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Allstar

99 Wall Street, Suite 2337, New York, 10005, United States

Overview

Allstar provides a platform for gaming creators to produce and share clips, having generated nearly 30M clips for over 1.14M unique creators. The company focused on product-led growth after cutting paid user-acquisition channels, which the founders say triggered an exploding userbase and accelerating revenue. Founders Nick Cuomo and Gavin Silver bootstrapped the business, navigated COVID-driven remote build, and secured early backing from investors including Mark Cuban. Allstar plans to use new capital to invest in infrastructure, expand the team, add new games, and accelerate partnerships and business development. Current traction metrics include reaching 11.5M+ people and driving over a quarter-billion views; the team says they are four years in and continuing to scale. Allstar builds a consumer-facing platform that lets gamers capture and share high-quality, snackable highlights; its proprietary cloud technology integrates with platforms such as Discord. The company announced a partnership with TikTok that allows users to sign into Allstar via TikTok credentials. Founded in August 2019 by former pro-gamer and CEO Nick Cuomo and CTO Gavin Silver, Allstar focuses on integrating new game titles and expanding its user network. The company said it will use new funding to enhance its product offering, integrate additional titles onto its platform, and expand hiring and partnerships. Simultaneously with the raise, Allstar added Cindy Cook, former chief strategy and marketing officer at Vivendi Games, to its board of directors. The company raised seed financing to support these product and growth initiatives.

Total raised
$16M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series A
Latest activity
Dec 2023

Industries

  • Content
  • Content Discovery
  • Gaming
  • Social Media
  • Software
  • Video Editing
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Recent funding

  1. Series A

    Dec 2023

    $12M

  2. Seed

    May 2021

    $4M

Team