Hadean Supercomputing Ltd.
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Cloud computing Gaming Metaverse Defence Enterprise |
| Founded 📆 | 2015 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | London, United Kingdom |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Craig Beddis |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 90 |
| 🌐 Website | https://hadean.com/ |
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Hadean Supercomputing Ltd, commonly referred to as Hadean,[1] is a venture-backed deep tech company, based in London, UK. It provides distributed computing power to help scale training simulations, Web 3.0 applications and virtual worlds for gaming, metaverse and defence. Two game titles the company has supported are EVE Online[2] and Minecraft[3].
Company Development[edit]
2010–2017[edit]
Hadean are a London based distributed computing company founded in 2014.
In May 2017, Hadean closed a seed round of $2.6m.[4] The round was led by White Cloud Capital and Entrepreneur First participating.
Craig Beddis joined Hadean as a co-founder and took up the role of CEO in June 2017.
2019[edit]
In 2019, venture capital company Draper Esprit (now known as Molten Ventures) revealed it was leading a £7m investment in Hadean.[5] The round also included Aster and specialist gaming investor London Venture Partners. Existing investors Luminous Ventures and Entrepreneur First also participated.
Hadean completed a project with EVE Online developers, CCP Games[6]. With CCP Games looking to increase the scale of their multiplayer battles, Hadean helped them increase the number of players in a single match. In March 2019, CCP Games and Hadean hosted a battle with 14,274 ships taking part and more than 3,852 players fighting each other.[7]
2020–present[edit]
In 2020, Hadean announced a partnership with Minecraft as part of an initiative to create new game modes.[8]
In 2021 Hadean received an Epic Games MegaGrant[9]. In this year the company also announced a new partnership with Cervus to build a next generation decision support system for the U.K. Ministry of Defence's Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA).[10]
In 2022, the company was awarded its first direct UK Ministry of Defence contract to support the British Army in building a cloud distributed simulation for training.[11]
Hadean completed a Series A funding round in September 2022 with $30 million in investment coming from global investors including, Molten Ventures, 2050 Capital, Epic Games[12], In-Q-Tel, Alumni Ventures, Aster Capital and Entrepreneur First.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Metaverse Startups to Watch in 2022". TechRound. 2022-05-16. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
- ↑ Drain, Brendan. "EVE Evolved: Inside Hadean's EVE Online record-breaking battle attempt | Massively Overpowered". Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ updated, Joel Khalili last (2020-09-15). "Minecraft is making a huge move that will change the game forever". TechRadar. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ↑ "Hadean secures $2.6m to put a supercomputer into your laptop". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Draper Esprit leads over £7m round into Hadean". UKTN | UK Tech News. 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "CCP Partners with Hadean to Create a 10,000 Player EVE Tech Demo". MMORPG.com. 2019-03-07. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ↑ "Why CCP Games crammed 14,274 spaceships into an Eve Online battle". VentureBeat. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ Hamilton, Isobel Asher. "Minecraft has partnered with a supercomputing startup that managed to boost its maximum player numbers by 900%". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Hadean Receives Epic MegaGrant". Bloomberg.com. 2021-06-23. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ↑ "Web 3.0 Tech to Power UK MoD Project". Defense Advancement. 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ King, Jon (2022-07-15). "Army emergency: Apache helicopter transmits squawk over Suffolk indicating difficulties". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
- ↑ Tassi, Paul. "Fortnite's Epic Games Makes A Metaverse Investment To Scale Up Even Further". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
- ↑ Chowdhury, Hasan. "Fortnite developer Epic Games just backed a $30 million round into Hadean, a startup that wants to fix the metaverse's infrastructure problems". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
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