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

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The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Kodland’s latest tranche of funding — which brings its total raised to date to $11 million — will be used for market expansion, with courses in a further eight languages planned over the next two years. Ireland, the U.S.,

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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. “It’s rare to see a product so critical to customers and scaling well.

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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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Istanbul has become a city to watch when it comes to casual gaming startups, boosted by the likes of Peak ( acquired by Zynga for $1.8 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.

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

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By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. On one end, there are the productivity companies, and on the other end, there are the video game companies. So for me, it’s not hard at all to use it.