Thai games studio Sinoze raises $750k from InVent, VC arm of Thailand’s largest telco

Sinoze is most well known for mobile music game Thapster, which features Thai and international artists and has, it claims, about a million monthly active users.

Today the company announced it has raised a US$750,000 round from InVent, the venture capitalist arm of Thailand’s largest telco Intouch. The funding will go towards international expansion through its second title Electhap, a music game aimed at the international market.

This is the second Thai games studio InVent has backed in recent months. It put US$500,000 into Infinity Levels in December 2014. InVent was started in 2012 and has in its portfolio Thai startups like ebookstore Ookbee, software company Computerlogy, and healthtech startup Meditech.

It has backed five startups so far in its existence, with two to three more in the pipeline. It doesn’t focus on any specific industry, but invests in companies that can add value to the Intouch group.