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Overplay’s Wefunder Campaign brings in $1 million from Retail Investors, Funding Social Gaming AI-Powered Tech

American Entrepreneurship

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. The team has introduced a major innovation to social gaming. They have the backgrounds that attract startup funding.

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper. Nine months after its launch last December, the latter has completed a seed sale token round of $3.2 million at a $30M fully diluted valuation. . Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets.

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15 Business Leaders Share Their Experiences and Insights on Getting Through COVID-19

StartupNation

“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. Strategy and messaging will certainly need to correspond to the times. The COVID-19 pandemic struck us hard and completely derailed our expansion strategy for 2020.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Read more: PaidContent. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

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. Instead, investors are faced with a choice between two strategies. It’s too early to tell which strategy is better.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

TechCrunch

Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. Using this initial input, Skich will customize its feed of games to the end user. It’s just a recommendation.

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Role’s video role-playing platform makes a $2.75M charm attempt on the burgeoning tabletop world

TechCrunch

Some platforms, like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds , have seized on this opportunity to provide online video collaboration platforms for playing games like D&D, strategy titles, and many others of the general tabletop type. “The game lives in the minds of the people, a shared social experience.