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

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million seed investment. CRE Ventures led that round , but this time, the company, which has offices in Cape Town and New York, brought in a blue-chip group of investors spanning gaming, media and fintech. VC firm Konvoy Ventures led the Series A round. Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming.

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

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At $699 for the Gameboard it’s not exactly an impulse buy, either, but the fact of the matter is people spend a lot of money on gaming, with some titles running into multiple hundreds of dollars for all the expansions and pieces. “They see the digital crossover is going to happen — people are playing online board games now.

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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. Image Credits: Supplied.

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Daily Crunch: Electric rail vehicle startup Parallel Systems raises a $49.55M Series A

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China’s corporate venture landscape hits regulatory wall : Chinese tech giant ByteDance dissolved its strategic investment team, it became known today. The news comes as other sources reported that the country’s government may require larger internet firms to get approval before making investments. Startups/VC. What’s going on?

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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. He has joined Spyke’s board of directors with this round.