Gaming fintech Tradelite raises money from business angels

The Munich-based company wants to combine video games and financial education. They are now receiving capital from the gaming world for this idea.

A different kind of financial gambling: the Munich-based start-up Tradelite Solutions wants to enable video game developers to teach financial knowledge through games. With this idea, the company has now successfully raised money from a number of business angels for the first time. The money comes from Heiko Hubertz, founder of the games companies Bigpoint and Whow-Games, among others. The company did not disclose the amount of the round. "In addition to the actual capital, it was important for us to receive further strategic impetus from our business angels in order to open up the growing market of currently three billion video gamers worldwide to the topic of finance and the stock market," says co-founder and CEO Tracy Chang.

With its in-house "Financial Entertainment Platform", Tradelite wants to enable developers to integrate financial and capital market data into their games both historically and in real time. The company sees itself as a complement to existing platforms such as Unity. The Tradelite offering is primarily intended to equip casual games that focus on knowledge transfer.

Tracy Chang, Matthias Kröner and Uwe Franke founded the start-up last year. Kröner was previously involved in the founding of the fintechs DAB Bank and Fidor Bank.