WE’RE BUILDING THE WORLD’S FIRST DESTINATION FOR HYBRID GAMES

Axie Infinity

Blizzard Entertainment

DreamHaven

RiotGames

Twitch

Access Industries

Animoca Brands

ARRI

Atari

Avenir Growth Capital

Coatue

Connect Ventures

Founders Fund

Futuristic VC

Nordic Web

Seedcamp

Signia Venture Partners

SociiCaptial

Talis

TemaSek

Tiger Global

TQ Ventures

The Kasin brothers - Bård Anders and Stig Olav - are growing up in the small, but mighty, Norwegian town of Notodden. Notodden is the birthplace of many Norwegian innovators, including their father and grandfather who were inventors in the renewable energy and electronics industries respectively. Bård Anders and Stig Olav spent their youth filming, producing and editing movies with their friends - whether that be for school projects, or just for fun! They didn't know it yet, but this was just the start of their journey as innovators in the TV and film industries.

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Bård Anders joins Warner Bros. as Technical Director, working on the technical development of some of the world's biggest movie franchises, including the Matrix trilogy. Through his work on the Matrix trilogy - specifically, duplicating Agent Smith into clones through crowd simulation - Bård Anders is inspired: what if we could use this same game engine technology, but in real time? While he didn't know it at the time, the first concept for hybrid games was born.

Meanwhile, Stig Olav joins Nordisk Film TV, working on hit TV phenomena like The Voice and Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Stig Olav goes on to become a Series Producer, and wins a Norwegian “Emmy” for his production “King of Chess” in 2015, one of the first ever live TV formats where players could play along at home.

Bård Anders co-founds his first venture, The Future Group, which goes on to premiere the world's first Interactive mixed reality game show, “Lost in Time”. Stig Olav joins as the company's Chief Content Officer. For this production, Stig Olav later goes on to win a Norwegian “Emmy” for 'Innovation of the Year' for the second time.

The Future Group

PortalOne is founded, with Bård Anders taking the role of CEO, and Stig Olav, our CXO. Bård Anders and Stig Olav are joined by a group of experts who now make up the company’s executive team. Hybrid games are officially born!

We partner with Founders Fund, our first investor. We welcome ARRI, the global market leader in camera and lighting technology, as a partner to develop the hybrid games studio. Our first game Blockbuster is conceptualized!

We secure a partnership with Atari, our first official IP partner, gaining the exclusive rights to 25 of Atari’s iconic titles, taking over the rights from Spielberg’s Ready Player One. We launch Centipede as our debut Atari hybrid game. Our alpha product launches and the pilot episode of Arcade Show airs! We raise our first $15m in funding, welcoming TQ Ventures, founders from Blizzard, Dreamhaven, Riot Games and Twitch, and more. Our team expands, with now (X) experts from technology, media and games joining us on our mission.

We open our first production studio in Culver City, Los Angeles, and come out of closed beta in Norway, launching on the App Store and Google Play stores. We raise our $60m Series A, led by Tiger Global. We launch our third game, The Beat!

PortalOne hits the milestone of 400 Arcade Shows produced, broadcasted and aired inside the app. Our team continues to grow, with now over 50 team members joining us to unlock the potential of hybrid games. We launch our fourth game PortalOne Rally.

WE’RE BUILDING THE WORLD’S FIRST DESTINATION FOR HYBRID GAMES

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