PlaySafe ID, the platform for gamers that keeps cheaters, hackers, bots, and predators out of games, has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding to bring trust, fairness, and accountability to gaming communities.
👯 Founders: Andrew Wailes, Ben Dixon
📅 Founding year: 2024
🏭 Industry: Gaming / Cybersecurity
💥 Problem: Cheating, toxic behavior, and predatory threats are eroding the integrity and safety of online games. Existing moderation and security tools are fragmented and insufficient, lacking a universal system of trust and accountability across platforms.
📣 Solution: A privacy-first, game-agnostic digital ID that verifies players without revealing their identity. It ensures they’re real and have no record of cheating or inappropriate conduct, allowing developers and communities to enforce fair play and child safety standards without compromising player anonymity.
👥 Customers: Online gaming platforms, multiplayer game developers, and gaming communities.
🌱 Stage: Pre-seed
💰 Investment amount: €1 million
🚀 Funded by: Early Game Ventures (lead), Hartmann Capital, Overwolf
👁️🗨️ Investor’s perspective:
“PlaySafe ID is building the trust layer for gaming—and beyond. In a world where AI and anonymity are eroding safety and fairness, PlaySafe ID restores balance with identity, transparency, and accountability. Once a gamer is verified, their identity becomes portable across games, platforms, and genres. The more developers adopt it, the more valuable it becomes to players—and vice versa. Eventually, the verified identity becomes a default layer of the gaming stack, just like your Steam account or your Xbox Live profile. It’s a winner-takes-all kind of play.”
– Cristian Munteanu, Managing Partner at Early Game Ventures
💡 It will be spent on: Expanding the team, accelerating platform integrations, and executing a major go-to-market push targeting over 250,000 users in the coming months.
💬 In their own words:
“This round gives us the firepower to move fast, expand our world-class team, and partner with games that want the most fair and safe environment for players to enjoy. This is now more important than ever before. With cheating in games as a mass-epidemic that ruins fun for players daily, and the Online Safety Act ushering in long overdue requirements for child protection in gaming, PlaySafe ID’s mission to safeguard gamers isn’t just relevant – it’s now essential for compliance and the future of global gaming.”
– Andrew Wailes, CEO & Founder of PlaySafe ID
🔑 Business model: B2B identity-as-a-service for game developers and platforms
