TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services — The company envisions application developers embedding video in social, gaming or retail applications. Extra Crunch is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. The tech giants. Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Since its launch in 2018, Carry1st, a publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised funding from investors such as Google via its Africa Investment Fund and Avenir Growth Capital. South African music artiste Nasty C (far left); Carry1st co-founder and COO Lucy Hoffman (far right).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Where kids are concerned, a giant of the category remains Roblox — which leverages social gaming to get children interested in learning programming and potentially earning money off of their creations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Carry1st , a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). A couple of prominent individual investors, including Nas and the founders of Chipper Cash , Sky Mavis and Yield Guild Games, took part.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed three VCs about the topic for TechCrunch Disrupt: Heather Hartnett, Human Ventures. David Thacker, Greylock. Victoria Treyger, Felicis. “In

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard is a 16-inch square touchscreen device with a custom OS and a sophisticated method of tracking game pieces and hand movements. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Skich co-founder and CEO Sergey Budkovski , originally from Belarus, was previously head of biz dev at Minsk-based design and development firm 69pixels before founding the startup. But it will have to compete with the many ways users today discover games, including through increasingly popular social games, like TikTok.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

That list is a notable indicator of what kinds of startups are also quietly working with Stream.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Funding for women founders continues to disappoint : New data indicates that less than 2% of VC funding last year went to all-women teams. South African mobile games company lands $20M : Meet Carry1st, a social games publisher that just landed eight figures. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The founder tells me that he’s hired people — and fired people — all in the virtual offices. The platform wasn’t built as a pandemic phenomenon, but in fact, was the result of years of experimentation by the founders, Dayton Mills and Kai Micah Mills. The total addressable market for professional, social gaming is murky.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Some platforms, like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds , have seized on this opportunity to provide online video collaboration platforms for playing games like D&D, strategy titles, and many others of the general tabletop type. “The game lives in the minds of the people, a shared social experience.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In Steve Houle , inventor and founder, Parkit360 . Siddharth Sinha , founder, Dresma . “It Chen Raizman , co-founder and CEO, The ActiveSeat Co. “A Lesley Pyle , founder, HireMyMom. Rish Sharma , CEO and founder, Mallama . “Be Be transparent.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc. These days, however, it feels like the worlds of AI and advances in mobile computing are increasingly coming together to evolve that concept once again.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

This doesn’t take anything away from the brilliant white male entrepreneurs that have built incredible companies, but it has made an equivalent crowd of Black founders almost nonexistent. I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. Image Credits: Supplied.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). That said, the founder is Stewart Butterfield , who co-founded Flickr.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. In addition to operating its own applications, Buddy Media helps large media companies and marketers develop, build, manage, and promote social media applications.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

Each time, I’m impressed by the intelligence, ambition and the polish of the founders presenting companies only a few weeks or months old. enterprise), segment (ecommerce, education, social, gaming, delivery) and by revenue model (subscription, ads, transactional). I’ve been attending for six years now.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The IPO market is healthy again, but M&A still represents 88% of exits: So far this year, there were 503 IPOs and 5,203 deals,” writes Boissevain, founder of Ascento Capital. “The space, the founder, the products and the back end … they exemplify the new Chinese consumer brand.“.

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