Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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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

MARCH 4, 2021

This Series B round is being led by Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut, with previous backers GGV Capital and 01 Advisors (the fund co-founded by Twitter’s former CEO and COO, Dick Costolo and Adam Bain) also participating. That list is a notable indicator of what kinds of startups are also quietly working with Stream.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Seems an obvious fit.

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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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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. We are betting this will start happening in casual games, too.” “They let people play together and compete together.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

If that comes to bear, the ByteDance news could prove more harbinger than one-off, perhaps reducing the total capital available to startups in the country. Funding for women founders continues to disappoint : New data indicates that less than 2% of VC funding last year went to all-women teams. What’s going on? Decarbonization is hot.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Plus, don’t miss our first investor surveys of 2021: one by Lucas Matney on social gaming , and another by Mike Butcher that gathered responses from Portugal-based investors on a wide variety of topics. 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. So, ‘gambit’ seems to fit!”

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2023

Community Crowdfunding Platform brings multiple benefits to Social Gaming Startup Funding strategy plays an important role in how much and how quickly a startup receives funding. In a matter of hours, the gaming startup raised $1 million from retail investors with a minimum investment of $100.

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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. We now have, in our minds, the three best funds that focus on gaming and web3. Image Credits: Carry1st.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The round was led by David Thacker at Greylock, with participation from Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Oculus founder Nate Mitchell and Cloudera founder Amr Awadallah, along with previous investors Upfront Ventures and Advancit Capital.

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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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