{"id":578956,"date":"2023-01-19T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/01\/19\/gbarena-to-acquire-tunisian-gaming-startup-galactech-for-usd-15-mn\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:15:08","slug":"gbarena-to-acquire-tunisian-gaming-startup-galactech-for-usd-15-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/01\/19\/gbarena-to-acquire-tunisian-gaming-startup-galactech-for-usd-15-mn\/","title":{"rendered":"GBarena to acquire Tunisian gaming startup Galactech for USD 15 mn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-05\"><\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbarena.com\/\">GBarena<\/a><\/strong><strong> will acquire Tunisian gaming startup <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.galactechstudio.com\/\">Galactech<\/a><\/strong><strong> in a USD 15 mn share <\/strong><strong>swap<\/strong> that will boost the Egyptian e-sport platform\u2019s presence in the MENA region, it said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamda.com\/2023\/01\/egypt-gbarena-acquires-tunisia-galactech-15-million-share-swap-deal\">a statement<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much of GBarena Galactech will own is unclear:<\/strong> A company representative declined to disclose the details of the agreement when we reached out yesterday, saying the information is confidential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More acquisitions in the pipeline:<\/strong> GBarena plans to make several more acquisitions in the tech and gaming industry later this year, the company told us. The company is focused on expanding in the GCC region including Saudi Arabia, according to the statement. GBarena already has an on-ground presence in Riyadh and Dubai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series A this year: <\/strong>GBarena hopes to close its series A round later this year with further funding from investors in the US, Singapore and the MENA region. The company is coming off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamda.com\/2021\/10\/gbarena-raises-6-figure-pre-series-funding\">six-figure pre-series A round<\/a> in October, led by angel investors including HIM Angels VC network, who have been hot on the startup since the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/03\/27\/gaming-startup-gbarena-raises-seed-investment-from-himangel\/\">seed investment<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing management team:<\/strong> Galatech\u2019s co-founder and CEO, Houcem Maiza (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/houcem-maiza-320255134\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>), will join GBarena as co-CEO, alongside Mustafa Zaza (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mzaza\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>) and Samer Wagdy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/samerwagdy\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the non-gamers among you: <\/strong>The home-grown startup has been offering users a platform that connects gamers with global tournaments and challenges that can be run through the platform, since 2016. Slightly younger, but just as popular, Galatech has attracted over 200k MENA gamers to its platform since 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advisors:<\/strong> Shehata & Partners is acting as the legal advisor and Youssef Salem is providing financial advice on the transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Company plans to make more acquisitions in tech and gaming this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":578957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7258],"tags":[72,463,7128,95],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-578956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startup-watch","tag-enterpriseam","tag-gaming","tag-ma-watch","tag-startup-watch","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"a35791de-9542-405b-b7bb-f8cc09ce820d","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/1\/330.jpg","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[578942],"teaser":"The Company plans to make more acquisitions in tech and gaming this year"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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