Quest Portal, a Reykjavík-based company, has secured $7.6 million in funding from investors such as Lakestar, Moonfire, Brunnur, and Icelandic investors, as well as gaming industry veterans including Bing Gordon (Founder of Electronic Arts), Rahul Vohra (Founder & CEO of Superhuman), and Hilmar Veigar (CCP). The startup provides a virtual tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) platform for playing and managing TTRPGs on desktop and mobile devices, with a subscription service called Quest Portal Pro for enhanced features and tools. They will use the funding to launch Quest Portal Pro, a subscription service for playing TTRPGs on desktop and mobile devices.
Gunnar Holmsteinn, Founder and CEO of Quest Portal, said, “When we first opened Quest Portal for early access, we never imagined the overwhelming response we’d receive. Thanks to passionate Game Masters and Players, we’ve quickly grown to 10,000 members, and this fantastic community has played 140,000 games, telling us we’re on the right track and encouraging us to push the boundaries further.”
Quest Portal is a company that specializes in providing a virtual tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) platform. Their platform, Quest Portal, enables users to play TTRPGs on both desktop and mobile devices. It serves as a digital environment where players and Game Masters can come together to engage in collaborative storytelling games. Quest Portal offers a range of features to enhance the TTRPG experience, including tools for character creation, campaign management, and access to game rules and lore. Additionally, Quest Portal has a subscription service called Quest Portal Pro, which offers additional features and enhancements for TTRPG enthusiasts.
“We’ve been completely blown away with the reception so far,” said Gunnar Holmsteinn, CEO of Quest Portal. “We’ve found a great way to play tabletop role-playing games with your friends.”
Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs) are immersive and collaborative storytelling games where participants take on the roles of fictional characters within a specific game world, guided by a Game Master (GM) who narrates the setting, creates challenges, and enforces rules. TTRPGs emphasize character creation, player agency, and the use of dice for resolving actions, with players working together to overcome challenges, make choices that impact the storyline, and engage in creative and dynamic adventures set in diverse fictional settings such as high fantasy, science fiction, or horror. These games foster social interaction, encourage imaginative role-playing, and are governed by rules specific to the TTRPG system being played, with popular systems including Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, and Pathfinder.
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