TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

We are betting this will start happening in casual games, too.” ” The funding is coming from a single investor, Griffin Gaming Partners, a VC that focuses (as you can guess by its name) on startups working in and around the games industry. He has joined Spyke’s board of directors with this round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Head of content Lee Allentuck suggested that the last couple years (including the pandemic) have started to change game developers’ and publishers’ minds about the readiness of the industry for what’s next. “They see the digital crossover is going to happen — people are playing online board games now.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

I started off with several introductions that one of my friends from college and a former VC made for me to several of his previous colleagues. I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. Joseph Heller is CEO and founder of Supplied.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

. “The game lives in the minds of the people, a shared social experience. As an analogue, they referred to the social gaming explosion a decade ago. Because we had social media platforms and mobile phones then, we were socializing over those — so we naturally looked for ways to play over them,” they said.

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