# [Underrepresented Founders Raise $3.5 Million Seed Round to Launch New Genre: A Real Fantasy](/content/press/underrepresented-founders-raise-35-million-seed-round-to-launch-new-genre-a-real-fantasy/index.html)

Wicked Saints, the Black female-led video game studio that utilizes behavioral technology to create interactive games empowering Gen Z, today announces $3.5M in seed funding co-led by [Riot Games](https://www.riotgames.com/en) and [Oregon Venture Fund](https://oregonventurefund.com/), with participation from a collective of angels and funds who bring creativity, diversity of thought, deep gaming expertise and more.

# [Black/Women-Led Gaming Studio Closes Oversubscribed $1.1M Pre-Seed Round](/content/press/blackwomen-led-gaming-studio-closes-oversubscribed-11m-pre-seed-round/index.html)

First to emerge from Niantic’s (makers of Pokémon GO) BDI incubator, Wicked Saints Studios closed an oversubscribed pre-seed round, raising $1.1 million to begin testing the world’s first adventure activism game. With an all-female, majority-Black C-suite, Wicked Saints joins an exclusive group of startups helmed by one of [under 100 Black women founders](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-raise-venture-capital-as-black-female-founder-2021-11) who have ever raised $1 million or more.