Skill-based gaming company Zupee raises $8 million in Series A, led by Matrix Partners India

Skill-based gaming start-up Zupee, founded by IIT Kanpur graduates Dilsher Singh Malhi and Siddhant Saurabh, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round. The capital raised from this round will be used to invest deeper in technology, team and marketing.

Matrix Partners India led this investment round with participation from Falcon Edge Capital, WestCap Group, Orios Venture Partners and Zupee’s early stage investor, Smile Group.

Zupee runs live quiz tournaments on its app, in which users compete with friends and other players for prizes. The Zupee app has more than 2,000 live quiz tournaments running through 24 hours every day, covering over 100 topics that range from Bollywood, to Hollywood, sports, math, spelling, and Hinglish, among others.