Capital increase for Kryptomon

The Kryptomon Company wants to reinvent based games on the blockchain protocol, creating an interactive metaverse composed of living and collectible NFT creatures within the platform. These are the keywords of the startup led by Umberto Canessa Cerchi, Bartolomeo De Vitis and Claudio Cuccovillo, which has just closed a $ 10 million capital increase guidato da: Nfx, Playstudios, Griffin Gaming Partners e Vikram Pandit.

Founded in 2021, the company is based in Amsterdam (but managed entirely remotely) and has three Italians leading an international team, also coming from England, Holland, Israel, Brazil, Philippines, and India. The financing, the company says, comes after the launch of phase 1 of the game, which bears the name of the company, at the beginning of 2022. “The game is a” Play & Earn “, that is, it gives its users the opportunity to earn Kmon token, the project’s official crypto currency, convertible into euros. Monsters are also NFTs that can be sold within the official marketplace “. The company is supported by a community that” has expanded to almost 500,000 fans on its social media channels and generated a volume of $ 13 million in Nft transactions in less than 5 months “.

“We are incredibly proud of this round of funding which has far exceeded our initial goal of $ 8 million after the first phase of the game’s launch – said Umberto Canessa, CEO of Kryptomon – this support from Nfx and our others. investors is a stepping stone to continue scaling our project into an immersive world with one blockchain technology truly unprecedented, helping us realize that gaming universe and community we have dreamed of creating since childhood. “For Nfx’s Gigi Levy Weiss,” Kryptomon has the potential to make an impressive mark on the Metaverse and the gaming ecosystem Play-and-Earn, a project that prioritizes community building and is at the forefront of reinventing the integration between real-world gameplay and digital assets. “