investment pitching social gaming 
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. And I feel the same about investing.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 7, 2021
In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live (formerly Extra Crunch Live) , Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan and Nick Fajt, founder and CEO of social gaming platform Rec Room , explained what the venture capital firm looks for in consumer-facing startups. You can check out the whole episode as well as the Rec Room pitch deck below.
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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.
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. Sometimes that works.
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. Getting the details right in your pitch deck. Image Credits: Rec Room.
TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard is a 16-inch square touchscreen device with a custom OS and a sophisticated method of tracking game pieces and hand movements. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.
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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