Helsinki-based Order of Meta has raised a $3.3 million seed round led by GEM Capital to complete the development and release of its first game, Cargo Hunters, in 2024. Korea Investment Partners, Play Ventures, and The Games Fund joined the round.
Announcing Cargo Hunters
Order of Meta has officially unveiled Cargo Hunters, a mobile cross-platform PvPvE extraction shooter with a deep metagame. In Cargo Hunters, players must survive and fight for resources across an abandoned Earth. The game stands out with its distinctive, dystopian visual style, featuring battle-damaged robot characters in place of human soldiers
Kirill Gurskiy, GEM Capital’s Managing Director, said in a statement,
“GEM Capital’s investment in Order of Meta demonstrates our confidence in the founders’ vision and the studio’s expertise in midcore and hardcore genres.Following the success of Tacticool, we firmly believe in the team’s ability to deliver high-quality mobile massive multiplayer experiences with deep metagame and top-notch visuals for audiences worldwide”.
Alexey Sazonov, CEO & Co-Founder of Order of Meta, added,
“We are thrilled to have found not only investors with an impressive track record but also passionate gamers who share our enthusiasm for the emerging extraction shooter genre. This investment round will fuel our team’s growth and enable us to achieve a soft launch next year.”
Order of Meta was founded in Finland in 2021. The company currently has 17 full-time employees, including 7 team members based in the company’s office in Helsinki and 10 additional remote employees split across Poland, Montenegro, Serbia, Georgia, and Thailand. In 2021, they raised a pre-seed round led by Play Ventures.
