Seismic Games

Listen up, entrepreneurs. This could be critical to the future of your startup. When launching a new company, young entrepreneurs tend to require the same key ingredients: a smart founding team, a stellar group of employees, and more than enough capital to survive the early months/years. The first...

A serial entrepreneur tells Benzinga what it's like to build a startup that soared to nearly $1 billion in value. Fourteen years ago, Greg Borrud left his job at Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) to found a game development studio of his own. It was a risky move, no doubt. While the video game industry...

“I think we got pretty lucky with our funding experience,” said Seismic Games' CEO and co-founder Greg Borrud. “From the day we decided to start to raise funds to the day we closed was about four months. And we had never raised funds for a company before.” Borrud's new startup recently announced...

Prepare to eat, sleep and drink your business. That's just one of the many recommendations from Greg Borrud, co-founder of Pandemic Studios and the co-founder and CEO of Seismic Games. Borrud, whose own startup raised $2 million in Series A funding, provided Benzinga with five tips for aspiring...

The free-to-play game developer has acquired $2 million in Series A funding. The LA-based company, which promises to create “high-quality, next-generation social games franchises,” received the new funds from DFJ Frontier (a DFJ Network partner fund) and Tom Matlack, which the company said is a “...