FRVR Basketball is one of FRVR's big hits.
FRVR Basketball is one of FRVR's big hits.
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FRVR raises $3 million from Accel for HTML5 cross-platform games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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FRVR has made its name as a publisher of lightweight HTML5 games such as Basketball FRVR, which has been played more than 5.6 billion times. And now it has raised $3 million in a round of funding led by Accel Partners.

The Malta-based game publisher will use the money to expand its games to new markets and platforms and continue its team growth. FRVR creates games for both chat and “post-app store” platforms like Facebook Messenger.

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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.