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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. He’ll discover the value.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

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. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Seems an obvious fit.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

Buddy Media was an amazing exit, but I never really thought of it like “enterprise software” I thought about it more like an agency that had developed off the shelf social tools around its service solutions. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it.

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

TechCrunch

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.”. Emerging markets, including Africa, account for 30% of this number; platforms like MVM see games as one way to introduce these millions of users to web3.

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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

TechCrunch

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.

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Powder raises $14 million for its social app for game clips

TechCrunch

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 team then developed an app that would appeal to that community, the “metaverse camera” as Coppin says.