 10 100 80 9 § While early stage VC activity remained at the level of 5-7 deals per 7 month even after the breakout, the later stage VC & corporate activity 6 8 60 5 5 fell to 1-2 deals per month up until July 4 § During Q1-Q3 2020 game developers and publishers have brought 40 24 3 around $2.7B capital into the gaming market with 100 transactions 40 16 20 8 24 closed 17 11 3 13 18 15 18 4 8 4 6 5 (2) § 69 closed pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds 0 Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 § 9 closed Series B+ rounds and 22 corporate investments Pre-Seed / Seed Series A number of deals § While American companies take a dominant position in the investment activity (90%+ of value) at the later stage VC and corporate rounds, Later stage VC & Corporate activity in the Gaming sector, in $m only 30% of early stage VC funds have been raised by U.S. startups § Three transactions accounting for 78% of total capital injection 2,000 10 § CA-based mobile game publisher Scopely raising $200m at $1.7B 1,900 valuation with market rumors about raising additional funds later 6 6 8 1,500 5 this year at $3B valuation 5 6 3 § CA-based cross-platform game developer Roblox raising $150m 1,000 2 2 4 in Series G funding round at $4B valuation, and considering IPO 1 1 2 earlier next year at $8B valuation 500 165 237 - § American game developer, publisher, and distributor Epic Games - 6 - - 18 74 (2) raising $1.78B at $17.3B valuation with lead investors being 0 Sony, KKR, and Smash Ventures Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 Series B+ Corporate number of deals 5 Gaming – Early Stage VC Early stage VC investments by segment, in $m § Breaking down early stage VC deals by segments, the most active one in terms of number of deals would be Mobile with 34 announced deals and $6 2% Mobile $103m raised $58 $103 § The most notable deal in the mobile space is a $12m Series A round raised by 17% U.S.-based mobile sports games publisher Nifty Games with March Capital 31% Multiplatform Partners being the lead investor on the deal $354 § Mobile remains a very unconcentrated segment with average checks varying from $3m (Seed) to $6m (Series A) for the round PC&console § The major part of early stage VC funds (50% of value) devoted to $167 multiplatform game developers with several strong outliers: VR/AR 50% § Instant games developer Playco raising $100m at $1B valuation in Series A round led by Sequoia Capital and Josh Buckley Early stage VC investments by segment, in numbers § Pan-Nordic cloud-native gaming studio Mainframe raising a $8.1m Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with support from Riot Games 4 § Cloud-based MMO sandbox developer Playable Worlds secured $10m in Mobile Series A funding, led by Galaxy Interactive via its Galaxy EOS VC Fund § PC&console segment can boast two deals 16 Multiplatform 34 § Russian video game production company 110 Industries raising $20m from 69 Norma, GEM Capital, and Sergey Kornykhin PC&console § ArtCraft Entertainment raised $11.7m from unnamed investors, to finish and launch its MMO game Crowfall 15 VR/AR 6 Gaming – Mergers & Acquisitions Notable M&A Transactions Deal § M&A activity is strong this year staying largely unaffected by the macroeconomic situation, Date Target Buyer Platform with the two largest deals announced this year being Peak Games acquired by Zynga for size, $m $2B and ZeniMax in the process of being bought by Microsoft for $7.5B cash (the 2nd Jan-20 Ilyon Dynamics Miniclip (Tencent) 100 Mobile largest deal in the gaming history) Jan-20 Storm8 Stillfront Group 400 Mobile Jan-20 FoxNext Games Scopely 250 Mobile § Focus here is on Mobile acquisitions: 41 deals completed over the course of 9 months with Jan-20 Phoenix Labs Sea (Garena) 150 PC&console a combined value of $4.6B. The PC&console segment comprises $10.5B, but obviously, the Jan-20 Kolibri Games Ubisoft 147 Mobile majority of that comes from the Microsoft (ZeniMax) and Tencent (Leyou Technologies) Feb-20 XL Games Kakao Games 100 PC&mobile § The most active buyer here is the usual suspect Tencent (including its subsidiaries), while Feb-20 Saber Interactive Embracer Group 525 PC&console Swedish publicly traded Embracer Group and Stillfront Group continuing to consolidate the Mar-20 Funcom Tencent 114 PC&console market, with Zynga joining the game Apr-20 Changyou.com Sohu 190 Mobile Apr-20 Candywriter Stillfront Group 195 Mobile M&A activity in the Gaming sector, in $m Apr-20 Jagex MacArthur Fortune 530 PC&console May-20 Machine Zone AppLovin 500 Mobile 17 2,000 Jul-20 Peak Games Zynga 2,083 Mobile 15 Aug-20 DECA Embracer Group 100 Mobile 12 12 13Aug-20 4A Games Embracer Group 80 PC&console 1,500 11 10 10 11Sep-20 PlayDots Take2 192 Mobile 8 9 Sep-20 Vertigo Games Embracer Group 136 VR games 6 1,000 6 5 7 Sep-20 Nanobit Stillfront Group 148 Mobile 902 2,102 915 5 20-Oct Rollic Games Zynga 213 Mobile 774 500 3 signing ZeniMax Microsoft 7,500 PC&console 500 signing Leyou Technolog Tencent 1,400 PC&console 496 1 128 21 175 26 85 192 0 19 (1) $4,639 $10,467 $344 Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 Mobile PC&console Multi and VR/AR Minority Control number of deals (41 deals, 1 Oct) (27 deals, 2 signing) (12 deals) Note: deal size includes earn-out consideration 7 Gaming – Public Offering Value of public offerings in the Gaming sector, in $m § In the meanwhile, Public market activity has almost stopped 3,500 during January-May 2020, with just two PIPE deals done by Stillfront and Embracer, both raising to perform M&As 3,000 3,099 COVID-19 § Market started recovering in June, with multiple companies 2,500 impact raising money for future M&As, as well as with IPOs of Asian gaming companies Archosaur Games ($280m) and Kakao 2,000 Games ($330m) 1,500 § Activision Blizzard has raised $2B of senior unsecured notes (in 1,000 2,000 two series) to fund the redemption of its outstanding unsecured notes due 2021-2022 500 142 180 300 330 § With recent trading multiples increase several gaming 0 companies announced plans to go for IPO either this or Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 beginning next year (pictured below) Fixed Income IPO PIPE, other Companies considering IPO Number of public offerings in the Gaming sector 8 6 4 2 0 Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 Fixed Income IPO PIPE, other 8 Most Active VC Funds # of total Total deals # of leading Leading deals Rank VC Investor Type § In terms of the deal activity, the most active players on this market are deals value, $m deals value, $m currently Play Ventures, Galaxy EOS VC, BITKRAFT Ventures, Sisu Makers Fund 9 180 8 80 Early stage Game Ventures, and Makers Fund all together accounting for 54 deals 1 2 Galaxy EOS VC 11 92 8 77 Early stage § KKR led only 2 gaming deals so far this year, but both of them being 3 BITKRAFT Ventures 10 73 8 53 Early stage huge, backing Epic Games in $1,530m round (excluding Sony 4 Play Ventures 14 35 8 8 Early stage investments) and Zwift (California-based online fitness gaming platform) with $450m 5 Andreessen Horowitz 7 311 6 198 Later stage 6 London Venture Partners 7 42 5 19 Early stage § Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led 6 deals in Q1-Q3 with backing Roblox 7 Sisu Game Ventures 10 126 5 4 Early stage in a Series G funding round of $150m 8 Konvoy Ventures 6 37 3 8 Early stage § Several more VC funds raised funds to make their way into gaming, 9 Serena Capital 4 10.5 4 10.5 Early-stage including Grishin Robotics ($100m), Transcend Fund ($50m),
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