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Daily Crunch: Investors back away from Dispo

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After a recent story in Business Insider brought allegations to light that a member of David Dobrik’s vlog squad had sexually assaulted an extra during a shoot, Spark Capital announced that it would “sever all ties” with Dobrik’s photo-sharing startup Dispo, as did fellow investors Unshackled Ventures and Seven Seven Six.

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Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

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The firm is known for its investment in the video gaming industry’s infrastructure, technology, tools and platforms. Riot Games (developer of League of Legends), Tokyo’s Akatsuki Entertainment Technology Fund (the company behind Dragon Ball Z), Raine Ventures and fintech VC TTV Capital participated.

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a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round

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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). Andreessen Horowitz general partners David Haber and Jonathan Lai will join Carry1st’s board as observers. .

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

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Users aren’t promised in-game rewards, virtual currency or anything else. Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. Gamers want new games, new games need gamers.”

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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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“Turkey has always been known as a capital-efficient place for startups,” she said in an interview, referring to the fact that there is a strong pipeline of engineers coming out of education in the country, but also the fact that hiring them is “super affordable” compared to hiring equivalent talent in London or the Bay Area.

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Gaming infrastructure startup Pragma raises $12M from Greylock, Mark Pincus and others

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Pragma is building what it calls a “backend as a service,” providing ready-made infrastructure to developers of online, live service games. Amy Chang, who sold her business intelligence startup Accompany to Cisco, is joining Pragma’s board of directors. Image Credits: Pragma.