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JANUARY 18, 2022

According to Spyke, it raised $55M in its seed funding round from Griffin Gaming Partners. Spyke's team comes from Peak Games, Zynga and Riot Games. The company's CEO, Rina Onur Sirinoglu, was the founder of a mobile gaming firm, Peak Games, which Zynga acquired for $1.8 billion back in 2020.

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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. . The company raised $4.2

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

According to the company, notable pre-seed investors and partners include impact investor Pete De Mare and Guitar Hero founder Charles Huang and industry leaders from Cisco, Dell, Riot Games, and HTC. The company says it is using both artificial intelligence and traditional psychology to help companies beat employee burnout.

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MARCH 8, 2021

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

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

According to the company, notable pre-seed investors and partners include impact investor Pete De Mare and Guitar Hero founder Charles Huang and industry leaders from Cisco, Dell, Riot Games, and HTC. The company says it is using both artificial intelligence and traditional psychology to help companies beat employee burnout.

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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 The firm did not announced what it is working on, only that it is creating "online games can deliver deeper, more meaningful experiences." The funding came from London Venture Partners.

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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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MAY 29, 2014

The company says the new round brings its total raised to $5.6M, including an earlier angel round from such investors as Matt Britton (MRY), Vinny Linghma (Gyft), and Brad Schwartz (Riot Games). women eggbaby capital venture game video videogame hydra' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Anthony Leung, the CEO and co-founder of Singularity 6 said in a statement that the company was created because "games are significant on a personal level, they are more than mere entertainment, but rather a path to community, friendships and a real sense of belonging." Leung and co-founder Aidan Karabaich were both formerly at Riot Games.

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MARCH 1, 2017

The Foundation said it already has been organizing roundtables and dinners with executives from tech companies like Snap, Riot Games, Mitu, Omaze, Headspace, as well as local venture capital firms, to help engage them with the nonprofit company and help educate them on issues facing Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Not just Tinder, Dollar Shave Club, Riot Games, CornerStone OnDemand and the companies you’ve heard of but there are large successes that are less well known but now very large startups businesses like Ring, Zip Recruiter, GumGum, Laurel & Wolf and too many other great companies to mention. Don’t we know it.

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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? Capital is a lot less patient at scale. Of course we can’t. dot-com bonanza.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Green Dot's backers included Sequoia Capital, Total Technology Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Among other major 2011 exits listed were Riot Games ($400 million) and HauteLook ($270 million). The exit was the eighth highest in the database, according to Ocean Road Partners. billion in liquidity was generated in the sector.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Watertower has been involved in a number of high visibility exits and fundings in recent months, including Riot Games (rumored to be $400M+), Machinima, and ExtendMedia. I think you know Riot Games, where we put together their first institutional money. Those are two big gaming companies.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. IPOs for Uber, Lyft, AirBnB and other high flying startups will infuse the tech ecosystem with more entrepreneurs, founders, and capital to catalyze a new generation of startups. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

If you believe that more great firms will be created out of the successes of Riot Games, Maker Studios, Snapchat, Tinder, Dollar Shave Club and all the other wealth creation activities over the past 5 years — then you have to believe that LA Tech is on the rise and LA Venture Capital is well positioned to be a part of that future success story.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

We are fortunate to have great new institutional LPs and investors, including foundations and endowments who are well known in the venture capital industry and have backed some great, high quality funds. LA is the epicenter for eSports, and it's the capital for eSports worldwide.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2013

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. Venture capital is also affected by the fragmented locations of startups in LA. With Yahoo!, Not enough money flows in LA.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2016

It wasn’t so long ago that venture capital was a suburban California phenomenon. Los Angeles didn’t have much in terms of a real tech scene — and even San Francisco only had a few VCs or tech companies. Now, VC offices have sprung up in San Francisco, moving more of the investment energy up there.

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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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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. They always ask whether I see this as threatening as Upfront Ventures. Are you kidding me?

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients. The firm made a name for itself representing Skype from formation in 2003 through its ultimate sale to eBay for $2.6

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

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. Twiistup 007 Showoff's: .

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MAY 17, 2017

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. I think Ring hasn’t been mentioned as readily because people didn’t understand how large and pervasive they have become.

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