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.

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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. The company has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Serena.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services — The company envisions application developers embedding video in social, gaming or retail applications. Dobrik, meanwhile, has stepped down from the Dispo board and left the company. The tech giants.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

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. Current round: $4.7mm extension to Series A ($4.7mm+previous $1.85mm=$6.55mm) Total raised: $6.55mm.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s all the more interesting considering Zynga’s track record in social gaming over the years, and its early days of looking to build in social elements by way of Facebook integrations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. Mehta noted that the pandemic nearly cooked the company by derailing their funding, which was originally supposed to come through around this time last year when everything went pear-shaped.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

“ We think social games and payments is the best first step to doing so, but we have very large ambitions. Carry1st is one of the few companies to operate a hybrid model, but the endgame for the company really is to be one of the region’s dominant consumer internet companies. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Last year, Epic Games integrated Houseparty with Fortnite, initially to allow gamers to see live feeds from friends while gaming, then later adding support to livestream gameplay directly into Houseparty. 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.

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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).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Well, according to a survey of Gen Z VCs , their top three focuses are the creator economy, edtech and social gaming. And while there are loads of late-stage money, first financings are worth an ever-smaller fraction of the VC pie. What are the youngest VCs in the world focused on?

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

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. Perhaps new mobile ad technology will enable social networks to flourish. This trend is plain to see from IPO performance and negative press cycles.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

The startup believes the potential for its game-finding experience is huge — there are around 3 billion mobile gamers worldwide and hundreds of games are launched daily. But it will have to compete with the many ways users today discover games, including through increasingly popular social games, like TikTok.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Last year’s passé terms that even entrepreneurs cringe at (and the best are embarrassed to lead with) are social network, social media and social games. I guess “social&# is just soooo last year. I hope they are because badges will run their course.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

South African mobile games company lands $20M : Meet Carry1st, a social games publisher that just landed eight figures. Given that we’re in a never-ending pandemic and the work landscape has been forever shifted, it’s not a huge surprise that folks are lining up to fund Lattice’s work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc. These days, however, it feels like the worlds of AI and advances in mobile computing are increasingly coming together to evolve that concept once again.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

That list is a notable indicator of what kinds of startups are also quietly working with Stream.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live, Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan reviewed the earliest pitch deck for social gaming company Rec Room with Nick Fajt, its founder and CEO. I think Nick did a wonderful job of setting the tone for the type of social platform Rec Room wanted to be from the start,” said Zhan.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

Sales of avatars in social games nearly 50% of total revenue eclipsing revenue from affiliate transaction, ads or paid games (slide 97). Mobile game content revenue > PC game revenue (slide 98).

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. In addition to operating its own applications, Buddy Media helps large media companies and marketers develop, build, manage, and promote social media applications.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Thus, people are smart enough to understand gaming — but what about wanting to do it every single day with their colleagues, sans music and flashing lights? The total addressable market for professional, social gaming is murky.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. Yet nearly any entrepreneur who has an idea that other people aren’t doing will tell you that it’s hard to get investors excited. That is conformity.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

We have seen KPIs jump more than 50 percent in the last month because people are stuck at home and have more time to spend with social gaming and shopping communities. They will not go back to normal any time soon, or at all. Startups need to work harder and faster to capture this trend. ” Key takeaways.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). I especially like Jelli , which is user power radio. You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

enterprise), segment (ecommerce, education, social, gaming, delivery) and by revenue model (subscription, ads, transactional). To get a sense of the broader trends in YC companies, I’ve compared the Winter 2012 class and the Spring 2014 class by sector (consumer v.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. I started off with several introductions that one of my friends from college and a former VC made for me to several of his previous colleagues. Joseph Heller is CEO and founder of Supplied. Image Credits: Supplied.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Find a way to ask them a pertinent question and ask for their point-of-view. “Bob, if I’m not mistaken you have some experience in social games through your involvement with EA. If you notice a partner that hasn’t spoken or seems to not be paying attention (hopefully not on a Blackberry!)? Get them involved!

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Industry watchers frequently compare the upstart to giants like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, but founder Binsen Tang comes from a tech background, having funded ELEX Technology, a social gaming company that found success internationally.

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

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Facebook Apps, iPhone Apps, Social Games and now The Real-time Web (finally a new, sexier buzzword to replace Web 2.0. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). The last 12 months has seen the rise of many new trends.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

That ranking excludes music videos, but the hype around this long-awaited game could smash past those records too — right now, the most viewed YouTube […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Where kids are concerned, a giant of the category remains Roblox — which leverages social gaming to get children interested in learning programming and potentially earning money off of their creations.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Meanwhile, the broader platform is currently in private beta testing with studios including One More Game (started by started by Pat Wyatt, one of Blizzard’s first employees) and Mitchell’s Mountain Top Studios.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction. There are a bunch of incentives: Desire to help people by sharing knowledge (Yelp). Desire to be an expert (Wikipedia). Trying to get discovered for a job someday. However, we have built in controls so you don’t get too addicted. Fundraising: Fog Creek was bootstrapped.

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