PlayRaven secures $2.3M in seed funding from London Venture Partners, Creandum, Jari Ovaskainen.

PlayRaven, a Helsinki, Finland-based game developer announced raising $2.3 million in seed funding, the latest in a series of venture capital investments in the Nordic country’s burgeoning games industry.

The money comes from investors including Nordic-focused technology fund Creandum, local entrepreneur Jari Ovaskainen and London Venture Partners, both early investors in Finnish games company Supercell who sold a 51 percent stake to Japanese mobile operator SoftBank for $1.5 billion in October 2013.

PlayRaven, founded in 2013 by CEO Lasse Seppanen, aims to develop a new game to follow on its first title, Spymaster, due out in 2014. Spymaster is a strategy game in which a player manages a network of spies in a World War Two setting.

Lasse Seppänen:

“We believe this massive audience can no longer be served with a ‘one size fits all’ approach. New mobile gaming audiences with diverse tastes are out there, waiting to be served. This seed funding enables us to expand our team and build a portfolio of unique high-quality strategy games aimed at new mobile audiences worldwide.”