Dazzle Rocks has raised $6.8 million in funding to bankroll its massively multiplayer online mobile game that is a sandbox world just like Minecraft.
WE MAKE GAMES
FOR THE SOCIAL
GENERATION
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Helsinki-based mobile studio Dazzle Rocks has raised $6.8 million in Series A financing toward the creation of its upco…
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Team
Stella Wang
CEO, Co-founder
Stella is a creative visionary in developing social MMO mobile games, having formerly served as Executive Producer at Rovio Entertainment where she developed new games and IP, led R&D teams and (with her Co-Founder, Joonas Jokela) launched new gaming services globally. Stella brings not only the creative vision embedded in the company’s gaming metaverse but also a deep understanding of the differences in gameplay among key Eastern and Western mobile gaming markets.
LinkedInJoonas Jokela
COO, Co-founder
With over ten years of experience in tech R&D, programming and project management, Joonas connects the dots between technology, art and business and coordinates the game production process from initial idea, to design and implementation, to sustainable and scalable market release. His career includes working with category-defining companies Suunto and Rovio Entertainment, where he delivered multiple successful projects as a leader in the R&D process.
LinkedInAlexander Schachtschabel
CTO, Founding team
Alex has worked for over 13 years in the technology sector, including designing and implementing game services at Rovio that massively scaled its cloud-based global presence. Prior to Rovio, he was developing highly-scalable and highly-available telecom systems at Ericsson and Fujitsu.
LinkedInOUR VALUES
PROACTIVENESS
Take initiative to explore, learn and grow. Staying curious and open-minded is essential for our progress.
INTEGRITY
Be a part of the team and cooperate. Mutual respect, shared goals and learning from experiences makes us stronger.
COMMUNICATION
Discuss and listen with the team. Understanding the why before what. Best solutions are often simple.
SELF-MANAGEMENT
Be an architect of your path. It's a strength to know yourself and maintain the motion towards goals.
What investors say about us
Stella and her team are a true embodiment of sisu, a perfect fit for us to support. Sisu is a Finnish concept and means extreme determination, grit and bravery.
Initial Capital invested in Dazzle Rocks at the earliest stage it has ever invested in a mobile gaming company. It has been a rewarding experience to be involved from the beginning and see our confidence in the founding team’s vision and boundless ambition reach fruition.
With our digital identities becoming a critical component of how we define who we are, we were excited to discover in Dazzle Rocks a mission-driven team seeking to drive meaningful connection and engagement through social play. Leveraging this team’s deep understanding of mobile markets across the East and West, we are excited about their potential to unlock creative communities at global scale.
Spintop looks forward to continuing to support the excellent Dazzle Rocks team and their exciting Social MMO games and we welcome the strength Galaxy Interactive brings to build the company as it moves forward.
We love Dazzle Rocks’ mission of creating social games that attract a diverse audience, in particular, the female player segment, which is growing exponentially. We’re excited to be investing in Stella, Joonas, and the rest of the team of experienced game developers. The team’s strength and unique insights into Eastern and Western markets alike make them uniquely positioned for success. With some of the most experienced founders in the gaming space onboard our Collective, we are uniquely positioned to help, not only with capital, but operational expertise as well. We’re grateful Dazzle Rocks have chosen us to take this journey with them.
MTG saw early on that the Dazzle Rocks team were creating something very unique and potentially quite disruptive in the social MMO space. In addition, we felt the Dazzle Rocks team was not only incredibly talented, but also shared a very focused vision of what they want to achieve. Their entrepreneurial spirit was a great match for MTG.
Our backers
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Dazzle Rocks
We are making games for the social generation.
A new take on the real-time MMO genre, mobile-first.
Hand-crafted games since 2015 - Made in Helsinki.
EMAILS
info@dazzle.rocks
ADDRESS
Erottajankatu 1-3A, 00130 Helsinki