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# Croatian Friendly Fire Raises €4M to Franchise Its Gaming-Café Network Across Europe
- URL: https://www.therecursive.com/croatian-friendly-fire-raises-eur4m-to-franchise-its-gaming-cafe-network-across-europe/
- Published: 2026-08-26T10:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-26T13:33:10.000Z
- Description: Croatian gaming-café franchise Friendly Fire raises €4M, led by AYMO Ventures, to fund international expansion across 11 countries.
- Author: The Recursive
- Tags: Deals, Series A, Friendly Fire, News

👯 **Founder(s):** David Kosir, Founder & CEO

📅 **Founding year:** 2017 

🏭 **Industry:** Gaming / esports (gaming-café franchise)

💥 **Problem:** The gaming-café market is fragmented and dominated by inconsistent "mom-and-pop" venues with no shared standards, technology, or brand.

📣 **Solution:** A franchise model that standardizes gaming cafés — combining physical locations with a proprietary software platform and centralized management, so each new café plugs into one network.

👥 **Customers:** Generation Z gamers; 220,000+ platform users and 1,000+ amateur esports competitions hosted to date.

🎳 **Team size:** 11-50

🌱 **Stage:** Series A 

💰 **Investment amount:** €4M

🚀 **Funded by:** AYMO Ventures

👁️‍🗨️ **Investor's perspective:** *"The technology layer transforms a good gaming café into a network that strengthens with each new opening."* — AYMO Ventures 

💡 **It will be spent on:** Accelerating international expansion, further developing the proprietary technology platform, and supporting franchise partners.

💬 **In their own words:** *"Now we have real momentum and the conditions to achieve our vision of becoming the world's largest gaming café chain."* — said David Kosir. 

💪 **Traction:** 31 signed franchise agreements covering 178 locations across 11 countries, and three simultaneous openings in Limassol (Cyprus), Rijeka (Croatia), and Vienna (Austria).

🔑 **Business model:** Franchise 

💸 **Funding so far:** Unknown amount from crowdfunding campaing in 2022, and prior early-stage, plus the most recent €4M