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

TechCrunch

.” The full list of partners right now includes Dire Wolf Digital, Nomad Games, Auroch Digital, Restoration Games, Steve Jackson Games, Knights of Unity, Skyship Studios, EncounterPlus, PlannarAlly and Sugar Gamers, as well as individual creators and developers. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. Badges were an innovation.

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Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

TechCrunch

The firm is known for its investment in the video gaming industry’s infrastructure, technology, tools and platforms. Riot Games (developer of League of Legends), Tokyo’s Akatsuki Entertainment Technology Fund (the company behind Dragon Ball Z), Raine Ventures and fintech VC TTV Capital participated.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. We talked about Facebook. Read more: PaidContent. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. It depends on the incumbents successfully developing new revenue models that can be either syndicated to or replicated by new startups.

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15 Business Leaders Share Their Experiences and Insights on Getting Through COVID-19

StartupNation

Nick Quain , VP, venture development, Invest Ottawa . “Go Times are tight, and companies are less inclined to take on the world themselves, nor are they able to innovate internally at every turn. Related: 3 Core Objectives to Help You Lead Your Startup Through the Pandemic. Go on the offensive. Ramzi Jreidini , CEO, Handiss .

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. But bill is a BIG idea guy. PLUS RELATED FUNDING …. uh, hello!