Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

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. I’ve been asked a few times whether there is consumer investment fatigue as a result. But consumer investment will continue.

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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). Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

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). Carry1st also received investments from Avenir and Google; it’s the latter’s second check from its Africa Investment Fund. It’s a heavyweight group.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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 company has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Serena. Around May 2020, the company had to raise a $1.3

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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

MAY 4, 2021

million seed investment. CRE Ventures led that round , but this time, the company, which has offices in Cape Town and New York, brought in a blue-chip group of investors spanning gaming, media and fintech. The firm is known for its investment in the video gaming industry’s infrastructure, technology, tools and platforms.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2020

2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. After a somewhat average start to the year, Indian startups saw their venture capital investment fall to just $1.5 billion invested into Indian startups during the three-month period.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This year, investors pumped a record amount of venture capital into the world’s startups: In Q2 2021, VCs invested $156 billion, upping that to $158 billion in Q3. Stephanie Zhan walks through the Rec Room pitch deck that won Sequoia’s investment. Stephanie Zhan walks through the Rec Room pitch deck that won Sequoia’s investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Last year’s passé terms that even entrepreneurs cringe at (and the best are embarrassed to lead with) are social network, social media and social games. I guess “social&# is just soooo last year. And I feel the same about investing. I hope they are because badges will run their course.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

At $699 for the Gameboard it’s not exactly an impulse buy, either, but the fact of the matter is people spend a lot of money on gaming, with some titles running into multiple hundreds of dollars for all the expansions and pieces. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2021

I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. If they invest in someone that is unknown within their social circles, they run the risk of being challenged by their partnership on why they made that decision, so the personal risk of going out on a limb is big.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I hope benefit the Southern California technology ecosystem. Mobile game content revenue > PC game revenue (slide 98).

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Nick Quain , VP, venture development, Invest Ottawa . “Go We have seen KPIs jump more than 50 percent in the last month because people are stuck at home and have more time to spend with social gaming and shopping communities. Related: 3 Core Objectives to Help You Lead Your Startup Through the Pandemic. Go on the offensive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m no dummy on businesses that are in the financial services sector, but my 3 partners have been investing in the space for 20 years so I’m clearly on a different level. In our current portfolio 3 or his 4 investments are in the Fin Svcs space. 30% of our last fund went into deals in this sector. Get them involved!

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Despite many distractions in our first full week of the new year, we published a full slate of stories exploring different aspects of entrepreneurship, fundraising and investing. 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

This is a big sum for a seed round in any country, but as it happens, it’s the largest seed round to date for a startup out of Turkey, underscoring just how much things have evolved in the country when it comes to attracting investment. As a point of reference, when Peak was acquired for $1.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Thus, people are smart enough to understand gaming — but what about wanting to do it every single day with their colleagues, sans music and flashing lights? The total addressable market for professional, social gaming is murky. Lavingia invested in Branch’s seed round. It’s also much cheaper.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Since its launch in 2018, Carry1st, a publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised funding from investors such as Google via its Africa Investment Fund and Avenir Growth Capital. a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round.

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