An nameless reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Wargraphs, a one-man-band startup behind a well-liked companion app for League of Legends referred to as Porofessor, which helps gamers monitor and enhance their taking part in stats, is getting acquired for as much as [$54 million], half up entrance and half based mostly on assembly sure earnings and progress targets. MOBA Networks, an organization based out of Sweden that buys, grows and runs on-line gaming communities (MOBA is brief for “multiplayer on-line battle area”), is shopping for the startup and its current merchandise. The plan is to develop them to extra markets, specifically throughout Asia, and to construct analytics for extra titles.
I write “startup”, however that could be with the loosest interpretation of the time period. There’s solely a single worker, the mild-mannered Jean-Nicholas, and he has additionally solely bootstrapped the enterprise on his personal. However that hasn’t held him again. Wargraphs at present additionally builds analytics for Legends of Runeterra and Teamfight Ways, however the League of Legends enterprise has been its largest it by far. Porofessor has had 10 million downloads of its app on Overwolf — which is the place Porofessor was constructed — and greater than 1.25 million each day lively customers when you mix visitors each from that platform and its personal direct web site. The corporate, equivalent to it’s, has been round for some 10 years, has just about at all times been worthwhile with revenues of 12.3 million euros in its final fiscal 12 months. Jean-Nicholas informed TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden that he desires to construct “a recreation” subsequent. “Particularly, a card recreation that may compete towards Hearthstone, coincidentally revealed by Activision Blizzard,” writes Lunden. “He has no plans to lift outdoors funding for this, however he would possibly rent an worker or two.”
