ProGuides produces curriculum-based and video-led content that introduces new players to competitive games and helps established gamers elevate their skills with focused, visualized instruction. Led by CEO Sam Wang, the platform pairs subscribers with professional players through an on-demand coaching product. The company exited a beta of its on-demand coaching platform after delivering 20,000 paid sessions. ProGuides currently supports eight game titles and expects to expand to 20 by the end of 2020. Its most popular courses include League of Legends, Fortnite and Hearthstone, and it also serves as a course provider for Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering. The company plans to use new funding to make strategic hires, increase marketing, and build out new content capabilities. ProGuides operates a marketplace that lets players hire professional and semi-pro gamers for play sessions and coaching, having pivoted from an initial training focus after beta. The company’s tagline is now “Play with pros” and it supports games including Fortnite, League of Legends, Super Smash Brothers, CS:GO and Hearthstone. Typical sessions last about 45 minutes; the platform has logged over 5,000 sessions in the past two months and hosts roughly 250 coaches. Pros charge an average of $10 per session and ProGuides takes about a 25% cut; pros on the platform earn between $750 and $2,500 per month. ProGuides raised $1.9 million in pre-seed funding last June and competes with venture-backed services such as Gamer Sensei.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jan 2020