Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 1, 2023

SPEEDRUN began with a simple question: how can we support the best gaming founders at the earliest stages of their journey? Our answer was to craft a bespoke accelerator for the gaming industry.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 18, 2024

Xsolla, a global player in video game commerce, has partnered with Curine Ventures to establish the Xsolla Curine Academy (XCA) in Kuala Lumpur. The academy, facilitated by Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), aims to foster local talent within the gaming industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. It has developed its own tech stack that optimizes the performance of each game.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Toward that end, she has been more focused of late on startups that combine crypto with gaming. YGG lends players the money to buy the Axies and other digital assets to start the game, so they can start earning money. AS: I think it was crypto Twitter, which honestly is where we’re finding a lot of our gaming investments.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Register The largest-scale game exhibition in Korea, ‘ G-STAR 2023 ,’ will be held at BEXCO in Busan from November 16th to November 19th, spanning four days. The MMORPG game ‘THRONE AND LIBERTY’ (hereinafter TL), scheduled for release in December 2023, will showcase demo gameplay at G-STAR.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Register Ampverse , a prominent gaming community and intellectual property ecosystem, has acquired Singapore-based gaming startup Championify. Championify brings valuable technology and intellectual property assets, including its proprietary gamification platform, a reward system, and a gaming product marketplace.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Homa partners with indie mobile game studios so that their games are perfectly optimized to become a hit game on the App Store and Google Play. In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games. Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Generative AI is attracting a significant level of investment, including in the gaming space. Titan AI, a new mobile games studio, raised over $500,000 in pre-seed funding led by Berkeley SkyDeck. All rights reserved.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

Register The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (headed by Minister Park Bo-gyun) conducted an investment briefing on July 24, focused on attracting investment from the UAE sovereign wealth fund for content industries, including games , dramas, and webtoons.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2023

This is why we are excited to be partnering with CCP on a new project set … The post Investing in CCP Games appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Years before the first blockchain was created, the sci-fi space MMO EVE Online proved out many of the core principles that define web3 today.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Register The Pangyo Techno Valley, Korea’s representative game valley, is growing into a content & culture complex, hoping to become a ‘pump-priming’ for the Korean gaming industry. Pangyo Techno Valley, fondly known as Korea’s game valley, is a burgeoning epicenter for the gaming industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Yet more funding is finding its way to Istanbul’s gaming startups. Today, Dream Games — the casual games developer behind the hit game Royal Match — is announcing a $255 million Series C that values the startup at $2.75 Royal Match is currently one of the highest grossing mobile games on the market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

The surge of interest in e-sports, online fantasy leagues and more extensive online financial infrastructure have made the concept of real-money gaming more popular among consumers and games developers. per month, and it has led to $54 in average monthly revenues per player per game. states plus Washington D.C.),

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Jason Malki

MARCH 6, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Guy Costantini, a veteran of the video games industry. He has worked on incredible games like League of Legends, The Witcher 3, Marvel: Contest of Champions, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. He also helped put together a yet-to-be-released game, Skydance’s Behemoth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion millennials and Gen Zers, mobile gaming has never really picked up, despite the continent witnessing rapid economic growth and smartphone adoption. The company started as a game studio, developing and launching its own mobile games.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

Register Singapore-based Decentralized Gaming Ventures, a venture builder in the web3 gaming space, has secured a substantial seven-figure investment round. Currently, the venture builder operates a Singapore-based studio that serves as an incubator for 32 promising game developers organized into eight teams.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Ace Games , a Turkish mobile gaming company founded by a former Peak Games co-founder, has raised a $7 million seed funding round led by Actera Group. Former gaming entrepreneurs Kristian Segerstrale, Alexis Bonte and Kaan Gunay also participated. 6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Join our panelists from Khan Academy, PrismsVR, and Minecraft Education as we discuss the classroom of the future, and how important technologies including AI, XR, and gaming should play a role in it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Epic Games isn’t disclosing the terms of the deal. Epic Games also says that all integrations with third-party tools will remain available, including with Unity.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2023

Community Crowdfunding Platform brings multiple benefits to Social Gaming Startup Funding strategy plays an important role in how much and how quickly a startup receives funding. In a matter of hours, the gaming startup raised $1 million from retail investors with a minimum investment of $100.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Global financial services platform Square is honoring businesses that are “changing the entrepreneurial game” through its inaugural Square 50 awards. The post Square’s Inaugural Seller Awards Honors Entrepreneur Game Changers in their Industries appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2023

The post Get Ahead of the Game: 4 Steps for Assessing Your Digital Marketing Needs first appeared on. The post Get Ahead of the Game: 4 Steps for Assessing Your Digital Marketing Needs appeared first on. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc. and more articles from the EO blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Real-life fashion brands use NFTs for marketing in virtual worlds like Minecraft , plus several Atari and Microsoft video games. The fundamental value NFTs offer to bridge virtual fashion items with video games is the option to secure custody of the item for use in other games or mobile apps.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. .

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Specializing in the creation of cyberpunk-themed esports games, Matr1x is a next-gen player in the Web3 space. OKX Ventures, the investment arm of OKX, a prominent Web3 technology firm, has announced a strategic investment in Matr1x, a leading Web3 entertainment platform.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Pixelmon, a decentralized web3 gaming IP company, has secured a seed investment of US$8 million from various investors, including Animoca Brands, Delphi Ventures, Amber Group, and Bing Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 1, 2023

Register Animoca Brands’ gaming subsidiary The Sandbox has announced its acquisition of Sviper GmbH, a German game development studio that is known for its creative excellence in working with major brand partners and its senior-level talent. Its team has 40 members that are currently based in the gaming tech hub in Hamburg.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Women-led mobile gaming startup Robin Games raised funding around the idea of carving out a new niche in the market of “lifestyle gaming.” Today, the startup is releasing its first title to tackle this concept with the launch of a mobile game, PLAYHOUSE, which combines both gameplay and shopping in one experience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. It’s a true game, as we are really using game dynamics to drive financial literacy.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The potential applications are widespread, from drug discovery and therapy to writing, game development, education, ecommerce, and more. Last week, five a16z partners met on Slack to debate … The post a16z Slack Debate: Will Generative AI Supplant Therapists, Game Makers…Friends? appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Register GXC , a Jeju, South Korea-based global video game solution company , has announced the launch of Round Ventures , a $40-million new venture capital fund that will invest in early-stage gaming firms and startups. At least 20 video game companies will be invited to showcase their games and services for possible investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Web3 gaming company Unagi today announced a €4.7 Unagi, which doesn’t yet have its own website, was founded out of Paris by Charlie Guillemot , son of Ubisoft co-founder Yves Guillemot and formerly studio manager at Owlient, a free-to-play game studio acquired by Ubisoft back in 2011; and Remi Pellerin , also formerly of Owlient.

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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). Gaming presents a unique opportunity to help young Africans earn and lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

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Venture Well

JULY 31, 2020

E-Team Neurotendo developed a game-inspired device that enables safer and quicker aneurysm treatment with higher success rates. The post advancing aneurysm treatment with game-inspired design: q&a with Gopesh Tilvawala of Neurotendo appeared first on VentureWell.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Gaming is growing. As the pandemic forces us to find more entertainment options at home, video games played on consoles, PCs, and smartphones are an easy default. As the pandemic forces us to find more entertainment options at home, video games played on consoles, PCs, and smartphones are an easy default.

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