Vainglory mobile MOBA maker, Super Evil Megacorp, raises $19 million

Super Evil Megacorp, a pioneer of hardcore competitive gaming on mobile, is announcing it has raised $19 million from existing investors.

The developer has also doubled its studio space, added more positions, and brought its total staff to 80 people, said Kristian Segerstrale, the CEO of the Burlingame, Calif.-based company, in an interview with GamesBeat. Super Evil Megacorp has just a single game, Vainglory, a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title for touch-screen devices, and it is doubling down on it.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.