TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. Existing investors, including First Round Capital, Index, Sequoia and DAG, also participated in the round. They’ve raised just shy of $50 million to date.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 million in seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital, the startup’s CEO, Adi Sideman, exclusively told TechCrunch. One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2010
I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. But I made it for a reason.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 12, 2021
But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.
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). Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData).
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
At the time, these integrations appeared to be the end goal that explained why Epic Games had bought the social startup in the first place. 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. And bored users shifted to audio-based social networking on apps like Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces.
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.”
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