Fast Travel Games (left to right) Erik Odeldahl (Creative Director), CEO Oskar Burman, and Kristoffer Benjaminsson (CTO).
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Sweden’s Fast Travel Games raises seed round for VR games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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A trio of industry veterans has created a new Swedish game studio, Fast Travel Games, to build virtual reality games. The Stockholm-based company has raised a seed round of funding from Nordic investors led by Sunstone Capital.

Fast Travel Games hopes to take a fresh approach to VR, with gameplay experiences that are both rich in storytelling and social play. The company wants to explore the full potential of next generation VR storytelling. The founding team has veterans from Rovio, EA, and DICE who are responsible for some of the world’s most popular games including Angry Birds 2, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, and the Battlefield series.

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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.