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The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

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The round was led by TheVentureCity, with participation from SOSV, Riot Games, Conscience VC, Corner3 VC and others. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

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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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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). Tiny Speck Online gaming start-up. I found this investment strange since normally VC’s hate to bet on gaming companies. In my mind, not a typical VC investment. OTHER STUFF.

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Role’s video role-playing platform makes a $2.75M charm attempt on the burgeoning tabletop world

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. “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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Extra Crunch roundup: RapidSOS EC-1, how to prep for an M&A exit, inside Genki Forest

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Every 911 center is very different and they are as diverse and unique as the communities that they serve,” said Karin Marquez, senior director of public safety at RapidSOS. Everything feels right about the company,” said VC investor Anna Fang.

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Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games

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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. . “They let people play together and compete together.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community. Building Communities. Distinct Communities.