TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

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

MARCH 22, 2021

“We have stepped down from our position on the board and we are in the process of making arrangements to ensure we do not profit from our recent investment in Dispo,” said Spark, which led a $20 million Series A in Dispo less than a month ago. Dobrik, meanwhile, has stepped down from the Dispo board and left the company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

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. “In

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

A bunch of cohort-based learning platforms has also been successful in attracting recent investment — by, similarly, seeking to bridge the gap between edtech and the creator economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

China’s corporate venture landscape hits regulatory wall : Chinese tech giant ByteDance dissolved its strategic investment team, it became known today. The news comes as other sources reported that the country’s government may require larger internet firms to get approval before making investments. What’s going on? Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

“More than anything else, they are building on the platforms in the tech that matters,” Senkut added in an interview, noting that its users were attesting to a strong return on investment. That list is a notable indicator of what kinds of startups are also quietly working with Stream. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

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 began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. Image Credits: Supplied.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In Nick Quain , VP, venture development, Invest Ottawa . “Go Steve Houle , inventor and founder, Parkit360 . Siddharth Sinha , founder, Dresma . “It Chen Raizman , co-founder and CEO, The ActiveSeat Co. “A Lesley Pyle , founder, HireMyMom.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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