GameSquare
GameSquare
Understanding the investment opportunity
GameSquare is a marketplace for buying and selling gaming products and collectibles that lets you know who wants to buy all the products you have at home and sell them instantly.
GameSquare's value proposition is its technology, which allows you to register the demand for any product on the marketplace.
- Users can upload their products and sell them directly to interested people, without having to chat, negotiate or leave their homes.
- This system allows the current value of any product to be known in real time, facilitating instant transactions and creating a price alert system for buyers.
The founding team has created a marketplace where users will be able to digitise their entire collection of gaming and collectible products (without the need to upload them to the application, as a checklist), allowing them to discover their market value instantly thanks to the recorded demand data.
Finally, in the coming months, it plans to launch a first B2B pilot, based on internal demand data, to provide analytics services to the companies it works with (video games, collectibles and second-hand shops), as well as other prominent companies in the gaming/geek sector. They have identified a pain in deciding which products to buy and which not to buy (continued poor decision making leads to their closure).
GameSquare aims to help them better manage their trading stock by providing crucial market information to help them make decisions, revealing the demand for a certain product and its history within the platform.
GameSquare Team
CEO
Gerard Jané
CEO
GameSquare Cofounder and CoCEO. Geek, gamer and top Oasis fan, passionate about startups and tech.
COO
Martín Simón Rúa
COO
Co-CEO y co-fundador de GameSquare
CTO
Pol Rodoreda Valeri
CTO
Apasionado de la tecnología, CTO y desarrollador de Gamesquare.
Frontend Lead
Xavi Llordella Villaró
Frontend Lead
Ambicioso y trabajador, con amplias habilidades y experiencia en gestión de equipos, desarrollo web y de aplicaciones móviles
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Product
- Product with proprietary and scalable technology, which allows to discover in real time the market demand for any product, digitize the user's product collection and sell it instantly and effortlessly.
- Technology with B2B potential to provide analytics services (through recorded demand data) to help stores and third parties in stock management.
- GameSquare works with some of the best stores in Spain, such as GameShop or GameXtore.
- Only gaming and geek marketplace in Spain with mobile app.
- Launch in October of the first vertical of collectible products, the Funkos Pop, with more than 3 thousand units available.
Market
- The company's current focus is on the gaming and collectibles market. In Spain, this market has a size of more than 2.8B€, and globally reaches 99.5B€.
- GameSquare aspires in the short term to become the gamer and geek marketplace of reference in Spain, given its value proposition, user experience and product vision and strategy.
- 60% of Spaniards have improved their opinion of the second-hand market in recent years and almost 50% try to sell what they no longer need.
- This trend can also be seen on the investment side, with the rounds of Wallapop, Renty, Grover, Vestiaire Collective or more recently WhatNot (US collectibles marketplace that has raised $74.7M in 3 rounds in a matter of half a year, one of them led by A16Z and another by YCombinator).
KPI's
- 100% organic growth so far.
- GMV of £5k with only 1000 users, plus 10,000 products for sale (total value of £250,000).
Investors
- GameSquare's investors include successful entrepreneurs (specialized in gaming and marketplaces) and experts in investing, collaborating and/or managing international investment funds and Business Angels associations.
- Among them are Juan J. Mostazo (Seedrocket mentor, Co-founder and CTO of Homa Games, specialized in Mobile Gaming), David Boronat (Seedrocket mentor, Founder and President of Multiplica), Rat Gasol (General Manager at Capital Cell) and Joan Miquel Piqué (Famara Ventures Partner).
Team
- Founding team (4) multidisciplinary, with previous experience in startups, educated in the best universities in Spain (UPF and UPC) and with technological profiles (Product Manager, Frontend and Backend developers) in the shareholding, able to implement the product vision.
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