The Chernin Group, a media group founded by Peter Chernin, the former president of News Corporation, has invest in the seed round for US based mobile game company Scopely.
The Cherning Group was joined in the $8.5m seed round by venture firms Anthem Venture Partners, Greycroft Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Other participating investors included former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel; ShoeDazzle and Honest Company founder Brian Lee; Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow; LiveRamp CEO/Rapleaf Chairman Auren Hoffman; Red Swan Ventures; Double M Capital Managing Partner Mark Mullen; Amplify Co-Founder/Accel Venture Partner Richard Wolpert; TechStars CEO David Cohen; TechStars NY Managing Director David Tisch; Burstly CEO Evan Rifkin; Sands Capital; Factual CEO Gil Elbaz; and Aydin Senkut’s Felicis Ventures.
Scopely, which was founded in 2011, creates clones of popular mobile games. Samit Varma of Anthem Venture Partners commented on the investment, “ we were really compelled by their differentiated vision of the intersection between social, mobile and games”. Scopely is currently developing games for IOS, Android and Facebook.