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Immortals Gaming Club raises $26 million and sells its Call of Duty League team to 100 Thieves

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Esports company Immortals Gaming Club is wheeling and dealing today. The company raised $26 million in funding from investors including Meg Whitman to expand its core esports brands and its game matchmaking platform. It is also selling off its franchise for the Call of Duty League to 100 Thieves.

CEO Ari Segal said in an interview with GamesBeat that Immortals Gaming Club is being strategic about its plans to expand and it is being tactical about the decision to sell the CDL team, which went by OpTic Gaming Los Angeles, to 100 Thieves.

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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.