<p>Social gaming platform WinZO on Monday said it has partnered with Kalaari Capital to launch an investment initiative Gaming Lab to encourage and support the gaming ecosystem in the country.</p>.<p>The Gaming Lab will be launched during GameCon 2021. The lab will invest across all forms of interactive entertainment apps in India with a flexible corpus, starting with over half a million dollars, a statement said.</p>.<p>Association with WinZO will further help gaming studios and companies to be culturally relevant for Bharat, it added.</p>.<p>WinZO will also mentor these gaming companies working towards revolutionising the gaming ecosystem through video streaming, game tech and innovations, the statement said.</p>.<p>The selected companies will receive support and drive effective monetisation, growth and also benefit from the tech expertise that WinZO has to offer, it added.</p>.<p>“We are looking to invest across all forms of interactive entertainment, including but not limited to games and ancillary industries such as content creation, live-ops, security etc.</p>.<p>“We are placed in a strategically sound position owing to our understanding of tech, the real pulse of India that is at the centre of online gaming evolution that we as a nation are witnessing," WinZO co-founder Saumya Singh Rathore said.</p>.<p>Rathore further said these capabilities combined, the organisations will be able to sufficiently provide requisite support in the form of capital, guidance and strategic help to further this socio-economically critical ecosystem.</p>.<p>"WinZO's Centre of Excellence will help drive growth, strategy and distribution for the selected applicant while driving monetisation in the world's largest engagement powerhouse,” she said.</p>.<p>Towards its efforts of strengthening gaming development, WinZO had recently announced a $20 million game developer fund III with the idea to holistically boosting the global game development ecosystem, including game design, economies around gaming, content creation, live-ops, and security through capital investment, infrastructural support and monetisation support.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest DH videos here</strong></p>
<p>Social gaming platform WinZO on Monday said it has partnered with Kalaari Capital to launch an investment initiative Gaming Lab to encourage and support the gaming ecosystem in the country.</p>.<p>The Gaming Lab will be launched during GameCon 2021. The lab will invest across all forms of interactive entertainment apps in India with a flexible corpus, starting with over half a million dollars, a statement said.</p>.<p>Association with WinZO will further help gaming studios and companies to be culturally relevant for Bharat, it added.</p>.<p>WinZO will also mentor these gaming companies working towards revolutionising the gaming ecosystem through video streaming, game tech and innovations, the statement said.</p>.<p>The selected companies will receive support and drive effective monetisation, growth and also benefit from the tech expertise that WinZO has to offer, it added.</p>.<p>“We are looking to invest across all forms of interactive entertainment, including but not limited to games and ancillary industries such as content creation, live-ops, security etc.</p>.<p>“We are placed in a strategically sound position owing to our understanding of tech, the real pulse of India that is at the centre of online gaming evolution that we as a nation are witnessing," WinZO co-founder Saumya Singh Rathore said.</p>.<p>Rathore further said these capabilities combined, the organisations will be able to sufficiently provide requisite support in the form of capital, guidance and strategic help to further this socio-economically critical ecosystem.</p>.<p>"WinZO's Centre of Excellence will help drive growth, strategy and distribution for the selected applicant while driving monetisation in the world's largest engagement powerhouse,” she said.</p>.<p>Towards its efforts of strengthening gaming development, WinZO had recently announced a $20 million game developer fund III with the idea to holistically boosting the global game development ecosystem, including game design, economies around gaming, content creation, live-ops, and security through capital investment, infrastructural support and monetisation support.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest DH videos here</strong></p>