SuperDuperSecret Co. founders Mark McCubbin (left) and Jazzlyn O'Reilly.
SuperDuperSecret Co. founders Mark McCubbin (left) and Jazzlyn O'Reilly.
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SuperDuperSecret Co. raises over $1M to re-create classic chess with 10-player battle royale

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SuperDuperSecret Co. has successfully raised over $1 million to remake classic games such as chess with the modern element of a ten-player battle royale.

For the oversubscribed pre-seed funding round, investors included Round 13 Digital Asset Fund, Merit Circle, Polygon, Solana, Overwolf, Big Brain Holdings, LD Capital and angels such as Sebastien Borget, Gabby Dizon, and Cristian Manea, among several others.

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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.