# Curio Research

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/curio-research

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: San Francisco, US
- Website: www.curio.gg
- Total disclosed funding: $8.6M
- Latest round: Seed (Aug 6, 2024)
- Investors on record: 8

## About

Based in California, US, and founded in 2022 by Kevin Zhang and Yijia Chen, Curio Research, Inc., operates as a software platform that engages in developing games that will use in the web3 industry. In February 2023, Curio Research, Inc., raised USD 2.9 million in seed led by investor Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from other investors Formless Capital, Robot Ventures, Smrti Labs, and TCG.

Curio Research offers gaming solutions that include a gaming platform based on an on-chain strategy that allows users to create new nations, and new governance structures, and form a world. The company uses crypto and smart contract technologies for social interactions through the gaming platform.

The company plans to use the February 2023 funding to expand its development team in San Francisco and build new games that can use the latest Web3 technologies.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Aug 6, 2024, $5.7M — SevenX Ventures, OKX Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto
- Seed, Feb 21, 2023, $2.9M — Bain Capital, TCG, Robot Ventures, Formless Capital, Smrti Labs

## Investors

- Bain Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bain-capital) — Seed
- TCG (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/tcg) — Seed
- Robot Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/robot-ventures) — Seed
- Formless Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/formless-capital) — Seed
- Smrti Labs (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/smrti-labs) — Seed
- SevenX Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sevenx-ventures) — Seed
- OKX Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/okx-ventures) — Seed
- Bain Capital Crypto — Seed