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STAN has secured $8.5 million in a fresh funding round backed by a star-studded lineup, including Google’s AI Futures Fund, Nazara Technologies, and Japanese gaming giants Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and Reazon Holdings.
What’s brewing: founded in 2022, STAN is a mobile-native social platform built for gaming creators, publishers, and communities.
The fresh capital will help STAN scale across India and other mobile-first markets, enhance AI-driven personalisation, improve creator tools, and launch new integrations for publishers focused on community-led gaming experiences.
Why it matters: this positions STAN as India’s strongest homegrown contender to global giants like Discord and Twitch, but with one major edge: it’s fully optimised for mobile.
Unlike its global rivals, which evolved for PC and console-first users, STAN is designed for the mobile-first reality of Tier-2 and Tier-3 India, Southeast Asia, and Africa, where mobile is not just dominant, it’s everything.
The big picture: With over 450 million mobile gamers in India, Gen Z is gravitating toward platforms that are mobile-native, creator-led, and community-driven. Funding like this lets STAN tap directly into that momentum, and signals that the world is paying attention.
