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Anton Backman
Partner at Play Ventures
Helsinki, Uusimaa
Overview
Anton Backman is a Partner at Play Ventures in Helsinki, with a background in law and a strong focus on investing in gaming and eSports startups. Noteworthy career highlights include serving on the boards of companies like Midnite and Tribo Games, and investing in successful ventures such as Redemption Games and Bright Star Studios at the pre-seed stage.
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Principal
2021 - 2023
Investment Associate
2021 - 2021
Venture Partner
2019 - 2021
Worked on my own project in crypto while supporting Play Ventures in their crypto gaming investments.
Investment Analyst
2019 - 2019
Play Ventures is an early stage VC fund investing in games and games services start-ups around the world. We help the best gaming founders on their journey to create amazing games and the most valuable gaming companies of tomorrow.
Board Member
2023
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2021
Board Observer
2021
Board Observer
2021
Tower Pop is a mobile gaming industry that focuses on tower defense.
Raised $2,800,000.00 from Agnitio Capital, Play Ventures and Santiago Roel Santos.
Board Member
2019 - 2021
Building Ember Sword, a new sandbox MMO with a player-driven economy, a classless combat system, and scarce cosmetic collectibles.
Board Member
2017 - 2021
Building HTML5 games for instant games platforms.
Education
Master of Laws - LLM
2014 - 2022