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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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Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. We are betting this will start happening in casual games, too.” “They let people play together and compete together.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VCs rate pitch decks, IPO analysis, Techstars’ expansion plans

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Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed three VCs about the topic for TechCrunch Disrupt: Heather Hartnett, Human Ventures. David Thacker, Greylock. Victoria Treyger, Felicis.

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a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round

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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). A couple of prominent individual investors, including Nas and the founders of Chipper Cash , Sky Mavis and Yield Guild Games, took part.

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Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market

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The founder tells me that he’s hired people — and fired people — all in the virtual offices. The platform wasn’t built as a pandemic phenomenon, but in fact, was the result of years of experimentation by the founders, Dayton Mills and Kai Micah Mills. The total addressable market for professional, social gaming is murky.

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Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely, raises $14M to build more AI-based productivity apps

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If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc. It is, in a sense, a timely disruption. And, serendipitously — or maybe because this is some kind of zeitgeist — this is also playing into what Memory.ai

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks.

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