👯 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
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