Sperasoft vets form Arctic7
Originally published on GamesIndustry.biz by Brendan Sinclair
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Three former Keywords executives today announced their new studio, Arctic7.
The Austin-based outfit is already working on a pair of games and has secured $2 million in seed funding led by VC firm Grishin Robotics and a pair of angel investors.
Arctic7 was founded by Igor Efremov, Mark Rizzo and Alan Van Slyke, a trio of industry veterans whose spent much of the past decade together at outsourcing developer Sperasoft.
Efremov and Rizzo were co-founders at Sperasoft who had both previously worked at Electronic Arts. Efremov led Sperasoft as president and CEO until selling the company to Keywords in 2017, and