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Scopely Raises $8.5M

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Los Angeles-based Scopely , the startup co-founded by Eytan Elbaz , Eytan Elbaz , Walter Driver and Ankur Bulsara, which is developing social and mobile games, said this morning that it has raised $8.5M Scopely said it is developing mobile and social applications, including the Buddies franchise of multiplayer games.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Current round: $2mm in Series B from Anthem Venture Partners and Rincon Venture Partners – Total Raised: $3mm – Read more: TechCrunch.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Independents: Millennial Media , Greystripe , Medialets , JumpTap , Mojiva. -DST invested $180mm last fall.

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6 Top Trends For The Digital World In 2016

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Top media giants Facebook and Alphabet are determined to grow this number with the introduction of various airborne devices designed to bring internet to the far corners of the globe to boost their revenues. The issue of cyber-espionage, targeting companies like Target, Home Depot and Anthem Insurance, continues to be a concern.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. It’s core platform stuff. Other Deals.