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. The game, The President, is loosely based on a fictionalized Donald Trump and was developed by Nairobi-based Mekan Games.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The startup, based out of Oslo, Norway, initially made its name with an app called Timely , a tool for people to track time spent doing different tasks. If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc. previously.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Last year, Epic Games integrated Houseparty with Fortnite, initially to allow gamers to see live feeds from friends while gaming, then later adding support to livestream gameplay directly into Houseparty. 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

This time, I connected with 15 startup and SME leaders from my network to discover how they are tackling the current crisis, and what advice they had to offer to others in the same boat. In times of crisis, it’s imperative for startups to build a solid analytics strategy to understand how their businesses are functioning at a granular level.

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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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