{"id":1004446,"date":"2026-04-23T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004446"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:01:02","slug":"ms-dhoni-bumrah-pandya-and-others-put-11-million-in-lightfury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/ms-dhoni-bumrah-pandya-and-others-put-11-million-in-lightfury\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Dhoni, Bumrah, Pandya and others put $11 million in LightFury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming startup LightFury Games has raised $11 million (about Rs 103 crore) in a funding round from Blume Ventures, V3 Ventures, MIXI and Times Internet, with strategic backing from Indian cricketers including MS Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya, as it looks to build a global AAA cricket gaming franchise. <\/p>\n<p>Other players who invested in the round include Ravindra Jadeja, Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma and Sai Sudharsan. <\/p>\n<p>Times Internet is the digital arm of The Times of India group, which also publishes this paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming startup LightFury Games has raised $11 million (about Rs 103 crore) in a funding round from Blume Ventures, V3 Ventures, MIXI and Times Internet, with strategic backing from Indian cricketers including MS Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya, as it looks to build a global AAA cricket gaming franchise. Other players who invested in the round include Ravindra Jadeja, Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma and Sai Sudharsan. Times Internet is the digital arm of The Times of India group, which also publishes this paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}