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Goama lets developers integrate a social gaming platform into their apps

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Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. Some of Goama’s clients have used it for promotional campaigns, while others rely on the platform, which introduces new games every week, to add a full-fledged gaming function to their app.

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

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Emerging markets, including Africa, account for 30% of this number; platforms like MVM see games as one way to introduce these millions of users to web3. The gaming DAO publishes mobile games in frontier markets and creates developer tools for game creators to utilize emerging business models in Web3 gaming.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

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Canada, CIS Region, Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina — with the startup offering proprietary localized content for each target region (although its users are spread across some 40 countries). It says it will also be spending on product development. Ireland, the U.S., It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

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Stream , which lets developers build chat and activity streams into apps and other services by way of a few lines of code, has raised $38 million, funding that it will be using to continue building out its existing business as well as to work on new features. .

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Daily Crunch: Investors back away from Dispo

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After a recent story in Business Insider brought allegations to light that a member of David Dobrik’s vlog squad had sexually assaulted an extra during a shoot, Spark Capital announced that it would “sever all ties” with Dobrik’s photo-sharing startup Dispo, as did fellow investors Unshackled Ventures and Seven Seven Six.

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Powder raises $14 million for its social app for game clips

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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. The team then developed an app that would appeal to that community, the “metaverse camera” as Coppin says.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

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A new startup called Skich wants to help mobile users find games to play that better match their interests. To do so, it’s created a game recommendation app that carefully toes the line in order to not bump up against Apple’s App Store rule that prohibits other apps from acting as App Stores themselves.