# [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.