Klang Games raises $41M to build Seed virtual world with AI beings

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 6, 2022
Updated June 17, 2025
4 min

Klang Games has raised $41 million in funding to develop Seed, its player-built online universe. The company also announced Electronic Arts veteran Isabelle Henriques has joined as co-CEO.

Berlin, Germany-based Klang Games wants to push the limits of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games with Seed, which will be a persistent, large-scale world where players shape their destinies and share the experience with AI-driven virtual humans.

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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.