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. That’s because Powder didn’t come up with its social app for gamers overnight.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In a statement, MVM said the funding will expand its efforts to build “Africa’s largest gaming DAO and provide gamers with access to world-class opportunities.”. Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Sequoia is one of the most sought-after VC firms in the world, and predictably, it sees plenty of startups competing for its attention. We even took a look at Rec Room’s earliest pitch deck, the seed that ultimately grew into a business that has raised nearly $150 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

After a recent story in Business Insider brought allegations to light that a member of David Dobrik’s vlog squad had sexually assaulted an extra during a shoot, Spark Capital announced that it would “sever all ties” with Dobrik’s photo-sharing startup Dispo, as did fellow investors Unshackled Ventures and Seven Seven Six.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

No one’s going to tell you when your startup has reached product-market fit — there are no flashing lights, no siren, no balloons falling from the ceiling. Global startups raise $158B in Q3, an all-time record. Global startups raise $158B in Q3, an all-time record. David Thacker, Greylock. Victoria Treyger, Felicis. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The company already has amassed a list of notable customers, including Ikea-owned TaskRabbit, NBC Sports, Unilever, Delivery Hero, Gojek, eToro and Stanford University, as well as a number of others that it’s not disclosing across healthcare, education, finance, virtual events, dating, gaming and social.

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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). 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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. Tags: Startup Advice.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

. “The game lives in the minds of the people, a shared social experience. As an analogue, they referred to the social gaming explosion a decade ago. Because we had social media platforms and mobile phones then, we were socializing over those — so we naturally looked for ways to play over them,” they said.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

This time, I connected with 15 startup and SME leaders from my network to discover how they are tackling the current crisis, and what advice they had to offer to others in the same boat. In times of crisis, it’s imperative for startups to build a solid analytics strategy to understand how their businesses are functioning at a granular level.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. I have called it a “mug’s game&# and I mostly try to avoid it. For venture capitalists this isn’t troubling. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Ten different people would probably define the metaverse in 10 different ways, but it’s generally used as shorthand for the web of emerging virtual spaces full of personalized avatars, games and digital goods that are already shaping our world. The pair liken the new venture to “an esports team for the metaverse.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The headlines might be littered with mega deals, IPOs and SPACs, but in all likelihood, you will exit your startup via a relatively smaller merger or acquisition, Ben Boissevain writes in a guest column. Duolingo boosts IPO price target in boon to edtech startups. Duolingo boosts IPO price target in boon to edtech startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

What a news roundup we have for you today: China’s changing venture landscape, the power of passwords, no-code startups, and why women are still raising paltry sums compared to men. China’s corporate venture landscape hits regulatory wall : Chinese tech giant ByteDance dissolved its strategic investment team, it became known today.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Facebook Apps, iPhone Apps, Social Games and now The Real-time Web (finally a new, sexier buzzword to replace Web 2.0. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

We’ve already gotten feedback on this overview of subscription pricing models , and a look back at 2020 funding rounds and exits among Israel’s security startups was aimed at our new members who live and work there, along with international investors who are seeking new opportunities. Daniel Li, Madrona Venture Group.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

With the goal of making remote work more spontaneous, there are dozens of new startups working to create virtual HQs for distributed teams. By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. The biggest challenge ahead?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. I talked about a situation where this happened to me when I was raising money in Silicon Valley for my second startup. Congratulations. Get them involved!

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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. We now have, in our minds, the three best funds that focus on gaming and web3.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The round was led by David Thacker at Greylock, with participation from Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Oculus founder Nate Mitchell and Cloudera founder Amr Awadallah, along with previous investors Upfront Ventures and Advancit Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Within a small startup with 3 engineers, everyone will work on all aspects of the site. Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. Union Square Ventures is an investor. There is no perfect structure. Desire to be an expert (Wikipedia).

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