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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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. “Teams and alliances, clans, tournaments — these exist in the midcore genre and that is why they are so sticky,” co-founder and CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu said in an interview. We are betting this will start happening in casual games, too.” “They let people play together and compete together.

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

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As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard is a 16-inch square touchscreen device with a custom OS and a sophisticated method of tracking game pieces and hand movements. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

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This doesn’t take anything away from the brilliant white male entrepreneurs that have built incredible companies, but it has made an equivalent crowd of Black founders almost nonexistent. 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.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). I found this investment strange since normally VC’s hate to bet on gaming companies.

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Role’s video role-playing platform makes a $2.75M charm attempt on the burgeoning tabletop world

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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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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. Building Communities.

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Extra Crunch roundup: RapidSOS EC-1, how to prep for an M&A exit, inside Genki Forest

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Every 911 center is very different and they are as diverse and unique as the communities that they serve,” said Karin Marquez, senior director of public safety at RapidSOS. Everything feels right about the company,” said VC investor Anna Fang. After closing its latest funding round, Genki Forest is valued at $6 billion.