SkinScanner.gg raises £300K pre-seed for CS2 skins price comparison

What's the deal? SkinScanner.ggDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Liverpool startup building a price comparison platform for tradable in-game assets, has raised a £300,000 pre-seed round. The round was led by the Baltic Ventures Angel SyndicateDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → alongside Craig Osborne, FirespriteDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → co-founder Graeme Ankers, and Jennifer Houghton MBE. It takes the company's total funding past £350,000 in its first year of trading.

What's the endgame? Sinclair and his co-founder Nathan Engolodoe have built a free site that aggregates live prices from 24 CS2 marketplaces. Traders can instantly compare quotes to find the best buying and selling opportunities — what the founders call "the Skyscanner for tradable in-game assets."

Why now? Sinclair began pitching for the Baltic Ventures accelerator while still writing his dissertation, raising an initial £30,000 in July 2025. A further £20,000 from angel investors followed before this year's pre-seed, backed by investors from the Liverpool City Region and the Isle of Man.

Since launch, the platform has grown to more than 40,000 monthly active users and over 23,000 Discord members, built organically. It now refers over £3 million in monthly traffic to CS2 marketplaces and holds 10 partnerships with major platforms.

The accelerator also connected Sinclair with Ankers, whose studio Firesprite was acquired by SonyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → in 2021 and now operates within PlayStation StudiosDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. Ankers mentored the team before becoming a strategic lead investor.

The signal: The round sits in the smaller half of deals in our funding database, but it reflects a live thesis: the multi-billion-pound market for tradable Counter-Strike skins is large enough to support dedicated infrastructure. "This round gives us access to the capital, experience and networks that can help us become the leading discovery platform," Sinclair said.

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