Blockchain Startup Raises $800,000 to Build Platform for Digital Collectible Card Games like Pokemon

Gamedex has raised $800,000 in a seed round led by Invictus Capital. Gamedex will use funds to build a Steam-like platform for blockchain-powered digital collectible cards and digital collectible card games like Pokemon, Hearthstone, Magic: The Gathering, and FIFA Ultimate Team said the announcement.

The global gaming market was worth 110 billion USD in 2017 and is projected to continue growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 6.2%.

Investors purchased Gamedex tokens ("GDX tokens") instead of equity in Gamedex's first token seed rounds. Invictus Capital led the round, investing via their Hyperion fund. The Hyperion fund is a tokenized venture capital fund. The Hyperion fund invests in the most talented entrepreneurs and visionaries in the blockchain industry. Invictus Capital joins the likes of Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, who have both invested heavily in the crypto-collectibles space.

There will not be any GDX tokens until at least August, states Gamedex in their announcement.

Daniel Schwartzkopff, CEO of Cayman-based Invictus Capital, explained and said, "Digital Assets were a $35 billion market in 2017 and the cryptocurrency market has -- at times -- neared $1 trillion. The fact is, for all that blockchain is in the news, its biggest consumer use case is still untapped. I expect the nascent non-currency crypto-collectibles market to reach $100 billion by 2022."

Individual angel investors who have made large investments in the crypto-collectible space include Fred Ehrsam, Co-founder of Coinbase, Naval Ravikant, Co-founder of AngelList, and Mark Pincus, Co-founder of Zynga.

Gamedex Co-founder and CEO Cameron Garvie added, "I believe that ecosystems which rely on a community to function should belong to the community they are built on, and we aim to do just that. We chose to bring Daniel and his team over at Invictus into our seed round due to their deep expertise and wealth of connections in the industry."

Gamedex is planning a public GDX token sale for late 2018.