The mobile game developer has received $20m from Google, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company, with another $10m of milestone-based capital potentially to come.
US-based real-world game developer Niantic secured up to $30m in series A funding from game and toy producer The Pokemon Company Group, internet technology provider Google and gaming company Nintendo yesterday.
The corporates are investing $20m in Niantic up front, with an extra $10m to be dependent on the achievement of certain milestones.
Originally incubated within Google, Niantic is best known for Ingress, a location-based massively-multiplayer online role-playing game for the Android operating system that is linked to real-world sites…
