Streamloots raises $5.6 million from Bessemer Venture Partners

Streamloots, a Valencia, Spain-based company operating a marketplace for gamers helping them monetize their following, announced the completion of a $5.6 million capital investment round.

The money was raised from a range on US-based investors led by Bessemer Venture Partners and including angel investors Tobi Lutke (CEO of Shopify), Jeremy Stoppelman (CEO of Yelp), the Lazarte Brothers (founders of the Vida Silvestre studios), Eric Baker (CEO of Viagogo) and Li Jin (consumer investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz).

Proceeds will be used to improve the product platform, namely achieving a self-employment model that allows greater autonomy and the monetization of the creativity of each online content creator: streamers, influencers, instagramers, tik tokkers or  youtubers.

Streamloots, founded in 2018 and led by CEO Alberto Martínez Guerrero, developed a marketplace for gamers who can sell the live streaming of their plays. Streamers can define a set of interactions that can be represented with digital cards so they are easy to acquire, redeem and trade by the viewers. Interactions can be anything that allows the viewer have the streamer attention. The company, backed by 30 employees, already intermmediated transactions for more than 40k gamers.

Prior to this round, Streamloots raised almost $2 million, from investors including Samaipata and Boost VC.