How a team of game devs trying to build the next big thing raised a $4.5 million seed round from A16Z and Laton Ventures

In this Business Insider exclusive, Cheryl Teh profiles how Brice Laville Saint-Martin left Supercell at 30 to build something of his own, and at 32 secured $4.5M in seed funding. The piece describes a Barcelona-based team of 10 building MISFITZ, a social-driven game where players decide mid-run whether to work together, and reports that more than 70,000 players joined the pre-alpha, with top players logging 10 hours a day (the final pre-alpha count reached 83,500+). "It's not 2016 anymore. The competition is incredible," Laville Saint-Martin told BI.