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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Los Angeles-based Riot Games , the online videogame developer headed by Brandon Beck, said late Friday that Tencent Holdings has acquired a majority stake in the company. The firms said that Riot Games will continue to maintain its headquarters in Los Angeles, and has plans to "hire aggressively" in 2011.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Los Angeles-based Riot Games , the online game developer, said today that its players have raised over $162,000 for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Riot Games donated all of its proceeds from player purchases of certain items to the American Red Cross from March 21st to March 27th.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Santa Monica-based venture investment firm Griffin Gaming Partners is the lead investor in Turkish mobile gaming developer Spyke, Spyke said on monday. 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.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Los Angeles-based Riot Games , a venture backed developer of online games, said Wednesday that it has added Jarl Mohn to its board of directors. Riot Games is backed by online Chinese services firm Tencent, Firstmark Capital, Benchmark Capital, as well as angels Mitch Lasky and Rick Heitzmann. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2020

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. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks.

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JULY 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based Riot Games , a venture-backed developer of online video games, announced Tuesday that it is will be releasing its first title--a free, online, multiplayer game called League of Legends. Tags: riot games league legends content online videogame game. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based Riot Games , a developer of online video games, announced today that it has raised a new, $8M round of financing. Riot Games develops online games which are free to play, which use virtual items for monetizing those games. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It’s hard to imagine a video game developer getting off to a stronger start than Riot Games Inc.

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MAY 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in video game developer Wavedash Games , which announced a $6M Series A funding round on Tuesday morning. According to Wavedash, the new funding will go to grow its team and complete the development of its game, Platform Fighter.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based videogame developer Riot Games has agreed to pay at least $10M to settle a gender discrimination, class action lawsuit, which had been filed in November of 2018. Riot Games had already announced it had reached the settlement in August, but had not detailed the financial arrangement of that settlment.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Los Angeles-based Treehouse Games , a developer of cooperative games aimed at helping friends spend time together, has raised $2.6M Treehouse Games was founded by former Riot Games employee Michael Chu, and Ryan Sullivan. Chu previously was a product lead at Riot Games.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Los Angeles-based employee wellness and artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Three Good announced that it has raised a seed funding round. The company says it is raising $2.5M in that funding. The company says it is using both artificial intelligence and traditional psychology to help companies beat employee burnout.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

the Santa Monica–headquartered high school e-sports league developer backed by Santa Monica-based Science Inc. 13 that Riot Games Inc.’s PlayVS Inc., announced Sept. s “League of Legends” will be the title played in the league’s first test season.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Los Angeles-based employee wellness and artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Three Good announced that it has raised a seed funding round. The company says it has raised $700K in that pre-funding. The company says it is using both artificial intelligence and traditional psychology to help companies beat employee burnout.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

The complete implications of the executive order are unclear, however, Tencent has a large presence and investments across Southern California's the US tech industry, including owning 100 percent of Los Angeles-based Riot Games , 40 percent of Epic Games , 5 percent of Los Angeles-based Activision Blizzard , not to mention having business deals with (..)

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Los Angeles-based Singularity 6 , a developer of online games, has raised $16.5M According to Singularity 6, it is looking to deliver a "more meaningful" online game experience. Singularity 6 said the new funding will help it power up its technology and game development efforts. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Los Angeles-based Riot Games , which develops online video games aimed at hard core gamers, said today that its title, League of Legends , has reached 11.5 million monthly active players, with over 30 million registered players on the game. Riot said the numbers are double what they were in July.

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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. Nix Hydra develops video games aimed at young women, including Egg Baby and Hot Guy Alarm Clock. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

Battlefy , a startup developing an online platform for managing e-sports tournaments, leagues, and content--which is a graduate of the Amplify LA accelerator--said this week that it has raised $1.3M

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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.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Seksom most recently ran Corporate Development & Strategy for Twitter so he knows a thing or two about exits to corporates and whether he funds a startup or not I suspect many will get value from building a relationship with him for his expertise. He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Discussion on start up issues including i) team building and recruiting, ii) business plan issues, iii) developing a concise message, iv) building credibility (with customers, partners, employees and early investors), v) getting the business model to work properly, and vi) finally getting funded. See [link] (more).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0

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JUNE 28, 2012

. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. To start: Hackathon.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.),

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I’d put a note down against their name reminding me of this view they had and then between fund-raising cycles I’d include them on data that we had showing LA’s continued development and growth (including SnapChat, Tinder, Maker Studios, Riot Games and others). This is true for startups, too.

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