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MARCH 8, 2021

Los Angeles- and Seattle-based Theorycraft Games, founded by veterans of Riot Games, has raised $37.5M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by NetEase, and also included NEA, Bitkraft Ventures, Griffin Gaming Partners, Sisu Game Ventures, as well as angels.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2020

. “ In the game world, because of the necessity to build multiplayer, the length to launch a game has gotten way, way, way, way longer. Games are taking five to 10 years to launch out of beta,” Chen said. . Pragma’s investors agreed. The company raised $4.2

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based Singularity 6 , a new game studio founded by Riot Games' veterans Aidan Karabaich and Anthony Leung, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed on Thursday. The funding came from London Venture Partners.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2011

Los Angeles-based Gamzee , a developer of HTML5 and mobile/social games, announced Thursday that it has raised $1M in a seed round of funding. Paul Ksller of Bristol Investment Fund joins the firm's board as part of the funding.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based Nix Hydra , a startup video game development company led by Lina Chen and Naomi Ladizinsky, said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The funding came from the Foundry Group, as well as angel investor Mike Lazerow. women eggbaby capital venture game video videogame hydra'

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2019

Los Angeles-based Singularity 6 , a developer of online games, has raised $16.5M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and also included seed investor LVP as well as FunPlus Ventures. Leung and co-founder Aidan Karabaich were both formerly at Riot Games.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

in seed funding from Deep Fork Capital, William Morris Endeavor, former Riot Games Chairman Jarl Mohn, Dennis Phelps (IVP), Social Starts, BDC Ventures, and Keith Boesky. The company--now based in Vancouver, BC--helps organizers of professional video game tournaments and leagues. The company is led by Jason Xu.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. https://medium.com/media/d9fa90bfcfd8c4a9fdce54b16c47e2e8/href In addition to all the great companies being created here another often overlooked feature of Los Angeles is just how many great VC funds have been formed here in the past decade.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investment firm CrossCut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc) announced this morning that it has raised its fourth fund, CrossCut 4 , a brand new, $125M early stage investment fund. We spoke with one of the firm's four Managing Directors, Clinton Foy , about the big new fund and its investments.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. Those are two big gaming companies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. When I first joined Crosscut Ventures five years ago, the firm had $20 million under management and was just starting to invest out of its second fund. We now have $250 million under management, are investing out of our fourth fund and have made more than 80 investments.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

I had a narrative in my head that I didn’t want to fund apps that would help husbands cheat on their wives or help kids send naked photos. Another firm funded them. My job is simply to make sure we’re getting into a few industry defining investments per fund and to make sure we capture enough successes. Many seem plausible.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

Starting at 21, I worked at a venture capital firm called IncWell based in Birmingham, Michigan then joined a startup called Rocket Fiber. We were focused on internet infrastructure – this is 2015-ish – and I was appointed to lead our strategy in esports.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

94 new startups have launched since January 2013 to June 2013 and the startup ecosystem has raised $500 million in funding in 2013 so far. Google, Hulu, Riot Games, Demand Media, and many other big name players residing in Silicon Beach, it is no small wonder why many tech startups flock towards the sunny beach-side view.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Rick Heitzmann. Click here to Register ).

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. But this post is about the broader context of LA. And this is true. LA has only just begun.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

You begin to think about how hard it will be to fund raise, sign customers, hire employees, etc. In all of the usual chatter about LA’s great ascendency people love to mention Snap, Tinder, Riot Games, SpaceX and other well-know startup success. The first instinct is fear, then dread, then panic. That’s what bullies want.

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