TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Roblox is now one of the world’s most valuable private companies in the world after a monster Series H raise brings the social gaming platform a stratospheric $29.5 The valuation also highlights how investors foresee the company benefiting from pandemic trends which pushed more users online and toward social gaming platforms.

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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

JUNE 22, 2021

The startup, based out of Oslo, Norway, initially made its name with an app called Timely , a tool for people to track time spent doing different tasks. If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Amy Chang, who sold her business intelligence startup Accompany to Cisco, is joining Pragma’s board of directors. 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

JANUARY 19, 2010

I talked about a situation where this happened to me when I was raising money in Silicon Valley for my second startup. 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. Get them involved!

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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. There is no perfect structure. Engineers often want to be able to move around and work on different projects, rather than be pigeon-holed into working a particular team or feature set.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Canada, CIS Region, Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina — with the startup offering proprietary localized content for each target region (although its users are spread across some 40 countries). and Ireland, enter Spanish-speaking countries and several countries in South-East Asia,” the startup tells TechCrunch.

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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. If that comes to bear, the ByteDance news could prove more harbinger than one-off, perhaps reducing the total capital available to startups in the country.

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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. So, ‘gambit’ seems to fit!”

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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

JANUARY 17, 2022

Istanbul has become a city to watch when it comes to casual gaming startups, boosted by the likes of Peak ( acquired by Zynga for $1.8 Now, a new startup is announcing a major round of funding to make its own mark on the space. For Spyke, the outsized round was raised to match the startup’s ambitions.

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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. Indeed, the Series B speaks of a moment of opportunity: It is coming only about six months after the startup raised a Series A of $15 million , and in fact Stream wasn’t looking to raise right now.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper. Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets.

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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. It depends on the incumbents successfully developing new revenue models that can be either syndicated to or replicated by new startups.

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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. Udemy files to go public on back of growing B2B incomes.

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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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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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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

APRIL 25, 2022

A new startup called Skich wants to help mobile users find games to play that better match their interests. To do so, it’s created a game recommendation app that carefully toes the line in order to not bump up against Apple’s App Store rule that prohibits other apps from acting as App Stores themselves.

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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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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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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

As I listened to the pitches, I wondered if the types of startups founders decide to build at YC has changed over time and whether those trends are lagging or leading indicators of the market as a whole. enterprise), segment (ecommerce, education, social, gaming, delivery) and by revenue model (subscription, ads, transactional).

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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

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. Tags: Startup Advice. I hope they are because badges will run their course.

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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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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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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

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 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. The game, The President, is loosely based on a fictionalized Donald Trump and was developed by Nairobi-based Mekan Games.

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