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Midnight Lights Up With $7.5M

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in its seed funding round. The funding came from Shima Capital, blockchain platform Forte, gaming community SNACKCLUB, guild and mod platform Overwolf, plus the founders of gaming companies Illuvium and investors Woodstock Fund, FJ Labs, Bixin Ventures, among others.

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eSUB Construction Software Names CTO

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San Diego-based eSUB Construction Software --fresh off a $12M funding round --says it has hired on a new Chief Technology Officer (CTO), to help it development its platform.

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Privlo Raises $2.1M For Private Mortgage Marketplace

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In some what-did-our-spam filter eat-recently funding news, Santa Monica-based Privlo recently raised $2.1M in a seed funding round, for its online marketplace for private mortgage loans. Privlo, which was founded by Michael Slavin, said the new funding came from QED Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Pragma is a back-end toolkit for gaming companies, so game developers can focus on games

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These days, most of the games developed need to be social, multi-platform and extensible, but there are only a few developers with the expertise to bring those toolsets to the profusion of new games that crop up every year. Pragma’s investors agreed. The company raised $4.2

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Loot Crate Names CTO

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Williams was most recently at TrueCar, where LootCrate said he created the unified data platform and technology strategy behind the company. Williams also has served at Preventsys, where he was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder. Downey Ventures, M13, and SterlingVC.

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Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams

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For LG, it’s strategically important to get some applications up on its newly launched 5G subscription network back in Korea, and AmazeVR is already rolling up new content for its VR platform. The company was formed and financed with $6.3 “What we saw as the problem is the content creation itself,” says Lee.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

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Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies.