After selling out in 30 seconds, Metaverse gaming NFT project More Than Gamers (MTG) has announced an undisclosed amount of seed funding led by respective co-founders of QGlobe, with participation from the founding team contributor of Twitch, and founding team member of World Star.
The NFT project MTG intends to utilize the capital to advance ambitions for the pfp NFTs to gain avatar interoperability between metaverse worlds to access Gamefi and eCommerce experiences. The MTG business theory supports cross-metaverse deployment versus a singular metaverse thesis similar to Meta, formerly Facebook, despite cautions against monopolizing the metaverse sector.
The MTG roadmap includes plans to expand across multi metaverse platforms focused on games that live within these environments, though after a significant future funding round the project aims to build its own singular metaverse platform. The project was created by gamers for gamers, purpose-built with the needs and wants of gamers in mind. MTG will take the first step of many e-commerce solutions by offering holders the opportunity to access merchandise with exclusive apparel by Champion Sports. Future plans aim to bring matching skins in the MTG metaverse store locations across many metaverse platforms so that gamers can accessorize their avatars with their favorite brands.
MTG was co-founded by gaming entrepreneur Aaron Kirshenberg and esports manager Nicholas Amos. Digital media gaming executive Michael Padilla is also an owner. QGlobe was founded by Apollo Green and Sarah Austin as a new way for investors to fund NFT, gaming, and metaverse projects before their initial game offering (IGO) at a discount. Unlike traditional VCs who do little to aid startups, QGlobe’s Web 3 native team aids in partnerships, marketing, and blockchain game development.
More Than Gamers (MTG) today announced the completion of an undisclosed seed round from prominent tech, gaming and entertainment industry executives and veterans including Justin.tv founding team contributor Sarah Austin, who built the original community that became Twitch, Apollo Green of a prominent Silicon Valley Family Office capital investment firm and former founding team member of World Star, participated together through the QGlobe blockchain game investment fund.
“We are very keen to begin this partnership with QGlobe. The metaverse experience they bring perfectly rounds out our team. We are going to develop one of the most prominent gaming brands in the NFT space and beyond,” says Aaron Kirshenberg CEO and Founder of MTG.
Apollo Green, CEO and co-Founder of QGlobe commented, "MTG is lowering the friction to a more engaging relationship between gamers and their communities by leveraging modern technologies." He continued, "By using Blockchain technology, More Than Gamers allows for meaningful experiences - previously not easy to deliver, which can be unlocked with the game’s token and plans for utility in partnership with QGlobe."
After the rebrand of Facebook to Meta there’s been heavy speculation by investors pouring money into metaverse worlds, and despite concerns about privacy, congestion, and safety, the wider conversation happening on Twitter involves the implications of Web 3.0, all of which metaverse environments are a crucial part of the conversation.
Jack Dorsey accused traditional venture capital firms who come from Web 2.0 of exposing the centralized nature of the projects they invest in stating that Web 3.0 “will never escape their incentives” and that the projects they invest in are “ultimately a centralized entity with a different label.” His tweet storm received engagement from Tyler Winklevoss and Elon Musk who expressed his favoritism of Dogecoin DOGE over other crypto assets.
Jack Dorsey left Twitter to start a decentralized exchange project called tbDEX where he has committed to supporting Bitcoin’s expansive ecosystem to reach its full potential and in his mind one that may surpass the dollar one day.
