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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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Launching from beta, ProGuides is making money ensuring that gamers never play alone

TechCrunch LA

The company lowers its rates for popular gamers or gamers who are willing to spend more time on the platform either selling their services or actually coaching esports players. Wang says that that pros on the platform are making anywhere from $750 to $2500 per month and that there are currently 250 coaches on the platform.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

The company has a majority stake in Team Liquid, a top esports team in the US and Europe with 60 pro players, coaches, and analysts competing in nine games as well as a minority stake in Super League Gaming. Developers also choose Epic’s Unreal Engine for cinematic production, visualization, design and simulation.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. Udemy is an online education platform similar to EduFire and others.

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Startup Weekend San Diego | Veterans, Service Members & Military Families

Tech Zulu Event

Over the weekend the 12 teams worked on business model creation, coding, designing, and more important, market validation. On Saturday teams were coached a mentored by a number of successful entrepreneurs. 1 st Place: Flutterly –A social media platform that uses audio to connect with people led by Denise Walker.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, million Raised.

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DODGERS Announce Newest Accelerator Companies

LATechDigest

The companies include new platforms for creating real-time data, video, and highlights for amateur and professional sports teams, community-based content creation tools for brands and organizations, as well as innovative cleaning technology for high-performance sports apparel and gear. The program launches today in R/GA’s LA office.

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