Global Top Round 2022 accelerator event heads to Sweden in November
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Global Top Round is taking its seed investment and game studio accelerator program to Sweden in November.
GTR is a subsidiary of South Korea’s GXC. For over seven years, GTR has operated an accelerator for game companies, and it expanded to a seed investment program this year. Every year, it conducts an event to highlight its startups and it travels to a new country or even continent every year, said Pontus Mahler, vice president of business development at Global Top Round, in an interview with GamesBeat.
“We find new locations for our publishers and investors to go to. We just like to move around,” Mahler said.
Mahler, who is Swedish, has been living in Asia for almost a decade and he felt it was time to do an event there. And the Swedish government was receptive, despite the fact that Sweden has a very successful game business already. I guess you can never have enough game studios.
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This year, GTR partnered with the government of Sweden to induct 10 game developers into its accelerator program. And the conference will be held in Luleå, Sweden, on November 9-10.
The annual conference brings together studios, publishers, investors, and influencers from throughout the gaming industry to network at one event. At the end of this invite-only conference, GTR will select 10 of the most promising studios to be inducted into its annual accelerator program.
The accelerator program, which has gained
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