TechCrunch
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 20, 2021
On the heels of Roblox hitting it big with its platform for user-created gaming content, another startup has landed a major round of funding to build out its own user-generated platform aimed at immersive experiences. There are some 12 million rooms on the platform already, Rec Room said.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Meet Powder , a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them. Powder wants to build the video infrastructure for social gaming. We thought we would create a community first and then a product,” co-founder and CEO Stanislas Coppin told me.
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). Carry1st also received investments from Avenir and Google; it’s the latter’s second check from its Africa Investment Fund. It’s a heavyweight group.
TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
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. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2010
I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I think this classifies as a “crack filler&# and I’m not sure I would have done the investment for that reason.
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