Hey everyone! We officially launched Juked to the world on this day one year ago, November 6th, 2019. I wanted to take this moment to talk about some of the moments, milestones, and motivations that defined our first year. 

I delve into this in detail on Juked, but here are some highlights! 

• In March 2019 Chris and Ben incorporate Juked
• In April 2019 we begin bootstrapping development of the product
• In July 2019 we launch our pre-alpha user test (MVP_
• In September 2019, we brought on Delan Tai, our VP of Engineering as our first hire. Delan rules.
• In December, we were accepted into the prestigious tech accelerator 500 Startups to participate in their 26th batch.
• In February, we officially partnered with one of my personal favorite esports organizations, DreamHack, to build their streaming portal for DreamHack Anaheim.
• In April, we officially closed our pre-seed funding round, including $800,000 from amazing angel investors like Mike and Amy Morhaim.
• In June, we brought on Logan Threlkeld (formerly of Envy) to head up our digital content efforts. He’s done awesome work on our social channels.
• In August, we launched esports news on Juked, and have since written dozens of original articles and aggregated thousands (literally) more from other sources.
• In September, we announced our crowd equity campaign via Republic, and have since raised $700,000+ directly from the esports community!

Since we launched in beta we’ve grown from 500 monthly active users to more than 50,000.

Over the past year, 3.4 million minutes of esports content have been consumed on Juked, and tens of thousands of articles have been read.

We’ve featured tournaments from over 75+ esports games—and when a Juked user sets up their profile, they follow 4.6 games on average.

Since we launched our beta, we’ve had match info, streams, and results from a staggering 56,107 matches from 2200 tournaments.

Click here to see the full infographic!

What’s next for Juked?

With the community’s support we’re doubling down on our mission of lowering the barrier to entry to enjoying esports.

This means more tools for following your favorite teams, games, and players.

This means social features that allow you to share your fandom and find community.

This means gamification, leaderboards, and interactivity that make following esports on Juked more exhilarating.

This means more original content from us that helps to break down the most important events and news spanning the industry.

Thanks again for being part of the Juked story!

- Ben