Trine Studios Launches Streets Of Mumbai; CEO Sangam Gupta On VC Funding
By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 19 Feb 2008 07:54 PM PST
When was the last time you saw an empty Mumbai street? Maybe in the middle of the night...Mumbai based Trine Game Studios has officially launched their racing game called Streets of Mumbai, that lets you race around the city. Trine had demo’ed the game at the NASSCOM Animation and Gaming India conference in Mumbai last year. Now NDTV has a story on the game, here. Trine currently has over 190 employees and three other games Trash, Wings of Control and Legends of Great India. They intend to fight game piracy by pricing the games low. About how they’re funded, CEO Sangam Gupta tells GameGuru: “VC investments, we got 2-3 term sheets also. But the companies from which we were getting some term sheets had already invested in other Indian companies and we didn’t want a conflict between the group companies, the other portfolio companies of the VCs. So we went for private investment, which in my opinion is more relaxing than the VC investment, because private investors are usually friends and family of ours. So they won’t put in much pressure.” GameGuru has a series of interviews with Gupta - part 1, part 2 and part 3.
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