• The closing event took place at the Experience Center of the Campus of the video game of Madrid in Game • Angel Niño, Councillor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the City of Madrid, has highlighted the support of Madrid to the start-up companies of the field of the video game Madrid . September 7, 2023.- Madrid in Game, initiative of the City of Madrid, has today held the event of closing the First edition of the entrepreneurship program at the Experience Center of the videogame Campus. In this meeting the progress and evolution of the first 30 participating startups has been recognized and highlighted. The companies have participated in the closing event and have testified about their journey at the Development Center in Madrid in Game. For six months they have advanced in their projects and have received personalized advice, support for the search for funds, presence at events, and mentoring experts in three pillars: business, product and person. The project has also had technological resources such as sound, video and virtual and augmented reality laboratories of the latest generation, as well as other cutting edge tools. Nware, a cloud streaming gaming service, signed an agreement with Microsoft to offer Xbox and Activision games on its platform; Clivi, a gaming ecosystem for players, streamers and professionals, managed to close a funding round of €392,000; Second World, for its part, launched Ball Guys Furry Road, its first mobile device video game. The accelerator has also generated synergies between the different companies, highlighting cases such as the event Sinfrenos League, one of the most important championships of the game game #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film #Film # # # #Film # # # #Film # #Film # # # # #Film # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Under the organization of HaveFun Gamers, it joined other firms such as Latido Shop, Conwiro, Wiper Gaming or Beetested in which they enjoyed a day of e-sports at the Esports Center of the video game campus. This day counted on the presence of Ángel Niño, Councillor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the City of Madrid, who has highlighted Madrid’s support to 30 start-ups in the field of videogame and has emphasized the objective of the entrepreneurship program: to attract, promote, retain, enhance talent and generate direct and quality jobs in the videogame industry. In the words of the councillor, the aim of this initiative is to “convert emerging ideas into solvent and reference projects for the sector”. Precisely, it has highlighted the work of the City of Madrid in accompanying and assisting entrepreneurs “from any discipline, including an industry with outstanding potential such as video game management”. “We are demonstrating that Madrid is a city that supports them in their growth,” he added. Thus, the call for proposals for the Madrid in Game entrepreneurship programme was launched on 29 September. The project will be launched in March 2024, and will be implemented by more than 200 companies over the next three years.
Madrid in Game
Madrid in Game emerges as an initiative of the City of Madrid and accompanies the different actions focused on promoting the videogame industry and the gamification in the capital to turn it into a world reference factor of the sector. Madrid enters the game to continue to enhance the innovative capacity of the city, its professionals and citizens through two strategic pillars: Madrid Game Cluster, which unites the entire ecosystem of companies and training centers in the sector, and the Campus of Videogame, which has an incubator – accelerator of projects, a high performance center of Esports and a pavilion of experiences. The initiative is present at national trade fairs and events in the sector, but has also been present at international reference meetings such as the Game Developers Conference of San Francisco or the Gamescom of Cologne.
