# LILA Games

> LILA Games is a Bengaluru-based mobile game studio founded in 2020 and building Project Black, an ambitious free-to-play extraction shooter for mobile. Backed by a $10M Series A from Rainfall, KRAFTON, Sequoia, BITKRAFT, and Galaxy Interactive, the team is led by former SEGA and FunPlus operators determined to prove India can ship a globally competitive shooter.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- **Founders:** Joseph Kim (Co-founder & CEO), Avinash Pandey (Co-founder & CTO), Paul Joseph Leydon (Co-founder & Lead Game Designer)
- **Team size:** ~160
- **Products:** Project Black
- **Notable:** Raised $10M Series A in 2022 led by Rainfall Ventures, Assembled team of ex-SEGA, ex-FunPlus, ex-MZ veterans in Bengaluru, Backed by KRAFTON, the studio behind PUBG

## Products & services

- **Project Black** — An ambitious free-to-play extraction shooter built for mobile, with social and competitive multiplayer at its core.

## Achievements

- Raised $10M Series A in 2022 led by Rainfall Ventures
- Assembled team of ex-SEGA, ex-FunPlus, ex-MZ veterans in Bengaluru
- Backed by KRAFTON, the studio behind PUBG
- Scaled to ~160 people across art, engineering, design, and product

## Latest updates

- **2022-03** — Announced $10M Series A led by Rainfall Ventures with KRAFTON, Sequoia, BITKRAFT, Galaxy Interactive participation.
- **2021** — Closed $2.8M seed round to begin Project Black development.

## Links

- Website: https://lilagames.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lilagames
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lilagames
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilagames_global/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LilaGamesPublisher/

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