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Carbonated Games Finds $8.5M

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The company says its founders are from Zynga, Electronic Arts and Blizzard, and that it was founded in 2015. Carbonated focuses on developing "highly competitive" games for mobile devices, which are more in line with the hard core games found on consoles and PCs, rather than the more usual casual gaming market. READ MORE>>.

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Music Mastermind Nabs $11.3M As It Launches Music Creation App

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Music Mastermind said the funding came from Intel Capital and Liberty Global. Chillingo is a unit of Electronic Arts (EA). chillingo content entertainment interactive capital venture mastermind music' READ MORE>>.

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Greycroft, WndrCo Back Glow For Podcast Subscriptions

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in a seed funding round, which came from Greycroft, WndrCo, Norwest Venture Partners, PSL Ventures, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund as well as rap artist Nas and Ken Moss, the CTO of Electronic Arts. According to Glow Technologies , it has raised $2.3M

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Loop Media Unveils Streaming Media Service, Backed By $10M In Funding

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Loop Media was co-founded by Jon Niermann, CEO (former President, Electronic Arts Asia and Managing Director, Walt Disney International Asia); Shawn Driscoll, Head of Music Industry Relations (former Executive Producer at Legends Studios in Burbank); and Philipp Pieper (current CEO, Swarm Fund, former Founder, Proximic).

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Gaikai Names Strategy Head

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Reeves joins the firm from Electronic Arts, where she was Senior Vice President/COO Global Online. Gaikai is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners, Limelight Networks and Intel Capital. She also served as SVP of JAMDAT Mobile.

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Gaikai Bolsters Exec Lineup

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Wilson joins the company from Electronic Arts, where he was most recently CTO of EA Redwood Shores. Gaikai is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners and Intel.

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IVP: We Love LA, So We Invested In Snapchat

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In its post, giving a number of its reasons for the investment, IVP said that "We Love LA", citing the success of LA''s JAMDAT Mobile , the mobile gaming firm which went public and was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts--which was founded by Mitch Lasky, who sits on Snapchat''s board and is a partner at Benchmark. READ MORE>>.

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